Comments on: Anything But: What You Didn’t See

By: El Conejo

El Conejo — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 18:10:47 +0000

I really enjoyed your article, and the statistics are perhaps the most interesting part of it. If in the future though, you could not have the sections in the pie charts be differently coloured that’d be great. It’s a bit confusing when the different data swaps MBC and Eye Candy, but keeps the same colours for the same spaces on the pie chart. Otherwise, all this info is great.

By: JustSin

JustSin — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 14:06:41 +0000

Eye Candy is a UR deck that features the interactions of Kiln Fiend and Nivix Cyclops along with a bunch of one cost spells to achieve quick, one-turn wins.

Here’s an example deck:
http://decks.mtgoacademy.com/Deck/191739

By: TeenieBopper

TeenieBopper — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 23:19:52 +0000

What is Eye Candy?

By: Victor

Victor — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:55:52 +0000

I only can say… Thank you very much!

I can imagine all the work that you have opening every tournament, checking every deck and cataloging them.

By: JustSin

JustSin — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 20:59:55 +0000

what would including 2-0s accomplish as you’d be double counting many decks?

if I were to track every deck that showed to a DE I think you’d lose a lot because it doesn’t say how strong a deck is just how many people brought it… if you’ve ever played a DE there is always a chance that in Rd.1 you get paired to someone running a very casual deck and including that just would shrink numbers and make it too cluttered I think

By: CloudZero

CloudZero — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 17:27:00 +0000

I sampled about 800 decks and compared power level based on raw points and weighed points. Kiln Fiend is one of the few decks that actually showed statistically significant power level differences compared to most of the other decks, being the deck with the least power level, save some rogue decks.
Analysing the decks showed me that it is quite difficult to compare decks in a meaningful way because there are so many variables to be considered.. I tried correlating player power level (sum of showings in the last two months) with DE success, and actually found a (nonsignificant) negative correlation, which was quite surprising, for example.
Do you include 2-2′s and 2-0′s in your analysis?

By: deluxeicoff

deluxeicoff — Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:59:42 +0000

Great and massive breakdown yet again – always a joy to read!