Talk:Magic: The Gathering/Statistics and trivia

Breach of Rules

"Only legal card allowing for the breach of rules: Relentless Rats" -- That's not true. There are many breaches of rules around ie. Platinum Angel, and to a lesser extent Kobolds that are red eventhough they cost {0}. As with relentless rats they "break the rules", but are upheld by the "Golden Rule" (e.g. Cards trump CompRules). Otherwise I love this page. :-) --GWiZ665 19:11, 15 April 2007 (CDT)

Oh... didn't know that. Guess it should be changed. I messed up the card totals a bit... I'll do an actual full count later... or something. --Xallium 19:59, 15 April 2007 (CDT)

Totals

Ok the totals I have are a little off as they exclude alternate editions/revisions, starter sets, and banned sets. I tried to have my search on MagicCards.info include the legal Starter Sets, but it yielded no results (must have been too many cards rendered or something). I think the totals should include Total Absolute Cards (including banned + unglued + revisions), Total Cards (including banned [not unglued]), and Total Legal Cards (just... legal cards). However, can anybody think of an easy way to find this without a 'brute force' attack?

Btw, the Flying figure is imperfect. My search includes everything that has the text 'Flying' in it and the only plausable way to find the exact number of actual flying creatures is just to sort through every page. So where the edit is, there is an unseen number which lists the last page checked (on the MagicCards.info page) to remove non-keyworded 'Flyers'. (yes, I know this sentence is really confusing). Would suck if flying wasn't the largest eh? --Xallium 20:58, 15 April 2007 (CDT)

Flying has to be the biggest keyword hands down :) --GeoMike 21:04, 15 April 2007 (CDT)

If you check the history on Flying, I actually tried something similar to this on each Keyword page, but seeing as every card with Flying written in Oracle was counted, it didn't work. (Even ~ deals damage to non-flying creatures was counted *sigh*). If somehow gatherer or magiccards.info could be hardwired to do something like ("Creature" + "Flying") + ("instant" + "sorcery" + flying - nonflying) and probably even more... Not an easy boolean. ;-) --GWiZ665 11:43, 16 April 2007 (CDT)

I'm almost certain that your color numbers are a bit off, as gold cards are counted as all their colors as well. E.g. Watchwolf is green and white and gold.--GWiZ665 11:45, 16 April 2007 (CDT)

I watched (pun intended) and Watchwolf did not show up on the green nor white list, only on the multi-color listing. --GeoMike 13:40, 16 April 2007 (CDT)

If only...

If only the "Dumbest Card" would be encyclopediac. I would nominate Spinal Parasite. :P lol --Xallium 21:24, 15 April 2007 (CDT)

Retrieved Date

Xallium did you really retrieve your statistics on 15-02-2007? or did you mean 15-04-2007? --GeoMike 21:34, 15 April 2007 (CDT)

I ment April... no clue what went awry --Xallium 21:57, 15 April 2007 (CDT)

Consenses about formatting

Ok. We need to come up with a decision about how we format some of these points. Do we do it like # (card) or Card (#)?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xallium (talk • contribs) 22:52, 15 April 2007 (CDT).

I like Card (#) --GeoMike 08:57, 16 April 2007 (CDT)

This page can be Great!

Xallium, I love the idea of this page. It can become a great source of information. :) --GeoMike 09:00, 16 April 2007 (CDT)