Sun, 05 Feb 2023
By: Cliff Daigle I know it seems odd to be writing about the Pro Tour in two weeks, when the new set is out now. My financial advice for people playing in prerelease events remains the same as always: Sell it all. Find someone who wants your lands. Move it and don’t wait around. Someone will see the … Continue reading Expectations for Pro Tour ONE
Wed, 01 Feb 2023
By: Jason Alt Readers! Using EDHREC or, if you want to do it the hard way, I guess, other sources, it’s easy to see which cards are getting played in Commander and which aren’t. Look at a set and see what’s getting played with. That used to be enough information for us. Barring reprints, cards were printed the … Continue reading Unlocked Pro Trader: Don’t Say 10k
Fri, 27 Jan 2023
By: Cliff Daigle Welcome back to this ongoing series of attempts to calculate exactly how lucky the luckiest pulls are for every set with Collector Boosters. Phyrexia: All Will Be One (hereafter written as ONE) has some very interesting formulations, and every slot appears to have a variation in distribution. Thankfully, Wizards has given us a lot more … Continue reading The Math of Phyrexia: All Will Be One
Fri, 20 Jan 2023
By: Cliff Daigle There have been nineteen sets (so far, ONE is #20) with Collector Boosters, and frankly, every one has had a slightly different formulation when it comes to calculating what goes where. I should know; I’ve had to figure out all of them. Each time I do, I put together a comparison table for rarities, but … Continue reading The Comprehensive Collection of Relative Rarities
Fri, 13 Jan 2023
By: Cliff Daigle Yes, I’m finishing the cycle, the set, I’m covering all the bases. This week, I’m giving us the math of the last sets I never wrote for, and after that, I can have a full comparison going on for every Collector Booster set. These aren’t terribly complicated, and frankly, I’m used to how these stack … Continue reading The Math of Ikoria, Zendikar Rising, and Magic 2021