gluner

At my prerelease this weekend, Boros seemed dominant across the board. I'd like to know if others feel the same. Of course, a prerelease, especially with seeded packs, gives a biased impression, so it would be helpful to have input from other formats people have started playing.

Boros has all of the cheap fliers: [[Parhelion Patrol]], [[Healer's Hawk]], [[Skyline Scout]], [[Skyknight Legionnaire]] at common. The "answers" to these cost more and/or cannot block effectively: [[Crushing Canopy]], [[Bartisan Bats]], [[Hitchclaw Recluse]], [[Leapfrog]] (conditionally), [[Muse Drake]], [[Watcher in the Mist]]. Of these, only Watcher can block & kill all of the white threats, and it does

GP Denver tournament report: 9-6, 6-3 on day 1

Deck: Mono-B Eldrazi

Maindeck:

• 4x Thought-Knot Seer
• 4x Walking Ballista
• 4x Gifted Aetherborn
• 4x Glint-Sleeve Siphoner
• 2x Reality Smasher
• 2x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 4x Liliana, the Last Hope
• 4x Grasp of Darkness
• 4x Fatal Push
• 2x Collective Brutality
• 1x Hour of Glory
• 1x Never // Return
• 14x Swamp
• 2x Aether Hub
• 2x Scavenger Grounds
• 2x Ruins of Oran-Rief
• 4x Ifnir Deadlands

SB:

• 4x Scrapheap Scrounger
• 3x Yahenni's Expertise
• 1x Hour of Glory
• 1x Never // Return
• 1x Kalitas, Traitor of Ghet
• 2x Aethersphere Harvester
• 1x Skysovereign, Consul's Flagship
• 2x Doomfall

Rd1 - L, 1-2, Andrew on UR God-Phara

Do the xmage servers keep track of wins/losses and deck contents for individual matchups? Is it possible to get access to that data anywhere?

Are there any sources of matchup statistics or win/loss rates on a per-game basis?

Such statistics (and data?) were once available from mtggoldfish, but they were taken down. It sounds like those data were acquired via bots on MTGO - is it still possible to run those bots? If so, is anyone doing so? ([this recent r/spikes post](https://www.reddit.com/r/spikes/comments/56bxoj/draft_help_me_data_mine_kaladesh_xpost_from/) suggests data-mining bots can no longer be run?)

Classifying decks via a given decklist is a related problem; it seems like that is [partially solved](https://www.redd

Is there software available to convert a high-quality photo of a whole deck to a list? There are some great card scanning apps like Delver Lens and ScryGlass and others that are good for quickly scanning individual cards, but they are very difficult to use if you want to get correct card counts, especially if you have mixed sets & foils in a given deck.

Alternatively, are there any good card-photo-to-name software libraries, especially in python?