20 decks remain in the Pauper Gauntlet

We started out with 77 decks. When we entered round five we had 30 decks left. Round five is now over. It was single elimination in the Tournament Practice room (this will be the format until round 12).

For deck lists, check this link: http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2014/09/the-decks-of-pauper-gauntlet.html

The round ended with 20 wins and 10 losses. I think that is about the win rate we should see (or better) from this point on.

Decks that won and made it to round 6 of the Pauper Gauntlet S02
Affinity defeats DelverFiend 2-1
AzoriusKitty defeats MBC 2-1
Bant Presence combos off against Azorius Borderpost 2-1
BorosKitty defeats Delver 2-1
Bugs & Pigs runs into a quitter and wins

Burn defeats MBC 2-1
DelverFiend defeats AzoriusKitty 2-1
Exhume Control defeats
Familiars bores Izzet Cruise Control to death 2-0
Green One defeats MUC 2-1

Green Grifters gets a BYE from a Quitter
Goblins defeats Boros Metalcraft 2-0
Illusory Tricks defeats Goblins 2-0
Love Train defeats Infect 2-1
Mono Black Land Destruction defeats Affinity 2-1

Mono Red Heroic runs over Delver 2-0 despite horrible draws and mulligan decisions
MUC defeats Dimir Teachings 2-0
Rebel Grind defeats DelverFiend 2-1
Stompy defeats White Weenie 2-0
Tortured Toolbox defeats MBC 2-1

Decks that lost and are eliminated from the Pauper Gauntlet S02
We say farewell to the following decks:

Devil Children lost to Affinity 0-2
Dimir Teachings lost to Affinity 1-2
Five Color Green gets its enchanted lands destroyed by RG Land Destruction 0-2
Gray Mercenaries of Asphodel lost to Affinity 1-2
Mana Burn lost to Delver 1-2
Mono Blue Artifacts lost to RUG Tron 0-2
Mono Red Ping lost to Izzet Trinket 0-2
Persistently Undying lost to Izzet Cruise Control 0-2
Project X got run over by DelverFiend 0-2
Turbo Fog lots to Obzens playing AzoriusTron 0-2

What about the decks that got voted back?
Well, Love Train and Illusory Tricks managed to represent well but Turbo Fog had a very hard matchup with AzoriusTron played by an expert level player.

You can watch the whole debacle here and tell me what I could have done differently



Basic facts
What is the Pauper Gauntlet? 
http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.com/2014/08/the-pauper-gauntlet.html

Full list of the 77 Pauper Gauntlet decks for the second season: 

http://mtgolibrary.blogspot.se/2014/09/the-decks-of-pauper-gauntlet.html

We now go into weekly rounds

I will now play one round per week until very few decks remain. Rounds start on Wednesdays and end on Tuesdays (GMT+1) and I will summarize the rounds in the Standard Pauper Show and in blog posts here weekly.

How can you follow the Pauper Gauntlet?
The twitter account @MagicGathStrat tweets whenever a video is uploaded to the two YouTube channels that feature the Gauntlet: MagicGatheringStrat and sngprop.

There are also bonus practice matches with some of the decks that are still in the Gauntlet on the sngprop youtube channel.

Bot Pricing v4 - Lifetime License - Bot Manual

What is a lifetime License?

Lifetime licenses are for bot owners that are in it for the long haul and are serious about generating a large business empire. With the lifetime license you will receive free Ml Bot pricelist downloads and you will no longer have to pay the 2.5%/3.5% transaction fee.

The lifetime license is good for for the duration of the Mtgo client lifespan,  including all future client releases.

What is the cost?

The cost of the license is 2500usd or 2700 tickets per bot. If you are considering opening more than 1 lifetime license bot, contacts us we could give you a multi-bot purchase discount.

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Control Panel v4 - WebShop API - Bot Manual

Interested in opening a website to advertise your bot? 

ML Bots WebShop API is a development tool that allows you to set up a pricing website for your customers requests getting set names, card buy/sell prices and quantities held by your bots to display on your website.

Each bot registered with ML Bots has a unique key identifier. This identifier is sent to our API along with your request so we know which bot’s data is desired. We then reply to your request with the data you’ve requested.

If you are not a developer, no problem. ML Bot specialists will gladly assist you to get your website off to the right start. You can contact us on Livechat or email us at staff@mtgolibrary.com

A functioning example of the API in action can be seen at www.decentbot.com.

The following is a php example which makes a call to the API and then displays the data in a simple HTML table.

<?php

/*** MTGO Library API Example ***/

// build the url to the api

$url = 'https://www.mtgolibrary.com/web_shops/inventory?' .  http_build_query(array(

    'bot' => 'YOUR_BOT_NAME_HERE', // your username

    'key' => 'YOUR_API_KEY_HERE',  // your api key

    'set_name' => 'BNG',           // the set name to download

));

// download the inventory

$inventory = json_decode(file_get_contents($url), true);

// create a table with the cards

?>

<table>

    <thead>

    <tr>

        <th>Card Name</th>

        <th>Set Name</th>

        <th>Rarity</th>

        <th>Bot</th>

        <th>Foil</th>

        <th>Buy Price</th>

        <th>Buy Quantity</th>

        <th>Sell Price</th>

        <th>Sell Quantity</th>

    </tr>

    </thead>

    <tbody>

    <?php foreach ($inventory as $card) { ?>

        <tr>

            <td><?php echo stripslashes(urldecode($card['card_name'])); ?></td>

            <td><?php echo $card['set_name']; ?></td>

            <td><?php echo $card['rarity']; ?></td>

            <td><?php echo urldecode($card['bot']); ?></td>

            <td><?php echo $card['foil'] ? 'foil' : ''; ?></td>

            <td><?php echo $card['buy_price']; ?></td>

            <td><?php echo $card['buy_quantity']; ?></td>

            <td><?php echo $card['sell_price']; ?></td>

            <td><?php echo $card['sell_quantity']; ?></td>

        </tr>

    <?php } ?>

    </tbody>

</table>

Results:

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Control Panel v4 - Collection - Bot Manual

In this section we will go over the collection section on the Online Control Panel there are two options to choose from here:

 “Current Collection” - Allows you to browse your collection for individual cards to see exactly what you have on hand. 

“Collection history“ - Here you will find a daily summary of cards on hand by rarity, these totals are based on you selling price of your .csv uploaded during the day. 

 A: Filter - Specify a date range to search. Also you can search a single bot or the entire family.

 B: Results – A breakdown of your collection on a particular date with the total value. Displaying an overall summary, regulars and foils.

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Modern Master 2 announced!

Release Date: May 22, 2015

Magic Online Release Date: May 29, 2015

Number of Cards: 249

Cards reprinted from: Zendikar, Mirrodin, Ravnica, Lorwyn, Kamigawa and Alara.

MSRP: $9.99 per pack ($6.99 Magic Online), 24 booster packs per box

Each pack contains a foil card

Limited printrun

Three GPs featuring MM2: Las Vegas (Nevada), Chiba (Japan), Utrecht (Netherlands) 

Emrakul, the Aeons Torn and Etched Champions are the first confirmed cards in this set

Potential valuable reprints:  Enemy Fetchlands, Noble Hierarch, Mox Opal, Spellskite, Serum Visions, Remand, Linvala, Birthing Pod, Goblin Guide, Inkmoth Nexus, Scapeshift, Celestial Collonade, Batterskull, Inquisition of Kozilek, Splinter Twin, Aven Mindcensor, Primeval Titan, Kozilek, Ulamog, Daybreak Coronet, Karn Liberated.

Control Panel v4 - Over Protection Rules - Bot manual

In this section we will go over the Over Protection Rules. These rules can  help protect you from speculators, cherry pickers, and vast market fluctuations by increasing or decreasing your buy and sell price when a large quantity a particular card is bought or sold to your bots. You have variety of options in this sections, we will go over them step by step. You can visit this page Here.

First step is to choose what you want to apply the rule to: you can apply this rule to any of the following rarities listed on the Right.  Keep in mind you can create multiple rules for different rarities. 

Next you need to specify after how many cards are bought or sold the rule will trigger.

Next you will choose whether this rule will only trigger if 4 or more are bought/sold on your chain or all of your bots. 

 Next you will choose the action to take; You can have the bot cancel trade or increase or decrease the price If the quantity has been reached.

 Here you will choose if this rule will increase, decrease, or cancel trade on your chain, single bot, or all your bots. 

The rule will be base on cards bought/sold to  a specific customer or based on cards bought/sold from all customers. 

The Over Selling protection example above would: Refuse trade for a specific customer that bought more than 4 of a Particular mythic from your chain and would cancel trade if they tried to buy  that mythic on any of your bots. 

**NOTE** These rules are only good for a 24 hour period. 

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Bot Pricing v4 - Personal Percentages - Bot manual

In this section we will explain what PersoanlPercentages.txt is and how to set it up on your bot. This can help you define the exact margin you would like to have on your bot.

What is PersoanlPercentages?
PersoanlPercentages is a text file located in your Prices folder that applies a percent adjustment to the cardsmtgo.txt file per card, rarity, or  set. The cardsmtgo.txt is the price file Mtgolibrary offers to keep your pricing up to date.

How does it work?
You can adjust any card or set by a percent (-,+) to customize your Cardsmtgo.txt file.  We will give you some examples.

Cardsmtgo file is as follows:

43291#43292#083#0070#DKA#M#Mikaeus, the Unhallowed#9.960#15.930#6.670#10.670
Mtgo Card number#Mtgo Card number foil#Set number#card number#Set#Rarity#Card name#Sell Price#Foil sell price#Buy price#Foil buy price#

This is the file we are going to manipulate with PersonalPercentages.txt

You will list card as follows:

DKA;Mikaeus, the Unhallowed;-5%;-1%;+10%'+10%
Set;Card name;Sell price adjustment;Foil sell price adjustment;Buy price adjustment;Foil buy price adjustment

if you adjusted Mikaeus from above cardsmtgo file and the above PersonalPercentages file our end price would be:

9.462;15.770;7.34;11.737
Sell Price;Foil sell price;Buy price;Foil buy price#

You can also do sets buy rarity, for example.

RTR;MYTHIC;+10%;+10%;+10%;+10%;
This will adjust all mythic in the set Return to Ravnica by 10%.
RTR;UNCOMMON;+10%;+10%;+10%;+10%;
This would adjust all Uncommons in the set Return to Ravnica by 10%.


Note: If you have made a percentage adjustment on the corrections tab that will be summed first then the PersonalPercantages will be summed on the result of that correction.

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