Data is much less valuable if it’s behind a paywall.

This project has so much potential. Once the data increases, this data will be valuable. Paywall valuable? I sign up for scg premium articles just because it is very cheap.

Mtggoldfish has junks metagame percentage plummeting- with the overall amount of bgx decks the lowest since treasure cruised was banned. Am looking forward to the next top decks article in the next two weeks.

Keep up the great work

For sideboard cards, I agree that both UWR and RUG are going to have better options for handling Burn. In that case, Grixis Delver just defaults to Dragon’s Claw and tries to get double-duty from its own spells and Burn’s. From a mana base perspective, however, Grixis Delver can run the fastlands to an extent that other decks can’t. We are seeing more decks on MTGO go up to 2-3 of Darkslick Shores/Blackcleave Cliffs, which is not something we saw in UWR or RUG Delver. The RG fastland is obviously unusable because you can’t cast blue cantrips off it, and the UW fastland is problematic because the only non-blue spell it opens up is Path. Shores gives you both your cantrips and your turn 1 IoK play, not to mention giving you access to the turn 2 Tas off a Scour/Fetch.

Then again, in the case of UWR, this would be offset by UWR having the maindecked Helix. So this is more a strike against RUG than it is against UWR.

It’s one of those situations where we have lots of Merfolk data and we have lots of Grixis Delver data, but we don’t have as much data between the two decks. I am fine to report on the matchup of any deck that played at least 4-5 matches against another. A 1-4 record or 5-0 record is very suggestive of a broader trend, even though we would definitely expect some centralization of those results with more datapoints. But we don’t have that with Grixis Delver v. Merfolk, unfortunately.

Potentially. It needs to translate its considerable MTGO success into more paper success, which it isn’t dong right now. If it can snag one T8 of a GP, however, that should open up the floodgates for people to try this deck en-masse. And once they do that, it should get to tier 1 in no time. But the qualifying event is some GP success in the T8s.

I disagree on that one and would argue the converse; Grixis Delver’s manabase does hurt a lot, Burn is the Nemesis of this deck – or a very hard match up at least. Especially W and G have better options here with Timely Reinforcements and Feed the Clan to name but a few.