Dana Roach

Dana is a former co-hosts of the EDHRECast and the CMDR Central podcast. He lives in Eau Claire, WI and has been playing Magic so long he once traded away an Underground Sea for a Nightmare, and was so pleased with the deal he declined a trade-back the following week.

Superior Numbers - Brewing Around Tunnel Vision

February 26, 2020

Dana Roach

Time to challenge some preconceived notions!

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Superior Numbers - The Truth Behind Three Truisms

February 19, 2020

Dana Roach

Digging into the data behind some good advice

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Superior Numbers - The Big Turn

February 5, 2020

Dana Roach

High Tide? Bubbling Muck? Dana examines the one-time mana doublers.

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Superior Numbers - The Anatomy of an Upgrade

January 29, 2020

Dana Roach

How do you add new cards to an old deck? Dana walks through his procedures.

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Superior Numbers - I Played 352 Games of EDH in 2019

January 22, 2020

Dana Roach

Dana logged every single game he played in 2019. These are the results.

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Superior Numbers - Power Begets Power

January 1, 2020

Dana Roach

Do 'more powerful' commanders always run more powerful cards?

Superior Numbers - Why is Harmonize So Good?

December 18, 2019

Dana Roach

What makes Harmonize so much more popular than Concentrate?

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Superior Numbers - Cascading Changes and Vestigial Cards

December 11, 2019

Dana Roach

Observing the massive impacts that a single card can have on a deck.

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Superior Numbers - Breaking Down the Top 100

December 4, 2019

Dana Roach

Examining the top 100 most popular cards through an analytical lens yields interesting results

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Superior Numbers - Crucible of Worlds

September 11, 2019

Dana Roach

"We were all forged in the crucible." Welcome to Superior Numbers, where I try to do numerical analysis on cards and deckbuilding trends using slightly more math and slightly less snark than in my usual column. Slightly. So. . It first appeared in Magic in Fifth Dawn way back in 2004, and it's had a couple of […]

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