🧵𝐓𝐨𝐩 𝟓𝟏* 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐓𝐲𝐩𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐬
A countdown

* Don't worry, I'll list them all, but won't show all of them, because a many are Humans, and I don't want to get repetitive.

I start with #51, because it's Human Detective! So many! 😂


50. Zombie Warrior
49. Vampire Soldier
48. Bird Wizard
47. Vampire Cleric (a classic!)

Brace yourselves: this is the definitive list of all sets of one or more cardnames that can be spelled with the same set of letters (ignoring capitalization and punctuation). Starting with a triplet!

(cc: @maro254, because this seems like your kind of trivia)

A 🧵👇
How does #ONE Limited compare to other recent formats? We can look at trophy-winning decks compiled by @17Lands to get a reasonable, if imperfect look.

First, ONE is 𝗯𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗿 the fastest environment we've seen recently, in terms of turns/game: It's also predominantly a 2-color format. This table is sorted by mean number of cards in a third color -- trophy-winning ONE decks feature fewer than 1, on average. There is a lot of variation in this dimension across formats, and ONE is among the lowest.

What does a typical RG trophy deck look like in #ONE Limited?

Aggregating across 2,308 trophy-winning decks, it looks something like this 👇. Oil up, proliferate, and repeat.

A 🧵, with a "typical" trophy-winning build for each color pair ⬇️ For each of these, I'm looking at all trophy-winning decks with a copy of the relevant #2CUDS. Cards are sorted by number of copies in those trophy-winning decks (I put lands at the end, though). The @karsten_frank-inspired methodology is described here: strategy.channelfireball.com/all-strategy/h…

🧵A thread about human ingenuity, civic virtue, and the public good!

You're probably familiar with the Phyrexian-language variants of several Praetors and other Phyrexian-aligned cards, including some full-art lands in the upcoming set, Phyrexia: All Will Be One...

1/12 👇 You can actually see all of these by searching for

languange:phyrexian

on @scryfall:

https://twitter.com/scryfall/status/1603732775407960064

LEGO seems like a reasonable analogue to Magic -- ostensibly a toy/game, but with many adult fans, a system that allows interoperability across time, lots of room for creativity, etc

I was going to observe that "you don't hear LEGO fans complaining about product fatigue", but🧵 I actually looked around, and there is at least some of that! For example, "Is LEGO releasing too many new parts?" reddit.com/r/lego/comment…

"Has LEGO released too many direct-to-consumer sets?" brickset.com/article/53640/… (the comments on this are eerily familiar😄)

𝗔 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗢𝗿𝗲𝗼𝘀
Most Oreo purchases are made by Casual Oreo Consumers; walking down the cookies/snacks aisle at the grocery store and more or less spontaneously deciding to buy them.

There are a huge number of varieties and flavors of Oreos...

1/8 ...and part of the reason for this is that Nabisco wants each shopper to have some kind of Oreo that appeals directly to them. Some prefer peanut butter, some like ridiculously sweet things, some are on a diet, some are 𝐺𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑇ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 fans...

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The 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤 𝘋𝘢𝘵𝘢 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦
🎧𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗲🏆

I listen to a lot of podcasts. This thread recognizes my favorites -- those I've listened to the longest, those I most eagerly anticipate, and those I most readily recommend to others. The first, and most obvious member of the PHoF is @maro254's 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸. It's an entire game design education in 30-60 minute chunks, and is nearing its 1000th episode!

magic.wizards.com/en/articles/me…

Another cool thing in this article -- and something I've never seen elsewhere: I used @karsten_frank's deck aggregation method to make archetype-average Limited decks for each two-color pair and every #2CUDS in the set.

🧵👇 1/6

https://twitter.com/mtg_ds/status/1571868586225897473

How is this possible without the @17Lands public data? Well, they *do* post trophy decklists, so I just made "typical trophying decklists" by looking at the bundles of cards that most often appear in winning decks. For example...

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If there was any doubt that the most interesting card in DMU Limited is Wingmantle Chaplain, here's some more evidence:

In a model that disentangles card and archetype strength, the Wing Chap stands out as the single card that's most central to decks in which it appears.

🧵1/4 This model is the focus of my latest article at @ChannelFireball, in which I dig deep to learn as much as we can learn from @17Lands early in the format.

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strategy.channelfireball.com/all-strategy/h…

I was curious to see which sets have contributed the most to the Commander format, so I turned to @edhrec data, and counted up the number of decks in the current Meta in which each card appears.
mtgds.wordpress.com/2022/03/06/ris… It turns out that Kaldheim, Throne of Eldraine, and War of the Spark are -- by at least one measure -- the expansions from which the most contemporary Commander decks are built.

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