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
Fri, 06 Jan 2023
By: Cliff Daigle While Throne of Eldraine has been out for several years, it represents the first set with Collector Boosters and therefore, the first time we had a real change in booster packs. Now we could get regular nonfoils, regular foils, Showcase/Extended Art nonfoils, and Showcase/Extended Art foils, the latter of which quickly became THE cards to … Continue reading The Math Of Throne of Eldraine and Theros: Beyond Death