Episode 36: Modern in Mathmagic Land

The Break Down: GP Birmingaak with a special focus on Mardu Death's Shadow The Dive Down: Probably Correct Math The Wind Down: Comboing Out Timestamps: 2:15 - Housekeeping 3:58 - The Break Down Begins - GP Birmingaak 8:24 - Day 1 stand-outs 11:33 - Day 2 metagame breakdown and conversion rates 14:01 - Top 8 begins 14:57 - Discussing Mardu Death's Shadow 22:00 - 2nd place and beyond 24:14 - Post-GP discussion 26:11 - The Dive Down Begins - Probably correct math 31:52 - Why care about Magic Math? 39:28 - How to use a hypergeometric calculator 46:27 - Thanks to Frank Karsten 46:51 - 1) The Rule of 2 and 4 54:59 - 2) Your opening 7 57:26 - 3) 2-card combos 1:01:57 - 4) Mana screwing yourself 1:05:56 - 5) Cheating that Chalice 1:09:04 - 5a) The Deckulator 1:10:10 - 6) T1 Blood Moon 1:13:12 - 7) Natty Tron and other Tron math 1:16:42 - 8) Getting burned 1:20:21 - 9) Hollow numbers vs. Hogaak numbers 1:25:24 - 10) Jund'ing them out 1:26:28 - 11) Mono-red damage 1:30:30 - The Wind Down - Comboing out Links from this week's episode: See Zak commentate the MSL on 8/28: https://www.modernstreamersleague.com Our custom token art: https://www.patreon.com/posts/our-awesome-are-29292615 More of Ben Dewey: https://benjamindewey.tumblr.com GP Birmingham Top8: https://www.mtggoldfish.com/tournament/grand-prix-birmingham-2019#paper Math References: http://channelfireball.com/articles/how-many-copies-of-any-given-card-should-you-put-in-your-deck/ https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/the-london-mulligan-rule-mathematically-benefits-strategies-that-rely-on-specific-cards/ https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/how-reliable-is-hollow-one/ https://www.channelfireball.com/articles/magic-math-hogaak-can-be-played-on-turn-2-in-60-of-its-games/ Calculators: https://stattrek.com/online-calculator/hypergeometric.aspx https://deckulator.appspot.com/ Our opening music is Nowhere - You Never Knew, and our closing music is Space Blood - Goro? Is That Your Christian Name? email us: [email protected] twitter: https://twitter.com/thedivedown