Anything But: The First Five

Posted on November 15, 2012 by JustSin

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  2. While I can certainly understand the desire to let The Competitive Corner die, perhaps you could shift away from specifics and paint with broad strokes instead, renaming it Competitive Coroner. Adding the “o” distinguishes it from the “old” section, and also indicates that your working with effectively dead data… just a thought. :)

  3. I want to preface this with.. I thoroughly enjoy your articles, and I strongly disagree with the decision to /further/ decimate the information from the dailies

    In the world that existed before where they posted the 3-1 and 4-0 records of each daily we still didn’t have complete information about what the metagame was like and which decks would do well. It could conceivably be the case that 10% of the decks in a tournament was, say, Affinity, but none of them made it into the money bracket. On the other hand, there could also be an overrepresentation of another deck in the money bracket compared to how many copies of that deck entered the tournament. Really all you could say for sure was that information that was already at hand which is “which decks made it into the money bracket” and not much else.

    I am sure my reasoning is /somewhat/ flawed in this, but I’m just writing it as I see it and not to challenge anyone. :-)

    On the point about how to attain a greater detail of information, how about “just” doing so manually? I know this won’t include decklists of every player, but if enough of the community is willing to chip in it would not require very much effort for particular individual.

  4. 12:38 Izzet; why you didn’t use rushing river to bounce pacifism + the untapped bird token to kill him?

  5. What about a few bonesplitters in the Rakdos deck? Maybe instead of the Borderposts, and run with 21 lands?

  6. @ hiveking: the point was to get people to speak their mind on opinions for what can/should be done for that section so no need to preface :) while I can personally do some manually, the time it takes to watch replays and note decks/matches is substantial… are you suggesting I focus out one DE to talk about during articles or just use data given any ways or mix given and hand tracked data or some combination of all the above?

    @ Lantis: well I’m not perfect :) you’re right that would have been game there had I used the Rushing River as long as he didn’t have an Unsommon effect with that one blue mana

    @ Tyler: nice idea, the borderposts are definitely clunky

  7. I’ve been a fan of your articles for awhile. As a sometime pauper player, I really enjoyed the “Competitive Corner” to get a feel for what was happening in the format even when I wasn’t playing. I certainly understand that without complete data your analysis will not be as accurate, but I do like to have a one-stop place that I can use to get a quick read on what the popular decks are and perhaps a few ideas for some rogue decks. I for one wouldn’t mind if you just used the info that wizards provides now to do a basic meta analysis. Also thanks for giving me an excuse to use my putrid leachs.

  9. Really wish you took these to dailies rather than play bad people in the just for run room or at least do a 2 man.

  10. thanks for the comments

    @Pixywing: I tried my best to add the disclaimer that these were mostly casual, which is something I do like to write about as often as competitive Pauper… what you miss in this article is the behind the scenes part where I worked on this for three weeks. Not only did I have to create five decks that I liked, but I also had to put together commentary and gameplay videos and that took an INCREDIBLE amount of time. Most of these decks were completely trashed and rebuilt at least once. What goes into coming up with a solid rogue deck meant for competitive play is a lot of testing and tweaking and if I did that for each of these decks it would have taken forever… in order to save some time I left out sideboards and working for competitive (because I think some of them don’t hold ground as competitive) and tried to give a little bit of a discussion on what you might be able to do if you wanted to try yourself to make them more competitive

  11. At first glance, “Detain” seemed weak, but for any fans of tempo – it’s a real threat. Hopefully the next few sets will further this mechanic. It plays like an oblivion ring that targets something new each time and for only a turn – powerful stuff.

  14. Very sad to see the competitive corner snuffed by some pointless policy wizards decided to adopt. Anyway, have you considered lengthening the amount of time between competitive metagame analysis? Even if you pooled data for 2 months at a time and just gave us an update on how a new set had effected the meta with a number crunch to back it up I think it would be better than nothing.