Pauper Challenge Matchup Data - March to April - Analyzing the Pauper Metagame

[@viniciusline]

This is quickly becoming the best mtgo pauper channel. Thanks for all the work

[@Kirblinxy]

Nice that people like this one. I put way more effort into this than my usual league videos. Nice to see it paying off.

[@matthewmagda4971]

Agreed. It's just the right amount of Spikey.

[@ryanladuke9399]

We need more of this and more of you in general!

[@Kirblinxy]

Nah, you'll get tired of me if I pump out too many videos. I'm thinking maybe monthly for this kind of video, in addition to my weekly leagues. Have some other ideas as well, but I don't think I have the technical prowess to be able to fully realise them.

[@ryanladuke9399]

@@Kirblinxy Monthly seems exactly right for something like this. As far as the ideas, I'm sure plenty here may have the technical knowhow to help make those idea a reality. Take advantage of the community!

[@mborghi13]

Love the pixel artwork! Really tastefully done, kudos to you or whoever you have making pixel art for the vids!

[@Kirblinxy]

It's a premade template from slidesgo. I thought it suited the mood and really like how it turned out. I acknowledged them at the end of the vid.

[@crunchtag]

Appreciate all the analysis & commentary! Your love for the format also shines through on the production quality (and anecdotes about manually handling parts of/reworking the data).

[@Kirblinxy]

I wanted to make it as nice as I could, but since I don't have the editing chops making a nice looking powerpoint seemed the best way. Pauper is great and I just want to see if I can get others to appreciate it as much as I can.

[@EsperVeltmanMusic]

please do more of these!! this is really insightful and helps verify some thoughts i had in the format already! really enjoyed the formating and definitely a must watch for the pauper players who play at 1-2 tournoments weekly

[@Kirblinxy]

Glad you liked it. I'll do another one as there are a lot of comments asking for more. Just deciding on what a good time period will be for a decent sample size.

[@xxcrono]

Quite possibly one of the best pauper videos I have ever watched, and I have been playing for a good while now

[@Kirblinxy]

and to think I was probably going to scrap it as I wasn't happy with it. Thanks for the kind words!

[@tomaszmys139]

An absolute banger of a content

[@marcomontalbano95]

As a sucker for objective data analysis, this video in INSANELY good content! Keep up the immense work, you're amazing.

[@Kirblinxy]

I don't think it's that insane. Thanks for the kind words!

[@v01dv01d]

I love data, I love MtG content. Thank you Kirb for this video ! 🙌 One in a month sounds good, as you said it : meta doesn't change that much. Would be nice too to have for each expansion a short video about the cards you think that will fit in some decks 😅

[@Kirblinxy]

There is a lot of people that already make videos on cards from new sets. I'm not quick enough to get in before them and I'll probably just say the same things. I'll find some other content avenues that others haven't gone down like this one.

[@tr00gaze]

This was great. Informs me on what I can play in my meta. Kirblinxy and Mengu are my favorite pauper content creators rn.

[@Kirblinxy]

Then you must have loved that Cardmarket video that came out yesterday. Mengu was playing my Pestilence deck.

[@tr00gaze]

Love that series they’re doing, gonna watch it! Nice humble flex on Mengu! Haha

[@Gaghiel]

Hi5 awesome meta video. Your outlook to attack current meta decks from a different angle is why I enjoy your content so much; on top of being a really solid player. I also liked your video or two of burning play points, picked up something that wasn't really viable and ran it through a league.

[@Kirblinxy]

No one watched Burning Playpoints though, which is why it semi-retired. I might bring it back after a bit, if I find a deck that is cool but has a hard time winning. I like to think the April Fools video was an honorary Burning Playpoints video.

[@TeasdaleMTG]

Absolutely mega! We need need need need these regularly, be better to highlight a deck "after the big 5" to show their good/bad Matchups! Be great to see and get an understanding 😊

[@Kirblinxy]

That was the idea, but I didn't feel confident that the matchups had enough games played to make any concrete conclusions. I feel with an extra month of data I might have that confidence and will definitely do some matchup analysis on other decks.

[@TeasdaleMTG]

@@Kirblinxy look forward to it! channel is 🔥🔥

[@runthetrap10]

I've only just started watching but I can already tell just how much effort and love you put into this - as part of this niche MTG community, THANK YOU!

[@Kirblinxy]

I put way more effort into the spreadsheets than this video. I almost didn't post it because I feel like it is missing things but better to release it than to redo the PowerPoint for a third time. 😅

[@runthetrap10]

@@Kirblinxy I've already got the sheet download and am playing around with it :)

[@zeta663]

thanks, this is gold

[@emilyhartig9178]

"I don't like playing the meta, I like playing stupid decks" is my favorite. I've sort of casually compiled similar info at my local store since I don't play online. This video and similar are super helpful to see what is being played overall since it's harder to test out a new deck if you can play max 1x a week. I LOVE the top 5 deck nicknames.... The King smh my own personal nemesis.

[@Kirblinxy]

Couldn't really think of a good nickname for Gardens. I notice a lot of people give the deck flack, but it just comes in does it's job against the creature decks and leaves. It does good work for the format. It generally hurts me inside if I register a deck that a lot of other people have for the same tournament. Nice to meet another 'stupid deck' player.

[@matthewmagda4971]

This is exactly what I need in Pauper content!

[@andreaanimobono2660]

Really good work,well done! Hope you'll continue this "format"

[@Kirblinxy]

Thanks! I'll probably make these monthly since people seemed to like it.

[@lamp1003]

This is so excellent. Great info and presentation!

[@Kirblinxy]

*Insert Mr. Burns 'Excellent' gif*. Glad you enjoyed it!

[@MrWonderninja]

I'm doing some of my own minor data analysis (mostly on Pauper 5-0 data) and I am extremely interested in more content like this. Loved it! Thanks for sharing!

[@Kirblinxy]

Nice. Really like how open Daybreak has been with the data since they've taken over. Hope you get good use out of the spreadsheets!

[@sergiosanchezruiz4567]

Thank you very much, kirb. This is awesome. 😊

[@Kirblinxy]

Glad to see people liking it 👍

[@Martian_Manhunter]

I love this. I'd be very happy with a routine video keeping up with this about once a month. I am a data nerd though. Great jobn

[@Kirblinxy]

I think once a month should be a good timeframe. That's pretty much how large this dataset was and I think it was large enough to see some trends.

[@michaelharman9002]

I really love this kind of content. I like how you showed the small sample but then removed them to have a more realistic assessment. These types of videos are great.

[@Kirblinxy]

That was all pproteus. I didn't think of it at the time when I was making the slides, but he was right. I had to keep some of them in though as I didn't know what else to talk about. Just had to add the disclaimer every time so people wouldn't take it as gospel.

[@StrataGames]

Great video! Clean presentation and tons of valuable info

[@Kirblinxy]

Thanks! Tried to make it look as nice as possible since my video editing skills are almost non-existent. Spreadsheets are ugly so had to make it a somewhat viewable experience.

[@PonKan-g]

What a great meta analysis! Hoping for more.

[@Kirblinxy]

The response to this has been great. Thinking maybe monthly, need to get a large enough dataset to be able to find trends.

[@Klapsyderek]

Great video! Thank you! Good job!

[@sebaxxxtian]

great content! keep it up!

[@DonDee123]

Nice 👍

[@neros_soren]

Not really surprising, that both glitter decks show a bad win rate, considering we've been stacking our side boards against dominating decks for a long time now. First it was Azorius Affinity (and Grixis Affinity to an extend), then it became Azorius Glitters, for which most of the former side board still works, and the Boros version is just as vulnerable, if not even more vulnerable to the side board cards. What really surprised me, tho, was the fact, that Ponza is still that big. Also, Delver is gone for good as it seems.

[@Kirblinxy]

I feel like Ponza is another of those 'Gambling' decks. It is pretty easy to play, you just need to hit the right half of your deck and your opponent can't do anything about it. This is why we need to appreciate the red menace, if it wasn't for red, Ponza would be winning a lot more.

[@neros_soren]

@@Kirblinxy I agree, I am always for a diverse meta game, even as a control player. I wouldn't want combo to be the best deck ever, or in this context combo/ponza.

[@myndzi9926]

What's the new goblin? I wish an actual goblins deck would work.

[@Kirblinxy]

Reckless Lackey. I don't know if it will make Goblins any better, but it looks pretty decent in Kuldotha from other peoples testing.

[@matthewmagda4971]

Counting all of the blue decks as separate archetypes makes the meta seem diverse when it's really not. This is a mistake.

[@heathebutler7143]

Imo there is still value to separating the blue decks bc the different interactive cards and threats that supplement the blue cores can have a big impact on how matchups play out. If you want to combine the blue decks for your own personal categorization that's fine?

[@matthewmagda4971]

​@@heathebutler7143It might be fine for strategic purposes but for metagame health and diversity, it's completely worthless.

[@thygamerguy]

Doing gods work 🫡 thank you

[@Kirblinxy]

No probs, thanks for watching 🫡