The more I dig into the metagame, the more article topics I find. This is by design, because that’s how research is supposed work. Every article is just the preface to the next, as I heard in graduate school. It’s usually…
How does one measure the unmeasurable? I’m not being facetious or rhetorical. That was an actual question. It’s something that analysts in many capacities must struggle with alongside quantifying the unquantifiable and persuading the unpersuadable. The struggle is very, very…
And now begins the month of terrors, when the grimmest of horrors arise from parts unknown to once again plague humanity until banished by November’s dawn. Yes, it’s October, and that means it’s Pumpkin Spice Everything season for America. Perhaps…
The new month brings a new metagame update. And this time, there’s nothing disruptive to report. No bannings, no weird and still-unexplained data gaps; just a perfectly normal bit of data gathering. Which means that I’ll be delivering a straightforward…
First Tuesday of a new month? Must be time for the metagame update. Yes, I realize that there wasn’t one last time, but those were special circumstances. A major ban invalidated more than half of February’s data. There’s really nothing…
And now, back to our regularly scheduled metagame analysis. Let me just take a look at what’s been winning… oh. MTGO’s reporting system is bugged; there’s been no new data since March 10. Huh. Ok, well, let me just see…
