Power and Toughness by Set

[Thomas David Baker]

I was curious about this so I ran a program to work out things like power + toughness per mana by set.  There are some results below.  It's completely unscientific and things like Death's Shadow count as 13 while Omnath, Locus of Mana counts as 1 so take it with a pinch of salt.

This is from a list of 84 "sets" for which I have data including From the Vault and Duel Decks.  I found it interesting that so few sets (but some!) had higher average power than toughness (second-last list).  There's 8 in total.

Worldwake has the highest power-per-mana of any set ever produced.

I have the data and the program should anyone be nerdy enough to want to know something else.

Highest average power + toughness per mana:

Arabian Nights 1.21

Worldwake 1.15

Weatherlight 1.11

Coldsnap 0.87

Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana 0.85

Beatdown 0.85

Urza's Saga 0.83

Conflux 0.81

Fallen Empires 0.80

Revised Edition 0.78

Masters Edition 0.78

Highest average power + toughness:

From the Vault: Dragons 10.62

Beatdown 7.39

Alara Reborn 6.12

Masters Edition III 6.09

Coldsnap 5.77

Conflux 5.74

Chronicles 5.69

Legends 5.69

Portal 5.58

Ravnica: City of Guilds 5.58

Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana 5.56

Lowest average power + toughness per mana:

Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic 0.29

From the Vault: Dragons 0.31

Masters Edition III 0.32

Planechase 0.32

Legends 0.34

Scourge 0.39

Portal Three Kingdoms 0.39

Torment 0.40

Unglued 0.43

Mirrodin 0.43

Lowest average power + toughness:

Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins 3.39

Battle Royale 3.55

From the Vault: Exiled 3.67

Fallen Empires 3.70

The Dark 3.73

Stronghold 3.75

Exodus 3.76

Premium Deck Series: Slivers 3.76

Odyssey 3.96

Tempest 4.15

Urza's Legacy 4.26

Highest power-per-mana:

Worldwake 0.57

Weatherlight 0.49

Arabian Nights 0.48

Beatdown 0.46

Unglued 0.43

Masters Edition 0.4

Urza's Saga 0.39

Coldsnap 0.39

Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana 0.37

Shadowmoor 0.37

Stronghold 0.36

Highest toughness-per-mana:

Arabian Nights 0.72

Weatherlight 0.62

Worldwake 0.58

Revised Edition 0.50

Alliances 0.48

Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana 0.48

Fallen Empires 0.48

Coldsnap 0.48

Limited Edition Alpha 0.47

Limited Edition Beta 0.47

Unlimited Edition 0.47

Conflux 0.45

Highest average creature power:

From the Vault: Dragons 5.31

Beatdown 3.83

Alara Reborn 2.99

Masters Edition III 2.87

Conflux 2.81

Portal 2.79

Coldsnap 2.78

Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana 2.74

Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic 2.68

Chronicles 2.66

Legends 2.64

Shadowmoor 2.64

Shards of Alara 2.63

Ravnica: City of Guilds 2.61

Scourge 2.61

Worldwake 2.61

Prophecy 2.61

Fifth Dawn 2.61

Morningtide 2.58

Starter 1999 2.57

Weatherlight 2.51

Highest average creature toughness:

From the Vault: Dragons 5.31

Beatdown 3.57

Masters Edition III 3.22

Alara Reborn 3.13

Legends 3.05

Chronicles 3.03

Coldsnap 2.99

Ravnica: City of Guilds 2.97

Conflux 2.93

Duel Decks: Divine vs. Demonic 2.84

Duel Decks: Garruk vs. Liliana 2.81

Fifth Dawn 2.81

Prophecy 2.8

Portal 2.79

Revised Edition 2.77

Duel Decks: Jace vs. Chandra 2.76

Limited Edition Alpha 2.76

Limited Edition Beta 2.76

Unlimited Edition 2.76

Lowest average creature power:

Fallen Empires 1.65

Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins 1.7

Battle Royale 1.73

Exodus 1.76

Lowest average creature toughness:

Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins 1.68

Battle Royale 1.82

Premium Deck Series: Slivers 1.88

The Dark 1.97

Sets with average creature power and toughness both below 2:

Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins

Battle Royale

The Dark

Stronghold

Sets where average power is greater than average toughness:

Unglued

Beatdown

Saviors of Kamigawa

Planechase

Urza's Legacy

Visions

Morningtide

Duel Decks: Elves vs. Goblins

Sets where average toughness is more than 0.5 higher than average power:

Arabian Nights 0.6

Fourth Edition 0.62

Limited Edition Alpha 0.67

Limited Edition Beta 0.67

Unlimited Edition 0.67

Revised Edition 0.7

Alliances 0.71

Antiquities 0.82

[Kieran Symington]

Who'd have thought that From the Vault: Dragons would have the highest average power & toughness?

[Charlie Grover]

Wow, you get really bored sometimes tom..