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Rule of Law: Ethics and Fun in Modern Magic

Rule of Law: Ethics and Fun in Modern Magic

February 8, 2019 – by Jordan Boisvert 3

Yesterday, Brian Braun-Duin published “When Playing to Win Is a Loss,” an article detailing the dangers of getting caught up in the competitive spirit. It admonishes angle shooting and makes a case for sportsmanship in a gaming environment. Brian’s thoughts…

Dropping Destructive Revelry: Why to Keep Your Burn Board Boros

Dropping Destructive Revelry: Why to Keep Your Burn Board Boros

September 19, 2018 – by Andreas Breuer 9

The earth is round, the pope is catholic, and Destructive Revelry belongs in the sideboard of every Modern Burn deck. While the first and the second principle might be unbreakable, I’d like to smash the third one to smithereens. In this…

Love What You Play: Taking the Taste Test

Love What You Play: Taking the Taste Test

May 18, 2018 – by Jordan Boisvert 19

Modern has at times been described as a format hostile to Spike, the player demographic in search of winning at any cost. Indeed, “spiking” tournaments as players do in other constructed formats—by playing the best deck and understanding the mirror—isn’t…

Odds and Ends: Unusual Homes for Bloodbraid and Jace

Odds and Ends: Unusual Homes for Bloodbraid and Jace

February 28, 2018 – by Roland F. Rivera Santiago 0

As the metagame continues to adapt to the recent additions of Bloodbraid Elf and Jace, the Mind Sculptor, we have seen lots of the expected: Bloodbraid bolstering Jund, and Jace slotting in nicely as a finisher for controlling blue decks.…

The Four-Drops Are Coming! Unban Reaction

The Four-Drops Are Coming! Unban Reaction

February 13, 2018 – by David Ernenwein 10

Wizards really dropped a bombshell on us Monday morning. AND unbanned? Oof, didn’t see that one coming. I’d been outlining articles for the various cards that I could see getting banned or unbanned, but these two together were not on the…

Testing Preordain: Qualitative & Quantitative Results

Testing Preordain: Qualitative & Quantitative Results

December 27, 2017 – by David Ernenwein 5

David is out for the holidays until next week. In the meantime, please enjoy his article from earlier this year where he presented results from the Preordain ban test. These results were originally presented in two separate articles (here and…

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Current metagame: 12/1 – 12/31

RankDeckMetagame %
1Grixis Shadow5.5%
2Burn5.4%
3Gx Tron5.2%
4Jeskai Tempo4.8%
5RG Valakut4.7%
6Eldrazi Tron4.6%
7Affinity4.5%
8Humans4.5%
9Gifts Storm4.4%
10Counters Company3.7%

NOTE: Metagame % is calculated from the unweighted average of all MTGO leagues, paper T8s/T16s, and GP/PT/Open Day 2s in the date range. Data is tracked in the Top Decks page, which you can browse for more details.

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