@@martijnharle8111 Thanks.

@@ameliadesertsong Agreed

@@danielzitnik4247 Thanks. That’s a good point about popularity bias in edhrec. I’m sure I read a data science paper once that talked about those sort of problems in recommendation systems. It may have been called something like “everyone wants a pony”, but I might be misremembering here. I’ll be giving the cube content thing some more thought over the rest of what is left of 2024. I’ve got a bit ahead of myself in the video schedule for this year and have content ready for release for the remainder of the year, including the all important Yuletide ‘lands ahoy’ 21st December video. Getting ahead of myself proved very useful for this year as I was able to keep to my current release schedule and get another project of the ground and hopefully finished by the end of the year. It’s not magic related, but I needed to scratch a creative training material / AI generated / programming code itch without impacting the content on this channel. If it’s something anyone is curious about, it’s currently under development here and I will do a formal hard release video sometime towards the end of 2024, beginning of 2025. programmingpolyglot.wordpress.com Thanks for your usual super helpful comments. Cheers.

Cheers. I’ll have to see if I have any other interesting box sets to talk about. On a related note, I do have a group of these coming up that look at my singles collection from way back.

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Thanks for the suggestion and I will add to the release list. I’ve got rather ahead of myself with filming content, so I could temporarily work on another project before the end of 2024, so it might be a while before this will appear.

@@dougbrown9048 Thanks for pointing out. I found an article on this site regarding Autonomic. absoluteloss.com/features/lost-guide-autonomic Looks like another genre I need to add to my “must check out” list. It’s a very long list. 🙂

@@augustjologs1 I seem to recall seeing a really interesting article several years ago on one of the mtg related sites where the author went through all the old theme decks and ordered them by weakest to strongest. I can’t remember specifically what deck came out on top but I do remember it being some kind of burn deck.

@@theflourishing I saw that article 2 days ago and was surprised to see "The Sparkler" preconstructed deck from Stronghold mentioned as #1 (ranked subjectively from worst to best, not based on deck's power/winning %). The Sparkler was my very first Magic deck/cards bought, in Jan 2000, and it's a Counter-burn deck with just 3 lousy creatures, and counterspells and burn spells (reusable with buyback). I consider that as probably my weakest precon deck, though could be argued as one of the more 'interesting' decks because of its strategy and card composition.

@@augustjologs1 I should revisit counter-burn as part of the This Olde Deck series. Yes, that sounds like the article I remembered. I also have a vague memory of another I read, around the same time, where someone had systematically played various decks against one another. But again it’s a distant memory that I can’t remember how many of the decks were done and what the system was for pairing up the decks, the elimination process, and then the pairings for moving on to the next ‘round’.

@@Baibakov88 Yes, and feel free to suggest any others that you might think of over time.

@@peterhebden1557 You are welcome. That wizard image doesn’t come from the web it’s one of my thumbnail “idents” built from several steps🙂.

@@Zjivarra Cool idea. Oh yes Winston drafts - mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Winston_Draft

@@lazyrobot7797 😀

@@davidl.4297 Such an icon. Awesome album art - www.gracejones.com/music

@@samchinedum9076 Thank you my friend 🙂 it’s a great course. Be well.

@@Baibakov88 There’s an idea.

@@jlebaron3 interesting you should ask as I’m trying to make it a regular thing again. So, there is a programming book one scheduled for Oct 21st, a CD box sets related one for Nov 4th and another guitar related book one for the 22nd Nov.

Definitely need to take a look at those in some future episode. 🙂

i got a binder with only foil non-basiks from the premodern era. its glorious. also its hard to get these non rares in good nm.

@@oldbordergeek Nice

Interesting, thanks for clarifying those. I now remember reading about the dross in a Mirrodin novel.

There was that moment when I was filming where it suddenly popped. 🙂

@@MrGenyaAvacado It is the way.

@@Suudsu2200 Awesome 🤩

@@ameliadesertsong Thanks. I’m so fascinated in the history of programming languages and how so much of it has played out in my lifetime. There’s an upcoming My Life In Objects about a book I recently purchased called Programming Language Explorations.

@@ameliadesertsong Yes, that’s definitely an idea I should give some thought. Excellent, I love those first six Black Sabbath albums. Although, without checking through my collection, I think I have every Sabbath album on CD excluding 13. 😀

@@Suudsu2200 😀

@@danielzitnik4247 Thanks. This year-to-year slice is definitely something I will be revisiting, with a few tweaks, for certain tags that capture a larger number of cards.

@@googleuser7454 For quite a while I think I assumed it was from sometime in the 2000s

@@tobikk3829 Thanks that’s it, Nahiri, the moment I saw it I had images in my head of a couple cards featuring that character but just could not remember the names. Now I know that Nahiri, the Lithomancer was the commander precon one (c14). The other was Stoneforge Mystic from Worldwake. I found an interesting article about when Stoneforge and Jace were banned in Standard in 2011. blog.cardkingdom.com/this-day-in-magic-history-jace-the-mind-sculptor-and-stoneforge-mystic-are-banned-june-20th-2011/

​@@theflourishing Yeah, good old times. I managed to purchase a stoneforge mystic several years later (once they became cheaper). She was a good addition to my edh deck. Never played jace though

@@danielzitnik4247 Thanks. Amusing thought, and it does make me wonder what version of a card I have the most copies of (excluding basic lands). Now you got me thinking as I could do 15 versions of a same token, and then when I get to the zoomed in part, if they were full art tokens I would not have to zoom in but just do them all again. 🧐

@@Captain_Valentine Yes, that’s true. The effect on the card is not considered a draw effect so you would not loose to drawing on an empty library at that point.

@@Baibakov88 Thanks, I will take a look.

@@ameliadesertsong What’s the earliest song related memory you have?

@@theflourishingprobably John Denver, actually. My dad was a huge fan of him. A lot of this stuff that came out in 91 I didn’t hear til much later. I grew up mostly around country and some 80s stuff like Billy Joel. But it wasn’t until the late 90s that my musical palette opened up, most certainly for the better!

@@ameliadesertsong I keep meaning to listen to more Paramore.

@@ameliadesertsong Excellent, glad you enjoyed it. I think what attracts me to some of these decks is that are just so different from the mainly creature based decks that I initially saw around Tenth Edition, and they use strategies and synergies that you just don’t see much now except if you play some of the original eternal formats. I will try and focus on what is I think referred to as the ‘Golden Age’ of magic, which I believe covers everything up to and including Urza’s block.

@@mistercimba Thank you for taking time to comment and the kind words. I hope you also enjoy some of the other content on the channel.

@@leons.5575 I’ll see what I can do.

@@danielzitnik4247 lots of interesting stuff kicking around in older sets.

@@ameliadesertsong Thank you. I find it really helps me to think about the impact that music has on my life in terms of it pushing me in certain directions, the significance of the lived experience at that time, and proving general catharsis.

@@danielzitnik4247 Thanks, I’ve got some interesting stuff search-wise planned. There’s an iconic card right there 😀

@@danielzitnik4247 At some point I might do a deep dive into mana rocks. mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Mana_stone There has certainly been interesting variations over the years at various power levels, so it could take several videos 😀. Cheers.

@@danielzitnik4247 I just get so nostalgic about this whole block. 😀

@@veralnox457 I wonder how many more packs than usual were opened for a second set of a block as a result of this card being in the set.

@@freddieforever4516 I also have an app on my iPad called the Guitar Toolkit which can do similar things although not as cool as this musical slide-rule 😀

@@danielbrenner9589 Thank you. One can only hope.