The Proffessors: Episode 64: Conflux Redux

Hello everybody and welcome back to yet another episode of Planeswalking with the Proffessors. Weve got some good and some bad news for ya guys this week. Good news is that we were able to reach Philly and I played my way to a 4 and o record, claiming 12 packs, one of which included a Scarland Thrinax, and get some great interviews from there. However, bad news is that, being sick I was never able to reach the prerelease in Edison or Jiffys, and while friends of mine did they had no chance to retrieve the camera in order to film the sites and the sounds of that prerelease. So this week well be takin a look at all whom I spoke with at the prerelease and some awesome new options for Conflux. What no satirical jokes this weekwellummlets draw!

***My apologies for the show length. I was sick Monday and Tuesday (with a 104 fever) and couldn't work on the show, had my computer crash on Wednesday and had to practically start the show over, and had 6 hrs of homework on Thursday :(.

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[Wedgehead123]

luck is more relevant than you say in sealed. it's probably 60% luck, 40% skill.

[proffessors]

In sealed I'd estimate it's about 25% luck 50% skill 25% deck choice. Me and some friends have been trying to break down the numbers and solve how much luck an average game of magic really is. For standard, we're pretty close to proving it's 0%. The reason we can show this, is luck only comes into play once every turn beyond first draws and only 1.0x10(to the -200) are actually luck based compared to plays in a game that are skilled based. Therefore, because that number is irrational it can be..

[proffessors]

...truncated (or rounded, in this case truncated), and is truncated to be 0.000...(basically infinite) 1, which is equal to 0. I'll reveal the number crackdowns to you guys on a show sometime (but it'll take some time to resolve this and make sure it's right). But anyway, sealed, yeah it's a bit of luck.

[DopeJedi]

Magister Sphinx is not +10 life, it brings the life total to 10.

[atbestvague]

No cameras, eh? Sick, eh? Might it be possible this is a mere fan-fic? One too many cups of coffee, a pen, and a stack of Denny's napkins? JK I understand everyone slips here and there... but seriously, everything you said about that sphinx was garbage. Even if those unusual circumstances had occured, it would be a failure on your part to not recognize this is coincidence.

[atbestvague]

Are you claiming that these two situations were the norm when playing the sphinx?

Your opponents frequently gain you life? Or frequently cost themselves life?

These are not impossibilities, but they're rare occurences... especially considering there is no Swords to Plowshares in this format.

I also find it funny you used the word "usually" to describe a trend of occurence over... two instances. With only two instances,0/2 is never, 1/2 is sometimes, 2/2 is always

[atbestvague]

1:49 you say Magister Sphinx usually brought your opponent's life total up, or yours down.

Were you really tired, stoned, or drunk when you thought that up?

The only two ways it WOULD be detrimental are:

1)target your opponent with 10+ life, but in response, they did something which lowered their OWN life total.

2)target yourself with 10+ life, but in response, your opponent did something to GAIN you life.

[WhosTurnIsIt]

Why is everyone relying on rares? It gets really annoying sometimes. I mean, yeah, most rares win the wars but most of the time it's really the common and uncommon.

I do remember though, winning a few rounds b/c of Gather Specimens. But I really do think it's luck in seal. I mean, Shards pre I pulled 3 Wooly Thoctars; it was almost as if I had opened up a precon b/c I had a naya deck already built for me. Samething happend @ Conflux, 3 Esper comerant, 2 Tower Gargoyle,& Etherworn Adjudicator

[proffessors]

If you're considering deck choice where cards are equal (and arguably a different deck would have been the same) then yeah, I would agree that's about true.

[arcticshard]

and i beat him 5 games in a row with a deck whose greatest card was a single path to exile, a Godsire, Broodmate Dragon and a lot of bounce/little creatures. The difference is that he played a 70 card deck and i played a 40. I would easily have been crushed had he built a viable deck with that pool. And as far as "my pool was terrible", every pool can be made into a good sealed deck in that format..if you can't then you are not a good sealed player...and that classifies as skill.

[arcticshard]

i would argue that it's probably 70 skill and 30 luck or even more geared toward skill. The luck does come into play when it comes to getting bombs (or at least how many) in a given pool. But you have to build a deck after that and properly add mana. Not everyone is equally skilled at doing this and that doesn't even count misplays. I played against a person at the prerelease who had an Apoc. Hydra, Skullmuncher, Malfegor, Soul's Majesty, Feral Hydra and another ridiculous bomb rare in color...

[morphiendo]

won* sigh lol

[morphiendo]

lol i just one a sealed torny...pulled some crazy naya oriented things....cliftrunner beh, ajani, goblin razrunners, battlegrace ange and knight cap of eos.....

razerunners won my the torny, great for limited