Anything But: Let’s Talk All-Kill

Posted on December 19, 2013 by JustSin

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  1. This is unfortunate, and I hope you eventually make your return, you were a classy person to work with, and I enjoyed your stuff. Good luck in the future!

  5. @David Yolowski — JustSin regretfully will be going on indefinite hiatus with Anything But because (1) he will not be able to regularly participate in competitive Pauper events online given the time commitment of PEs and also thinks it his duty to be engaged with competitive Pauper if he’s going to write about it, and (2) there are no longer DE statistics to compile, and they served as the lifeblood of the regular Pauper metagame.

    However, JustSin will continue to work on the AcademyShowcase and still be involved in the Pauper community to some degree.

  6. This is sad news, i hate to see a writer who has impacted my magic life leave. I built my first pauper deck after reading one of your articles and eventually got my local play group involved as well. Now Pauper is a regular format we return to when we want a break from commander. Well i hope circumstances change and you are able to bring the column back.

  7. Thanks all for the kind words. As I’ve tried my best to say I, along with hopefully readers, have hopes the series can return at some point, but with the current state of Pauper being limited to only PEs and no change in sight I don’t think I can continue to just throw together content as is and be able to still stand behind what I’m putting out, which is important to me.

  8. I’m a big fan of that event now – I’ll do my best to not multi-cue next time (something I rarely do). It made me feel like a jackass :) Keep it up -

  10. I think data from 8-man events is still very helpful/relevant. Although we no longer have enough data to know what the exact percentages for the metagame breakdown are, the data you presented in your previous article still provided a pretty clear idea of which tier a deck currently belongs to. Honestly, someone who is trying to choose what deck they want to bring to a tournament or trying to decide how they want to design their sideboard doesn’t need to know that delver is currently at 15% of the metagame and MBC is at 13%. They just need to know that those are two of the top contenders in the current meta. Your data still gives them what they need to know. I would keep doing what you did in the previous article.