MTGTop8.com Deck Lists - 31325 decks, 6111 AI playable

by **Agetian** » 22 Feb 2015, 17:59

I took some time to convert the deck lists from http://www.mtgtop8.com and test them for AI playability in Forge. You can see the result in the following uploads. Hopefully you find this pack helpful and useful! All decks belong to their respective authors, I created none of them.

Last Updated: February 22, 2015

NOTE: The packs below have deck lists grouped by format. However, if a deck is listed as "Standard", it does NOT mean that it necessarily corresponds to Standard as it is at the moment, it means that it corresponded to Standard at the moment of its creation (whenever that was). The same holds true for other formats.

NOTE 2: All deck file names have non-ASCII characters in them replaced with @ and -, so expect these symbols in some of the European player names and also some deck names, too.

NOTE 3: All the decks below (except unsupported, of course) were tested and confirmed to be 100% loadable in Forge (SVN r28891 was used for testing). Note, however, that all the decks were converted using an automated process, so some of them may theoretically be e.g. classified into the wrong format (hopefully cases like that are rare/non-existent though).

NOTE 4: All decks have their unique MTGTop8 deck ID in their names so that you can trace them to the original Magic Workstation mwDeck file on the source site.

The "All Supported Decks" pack contains all decks from MTGTop8.com that can be loaded into Forge (no matter whether they are playable by the AI opponent or not), which includes:
31325 decks in total, among them:
1866 Block constructed decks.
749 Commander decks.
1601 Extended decks.
5532 Legacy decks.
6979 Modern decks.
13484 Standard decks.
1114 Vintage decks.

The "AI Playable Decks" pack contains all decks from MTGTop8.com that have only AI-playable cards in the main deck (note that the sideboard may still contain some AI-unplayable cards in these decks, which can trigger a warning message - it can be safely ignored). Please note that the fact that these decks are AI-playable does *not* mean that the AI will play with all of them smartly and sensibly. Some of the more advanced decks that require precise strategic considerations or timing will not be expertly utilized by the AI (however, most aggro and aggro-control decks are utilized quite well, and some control/combo decks can also be played by the AI relatively well). This pack includes:
6111 decks in total, among them:
960 Block constructed decks.
0 Commander decks.
141 Extended decks.
108 Legacy decks.
581 Modern decks.
4321 Standard decks.
0 Vintage decks.

NOTE: the analysis of decks for AI playability shows that the AI is the worst at playing tournament quality Commander and Vintage decks (it can't play any, and the number of AI-unsupported cards in them is relatively high), and the AI is not very good at Legacy either, being able to handle mostly the deck lists that are either Burn, Red Deck Wins, or Goblins (save for very few other exceptions).

The "Unsupported Decks" pack contains all decks from MTGTop8.com (201 at the moment) that contain one or more cards NOT CURRENTLY SUPPORTED by Forge (the unsupported cards are commented out with "//", so you can take a look and edit the deck if necessary). These decks will show up as incomplete until Forge is able to support the remaining cards in question or until you edit the deck and replace the unsupported cards with something else.

Cards that are currently unsupported by Forge but that are needed by some of the decks in the Unsupported pack are:

Code: Select all: Razia, Boros Archangel Illusionary Mask Word of Command Volrath's Shapeshifter Shining Shoal Harm's Way Refraction Trap Karador, Ghost Chieftain Divine Deflection Butcher Orgg Deal Broker Shahrazad

Enjoy!

- Agetian

by **VladVoivode** » 24 Feb 2015, 10:15

What a motherlode of great decks!! Thanks Agetian for your hard work :supz:

by **Agetian** » 24 Feb 2015, 18:21

Thanks for the kind words! Glad you are enjoying the pack!

- Agetian