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  • March 5, 2024

    Data Suggest the Fallout Shortage May Be Real

    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.

  • February 26, 2024

    The Basic Lands That Won Pro Tour Karlov Manor

    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?

  • February 14, 2024

    What Hasbro’s 2023 Annual Report Means for Magic: the Gathering

    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.

  • February 7, 2024

    Early MKM Retail Takeaways for Cube

    Early MKM Retail Takeaways for Cube

    I’m a pre-release weekend and a few Arena drafts into the new format. Add to that, we have the first 36 hours of Arena play to provide some — emphasis on some — quantitative backing to my seat-of-the-pants reactions, so I thought I’d take this time to share my early reactions to Murders at Karlov…

  • February 5, 2024

    Serialized is Special Again? The Math Behind MKM’s Impossible Pull Rates

    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.

  • January 29, 2024

    The Basic Lands That Won the European Championship

    The Basic Lands That Won the European Championship

    Marco Del Pivo took home the trophy for the EMEA Regional Championship in Ghent, but based on Basic Land choice, who was the real winner?

  • January 24, 2024

    Rating Murders at Karlov Manor’s 25 Most Interesting Cards for Cube

    Rating Murders at Karlov Manor’s 25 Most Interesting Cards for Cube

    With the release of most new Magic: the Gathering expansions, the Cube community has plenty of great content to look forward to. Starting with MKM, we’re getting in the game.

  • January 18, 2024

    Made for Commander? Secretly for Cube

    Made for Commander? Secretly for Cube

    With novel designs and power-level intended for eternal formats, commander sets have brought about many Cube staples

  • January 11, 2024

    Determining 2023’s Best Basic Lands – With Math (Kind of)

    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…

  • January 3, 2024

    The Most Underrated Cube Cards of 2023 – By the Numbers

    The Most Underrated Cube Cards of 2023 – By the Numbers

    Today, we’ll go through some of 2023’s least-Cubed cards (sub-500 lists on Cube Cobra, as of January 1st) that I think are worth your while.

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