Arena Post M21 Gameplay Stats

I almost didn't make it to the end of M21. I was so burned out the last couple of weeks of play and hated the stale meta. I was about to quit for a week and then realized a few days ago that I had calculated my spreadsheet end date using the wrong date. I used the release date of Zendikar Rising for paper, and forgot to subtract a week for Arena. So at that point I had only a couple of days left, so I powered through. I then realized since I was expecting to have one more week, I didn't have any of my spreadsheets finalized, or my new fresh one cleaned and ready for Zendikar Rising, or any of my collection stat spreadsheets ready to go for the new set. I got it all going and am ready to close out the old stats for M21 finally.

I started M21 with Azorius flyers until quick draft started, played about 19 drafts, plus 1 premier draft that I had a free token for, and then switched over to mono white lifegain. I tried mono green stompy a little but it just wasn't going fast enough for me.

For the first time since I started playing, I decided to actually play my draft games out in order to earn the gems so I could save a few dollars on the mastery passes going forward. Even though I was only rare drafting for my collection, I still managed to win enough games to pay for the next two mastery passes.  It's unbelievable how many wins I got just by pure luck of the opponent having worse luck than I was.

All of the FNM @ Home events helped add a lot of value to this set release as well, I made sure to participate in every one of those.

Core Set 2021 makes the fifth full set I've been tracking via spreadsheet, with the help of MTGAHelper to verify my statistics. My spreadsheet didn't change too much since the Ikoria set, though I made a few tiny tweaks here and there, added a couple extra columns to track additional data as well as continued tweaks in the large draft and pack opening spreadsheets.

All stats started on 6/25/20 and ran through 9/17/20, when Zendikar Rising was released. I was able to get one extra daily grind in for M21on release day, just before the big update.

While I strive to have accurate stats, due to decimal places, and sometimes missing a cell or two in my spreadsheet, totals may not fully add up, so don't try mathing them. If you are interested in all the raw data, please let me know and I can share the spreadsheet with you.

Total Gameplay Stats

These stats are from all types of gameplay, including daily gold farming in the play queue, ranked draft, events, ranked BO1, and just play testing decks for fun in the play queue.

The larger loss ratio was due to the oppressive decks circulating in the meta. I quickly recognized if I was going to have a chance in the first few turns and conceded early on if not. Most of these decks play way too long for daily grinding, so I was not going to wast my time only to lose to them.

• Total Games Played: 852 (12.0 games per day)
• Win-Loss: 375-477, 44% win rate
• Total mulligans: 170 (2.0 per day)
• Play-Draw: 404-448, 47% I went first
• I conceded: 453
• Opponent conceded: 318
• Total time played= 55:20:00 hrs
• Time played per day = 46:46 minutes
• Average time per game = 3:54 minutes

Daily Gold Farming and Individual Daily Deck Stats

My daily routine was to win a minimum of 4 games per day in the play queue, and complete a daily quest if able. I played more on occasion, but usually 30-60 mins a day was enough for me if I already met my daily minimums.

These stats are only for games played in the play queue during my daily farming routine, or events that allowed either deck. These are the main two I used during this set release and does not reflect other decks I played throughout.

Mono White Lifegain

• Deck played: 7/21/20 - 9/17/20
• Total games: 453
• Time played: 29:05:46 hrs
• Win-Loss: 205-248, 45% win ratio
• Play-Draw: 218-235, 48% I went first
• Me-Opponent conceded: 242-193
• Mulligans: 84

Azorius Flyers (various versions)

• Deck played: 6/25/20 - 7/21/20
• Total games: 174
• Time played: 8:42:29 hrs
• Win-Loss: 88-86, 51% win ratio
• Play-Draw: 89-85, 51% I went first
• Me-Opponent conceded: 83-63
• Mulligans: 43

Gold

• Total gold earned: 103,275 (1,454.6 per day)
• Daily rewards: 47,025 (662.3 per day)
• Daily quests: 49,750 (700.7 per day)
• Other gold rewards (events, etc): 6,500
• Gold spent on drafts: 95,000
• Gold spent in store: 26,700
  • Unstable land bundle
  • several fold for gems daily deals
  • few sleeve daily deals
  • 1 Jumpstart event
  • 1 avatar daily deal
• Total gold spent: 121,700

Gems

• Gems spent: 3400 (mastery pass)
• Gems earned: 6360 (mastery pass, duplicated rares, quick draft)

ICRs

• Free daily ICRs: 19
• Mastery pass ICRs: 8
• Total ICRs: 41
• ICRs Kept-Vaulted: 31-10

Ranked Draft

I only do ranked draft for the cards, gems and booster packs. For the first time since I started playing, I actually played all of my draft games if I had something I could actually build a deck out of. For Arena, I do what I call collection drafting. You can more about that my article for Arena Collection Drafting.

• Drafts completed: 20 (1 of these were from free tokens I received)
• Cards opened: 869
• Cards Kept-Vaulted: 766-103

Booster Packs

• Free packs: 69 (codes, set mastery rewards, ranked draft rewards)
  
• Mastery pass packs: 20
  
• Pack cards opened: 702
  
• Pack cards Kept-Vaulted: 186-516

Cards

• Total cards earned from all sources: 1,612
• Total cards Kept-Vaulted: 962-650
• Total vault progress: 105.1

Wild Cards

• Wild Cards: Total / Pack / Wheel / Used
• Common: 23 / 23 / 0 / 4
• Uncommon: 35 / 20 / 15 / 2
• Rare:  16 / 4 / 12 / -4
• Mythic: 6 / 3 / 3 / -5
• Total: 80 / 50 / 30 / -3

The -x are most likely refunds when cards were banned.

In Conclusion
I only made a few small tweaks to the spreadsheet this time around and it seems to be working even better. It's much more accurate and finely tuned for every little bit of data that I want to track.

I hope everyone enjoyed their journey through Core Set 2021. Until the next set...