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    Yes, if you optimize your deck to have 3 manas T1, you can find more powerful things to do than hating on fetches. If I play dark ritual I don't want to play fair. It doesn't mean that at 1 mana a...
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    The argument is a bit weird: these cards are so powerful played T1 that whole archetypes were built to make them playable T1. The trouble is not that they are so bad topdeck themselves, it is that...
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    Maybe adding "you don't control" would be a good idea :)
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    Just a Stifle that costs a phyrexian blue instead of just blue. That works OTD and should be good enough to see play enough to really push the fetches out.
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    REB is a Pyroblast. Not entirely true, but for most situations playing with or against, you won't feel the difference.
    It is then conceptually fine to consider them identical, as you would play...
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    Representing data is as far as a close field as it gets. There are many valid options, that might be considered.

    It also depends of what you want to get out of the data. Win rate for a specific...
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    I find 47-36 perfectly clear, but that some would find a win% easier to read is a valid point indeed.
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    Recording all data or not has no influence here.
    You have recorded data, in the form of W-L.
    You do not get more or better data by performing whatever treatment you want on it, you are only...
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    I wrote "has", not "had"?

    But my question stands : how is decreasing the information, and giving for a given MU a range + confidence, giving a clearer picture than the actual data, i.e. Win-loss ?...
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    The field of statistics cannot answer that. There are formula to tell you whether from some data, you can fix a given range of probability with a given confidence.

    So here you could say that...
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    Fully agreeing with Zoid here.
    You present the data, transformation of said data is useful only if it is more informative.

    Here I do not see it:
    600-400 is more meaningful than 60-40, itself...
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    Elves does that: bigger, faster, and good MUs against both decks.
    Unfortunately it gives much away to some other MUs, especially the un-interactive ones.
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    There is, have a look: http://mtgtop8.com/archetype?a=642&meta=124&f=PEA
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    Well, it is a topic on bans/unbans. Given the "exchange prisoner" system, it is only logical that the 5-6 most unbannable cards appear often. Hence repetitions on Survival or Mind Twist, even if I...
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    As I have played recently with Fauna Shaman, the card which is probably the closest to survival, I can assure you that survival is very far from being a safe unban. I am not sure that Y. will would...
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    I beg to disagree on the "only one": engineered explosives is an excellent answer to both and is fairly unrestrictive colorwise, and Rec Sage/GSZ are also quite fine answers.
    Both cards have good...
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    Because masochism is a common trait of legacy player. Why do you think the second single deck thread with the most pages on this forum is Nic Fit?

    The fact that the first one is miracles just...
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    You'll note that your one card that wins the game does so only if you are playing a combo deck with no way of interacting with a ccm3 creature.
    Find a single legacy deck that just lose to this "one...
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    What's wrong with gambling to find not recursive cards?
    It is just not as good as gambling for LotL, but getting a 67-80% chances (assuming a 3 to 5 cards hand, not a full grip even) of getting the...
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    That's one of the worst parts. You still have to continue playing in order not to give up on that tiny chance of still turning it around, heavily demoralizing you in the process.
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    Done.
    Actually, there are 168 decks in mtgtop8 registered for major legacy events in 2016. 25 of them contain CB main (15%), 31 Delver of secret (18.5%).
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    I agree that presence is different than efficiency, and separated the two concepts in my previous post. As representation is something that is already easily and readily accessible, althought through...
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    I didn't reply to that because I think like Julian that it's kinda irrelevant what happens in local metagames.
    I mean, don't get me wrong, it is relevant in our dayly playing experience, but what...
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    Really? Most metagames I have seen, being big journeys or locals, reflect quite well the deck distribution on mtgtop8.
    So I use this as a reflection of the metagame, and it is what I consider to...
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    Thanks for the "genius" (auto-infatuation pushed me to quote it).
    And you are close for the win rate. But the reality is I counted by matches:
    - 1st place equal 3 matches, 3 wins;
    - 2nd place...
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