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#97 - Draft Primer for Lost Caverns of Ixalan
14 november 2023 · 1 uur 41 min
This week we look at the upcoming set: how will the synergies play out, what do I consider good and bad before we dive into proper drafting. Where can you find some synergies and how to theory craft a Caves deck. Plus a couple of cute two card combos you might be interested in! Lees meer
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#96 - Lost Caverns of Ixalan draft deck skeletons with guests
9 november 2023 · 3 uur 3 min
New set is upon us - time to theory craft all 10 2-color decks in the new set and speculate on what we think is going to be great and what is doubtful in Lost Caverns of Ixalan. Lees meer
And to do that I lean on the expertise of my illustrious guests:
A 100k sealed tournament winner, JasonILTG
Freshly from winning a Mox Jet, Zakagan
Winner of the most recent tournament back home, ddavp_mtg
And me after 2-1ing a 6 person modern tournament in my LGSDiscussions were furious, heated, and full of insights into what will be a hit and what will be a dud. Watch and be entertained, informed, and hopefully amused.
You can find my guests on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/jasoniltghttps://twitter.com/zakagan
https://twitter.com/ddavp_mtg
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#95 - WOE set re-review with Trumpetman
6 november 2023 · 1 uur 7 min
Going back to original set review and re-evaluating it based on how the set played out is an under-appreciated activity. Me and Trumpetman come back to our pre-release evaluations and try to look at cards we got wrong, and speculate why. Which cards are harder to predict, which ones are easy and why - we try to answer those questions based on our successes and failures from WOE. Just in time to draw some lessons on card evaluation for the LCI set coming out on Friday. Lees meer
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#94 - Personal Data of Pasta Pirate
26 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 26 min
This week we look at the data of the most drafting person in 17Lands - which almost certainly means, most drafting person on Arena, period. Pasta Pirate does an average of 9-10 drafts a day. What can we learn from his data? What can he learn from it himself? Lees meer
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#93 - Navigating WOE drafts
18 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 17 min
Players focus a lot on how to build a deck, but i think most improvement in win rate for starter/intermediate players that is easy to achieve comes through good draft navigation. This week I give some (hopefully) useful tips on how picks differ depending on the pack number, which picks will make your deck more frequently. Lees meer
I also talk about learning how to wheel specific cards - how to select the card as your pick 1 in such a way, that you give yourself a good chance of getting another decent card as your pick 9 from the same pack.
We also answer some Patron questions!
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#92 - Exploring new 17Lands.com features with the site creator
14 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 17 min
This week I have a very special guest: Rob Conroy, AKA Viralmisnomer - Mr 17Lands himself. And there is a great reason for that. 17Lands has a whole bunch of new patron-only features and Rob and I will show you why you should seriously consider getting them not only to support the site we all love and cherish, but also in your own interest. Lees meer
From a great card evaluation tool, through personal data up to a tool that lets you improve your mana-base building skills - all the new toys make me excited to get my paws on the final results of them! And hopefully after watching this, you will get excited too!
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#91 - Learning to draft from Top players, WOE edition
10 oktober 2023 · 1 uur 23 min
Drafting in Magic: the Gathering is not easy. There re dozens of factor you need to try and synchronise in your head while the ruthless clock continues ticking. But data can help! Lees meer
Today I look at what the best of the best do differently. Which cards do top players draft higher than others? Which cards do they use more efficiently and win with more than it would result from just the average win rate difference between top players and the rest?
Identifying those cards is a key to unlocking strategies and solutions top players use to dominate Arena draft queues.
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#90 - First look at Wilds of Eldraine Draft
12 september 2023 · 1 uur 52 min
New format is upon us and time to look at what can early data tell us about it. Which cards are key, which ones are traps, what do decks want to be doing and what do other Arena drafters leave open for the cunning grinders to abuse. Lees meer
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#89 - Wilds of Eldraine Draft Primer
12 september 2023 · 2 uur 7 min
Before we dive into the new format - I look from theory point of view at the set design. What looks as if it is possible, how do the set mechanics intertwine, what to look out for in the first days, and what sweet build-arounds does the set have to offer. Lees meer
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#87 - LTR Set Re-review with Trumpetman
30 augustus 2023 · 57 min
In my opinion the most interesting part of set review is not the review itself, but returning to it after the format has passed and reevaluating your grades in order to see where did you miss, where did you hit and try to answer why this happened. This is why our set reviews with Trumpetman are designed in such a way as to easily reanalyse them after the format is done. They are linked to 17Lands.com win rates so we can see how large was our miss for each card. Lees meer
Today we look at our review performance for the LTR looking what trends do we observe - did our misses link to bad evaluation of one color, which cards are we most likely to miss on and why - all those questions will be answered.
You can follow Trumpetman at https://twitter.com/Trumpetman__
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#86.5 - Arena Cube with Jean-Emmanuel Depraz
21 augustus 2023 · 2 uur 38 min
This episode was originally recorded in December 2022 but never appeared in the podcast feed. Now you can use it before the Arena Open this week as a unique window into the mind of one of the best (or looking at 17Lands.com data - the best) cube players in the world. Apart from iteration-specific arguments lots of general theory surrounding this format with someone who is a true expert theorist of the game and an all round nice person. Lees meer
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#86 - Evolution of the Format
18 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 20 min
This week I look at how LTR drafts changed over time. Which cards, color pairs fell in and out of favour with the Arena users. And how did the player win rate impact those preferences. Lees meer
But doing just a retrospective of one format can be a bit boring - what universal trends can we draw from LTR evolution? Can some color pairs be more resilient to metagame shifts and if so - why?
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#85 - Figuring out draft game plans using data
2 augustus 2023 · 1 uur 25 min
The biggest level up from a decent drafter to a great one is realising that drafting good cards is not enough to become an exceptional player. Truly great drafters are able to sacrifice power for synergy and know exactly when to do it and when not to. This ability lets you get more out of the cards in your decks and win games because of those synergistic interactions and consistent goals and plans across every card in your deck. Lees meer
But easier said than done. Today I look at the ways to use game data from 17Lands.com in order to figure out, what are the plans for different archetypes and how to use that data to improve your understanding of different archetypes and individual cards.
This episode is particularly data-heavy, so if you want to look through the graphs, I made the slides accessible to all, find them here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/slides-for-magic-86086797
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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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#84 - Reading Signals in Draft
20 juli 2023 · 1 uur 36 min
Drafts are hard. There is plenty going on and to navigate it well, you need to think not only of your own deck, but about what are other people doing. In limited content you will often hear that something is a signal - but what are signals exactly? And how can you read and interpret them? And perhaps more importantly - do signals mean anything and can you draw some actionable conclusions from reading them? Lees meer
I immersed myself in 17Lands.com data for 2 weeks trying to answer those questions and here is a summary of what I found.
This episode is particularly data-heavy, so if you want to look through the graphs, I made the slides accessible to all, find them here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/slides-for-magic-86086797
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#83 - Learning to Draft Lord of the Rings from Top Players
5 juli 2023 · 1 uur 29 min
There are multiple good reasons why top players win more. A lot of it has to do with game play, but not everything. Learning how to navigate draft and evaluate cards is an easier way of boosting your win rate and drafting best cards and being able to pick the right lane will aid you also in improving your game play later. Lees meer
Here are some lessons from top 17Lands.com user data that will help you become a better limited player.
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#82 - Early dive into LTR draft data
28 juni 2023 · 1 uur 47 min
New set, new possibilities! This week I give a general overview of which colors are good, what cards fuel them and which cards are essential in every archetype. And which cards absolutely are not - I looked through biggest traps too, so you don't have to. Lees meer
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#80 - MOM set review with Trumpetman revisited
18 juni 2023 · 1 uur 9 min
Set reviews are tricky bits of content. Based on limited information, prone to errors and quickly out of date. This is exactly why me and Trumpetman designed out set review structure in such a way that we can easily confront our predictions with the reality. Lees meer
Since we predicted the win rate of cards, we can match our guesses with the end of the format results. This way we know exactly where were our biggest misses and where we were bang on.
This episode is looking at our successes and failures and based on those we are trying to see what aspects of card evaluation we got wrong, how to improve the next time. The episode is particularly valuable for those of you who want to improve your card evaluation skills and understand how sets pan out.
Trumpetman is a host of 40 Card College podcast (a must-hear content for all the Limited fans out there). You can follow him at https://twitter.com/Trumpetman__
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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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#79 - How to improve your draft using 17Lands data?
12 juni 2023 · 1 uur 44 min
Limited is a hard format. It is not easy to start winning reliably. Today I look at several ways to quickly improve your Limited draft and deck building skills using the 17Lands.com data. Lees meer
I analyze why beginners can have problems with winning reliably, but most importantly, I try to give actionable advice on how to solve the problems I identify.
This video is primarily aimed at beginner to intermediate players, at least I tried to make it so. After watching it, you should be able to:
- identify bad cards in the format
- identify good cards in the format
- know how to check for good and bad cards specific for a given color pair
- know how to recognise a plan of a deck and how to draft in a way that enhances that plan rather than undermining it
- learn the importance of using community support as a learning toolPatreon: 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.
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#77 - Playing 5C in MOM Draft
7 juni 2023 · 1 uur 49 min
5C strategies in Limited are undoubtedly fun. But they are also tricky to execute, hard to master and laden with mana issues, which lower your win rate. This episode I look at the 17Lands data of 4 and 5 color decks in MOM to try and figure out, what makes a 5C strategy tick. Key cards, how much fixing is enough, reasons to go 5C and traps associated with this approach. Lees meer
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#77 - Battle of the Battles
17 mei 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
This episode I look at the data on the new card type. How many Battles should you play in your draft deck? Which ones are over and underperformers? What is the impact of the number of battles you have in your deck? And does it vary with color pair you are playing? And if so - why? Plenty to unpack but on top of everything I also had to somehow do this while my cat and my dog were, very aptly, fighting a battle against each other. Lees meer
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#76 - Learning from the best?
1 mei 2023 · 1 uur 48 min
This episode I look at the data of different win rate user tiers on 17Lands.com. In 17L data you can look specific at top win rate players group, a bunch that has a ~60% win rate across multiple formats. What do those players do differently? What color pairs, cards are they high on compared to the rest of the users? How do they use battles compared to the rest? Lees meer
But aside from looking at the top users I am asking: is it always worth to try and copy best players and the way they draft? And my conclusion is: not necessarily. Some cards will play amazingly in the hands of a seasoned grinder, but players who are still learning can actually harm their win rate by trying to replicate best players' strategies. And data can point us to which cards can be trickier to use and which strategies are more accommodating to beginner level drafters.
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#75 - First Look at MOM draft data
21 april 2023 · 1 uur 40 min
New format is upon us and first day data, even if based on smaller sample sizes is an excellent way of getting an edge over less invested players by identifying best colors, color pairs, cards that surprised and disappointed us in the first few days. Lees meer
And guess what? That is exactly what I will be talking about today. Get your edge against the people who ignore the draft data. But pretty please - do not fall into a trap of thinking that early data means the format is solved. Those are excellent indications but if you don't approach them flexibly, you may fall into a trap of not evolving with the format as a player.
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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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#74 - Theory crafting buildarounds
21 april 2023 · 1 uur
Before each set I will now try to make an episode on theory crafting. MOM looks like a fantastic set to build around. In this episode, I explored the types of buildaround, how to design buildarounds, give some practical examples and try to speculate on some interesting cards from MOM that have a buildaround potential. Lees meer
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#73 - Personal Data with Numot the Nummy
11 april 2023 · 1 uur 23 min
This week I had a great pleasure to have a very special guest: Numot the Nummy. A streamer extraordinaire, with Pro Tour credentials and most importantly, a limited specialist. We looked at Numot's ONE data - a format he didn't like and performed somewhat under par for his standard (still an insane win rate of over 60%, but some people have higher standards than that). Which cards did he overdraft, which cards did he value too low, which cards proved successful in his builds? All of that available in the seminar. Lees meer
We also learned that Numot is a true "drafting the hard way" drafter - unlike my many previous guests, and applies that approach to a great success, so if you think you, like me, use preferences in draft a little bit too much, it is worth looking at this episode and following Numot to see how he does it.
You can find him at
https://www.twitch.tv/numotthenummy
or follow him on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/NumotTheNummy
And if you still don't, I highly recommend it. He was an awesome, well informed and generous guest, and his streams are among the best in business.Patreon: https://patreon.com/sierkovitz to get extra access, perks and the good feeling of supporting my work.
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#72 - Lords in Limited
4 april 2023 · 1 uur 4 min
This week I look at the impact lords, creatures giving power and/or toughness bonuses to a tribe, give to the archetypes they are printed in. But that is not all, we look into week 2 of SIR and have a reverse engineering approach on the MOM spoilers. Lees meer
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#71 - Shadows over Innistrad Remastered Draft Data
26 maart 2023 · 1 uur 14 min
First dive into the data of the new-old format. What is peculiar about SIR packs, which colors are the strongest, most open and underdrafted. Which color pairs do best and what cards allow them to do so. I look at the best cards in each color / color pair, at the hidden gems that have high win rate but Arena users are not drafting them highly. At least not yet. Lees meer
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#70 - Sideboarding in Draft
23 maart 2023 · 1 uur 12 min
This episode looks at a relatively understudied aspect of limited: sideboarding. I look at general trends in sideboarding - when people do it, when they don't and how much sideboarding is a good thing. Lees meer
I also dive into recent few years of limited formats to find the star cards in terms of sideboarding. The ones who are almost exclusively sideboard cards, the ones that are the most effective as sideboard cards and the ones that are potentially sideboarding traps. Based on those cards I also try to speculate on the general idea of what makes a good sideboard card.
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#69 - Archetypist, ONE Edition
23 maart 2023 · 1 uur 18 min
Time to look at the draft deck composition data and look at the secret successful sub builds in ONE. Lees meer
In this episode I look at the ONE decks in each color pair and cluster them based on how similar they are. After doing that, I calculate the win rate of each deck and its closest relatives. Based on that I can find clusters of successful sub-builds in each color pair.
Using the archetypist tool I developed with Pekka Pulli, you can explore that data set on your own. Some sub builds are logical and intuitive: there is a WB toxic deck, RG oil deck. But some will raise a few eyebrows, because not many know RW Toxic is a thing - but it does exist, is successful, even if you will only have it open in your pod every 50 drafts or so.
Enjoy the seminar, but if you want to explore the tool, visit https://archetypist.netlify.app/
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#68 - Fast format, Furious players: Analysing the speed of ONE draft
10 maart 2023 · 1 uur 1 min
Lot has been said about the unique speed of ONE draft format. But is there a good basis to vilify this format as something that is extremely fast? I look deep into format game length data and try to unravel what is driving the speed of ONE and how does it compare with other formats. I also look at the cards that allow you playing long games and what can be useful in making control decks in ONE limited. Lees meer
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#67 - Drafting with Bots
1 maart 2023 · 1 uur 3 min
ONE Quick Draft is available on Arena now and it may be a good idea to play a couple of those, as they will offer you a fresh look on the format. Why? The bot and human metagame are sufficiently different from each other to offer a slightly different experience. I talk about what is special about bot draft and offer some advice on how to abuse those differences for your benefit. How to conceptually approach bot draft and in what ways it is a different form of Magic. Color power in a format is a combination of card power and card availability, and as far as the power doesn't change, the availability does. In what ways in ONE bot draft different? Which colors, strategies, cards are more and less available and what does it mean for you? Lees meer
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#66 - ONE with all... color pairs
21 februari 2023 · 1 uur 41 min
This week I look at why ONE is different from all other recent formats. Why there are so few great commons? What causes the imbalance in color power and why I strongly believe white is by far the most powerful color at common in the set and also why you still should draft preferentially red. Lees meer
On top of that we look at all the color pairs and figure out their best cards, their hidden stars and traps at both common and uncommon level. Spoiler - you will see a lot of Annex Sentries as top uncommons.
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#65 - Time to look at the very early ONE draft data from 17lands.com
10 februari 2023 · 1 uur 27 min
I look at the speed of the format: is it lightning fast and what may be the reasons for it. I also look at color pair win rates and the rate they are played at. Are some color combinations hidden gems? Are the most played ones successful? Lees meer
On top of that I look at best commons and uncommons in each color and in each color pair. To be able to relentlessly mock myself (with a couple of taps on the back for good measure) I compare the current top 5 cards in the format with the top 3 lists I made before the release and speculate - why was I wrong in case of some cards I picked and why some cards did perform better than I predicted.
I use the top cards so far to also try and figure out what do they have in common looking at potential mana curves you want to have in your deck and themes connecting top cards in the format.
REMINDER: Early data is not perfect. Format didn't stabilise yet, and players don't always fully know how to build decks, early day opposition can be softer than the one later in the format, good cards go later than normal. All this impacts the data and introduces biases. Use early data as a tool to ask more questions, not as a source of absolute answers. Early data can prepare you to solve the format later, but it is by far not a solution itself.
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Bonus Episode - Skeleton Crew, ONE Edition
4 februari 2023 · 2 uur 3 min
This episode me, SLKerstens, JasonILTG and TaJoordan talk about our pre pre-release impressions of ONE and how we would build simple deck skeletons from each color pair. Lees meer
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twitter.com/JasonILTG
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#63 - ONE for all
4 februari 2023 · 1 uur 44 min
A deep look at the mechanics of the set. How does the card pool for each of the existing mechanics impact possible game play plans you can draft around? Should you try to kill with poison counters, or is it a pipe dream? How to maximise your proliferate and just how many ways to do it are there. I also walk you through my thought process of theory-crafting a deck, from the first idea through the core card selection, contingency planning up to building a deck archetype skeleton. Lees meer
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#62 - Black Magic: Exploring the personal data of Sam Black
28 januari 2023 · 1 uur 13 min
This week I look at the personal data of the one and only Sam Black. we look at Brother's War through his drafts. What was his approach towards the format, what cards made it possible. Sam possibly discovers a new type of deck by thinking about his BRO draft decks - mid-term. A deck that can't win early, loses longer games but is excellent in winning the games in the middle stages due to being powerful enough to deal with controls and out-resourcing aggro (which makes it different from mid-range, which can switch between aggressive and controlling strategies and has both early and late game. Tapping into Sam's expertise is a roller-coaster but with a rational train of thought. It is also a good way of reflecting on your BRO season and on what went well and maybe less well for you. Lees meer
You can find Sam at: twitch.tv/samuelhblack and twitter.com/samuelhblack
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#61 - What makes sealed different; KHM case
21 januari 2023 · 52 min
How is sealed different from draft? Can we actually measure that difference? And what does it mean to your Arena Open attempt? I talk sealed, KHM sealed and what cards should you re-evaluate in this format compare to what you remember from drafting the set. Lees meer
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#60 - Archetypist, BRO edition
11 januari 2023 · 1 uur 30 min
This episode I look at the builds within each color pair. To do so a bit of maths was needed. I converted decks into numbers and plotted them based on what cards are inside. After that we look at the clusters of similar decks that win a bunch - this way by checking what is inside them we can figure out what makes them tick. Some color pairs have a one type of successful build, but some have multiple sub-archetypes that are very distinct from each other. Archetypist tool lets you figure that out on your own. Lees meer
The tool, made by Pekka Pulli, is available here: https://archetypist.netlify.app/
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#58 - Navigating new format data in limited
3 december 2022 · 1 uur 23 min
Early format is the best time for hot takes and sweeping statements. Keeping that in mind I dedicate this episode to show what are the dangers of hot takes and sweeping statements and how to look at the early format in a more granular, subtle way. In the second part I look at the data from all the 10 color pairs. Which cards are the stars, which ones are traps, are there any hidden gems you should consider drafting higher. Lots of hot takes and absolute statements so you can later copy them with conviction! Lees meer
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#57 - Draft Primer and First Look at the data
22 november 2022 · 1 uur 45 min
I take a look at removal stats of the Brothers' War set and try to convince you on how to use the self-milling cycle of creatures. On top of that, I dive into early format data: what makes each color tick and which colors do tick so far which ones still need some work from our side to be figured out. Lees meer
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#56 - Magic: the Gatoring, Personal data of Florida Mun
9 november 2022 · 1 uur 12 min
Time to say goodbye to DMU draft data, and what better way than to look at the vast personal data of the all-time 17Lands.com trophy leader, Floridamun? We look at 175 drafts Chris played over the duration of the format in quest to find out what makes him such a good player. How does he manage to keep up such an impressive win rate across so many games. We look at his draft habits, pick preferences, card win rates and much more. Lees meer
Check out Chris's Twitch (twitch.tv/FloridaMun) and podcast The Draft Lab
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#55 - Dominaria Sealed Open Primer
4 november 2022 · 1 uur 7 min
This weekend we will have an opportunity to play for some real $$$ on Arena and the format is Dominaria Sealed. You read it well - Dominaria without United. Since the set came out in 2018 you might need a refresher or maybe you never played it before. I talk about the available data on Sealed in this format: how many colors should you try to play, what are the must-play bombs and which colors are the best. On top of that I go through top commons and uncommons in each color and look at some recent trophy decks to give you a good impression of what should you be aiming at in order to get to day 2 and give yourselves a chance of spiking some cash! Lees meer
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#54 - Data? Tada!
3 november 2022 · 1 uur 4 min
Dominaria United full data hit a bit late in the season but still it is interesting to look at the data even late in the season as they show a format so different from any other. This episode I look at the new tutoring data from 17lands.com, rank the kicker spells - which ones don't need to be kicked, should be kicked and work best when you can reliably kick it every time, preferably in a 2 color deck? I also look at how important being 5 color it was for each domain card. Lees meer
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#53 - Why are top players top?
2 november 2022 · 1 uur 10 min
Today I look at the data of top, middle and bottom win rate tiers among the 17Lands users. Who are the top players, and what sets them apart from the rest? Which cards can the players maximize? And which cards are universally good across different levels? But that is not all. I also look at why, to become a good player, you need to go through several stages of development. Just knowing that top players win more with card X is not enough to replicate their success. It will speed up your journey through rank, that's for sure, but maximizing the output of a card is a process that takes time and effort. I look at the successful cards at each stage of development - so you can better position yourselves, where you are on your journey, and get a good idea of where to go next. Lees meer
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#52 - Three New Heuristics for Drafting
30 september 2022 · 1 uur
What is the point of using draft data if we don't get actionable advice from them? Today I look at the drafting data from DMU (and from some other sets) and propose three new drafting heuristics related to drafting mana fixing, multicolor spells and combat tricks. Lees meer
I also look at the wheeling stats of DMU cards, show you how draft tables respond to number of dual lands that were open in the pod and which cards are the best first picks in terms of future win rate if you manage to draft a deck around them.
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#51 - Multicolor Decks in DMU Draft
16 september 2022 · 1 uur 17 min
Dominaria United is a draft format like we didn't see in a long time. Formats supporting 2 color, 3 color and multicolor strategies with little win rate penalty was something Wizards were avoiding in their recent design. But that is not the case in DMU. One in 16 decks is a 4 color or more concoction. That is 2 times more than any other format since ZNR. Almost 50% of all decks have 3 or more main colors. And, as a result, only 1/5 is pure 2 colors. So which multicolor decks are the best? Which cards are important to make them win? And, perhaps equally importantly - are there traps 17Lands users routinely fall into? I use data to try to answer those and many other questions about the nature of multicolor decks in Dominaria United. Lees meer
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#50 - Dominaria Untied, First look at 17Lands draft data
12 september 2022 · 1 uur 45 min
First dive into 17Lands data for the new set, Dominaria United. This is a set where data analyses should be done very carefully as it is a set we unlike anything we had before. What about it is so unique? Which colors are the best, which color combinations work best and, perhaps most importantly, how many colors should you play? All those questions will be answered in this episode. But wait! There's more! I look at 5 most winning two color pairs and most winning three color combinations and see which cards make them tick and which should be avoided. Lees meer
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#49 - Dominaria United Draft Primer
1 september 2022 · 1 uur 29 min
All you need to know about the new format. OK, maybe not all but quite a lot. Includes removal guide and an overview of color pair specific cards. Just the thing to do to kill the time while waiting to dive into the new set. Lees meer
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://youtu.be/zYbxvtj2XIw
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Bonus Episode: Skeleton Crew, Dominaria United Edition
1 september 2022 · 3 uur 41 min
In this Episode me, SLKerstens, JasonILTG and Tajoordan discuss the DMU draft format before the release. We share our initial thoughts and draft deck archetypes we want to play with in the early days of the format. Lees meer
See the slides here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13xJrmt9KtlyIxxNhpDO8QHGDOfuYvLR5Fg-cjEoVjyE/edit?usp=sharing
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#48 - Personal Data with Jamie Topples
30 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 19 min
This week we look at the personal data from BO3 HBG drafts of a streamer, podcast host and a limited grinder, Jamie Topples. With a tough season behind her, we are trying to see if the personal data explains her trials and tribulations in the Baldurs Gate. Lees meer
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#46 - Return to Kamigawa
6 augustus 2022 · 1 uur 30 min
A refresher course in Kamigawa limited. But not only. I also look at the differences between the first run of the format and the flashbacks Lees meer
Check the YouTube recording of it to see any graphs that are hard to imagine in the audio-only format: https://youtu.be/jZH06lH_Xok
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