Back when Monastery Mentor was spoiled, Modern players weren’t sure how the card would affect their format. Or even if the card would affect it. But on February 22, a rising Japanese pro player named Yuuki Ichikawa teamed up with to take down a 214 player Modern…
In last week’s article on MTGO statistics, I took a deep dive into the numbers to see if Mono U Tron was really the “best” deck on Magic the Gathering: Online. There was a pretty strong case to be made for…
It’s that most wonderful time of the year again: Modern banlist updates. There is no topic in Modern, and arguably no topic in Magic (with one strong contender…), that is so controversial and polarizing as the Modern banlist. Ever since…
MTGO daily data is awesome. If you like Magic and like numbers/statistics/math in any way, it’s hard to look at the mothership’s dataset and not nerd out. It’s updated daily! It has full decklists! It’s presented in a consistent format!…
The January 2015 bannings of , , and changed Modern as we knew it; Delver was sure to fade away; BGx attrition strategies were likely to return; Burn would have to stop splashing blue, and blue-based combo was going to…
