5/21/2023 0 Comments Magic goldfish standard![]() For Wizards to deny the community this data is a slap in the face to everyone that was voraciously consuming it. They want more numbers, more statistics, and more data. For the most part, the community is very analytical and enjoys meta-game analysis of this depth. The Magic community isn’t thrilled about Wizards telling them what they can and cannot do in this case for a variety of reasons. Wizards of the Coast (via Reddit) So What’s the Outrage? We appreciate MTGGoldfish’s cooperation in this matter, and while we expect some readers will be disappointed by this news, we hope players will understand that the decision comes from our desire to keep the game as healthy as possible. This hurts everyone creating content for Magic players, which is ultimately why we stopped publishing such a high volume of winning MTGO decklists on our own site, and why other Magic content sites have also subscribed to this philosophy after becoming aware of this impact. The number of tournament-viable deck options for players is reduced, and player interest in the format shrinks along with it. Solving the puzzle then becomes less interesting, and the format grows stale ahead of its time. Magic thrives on being a recurring puzzle for players to solve, and intensive data mining leads to a more rapid understanding of a new metagame. While these articles are informative and interesting, we feel that this level of data-driven metagame analysis ultimately damages the health of those formats. We asked MTGGoldfish to suspend the Constructed Metagame series on MTGGoldfish that compiles large volumes of MTGO tournament results to paint a picture of a current Constructed format. While none of this is necessarily news, the speed at which these percentages were being produced was happening at an alarming rate. People play the decks that have higher winning percentages. The win percentages however have a very specific and obvious effect on the Standard environment. I think the deck lists and the meta-game breakdown are more valuable. ![]() Win percentage isn’t necessarily the most important statistic that MTG Goldfish is gathering here. The winning decklists, the metagame breakdown, the strategy articles, and basically everything you see on the site today is unaffected and will continue to be there. This feature was removed back in September. This was the feature that said Jeskai was 55% favored against Abzan Aggro. R&D contacted us and asked us to remove the matchup win percentages and analysis. Here’s the statement from MTG Goldfish that was left on Reddit: Wizards asked us to stop publishing the data.įirst off, let’s make sure we’re all on the same page here with what happened.
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