SOI Standard Poor-Man Challenge: Pairings and Stats
Deck Challenges
zandl
12 April 2016
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12 April 2016
2897 views
Let’s get it on!
First and foremost, I’d like to personally thank each and every person who submitted a deck to my challenge. I accepted an incredible 110 unique decks for the challenge! This overwhelming sense of support for community activities is what makes TappedOut an outstandingly friendly and helpful place to discuss our beloved hobby. It’s very exciting to see this many people interested in such a narrow, on-the-fly format and I’m anticipating an even larger turnout in October. Before we can look to the next challenge, however, we still have this one to power through!
Let’s break it down!
Each time I hold a challenge, I like to first look at some of the statistics and numbers of what we’re dealing with so we can glean some information on how people chose their decks. All of the following information was taken from SOI Standard Poor-Man Challenge Card Pool which shows all of the cards you opted to play as a collective.
Check it, foo:By counting color sources on lands, we get the following percentages of colors:
- 110 decks were accepted.
- 6600 separate cards comprised those decks.
- The 2 most popular Multicolored cards are Stormchaser Mage at 54 and Drana's Emissary at 29.
- The 2 most popular White cards are Stasis Snare at 34 and Silkwrap at 31.
- The 2 most popular Blue cards are Anticipate at 58 and Elusive Spellfist at 43.
- The 2 most popular Black cards are Heir of Falkenrath Flip at 68 and both Alms of the Vein and Zulaport Cutthroat each at 52.
- The 2 most popular Red cards are Fiery Temper at 86 and Titan's Strength at 78.
- The 2 most popular Green cards are Vessel of Nascency at 18 and Duskwatch Recruiter Flip at 17.
- The 2 most popular Colorless spells are Neglected Heirloom Flip at 17 and Bane of Bala Ged at 11.
Our card-type percentages are:
- White: 15.7%
- Blue: 20.1%
- Black: 24.9%
- Red: 25.6%
- Green: 10.2%
- .97% for lonely artifacts.
- 7.14% for enchantments.
- 9.59% for sorcery spells.
- 15.11% for instant spells.
- 29.61% for creatures.
- 37.59% for lands.
Clearly, Black and Red have it out for the other colors in the challenge. Will the apparent Madness Aggro threat burn and smash through the field, or will a different, more subtle brew contain it? Perhaps a U/G Clue-based strategy, a U/R Prowess build, or even a White control list? We’ll have to see how the decks play out and evaluate the trends that appear. That leads me to:
Tournament Structure
As I specified in the introduction article, rounds will be conducted as a best-two-of-three game format with single-elimination. If you lose a round, you’re out! I’ll provide game commentary for each matchup and go a bit into what I think was the downfall of the losing deck for constructive feedback purposes. Because the number of participants is not a power of 2, a bye will be awarded to one deck at random at the onset of the second round (a deck won’t be given a bye twice). Rounds will wind up looking like this:
110 decks > 55 decks > 28 decks > 14 decks > 7 decks.
Upon reaching the fifth and final round and being narrowed down to just remaining decks, the challenge will at that point switch to a Round-Robin style bracket in which each deck plays each other deck to determine a winner. Whichever deck has the most wins at the conclusion of the round will be declared the winner of the challenge and its creator will be crowned "SOI Standard Poor-Man Challenge Champion"!
Having not met the requisite 128 decks to support the previously decided-upon prize pool, I’m slightly ammending the prize structure to:
- 1st: 6 Feature Tokens
- 2nd: 5 Feature Tokens
- 3rd-4th: 4 Feature Tokens
- 5th-7th: 3 Feature Tokens
- 8th-14th: 2 Feature Tokens
- 15th-28th: 1 Feature Tokens
I’m assuming that there won’t be any complaints in this department. If your deck wins twice, you are guaranteed a minimum of 1 Feature Token. Top 7 prize placement will be based on game-win percentage during the Round Robin bracket. All Feature Tokens will be dished out at the conclusion of the challenge.
First Round Information
The results of 110 decks (that’s 55 matches) would be waaay too big of an undertaking for one article and it would take me a monumental amount of time to get the next article out. Seeing as large as it would be, I’m going to split up the first round into 2 separate articles so you don’t have to sit around and wait so long to see any results. See below for which pairings will be in which article.
Round One Pairings
First article’s matches:
Gearhead93 vs. robo12385Seavywolf vs. tooTimid
professorducky vs. mj3913
JerichoDarkstar vs. fastjaguar3
amerishin vs. Grotski
Grantley91 vs. Volvary
Guissauro vs. Holtzman
123456789101112131415161718 vs. SwaggyMcSwagglepants
argeaux vs. Alfesio
tempest vs. Quarion65
ThoughtShift vs. Jantun
Blueberrypop vs. kovarion
fluffyisgod vs. Boza
aramlet vs. Aelifre
jparker-sartori21 vs. JKLawson89
Freeble vs. ancientgorillashaman
CaptainLick vs. zephramtripp
Slush vs. Ostrichman01
DominusMine vs. JuiceyMoon
Atony1400 vs. Nobueno95
AndWelcomeToTheJam vs. TristanTaylorsVoice
greasysweet vs. Titilanious
Kizmetto vs. Bearded_Senpai
pro_noob vs. DarkLaw
ChrisH vs. Dalektable
eggyism83 vs. libraryjoy
jacobpetersen23 vs. Nick1996
DillsDells vs. WarriorOfTheBlack
Second article’s matches:
icedkeverage vs. PoppaHyzer
ShikaSpectre vs. TimeliestStorm
Wee_Dragonaut vs. fdn2
Nightdragon779 vs. brokendwarf
jcofer vs. TheGrayMerchant
pokemaster325 vs. Saturn999
jellowsmurf vs. clayperce
mtgThaen vs. Tsarius
beakedbard vs. Schlatre
taskking vs. CRKFIEND
Oshi_with_an_O vs. Honeysliced
Nickick vs. DarksteelBadger
furyofstorm101RL vs. MCY998
DruneGrey vs. KUW
MaverickGV vs. SpringingTiger
tpmains vs. Nuclearrich
nateblego vs. Garrus_Vakarian
Ninjadude51 vs. canterlotguardian
PhnxLdr vs. M010601
mr_jacobo02 vs. sophontteks
magnetcrocodile vs. Dumeeperninja
Helldiver18 vs. xcn
legendofa vs. Crayfish
eludemerlange vs. DaftVader
TheDeckBuilder_mage vs. JonnyIV
tulse vs. ToolmasterOfBrainerd
Mr.Dr.Professor vs. Mortem
The games have begun! Look for another article toward the end of this week containing the first bunch of results. I’m not entirely sure how long it’ll take me, but I will need some time to get through these first big rounds. I’ll keep working through it, though, so take a look and see what the newest article is each time you come to TappedOut and you may be pleasantly surprised!
As always, happy tapping, players!
zandlApril 12, 2016 10:28 p.m.
Dalektable says... #3
Alright ChrisH, best of luck to ya! Excited to see this next article, and all in this series.
April 12, 2016 11:01 p.m.
SpringingTiger says... #4
Thanks for running this tournament for us zandl! Good luck to everyone!
April 12, 2016 11:05 p.m.
Flyers; ugh! The one thing I didn't think of! My deck is going to have lots of trouble without removal for them, Damn those 2 main board Roasts!
April 12, 2016 11:08 p.m.
iBleedPunk says... #6
Its okay Atony1400 I just realized I forgot the playset of Grasp of Darkness I thought I had put in fml
April 12, 2016 11:16 p.m.
miracleHat says... #7
Hmm... very interesting. I am surprised that so few people went the derilium route using Hollowhenge Scavenger. 2 mana for a 3/4 that can easily block the 4/3 hasty vamp creature seemed pretty good...
April 13, 2016 1:55 a.m. Edited.
miracleHat says... #9
Potato Tomato. Moldgraf Scavenger + Incorrigible Youths
April 13, 2016 2:03 a.m. Edited.
Grantley91 Let the games begin. Good luck to everyone.
April 13, 2016 12:03 p.m.
I thought about going red/black... We'll see how it goes. Best of luck to all!
And Crayfish, I'm ready!
April 13, 2016 12:25 p.m.
Slightly offputting to see that my deck consists of the two least played colours... At least I'm adding to the variety I guess.
Best of luck to EludeMerlange for round 1.
April 13, 2016 12:26 p.m.
I am not comforted by the fact that the first deck I face is elves, which are just non-interactive enough for my deck to likely not be able to deal with.
April 13, 2016 12:47 p.m.
Grantley91 says... #16
Indeed Volvary, best of luck and may the gods of drawing not mana-screw either of us so the contest remains fair. ;)
April 13, 2016 1:28 p.m.
Wee_Dragonaut says... #18
I am confident with my deck, but am nervous about the game...
April 13, 2016 5:10 p.m.
DaftVader I am your father, nonetheless gl to you as well
April 13, 2016 8:58 p.m.
Oof, right into the RB aggro matchup with my weird combo strategy. Fingers crossed!
April 14, 2016 2:50 p.m.
It might be a bit awkward for zandl to post all the decks, but if you're just after your matchup, you can find it by just clicking on your opponents name. Does take a while to look through a variety of decks though.
April 14, 2016 3:58 p.m.
DaftVader I have found a link with the entries, but I wanted to see all of the decks... Anyways thanks for replying xD
April 14, 2016 4 p.m.
To note, I'll be linking to each deck as they come up in the results articles. You'll be able to view them at the same time you're reading what happened. :)
April 15, 2016 2:33 a.m.
Wow.
I'm nervous about my pairing seeing that I'm basically playing a Control deck.
April 15, 2016 2:39 a.m.
JerichoDarkstar says... #26
Best of luck, fastjaguar3! It's Blue-Red vs Blue-Red! Aggro vs. Mill! Can't wait to see how it turns out.
And, thanks zandl for all the hard work you've put into this. Looks great!
April 15, 2016 7:46 a.m.
McSleuthburger says... #28
Good Luck everyone, cant wait to see the articles
April 15, 2016 4:54 p.m.
@Grotski At least your deck seems consistent. My aggro deck suffers from "if i stumble, i lose" and I have no answers for your win-con in tutelage so we have a weird sort of race... your life total versus my library it seems like a 20-60 but you have interaction and the ability to manipulate my board and stay on defense, everything is up in the air. Without boarding, I'm actually going to assume you have a leg up as the "control deck". Best of Luck to you and to all the participants!
April 15, 2016 8:48 p.m.
Here's to hoping my 'mountains of removal' strategy keeps running into creature decks...
April 15, 2016 9:24 p.m.
I've been playing a few rounds against a few different decks around the contest and feel pretty good about my deck. I managed to have a balance of both aggro and value to push through those games I don't punch in a lot of early damage. It only had trouble with one other deck and it split the games with whoever started first won.
April 16, 2016 4:31 p.m.
This has been taking me significantly longer than I recall from previous challenges. Fear not, though; progress is being made. I don't want to give a date, but know that I'm actively working on it.
April 18, 2016 7:07 p.m.
All things considered, 54 matches is a ton of work. I have to play out the matches, provide descriptions for every game, hunt down each player's deck's slug-name, and format this all together into a massive wall of HTML, all the while proofreading my work (because that's what good writes do :P) and making sure the HTML is exactly where it should be.
I think hope you'll all appreciate the updated look of the write-ups, though, especially if you've been a fan of them from past challenges.
April 18, 2016 7:15 p.m.
This is the first challenge I've joined in, but the amount of work you're putting in to this is amazing, thank you.
April 18, 2016 8:08 p.m.
Nightdragon779 says... #36
Cool, i'll be eagerly awaiting results! Hey zandl, next time you set up this challenge, i know it will take a bit more time, but could you put the archetypes and deck colors under the names of the people on the pairings page? Thx
April 19, 2016 8:28 p.m.
Not being pushy, just hoping for a status update after a week. :) Glad to think that you're number of games drops by half next round WOOOO!
Thanks for doing this, the anticipation is killing me!
April 25, 2016 4:06 a.m.
Working on it right now, actually. Nearing completion. New article lands later today.
April 25, 2016 4:07 a.m.
So glad to hear it's nearly ready. With such a huge pool, you must have been doing a lot of playing zandl. Huge thanks for all the effort you've put into this!
April 25, 2016 12:25 p.m.
Round 1, Part 1 results are up! Had some issues with formatting that delayed me, but it's finally here.
iBleedPunk says... #1
Best of luck saturn999
April 12, 2016 10:17 p.m.