The Shape of a Format | A Data-Driven Retrospective of Dominaria United

Dominaria United was an outlier of contemporary Magic design. How can running the numbers on draft logs help illustrate its many charming anomalies?

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📘 Chapters:
0:00 Card Kingdom
0:30 BASILISK
1:16 Skeletons and Line Drawings
3:12 A Run of Moguls
7:39 Here's the Kicker
10:35 Man Your Battlecruisers
13:41 The Five Stages of a Format
16:41 Outlier to the Outliers
22:23 Three New Heuristics
25:45 If This Isn't Nice...
28:42 Yotia Meteorite et. all

📓 Sources:
https://mtgazone.com/data-based-heuri... - Data-Driven Heuristics for MTG Arena Drafts
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/von... - Shapes of Stories by Kurt Vonnegut
https://capnmariam.tumblr.com/post/76... - Vonnegut Graphs
https://draftsim.com/mtg-dmu-defender... - DMU Defender Deck Primer - Sam Black
  / dominaria_united_draft_archetypes_iceburg   - DMU Limited Iceberg
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2RBm... Lords of Limited - 50 DMU Takes in 50 Minutes
https://open.spotify.com/episode/32ia... - Lords of Limited - Domin Are Ya Hyped
   • Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories   - Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
   • Dominaria United MTG Draft with LSV   - LSV DMU Draft
   • Magic Numbers #50: Dominaria Untied, ...   - Magic Numbers 50 - DMU First 17 Lands Data
   • Magic Numbers #52: Three New Draft He...   - Magic Numbers 52 - Three New Draft Heuristics from DMU Data
   • Magic Numbers #53: Why are top player...   - Magic Numbers 53 - Why Are Top Players Top?
   • Magic Numbers #54: Data? Tada! Look a...   - Magic Numbers 54 - DMU Draft Data
   • Magic Numbers #86: How do draft forma...   - Magic Numbers 86 - How do Draft Formats Evolve?
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