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1000 Improved Mutants https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=67880.msg1299534#msg1299534
« on: July 04, 2020, 12:40:14 pm »
This is a project I wanted to do since... a very long time. Started after War#12, then got bored and only finished it right after War#13.

This was the deck used for testing:

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Obviously there is space for improvement, but after starting the test didn't want to change the conditions. (For example you can play
a RoL Mito variant to create mutation fodder.)

And this was the defending deck:

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Sadly, the AI is an idiot with Sundials, but usually it was able to buy enough time for me to spawn a lot of mutants
(56 sessions, 18 mutants on avg per session).

I had a recurring problem with my mutant-spawning deck: scavengers. Cats proc them, so I had to make extra screenshots
when they were created. (And not just at the end of the game as usual.) However there were quite a few times when I got really
numbed by the testing, forgot to make the screenshot, so I had to try and determine later how many procs happened. But comparing
the number of errors to the quantity of mutants I think all in all they are negligible.

Let's move on to numbers! The average ATT/HP is 5/6 for an improved mutant. That's pretty bad, I think - considering that normal mutation
creates 5/5 90% of the time. OK, you get a skill - whose usefulness is very situational. I still feel this spell is very underpowered.
You need a specific skill on a creature? You just play that specific creature and it is done. Solved the problem with 1 card. Here you need
2 cards: fodder and spell. (There are only a few exceptions: repeatable steal is brutal, deja vu skill is also works in a unique way here,
and this mitosis is way cheaper.)

If you like statistics, here is the full statistics.

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(Sadly functions aren't copied from Excel, only numbers.)
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Re: 1000 Improved Mutants https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=67880.msg1299541#msg1299541
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2020, 09:12:57 pm »
Interesting which creatures are excluded from the pool.

Phase Dragon is allowed while Immortal is not. Probably a holdover from before Phase Dragon was immaterial, though not sure why immaterial is a problem.
The Salvagers were the most recently added so I assume he just forgot to include them.
Fate Egg and Chimera make sense, as do the Shards.
Scarab must be because of the N health.
Devonian Dragon is weird. Only thing I can think of is Mutation took the same creature list from Fate Egg, and Dev wasn't included in that because it was rare when the game first released. That's a pretty big stretch though.

Or maybe you just got Wyand level RNG, who knows.
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Re: 1000 Improved Mutants https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=67880.msg1299543#msg1299543
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2020, 10:05:46 pm »
Interesting which creatures are excluded from the pool.

Phase Dragon is allowed while Immortal is not. Probably a holdover from before Phase Dragon was immaterial, though not sure why immaterial is a problem.


Yep, it is pretty funny that because of that Phase Dragon mutants aren't immaterial (though they can be randomly assigned with that skill).

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Fate Egg and Chimera make sense, as do the Shards.

Yet, the hatch skill exists on mutants... Shard of Focus could be easily a mutant, I see no problem with it. Integrity's absence is understandable.

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Devonian Dragon is weird. Only thing I can think of is Mutation took the same creature list from Fate Egg, and Dev wasn't included in that because it was rare when the game first released. That's a pretty big stretch though.

Or maybe you just got Wyand level RNG, who knows.

 ;D The wiki mentions that a mutant cannot be Devonian Dragon.
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