@l0cke17 No need to worry, the SS Tusk found a good home with the Goyf's.
This will of course depend on how one defines "health" of the format, but assuming that this is somehow related to diversity of deck archetypes here's my thoughts.
The new method of reporting a limited number of collated decks with a minimum of 10 cards different between decks for leagues make this data unusable for assessing the health of the format. It will show an arbitrary diversity of decks that is in no way associated with the meta percentages represented by those given decks.
This leaves us with the excellent break down of the weekly challenges that we have for some idea of the meta breakdown for mtgo. Though I feel this may be skewed due to the popularity and convenience of leagues.
With so few reporting's of significant statistical value for the paper meta it will be difficult to assess whether it will be heavily varied from the online meta. Of course you'll always have more budgetary issues, etc. with paper so that will additionally need to be accounted for.
I'll throw in a Plateau for the auction! Looking forward to this and thanks for @Stuart and @thecravenone for putting this together.
Just finished up a league, wen't 3-2. Here's what I ran into:
L Jeskai (saw a single mentor and tinker)
L PO Storm
W Unpowered Hatebears
W Big Blue
W Staxx
I was running Ravager Shops with Wires replacing thorns. Already jumped into my next one. This is pretty great!
This is great news, I've playing in the practice rooms for months now because I can never dedicate the time to the daily tournaments. Looking forward to this!
@Stuart Yeah, I figured straight-up ravager shops was too obvious. Time to spread some null rod love myself. And also Staxxx. Yeah, disappointed you can't make it.
I've missed to many of these. Time to reclaim the playmat!
Glad I could reignite the spark! I hope we get to a chance to play again soon, and hopefully we'll have a Goyf invitational that you can make sometime the trip to TX for.