Archive for May, 2009

Theorycrafting MTG 01

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Let’s start with Mind Funeral (Figure 1-1). We (lsun and I) calculated that it had approximately the same average number of milled cards as Sanity Grinding, so I guess it was meant to be its spiritual successor for Constructed play come Winter. Sanity Grinding had an average of 10.4 cards milled, and Mind Funeral clocked in with 10.9 cards against a 22 land deck.

Update: A (terrible) mistake but… how the hell did we get 10.4 cards milled with Sanity Grinding? I ran the calculations again and it should be more like 15! Mind Funeral just doesn’t compare. (more…)

3 years?!

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

A bit late, but apparently this blog is now three years old. THREE years. And we’re still on the default template.

God help us. orz

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