Listen " #84 - Reading Signals in Draft"
Episode Synopsis
Drafts are hard. There is plenty going on and to navigate it well, you need to think not only of your own deck, but about what are other people doing. In limited content you will often hear that something is a signal - but what are signals exactly? And how can you read and interpret them? And perhaps more importantly - do signals mean anything and can you draw some actionable conclusions from reading them?
I immersed myself in 17Lands.com data for 2 weeks trying to answer those questions and here is a summary of what I found.
This episode is particularly data-heavy, so if you want to look through the graphs, I made the slides accessible to all, find them here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/slides-for-magic-86086797
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I immersed myself in 17Lands.com data for 2 weeks trying to answer those questions and here is a summary of what I found.
This episode is particularly data-heavy, so if you want to look through the graphs, I made the slides accessible to all, find them here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/slides-for-magic-86086797
Patreon: https://patreon.com/sierkovitz to get extra access, perks and the good feeling of supporting my work.
This podcast is sponsored by mtgazone.com - get your reading fix from the best and brightest Magic writers in the business.
Reminder: This podcast is a recording of a stream, which relies heavily on graphics. Check the youtube recording of it to see any graphs that are hard to imagine in the audio-only format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJkT96MOgYU
Find all other things Sierkovitz here: https://linktr.ee/sierkovitz
Theme song: You Do You, Mana Junkie by essesq (c) copyright 2020 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/essesq/61332 Ft: Mana Junkie
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