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The Decline of Standard: What Happened to Magic’s Most Popular Tournament Format?

The Decline of Standard: What Happened to Magic’s Most Popular Tournament Format?

Jake Henderson December 7, 2022 Analysis, Standard

It’s no secret that in-store Standard has been on the decline over the past few years. Magic has a continued emphasis on digital play, releasing digital-exclusive products and formats alongside their onslaught of paper releases each year.

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Bot Battle: Which Draft Bot Is the Best?

Bot Battle: Which Draft Bot Is the Best?

Dan Troha August 16, 2021 Analysis, Draft

vs at the | Illustrations by Alex Konstad, Daarken, & Craig J Spearingom, respectively Today I’ve got some exciting news for you: Draftsim is part of a Magic data study that’s being presented this week at the IEEE Conference on...

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Strixhaven Draft Data Analysis: The Best Colleges and Cards

Strixhaven Draft Data Analysis: The Best Colleges and Cards

Dan Troha June 2, 2021 Analysis, Draft, Limited, Strategy

| Illustration by Randy Vargas Draftsim has long catered to the nerdier side of Magic (yes that is a thing!) and I’ve always been quite proud of that fact. We’ve done this for years with various data analysis blog articles, including big studies...

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Draftsim’s Early Pick Order For Strixhaven: 50,000+ Drafts Analzyed

Draftsim’s Early Pick Order For Strixhaven: 50,000+ Drafts Analzyed

Dan Troha April 13, 2021 Analysis, Draft, Limited, Strategy

You gotta love it — right now is the most exciting time of year here at Draftsim. Strixhaven: School of Mages preview season is over and we’ve finally got our hands on the full spoiler. Draftsim even got three cards to preview this...

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Introducing the Arena Tutor Win Prediction App

Introducing the Arena Tutor Win Prediction App

Dan Troha January 27, 2021 Analysis, Arena Tutor, Draft, Feature Updates, MTG Arena

In collaboration with Ryan Saxe and Bobby Mills No one: ……….. Us: Yes, of course we can build you something to predict how many wins your draft deck is going to get! As far as I know, this is the first time anyone has ever...

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Draftsim’s Early Pick Order For Kaldheim: 50,000 Drafts Analyzed

Draftsim’s Early Pick Order For Kaldheim: 50,000 Drafts Analyzed

Dan Troha January 26, 2021 Analysis, Draft, Limited, Strategy

Here we are on the brink of Kaldheim’s release, and it’s been four months since we’ve had a new draft format. I don’t know about you, but I am starved. What better way is there to whet your appetite than to talk about...

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Theros Beyond Death Early Pick Order By Archetype

Dan Troha January 23, 2020 Analysis, Strategy

Looking for some direction early on in this Theros Beyond Death draft format? We’ve got some card rankings to help you out. These lists are generated by a machine learning algorithm created by Ryan Saxe based on around 100,000 of your...

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Bot Drafting the Hard Way: A New Drafting Model for Archetypes and Staying Open

Bot Drafting the Hard Way: A New Drafting Model for Archetypes and Staying Open

Ryan Saxe January 14, 2020 Analysis

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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Ravnica Allegiance First Look: Ravnica Remixed

Ravnica Allegiance First Look: Ravnica Remixed

Dan Troha February 1, 2019 Analysis

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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Guilds of Ravnica First Look: Controversy Abound

Guilds of Ravnica First Look: Controversy Abound

Dan Troha October 29, 2018 Analysis

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]

Draft Data Analysis 2: How Much Does a Format Change in One Month? [M19]

Dan Troha September 17, 2018 Analysis

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

Draft Data Analysis: What We Learned from Analyzing Over 200,000 Draftsim Drafts

Dan Troha September 3, 2018 Analysis

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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