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Cards Drawn34567891011121520
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Turn # on Play1234569141)How does this work?
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Turn # on Draw012345813Rows 2-5 are used by the blue-shaded tables (rows 7-23) to denote how many cards
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Mulled to #3456must be drawn for a given chance-to-draw calculation. For example, cell G11 is the
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chance of seeing at least one of a playset by turn 2 on the play or turn 1 on the draw.
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Copies of Card% Chance to Open with 1 or More% Chance to Draw 1 or More by Turn # AboveThe green tables below depend only on the deck size, shaded in purple.
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15.06.78.3101213151718202533
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21013161922252831343644562)Example: You're debating between using 2 or 3 of a card in your deck. What is
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3141923283235394346495971the increased chance of drawing one by turn three if you play the extra copy?
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4192530354044495357606981Look at the blue-shaded tables. Column H describes turn three on the play. There's
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8354452596571757982859297a 39% chance of drawing a Knight by turn three with 3 copies (cell H10), and a 28%
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124960697581858991939598100chance with only 2 copies (cell H9), giving an 11% increase for adding the third copy.
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1661728086909395979898100100If you're on the draw, you can compare cell I9 to I10 for a 12% increased chance.
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Copies of Card% Chance to Open with a Pair or More% Chance to Draw a Pair or More by Turn # Above3)What about 8 Lords in Merfolk? 12 mana rituals in Storm? 16 Bolts in Burn?
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1000000000000As in (2) above, but look at rows further down that match the numbers of similar cards
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20.170.340.560.851.21.62.02.53.13.75.911in the deck. For example, a deck with 8 similar cards will have a 71% chance of seeing
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30.500.991.62.43.44.45.66.98.4101526at least one by turn 2 on the play (cell G12), and a 29% chance for at least two (G21).
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40.991.93.24.66.38.2101315182641Chances go up to 75% and 34% respectively on the draw (cells H12 and H21).
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84.48.213182329344045516582
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121018263443515865717687964)How do you maximize starting with exactly 2-3 land (without mulling)?
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16172940516169768286909699Look at the green-shaded tables. We want to start with 2-3 land, so we want the tan
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and yellow cells in columns D and E. When we're on the play, we maximize chances
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Lands in Deck% Chance to Open on 7 with Exactly X Landswith 21 land. However, our best chances on the draw are with 18-19 land.
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01234567The best compromise is 20 land (with 19 being a close second).
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16102934206.21.10.090.00
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178.32734227.61.40.140.01Disclaimers
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187.02434249.11.90.200.01
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195.8223325112.50.290.01This assumes there are no draw spells, tutors to rip addition cards out of the deck, etc.
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204.8203227123.10.400.02"100%" chance is not exactly 100, as we're rounding to two significant figures.
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214.0183128143.90.550.03
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223.3163029164.80.730.04Contact
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232.7142930185.80.970.06
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242.2122731206.91.30.09Questions? Suggestions? PM Curby on MTGSalvation or on The Source.
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I'm Curby#3347 on these Discord servers:
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Lands in Deck% Chance to Enter First Main with X-Y LandsPauperhttps://discord.gg/xQsar9V
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2-33-42-4Legacyhttps://discord.gg/xvtCg9B
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Mull 2xMull 1xKeepDrawMull 2xMull 1xKeepDrawMull 2xMull 1xKeepDrawEDHhttps://discord.gg/49NaUvq
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17425056581321293744556369Resources
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18455357581524334147586672
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19485559581727364451626974http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/frank-analysis-how-many-colored-mana-sources-do-you-need-to-consistently-cast-your-spells/
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20515759582030394754657275http://www.thrabenuniversity.com/?page_id=1288
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21535960572233424957687476https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J8mAB7x7VKgXIJOLRwGTH7DTFEDimiaKbWesaas8PfI/edit?usp=sharing
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23586159532839485364737776Changelog
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2018-03-27Updated contact info
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2018-01-10Added link to Frank Karsten Colored Sources Tables above
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2017-08-23Corrected 2sigfig display for values in range [0,1)
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Added limited and commander sheets
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Added resources section above
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Merged cells and deleted empty rows to clean up whitespace
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Replaced 3-5 land qty. in fourth table with 3-4 range
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Explained how the first two tables work.
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2015-09-09Better equations, 2 sigfig percentage display (except for 0.0)
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Multiple playset support (rows 12-14, 21-23)
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Fleshed out land range chance table
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