A Deep Dive on Disruption Density in Cube
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Radio PublicAfter teasing it on their Centennial Retrospective, Andy and Anthony are revisiting the topic of one of their notable past episodes, number 31: Bread and Butter Breakdown. With some small revisions to his categorization system, Andy tallies up the density of disruptive cards in the current iteration of his Bun Magic Cube and compares them to the numbers from January of last year, with some surprising results. What starts as a nuts-and-bolts discussion of how the density and quality of disruption affects an environment turns into a reflection on how much Andy’s cube has changed in just 17 months and how much our biases about cards influences our assessment of their power level.
Disruptive Card Counts from the Bun Magic Cube (Spoiler Alert!):
January 2021 | June 2022 | Delta | |
|---|---|---|---|
Hard Removal | 36 (10%) | 19 (~5%) | -17 (~4%) |
Conditional Removal | ? | 55 (~15%) | ? |
Soft Removal | ? | 11 (~3%) | ? |
Total “Non-Hard” Removal | 80 (~22%) | 66 (~18%) | -14 (~4%) |
Hand Interaction | 10 (~3%) | 10 (~3%) | 0 |
Stack Interaction | 21 (~6%) | 18 (5%) | -3 (<1%) |
Non-Creature Removal | ? | 4 (~1%) | ? |
Graveyard Interaction | ? | 6 (~2%) | ? |
Toughness and Mana Value Distribution of Creatures from the Bun Magic Cube (Spoiler Alert!):
Toughness | Mana Value | |
|---|---|---|
0 | N/A | 3 (~2%) |
1 | 57 (~45%) | 44 (~35%) |
2 | 40 (~31%) | 49 (~38%) |
3 | 10 (~8%) | 24 (~19%) |
4 | 6 (~5%) | 4 (~3%) |
>4 | 6 (~5%) | 4 (~3%) |
Variable | 8 (~6%) | N/A |
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