General CBS

Neat that they introduced a voucher option that'll be viable for most people, unfortunately my system having extra steps makes it a little tougher to implement 1-to-1 on Cobra. For traditional vouchers/squadron picks it's going to work very well just giving you the copies of whatever card(s) you need, but mine has the caveat of limitations to cashing in once per card and having to draft the actual copy of the card.

I'll probably just have to continue including the voucher options in the land box for a drafter to manually add to their Cobra decks online.

All that said, this is a pretty handy tool with some neat possibilities. I ran it for 300 in the background while working on stuff and it came out with some cool outputs:

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Expected color distributions here, nothing out of the ordinary with the base breakdown.

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26 clusters in my 450 sounds about right, I'm liking the criss-crossing overlap showing the ability to bleed between archetypes. I'm assuming that running for more simulations will leader to more dense clusters like @Erik Twice got with 500. Maybe I'll just go with 1000 or something at the beginning of work next week and see what happens by the end of it.

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I like the visualization of these clusters with staples and other stats, really cool feature to nerd out over for hours at a time. The bots definitely have their limitations overall, but this looks way better than previous bot logic applied in single drafts. It identified just about every major archetype I've built over the years or covered in my cube primer.
 
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38 clusters found after 400 drafts

Many of these are repeated, which, after looking into the decks, sometimes makes sense and sometimes doesn't. The two "W Weenie" clusters, for example, roughly refer to two distinct groups of cards, a tokens build and an artifact aggro build. Yet, the two "WG midrange" decks have essentially the same staple cards...

Some of the themes that bridge certain colors are not represented, even though they are not an issue to draft in the cube, such as the White-Black Constellation/Saga Control deck. I think the nuances of this deck and these colors might too fine-grained for the CubeCobra bots, with options ranging/blending between Liliana's Contract/Changeling combo, Demonic Pact Blink, low-power-matters reanimator (Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker, Vesperlark, Triskelion) and so on.

Green and Red turned to be the least drafted combination, and the strange assortment of cards chosen by the bots reflect the variety of decks which might be drafted in these colors but which are, nevertheless, not always overlapping: tappers/untappers, land storm, madness, power-matters, etc.

Something I didn't expect, Dimension X Pizzasaur was the second highest picked card, being taken P1P1 98% of the time.
 
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