Breaking my long silence to report that +2 Mace now appears on Gatherer.
Magic Data Science
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Doing math with Magic; doing Magic with math. (Chromatic Lantern; Julie Dillon)
I've been listening to @justingary.bsky.social's podcast for awhile now, and was pleasantly surprised to see that this week's episode featured a guest -- and a game -- that you may be familiar with*: justingarydesign.substack.com/p/mark-rosew... A must-listen if you're interested in game design.
Mark Rosewater — Designing for Emotion, Embracing Complexity, and 28 Years of Iteration (#103)
Think Like A Game Designer Podcast
justingarydesign.substack.com
This is so cool. I think maybe all (?) of the art is from sketches/drafts of illustrations that have appeared on Magic cards. Seems fun, easy to learn, charming. Way to stick with it, @maro254.bsky.social
@maro254.bsky.social · 3mo agoHere’s the how-to-play video for Mood Swings. #WotCStaff youtube.com/watch?v=-uf-...
📯I am pleased to announce the winner of the Lorwyn Eclipsed #P0P1 Challenge: 🎇 @formersquid 🎆 Going deep on BG, and hitting on the second-best Eclipsed creature (Kithkin), proved to be the keys to victory!
#calledshots for the future The Hobbit set: RW draft archetype will be Dwarf Typal, or at least, heavily Dwarf-centric, maybe with a connection to treasure (tho that's more likely RG) The return of common Legends, at least to fit in some of the many lesser Dwarves
~ ≠ ≈ I'm open to using the ~ if you're texting or in a hurry, but on an earnings report, I'd probably take the time to figure out how to write the ≈. Also, some wild keming choices here
Here is where ECL lands on the #PrinceVPauper ternary plot: decidedly _not_ Pauper. The rares and uncommons are relatively stronger than the commons, to a greater extent than pretty much any recent set. At common, look for good removal, friendly creature types, and... good luck!
Magic Data Science@mtgds.bsky.social · 8mo agoHere's a new visualization I'm trying out -- representing the #PrinceVPauper distribution of recent Limited formats. The axes are unitless, but essentially represent the relative win rates of cards, by rarity. The left-to-right dimension maps onto the common ↔ rare...
Here is where ECL lands on the #PrinceVPauper ternary plot: decidedly _not_ Pauper. The rares and uncommons are relatively stronger than the commons, to a greater extent than pretty much any recent set. At common, look for good removal, friendly creature types, and... good luck!
Magic Data Science@mtgds.bsky.social · 8mo agoHere's a new visualization I'm trying out -- representing the #PrinceVPauper distribution of recent Limited formats. The axes are unitless, but essentially represent the relative win rates of cards, by rarity. The left-to-right dimension maps onto the common ↔ rare...
Some time ago, I came up with a method of measuring the "openness" of a card in Limited, which can summarize up to describing a particular format. One of the more interesting things I found was how relatively "on-rails" Bloomburrow was, with its 10 typal archetypes. You can...
Some time ago, I came up with a method of measuring the "openness" of a card in Limited, which can summarize up to describing a particular format. One of the more interesting things I found was how relatively "on-rails" Bloomburrow was, with its 10 typal archetypes. You can...
Someday they'll post a job that requires 2+ years of graph-making and Limited-format-predicting experience.
Cary@acry.bsky.social · 6mo agoThere's a Magic Game Designer position up. Requires 2+ years competitive experience, not remote, exactly what it says on the tin: careers.hasbro.com/careers/job/...
@cubecobra.com Excited about the 1.5 update! Especially Scryfall drag'n'drop. Does this update mean that the job that calculates Cube Elo will run regularly? Also, at the moment, it seems like Playtest Data is missing?
Clearly Alara, and specifically, Bant
@maro254.bsky.social · 6mo agoSomeone on my blog asked what plane has the best pizza. One of the planes I chose was Ravnica, so another person asked which guild made the best pizza. It was “Another Day of R&D Productivity Lost” (for fans of my old “Tales from the Pit” comic). #WotCStaff
Here is a plot of GIHWR by rank within color, for commons and uncommons in ECL, per @17lands.bsky.social Among commons, it's G and then everyone else, although R and B have a higher top-end before falling off, while U and W are a little flatter. Among uncommons, ...
Here is a plot of GIHWR by rank within color, for commons and uncommons in ECL, per @17lands.bsky.social Among commons, it's G and then everyone else, although R and B have a higher top-end before falling off, while U and W are a little flatter. Among uncommons, ...
I'm one of these, @maro254.bsky.social Watched 20 years, 20 lessons Listened to the DtW podcast episodes expanding on that Listened to every DtW at least once Had a million ideas for models to build Spent a year working on those intermittently Started MTGDS.
With all of the Treefolk and -1/-1 counters running around ECL, folks have been talking about how high-toughness the creatures in this set are. But, are they? 🤔 I went to make this graph, expecting ECL to be an obvious outlier, and it's... just not! As you can see... 👇
With all of the Treefolk and -1/-1 counters running around ECL, folks have been talking about how high-toughness the creatures in this set are. But, are they? 🤔 I went to make this graph, expecting ECL to be an obvious outlier, and it's... just not! As you can see... 👇
What does it say about a format if this is the highest GIHWR blue common?
Several folks on @maro254.bsky.social's Blogatog reported that players at prerelease were confused by the official 5-pair archetype guide, hesitating to explore the other five pairs, despite some support for them. So I made an unofficial guide to those secondary archetypes!
Magic Data Science@mtgds.bsky.social · 7mo agoECL is another 5-archetype reference, but this one has an unusual twist: It includes three "allied" and two "enemy" pairs! This structure is mirrored in the #2CUDS as well as a common hybrid cycle, half of which are explicitly typal, half of which are Changelings.
Several folks on @maro254.bsky.social's Blogatog reported that players at prerelease were confused by the official 5-pair archetype guide, hesitating to explore the other five pairs, despite some support for them. So I made an unofficial guide to those secondary archetypes!
Magic Data Science@mtgds.bsky.social · 7mo agoECL is another 5-archetype reference, but this one has an unusual twist: It includes three "allied" and two "enemy" pairs! This structure is mirrored in the #2CUDS as well as a common hybrid cycle, half of which are explicitly typal, half of which are Changelings.
Highest GIHWR red common after day one (57.6%), just saying.
Magic Data Science@mtgds.bsky.social · 7mo agoJewel Thief? In this economy?
A thread of cards and artists for which the same artist has illustrated the same card multiple times. 1) This has happened for a million basic lands; they're not included 2) This has happened trivially in many, many cases -- Spectacular Spider-Man, Cavern of Souls, Traveling...
I love that Magic is so far from being "solved." Here are your day-one top GIHWR commons.
A thread of cards and artists for which the same artist has illustrated the same card multiple times. 1) This has happened for a million basic lands; they're not included 2) This has happened trivially in many, many cases -- Spectacular Spider-Man, Cavern of Souls, Traveling...
Some wisdom of the crowds, accumulated from the #P0P1 entries. Highly picked cards have historically been winning cards, so here are the commons and #2CUDS to look for before the @17lands.bsky.social data comes out.
