Category: Infographic
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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 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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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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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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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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Survey Results: The State of Limited Magic in 2023
We polled limited Magic: the Gathering players what they thought of the draft formats of 2023 – here’s what they said!
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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 Most-Represented Real-World Countries in Magic: the Gathering
Between Secret Lair drops, promos, Universes Beyond releases, and most notably, the Portal expansion that took place during the semi-fictionalized Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history, Magic: the Gathering has visited our real world on many occasions. But what’s the most-represented modern-day country in the game of Magic?