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The most common creature types in Magic, by year of first release.
The distribution at the end (i.e. today) may or may not surprise you, but the path to getting there is pretty wild!
A brief, three-question survey 📝👇
❓Do you approve or disapprove of the job 𝑊𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑎𝑠𝑡 is doing in producing 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔?
6%Strongly approve
25%Approve
43%Disapprove
26%Strongly disapprove
81 votes • Final results❓Would you say 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐 is heading in the right direction, or is it off on the wrong track?
13%Right direction
87%Wrong track
46 votes • Final results Magic Data Science retweeted
A brief, three-question survey 📝👇
❓Do you approve or disapprove of the job 𝑊𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑎𝑠𝑡 is doing in producing 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔?
2%Strongly approve
20%Approve
50%Disapprove
28%Strongly disapprove
673 votes • Final resultsA brief, three-question survey 📝👇
❓Do you approve or disapprove of the job 𝑊𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑎𝑠𝑡 is doing in producing 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐: 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔?
2%Strongly approve
20%Approve
50%Disapprove
28%Strongly disapprove
673 votes • Final results❓Would you say 𝑀𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑐 is heading in the right direction, or is it off on the wrong track?
10%Right direction
90%Wrong track
459 votes • Final resultsSomeone in a Discord asked about this, and I thought it would be super-interesting, so I'd love to compile any/all draft archetype reference guides from past sets. The official ones, with the highly genre-specific terminology they use -- not any third-party writeups. Like these👇
alanpep.bsky.social has been collecting these Archetype Guides from booster boxes since they started doing them, and was kind enough to share two with me: Unfinity and Dominaria Remastered.
Thanks so much!
📯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!
In second place, with 457.91 points, was Inflamed (who came in 3rd for TLA!), closely followed by @veserius.bsky.social at 457.87 -- and then several others close behind!
Here is how the rest of the competitors finished out:
#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
Magic Data Science retweeted
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!
Here'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!
Here'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...