Having an official ranked ladder on DB is a good thing, makes the format even more legit and could snowball into something even bigger who knows. I played alot of control mirrors and aggro decks in my 100 games, and I was really able to use my experience to stabilize and take over in alot of seemingly hopeless and complicated gamestates. I think the metagame is in a good place for the better players to do well right now. I had alot of fun though and played alot of great matches. As far as trying to secure high finishes though, either the ratings need to use a better elo system or xsteven needs to release the data on exactly how the ratings work before I decide to give too much of my time to it.
So after that, the most I see myself putting on the ladder are the games when I’m naturally in the mood to play goat format and maybe I’ll put in other 100 game grinds in the future with different decks on different accounts. My goal was always to put in 100 matches to see where this new version of my deck would stand against the field. It seems to promote activity more than maintaining a high win rate and I do not want to play the volume race.
The ladder is it is right now doesnt actually make much sense to me, like how the elo or ratings work. I say finished because I dont plan on actively climbing the ladder after this. I’m writing this article after finishing in Top 8 on the Goat ladder with a 75% win rate after 100 total games. I have topped 3 Format Library Championships (2 undefeated in swiss performances, two 2nd place finishes, a 1st place in a double elimination FL tourney) all with Samurai Chaos Control and have now been in the top 10 of every goat ladder that has ever existed all with the same deck. The core of this deck is for all intents and purposes solved. Here we are once again, this is going to be my last article on this deck because I believe I have now perfected its ratios and any future changes would be meta calls for particular events.