Daily Deck Lists

[gos]

Hi Gos! Thanks again for keeping everything updated.

Monday's deck (Walker MacMurdo's Grand Prix Auckland Winner - Nov 5th) looked Forgeable to me, and out of curiosity I double-checked. It looks like all the cards are supported. I did find, however, that the text file for Craterhoof Behemoth is misnamed in cardsfolder.zip. I'm not sure if this is an issue for how your tools check decklists against supported cards, as I've seen the behemoth in other decks you've provided. I just thought I'd mention it, and if there's another reason why this deck isn't Forgeable I'm curious to find out.

You are absolutely correct about MacMurdo's deck. It was in thursday's Top Decks column, and I posted it in that category.

[Diogenes]

I forgot that they cover the same decks in different articles sometimes. I'll keep it in mind, sorry for bugging you.

Out of curiosity, do you sort which decks go where roughly chronologically (seeing as you compile the daily list weekly,) or is a deck considered to have "graduated" from other articles if it makes it into Top Decks?

[gos]

I forgot that they cover the same decks in different articles sometimes. I'll keep it in mind, sorry for bugging you.

Out of curiosity, do you sort which decks go where roughly chronologically (seeing as you compile the daily list weekly,) or is a deck considered to have "graduated" from other articles if it makes it into Top Decks?

I generally put decks where they first appear in an column on wizards.com, with the exception of the Daily Deck Lists - if a deck appears in a "proper" column, I'll put it there and remove it from the DDL category.

[Diogenes]

Cool. Thanks Gos.

edit: And I just noticed that you described your method in your first post.

I've actually been going through the daily deck list archives; I take years-long breaks from paper Magic from time to time (Forge is what got me interested again,) and it's cool that there's a resource to catch up with how the various formats have changed over the last few years. I'd actually like it if you included the duplicate lists in the dailydecks archive, since I can follow along in Forge on a second monitor and try stuff out (it's not immediately clear what's missing because it's unforgeable or because it's somewhere else, and if the filenames are the same even if someone wanted to merge all your archives they wouldn't get duplicate entries unless two decks had the same mainboard.) Then again, datestamps before deck names would totally fit my groove, but I'm probably the only one who'd like that. ^_^

Anyway, it's just a thought. No complaints from me: without your decklists, I probably wouldn't be back into the game at all. I try to say thanks to you (and the devs and users here) a bunch, not just for courtesy - I really do appreciate it!

[gos]

I'd actually like it if you included the duplicate lists in the dailydecks archive, since I can follow along in Forge on a second monitor and try stuff out (it's not immediately clear what's missing because it's unforgeable or because it's somewhere else, and if the filenames are the same even if someone wanted to merge all your archives they wouldn't get duplicate entries unless two decks had the same mainboard.)

I only associate each deck with one category (in the database I use), and delete identical decks, even though they may have been played by different people at different occasions. Reconstructing all past daily decks that I've moved or deleted would be a huge amount of work - I doubt it's ever going to happen.

Then again, datestamps before deck names would totally fit my groove, but I'm probably the only one who'd like that. ^_^

It would be nice to be able to add more information to the decks, like date and format, and have a way of using that information in-game, e.g. choosing to play Kamigawa-era block constructed decks against each other. This makes lot of sense in the current UI - you could have the option of playing or playing against a random deck from a chosen format/time period or a deck randomly constructed from a chosen format/time period's card pool.

Anyway, it's just a thought. No complaints from me: without your decklists, I probably wouldn't be back into the game at all. I try to say thanks to you (and the devs and users here) a bunch, not just for courtesy - I really do appreciate it!

Thank you as well, that's very gratifying to hear.

[gos]

3 of this week's Daily Deck Lists are forgeable:

16.11.2012: MTGDanceBattle's WB Tokens
14.11.2012: Matthew Long's Junk Tokens
13.11.2012: Josh Hendricks's RUG Soulbond

[gos]

18 daily decks are made forgeable by the new version of forge, 1.3.1:

12.10.2012: Caleb Durward's Tezzeret Control
4.9.2012: Donald Campbell's Green-White Wolf Run
11.7.2012: Llowle's Venser Control
6.7.2012: Phillip Johnson's Mono Black Control
13.3.2012: David Palmer's White-Black-Green Planeswalkers
29.6.2011: kaOz.Zeh's Tezzeret Control
15.6.2011: Jan Van Nieuwenhove's Mono-White Control
23.5.2011: Frank Lepore's Mono-Black Control
20.4.2011: Bryce Kaff's White Weenie
11.4.2011: Paul McCabe's Necro Control
18.3.2011: Daniel Vigil's White-Blue Kithkin
6.7.2010: Jon Finkel's Invitational Vintage
13.10.2009: John Treviranus's Crypt Control
28.7.2009: Jamie Mackintosh's Elves
1.4.2009: Fabian Rockwell - Turbo Ogre Control
12.3.2009: Andrew Wagner's White Weenie
8.12.2008: MrCriticalError's White-Red Aggro
27.10.2008: sandydogmtg - White Weenie

[gos]

3 of this week's Daily Deck Lists are forgeable:

21.11.2012: Blake McCracken's BUG Aggro
20.11.2012: Jun.I's Naya Midrange
19.11.2012: Jon Bolding - Rakdos

Today and yesterday's daily decks are reruns of last week's entries.

[gos]

3 of this week's Daily Deck Lists are forgeable:

30.11.2012: Martin Goldman-Kirs's Aluren
29.11.2012: Eric Field's Golgari Midrange
27.11.2012: Shawn Riggin's Mono-Black Pox

Monday's deck was Tyler Lytle's winning deck from Grand Prix San Antonio. Wednesday's deck was Martin Juza's winning deck from Grand Prix Bochum. Both are forgeable, and were posted in this week's Top Decks.

[gos]

5 daily decks are made forgeable by the new version of forge, 1.3.2:

11.9.2009: sMann2.0's Goblins
17.7.2009: SlashRus's Pauper Rats
6.7.2009: JustMeBaby's Blue-Black Pauper
11.2.2009: SlashRus's Mono-Black
26.11.2008: John Thorson's Twenty Knights

[gos]

1 of this week's Daily Deck Lists is forgeable:

5.12.2012: Ali Aintrazi's 5C Control

[gos]

2 of this week's Daily Deck Lists are forgeable:

12.12.2012: Cjlack92's Combo Tokens
11.12.2012: Lukas Carlson's Golgari Aggro

The other 3 were all featured in this week's Top Decks. (They are forgeable.)

[gos]

7 daily decks are made forgeable by the new version of forge, 1.3.3:

14.9.2011: Michael Morrissey's Dredge
6.6.2011: Alloran's The Outfit
24.3.2011: Jeremiah Edwards's Glint Hawk
18.2.2011: Frank Karsten's Mono-White Quest
15.11.2010: Kostas Daniilidis's Mirran Quest
20.10.2010: Chet Norton's Quest White Weenie
27.2.2009: Ajnar25's Mono-Green

[gos]

2 of this week's Daily Deck Lists are forgeable:

21.12.2012: Mazza's Infect
17.12.2012: drVendigo - Raka Flash

[gos]

13 daily decks are made forgeable by the new version of forge, 1.3.4:

6.11.2012: Michael Bernat's High Tide
31.8.2012: Michael Svien's Show and Know
7.8.2012: Timo Schünemann's Ad Nauseam Tendrils
21.2.2011: Christian Calcano's Blue-Black Vampires
29.10.2010: Ryan Durand's Blue-Red-Green Shaman
28.9.2010: Mons Johnson's Grand Architect
14.7.2010: Ken Nagle's Merfolk
22.6.2010: Jonathan Mark Te - Blue/Green Tokens
29.3.2010: Ray Daniel's Blue-Red Dragons
16.3.2010: Alex Fann's White-Blue Allies
29.7.2009: sfenixw's Goblins
8.5.2009: rukcus's One-Land Belcher
18.12.2008: Gaudenis Vidugiris's Baron Harkonnen