• Evu@mtgzone.com
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    4 months ago

    I’ve been experimenting with building low-weight decks for Standard Brawl. Some observations (which may not necessarily apply to Historic Brawl):

    • As far as the maindeck goes, it looks like the lowest (non-zero) weight is 6 and the highest is 45.
    • I don’t think the card pool is deep enough to build a coherent deck of all sixes, but I’d love for someone to show me I’m wrong.
    • It seems like 0 is the minimum weight for the deck to “validate”. This is an issue because some commanders have negative weights. (No cards have negative weights when they’re in the maindeck.)
      • Honestly, it’s poor planning that exposed this bug; it was entirely foreseeable that sooner or later someone would submit a deck with a negative total weight, if only for laughs.
    • Evolving Wilds has a weight of 9. Terramorphic Expanse has a weight of 0.

    I assume there’s little or no human intervention in assigning weights. More likely they’re determined programmatically by observing the win ratios of decks containing the card.