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11 months ago ::
Jul 20, 2012 - 8:30AM
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Date Joined:
Aug 11, 2008
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Hearing that this crazy BW Vengeance deck has actually been putting up numbers online encourages me that it might be worth looking into. It's very encouraging, and keeps players from me from feeling like there aren't many choices of what deck I can play if I hope to do well in the current metagame.
JVL has to be very proud of that variant since the monoblack version was in one of his BoaB articles. Nice to see people taking his ideas and improving on them
Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.
I've seen angels fall from blinding heights.
But you yourself are nothing so divine.
Just next in line.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 20, 2012 - 1:03PM
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Date Joined:
Apr 14, 2012
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the match reports would be great, but don't make them play-by-play. A general "despite an explosive start of champion of the parish and several gather the townsfolks, the control player was able to use a board wipe to stabilize and then cast an olivia voldaren." would be good for describing a few turns. You don't need to detail every inch.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 21, 2012 - 7:41AM
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Date Joined:
Jul 20, 2009
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...
While GR Tron does put up a lot of numbers...
... it is the poorest performing deck considered "top tier*"; getting 4-0 only 8.9% of the times it shows up in the lists. In a large event, such as a GP or PT, it may get you through to the second day, but is a long shot for T8. ...
And then GR Thin Tron proves me wrong by putting up a string of 4-0 finishes. Well hush my mouth and slap my grandma. Dip me in chocolate and call me an eskimo pie.  Feel free to disregard anything I say.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. - Raoul Duke
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11 months ago ::
Jul 21, 2012 - 12:32PM
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Date Joined:
Aug 28, 2009
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Good article. I enjoyed the Major/Minor format structure.
I mentioned this last week, but I think it's a good enough idea to mention it again.
Because this article is specifically about the magic online metagame, you are in an unique position to easily contact players about their 4-0 decklists. Informal interviews or quick questions with players about their decks could provide some serious insight into the format. The answer to the question "why did you play card x instead of y" normally reveals a fact about the metagame that many players may not know. The trick is asking the right questions.
Besides that, It would be nice to see some data analysis. It's tough to collect the good kind of mtgo data, so no hard feelings if it never happens. I would like to see this acknowledged sometime in an article. (I.e, can you tell us if you're up to it?)
Thanks, looking forward to next week.
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11 months ago ::
Jul 21, 2012 - 3:27PM
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Date Joined:
Dec 11, 2005
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Every week I've been disappointed that it is only the Saturday's events that get covered. I could pretty easily look those up myself, and would love larger, less noisy samples each week.
I know that Wizards has internal analysis tools for MTGO metagames. Any chance you can get the keys to those, or at least be taken along for a ride?
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