Thanks for the comment.

Well it started when BDM recently accused me of being “the Greenest one of all” (as you probably heard). So I started off just seeing if this was true… and in my most recent 20 tournaments, I was green a gigantic 80% of the time.

So basically validating Brian’s opinion, I decided to see if there was any ratings / position correlation to my relative Green-ness… and it turned out there might have been (the sole Top 8 in the most recent 20 tournament stretch, with Clark, was with non-Green).

Now I didn’t have Clark in this 20 tournament stretch (he appeared right after my States win), but I did have Bella the entire time and was able to pull off States first and second and two returns to the Pro Tour (the other was not listed on account of not being individual, but I was Green in both PTQs and then not Green in the Pro Tour… My individual records were a little under even, 2-0 /4-0, and very good with Green, Green, not Green).

However the 91 point positive delta and PTQ win with Critical Mass might simply tell us that Green is good SOMETIMES and that in the -21 to -40 tournaments where I was Green only 1/3 of the time instead of 4/5 of the time that I simply had better deck selection instead of erring TOWARDS Green as it seems I did in the more recent 20 tournaments.

Even with the wife and kids I still practice maybe 10 hours a week of MTGO, which is nowhere near the top of my game (when I designed Critical Mass and Jushi Blue I practiced 20 hours a week of Apprentice, which might translate to more than 50 hours of MTGO in terms of deck data), and when I was a PT regular I practiced maybe 40-50 hours a week of Apprentice. So I definitely practice LESS… but 10 hours of MTGO isn’t nothing

My point is, I hesitate to blame the fam. It seems like I could be a little tighter on deck selection, Green or no.

Thanks again for the comment.

LOVE
MIKE