Hello and welcome to the ETH RETCast, where we're all about Commander, Dada, and Dadd

Jokes. I'm Joey Shulton. I'm joined by my pun-tastic co-host. Whenever the Strickshaven creatures

on his battlefield become prepared,

he's going to start singing Scarsong from the Lion King.

It's Matt Morgan.

That's actually a true fact about me.

I love the prepared spells.

But actually, I got a piece of trivia that I picked up at MagicCon, Las Vegas for you.

So do you know what happens when a microscope collides with a telescope? I couldn't tell you. It creates a kaleidoscope. I, whoa. Okay. I love that one. Like, unironically, that's not even like a dad joke. It's too good. That's actually a great joke, Matt. I really like that. You're welcome.

That's actually not trivia. A listener did tell me that joke this weekend. But yeah, it was super

fun. We actually got to meet a whole bunch of our fans from MagicCon Vegas. That was, I mean,

it's always a good time getting to go to play Magic and actually did get to play Magic this time.

Hey, yeah, I'm so glad. And yes, for folks wondering, this is an episode that we're recording right after Vegas,

as you can tell by the fact that my voice is still very, very sore.

The fact that both of us have bags under eyes, it just looked like they could stop a flood.

Yeah, it was a fantastic, wonderful time, so happy to meet all the folks that we did a greater

time. But, Matt, for the purposes of this video here, this episode, I asked our Duchess of Data,

Julia Madalena, to help me out with finding the commanders that have some of the weirdest manna curves

in the entire game.

And I want to show them to you because they are absolutely wild and wacky.

Let's talk about some manac curves that are very, very unusual. Well, I'm super curious about this topic because, Joe, you wouldn't even tell me, like, I knew something was suspicious when you said, don't open the show notes yet. Guilty as charged. Yeah, I want to make a guessing game out of this one. I thought that might be a fun approach. I want to see if you can guess what these commanders are just based off of how weird their mana curves look. And folks listening, see if you can guess along at home. See if you can beat Matt's score. Yeah. To get some context, I think maybe let's first start with the average mana curve across all commander decks. We'll start with our first image here. Here we have

our average man-a-curve of all commanders in the entire format with at least 250 decks, so we can get a sense of, in general, what a man-a-curve usually looks like for most decks out there. Yeah, if you folks are listening audio only this week, you're definitely going to head over to YouTube. Check out the video because you can play along with me too because I don't know a whole lot of what's coming up,

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