Most Popular Cards on M-L FEB-MAR 08

Laplie on 2008-04-01 18:26 MDT

Magic-League holds A LOT of tournaments, and we have A LOT of data gathered on decks, players and formats. As a courtesy to our members, I'm thinking publishing collations of the data on a semi-regular basis.

Without further ado, I present to you the card statistics from Feb 1, 2008-Mar 31 2008.



Count	Name				% of Top 40 Constructed

17088	Mountain			6.84%

14628	Tarmogoyf			5.85%

14193	Island				5.68%

12013	Forest				4.81%

11343	Swamp				4.54%

9813	Mutavault			3.93%

8550	Mogg Fanatic		3.42%

8171	Incinerate			3.27%

8146	Snow-Covered Island	3.26%

7743	Treetop Village		3.10%

7714	Plains				3.09%

6692	Bloodstained Mire	2.68%

6636	Wooded Foothills	2.65%

6426	Thoughtseize		2.57%

6283	Windswept Heath		2.51%

5915	Rift Bolt			2.37%

5447	Chrome Mox			2.18%

5418	Garruk Wildspeaker	2.17%

5185	Cryptic Command		2.07%

5173	Birds of Paradise	2.07%

4974	Snow-Covered Mountain	1.99%

4973	Sensei's Divining Top	1.99%

4911	Polluted Delta		1.96%

4865	Snow-Covered Forest	1.95%

4397	Flooded Strand		1.76%

4112	Nameless Inversion	1.64%

3949	Rune Snag			1.58%

3823	Mulldrifter			1.53%

3747	Shard Volley		1.50%

3579	Faerie Conclave		1.43%

3568	Dark Confidant		1.43%

3547	Keldon Marauders	1.42%

3526	Wrath of God		1.41%

3421	Sakura-Tribe Elder	1.37%

3419	Ancestral Vision	1.37%

3358	Adarkar Wastes		1.34%

3351	Cabal Therapy		1.34%

3331	Bitterblossom		1.33%

3318	Overgrown Tomb		1.33%

3247	River of Tears		1.30%



Count	Name				% of Top 30 Constructed (Sideboard)

11239	Tormod's Crypt		13.28%

7871	Extirpate			9.30%

6497	Leyline of the Void	7.68%

5432	Pithing Needle		6.42%

4670	Krosan Grip			5.52%

3942	Thoughtseize		4.66%

3506	Ancient Grudge		4.14%

3157	Sower of Temptation	3.73%

2867	Flashfreeze			3.39%

2630	Deathmark			3.11%

2580	Pyroclasm			3.05%

2394	Sulfuric Vortex		2.83%

2285	Gaddock Teeg		2.70%

2006	Cryoclasm			2.37%

1887	Cloudthresher		2.23%

1787	Damnation			2.11%

1615	Magus of the Moon	1.91%

1605	Cabal Therapy		1.90%

1525	Kataki, War's Wage	1.80%

1522	Bottle Gnomes		1.80%

1510	Sulfurous Blast		1.78%

1506	Threads of Disloyalty	1.78%

1380	Shattering Spree	1.63%

1368	Duress				1.62%

1368	Chain of Vapor		1.62%

1344	Mwonvuli Acid-Moss	1.59%

1337	Seal of Primordium	1.58%

1299	Indrik Stomphowler	1.53%

1267	Boseiju, Who Shelters All	1.50%

1236	Threaten			1.46%



Count	Name				% of Top 30 Eternal

2535	Brainstorm			7.39%

2476	Force of Will		7.22%

2209	Mountain			6.44%

2038	Polluted Delta		5.94%

2028	Flooded Strand		5.91%

1818	Island				5.30%

1741	Wasteland			5.08%

1464	Tarmogoyf			4.27%

1254	Tropical Island		3.66%

1090	Underground Sea		3.18%

1032	Swords to Plowshares	3.01%

979		Plains				2.86%

915		Daze				2.67%

860		Wooded Foothills	2.51%

826		Bloodstained Mire	2.41%

807		Dark Confidant		2.35%

803		Chrome Mox			2.34%

794		Chalice of the Void	2.32%

778		Thoughtseize		2.27%

777		Duress				2.27%

775		Swamp				2.26%

755		Lightning Bolt		2.20%

750		Tundra				2.19%

726		Mishra's Factory	2.12%

708		Ancient Tomb		2.06%

705		Stifle				2.06%

692		Ponder				2.02%

685		Mogg Fanatic		2.00%

635		Merchant Scroll		1.85%

632		Taiga				1.84%



Count	Name				% of Top 30 Eternal (SB)

1411	Leyline of the Void	12.21%

1312	Tormod's Crypt		11.36%

989		Pithing Needle		8.56%

696		Krosan Grip			6.02%

494		Duress				4.28%

465		Red Elemental Blast	4.02%

454		Extirpate			3.93%

399		Pyroclasm			3.45%

385		Engineered Plague	3.33%

363		Shattering Spree	3.14%

344		Blue Elemental Blast	2.98%

299		Chalice of the Void	2.59%

298		Engineered Explosives	2.58%

292		Pyroblast			2.53%

281		Threads of Disloyalty	2.43%

266		Swords to Plowshares	2.30%

257		Echoing Truth		2.22%

254		Dark Confidant		2.20%

225		Pyrokinesis			1.95%

224		Chill				1.94%

213		Meddling Mage		1.84%

203		Cabal Therapy		1.76%

190		Chain of Vapor		1.64%

186		Pyrostatic Pillar	1.61%

186		Umezawa's Jitte		1.61%

184		Ancient Grudge		1.59%

177		Stifle				1.53%

172		Thoughtseize		1.49%

168		Energy Flux			1.45%

166		Humility			1.44%

About the statistics: The percentages for that card in the respective (top30/40) NOT the percentage the card is played in the format as a whole. The counts are taken from all tournaments (minis, trials, masters) played in the given time frame.

Remarks:
I'll leave the commentary to others. The most striking statistic is Tarmogoyf being the second most played card in constructed (behind Mountain). While this percentage is certainly remarkable, it has to be taken with a grain of salt since Snow-covered and regular lands are counted separately. Also noteworthy is that the top 3 Constructed sideboard cards (30.26% of the total) are graveyard hate.

Comments (28)

by sandoiche on 2008-04-01 18:48 MDT

tarmogoyf is more played than most of basic lands

rofl

by Daveslusher- on 2008-04-01 18:48 MDT

gogo tarmogoyf!

by CMA-Flippi on 2008-04-01 18:53 MDT

I believe that's because NLB splashes Goyf and doesnt need Forests. The same is true for Sligh and TarmoFolk decks. Even Affinity played Goyfs for a while. So Goyf is played by nonbasics more often than with simple Forests.

by dv8r on 2008-04-01 19:08 MDT

nice april fools joke ;)

by dv8r on 2008-04-01 19:09 MDT

you almost had me until I realised that lowland oaf isn't ANYWHERE on these statistics

by Kniver on 2008-04-01 19:15 MDT

I just realized, that you might be able to make an incredible RG deck if you make your way down the list and use the most commonly used RG standard cards, I mean tarmogoyf, mogg fanatic, mutavult, incinerate, treetop village, rift bolt
garruk, birds, so on so forth lol

by Ironicus on 2008-04-01 19:34 MDT

Lol this is so nice!

by aldaryn on 2008-04-01 19:54 MDT

It's probably unnecessary, but I wouldn't mind a more format-specific breakdown (Standard, Extended, etc.) Not that I'm trying to sound ungrateful...very neat to see

by Kniver on 2008-04-01 19:56 MDT

I actually did that, I made the deck and it actually works surprisingly well

by Kniver on 2008-04-01 20:10 MDT

Actually really well I've won a couple games with it,
lmao

by Kniver on 2008-04-01 20:13 MDT

This is the deck I created based on those stats, it works phenomally

// Lands
6 [CS] Snow-Covered Forest
2 [CS] Snow-Covered Mountain
4 [10E] Karplusan Forest
4 [10E] Treetop Village
4 [MOR] Mutavault

// Creatures
4 [FUT] Magus of the Moon
4 [LRW] Cloudthresher
4 [PLC] Keldon Marauders
4 [FUT] Tarmogoyf
4 [10E] Birds of Paradise
4 [LRW] Garruk Wildspeaker
4 [10E] Mogg Fanatic

// Spells
4 [MOR] Shard Volley
4 [10E] Incinerate
4 [TSP] Rift Bolt

by MistyFatDog on 2008-04-01 20:44 MDT

um judge rewards?

by MistyFatDog on 2008-04-01 20:57 MDT

btw this isnt a joke, i do believe that m-l server can count this up

by Vecc on 2008-04-01 21:08 MDT

Ban Mountain, it's broken. ;|

by _S3BAS_ on 2008-04-01 22:25 MDT

Ban Mountain, it's broken.
Yeah its right xD

by Laplie on 2008-04-02 00:01 MDT

by aldaryn on 2008-04-01 21:54 EDT [Edit]
It's probably unnecessary, but I wouldn't mind a more format-specific breakdown (Standard, Extended, etc.) Not that I'm trying to sound ungrateful...very neat to see

I wish I could, but M-L doesn't keep decks that way. Tournaments are started in a category (Constructed, Eternal, Limited, Other). The only way to figure out by specific format is to search the description of the tourney. That's both unreliable and less precise.

by dv8r on 2008-04-01 21:08 EDT
nice april fools joke ;)

It's not a joke... but maybe I should have waited a day.

by MistyFatDog on 2008-04-01 22:44 EDT
um judge rewards?

I'll try to make a post tomorrow

by D4rk3z on 2008-04-02 01:57 MDT

by georgjorge on 2008-04-02 03:21 MDT

More Mountains than any other land (including Fetches and Duals), more Lightning Bolts than Stifles in Eternal ? Those Burn players are sure messing up the statistics...

by CMA-Flippi on 2008-04-02 05:57 MDT

There are more ppl playing 14 Mountains in a deck than 14 Forests.
Remember you can play Goyf/Gush with Tropical Islands etc :/.
Also, Lightning Bolt isn't lonely played in Burn. Boros and Tresh also uses it alot.

by sandoiche on 2008-04-02 10:23 MDT

also that bgr aggro deck

by SteveMan on 2008-04-02 12:43 MDT

Wtf how does Mountain lose to Force of Will in Eternal.

Ban Brainstorm!

by Eldariel on 2008-04-02 13:29 MDT

lol, poor Plains.

Also, we need Other-statistics, since most of the Other-tournaments are MYOS and then we'd know what's going on in that land :)

by Stucco on 2008-04-02 15:16 MDT

mountain > island?

My perception of magic has been completely shattered.

by Trotsky1 on 2008-04-02 15:31 MDT

no its island>mountain but too the noob its mountain>island which expalins this stat.

by Laplie on 2008-04-02 16:46 MDT

The reason that mountain is more played is probably cause of the monoRed decks are a lot more common than mono blue. Blue is usually mixed with other colors.

All of the top lands in eternal (except for mountain) produce blue or fetch blue. Added together they beat mountain about 4-1.

In constructed, you have to consider the snow covered lands.

Island + snow covered island > mountain + snow covered mountain

by david7all on 2008-04-03 21:07 MDT

i think i skewed up stats by playing 4 crusher 2 frenzy and 54 mountains : )

by Ironicus on 2008-04-06 17:43 MDT

http://img182.imageshack.us/my.php?image=omgnoobkn4.gif

I won with that deck

by Vlada on 2008-04-10 09:51 MDT

by dv8r on 2008-04-02 03:08 CET

nice april fools joke ;)

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