Value-to-Turn (VtT)
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Value-to-Turn measures how far a deck's engine outpaces a plain mana curve. It is an engine-throughput dial, read deterministically from each card's oracle text.
The scale
| VtT | Read |
|---|---|
| 1.0 | A vanilla curve: one land and one spell per turn, no engine. |
| ~1.8 | A typical precon. The measured median of the site's 176 official precons is 1.81, and nine in ten score 1.56 or more. |
| ~2.5 | A tuned, high-power engine. |
| ~3.5 | A practical ceiling. |
What feeds it
VtT sums the per-turn value the deck's engine produces above the baseline: repeatable ramp, repeatable card draw, token generation, and free or passive engines. Doublers are applied multiplicatively (a value multiplier scales every other lever), so a single doubler can move the number a lot. See Doublers and Free engines.
What it is NOT
VtT is not a bracket or legality check. Two clean Bracket-2 decks can have very different VtT, because bracket measures legality and danger while VtT measures how fast the engine compounds. A deck can be perfectly legal for its bracket and still have a low VtT (a pile of good-stuff with no engine), or a high VtT while staying in-bracket.
It is deliberately conservative on conditional doublers and "for each" bursts, so a real deck often plays a little stronger than its VtT suggests.