Based on a discussion in another thread, I and other members of this community agreed in starting this year's Power Rankings this May, so we don't get it mixed up with the release of the next relevant set (Magic Origins). As the original organizer, Silent Edge, hasn't posted in this forum since December, I'm stepping in to organize the project this year. I count with the community to have the voting process run as smoothly as always.
For reference, the previous Power Ranking threads: 2009, 2010, 2014.
Tentatively, this is how I plan to conduct the project, mostly based on Silent Edge's work in the previous years:
* The first thread will be created next friday, May 1st.
* Each voting thread will stay open 4 days, or 5 if it opens or would close in a weekend day. The next voting thread will be created as soon as the previous one is closed, and then there will be a secondary thread with the closed one's results, as soon as I finish calculating them.
* There will be 11 threads: one for each color, then one for colorless cards (mostly artifacts, but also other nonland cards such as Ugin), one for lands, three for multicolored cards (allied pairs, then enemy pairs, and then wedges/shards), and finally one for overall voting on all cards.
* The vote consist on a Top 20 cards based on what you would pick as the very first card when drafting a cube (Pack 1, Pick 1). For the guilds, it will be a Top 10 instead, and for the Overall voting it will be a Top 30.
* The votes will be tallied with each card receiving a score in the inverse order of the votes - so, in a Top 20 ranking the #1 card gets 20 points, the #2 gets 19 points and so on. The final score will be equal to the sum of all scores divided by the number of voters.
Classification Rules and Frequently Asked Questions
* How will be cards with similar effects be handled?
If the card has the exact same type, cost and effect, they are considered a single card and must be voted as a single entry. For example, when voting for white cards, Armageddon and Ravages of War are considered the same card so they must take the same place in your ranking, but Wrath of God and Day of Judgment are different cards that must be ranked separately.
For cases where the difference between cards is small enough, as a rule of thumb you should ask: there is another cube card that cares about this difference? Assume a regular cube, powered or not; we're not voting for pauper, peasant, commander, block or tribal-themed cubes here.
For example, Torch Fiend and Reckless Reveler have difference creature types, but no regular cube runs cards with devil or satyr tribal interactions. If you want to include them in your Top 20 Red cards, they'll be a single entry in your ranking.
As a counter-example, Savannah Lions and Elite Vanguard are considered different cards, because a reasonable number of human (and, to a lesser extend, soldier) tribal interactions exist in regular cubes. If you want to put Vanguard higher than the Lions because of Champion of the Parish or lower because of Stromkirk Noble is up to you, but they must be ranked separately.
When in doubt, feel free to ask. A list of commonly included cards that fall within this rule will be given at the beginning of each voting thread.
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* Must I vote for cards I don't run in my own cube?
It's up to you. You can vote based in your experience drafting other player's cubes, for example. But if you never played with that card or just aren't sure on how to rank it, feel free to not include it at all in your ranking.
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* How are some cards classified?
It works a little like Color Identity rules from Commander/EDH. Basically, assume a card is all the colors on all of its costs of any type (mana cost, additional or alternate casting costs, and costs of activated or triggered abilities). Hybrid mana counts as both colors. Additionally, if a nonland card has an ability that works when you control lands of a certain basic land type or permanents of a certain color, or even that you play spells of a certain color, it will also be of that color.
If those rules make the card be of 4 or 5 colors, ignore them and use just the card's regular color. (And if you want to vote on a card that's naturally 4- or 5-colored, use the Colorless ranking).
Just having a color without costing mana of that color or requiring lands of that type doesn't count as being of that color for the purposes of this project. The same for producing tokens of a certain color; that's still not enough to count as being of that color.
Notice these rules apply even for lands and other mana sources (see below for more on them):
Cards that produce mana are a special case. In addition to the rules above about costs, and to stay consistent with the previous Rankings:
* Lands that produce mana of a single color will be listed as being of that color. Gaea's Cradle is green.
* Lands that can produce only colorless mana, or mana of two or more colors, are to be voted in the Lands ranking, except for those that fall in the above rules about "costing" mana. Notice that most dual (and triple) land cycles fall into the "same card" rule.
- The following cycles are included in the Lands voting: ABU Duals, ONS/ZEN Fetches, RAV Shocklands, M10/ISD Checklands, ICE/AP Painlands, MI Slow fetches, RAV Guildlands, SHM Filters, SOM Fastlands, THS Temples, ALA/KTK Triplelands, LW Vivids.
- Other lands voted in Lands: Evolving Wilds/Terramorphic Expanse, Wasteland and other strictly colorless lands; City of Brass, Mana Confluence and other "any color" lands; Murmuring Bosk, Horizon Canopy, Paliano the High City
- Some lands that fall into other categories: Raging Ravine (Gruul) and the other WWK Manlands; Treetop Village (Green) and other UL Manlands; Academy Ruins (Blue), Volrath's Stronghold (Black), Gaea's Cradle (Green), Slayers' Stronghold (Boros), Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree (Selesnya)...
* Colorless artifacts that produce mana of two or three colors are included in the respective guild or shard/wedge
* The other artifacts that produce colorless mana, mana of a single color or mana of all colors are classified as colorless
* The rules about costing mana or requiring land types still apply to mana artifacts
- Azorius Signet and Talisman of Progress are both Azorius (white/blue) cards.
- Worn Powerstone and Coalition Relic are Colorless.
- Mox Pearl is Colorless, but Thunder Totem is White.
* Colored cards that produce off-color mana will be considered as being of those colors. Ignore this rule if it can produce mana of any color. So, Noble Hierarch is Bant (green/white/blue) and Elves of Deep Shadow is Golgari (black/green), but Birds of Paradise is just Green.
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* How to vote?
Just put a list, numbered 1-20 (or whatever number of cards is being voted), inside a Spoiler tag. That's all.
As a random example (meaning "what I have open as I write this"), here's my own Green voting from last year:
1 Survival of the Fittest
2 Natural Order
3 Sylvan Library
4 Garruk Relentless
5 Eternal Witness
6 Garruk Wildspeaker
7 Rancor
8 Noble Hierarch
9 Tarmogoyf
10 Fauna Shaman
11 Birds of Paradise
12 Regrowth
13 Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
14 Thrun, the Last Troll
15 Lotus Cobra
16 Kalonian Hydra
17 Hornet Queen
18 Acidic Slime
19 Courser of Kruphix
20 Deranged Hermit
That's it, 20 cards ranked, starting is the one you're more likely to draft as P1P1.
Additional tags such as Card or Deck are optional (but certainly useful for others reading your vote).
You are free to edit your vote as many times as you need, up until the moment when the thread is closed. Please make a complete ranking; partial votes will be ignored.
Outside of that, please try to keep the voting post clean. A few comments aren't a problem, but if you want to talk, use this thread or the respective Results one.
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* Yeah, but what cards can I vote on?
Any released Magic card can be included in your voting. If you want to include some un-cards or other silver-bordered stuff? Feel free to. Conspiracies and draft-altering cards in particular will be voted with the regular Colorless cards (and Paliano as a Land card).
Unreleased cards aren't legal. Yeah, that flip-creature Liliana is nice and all, but she doesn't exist yet.
Now, some things that aren't cards for this project: Planes, Schemes, Vanguard and anything else that isn't regular-card-sized; Theros's Hero cards and Challenge Deck cards are also excluded.
For clarity's sake, you may want to add that Wildfire and Burning of Xinye are considered separate cards for the voting (if they are; last year, they were). There was a bit of discussion about them last year and having them in the opening post might fend some of it off this year.
Yes, I plan to include a list of commonly played similar cards at the first post of each voting thread, saying which ones are to be voted together or as separated cards. Wildfire and BoX will definitively be on the Red Voting thread (listed as separated).
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Now, I was wondering about the shards/wedges voting. Most want to have 10 separated lists for the combinations, and I'm fine doing it this way, but if they are just a Top 2 or even Top 3 I don't think we'll get very significant results. Would a Top 5 for each shard and wedge be viable or just too much depth? You'd be voting on 50 cards per thread, just like with the two Guild threads, and the 4th, 5th wedge card isn't much more far-fetched than the 9th, 10th guild card.
For the shards/wedge voting, I think it would be nice to have 10 separated list. For the Top X question, I think that maybe only a Top 4 would get the job done without far-fetching too much. Just sharing the idea. Top 2 or Top 3 is certainly not enough but Top 5 seems a bit unnecessary IMO since there is not that much viable options in certain wegdes.
Temur was probably the easiest, with Yasova, Sarkhan, Rattleclaw, Wanderer and then what about Shaman of the Great Hunt to wrap it? But for all the others, I had to really look around... for Esper it was hard even finding a #2.
So I'll do a compromise: you can rank up to 5 cards per shard/wedge, but at least 3. If you can't do at least a Top 3 for a certain shard/wedge, just skip it; you can still vote on the others. You can rank a different number of cards in each list, within the limits. I'll count them all as Top 5 (5 points for the #1 regardless of being a Top 3, 4 or 5).
The main threads were linked, but not the voting threads.
Google instantly found the correct threads (didn't even need to specify the site), but I didn't think of googling them, because I was so fixated on using the forum's search function. I should just ignore that pile of garbage completely. It is utterly broken. You can't find threads with it even though you use the very words from their titles as search terms.
No, I refine my search to find threads I'm looking for and they come up. I never noticed there was a problem with single keyword searching, because I never do it.
I start with single keywords from which I am sure that they are in the title and then refine my search from there. Searching for a single word that is guaranteed to be in the title should have a higher chance of finding the thread than using multiple words, since if only one of those words is not part of the actual title, the whole search is void and won't come up with anything.
Basically, I am using this forum's search engine like I use every other search engine, but while every other search engine works as intended, this one here fails on half my searches. Ergo, this search engine is broken.
But I have found the old voting threads that I was looking for, so I stop derailing this thread here.
For reference, the previous Power Ranking threads: 2009, 2010, 2014.
Tentatively, this is how I plan to conduct the project, mostly based on Silent Edge's work in the previous years:
* The first thread will be created next friday, May 1st.
* Each voting thread will stay open 4 days, or 5 if it opens or would close in a weekend day. The next voting thread will be created as soon as the previous one is closed, and then there will be a secondary thread with the closed one's results, as soon as I finish calculating them.
* There will be 11 threads: one for each color, then one for colorless cards (mostly artifacts, but also other nonland cards such as Ugin), one for lands, three for multicolored cards (allied pairs, then enemy pairs, and then wedges/shards), and finally one for overall voting on all cards.
* The vote consist on a Top 20 cards based on what you would pick as the very first card when drafting a cube (Pack 1, Pick 1). For the guilds, it will be a Top 10 instead, and for the Overall voting it will be a Top 30.
* The votes will be tallied with each card receiving a score in the inverse order of the votes - so, in a Top 20 ranking the #1 card gets 20 points, the #2 gets 19 points and so on. The final score will be equal to the sum of all scores divided by the number of voters.
Classification Rules and Frequently Asked Questions
* How will be cards with similar effects be handled?
If the card has the exact same type, cost and effect, they are considered a single card and must be voted as a single entry. For example, when voting for white cards, Armageddon and Ravages of War are considered the same card so they must take the same place in your ranking, but Wrath of God and Day of Judgment are different cards that must be ranked separately.
For cases where the difference between cards is small enough, as a rule of thumb you should ask: there is another cube card that cares about this difference? Assume a regular cube, powered or not; we're not voting for pauper, peasant, commander, block or tribal-themed cubes here.
For example, Torch Fiend and Reckless Reveler have difference creature types, but no regular cube runs cards with devil or satyr tribal interactions. If you want to include them in your Top 20 Red cards, they'll be a single entry in your ranking.
As a counter-example, Savannah Lions and Elite Vanguard are considered different cards, because a reasonable number of human (and, to a lesser extend, soldier) tribal interactions exist in regular cubes. If you want to put Vanguard higher than the Lions because of Champion of the Parish or lower because of Stromkirk Noble is up to you, but they must be ranked separately.
When in doubt, feel free to ask. A list of commonly included cards that fall within this rule will be given at the beginning of each voting thread.
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* Must I vote for cards I don't run in my own cube?
It's up to you. You can vote based in your experience drafting other player's cubes, for example. But if you never played with that card or just aren't sure on how to rank it, feel free to not include it at all in your ranking.
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* How are some cards classified?
It works a little like Color Identity rules from Commander/EDH. Basically, assume a card is all the colors on all of its costs of any type (mana cost, additional or alternate casting costs, and costs of activated or triggered abilities). Hybrid mana counts as both colors. Additionally, if a nonland card has an ability that works when you control lands of a certain basic land type or permanents of a certain color, or even that you play spells of a certain color, it will also be of that color.
If those rules make the card be of 4 or 5 colors, ignore them and use just the card's regular color. (And if you want to vote on a card that's naturally 4- or 5-colored, use the Colorless ranking).
Just having a color without costing mana of that color or requiring lands of that type doesn't count as being of that color for the purposes of this project. The same for producing tokens of a certain color; that's still not enough to count as being of that color.
Notice these rules apply even for lands and other mana sources (see below for more on them):
Some examples:
- Lingering Souls is a Orzhov (white/black) card because of its white mana cost and black Flashback cost, but Cloistered Youth is just White because you don't need black mana or swamps to transform it.
- Kird Ape will be considered a Gruul (red/green) card, and Chained to the Rocks a Boros (red/white) card.
- Porcelain Legionnaire is a white card. Crystal Shard is blue. Shrine of Burning Rage is red.
- Raging Ravine and Kessig Wolf Run are both Gruul (red/green) cards.
- Alesha, who Smiles at Death is Mardu (white/black/red).
Cards that produce mana are a special case. In addition to the rules above about costs, and to stay consistent with the previous Rankings:
* Lands that produce mana of a single color will be listed as being of that color. Gaea's Cradle is green.
* Lands that can produce only colorless mana, or mana of two or more colors, are to be voted in the Lands ranking, except for those that fall in the above rules about "costing" mana. Notice that most dual (and triple) land cycles fall into the "same card" rule.
- The following cycles are included in the Lands voting: ABU Duals, ONS/ZEN Fetches, RAV Shocklands, M10/ISD Checklands, ICE/AP Painlands, MI Slow fetches, RAV Guildlands, SHM Filters, SOM Fastlands, THS Temples, ALA/KTK Triplelands, LW Vivids.
- Other lands voted in Lands: Evolving Wilds/Terramorphic Expanse, Wasteland and other strictly colorless lands; City of Brass, Mana Confluence and other "any color" lands; Murmuring Bosk, Horizon Canopy, Paliano the High City
- Some lands that fall into other categories: Raging Ravine (Gruul) and the other WWK Manlands; Treetop Village (Green) and other UL Manlands; Academy Ruins (Blue), Volrath's Stronghold (Black), Gaea's Cradle (Green), Slayers' Stronghold (Boros), Vitu-Ghazi, the City-Tree (Selesnya)...
* Colorless artifacts that produce mana of two or three colors are included in the respective guild or shard/wedge
* The other artifacts that produce colorless mana, mana of a single color or mana of all colors are classified as colorless
* The rules about costing mana or requiring land types still apply to mana artifacts
- Azorius Signet and Talisman of Progress are both Azorius (white/blue) cards.
- Worn Powerstone and Coalition Relic are Colorless.
- Mox Pearl is Colorless, but Thunder Totem is White.
* Colored cards that produce off-color mana will be considered as being of those colors. Ignore this rule if it can produce mana of any color. So, Noble Hierarch is Bant (green/white/blue) and Elves of Deep Shadow is Golgari (black/green), but Birds of Paradise is just Green.
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* How to vote?
Just put a list, numbered 1-20 (or whatever number of cards is being voted), inside a Spoiler tag. That's all.
As a random example (meaning "what I have open as I write this"), here's my own Green voting from last year:
2 Natural Order
3 Sylvan Library
4 Garruk Relentless
5 Eternal Witness
6 Garruk Wildspeaker
7 Rancor
8 Noble Hierarch
9 Tarmogoyf
10 Fauna Shaman
11 Birds of Paradise
12 Regrowth
13 Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
14 Thrun, the Last Troll
15 Lotus Cobra
16 Kalonian Hydra
17 Hornet Queen
18 Acidic Slime
19 Courser of Kruphix
20 Deranged Hermit
That's it, 20 cards ranked, starting is the one you're more likely to draft as P1P1.
Additional tags such as Card or Deck are optional (but certainly useful for others reading your vote).
You are free to edit your vote as many times as you need, up until the moment when the thread is closed. Please make a complete ranking; partial votes will be ignored.
Outside of that, please try to keep the voting post clean. A few comments aren't a problem, but if you want to talk, use this thread or the respective Results one.
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* Yeah, but what cards can I vote on?
Any released Magic card can be included in your voting. If you want to include some un-cards or other silver-bordered stuff? Feel free to. Conspiracies and draft-altering cards in particular will be voted with the regular Colorless cards (and Paliano as a Land card).
Unreleased cards aren't legal. Yeah, that flip-creature Liliana is nice and all, but she doesn't exist yet.
Now, some things that aren't cards for this project: Planes, Schemes, Vanguard and anything else that isn't regular-card-sized; Theros's Hero cards and Challenge Deck cards are also excluded.
Blue Voting (closed) - Blue Results
Black Voting (closed) - Black Results
Red Voting (closed) - Red Results
Green Voting (closed) - Green Results
Colorless Voting (closed) - Colorless Results
Land Voting (closed) - Land Results
Allied Guilds Voting (closed) - Allied Guilds Results
Enemy Guilds Voting (closed) - Enemy Guilds Results
Shards/Wedges Voting (closed) - Shards/Wedges Results
Overall Voting (closed) - Overall Results
All votes and results for all ranked cards are on this google spreadsheet. I'll update it as the voting threads finish.
2 Elspeth, Knight-Errant - 18.4
3 Armageddon (Ravages of War) - 18.0
4 Gideon Jura - 13.8
5 Swords to Plowshares - 13.5
6 Stoneforge Mystic - 13.4
7 Land Tax - 12.8
8 Path to Exile - 11.0
9 Wrath of God - 9.6
10 Hero of Bladehold - 9.4
11 Restoration Angel - 7.2
12 Council's Judgment - 6.4
12 Day of Judgment - 6.4
14 Mother of Runes - 5.9
15 Reveillark - 5.2
16 Oblivion Ring - 4.4
17 Brimaz, King of Oreskos - 4.3
18 Moat - 4.0
19 Monastery Mentor - 3.9
20 Catastrophe - 3.4
2 Time Walk - 18.4
3 Jace, the Mind Sculptor - 16.3
4 Tinker - 15.8
5 Mana Drain - 15.3
6 Upheaval - 13.8
7 Treachery - 13.3
8 Snapcaster Mage - 10.9
9 True-Name Nemesis - 9.5
10 Vedalken Shackles - 9.3
11 Vendilion Clique - 8.5
12 Dig Through Time - 5.5
13 Fact or Fiction - 5.3
14 Glen Elendra Archmage - 5.0
15 Control Magic - 4.0
16 Opposition - 3.8
17 Bribery - 3.7
18 Phyrexian Metamorph - 3.7
19 Meloku, the Clouded Mirror - 3.6
20 Venser, Shaper Savant - 3.0
2 Mind Twist - 19.0
3 Demonic Tutor - 17.5
4 Vampiric Tutor - 15.6
5 Bitterblossom - 14.9
6 Liliana of the Veil - 13.5
7 Dark Confidant - 11.5
8 Toxic Deluge - 10.1
9 Grave Titan - 9.8
10 Braids, Cabal Minion - 9.7
11 Pack Rat - 8.5
12 Damnation - 7.4
13 Imperial Seal - 6.5
13 Thoughtseize - 6.5
15 Griselbrand - 4.8
16 Shriekmaw - 4.3
17 Ophiomancer - 4.0
18 Volrath's Stronghold - 3.8
19 Reanimate - 3.7
20 Hymn to Tourach - 3.6
2 Goblin Guide - 16.7
3 Koth of the Hammer - 14.7
4 Sneak Attack - 13.3
5 Wheel of Fortune - 12.8
5 Wildfire - 12.8
7 Burning of Xinye - 12.0
8 Goblin Rabblemaster - 11.2
9 Young Pyromancer - 9.3
10 Inferno Titan - 9.0
11 Flametongue Kavu - 8.9
12 Rolling Earthquake - 8.0
13 Lightning Bolt - 7.7
14 Purphoros, God of the Forge - 6.1
15 Thundermaw Hellkite - 5.4
16 Hellrider - 4.7
17 Earthquake - 3.8
18 Sarkhan, the Dragonspeaker - 3.7
19 Daretti, Scrap Savant - 3.5
20 Siege-Gang Commander - 2.8
2 Sylvan Library - 17.7
3 Natural Order - 16.6
3 Eternal Witness - 16.6
5 Garruk Wildspeaker - 15.6
6 Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary - 13.7
7 Garruk Relentless - 10.9
8 Birds of Paradise - 9.6
9 Primeval Titan - 8.4
10 Eureka - 6.0
11 Fauna Shaman - 5.9
12 Channel - 5.7
13 Regrowth - 5.6
14 Lotus Cobra - 5.0
15 Joraga Treespeaker - 4.8
16 Thragtusk - 4.7
17 Deranged Hermit - 3.8
18 Den Protector - 3.5
19 Tooth and Nail - 3.3
20 Nissa, Worldwaker - 2.8
2 Black Lotus - 18.9
3 ABU Mox - 17.3
4 Umezawa's Jitte - 16.8
5 Skullclamp - 13.6
6 Sword of Fire and Ice - 12.8
7 Mana Crypt - 12.6
8 Mana Vault - 10.1
9 Backup Plan - 9.8
10 Wurmcoil Engine - 9.0
11 Grim Monolith - 8.0
11 Mox Diamond - 8.0
13 Batterskull - 7.8
14 Double Stroke - 5.4
15 Sword of Body and Mind - 4.9
16 Power Play - 4.1
17 Ugin, the Spirit Dragon - 3.6
18 Sword of Light and Shadow - 3.3
19 Karn Liberated - 3.1
20 Smokestack - 2.6
2 Strip Mine - 18.6
3 Mana Confluence - 15.4
4 City of Brass - 15.0
5 Maze of Ith - 14.7
6 ONS/ZEN Fetch Lands - 14.1
7 Wasteland - 12.5
8 ABU Dual Lands - 12.3
9 Mishra's Factory - 11.8
10 Mutavault - 11.1
11 Rishadan Port - 8.8
12 RAV Shock Lands - 8.8
13 Grand Coliseum - 7.0
14 City of Ass - 6.2
15 Horizon Canopy - 6.1
16 Gemstone Mine - 5.5
17 Evolving Wilds (Terramorphic Expanse) - 5.3
18 Paliano, the High City - 4.9
19 Ancient Tomb - 4.3
20 Undiscovered Paradise - 2.2
1 Geist of Saint Traft - 9.7
2 Celestial Colonnade - 8.6
3 Detention Sphere - 6.9
4 Supreme Verdict - 6.7
5 Venser, the Sojourner - 5.3
6 Sphinx's Revelation - 5.2
7 Dragonlord Ojutai - 3.3
8 Azorius Signet - 3.2
9 Talisman of Progress - 1.6
10 Brago, King Eternal - 0.7
DIMIR
1 Creeping Tar Pit - 9.4
2 Baleful Strix - 8.5
3 Tezzeret, Agent of Bolas - 6.9
4 Psychatog - 6.5
5 Dragonlord Silumgar - 5.0
6 Shadowmage Infiltrator - 4.7
7 Dimir Signet - 3.4
8 Ashiok, Nightmare Weaver - 3.2
9 Duskmantle Seer - 2.9
10 Talisman of Dominance - 2.0
1 Rakdos Cackler - 9.5
2 Kolaghan's Command - 8.8
3 Dreadbore - 7.6
4 Grenzo, Dungeon Warden - 6.5
5 Murderous Redcap - 5.5
6 Falkenrath Aristocrat - 5.0
7 Lavaclaw Reaches - 3.6
8 Olivia Voldaren - 1.5
9 Terminate - 1.2
10 Blightning - 1.0
GRUUL
1 Bloodbraid Elf - 9.7
2 Sarkhan Vol - 7.4
3 Dragonlord Atarka - 7.0
4 Xenagos, the Reveler - 6.4
5 Raging Ravine - 6.0
6 Huntmaster of the Fells - 4.5
7 Tattermunge Maniac - 3.5
8 Ghor-Clan Rampager - 3.2
9 Kird Ape - 2.2
10 Domri Rade - 1.3
1 Kitchen Finks - 9.7
2 Qasali Pridemage - 7.8
3 Mirari's Wake - 7.0
4 Dryad Militant - 7.0
5 Voice of Resurgence - 6.0
6 Stirring Wildwood - 4.7
7 Knight of the Reliquary - 4.5
8 Avacyn's Pilgrim - 1.2
9 Gavony Township - 1.1
10 Armada Wurm - 1.0
10 Fleecemane Lion - 1.0
1 Vindicate - 9.9
2 Lingering Souls - 8.5
2 Sorin, Lord of Innistrad - 8.5
4 Sorin, Solemn Visitor - 5.9
5 Gerrard's Verdict - 4.7
6 Magister of Worth - 4.1
7 Unburial Rites - 3.9
8 Utter End - 1.9
9 Desolation Angel - 1.7
10 Obzedat, Ghost Council - 1.6
GOLGARI
1 Pernicious Deed - 10.0
2 Maelstrom Pulse - 8.9
3 Abrupt Decay - 7.2
4 Deathrite Shaman - 6.8
5 Lotleth Troll - 5.8
6 Life // Death - 4.4
7 Garruk, Apex Predator - 3.8
8 Vraska the Unseen - 3.1
9 Putrefy - 1.9
10 Putrid Leech - 1.0
1 Edric, Spymaster of Trest - 9.6
2 Trygon Predator - 7.9
3 Kiora, the Crashing Wave - 7.8
4 Mystic Snake - 7.7
5 Sagu Mauler - 5.1
6 Shardless Agent - 4.3
7 Simic Sky Swallower - 3.4
8 Simic Signet - 2.7
9 Simic Charm - 2.3
10 Kiora's Follower - 1.3
IZZET
1 Dack Fayden - 9.9
2 Ral Zarek - 8.9
3 Izzet Charm - 7.1
4 Dack's Duplicate - 6.9
5 Fire // Ice - 5.5
6 Electrolyze - 5.1
7 Izzet Signet - 3.4
8 Keranos, God of Storms - 2.9
9 Prophetic Bolt - 2.2
10 Steam Augury - 2.0
1 Ajani Vengeant - 9.8
2 Figure of Destiny - 9.1
3 Boros Charm - 7.6
4 Lightning Helix - 7.3
5 Boros Reckoner - 5.4
6 Chained to the Rocks - 3.7
7 Slayers' Stronghold - 3.5
8 Assemble the Legion - 2.4
9 Aurelia's Fury - 1.3
10 Iroas, God of Victory - 1.1
1 Sphinx of the Steel Wind - 3.0
2 Dromar's Charm - 1.7
3 Ethersworn Adjudicator - 1.2
GRIXIS
1 Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker - 3.0
2 Slave of Bolas - 1.0
3 Cruel Ultimatum - 0.7
JUND
1 Hellkite Overlord - 2.8
2 Broodmate Dragon - 2.0
3 Viashino Slaughtermaster - 1.3
NAYA
1 Wild Nacatl - 3.0
2 Thornscape Battlemage - 1.5
3 Realm Razer - 0.8
1 Noble Hierarch - 3.0
2 Empyreal Archangel - 1.3
3 Bant Charm - 1.0
ABZAN
1 Warden of the First Tree - 2.9
2 Siege Rhino - 2.1
3 Doran, the Siege Tower - 0.6
JESKAI
1 Soulfire Grand Master - 3.0
2 Shu Yun, the Silent Tempest - 1.6
3 Jeskai Ascendancy - 0.9
SULTAI
1 Tasigur, the Golden Fang - 3.0
2 Sultai Charm - 2.0
3 The Mimeoplasm - 0.9
1 Alesha, Who Smiles at Death - 3.0
2 Brutal Hordechief - 2.0
3 Butcher of the Horde - 1.0
TEMUR
1 Yasova Dragonclaw - 2.8
2 Sarkhan Unbroken - 1.5
3 Rattleclaw Mystic - 0.8
2 Library of Alexandria - 28.8
3 Black Lotus - 27.9
4 Ancestral Recall - 26.6
5 Time Walk - 25.0
6 Umezawa's Jitte - 24.7
7 ABU Mox - 24.4
8 Mind Twist - 21.1
9 Balance - 18.4
10 Recurring Nightmare - 17.1
11 Mana Crypt - 16.7
12 Skullclamp - 16.3
13 Backup Plan - 15.8
14 Jace, the Mind Sculptor - 14.7
15 Sword of Fire and Ice - 14.1
16 Mana Drain - 13.3
17 Armageddon (Ravages of War) - 11.6
18 Sulfuric Vortex - 11.5
19 Tinker - 11.2
20 Mana Vault - 9.8
21 Demonic Tutor - 9.6
22 Elspeth, Knight-Errant - 7.8
22 Mox Diamond - 7.8
24 Double Stroke - 7.6
25 Upheaval - 6.7
26 Strip Mine - 6.4
27 Survival of the Fittest - 4.9
28 Grim Monolith - 4.6
29 Vampiric Tutor - 4.3
30 Bitterblossom - 2.6
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For clarity's sake, you may want to add that Wildfire and Burning of Xinye are considered separate cards for the voting (if they are; last year, they were). There was a bit of discussion about them last year and having them in the opening post might fend some of it off this year.
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Now, I was wondering about the shards/wedges voting. Most want to have 10 separated lists for the combinations, and I'm fine doing it this way, but if they are just a Top 2 or even Top 3 I don't think we'll get very significant results. Would a Top 5 for each shard and wedge be viable or just too much depth? You'd be voting on 50 cards per thread, just like with the two Guild threads, and the 4th, 5th wedge card isn't much more far-fetched than the 9th, 10th guild card.
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It was way harder than I expected.
Temur was probably the easiest, with Yasova, Sarkhan, Rattleclaw, Wanderer and then what about Shaman of the Great Hunt to wrap it? But for all the others, I had to really look around... for Esper it was hard even finding a #2.
So I'll do a compromise: you can rank up to 5 cards per shard/wedge, but at least 3. If you can't do at least a Top 3 for a certain shard/wedge, just skip it; you can still vote on the others. You can rank a different number of cards in each list, within the limits. I'll count them all as Top 5 (5 points for the #1 regardless of being a Top 3, 4 or 5).
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Who I should talk to, to have this thread fixed? That would be a great help for the project.
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I googled "cube power ranking 2014" and they came up?
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I even have the main threads of each year linked on the first post.
Google search "site:mtgsalvation.com Cube Power Rankings 2014 [color] [voting/results]" allowed me to find all threads from last year.
Google instantly found the correct threads (didn't even need to specify the site), but I didn't think of googling them, because I was so fixated on using the forum's search function. I should just ignore that pile of garbage completely. It is utterly broken. You can't find threads with it even though you use the very words from their titles as search terms.
Uril, the Miststalker RGW -- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre C -- Vhati il-Dal BG -- Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer RW -- Animar, Soul of Elements URG
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Also couldn't find "black" or "token" a few days ago. Does that mean that a five letter word is too short for a title search?
Uril, the Miststalker RGW -- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre C -- Vhati il-Dal BG -- Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer RW -- Animar, Soul of Elements URG
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker R -- Maga, Traitor to Mortals B -- Ghave, Guru of Spores BGW -- Sliver Hivelord WUBRG
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My Article - "Mana Short: A study in limited resource management."
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Btw, "power" also gets weird results. The search engine sucks.
Uril, the Miststalker RGW -- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre C -- Vhati il-Dal BG -- Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer RW -- Animar, Soul of Elements URG
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker R -- Maga, Traitor to Mortals B -- Ghave, Guru of Spores BGW -- Sliver Hivelord WUBRG
My 630 Card Powered Cube
My Article - "Cube Design Philosophy"
My Article - "Mana Short: A study in limited resource management."
My 49th Set (P)review - Discusses my top 20 Cube cards from MKM!
Uril, the Miststalker RGW -- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre C -- Vhati il-Dal BG -- Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer RW -- Animar, Soul of Elements URG
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker R -- Maga, Traitor to Mortals B -- Ghave, Guru of Spores BGW -- Sliver Hivelord WUBRG
My 630 Card Powered Cube
My Article - "Cube Design Philosophy"
My Article - "Mana Short: A study in limited resource management."
My 49th Set (P)review - Discusses my top 20 Cube cards from MKM!
Basically, I am using this forum's search engine like I use every other search engine, but while every other search engine works as intended, this one here fails on half my searches. Ergo, this search engine is broken.
But I have found the old voting threads that I was looking for, so I stop derailing this thread here.
Uril, the Miststalker RGW -- Ulamog, the Infinite Gyre C -- Vhati il-Dal BG -- Jor Kadeen, the Prevailer RW -- Animar, Soul of Elements URG
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker R -- Maga, Traitor to Mortals B -- Ghave, Guru of Spores BGW -- Sliver Hivelord WUBRG