Animazing

Heya,

A few months ago I posted the seat-order numbers from ~480k tracked Commander games. In 4-player pods: seat 1 wins 29.2%, seat 4 wins 21.5%, fair share is 25%. A 7.7 point gap that gets wider in long games, not smaller.

A lot of the discussion was about possible solutions. We picked one and we are testing it on Playgroup right now.

The goal Reduce the win percentage gap between seat 1 and seat 4.

The rule we're testing

The player who goes first does not draw on their first turn. The player who goes last draws twice on their first turn. Seats 2 and 3 are untouched. 4-player pods only. We needed a way to lift seat 4 up while simultaneously reducing the win rate for seat 1,

Heya,

When I did the May metagame snapshot I included seat order stats already but today I wanted to really zoom in on this: does going first actually matter in multiplayer Commander? And if it does, does the classic 1v1 fix (first player skips their draw) even work in this format? For this one I used the full history of games tracked over at playgroup.gg (our life counter, I am one of the developers) instead of a monthly snapshot like I did last time, so the sample is a lot bigger than usual.

The usual caveats before anyone sharpens the pitchforks:

• I don't have enough bracket information yet, so this is including games in all brackets.

• It's all self-reported

Heya,

Last time we did a May metagame snapshot. This time I want to stick my neck out a bit. All four Marvel Super Heroes precon lists are public as of this week, so instead of looking backwards I'm going to predict how they'll actually perform once they hit tables on June 26. To do that I pulled the first 90 days of every precon face commander we've tracked since Tarkir Dragonstorm: 19 face commanders across 6 sets, from games tracked over at playgroup.gg (our life counter and game tracker, I am one of the developers).

The usual caveats:

• This is mostly casual Commander, not tournament data. Bracket info is sparse: only ~13% of the decks in our games have one tagged. Where tagged: 77% b

Heya,

Last time we did color identity stats, this time I pulled a full monthly snapshot of the May games tracked over at playgroup.gg (our life counter, I am one of the developers). As always this is just fun to look at, so before anyone sharpens the pitchforks, a few caveats:

• This is casual Commander, not cEDH and not tournament data. Real groups logging real games.
• It's all self-reported, so I can't fully rule out fake or messy data.
• Our users care about tracking stats more than the average player, so this is "EDH as seen by people who like spreadsheets," not all of EDH.
• "Win rate" is a weird thing to measure in casual, I know. A few of you said so last time and it's fair. So to

Heya,

Last time we talked about the Commander tier list, this time I wanted to share some color identity stats with you.

A few caveats before we begin:

• This is from games tracked with our life counter (playgroup.gg).
• Data is from the last 90 days.
• This data is mostly just fun to look at, I'm not trying to make broad statements about EDH in general.
• Data might be skewed because our users care above average about stats.
• I've looked at around 75k games.
• Coverage means how many of the Commanders for that identity were played during the last 90 days.
• Game concentration is how many top commanders it takes to reach 50% of all games for that identity. Lower = more concentrated aroun

We've had over 24k games tracked over at playgroup.gg the last 30 days and I was curious to see which Commanders consistently have a high win-rate. A few caveats:

• All users are basically self-reporting so no way to rule out fake data.
• I only looked at games that have at least 40 games tracked and have 10 different pilots playing them.
• Even with 24k games tracked some data points are a bit thin.
• It's still fun to look at!

So hereby the top 3 s-tier commanders (above 35% win rate), they were definitely not what I was expecting:

1. [[Kambal, Profiteering Mayor]] at a 46.95% win rate

2. [[Prossh, Skyraider of Kher]] at a 46.51% win rate

3. [[Heliod

Half our playgroup moved to different cities last year and we couldn't get a pod together anymore, so we built Playgroup Live: free Commander in your browser, no download, no webcam required. (Although if you want a webcam experience, our friends at Convoke built one on our API.) It comes with all the usual Playgroup.gg stats features built-in.

We opened the beta last week with ~200 games played. Now we need more pods hammering on it so we can find what's broken.

Video demo if you are more of a visual person :)

What works today

• 2–6 player pods, full digital boar

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Hi Reddit \o

We're hiring an UI illustrator for some art that we require for our app.

We need a few different things:

• An overlay that we can place on top of avatars, not unlike Discord is offering with their avatar decorations. This is a little extra that we give away for people that subscribe one of our support plans. Will be three different tiers. (~60x60)
• 5 differently styled borders that show the current active player, these need to be very minimal while still having character, a challenge for sure.

Please sent us some relevant examples of prior work and your hourly rates.

Tl;dr: We are building a life tracking app that, by carrying out a few more actions compared to traditional life counter apps, can automatically track damage numbers, turn durations, elo ratings and more.These stats are saved and made available on a website through various graphs, tables and dashboards.

If you’re interested go visit: https://playgroup.gg/.

For discussion: Discord community

Hi folks,

Me and my friend u/Dzjoppie spent the last few months working on our dream life tracker app for our EDH playgroup: Playgroup. We were using the excellent Guildpact app to track our elo ratings and we were already using a digital life tracker so our idea

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