The budget constraints are certainly interesting. Wasteland, a card that probably should be in almost every deck, is quite a ways down the pile yet Strip Mine is one of the most-played lands. I find this interesting as in most cases the extra functionality of Strip Mine is not what the cards are being used for (problematic non-basics). Of course, Strip Mine can be had for $3 and Wasteland is $30+.
Also, no ABUR duals made the list, but most of the shocklands and fetches made it.
This would seem to indicate that the decklists on this site are skewed to the slightly-more budget conscious.
And yet, Mana Crypt, which is hard to be had at less than $70, makes an appearance.
Well, for 1) Strip Mine > wasteland; not only budget wise, but function as well. The budget considerations would be ghost quarter/ tec edge.
2) A lot of people play paper magic in no-proxy playgroups. This means you have to actually afford what you want to use. This will skew the list over non-budget online players.
3) Doesn't help that much, but you can get a crypt from 55-60ish.
Thanks very much for posting this, Scoeri! This list has definitely tipped the scales in favor of me converting my EDH collection into an edh cube, and will definitely come in handy while working out my list.
Great list but I think that the date of updating deck info will greatly influence this info, certainly decks made in the last 2 years will reflect the power of cards like Prime Time.
Woot Woot! So, looking at the 'by type: planeswalkers', I noticed that there is only one deckbuild with Nissa Revane. That would be mine.
(unless the database code has some flaws in it).
If you look at the results for all the decklists you will see that Nissa has 12 hits. And even that list only counts 2143 decks out of over 3000 decklists. I could not count over 900 decklists because of bad formatting and some of those people might also play Nissa.
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If you look at the results for all the decklists you will see that Nissa has 12 hits. And even that list only counts 2143 decks out of over 3000 decklists. I could not count over 900 decklists because of bad formatting and some of those people might also play Nissa.
I'm in the process of making a report with all the lists that are badly formatted and reporting broken links to KingChewie.
Yeah, I was looking at the recent builds, as mine is a recent build...or at least, I keep mine up-to-date.
In decks with blue, I found sol ring to be underwhelming. Its a highly overated card.
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Blue is one of the best users OF Sol Ring. They don't have much of any natural acceleration (Dreamscape Artist and Patron of the Moon nonwithstanding), so they're limited to artifact acceleration. Being able to cast cards like Trinket Mage to tutor up Sol Ring gives blue a stronger acceleration boost than even Solemn Simulacrum.
But even in decks with Green, Sol Ring is the best acceleration there is. It's arguably the single most powerful card in magic - Cube comparisons put it as the #1 drafted artifact over Black Lotus and Moxen.
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Blue is one of the best users OF Sol Ring. They don't have much of any natural acceleration (Dreamscape Artist and Patron of the Moon nonwithstanding), so they're limited to artifact acceleration. Being able to cast cards like Trinket Mage to tutor up Sol Ring gives blue a stronger acceleration boost than even Solemn Simulacrum.
But even in decks with Green, Sol Ring is the best acceleration there is. It's arguably the single most powerful card in magic - Cube comparisons put it as the #1 drafted artifact over Black Lotus and Moxen.
Haha, I don't know why I typed "sol ring". I meant Sensie's Divining Top.
Top is underwhelming in decks with blue.
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Some of those cards listed as mythic but I thought they're just rares.
If something was reprinted as a Mythic like Time Warp or Mindslaver but was originally a rare it will be picked up as a mythic. Also From the Vault reprints are mythic so you see things like Sol Ring as a mythic.
In the following graphs the X-axis always represents the number of cards of the top 4455 that are matched against peoples deck.
The Y-axis represents the percentage of the 500 decks that were measured that are covered by the top X cards of the top 4455.
In this graph we see that most decklists use at least one card that is not obvious. Even if we remove the top 20% of "oddball" decks we still need over 4000 cards to cover all lists.
Interesting tidbit: GouGou's Teneb, the Harvester list is the first list to completely match. You can find his complete decklist in the top 720.
Interesting tidbit 2: In the top 4455, Teneb, the Harvester, his commander, is the 720th card.
Not including the commander drops this number to 718.
Here are some numbers for the top 7 offenders (including myself) BGW GouGou top 718 cards for 99% coverage BGW scoeri top 826 cards for 99% coverage GWU ISBPathfinder top 1095 cards for 99% coverage U equilibrium top 1095 cards for 99% coverage WBR MiffedMoogle top 1095 cards for 99% coverage BGW IceBear top 1096 cards for 99% coverage BGW Greeeek top 1096 cards for 99% coverage
In this graph we see that, if we remove the top 20% of "oddball" decks, and only require the "core" 75% of the deck to match that we only need the top 1400 to match those decks. One could say that the core of every Commander deck and by extension the commander meta-game exists out of these 1400 cards.
If we only require 50% coverage we move this number down to about 600 cards.
In the following graphs the X-axis always represents the number of cards of the top 4455 that are matched against peoples deck.
The Y-axis represents the percentage of the 500 decks that were measured that are covered by the top X cards of the top 4455.
In this graph we see that most decklists use at least one card that is not obvious. Even if we remove the top 20% of "oddball" decks we still need over 4000 cards to cover all lists.
Interesting tidbit: GouGou's Teneb, the Harvester list is the first list to completely match. You can find his complete decklist in the top 720.
Interesting tidbit 2: In the top 4455, Teneb, the Harvester, his commander, is the 720th card.
Not including the commander drops this number to 718.
Here are some numbers for the top 7 offenders (including myself) BGW GouGou top 718 cards for 99% coverage BGW scoeri top 826 cards for 99% coverage GWU ISBPathfinder top 1095 cards for 99% coverage U equilibrium top 1095 cards for 99% coverage WBR MiffedMoogle top 1095 cards for 99% coverage BGW IceBear top 1096 cards for 99% coverage BGW Greeeek top 1096 cards for 99% coverage
In this graph we see that, if we remove the top 20% of "oddball" decks, and only require the "core" 75% of the deck to match that we only need the top 1400 to match those decks. One could say that the core of every Commander deck and by extension the commander meta-game exists out of these 1400 cards.
If we only require 50% coverage we move this number down to about 600 cards.
I've read your explanation of the graphs several times, and I want to make sure I'm interpreting them correctly. So the X axis is all the cards (readable by the script) that appear in the 500 decks measured? Thus, if it weren't for spelling mistakes in the decklists, 1 on the Y axis would correspond to 4455 on the X axis, correct? Which would mean that all 500 decks could be built with just those 4455 cards?
I think an example would help me understand better. Tell me if this is correct: Sol Ring is ranked 1st out of all the cards, so it is represented as 1 on the X axis. If Sol Ring was in all 500 of the 500 decks, 1 on the X axis would correspond to .01 on the Y axis, because Sol Ring would be 1/100th (.01) of 100% of the decks. If Sol Ring was in half the decks, it would show up as .005 on the Y axis, since it would be 1/100th of half the decks. As it is, Sol Ring shows up 355 times so Y=(1/100)*(355/500)=0.0071.
OK, so for the 75% and 50% graphs, you didn't look at the 100 decks that contained the lowest ranked cards? And, of the 400 decks you did look at, you cut off the 25 and 50 lowest ranked cards, respectively, in each deck?
If I'm reading those graphs correctly, that's really interesting. Is there any way you could post the rest of the 600 or 1400 cards beyond the top 200? Also, does anyone know how these numbers compare to other formats, particularly legacy and vintage? I would imagine that there are far, far fewer "core" cards in the other eternal formats, but it would be nice to be able to compare.
Finally, it makes me wonder how important those outlier/oddball cards are to the decks that run them. I would imagine they give those decks a lot of their personality and flavor, if nothing else.
I've read your explanation of the graphs several times, and I want to make sure I'm interpreting them correctly.
There are a total of 500 decks updated after the innistrad release date.
Say one of those deck would contain 99 forests and a Sol Ring.
- I start off with Sol Ring and mark all decks that contain it (including the example one) and increase the X-axis by one
- I then move on to Lightning greaves and mark all decks that contain that card
- I continue marking all the decks while I move down the list of top cards
- Once I counted "Forest" the list with 99 Forests and a Sol Ring would be completely (100%) covered and thus I can mark 1/500 or 0,2% on the Y-axis.
- As there are a total of 4455 unique cards used by those 500 decks it requires the top 4455 to cover 100% of the decks
Finally, it makes me wonder how important those outlier/oddball cards are to the decks that run them. I would imagine they give those decks a lot of their personality and flavor, if nothing else.
While that's undoubtedly true of some of them, it's definitely not guaranteed to be the case. A quick search brings up ~5 decks in multiplayer running Death Match, though I didn't check to see how many made the cutoff date to be included in the 500 analyzed here. It's generally an early tutor target for me and I would consider it an important card in my Greven deck. I also have a buddy who runs Squandered Resources and Cadaverous Bloom with nasty results, and I don't see either of those show up in lists on here all that often.
I'm not saying that my experience is true across the board, but I thought I'd share a couple anecdotes where an unusual inclusion was a useful part of the deck, rather than a quirky pet card. A lot of them are probably flavor, but there are probably large numbers of them where someone wanted to build around a weird effect.
Dark Ascension does not seem to have a large influence on the Commander meta-game. To my surprise, Mikaeus, the Unhallowed is only used in 37 decks... New Phyrexia seems to be the winner in the printing of new commander staples for the last 7 sets (It has introduced 6 new cards in the top 200). Magic 2012 has all 10 in the top 200, but a lot of them are reprints.
I can't wait to see if Avacyn Restored can make a difference!
My buddy and I have been building an EDH cube, and I stumbled across this finally. It's a fantastic list. I noticed you have basic land and color fixing land in your colorless section though. That is important information to have, but I don't think they belong in the colorless section since in edh they are color specific. I also don't think that they belong in their respective color/guild/shard/wedge sections either. To provide the best information available, creating a separate section for lands for each color/guild/shard/wedge would be the way to go. That way, if I'm building a monoblack deck and want to use your thread as a resource I can see the top X black specific lands that I should be looking at for my deck, and the same would go for any other color specific deck. Love the database though. Awesome resource. Thank you.
If you want a list of the best cards for a specific color combination you should take a look at the Top 50 - By Color combination (which, imo, is the most interesting list of the bunch anyway).
The script I use for gathering information is fully automated and used the official gatherer rules database. Unfortunately official EDH color identity for all the cards is not part of that database. I could generate that information from the card's rules but that would take some extra effort.
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2) A lot of people play paper magic in no-proxy playgroups. This means you have to actually afford what you want to use. This will skew the list over non-budget online players.
3) Doesn't help that much, but you can get a crypt from 55-60ish.
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If you look at the results for all the decklists you will see that Nissa has 12 hits. And even that list only counts 2143 decks out of over 3000 decklists. I could not count over 900 decklists because of bad formatting and some of those people might also play Nissa.
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In decks with blue, I found sol ring to be underwhelming. Its a highly overated card.
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Blue is one of the best users OF Sol Ring. They don't have much of any natural acceleration (Dreamscape Artist and Patron of the Moon nonwithstanding), so they're limited to artifact acceleration. Being able to cast cards like Trinket Mage to tutor up Sol Ring gives blue a stronger acceleration boost than even Solemn Simulacrum.
But even in decks with Green, Sol Ring is the best acceleration there is. It's arguably the single most powerful card in magic - Cube comparisons put it as the #1 drafted artifact over Black Lotus and Moxen.
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If something was reprinted as a Mythic like Time Warp or Mindslaver but was originally a rare it will be picked up as a mythic. Also From the Vault reprints are mythic so you see things like Sol Ring as a mythic.
Apparently Emeria is pretty good in Mono-W and Coffers in Mono-B. Who would have guessed...
Sol Ring only nr 35 in Mono-G
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The Y-axis represents the percentage of the 500 decks that were measured that are covered by the top X cards of the top 4455.
In this graph we see that most decklists use at least one card that is not obvious. Even if we remove the top 20% of "oddball" decks we still need over 4000 cards to cover all lists.
Interesting tidbit: GouGou's Teneb, the Harvester list is the first list to completely match. You can find his complete decklist in the top 720.
Interesting tidbit 2: In the top 4455, Teneb, the Harvester, his commander, is the 720th card.
Not including the commander drops this number to 718.
Here are some numbers for the top 7 offenders (including myself)
BGW GouGou top 718 cards for 99% coverage
BGW scoeri top 826 cards for 99% coverage
GWU ISBPathfinder top 1095 cards for 99% coverage
U equilibrium top 1095 cards for 99% coverage
WBR MiffedMoogle top 1095 cards for 99% coverage
BGW IceBear top 1096 cards for 99% coverage
BGW Greeeek top 1096 cards for 99% coverage
In this graph we see that, if we remove the top 20% of "oddball" decks, and only require the "core" 75% of the deck to match that we only need the top 1400 to match those decks. One could say that the core of every Commander deck and by extension the commander meta-game exists out of these 1400 cards.
If we only require 50% coverage we move this number down to about 600 cards.
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hearbeat of spring
hearless summoning
helm of obediance
hide
hide
hight market
higure, the steel wind
hilltop retreat
hinterland harbor
hollowed burial
homward path
honeward path
honor the pure
honor the pure
horde-smelter dragon
howermyr
hullbreach
hymm to tourach
hymm to tourach
hymn to tourarch
hyrdra omnivore
idylic tutor
idylic tutor
impís mischief
increasing ambitions
ink-eyes
ink-eyes
ink-eyes
ink-eyes
ink-eyes
ink-eyes
ink-eyes
ink-eyes
ink-eyes
inquisitor's flail
inquisitor's flail
inquisitor's flail
inquistion of kozilek
inquistorís flail
insurrectionds
iona's judgement
island
islands
islands
islands
islands
islands
islands
islands
islands
isle of wak-wak
isperia, the inscrutable
it the betrays
izzit boilerworks
izzit signet
jace beleran
jace belerne
jace the mind sculptor
jace the mind sculptor
jace the mind sculptor
jace the mindsculptor
jace tms
jace, the mind sculpter
jace, the mindsculptor
jace,the mind sculptor
jaceís archivist
jaceís archivist
jaceís ingenuity
jareth, leonin titan
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jin-gitaxias
jor kadeen the prevailer
jotun grunt
journeyers kite
jund panorama
jungle basin
kadoma's reach
kaervek, the merciless
kamahl fist of krosa
kamahl, first of krosa
kamahl, fost of krosa
kami of the crecent moon
karador, ghost cheiftain
karpulsan forest
kazadan refuge
kazandu refuge
keldjoran outpost
keldon megalith
kessig wolfrun
khabal ghoul
khanlni garden
kiki-jiki mirror breaker
kikuís shadow
kira, great glass spinner
kira, great glass spinner
kjeldon firebombers
knight captain of eos
knight of the white orchard
kodamaís reach
kodamaís reach
kodamaís reach
kodamaís reach
korsan grip
koth the hammer
kozilek, buthcer of truth
krak-clan ironworks
krosan grisp
kukemssa pirate
laboratory
lanowar wastes
lapse in certainty
lat-nam
leoning shikari
leyline
leyline of anticipation
life
life
life
life
life
life
lifeís finale
lightening greaves
lighting boots
lighting greaves
lighting greaves
lighting greaves
lightning graves
lilana vess
lilania vess
lilianna vess
lilliana vess
lilliana vess
lim-d
lim-d
lim-d
lim-dul
lim-dul
lim-dul
lim-dul
lim-dul
lim-dul
lim-dul
lim-dul
lim-dul
lim-dul
lim-dul the necromancer
lim-dul the necromancer
lim-dul's vault
lim-dul's vault
liquidmetal coating
llanowar elf
llanowar elf
llanowar elf
lonely island
long term plans
long term plans
loxdon warhammer
loxodon gatekeepr
luminarch acension
lurking predator
madbling mountain
maelstom nexus
maelstrom angel
maelstrom wanderer
maelstrom wanderer
magestrate's veto
malevolant awakening
man-o
man-o
man-o
man-o
man-o
man-o
man-o
man-o'-war
man-o-war
mana barbs
mana reflection
mana reflexion
manalithe
manashort
manavault
march flats
march flats
marsh flasts
marshall's anthem
marton stromgald
marton stromgald
marton stromgald
marton stromgald
martyrís bond
masterís call
maurading fleshbag
mayael, the anima
meliria, sylvok outcast
meloku, the clouded mirror
memory's journey
meteor crater
miari's wake
milikin
minamo, school at waterís edge
minamo, school at waterís edge
minamo, school at waterís edge
minamo, school at waterís edge
minamo, school at waterís edge
minamo, school at waterís edge
minamo, school at waterís edge
mind
mind slaver
mindshrieker
mindís eye
mindís eye
mindís eye
mindís eye
mindís eye
mirariís wake
mirariís wake
mirariís wake
miren the moaning well
miren the moaning well
miren, the mourning well
mirrodin
mishira's helix
mishraís factory
mishraís workshop
mistifying maze
mistvel plains
mogg warmarshal
moosbridge troll
mormir vig, simic visionary
mosswart bridge
mother of ruins
mountain valley
mountains
mountains
mountains
mountains
mountains
mountains
mountains
mountains
mountains
mountains
mountains
muldrifter
mulldrifter
murganda petroglyphs
murmering bosk
mutiliate
mwunvoli acid moss
myojin of lifeís web
myojin of nightís reach
myojin of nightís reach
myojin of nightís reach
myr retreiver
myr retriver
mystic tutor
mystical tutur
mytical tutor
nantuko monastary
natures lore
naya panorama
nevinrrals disk
nevinyrrals disk
nevinyrralís disk
nevinyrralís disk
nevinyrralís disk
nevinyrralís disk
nevinyrralís disk
night of soulís betrayal
nightís whisper
niv mizzet, the firemind
niv-mizzet
niv-mizzet
niv-mizzet
niv-mizzet
niv-mizzet
niv-mizzet
niv-mizzet
niv-mizzet
niv-mizzet
niv-mizzet
niv-mizzet
noble heirarch
nomad's assembly
nomadís assembly
norn's annex **
nullmage shepard
nullmage shephard
odds
odds
okina, temple of the grandfathers
olivia voldren
omnath. locus of mana
ondu giant
oppurtunity
oracle of mul daya
oracle of mul-daya
oracle of muldaya
oracle of muldaya
oran rief, the vastwood
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
oran-rief
order
order
order
order of white clay
orimís thunder
orimís thunder
orzohov basilica
oversold cemetary
oversold cemetary
oversold cemetary
oversold cemetary
packís disdain
painful quandry
palinchron
parellel lives
pathreazer of ulamog
perilous farays
pestermite
phrexian metamorph
phyrexian area
phyrexian metamorph
phyrexian reclaimation
phyrexian reclamtion
phyrexian revolker
phyrexiaís core
pilgrimís eye
plain
pligrim's eye
pognify
praetor's councel
praetor's council
praetor's council
praetor's council
praetorís counsel
praetorís counsel
praetorís grasp
praetorís grasp
praetorís grasp
prator's counsel
prator's grasp
preator's counsel
predator flagship
preeminent captian
primeval titan
primordial rage
primordial sage
primval command
privleged position
psychotrope thalid
pucaís mischief
pure
pure//simple
putrify
pyromancerís swath
rakdos augurmage
rakdos cranarium
rakdos, the defiler
ramirez di pietro
rampaging baloth's
rampagning baloths
rampart growth
raziaís purification
reach of brances
reassembing skeleton
red sunís zenith
reiquary tower
relinquary tower
reliquary tower
research
reveilark
revillark
revillark
rhox pikenaster
rhysic study
riku of two refelctions
rings of brightenhearth
rings of brightheart
rings of the brighthearth
ripetide laboratory
rite of flourishing
rix maadi
rootbound craig
rough
royal assasin
run-scarred demon
rune scarred demon
rune scarred demon
rune scarred demon
rune-scared demon
rune-tail
rune-tail
rune-tail
rune-tail
rune-tail
runechanter's pike
runechanter's pike
runechanter's pike
runechanter's pike
rupture sprire
ruptured spire
rystic study
rystic study
s
sabreclaw golem
sacred foundary
sacred foundary
sacred fountain
sakashima the imposter
sakashima the imposter
sakashima the imposter
sakashima the imposter
sakashima, the impostor
sakura tribe elder
sakura tribe elder
sakura tribe elder
sakura tribe elder
sakura tribe elder
sakura tribe elders
sakura tribe-elder
samps
sarpadian empires, vol
savannath
saver the moment
scadling tarn
scalded foundry
scalding tarns
scared foundry
scourge of kher ridge
scourge of nobilis
scriviner
scryp ranger
sculpting streel
scultping steel
sea gate oracle
seat of synod
seat of synod
seat of synod
seat of the snyod
seat of the synod
seculuded steppe
seedborn muse
seijiri refuge
sek'kuar
sek'kuar
sek'kuar
sekki, seasons guide
sensei's diving top
sensei's diving top
sensei's diving top
sensei's diving top
sensei's diving top
sensei's diving top
senseis divining top
senseiís diving top
senseiís diving top
senseiís diving top
senseiís diving top
senseiís divining top
senseiís divining top
senseiís divining top
senseiís divining top
senseiís divining top
senseiís divining top
senseiís divining top
senseiís divining top
senseiís divining top
senseiís divining top
senseiís divining top
senseiís divining top
senseiís divining top
senseiís divining top
senseiís divining top
serraís sanctum
seshiro the annointed
shadowblood valley
shadowmage inflitraitor
shapresharer
sheoldred, the whispering one
sheoldred, the whispering one
sheoldred, the whispering one
sheoldred, the whispering one
sheoldred, whspering one
shinka, the bloodsoaked keep
shivan oasis
shizo, deathís storehouse
shizo, deathís storehouse
shizo, deathís storehouse
shizo, deathís storehouse
shrieking drake
sigil of the empty thrones
simic growth chamber
simic sky swollower
skillclamp
skittles, the blight dragon
skull clamp
skull clamp
skull clamp
skull clamp
skull muncher
skullcalmp
skullmuncher
skyshroud's claim
skyshroud's claim
skyshrould claim
small pox
smouldering spires
snapcaster mage
snow covered mountain
snow covered swamp
snow-covered forests
snow-covered islands
snow-covered islands
snow-covered lands
snow-covered mountains
snow-covered swamps
snowcovered island
snowcovered swamp
solemn similacrum
solemn simulacrum
solemn simularcrum
solemn simuraculum
solemn sumulacrum
solum simulacrum
soul't attendant
souls majesty
soulís attendant
spell crumble
spellcrumple
spiketail hatching
spinny top
spite
spitefull visions
sporolth ancient
sprialing duelist
sprout storm
steel of godhead
stink-weed imp
stip mine
stomping grounds
stomping grounds
stomping grounds
stomping grounds
stormfront
strangehold
strenght of the tajuru
stripmine
stripmine
stripmine
stripmine
stripmine
stripmine
stripmine
stripmine
sulferous springs
sulfur falls
sunhome, fortress of legion
sunhome, fortress of the lion
supply
supply
supply
supply
survival of the fisttest
suture preist
svyeldunite temple
swamps
swamps
swamps
swamps
swamps
swamps
swamps
swamps
swamps
swamps
swamps
swamps
swamps
swamps
swans of bryon argoll
swift boots
swift foot boots
swiftoot boots
sword of vegeance
sword of vengence
swords to plowshare
sygg river cutthroat
sylvoc replica
tainted aether
tample of the false god
tawnos' coffin
teferi, mag eof zhalfir
teferi, mage of zelfir
teferi, mage of zhafir
teferiís moat
teferiís moat
teferiís puzzle box
telermin performance
temple of the fals god
temple of the false gods
teraorphic expanse
terastadon
terastadon
terastadon
terastrodon
terminal moraine
terraforming expanse
terrastodon
terrastodon
terrastodon
terrastodon
tezerret the seeker
tezzeret agent of bolas
tezzeret, the seeker
tezzeret, the seeker
tezzeret, the seeker
tezzeret, the seeker
tezzeret, the seeker
thada adel, acquistior
thawing glaciers
thoot and nail
thousand year elixir
thousand year elixir
thousand year elixir
thousand year elixir
thousand year elixir
thousend year elexier
thrun
tidespout tyrant
tolaria west
topical island
tornado shaman
tornodís crypt
tornodís crypt
totem-guide hartbeest
trailblazer s boots
trimph of the hordes
trinketmage
troll ascestic
udthen troll
umezawaís jitte
umezawaís jitte
umezawaís jitte
umezawaís jitte
unburial rights
unburial rights
ur-golem
ur-golem
ur-golem
ur-golem
ur-golem
urabask the hidden
urabrask, the hidden
urabrask, the hidden
urabrask, the hidden
urborg tomb of yawgmoth
urborg, tom of yawgmoth
urborg, tomg of yawgmoth
uril the miststalker
urzaís blueprints
urzaís factory
urzaís mine
urzaís power plant
urzaís tower
valakut, the molten pinnicale
valakut, the molten pinnicle
valor
valor
vampuric tutor
vedalkan orerry
vedalkan shackles
vedalken aethermage
vedalken aethermage
vedalken aethermage
vedalken aethermage
vedalken aethermage
vedalken aethermage
vedalken aethermage
vedalken orrey
vedalkin shackles
vendillion clique
vendillion clique
vengeful pharoh
venser shape servant
venser the sojourner
venserís journal
verdeloth, the ancient
vereloth the ancient
vesuvan doppleganger
veteranís armaments
victoryís herald
vines of the vastwood
viridan zealot
vis kal, blood arbiter
vitu-ghazi
vitu-ghazi
vitu-ghazi
vitu-ghazi
vitu-ghazi
vitu-ghazi, the city tree
voidmage prodogy
volrath, the fallen
volrathís stronghold
volrathís stronghold
volrathís stronghold
volrathís stronghold
volrathís stronghold
vorinclex, voice of hunger
vow of wilderness
vow of wilderness
wall of blossom
wanderer maelstrom
warth of god
waves of agression
wayfarerís bauble
whirlpool drake
wild richochet
wild richochet
will-o
willbender
winding canyon
winding canyon
windswepth heath
wingshards
wood elves
woodelves
wooden bastion
woodland cemetary
woodland cemetary
woodland cemetary
wooly razorback
wordly tutor
worldy tutor
worldy tutor
worldy tutor
worldy tutor
worldy tutor
wreaking ball
wrexia, risen the deep
wurmocoil engine
x
x
x
x
x
x
xiahou dun, the one eyed
yaimaya elder
yamiyava dryad
yavimaya druid
yavimaya hallow
yawgmoths will
yawgmoths will
yawgoth's will
zedruu, the greathearted
∆ther spellbomb
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And I think my favorite misspelling/alternate spellings were: Sensei's Diving Top, Lighting Greaves and Lightening Greaves.
No love for bloodbraided elf? Or terraforming expanse and the great wrexia, risen the deep?
Considering that 185 decks out of the 500 are allowed to play red cards (a significant number), yes that is shocking.
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I think an example would help me understand better. Tell me if this is correct: Sol Ring is ranked 1st out of all the cards, so it is represented as 1 on the X axis. If Sol Ring was in all 500 of the 500 decks, 1 on the X axis would correspond to .01 on the Y axis, because Sol Ring would be 1/100th (.01) of 100% of the decks. If Sol Ring was in half the decks, it would show up as .005 on the Y axis, since it would be 1/100th of half the decks. As it is, Sol Ring shows up 355 times so Y=(1/100)*(355/500)=0.0071.
OK, so for the 75% and 50% graphs, you didn't look at the 100 decks that contained the lowest ranked cards? And, of the 400 decks you did look at, you cut off the 25 and 50 lowest ranked cards, respectively, in each deck?
If I'm reading those graphs correctly, that's really interesting. Is there any way you could post the rest of the 600 or 1400 cards beyond the top 200? Also, does anyone know how these numbers compare to other formats, particularly legacy and vintage? I would imagine that there are far, far fewer "core" cards in the other eternal formats, but it would be nice to be able to compare.
Finally, it makes me wonder how important those outlier/oddball cards are to the decks that run them. I would imagine they give those decks a lot of their personality and flavor, if nothing else.
There are a total of 500 decks updated after the innistrad release date.
Say one of those deck would contain 99 forests and a Sol Ring.
- I start off with Sol Ring and mark all decks that contain it (including the example one) and increase the X-axis by one
- I then move on to Lightning greaves and mark all decks that contain that card
- I continue marking all the decks while I move down the list of top cards
- Once I counted "Forest" the list with 99 Forests and a Sol Ring would be completely (100%) covered and thus I can mark 1/500 or 0,2% on the Y-axis.
- As there are a total of 4455 unique cards used by those 500 decks it requires the top 4455 to cover 100% of the decks
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While that's undoubtedly true of some of them, it's definitely not guaranteed to be the case. A quick search brings up ~5 decks in multiplayer running Death Match, though I didn't check to see how many made the cutoff date to be included in the 500 analyzed here. It's generally an early tutor target for me and I would consider it an important card in my Greven deck. I also have a buddy who runs Squandered Resources and Cadaverous Bloom with nasty results, and I don't see either of those show up in lists on here all that often.
I'm not saying that my experience is true across the board, but I thought I'd share a couple anecdotes where an unusual inclusion was a useful part of the deck, rather than a quirky pet card. A lot of them are probably flavor, but there are probably large numbers of them where someone wanted to build around a weird effect.
Dark Ascension does not seem to have a large influence on the Commander meta-game. To my surprise, Mikaeus, the Unhallowed is only used in 37 decks... New Phyrexia seems to be the winner in the printing of new commander staples for the last 7 sets (It has introduced 6 new cards in the top 200). Magic 2012 has all 10 in the top 200, but a lot of them are reprints.
I can't wait to see if Avacyn Restored can make a difference!
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The script I use for gathering information is fully automated and used the official gatherer rules database. Unfortunately official EDH color identity for all the cards is not part of that database. I could generate that information from the card's rules but that would take some extra effort.
Glad you like the list.
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