Newest "Way Too Much Information" AKA "Burn is a Bad Deck, a Really Bad Deck"

[zulander]

http://www.starcitygames.com/magic/legacy/23733_Legacy_Week_Too_MuchInformation.html

Any surprises? I'm a little surprised that with the amount of straight burn decks there aren't enough people willing to splash blue, the UR Delver numbers seemed a little low I guess. And just about as many people are playing affinity as dredge, and they have just about the same records.

[Koby]

No surprises with Burn being a poor performing deck that's played by way too many people thinking its good because a skilled pilot has skills.

What IS surprising is how many people think they can do well with it.

Aside from the awful numbers on Burn, it was interesting to see how the aggregate numbers on the top three decks agree with the perceptions that many of us have been having. The number of samples are still too low to draw forgone conclusions, but the trend is confirming our ideas.

[Cynicath]

Not surprised about the number of burn decks. It's the cheapest 'viable' deck, so a lot of people who don't really play legacy probably picked it up for the opens. If this is true it would also go some distance towards explaining its remarkably poor showings.

[Tammit67]

God I love these articles. Thank you Alex and Jesse for compiling all this information and sharing it!