🧵 Announcing Ursa's Research Desk - a flexible dashboard for analysing MtG tournament results and deck performance brought to you by team @busstop-mtg.bsky.social and MtG Bazaar! https://arckaynine.github.io/Urzas-Research-Desk/

🧵 Announcing Ursa's Research Desk - a flexible dashboard for analysing MtG tournament results and deck performance brought to you by team @busstop-mtg.bsky.social and MtG Bazaar! https://arckaynine.github.io/Urzas-Research-Desk/

Reposting for other time zones. Might be interesting for folks like @lordoftheboard.bsky.social, @spacecatspod.bsky.social, and I know the @loadingreadyrun.com crew enjoy a game of root every now and then.

I continue to be fascinated by @leder.games’s Root, and have written up an analysis of 9,000 games played by the Digital League community: compulsiveresearchmtg.blogspot.com/2025/08/back...

🚨Even more Australian 7pt Highlander content alert 🚨 The team's resident combo enjoyer @brennancrawford.bsky.social sits down with Steven Hitchcock to talk about one of 7ph's premier combo decks: Lurrus Breach! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCYx...

Lost my win and in for top 8 and the PT at the ANZ RC today, finishing 17th. Quite happy with how things played out, slickshot main was the right play. Congrats to @bentudman.bsky.social for making top 8, keen to watch him repping @busstop-mtg.bsky.social tomorrow!

Had a great time yesterday running the conclusion to my Ravnica DnD campaign, involving this over-engineered shadow puzzle that required a scavenger hunt across my bookshelves (mirroring in-universe bookshelves). Very proud of how it came together.

Despite playing magic all weekend and losing a bunch of modern matches, it took until the mystery booster sealed for me to actually lose to Thassa’s Oracle.

Well past time for my Annual*** Ravnica Rotisserie draft (RAV, GPT, DIS, RTR, GTC, DGM, GRN, RNA, now with MKM and RVR), but better late than never! We're off to an interesting start, with MKM and RVR additions shaking up the metagame. I'm in Seat 4 with an OK start for a Selesnya aggro/mid deck.

A recent new addition to umap-learn was the ability to have ParametricUMAP embeddings that can be smoothly updated with new incoming data -- creating new clusters as needed, and gently adjusting the rest of the embedding to make space for them. umap-learn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tr...