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The Basic Lands That Won Pro Tour Outlaws of Thunder Junction
What basic lands took down the Pro Tour this weekend in Seattle? The Cardboard by the Numbers team is here to fill you in on the PT’s most critical details.
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How strong were Outlaws of Thunder Junction pre-sales?
Magic: the Gathering’s latest expansion, Outlaws of Thunder Junction, has had the community abuzz. A set with a huge step-up in power, two bonus sheets, an already-beloved limited format, and an expansion that’s had some serious hits and misses from the creative side, OTJ occupies an interesting place in the world of Magic. But how…
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My 14 Favorite Fallout Cards for Cube
Fallout is upon us! The much-hyped crossover between the beloved game franchise — one that will take up even more online discourse in a few weeks with a new Amazon show — and the greatest game ever made (Magic: the Gathering) may not have lived up to the high expectations of all Magic players, but…
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The Basic Lands That Won Pro Tour Karlov Manor
Is the rogue choice of deck the real story of the Pro Tour? Or is it the rogue choices for which basic lands each of the top player selected?
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Serialized is Special Again? The Math Behind MKM’s Impossible Pull Rates
Serialized cards have changed the game in terms of finance, collectability, and “bling”: and as evidenced with the newest expansion, Murders at Karlov Manor, that trend is only going to continue.
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Determining 2023’s Best Basic Lands – With Math (Kind of)
To start, we’re going to dig into the state of basic lands coming into 2024. Using that as a foundation, we’ll bring in various rankings and metrics for 2023’s 133 new pieces of art to start to piece together a formula. From that, you will know, definitively, proven by a bevy of quantitate measures, which…
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The State of Boros in Cube
I wanted to start with Boros because of the significant change the guild has seen this year. More than half of my own red & white cards have been swapped out this year for fresh cardboard, and similarly, 40% of the MODO Cube’s Boros section is updated with cards sporting a 2023 copyright. But why…
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2023’s Most Popular Cube Cards by the Numbers
We don’t have any qualitative awards for new Magic cards. Even with the category becoming much less competitive, Quintorius Kand has no chance of winning the award for “Best New Planeswalker” since no such trophy exists. But we do have numbers at our disposal to help recap the year and quantitatively understand just how impactful…
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The Basic Lands That Won The Magic World Championship 2023
The 29thMagic: the Gathering World Championship, the game’s most prestigious tournament, recently wrapped in Las Vegas with French pro Jean-Emmanuel Depraz claiming the top prize and the promise of a card bearing his likeness in the future. During the Standard portion of the event, many of the game’s top players displayed their preferences by which…
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MtG and “Doctor Who” Have Little Overlap – But That’s a Good Thing
Doctor Who is coming to Magic: the Gathering, but some statistics suggest that’s not the best pairing. Is there more to these numbers than meets the eye?
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The Basic Lands That Won Pro Tour The Lord of the Rings
Pro Tour The Lord of the Rings wrapped up yesterday in Barcelona, with first-time PT attendee Jake Beardsley taking home the top prize Rakdos Scam may have been the top deck, but what were the top basic lands that brought players victory in Barcelona?
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Calculating Magic’s Most-Hyped Cards
The hype around the most recent Magic: the Gathering expansion, The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth, has been unprecedented. But what are the most hyped spoilers across the game’s 30 year history?
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Ranking the Showcase Treatments – with Math!
March of the Machine has become an instant classic, hailed as one of the best draft formats of all time by one of Magic’s most successful limited players. While the companion/expansion set March of the Machine: Aftermath has not fared nearly as well in the public consciousness, one of the more celebrated elements of the…
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What Everyone Missed at Pro Tour: March of the Machine
Much has been said about Pro Tour: March of the Machine, but one critical element has gone all but undiscussed: which basics were the best players running?
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Trivia by the Numbers: March of the Machine Pt. 2
Previously, we discussed the first half of March of the Machine’s notable accomplishments as a Magic expansion via number-related trivia. Today, we’ll finish off the remainder of our 16 funnest stats from #MTGMOM
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INFOGRAPHIC: A Timeline of Magic’s Most Powerful Creature
What’s the most powerful creature in all of Magic: the Gathering? While the 30 years of the game has invited players to engage in myriad debates on the topic, the notion that a 2/1 monkey or a similarly-statted human with flash tops the list can seem fanciful when there is an objective measure of a…
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How Many “March of the Machine” Cards Are From Each Plane?
Which Magic planes got the most representation in the multiverse-spanning March of the Machine? Cardboard by the Numbers finds out.
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The Basic Lands That Won Magic World Championship 31
The 31st Magic: the Gathering World Championship concluded on Sunday with a victory for Sam Pardee, who will now be immortalized in the game in the enviable form of an invitational card of his own design. But what matters more? Which basic lands he sleeved up to win with.
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The Most Popular Plains of 2025
Using sales data from TCGPlayer, monthly captures of the “most popular” on Card Kingdom, and eBay sales data, we’ve compiled the most popular Plains of the year using the most purchases online as the proxy for popularity. These have been calculated on a relative basis, so EOE #262 has sold about half as many as…
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The Basic Lands That Won Pro Tour: Edge of Eternities
Pro Tour Edge of Eternities concluded yesterday with a clean finish for American Michael DeBenedetto-Plummer, who piloted Tamehi Belcher and some impressive limited decks to his first PT Top 8 and first win! Modern as a format seems wide open: Frank Karsten’s analysis reveals more than a dozen decks had positive records in Swiss, a…
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The Best Basic Lands of 2024
What is the State of Basic Lands in 2024? What styles and specific art did players like best in the year? Find out all of that and more!
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Data Suggest the Fallout Shortage May Be Real
The data we’ve crunched here at Cardboard by the Numbers indicates that Fallout is likely going to be an exception to this trend, and a massive one at that. If our assumptions are right, Fallout Collector Booster Boxes have been under-printed relative to demand and consequently will be extremely scarce.
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What Hasbro’s 2023 Annual Report Means for Magic: the Gathering
In brief, fantasy gaming vertical Wizards of the Coast was the saving grace of Hasbro in 2023, representing the only business unit with a positive fiscal year.