How is the competitive/casual percentage calculated?
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Posted on Feb. 10, 2018, 10:41 a.m. by AggressiveChairs
I made a Zur deck and according to the site it's 76% competitive. Huh? Why? Is it actually this good? I mean it cost me about 60 to buy. How is this worked out?
It's less "it's good" and more "you are using cards that often see competitive play", I think. The system has no way to actually calculate how they will interact. You could build a deck that's 60 competitive staples, one each, across all colors, no lands - you'd end up 100% competitive despite it being absolutely unplayable and having no synergies.
February 10, 2018 11:13 a.m.
Gidgetimer says... #4
Poorly is how it is calculated. It would be nice if it would eventually work as intended, but making an algorithm to assess a deck's power is extremely difficult.
February 10, 2018 12:08 p.m.
Maybe have it examine the most upvoted decks tagged "competitive".
Then, when you take your deck something ("golgari", "gimmick", "combo", "aggro", etc) it would compare how much of an overlap your deck has between top rated decks that are tagged both competitive and at least one other shared tag.
That seems like it would work.
February 10, 2018 12:53 p.m.
Yeah, as Pieguy396 and ellie-is both said, it's an imperfect system. You could make a new deck, with no cards in it, and the deck will be rated as 85% competitive.
Pieguy396 says... #2
It's still in beta. Don't pay too much attention to it.
February 10, 2018 10:47 a.m.