Bot Drafting the Hard Way: A New Drafting Model for Archetypes and Staying Open
Ryan Saxe analyzes over 80,000 Draftsim drafts and creates a drafting bot that both understands archetypes and knows how to stay open during a draft.
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MTG Card Size/Dimensions, Weight, and Much Much More
Let’s talk about size! And obviously by that I mean the size of MTG cards.
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Draftsim Mobile UI Update
Well then. As you might know, back in September, I pushed a major update to Draftsim’s user interface. It was a lot snazzier and fancier than the old site and it included a major redesign up to and even including the blog. Overall, I think...
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Review: Ben Stark’s Spikes Academy Limited Course
I have to say, I was pretty excited when I found out that Ben Stark had created a Spikes Academy course. Ben has the reputation of being one of the best – if not the best – limited players in the world. His Magic resume is impeccable, with an...
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MTG Arena on Mac OS: Where to Get It
MTG Arena has finally been released on Mac OS! Check out where to get it, and take a trip down memory lane to see what it took to play it before the official release.
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Welcome to the New Draftsim
Nov 10, 2019: Another round of major updates for mobile devices has been pushed since this article was published. Read more about the changes here. You may have noticed things look different around here. Well, a lot different! I’m so...
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Secret Deck in Modern Horizons: How to Draft 5-Color Stream Control
Sunday morning before my first Draft for Grand Prix: Washington DC, I sent a message to Emma Handy and Autumn Burchett (my team for the upcoming Mythic Championship) about a weird way that I realized you could draft Simic in MH1.
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Ravnica Allegiance First Look: Ravnica Remixed
By Dan Troha and Arseny Khakhalin I think it’s safe to say that everyone had pretty similar expectations about Ravnica Allegiance going into its release — it would look very similar to Guilds of Ravnica for limited. After all, there...
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New Year, New Features: Major Draftsim Updates
Happy 2019 to all of you out there! This past few weeks I hope you got to play Magic with some friends and to avoid eating too much (hint: I did not). While I had a wonderful holiday break, I’m happy to announce I’ve also been hard at...
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Guilds of Ravnica First Look: Controversy Abound
By Arseny Khakhalin, Dan Troha, and Bobby Mills Believe it or not, we’re already four weeks deep into the Guilds of Ravnica draft environment! We’ve had a couple of Grand Prix tournaments, tons of drafting on Arena and Magic Online, and of course...
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Draft Data Analysis 2: How Much Does a Format Change in One Month? [M19]
By Dan Troha, Arseny Khakhalin, and Bobby Mills As we finally say goodbye to M19 and welcome in Guilds of Ravnica (appearing on Draftsim this Wednesday), our team at Draftsim wanted to take a final look at Magic Core 2019 to see what we can learn...
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Draft Data Analysis: What We Learned from Analyzing Over 200,000 Draftsim Drafts
Hi! I’m Dan, and I run Draftsim, a website that helps people practice by drafting in a simulated environment against seven “bots” programmed with artificial intelligence. Along with some key collaborators, I’ve been working on a big project this...
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