taking turns | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com Play More, Win More, Pay Less Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:00:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.quietspeculation.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/favicon.png taking turns | Quiet Speculation https://www.quietspeculation.com 32 32 Power Levels: How Tiers Work https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/02/power-levels-how-tiers-work/ https://www.quietspeculation.com/2019/02/power-levels-how-tiers-work/#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2019 17:00:43 +0000 http://quietspeculation.com/?p=19654 Determining a deck's tiering is a fairly simple process: take the decks that place in tournaments, compile them in a spreadsheet, rank them by population, done. This is a fine system, and is the only remotely objective way to determine the tier list. However, it doesn't tell the full story because it can't explain what […]

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