Cards in Opening Hand

On occasion a deck design will rely on a specific card to be drawn in your opening hand. The numbers down the left side of the charts indicate the number of occurrences of a given card in your deck. The numbers across the top of the chart represent your deck size. The percentages in the middle represent the percent of the time you will draw the needed card in your opening hand. For example, I may feel that my Inner Circle deck requires an Information Highway in my opening draw of seven cards. I put eight of them in my sixty-card deck, therefore, I can count on getting one Info Hwy. in my opening draw 65.36% of the time.

The first chart lists the chances of getting at leastone of a given card in your opening draw. However, the second chart lists the chances of getting exactly one of a given card. Notice that at some point, the likelihood that you'll get just one of the needed card starts to go down due to the increasing opportunity to get more than one of these in your opening draw.

40
50
60
70
80
90
1
17.50%
14.00%
11.67%
10.00%
8.75%
7.78%
2
32.31%
26.29%
22.15%
19.13%
16.84%
15.03%
3
44.78%
37.04%
31.54%
27.46%
24.30%
21.79%
4
55.22%
46.41%
39.95%
35.03%
31.18%
28.08%
5
63.93%
54.57%
47.46%
41.92%
37.52%
33.94%
6
71.14%
61.64%
54.14%
48.18%
43.35%
39.38%
7
77.09%
67.74%
60.09%
53.85%
48.71%
44.43%
8
81.95%
72.99%
65.36%
58.98%
53.63%
49.12%
9
85.90%
77.49%
70.02%
63.61%
58.14%
53.46%
10
89.08%
81.33%
74.14%
67.78%
62.26%
57.48%
11
91.63%
84.60%
77.76%
71.54%
66.04%
61.20%
12
93.65%
87.37%
80.94%
74.92%
69.48%
64.64%
13
95.24%
89.69%
83.72%
77.95%
72.62%
67.81%
14
96.47%
91.64%
86.14%
80.65%
75.48%
70.74%
15
97.42%
93.27%
88.25%
83.07%
78.08%
73.43%
 
40
50
60
70
80
90
1
17.50%
14.00%
11.67%
10.00%
8.75%
7.78%
2
29.62%
24.57%
20.96%
18.26%
16.17%
14.51%
3
37.41%
32.25%
28.19%
24.97%
22.39%
20.28%
4
41.79%
37.51%
33.63%
30.32%
27.53%
25.17%
5
43.53%
40.77%
37.53%
34.45%
31.69%
29.27%
6
43.28%
42.40%
40.12%
37.53%
34.99%
32.64%
7
41.59%
42.72%
41.61%
39.68%
37.51%
35.36%
8
38.88%
42.01%
42.17%
41.02%
39.35%
37.49%
9
35.54%
40.51%
41.97%
41.69%
40.58%
39.09%
10
31.85%
38.43%
41.15%
41.76%
41.27%
40.22%
11
28.03%
35.93%
39.83%
41.34%
41.51%
40.92%
12
24.25%
33.17%
38.13%
40.52%
41.35%
41.25%
13
20.64%
30.26%
36.14%
39.35%
40.84%
41.25%
14
17.29%
27.30%
33.95%
37.92%
40.04%
40.97%
15
14.25%
24.38%
31.63%
36.27%
39.00%
40.43%
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