Podcast Episodes

#143: Birthday Q & A

In this episode, I answer a variety of question about Magic, life, cooking and stuff. Mainly MAgic though, so don't worry - you can still get something useful out of it, I am not turning into a lifes…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

#142: Early 17Lands.com draft data for Pioneer Masters

New set is with us and with it the usual struggles. What to play, which cards overperform, which do badly, what color pairs to prioritise. Fear not - I have most of the basics covered and hopefully y…

Published on 8 months, 3 weeks ago

#141: Draft Good Cards

"Draft the good cards" is one of the basic pieces of advice you will get when starting to play limited. But just how effective is that advice? I dived deep in 17Lands.com data from BO1 Foundations dr…

Published on 9 months ago

#140: Finding right homes for cards in FDN draft

There are some cards that are just great in Limited. You can jam them into any deck and be happy about it. Filling your whole deck with those must be nice. In reality, to find 23 playables we need to…

Published on 9 months, 2 weeks ago

#139: Early 17Lands.com draft data for Foundations

New set, new data. How to position yourself well in a new format? Get the best available card evaluations as early as possible. And that is the aim of this episode.

I will look at each color pair th…

Published on 9 months, 3 weeks ago

#138: DSK Set Re-review with Chord_O_Calls

Set reviews are fun but what exasctly do they bring to the table? We grade cards, we speculate wildly and life moves on. This set review is different. We graded the cards before the set was released,…

Published on 9 months, 4 weeks ago

#137 - Advanced DSK drafting

So, you have your Boros aggro and UW Eerie decks nailed to a fine detail? But perhaps recently the wins are not coming as easy as they did early season? Don't worry - I got you covered there. We wil…

Published on 10 months ago

#136 - What does 17Lands data tell us about successful draft strategy?

Forcing, drafting the hard way, drafting with preferences are all different approaches to the draft part of Limited.

What do the numbers tell us about those? Can you optimise your approach to draft…

Published on 10 months ago

#135 - Duskmourn Draft: Putting right cards in right decks

One of the traps of looking at card win rates is simplifying a complex problem. Yes, a card can have a decent win rate but this may meaan many things. It can be universally good, but it can also be …

Published on 10 months ago

#134 - Early 17Lands draft data for Duskmourn

New format, new learning curve, new possibilities. Today I look at the early data for DSK to try to figure out which cards are surprisingly good or worse than anticipated to give you that small edge …

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago