Zach Dunn

Stuff About Magic: A Rambling About My 2nd Place PT Finish docs.google.com/document/d/1xT…

Got my 1k back thank you wizards!

@Flashjack711 Yeah I was joking, I was flexing that my deck was great lol

@Z23mtg Not a fan of this”would be a free win” statement, but agree that if this happened by a bug you should definitely get 500 extra

Last weekend, I went 4-0 and 3-1 in the arena open day 2 and I should’ve had a match for another $1k. It would’ve been a free win since I had 4 biomechanics engineers, genemorph imago, warmaker gunship, kavaron, synthesize land ship, and might form harmonizer in draft 2. but ins

tead it auto exited. I filed a support ticket and all I got was 5k gems. @Wizards_Help @MTG_Arena it seems fair to award anybody with this bug $500 as that’s the amount you’d give out anyways if things were working smoothly

@Bonkarooni No I got 1st in every contest

@Z23mtg So you lost 5.6k on the Flea flicker, 10k on Chain Mower, and won 9k on the monday night showdown, so you lost...6.6k?

Hit it big in dfs showdown today! Playing tons of magic and love of watching sports is paying off!

@twinlesstwin I haven’t played with the card once, but it seems like it’s okay against bad decks like tron or whatever but those decks are bad so they prob won’t do much at the pt. Maybe team handshake breaks it

@twinlesstwin Yeah I thought ragavan was the best card in modern before lotr, but I’d have to imagine that orcish bowmasters is really good against ragavan and just good against basically every deck(decks that play 1 toughness creatures or decks that draw cards)

Which modern deck will be the most successful (win %) at the PT?

@Nathansteuer1 @ja3k_ This might be me yeah

@ja3k_ Extremely high odds it’s @Z23mtg prob >80%

One time I was playing mtgo and my opponent asked if I was Jake Koenig. I said yes and asked who they were. They said they were "That kid who was grinding when I left". Still have no idea who it was.

That jeskai dragons standard deck seems absolutely disgusting I predict somebody with that deck will win arena champs

@mtghofbot Similar mask goat vibes

The two 🐐s warming up for tomorrow Mmm, yeah this is my sanctuary right here. All this hatred and turmoil swirling around us, but this? This is always right. Struggle; Survival Victory; Defeat It’s just a game, man, but… I love it

@mtghofbot look at this fucking ninja: youtube.com/watch?v=FiGhDl…

@Z23mtg Ha it’s indeed him. We chatted for a while, he was with his wife and then Timthetatman and his girl, Cloakzy and his girl, and another couple I didn’t recognize.

Hanging at the beach with my boy Tyler reminiscing on the glory days.

@mtghofbot Yeah Kobe is cold. job not finished, not flinching when Matt Barnes faked the ball at him, etc.

@Z23mtg Yeah Kobe was simply always overrated imo. But his style is just especially bad in all advanced metrics. Was a different era, he was a volume scorer but yes long 2s are simply heinous no way around it. Born winner tho

Nuggets winning the championship this year would make me so happy. The Jokic haters need to be sent to the shadow realm asap. I believe he’s likely the greatest basketball player we’ve ever seen, and he somehow keeps getting better.

@mtghofbot yeah i agree. I just pulled up 538 and I'm pretty sure its high. It has gobert going #2 to #8 to #60(tied with walker kessler lol). There's something bad about their system. Either the data they are getting is incomplete or they should be using neural nets

@Z23mtg When did it say Gobert was 2nd best? He’s always up there defensively but overall I never see him pop in any advanced stuff White is weird, he has top 50 VORP and is solid in most advanced metrics but I also have no idea why. He seems average to me, maybe propped up by good team

@mtghofbot It is kinda weird how sports analytics measures basketball skill. Like I never watched much kobe but he's seems like an inefficient scorer with a bunch of long 2s but he won 5 rings.

@mtghofbot That argument about Jokic I feel like most NBA fans would disagree with but I think it's sort of close to true. I also don't really like the 538 raptor ratings; it said Rudy Gobert was the 2nd best player and derrick white is a top20 player and I find that hard to believe

@AndreiKlepatch 😂😂😂

Hey @karpathy or anyone else out there, how do I create a transformer that takes in sequential structured data. So far, I've only found transformers that take in sequential word or image data or just tabtransformers that take in structured data, so looking for a good architecture