Trivia
* Just missed: Animate Dead (2.8) and Dismember (1.9)
* After coming closer and closer through the years, this time Recurring Nightmare manages to steal the first position from Mind Twist! It was, by the way, the closest Top 2 so far - one single point in the rankings separates the two cards.
* Rise and Fall: no new card this year... the closest was Flesh Carver, 26th. But there is something new on the ranking: Griselbrand went from unraked in 2014 to #15 this year! A great improvement for Griselbrand, who wasn't even listed as "just missed" last time. He causes Phyrexian Arena (#18 last year) to fall out of the Top 20. Other great fall in ranking is Hymn to Tourach's going 6 positions down (from #14 to #20), while Toxic Deluge got to rise 4 positions (#12 to #8).
* 47 different cards received votes.
Wow, it was really close this year. Almost every time I updated the file, I got to saw Recurring Nightmare and Mind Twist swapping places or becoming perfectly tied. Mind Twist is back breaking when it resolves, but Recurring Nightmare guides your whole drafting like almost no other card.
Compared to other changes in position, Vampiric Tutor's rise of just 2 positions is subtle, but relevant - from #6 to #4 is a very good indication of how people were putting it right after Demonic Tutor on their Top 5s.
Well, it wasn't for a lack of votes. Both cards where present on everyone's lists. Mind Twist just got a good number of low votes, as low as #11 in one case, while Recurring Nightmare never got worse than #5.
Everyone who put #1 Mind Twist, invariably had #2 Recurring Nightmare; those represented 2/3s of the votes.
Almost everyone else voted #1 Recurring Nightmare, but some of those ranked Mind Twist as #4 or worse. So RN was more consistently on the Top 2.
Again, it was very very close: when I updated the ranking with what ended up being the third-to-the-last vote, SunBurst's, MT was still #1 overall with RN right before it (19.14 vs 19.00). Then artbnco voted #1 RN, #4 MT and the two cards became tied. So when the last voter, TheRift88, had #1 RN, #2 MT, RN won.
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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
A full list of results, with all cards that received votes, can be found on this google spreadsheet.
Thanks to all 24 voters!
Griseldaddy, willdice, Tengu Drum, Salmo, Ennex, Star Slayer, wtwlf123, Metamind, Zetsu_Sensei, hopefulhawkeye, Trolldevil, Hicham, calibretto, hardb0dy, TheAngryHermit, pillar15, Spike Rogue, rantipole, Truesight, Cythare, cuttups, SunBurst, artbnco, TheRift88
Trivia
* Just missed: Animate Dead (2.8) and Dismember (1.9)
* After coming closer and closer through the years, this time Recurring Nightmare manages to steal the first position from Mind Twist! It was, by the way, the closest Top 2 so far - one single point in the rankings separates the two cards.
* Rise and Fall: no new card this year... the closest was Flesh Carver, 26th. But there is something new on the ranking: Griselbrand went from unraked in 2014 to #15 this year! A great improvement for Griselbrand, who wasn't even listed as "just missed" last time. He causes Phyrexian Arena (#18 last year) to fall out of the Top 20. Other great fall in ranking is Hymn to Tourach's going 6 positions down (from #14 to #20), while Toxic Deluge got to rise 4 positions (#12 to #8).
* 47 different cards received votes.
Again, for reference, here's last year's Black Results thread.
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Wow, it was really close this year. Almost every time I updated the file, I got to saw Recurring Nightmare and Mind Twist swapping places or becoming perfectly tied. Mind Twist is back breaking when it resolves, but Recurring Nightmare guides your whole drafting like almost no other card.
Compared to other changes in position, Vampiric Tutor's rise of just 2 positions is subtle, but relevant - from #6 to #4 is a very good indication of how people were putting it right after Demonic Tutor on their Top 5s.
Thanks again for doing this Willdice.
Cheers,
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Everyone who put #1 Mind Twist, invariably had #2 Recurring Nightmare; those represented 2/3s of the votes.
Almost everyone else voted #1 Recurring Nightmare, but some of those ranked Mind Twist as #4 or worse. So RN was more consistently on the Top 2.
Again, it was very very close: when I updated the ranking with what ended up being the third-to-the-last vote, SunBurst's, MT was still #1 overall with RN right before it (19.14 vs 19.00). Then artbnco voted #1 RN, #4 MT and the two cards became tied. So when the last voter, TheRift88, had #1 RN, #2 MT, RN won.