November 2021-December 2021: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23574
April 2022-September 2022: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28051
December 2022-July 2023: https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31498
Unless otherwise stated, all data is for games ended between Jan 1 2025 and Jul 31 2025, where all players end with 200+ Elo, no additional spaces, Competitive mode, either option for weak banlist*, and with any combination of decks**. "n" denotes how many tables, unless it's a category for a specific group of players, in which case I'll specify players.
* Filtering by this option separately didn't show a whole lot of difference on first glance, but will investigate more later
** The backend options changed partway through the data set for this, and I haven't taken the time to split, re-filter, etc. the data out by this factor yet.
Seating Order (starting position) Analysis:
2-player (n=3222)
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd avg_rank
1 379.91 41.87 49.63% 50.37% 1.50
2 383.93 42.12 50.87% 49.13% 1.49
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd avg_rank
1 323.91 41.94 49.21% 50.79% 1.51
2 326.21 42.21 51.77% 48.23% 1.48
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd avg_rank
1 342.56 47.65 50.6% 49.4% 1.49
2 344.23 47.69 49.9% 50.1% 1.50
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd end_3rd avg_rank
1 291.28 42.43 35.93% 34.92% 29.15% 1.93
2 291.43 42.31 35.59% 28.14% 36.27% 2.01
3 286.99 41.90 30.17% 35.93% 33.90% 2.04
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd end_3rd avg_rank
1 314.87 45.78 33.92% 33.92% 32.16% 1.98
2 322.81 45.94 34.36% 30.84% 34.80% 2.00
3 312.75 45.14 31.72% 35.24% 33.04% 2.01
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd end_3rd end_4th avg_rank
1 423.60 49.75 25.51% 25.46% 24.40% 24.63% 2.48
2 421.50 49.95 27.38% 25.27% 24.35% 23.00% 2.43
3 424.16 49.58 25.21% 24.65% 24.82% 25.33% 2.50
4 424.89 49.17 22.64% 24.92% 26.29% 26.15% 2.56
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd end_3rd end_4th avg_rank
1 391.99 43.42 25.04% 25.41% 25.14% 24.41% 2.49
2 389.59 43.60 26.85% 25.40% 24.29% 23.46% 2.44
3 391.38 43.48 25.56% 25.46% 24.81% 24.17% 2.48
4 390.73 42.91 23.35% 24.32% 25.19% 27.14% 2.56
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd end_3rd end_4th avg_rank
1 404.72 43.06 25.17% 25.69% 24.21% 24.93% 2.49
2 403.81 43.29 27.01% 25.02% 24.15% 23.82% 2.45
3 404.94 43.09 25.32% 24.78% 25.14% 24.75% 2.49
4 404.35 42.72 23.43% 24.96% 25.93% 25.69% 2.54
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd end_3rd end_4th avg_rank
1 388.11 43.87 24.52% 25.31% 25.70% 24.47% 2.50
2 385.72 44.12 27.33% 25.41% 23.88% 23.37% 2.43
3 389.29 44.04 26.00% 25.93% 24.90% 23.17% 2.45
4 388.31 43.32 22.91% 23.86% 25.06% 28.17% 2.58
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order elo_start score end_1st end_2nd end_3rd end_4th avg_rank
1 359.86 43.23 25.61% 24.51% 27.57% 22.30% 2.47
2 352.39 43.14 25.25% 27.21% 25.74% 21.81% 2.44
3 351.90 43.13 25.49% 25.86% 22.67% 25.98% 2.49
4 347.10 42.23 24.14% 23.65% 23.28% 28.92% 2.57
Key terms for the card statistics in following posts:
PWR is a measure of how often a card is on a 1st place tableau. ADP is the average draft position. APR is the average played round. WtdPWR is an experimental variant of PWR where instead of counting 1st places as 1 credit, I gave 0.6 credits to 1st place, 0.3 credits to 2nd place, and 0.1 credits to 3rd place. Elo/Play is the average Elo won or lost across all times the card was played.
The latter 2 stats are attempts to evaluate which cards are possibly strong because of how often they help a player get 2nd or 3rd place, or more generally win Elo - as opposed to regular PWR which only cares about getting 1st place or not.