Comments on: Comparing Format Support: Premier Modern Events in 2017

By: Zach Stackhouse

Zach Stackhouse — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 15:07:15 +0000

WOTC has announced the return of Nationals as a standard event, the end of team unified modern in the World Cup, and the end of GPTs at the local store level. The latter especially seems like a damaging move for modern’s growth at the grass roots of the game’s playerbase. Unless WOTC introduces a modern championship event with its own qualifiers, just how many people will have large-scale modern events to attend? I am fortunate enough to have large stores and multiple modern events on a weekly basis, but it is a bit of a concern to see that it can’t lead to a GPT or PPTQ in modern for a random saturday.

By: Darcy Hartwick

Darcy Hartwick — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 13:34:30 +0000

Good stuff trevor – im not sure how to boil this down to one number and wish that had been the takeaway. “Wizards doesnt hate modern” is an okay conclusion, but something like “roughly 20% of major event activity is modern – 40% is standard, 35% is limited, 5% is other” is a lot easier to digest. I think thats roughly where we end up, but im paraphrasing the numbers I see above (and rounding generously). Being one third of the big formats and getting 20% of the activity isnt a terrible spot to be in given we know its the other two that sell the most product

By: Jason Schousboe

Jason Schousboe — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 18:42:33 +0000

In reply to RJ Sims. That makes sense. We'll keep that in mind next time.

By: RJ Sims

RJ Sims — Sun, 15 Jan 2017 03:35:16 +0000

Your line graph comparing format representation over the years was hard to make sense of because of the choice of similar blues. Had they been red, blue, green, and yellow for example it would have been easier to analyze. Thanks for taking the time to crunch the numbers tho.