Quote Originally Posted by mistercakes View Post
It's good that you're trying to get the testing in there. I've tried even doing that myself. The truth is that unless if you exclusivley play a deck for a while, you'll never play it optimally and because of that the testing is skewed. Even playing a delver deck can be tricky because of the amount of decisions that go into it. Opening hand keep vs mulligan, sb decisions, turn 1/2 plays.
Note: Playtesting with a "rogue deck" that is not widely recognized as a Tier 1/1.5/2/whatever deck poses additional challenges. Even experienced pilots of other decks might have no idea what we are running, allowing us to "steal wins" due to suboptimal decision making on our opponent's part. It is difficult to say to what extent the wins are due to our decklist's optimal consistency (as opposed to running a slightly different 75), what is due to opponent being confused about what we are running (we might seem like a big red, monored stompy or sneaky show variant initially), what is due to our opponent piloting their 75 (sub)optimally, and what is due to our mulligan decisions and sideboarding decisions and general piloting skills with the exact 75 we are running, and what is due to whiffing/hitting with AoI, HUF, Probe topdecks, etc.