Overall, this exercise is examining roughly 19,000 matches.
I recognize this won’t be exact but we’re just having fun here so it should suffice). So I’m only looking at the first 9 rounds of Grand Prix (there’s no easy way to break off day 1 vs day 2 in the data I have, so I’m using 9 rounds as a baseline.
#Maelstrom pulse etched champion pro#
The average day 1 field at a Grand Prix is weaker than the average day 2 field is (duh) and weaker than the average Pro Tour field (also duh). Constructed is played in virtually every type of event, on both day 1 and day 2 and in the top 8 whereas Sealed deck is only ever played on day 1 of a Grand Prix. Finally, I only went back to the 1997-1998 season, records from the first couple of seasons are a little murky.įinally, I needed a way to control for quality of opponent. This left us with 59 people, which should give us a pretty good idea. This is because I had that file handy and didn’t want to really dig through a few million records to find any others that this excludes. I’m adding the stipulation that I’ve further reduced the field to only people with 150 career Pro Points who were qualified for PT Journey into Nyx.
This is an easy demarcation since it is what makes someone eligible for the Hall of Fame ballot. For our purposes here I took a simple cut-off of 150 career Pro Points. So which is it? Does the variance in opening bombs outweigh the skill edge a pro has or is that skill and preparation more exploitable because information is less available to the public?įirst, I had to define a Pro. Patrick posits that he has no edge in sealed because he hates sealed and the variance in it is stinky-poo-poo (my words, though I suspect Patrick is on board with the sentiment). So a pro should be able to exploit this either via a super team who can pound countless sealed games and share the findings or simply via being better at building sealed decks (format agnostic).
There’s a wealth of resources to learn a constructed format, and far less to learn a sealed format. Paul Rietzl posits that he has a larger edge in sealed vs constructed because there is so much information readily available on constructed but sealed is significantly less explored – especially within the public strategy-site space. We all know that opening a sealed deck is less skill-intensive than building a coherent constructed deck, right? So the question came up: do Pros (capital P) perform better in the lottery that is sealed deck or are they better at the allegedly more demanding constructed formats? It spurred some conversation from Hall of Fame hopeful Paul Rietzl, CFB Pantheon member Matt Sperling and up-and-comer Kai Budde along with various other members of the #mtg community about the merits of sealed deck vs constructed. Ada vant begge spill, og sikret seg dermed den siste vinnerplassen i vårens Invitational-turneringer.Yesterday, Hall of Famer and recent Pro Tour Champion Patrick Chapin posted the above to Twitter. I finalen møttes 1.-seed Markus Sørensen på Death & Taxes og 2.-seed Ada Wasala på Jund. Topp åtte bestod av sju ulike erketyper: seks aggressive decker ved 5-Color Humans, Colorless Eldrazi, Death & Taxes og to kopier av Jund, og to kontroll-decker ved Mardu Pyromancer og Ponza. De mest spilte erketypene var Burn, Esper Control, Hollow One og Jund med tre kopier hver.Įtter seks runder swiss var det en «clean cut» på 13 eller flere match-poeng: For Oslo-metaen var det en rimelig vanlig fordeling mellom strategiene, med to femtedeler aggro, en femtedel kontroll og en femtedel kombo. Her finner du metagamet, resultatene og decklistene fra sluttspillet.Ĥ2 spillere møtte opp på Escape med til sammen 28 ulike erketyper. Sesongens sjette og siste Open-turnering ble spilt søndag 6.
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