I LOVE AZORIUS

"You know the format is good when your opponent sighs as you play think twice"

@aldencates1 I played a Standard FNM at FUNtainment Game Center in 2018 - zero idea if they do modern or are even still open

I’m going to Berlin in 12 days. Does anyone have any recommendations for any magic locals in the city? #kiblergoogle

arena directs

i think the negative effects of what has effectively been the death of the standard FNM can't be overstated

@BlitzMTG I know you were sweating vs fast clock + more cards to mill. Mono-W rabbits OP?

Lost in another rcq top 4. Losing the invite to Spirebluff Canal continues until morale improves. Played 72/75 from last weekend. 2-1 87-card Mono-White Rabbits (I am not joking) Homie Scoop 2-0 Boros Energy ID ID Top 8: 2-1 UR Fleshraker PO Top 4: 0-2 Affinity

Much math later, Zev and I have analyzed aspects of keeping opening hands in Limited. How do screw, flood, being on the draw, and having different numbers of lands affect your win rate? How do different players mulligan? Executive summary (paper below): @mtg_jess/opening-hand-evaluation-in-limited-executive-summary-8360a819e2e6" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@mtg_jess/open…

@WUCtrl Assuming an empty hand and no cards in exile when Day's resolved - it's 0.00855%. 🤣

What are the chances of Day’s Undoing into 7 lands in a deck of 21 lands (4 lorien) with this current board state. 🤣

@DeerlyMissed Just charge 20 more than you first think just so you're sure you don't miss that important +10 benchmark

@AzoriusI Well how do I know how much it’s worth so I can make sure to upcharge the $10?

Hey you who went x-5 or better at a recent Magic tournament: it’s imperative that you write a guide for your deck! Please make sure it’s of low quality, tells you how to sideboard incorrectly, and sells for at least $10 more than it’s worth!

Data for all Swiss rounds of RC DC! @fireshoes

@fischer_scotty @fireshoes Sorry to hear that, here's the link for the data set, so you can view the matchup matrix better: #gid=1876789925" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

@AzoriusI @fireshoes I'm having trouble with the image quality, not sure if it's the platform, I'll try on PC later.

The good news about receiving a poor pool in the LTQ is that I had plenty of time to finish up the data work today. Here's the matchup matrix for Day 1 of RC DC! @fireshoes

Won 1 box with this deck in arena direct. Might fire off another bullet or two, but playing disgusting b01 is a hard pill to swallow

@mind0vertime @IslandGoSAMe Interesting. My understanding is the deck lists should be available online in case someone loses their paper sheet, so hopefully this gets resolved

@IslandGoSAMe @AzoriusI they also weren’t public for the 5K which i don’t believe was true before !!!! something is happening

Anyone know what's going on with decklists on MTGMelee for the RC? Were they up earlier? I will be able to post the data from today once they get fixed

@IslandGoSAMe appreciate the info! very unfortunate

@AzoriusI i don’t believe decklists were ever public for this event for some reason

Got one!

On the train to RC DC and Joe Biden just casually strolls through my car, secret service in tow… Wish I was faster to have snapped a pic

@GregorStocks Glad to hear I was helpful. This project is a huge improvement over mine, so I'm excited to see how it continues to evolve!

@AzoriusI Oh you're THAT Azorius! That masterdoc is great, it's the main thing I used for deciding what sites to prioritize and calibrating my importance algorithm.

Magic: The Gathering writing has a short half-life. Historically-important articles are taken offline every year. This sucks. That's why I'm launching Library of Leng, an index of 32 years of Magic writing. 150k+ articles, 20+ sites, fully searchable. library-of-leng.com

@GregorStocks When I made my article masterdoc, I came up with 70~ categories. Maybe it could help you with some ideas: #gid=0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

@AzoriusI Probably pretty easy, actually - just throw away all the tags and categories from the original source and pipe the text into an LLM with a prompt like "what categories from this set does this article belong in?". I'd need to figure out what categories I want, though.

@GregorStocks I should clarify, if you're open to collaboration, I'd be willing to help out with that task

@GregorStocks Would be nice if you could sort by type of article. E.g. "deckbuilding", "sideboarding", etc. I understand that would be a monumental undertaking, though. Cool project!