Special Guests Draft Tier List & Limited Meta

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Special Guests
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1,137,027 games analyzed
139 cards ranked
Rakdos best color pair
Carnage Tyrant biggest overperformer

Best color pairs in Special Guests Draft

Win rates vs the whole field (average 54.6%) · tiers are relative to the field average

Updated Sep 1
A
1 Rakdos BR
55.9% 99,145 games
2 Selesnya WG
55.6% 163,879 games
3 Golgari BG
55.5% 185,769 games
4 Orzhov WB
55.4% 132,486 games
B
5 Simic UG
55.0% 135,026 games
6 Boros WR
54.5% 108,041 games
C
7 Dimir UB
53.9% 72,646 games
8 Gruul RG
53.8% 76,311 games
9 Azorius WU
52.6% 37,159 games
D
10 Izzet UR
51.6% 52,467 games

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The cards that define Special Guests — hover any card to see it

Bombs

The most powerful cards in the set. See one? Take it.

Carnage Tyrant M 91 power
Fury M 91 power
Solitude M 90 power
Damnation M 90 power
Embercleave M 90 power
Hidden gems

High win rate, still going late — free wins in your next draft.

Not enough data yet.
Most contested

Snapped up earliest — don't count on them wheeling.

Not enough data yet.
Trap cards

Drafted far above what they win. Let someone else take the bait.

Not enough data yet.

What Special Guests is about

Signature mechanics — how much more common each is here than across all of Magic

Elemental ×3.7 lift
9 cardsKalamax, the StormsireSolitudeSubtlety

Sidekick drafters vs the field

Where our community's pick order diverges most from 17Lands' millions of picks

Community pick data accrues as Sidekick users draft this set — install Meta Sidekick and your drafts feed these numbers.

Card ratings: every Special Guests card ranked

No recorded games yet — Power is our model's prediction for this set

| 139 cards
Card PowerMVSK WR
Lord of Atlantis R
 552—
Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator U
 643—
Bridge from Below R
 183—
Mephidross Vampire R
 606—
Pitiless Plunderer U
 704—
Breeches, Brazen Plunderer U
 634—
Dargo, the Shipwrecker U
 647—
Rampaging Ferocidon R
 763—
Underworld Breach R
 522—
Carnage Tyrant M
 916—
Ghalta, Primal Hunger R
 8412—
Polyraptor M
 588—
Kalamax, the Stormsire M
 684—
Lord Windgrace M
 835—
Mirri, Weatherlight Duelist M
 763—
Thrasios, Triton Hero R
 602—
Mana Crypt M
 880—
Star Compass U
 492—
Ghostly Prison M
 543—
Fabricate M
 453—
Show and Tell M
 363—
Tragic Slip M
 681—
Victimize M
 703—
Gamble M
 531—
Crashing Footfalls M
 720—
Tireless Tracker M
 843—
Drown in the Loch M
 692—
Field of the Dead M
 200—
Stoneforge Mystic M
 47262.5%
Brazen Borrower // Petty Theft M
 813—
Desertion M
 705—
Morbid Opportunist M
 703—
Port Razer M
 775—
Scapeshift M
 434—
Mystic Snake M
 744—
Notion Thief M
 524—
Desert M
 520—
Prismatic Vista M
 610—
Thought-Knot Seer M
 664—
Prismatic Ending M
 741100.0%
Dismember M
 843—
Persist M
 732—
Expressive Iteration M
 702—
Solitude M
 905100.0%
Subtlety M
 74475.0%
Grief M
 654—
Fury M
 9150.0%
Endurance M
 783—
Swords to Plowshares M
 78150.0%
Ledger Shredder M
 662—
Rat Colony M
 592—
Relentless Rats M
 223—
Kindred Charge M
 396—
Sylvan Tutor M
 211—
Toski, Bearer of Secrets M
 634—
Frogmite M
 234—
Sword of Fire and Ice M
 783—
Secluded Courtyard M
 450—
Hallowed Haunting M
 704—
Soul Warden M
 421—
Expropriate M
 889—
Phantasmal Image M
 76275.0%
Damnation M
 9040.0%
Sacrifice M
 221—
Maddening Hex M
 463—
Unholy Heat M
 641—
Collected Company M
 764—
Noxious Revival M
 381—
Condemn M
 581—
Sphinx's Tutelage M
 333—
Grim Tutor M
 653—
Embercleave M
 906—
Goblin Bushwhacker M
 591—
Bloom Tender M
 632—
Paradise Druid M
 702—
Akroma's Memorial M
 727—
Temporal Manipulation M
 655—
Fiend Artisan M
 832—
Cavalier of Dawn M
 845—
Thoughtcast M
 655—
Whir of Invention M
 583—
Bone Miser M
 625—
Lord of the Undead M
 663—
Chandra's Ignition M
 785—
Galvanic Blast M
 721—
Pathbreaker Ibex M
 816—
Chrome Mox M
 240—
Skysovereign, Consul Flagship M
 885—
Eerie Ultimatum M
 467—
Emergent Ultimatum M
 437—
Genesis Ultimatum M
 407—
Inspired Ultimatum M
 487—
Ruinous Ultimatum M
 557—
Arid Mesa M
 640—
Marsh Flats M
 64066.7%
Misty Rainforest M
 6400.0%
Scalding Tarn M
 640—
Verdant Catacombs M
 640100.0%
Warping Wail M
 472—
Deafening Silence M
 161—
Robe of Stars M
 562—
Nexus of Fate M
 517—
Paradox Haze M
 153—
Darkness M
 241—
Magus of the Moon M
 353—
Burgeoning M
 291—
Green Sun's Zenith M
 681—
Sliver Overlord M
 375—
Idyllic Tutor M
 313—
Kinsbaile Cavalier M
 424—
Mistbind Clique M
 674—
Wanderwine Prophets M
 556—
Bitterblossom M
 862—
Faerie Macabre M
 543—
Goblin Chieftain M
 433—
Goblin Sharpshooter M
 693—
Heat Shimmer M
 553—
Devoted Druid M
 582—
Helix Pinnacle M
 121—
Leaf-Crowned Visionary M
 502—
Regal Force M
 497—
Manamorphose M
 432—
Risen Reef M
 623—
Slippery Bogle M
 381—
Dolmen Gate M
 372—
Door of Destinies M
 484—
Painter's Servant M
 302—
Thousand-Year Elixir M
 343—
Archaeomancer M
 574100.0%
Archmage Emeritus M
 724—
Murmuring Mystic M
 674100.0%
Grim Haruspex M
 683—
Dualcaster Mage M
 613—
Magus of the Library M
 472—
Sylvan Library M
 802—
Adrix and Nev, Twincasters M
 704—
Codie, Vociferous Codex M
 173—
Library of Leng M
 181—
Library of Alexandria M
 —0—

How to read these numbers: GIH WR (games-in-hand win rate) is the share of games won when the card was drawn or opened — the community's headline card-quality metric. ALSA is where it was last seen in the pack; ATA is where it was actually taken. Win rates hide below meaningful samples, and every metric shows its sample. Power (0–100) blends measured performance with our model's rating; Edge compares a card's power to how early the field takes it.

Game data courtesy of 17Lands (CC BY 4.0). Community pick data comes from Meta Sidekick drafters.