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Magic Decompression Challenge: Through the Ages

Here are the answers; please don’t spoil them for anyone else! And here is the original challenge, so you can try it yourself. category 1 2 3 4 1993-97 Serra Angel @ 13×13 Sol Ring @ 11×11 Black Lotus @ 9×9 Llanowar Elves @ 7×7 1998-02 Fact or Fiction @ 13×13 Flametongue Kavu @ 11×11…
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Repeated Reverberation: Looking for gerunds and gerund-likes

Just a big table of cards with names that share something in common, categorized by word. This is pretty trivial, but kinda fun to look at.
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Echo Tracer: Just a big list of cards with identical Oracle text

Corrupted Conviction and Coming in Hot in March of the Machine inspired me to look at other quasi-reprints, according to this specific definition: identical Oracle text, after replacing the card’s name with CARDNAME.
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Phyrexian Atlas: Adjusted Win Rates in Phyrexia: All Will Be One

Adjusted Win Rates for ONE: Migloz is good, the signposts are synergistic, and Geth, Thane of Contracts is even worse than it looks. I’ve got all the numbers.
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Constraints Breed Creativity: Building the optimal MH2 set Cube on a budget

Modern Horizons II is one of the sweetest Limited environments in recent memory, but also one of the most expensive to play. What if you could get 95% of the experience for 1/3rd the cost?
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Most-cubed Monocolor Ravnica Watermarked cards

Illustration: Transguild Courier by John Avon This isn’t so much a blog post as it is a place to put a big table. rnk azorius dimir rakdos gruul selesnya orzhov izzet golgari boros simic 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
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Companion Cubing with the Parliamentary Cube

The Companion mechanic is actually good — in Limited — and a version of Companion in a Cube setting lets me do lots of the things I most enjoy in Magic. This is an introduction to Companion Cubing.
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In Search of Greatness: Looking for the strongest decks in 17Lands data

(Illustration by Ilse Gort) This isn’t so much a blog post as it is a place to put a big table. Using 17Lands Public Data, I looked at the lands each deck was running — the decks whose most-common lands were Plains/Island are called WU decks, regardless of what other lands they’re running, and so…

