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#146: Aetherdrift: Early 17Lands.com draft data
16 februari 2025 · 2 uur 14 min
New set and this time the rules of engagement changed. And early data tells that story very well. Avoid the traps and start winning by being ahead of the curve. Might come in handy - either on Arena, your LGS or, dare I say, upcoming PT. I go through all the colors, color pairs, highlighting key cards and adding some context and describing the game plans that seem to give good results. Lees meer
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#145: Aetherdrift Draft Skeletons with the Skeleton Crew
5 februari 2025 · 2 uur 48 min
The Skeleton Crew is back!!! Me, Jason Ye, Zach Kagan and Jake Browne look at Aetherdrift and try to figure out what are the key themes / synergies and cards in the new set. This is our unique take on a set review where more attention is put on within-set synergies rather than individual card power. Lees meer
We go through all the colorpairs and try to see how we envision decks in those color pairs, what will be important for them and where we expect hits and misses.
Watch it to get ready for your prerelease and when the set hits arena and receive the insight into our questionable sense of humor as a "bonus". And I am using the word "bonus " very loosely here.
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#144: Testing Heuristics in Limited
26 januari 2025 · 1 uur 15 min
We hear the wisdom from experienced players: Always play your two drops, Spend all your mana, and many more. But how do the numbers back those old truths? Do they stand scrutiny of testing them through data? Are they universal? Or are there corner cases? I test several Limited heuristics and hopefully you get to level up your game play through it! Lees meer
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#143: Birthday Q & A
3 januari 2025 · 1 uur 22 min
In this episode, I answer a variety of question about Magic, life, cooking and stuff. Mainly MAgic though, so don't worry - you can still get something useful out of it, I am not turning into a lifestyle content creator. Lees meer
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#142: Early 17Lands.com draft data for Pioneer Masters
16 december 2024 · 1 uur 40 min
New set is with us and with it the usual struggles. What to play, which cards overperform, which do badly, what color pairs to prioritise. Fear not - I have most of the basics covered and hopefully you will leave with a solid understanding of the key features of the Pioneer set. Lees meer
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#141: Draft Good Cards
6 december 2024 · 1 uur 6 min
"Draft the good cards" is one of the basic pieces of advice you will get when starting to play limited. But just how effective is that advice? I dived deep in 17Lands.com data from BO1 Foundations drafts to measure just that. Turns out that this advice is solid. Over the course of the episode I will try to make you understand how and why does it work and how to best apply it, especially if you are a newer player. Lees meer
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#140: Finding right homes for cards in FDN draft
26 november 2024 · 1 uur 20 min
There are some cards that are just great in Limited. You can jam them into any deck and be happy about it. Filling your whole deck with those must be nice. In reality, to find 23 playables we need to compromise a bit. Some cards will be below par. But with some knowledge you can make the most of that. Lees meer
Some cards can be great in one of the color pairs in the format but mediocre in others. Knowing that will help you in putting them only in the right home and thus maximising on their power. Other cards are the opposite - great in most color pairs, but significantly weaker in one. Imagine if W is aggressive in a format apart from WU decks which tend to be controlling. You can imagine cards that will be great in all W decks apart from WU and cards that are specifically great in WU.
This is the plan for today's episode - sifting through all the common and uncommon cards in the set to find the ones that need a particular home.
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#139: Early 17Lands.com draft data for Foundations
18 november 2024 · 1 uur 29 min
New set, new data. How to position yourself well in a new format? Get the best available card evaluations as early as possible. And that is the aim of this episode. Lees meer
I will look at each color pair through the lens of the key card - surprising hits, reliable performars and shocking duds. Plenty of cards in each category will be discussed throughout the episode.
Hopefully with this information you will be ready to trophy more and outplay those who rely on guesswork and intuition.
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#138: DSK Set Re-review with Chord_O_Calls
11 november 2024 · 1 uur 21 min
Set reviews are fun but what exasctly do they bring to the table? We grade cards, we speculate wildly and life moves on. This set review is different. We graded the cards before the set was released, and are coming back to our initial grading after the dust has settled. Lees meer
Me, and Alex, AKA Chord_o_Calls use this re-review to learn - what typpes of cards do we miss on? What trends we had during the grading? How can we use our failures to improve the next time?
Card evaluation is a skill that can be worked on and it yields results. Hope this episode will help you improving your grading skills.
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Or listen to his excellent podcast, Limited Level-Ups, which you can find on your podcast app or on youtube:
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#137 - Advanced DSK drafting
5 november 2024 · 1 uur 5 min
So, you have your Boros aggro and UW Eerie decks nailed to a fine detail? But perhaps recently the wins are not coming as easy as they did early season? Lees meer
Don't worry - I got you covered there. We will loook at the data of top 17Lands.com users and try to figure out what do they do differently to sustain a solid win rate throughout the format. And what strategies do they lean onto as the well with the best decks dries out because the knowledge of their strength becomes universal.
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#136 - What does 17Lands data tell us about successful draft strategy?
5 november 2024 · 1 uur 5 min
Forcing, drafting the hard way, drafting with preferences are all different approaches to the draft part of Limited. Lees meer
What do the numbers tell us about those? Can you optimise your approach to draft through this and how? All in this weeks episode.
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#135 - Duskmourn Draft: Putting right cards in right decks
5 november 2024 · 1 uur 57 min
One of the traps of looking at card win rates is simplifying a complex problem. Yes, a card can have a decent win rate but this may meaan many things. It can be universally good, but it can also be very good in some decks and not so in others. 17Lands.com users often will intuit it, play that card in good decks and skew the data towards a hight win rate. Lees meer
Today's episode loooks at each common and uncommon in DSK and tries to see which caard is good where, at least at the color pair level. Hopefully this helps you finding your footing in the format by adding a lot of context to DSK drafts.
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#134 - Early 17Lands draft data for Duskmourn
1 oktober 2024 · 2 uur
New format, new learning curve, new possibilities. Today I look at the early data for DSK to try to figure out which cards are surprisingly good or worse than anticipated to give you that small edge in the new format. We go through some color pair data, looking at best commons, uncommons, cards that are sneakily good and cards that trap players into playing them when they probably shouldn't. Lees meer
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#133 - Duskmourn draft deck skeletons with the Skeleton Crew
19 september 2024 · 3 uur 1 min
Draft decks, not cards, they say. Why do we review cards before the set release then? Our unique take on reviewing a new sets is to talk about the big picture and based on those thoughts and discussions, we just build decks. Sometimes to show what designers want us to do, sometimes to show we can defy their goals and build something more off-piste. Lees meer
And what a "we" do we have. Jason and Ryan are qualified for the worlds and renowned limited specialists that managed to convert their draft skills to beat on puny constructed players. Springbok7 is a draft grinder extraaordinaire, Tresio rose through the ranks of my patrons to a staple of the skeleton crew. And me, without data, so mainly for comedic purposes and the 6-pack.
You get a 3h extract of our take on the upcoming format - find neat synergies, discuss plans, point to key cards. All in time to prep you for the prereleases.
Watch the episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/WUzbX_eoZgs
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https://www.twitch.tv/springbok7
And work of many others behind the scenes shouldn't go unnoticed
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#132 - BLB set re-review with Chord_o_Calls
14 september 2024 · 1 uur 22 min
We say goodbye to BLB with revisiting our set review. This is an excercise in card evaluation and a farewell to all the critters in BLB. We look at what we got wrong before the set was released. Individual cards, color biases, what did we not get based on pure card evaluations. Lees meer
Chord_o_Calls is a limited streamer, coach, podcaster. You can find more of his excellent content at https://www.twitter.com/chord_o_calls.
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#131 - Personal data with Ekil
13 september 2024 · 1 uur 58 min
This week we are going to look at BLB draft through the lens of Ekil, a prolific limited streamer specialising in BO3 drafts. What does he do differently that the rest to win 73% of his games and all that while playing exclusively on stream? Lees meer
We go through his draft habits, look at color preferences and try to figure out what makes him successful.
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#130 - Causal Magic with Shivam Bhatt
22 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 19 min
Today, a different episode. I started offering coaching, and to give you the insight into my method, I invited a Commander legend, Shivam. He told me he was struggling a bit with BLB draft (aren't we all) and wanted a second pair of eyes on his drafting. We go through his draft and try to identify where the potential problems lay. Lees meer
As it is Shivam, plenty of anecdotes in between, but eventually we identify some problems with his lane and hopefully - his next drafts will be better for it.
You can find Shivam 24.7 on twitter - and it is a joy. A true oasis of positivity in the bitter world of Magic content creation. https://x.com/ghirapurigears
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#129 - Why top Limited players win more? Bloomburrow Edition
13 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 49 min
Some players win more consistently. Surely there is more to that than pure luck? I look at the data of the top 17Lands.com users from Bloomburrow BO1 draft to try to see - what cards do they prioritise and what cards do they win more with. And try to speculate why that might be so. Lees meer
But wait, there's more! Some cards are generically good and will make the vast majority of decks they are in better. Some cards are more niche. Bloomburrow being a typal synergy decks has some not-so-secret gold cards - cards that work in only one archetype, but not another. But it is not alway obvious. There are "false friends" among us. Some Racoons secretly want to be played with Mice. Some Bats are Lizards in disguise. I go through most commons and uncommons and using data try to figure out best homes from them. And worst homes for what it is worth.
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#128 - Early Bloomburrow Draft Data
6 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 41 min
Early data for every format is a bit of a minefield. On one hand it provides valuable information, on the other, can be misleading as it is largely based on the decks where players were still finding their footing in the new format. Lees meer
Join me in trying to decipher the data and find some cards that are obviously good or bad and some that may still be flying under the radar.
I look at color and color pair power rankings and look at top, hidden gem and trap cards in each archetype.
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#127 - Draft archetype analysis for Bloomburrow with the Skeleton Crew
25 juli 2024 · 2 uur 39 min
My traditional set review. Which is also a star-studded panel discussion. But instead of looking at individual cards, we look at the decks. How do we see decks in the upcoming format, what cards are we hopeful and what synergies excited about. Lees meer
My guests are:
Jason Ye, a Pro Tour star and one of the brains behind the Slogurk decks. But we all know that in reality, Jason only wants is to develop quirky draft build-arounds. And you are in for a treat here!
https://x.com/JasonILTGAdam (aka Ddavp) - don't get fooled by his joviality, there is a sharp and competitive mind behind the cordial exterior. And jokes that would make many-a-dad blush.
https://twitter.com/adam_ddavpSpringbok7 - a second time guest and already an integral part of the team. The level-headed member of the skeleton crew, internally tutting at our shenanigans. You can find them streaming on Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/springbok7Mike, AKA Tresio, this editions newcomer, but entering with a bang. Just showing how becoming a patron and putting some effort can connect you with the creator. Tresio started by asking me question for Magic Numbers episodes and now advanced to co-hosting the show. And pulled their weight fearlessly with some excellent takes!
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#126 - MH3 set re-review with Chord_o_Calls
25 juli 2024 · 1 uur 32 min
As with every set, at the end of the format me and Chord_o_Calls come back to the grades we gave each card in the format and see how far off were the grades from the card's actual performance. Lees meer
Did we nail our pre-release predictions? If not - where were the most mistakes? Were there any trends in colors, rarity? And with that information we try to speculate - what went wrong and what were right, so we can improve our card evaluation for the next time.
Alex is one of the leading limited brains on this planet. If you don't follow him or his podcast - Limited Level-Ups - you are missing out. Check out his YT to learn more!
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#125 - How to optimize lands in MH3 draft decks
10 juli 2024 · 1 uur 6 min
MH3 has the most complicated land system in ages. A whooping 1/8th of all the cards you see during draft will be lands and that means they play an important role in the deck building process. Lees meer
Today I talk about how to make sure you have the right number of landscapes and what is the best way of sneaking Modal Double-Faced Cards (spells with land at the back of the card) into decks: should you replace a spell or another land with them.
Plus some data on format speed and how to use rarely mentioned metrics from 17Lands.com.
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#124 - Learning to draft according to your level
28 juni 2024 · 1 uur 39 min
In all areas of life we know that learning process is a progression. You start with simpler tasks and as you get better, take on more complicated ones building on your growing skillset. Lees meer
But Magic often has universal advice to all players without taking the individual level characteristics into account. Todays episode will try to at least identify some trends between different win rate groups of players and find cards that are evaluated differently between then and cards that are having different win rates across those groups. Obviously all based on 17Lands.com and using Modern Horizons 3 as the dataset.
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#123 - Early dive into Modern Horizons 3 Draft Data
28 juni 2024 · 1 uur 32 min
If you like a story with a good villain, MH3 delivers. Writhing Chrysalis is the best common we have seen by win rate and keep in mind - it all happens in a high power set. It will define the format - no doubt about it. Question is - what will you, the player do. Will you embrace it? Find a way to beat it? Or get angry with the format? Lees meer
If it is the latter - this content is not for you. However if you are looking into the first two options - I use the early format data to try and find the answer - what to do with the RG and how to beat it, or at least where to start to look for way of beating it.
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#122 - Personal Data with Paul Cheon
17 juni 2024 · 1 uur 59 min
This week I have an immense pleasure of hosting a real legend and, if Magic were a country, a national treasure, Paul Cheon. Lees meer
We look through the data of Paul to try to figure out what was essential to Paul's incredible win rate in OTJ. But wait, there's more. Anecdotes, stories, general insights, some thoughts on the upcoming format and many more.
I had fun recording, but after that I realised - while having fun and making silly guess games, we actually managed to create some pretty in-depth episode that, despite looking at OTJ specific, is very useful for your draft strategy independent of the format. With some universal thoughts on how to become better at limited in the unique but successful way that Paul's approach offers.
If you don't know Paul and his content, it is high time you got acquainted.
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#121 - Modern Horizon Draft Archetype Skeletons
17 juni 2024 · 3 uur 8 min
New set preview time. Me, Jason Ye and a newcomer Springbok7 look at the MH3 and try to predict how each color combination would look like. Instead of traditional card review, we look at the set's fundamentals and build a skeleton of a deck using realistic assumptions (some rares, some uncommons, lots of commons) for each color pair. Lees meer
Plus many bonuses that include:
my cat stopping the stream
data error in one of the graphs (that one is on me)
presentation malfunctioning
I am sure many other bloopers
And yet still thanks to the sheer quality of my guests this remains one of the defining pieces of content before the release of any set.
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#120 - OTJ set re-review with Chord_o_Calls
1 juni 2024 · 1 uur 15 min
This week me and Alex, AKA Chord_o_Calls, come back to our prerelease predictions of the OTJ set. We evaluated every card then - but how did our predictions pan out? Lees meer
This review is not design to pat ourselves on the back - we focus on mistakes and try to figure out why we made them. Do we have one-off issue or is there some systematic bias in how we assess the cards.
This episode is key if you want to improve in card evaluation - might be useful with MH3 on the horizon. Yes. I went there.
Alex is one of the leading limited brains on this planet. If you don't follow him or his podcast - Limited Level-Ups - you are missing out. Check out his YT to learn more!
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#119 - Figuring game plans using data
31 mei 2024 · 1 uur 21 min
Some draft archetypes are relatively straightforward. This will naturally mean that the data related to those archetypes will be of high quality as people are playing right cards in those decks. Lees meer
But some color pairs turn out to be more elusive for Arena users. And this means that a lot of the data related to those archetypes is based on badly built decks, which will underestimate the color pair's power in the generic datasets, leading to players undervaluing the color pair.
This is an exploit you can use to gain some edge in the late season by evaluating the power of color pairs correctly. And data can help. Here I use data to figure out the plans for each color pair and then use it to identify cards essential for few undervalued color pairs.
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Bonus: How to Draft Ikoria on Arena
21 mei 2024 · 1 uur 36 min
Ikoria is coming back to Arena for a week. It is my favourite draft format of all the ones I played. The definition and a gold standard of a high synergy format, fun, unique in so many ways - I would not be myself if I didn’t preach its merits. And there are so many. Hopefully after listening to this bonus episode you can try it and learn that it has so much more to offer than the common knowledge suggests. Lees meer
What is the Ikoria philosophy? What are its features? How to tame the micro synergies? How to master the macro-synergies? And what are some of my favourite build-arounds in the set of 1000 build-arounds.
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#118 - Drafting OTJ
17 mei 2024 · 1 uur 39 min
This episode we look at the pack composition of OTJ play boosters. How many rares are there acually? What is the common frequency and how often do you get the cards from each of the many bonus sheets? Lees meer
On top of that - How should we approach pack one? Is sticking to one color a sustainable strategy? Should you diversify?
And we look at the most attractive wheel targets, which also sheds some light on the most underdrafted archetypes.
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#117 - Learning to draft OTJ from top players
8 mei 2024 · 1 uur 52 min
Some strategies in draft are easier to reproduce at any skill level than others. In this episode I look at the cards, color pairs and strategies that top 17Lands.com users mastered but the general population still struggles with. What are the secrets of the best players? How do they build the decks others struggle with? Lees meer
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#116 - Early Dive into OTJ data
23 april 2024 · 2 uur 9 min
Early data from a draft format should be treated with caution, but also gives us some essential information on how to approach the format. I am talking about color power rankings, color pairs in the set to give you a general impression of the power level of each of them. Lees meer
But the real fun begins as I dive into each color pair and give you the best card, the hidden gem and the trap for each of the pairs at common and uncommon. Hidden in that data is some information on what each color pair wants to be doing in order to win. And this is the part where you will find the most surprising findings.
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#115 - Outlaws of Thunder Junction Draft Skeletons Stream with the Skeleton Crew
11 april 2024 · 2 uur 53 min
It is that time of the Magic calendar again. I meet with Jason Ye, Adam (DDAVP) and Zach Kagan to talk about our vision for the upcoming set. Which cards are spiking our interest? Which cards are confusing us? Why do we think some archetypes are going to be great and some are going to be rubbish? Lees meer
We discuss our impressions of the new set, and after a lengthy debate, present our draft "skeletons" - realistically built propositions of decks you might want to try out yourself. From Azorius "I don't wanna cast things on my turn" to "Sultai deck that just wants 12 copies of Murder" - we have quite a collection of solutions. Not surprising really, given the selection of my co-host from among the most unique thinkers in Limited magic.
Find my guests here btw:
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#114 - Q&A
10 april 2024 · 1 uur 45 min
This week I answered dozens of questions about data, how to analyse it, me, my pets, philosophy of analysing Magic, and more. Lees meer
Here are all the answers.
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#113 - Playing multicolor in MKM draft
26 maart 2024 · 2 uur
In the late stages of the season it is nice to keep things fresh. And drafting a unique multicolor pile of cards might be the new lookout on the format you need to rejuvenate your interest in MKM. Lees meer
But 5 color decks on average have one significant problem. They tend to win less. Today's episode will look at how to make sure your multicolor deck is good. Which cards are essential, how much mana fixing do you need - I look in some detail to all those questions.
On top of that, I use this episode to try and answer some more general questions related to multicolor decks. Like what is a better strategy: having a balanced 5C deck with each colors represented evenly, or a lopsided deck - when one color is dominant and other colors act as a support.
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#112 - Revisiting MKM set review witch Chord_o_Calls
19 maart 2024 · 1 uur 39 min
This week we look back at the... BUT WAIT, WHO IS IT behind me with the steel chair!!!! Yes, Alex Nikolic AKA Chord_o_Calls came to visit me all the way from Canada and we used that time to record our set rereview. Lees meer
Set reviews are fun - you can speculate about which cards and colors are good, gives you the opportunity to think about the upcoming format. But usually noone comes back to them. Not us. Our main driving force in playing Magic is continuous improvement. And what better way to improve at card evaluation than see where you got it wrong and wonder why?
We look at the cards we missed in evaluation, but, perhaps more importantly, at more general trends - which colors did we underestimate consistently, which colors did we (ok, mainly me) grossly overestimate. I am looking at you black.
But this is not only an excercise in card evaluation. MKM proved to be a really good format, and I still draft it regularly. Looking at it through the lens of our review you get a good summary of how our understanding of the set evolved and get some good tips in playing it in the late format.
If you don't follow Alex - grave mistake. He is one of the best Limited (imho THE best) educators so check out his YT, Twitter and Podcast.
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#111 - How to train a Pro Player in draft with Eduardo Sajgalik
13 maart 2024 · 2 uur 19 min
This week I have a guest - a Pro Player, caster, Magic theorist Eduardo Sajgalik, AKA Walaoumpa and we talk about his role as the Limited coach for the Pro Tour team Worldly Counsel. What differences and similarities are there in coaching the cream of the crop of Magic players? How can you use their strategies in self improvement - all in the context of MKM draft. Lees meer
Plus a completely unscripted bonus part with some chat questions and analysis of the current format which is imho an amazing depth insight into the format.
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#110 - The Secrets of ALSA (and MKM draft data)
8 maart 2024 · 1 uur 5 min
ALSA is a term that gets thrown around a lot in data-adjacent content about Limited. But what exactly is ALSA? And what is the full meaning of the number that hides itself behind those four letters? I take a deeper dive on that metric, looking to answer what it really is. Lees meer
And the first 17Lands data is publicly available so it is time to dive into draft data. Which cards go later in pack 3? What are the best 1st picks? And which cards can you wheel reliably - all that in the episode.
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#109 - Learning to draft MKM from the top players through data
4 maart 2024 · 1 uur 28 min
Limited is hard. You need to be at a decent level of playing, know what is going on in the format, be able to build a coherent deck. Starting to draft can be a scary process. You get so much advice that is unintuitive, conflicting, confusing. A part of that is: advice is usually targeted at a particular group of players, but that group is rarely specified. Lees meer
Not today though.
I look at the data from different win rate groups of players and try to tailor the advice to people whose win rate is slightly lower than the groups I talk about. You win ~50% of your games? No problem - look at what people winning 55% do differently from you. Winning 55% of the games already? Take a peek at the differences between your cohort and people winning 60% of their games. Winning 60%? No worries - look at some details of what your peers do and try to find your weakness.
Hopefully seeing what types of cards better players prefer and thinking about why do they prefer them will aid you in your development as a drafter and make the process of learning to play Limited less scary.
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#108 - Early Dive into MKM Draft Data
19 februari 2024 · 2 uur
New format is pretty complicated and it may be tricky to find your footing in the first days. But fear not - the data is here to help us and I dive deep into card win rate to test what makes each color pair tick, which cards over-perform, and which are traps you should avoid. Lees meer
We look at the general picture of the format, speculate on what can the next few weeks bring and explore archetypes and what do the y want to be doing in the context of MKM.
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#107 - Cooking Limited Decks at Karlov Manor
11 februari 2024 · 1 uur 13 min
Magic has surprisingly lot of similarities to cooking and today, we are moving to haute cuisine. Deck-building theory-crafting. Lees meer
While waiting for the new set to be released I spend an amount of time I can't really excuse thinking about build-arounds in this formats. All those thoughts can't go to waste so this week we are looking at how I imagine some potentially fun off-piste decks in this format. Lot of it is theoretical, but aside from this, I lay out a framework for anyone on how to approach limited theory crafting. A great excercise to improve your Limited skills without spending a single gem.
I look at three separate builds. One centered around Insidious Roots, Golgari enchantment that generates Plant tokens and grows them as creatures leave your graveyard. The second one is trying to turn Case File Auditor and Case of the Shattered Pact from a 5 color dream to a 5 color reality. Thirdly I look at how to make UR artifact sacrifice built around a powerful combo of the Case of the Filched Falcon and Gleaming Geardrake that lets you attack for 5 in the air on turn 3. But how to make that deck resilient when you don't draw the combo?
We also talk a bit about Arena Economy, but following my philosophy of learning from the best - why not look at this article I mentioned in the seminar that dives deep into how to make Arena cheaper to play:
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#106 - Murders at Karlov Manor Draft Skeletrons
1 februari 2024 · 2 uur 15 min
Me, JasonILTG, Tajoordan and DDAVP look at the upcoming set and try to figure out how would we want a deck in each color pair to look like. To do so we first explore the format synergies and the cards we like and later assemble them in simple limited deck with some reasonable limitations (1-2 rares, 6-8 uncommons and rest just commons). Check this out if you are prepping for the prerelease and want to exercise your brain before the format hits Arena. Lees meer
My esteemed guests are all accomplished limited players:
JasonILTG - https://twitter.com/jasoniltg
Check out their site with some great articles:
experimentalsynthesizer.blog/articlesAdam AKA DDAVP - https://twitter.com/adam_ddavp
And Tajoordan: They all stream so check their links in their Twitter bios.
Slides for this episode are available for everyone at
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#105 - LSV^3: Talking Arena Cube with Luis Scott-Vargas
23 januari 2024 · 1 uur 20 min
My guest this week needs no introduction (he still gets one, though), being one of the game's all-time greatest players. But apart from his pro player credentials, LSV is a cube fanatic, and I tap into his vast expertise to look through the latest edition of Arena Cube and see which cards and which strategies I, a cube rookie, should focus on over the following days. A side effect of that - you might learn something too. Lees meer
We look at some data from previous cube iterations and at the changes that were made to try and figure out what is going to improve and what is nerfed this time.
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#104 - Prince or Pauper
22 januari 2024 · 48 min
This episode I am looking into what does it mean for a set to be prince or pauper and how do recent sets align with different definitions of that term. Lees meer
Because there are plenty definitions. Some will focus more on the power of rare cards, some on the power (or lack thereof) of the commons and uncommons.
A data exploration episode - most useful if you want to spend some time thinking on how rarity shapes limited formats.
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#103 - Revisiting LCI set review with Chord_O_Calls
15 januari 2024 · 1 uur 5 min
This week I am joined by Limited content behemoth, Chord_O_Calls AKA Alex Nikolic to talk about out set reviews for LCI from the perspective of an almost finished format. Lees meer
I was always thorn about set reviews. On the one hand, they are useful to get accustomed to cards before the format starts, but on the other, they are frequently based on wild speculations and - to my knowledge - rarely scrutinized for their accuracy.
To change that, my set reviews are reversed. I invite a guest and review the set with them but do not release it. Instead of that, our grades wait locked up for the format to end. Then we can see what we got wrong and right. Where are the typical mistakes and how can we avoid them in the future. And who to do it better than one of the best card evaluators in the business?
See how we did and what we missed in LCI. Also - this is a sort of a send off of the format - in wait for the previews to hit.
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#102 - 2023 Limited Awards with Uncle Cardboard
5 januari 2024 · 1 uur 59 min
Time of the year to sum up 2023 and look at best commons, uncommons in each color, most desired cards, most played color, etc. Not 100% serious with Uncle Cardboard on special day for both - as we are birthday neighbours as well. Lees meer
But don't be fooled by fooling around - between bad puns you get to think about set design and why some designs are more successful than others, which types of cards prove to be generally successful, etc.
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#101 - How to find game plans using data in Limited?
22 december 2023 · 1 uur 25 min
Finding the right strategy for a color pair is a key element to winning more. Many drafts were lost when a player tried to play controlling game in a color combination that doesn't support it well, or trying to be aggressive using cards that are just not good in doing that. This week I look at the game duration data in LCI to try and figure out what should you be focusing on when drafting your decks. Lees meer
Why Azorius is not particularly good in being aggressive? Why RG Dino decks are more aggro than you might think? And why control decks struggle and how can future design address that problem.
Plus I look at key cards for selected archetypes and try to find out what it means for your future drafts.
If you are interested in getting to know me better - I have a discord now. Join to chat about data, limited and see my futile attempts to make food that looks as good as it tasted. Also - cat and dog pictures.
Reminder: This podcast is a recording of a stream, which relies heavily on graphics. Check the youtube recording of it to see any graphs that are hard to imagine in the audio-only format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbfX_QNrvEE
This podcast is sponsored by mtgazone.com - get your reading fix from the best and brightest Magic writers in the business.
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#100 - Khans of Tarkir with Ben Seck
15 december 2023 · 2 uur 29 min
This week we look at the new set on Arena: Khans of Tarkir. Is it new though? Released in 2014, Khans is considered to be an all-time best draft set by many Limited experts. But 2014 is the time I was happily retired from Magic, so in order to get some valuable information and correct me where I am wrong in my evaluations, I invited a multi-Limmie award winning magic historian and pro player, Ben Seck. Yes. THE Ben Seck. You may and even should know him from being a regular guest in Limited Resources, the episodes where they talk about older sets. Lees meer
The result is a 2h talk on KTK, Limited in general, differences in set design over the years, mechanics, predictions and many more. I couldn't have wished for a better way to celebrate my 100th episode.
You can find Ben on Twitter: twitter.com/TBSdash
Reminder: This podcast is a recording of a stream, which relies heavily on graphics. Check the youtube recording of it to see any graphs that are hard to imagine in the audio-only format:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbfX_QNrvEEThis podcast is sponsored by mtgazone.com - get your reading fix from the best and brightest Magic writers in the business.
Discord: https://discord.gg/druhnK8yXn
Patreon: https://patreon.com/sierkovitz
Find all other things Sierkovitz here: https://linktr.ee/sierkovitz
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#99 - Drafting the Right Way
7 december 2023 · 59 min
Improvement in Magic is hard. Where to start? Diagnosing the problem can be a daunting task. Today I look at how to measure your draft strategies and figure out how you draft - are you a forcing type of a drafter or a durdly drafter who bobs and weaves for too long before making a decision to settle on a path. Lees meer
Both strategies have their pros and cons, so finding the right balance should improve both your win rate and in some cases also the trophy rate.
Apart from this we have a collection of data from LCI draft dataset of 17Lands.com - great first picks, what can be wheeled reliably etc.
If you are interested in getting to know me better - I have a discord now. Join to chat about data, limited and see my futile attempts to make food that looks as good as it tasted. Also - cat and dog pictures. https://discord.gg/druhnK8yXn
Patreon: https://patreon.com/sierkovitz to get extra access, perks and the good feeling of supporting my work.
This podcast is sponsored by mtgazone.com - get your reading fix from the best and brightest Magic writers in the business.
Reminder: This podcast is a recording of a stream, which relies heavily on graphics. Check the youtube recording of it to see any graphs that are hard to imagine in the audio-only format:
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#98 - Early Draft Data for Lost Caverns of Ixalan
21 november 2023 · 1 uur 44 min
This episode we look into the early draft data of the new format. Which colors started off strongly, which cards make each archetype tick. Lees meer
I look into each color pair and talk about best common and uncommon, hidden gems in each archetype (cards that surprised me or cards that still go late in the draft but perform very well), and traps (cards that look like they should fit in but data suggests they don't). Based on those I try to analyse what makes each color pair tick and what doesn't to give you an early boost in LCI drafts.
Patreon: https://patreon.com/sierkovitz to get extra access, perks and the good feeling of supporting my work.
This podcast is sponsored by mtgazone.com - get your reading fix from the best and brightest Magic writers in the business.
Reminder: This podcast is a recording of a stream, which relies heavily on graphics. Check the youtube recording of it to see any graphs that are hard to imagine in the audio-only format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCjv0VQZBcI
Find all other things Sierkovitz here: https://linktr.ee/sierkovitz
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