War - Starting Vault Statistics

[jumpoffduck]

Since all of the team forums have been released, all of us can see what cards each team decided to initially fill their vaults with

Some overall stats:
Entropy was the most commonly used element, with 626 cards.
Time was the least used element, with 345 cards. (well, besides Other, at 26)

Element	Frequency
Entropy	626
Aether	599
Fire	531
Earth	470
Darkness	461
Air	432
Water	430
Death	409
Gravity	408
Light	362
Life	359
Time	345
Other	26

The most commonly used pendulum was Life, at 126 (120 of which were from Team Life )
The most commonly used pillar was Entropy, at 105
The least used pendulum was Earth, at 26
The least used pillar was Air, at 13

The top 10 non-pillar cards were:

Card	Frequency
Nova	101
Poison	99
Deflagration	94
Dimensional Shield	93
Earthquake	92
Discord	89
Devourer	84
Lightning	76
Graboid	74

Full stats available at http://jumpoffduck.co.cc/elements/War2StartingVaults.xls (http://jumpoffduck.co.cc/elements/War2StartingVaults.xls)

[wizelsnarf]

Very nice work from you once again.

Thanks. Quite informative and I think it makes a statement on which elements are strongest and weakest.

Entropy cards were favored while time was not. Life was also not favored much. If you look at the cards that were not used at all during war I think it says a lot as well.

Cards like Fate Egg and rustler just didn't see any play because they probably weren't worth it.

[Glitch]

The 120 pendulum thing was an idea life had early in the war.  While an off element pillar is a dead card in 11/12 decks, a life pendulum is useful in all duo decks AND in mono.  As such, we chose to fuel all our decks with pendulums.  Now, from last war, I had learned that you always need more pendulums than you think you do.  Because we had an excess of pendulums, we could discard pendulums early and then convert to get them back, effectively allowing us to discard any card in our vault, instead of being stuck with in deck cards.

This strategy worked extremely well.

[Istari.]

The 120 pendulum thing was an idea life had early in the war.  While an off element pillar is a dead card in 11/12 decks, a life pendulum is useful in all duo decks AND in mono.  As such, we chose to fuel all our decks with pendulums.  Now, from last war, I had learned that you always need more pendulums than you think you do.  Because we had an excess of pendulums, we could discard pendulums early and then convert to get them back, effectively allowing us to discard any card in our vault, instead of being stuck with in deck cards.

This strategy worked extremely well.

Air did the same thing, we just took some air pillars, the 13, for our Unstable gas deck.

[TheonlyrealBeef]

More Devourers than Graboids? Just wow.
Nova was expected, but some of these results are quite surprising, good work!

[Sir Valimont]

Where did you get Entropy's starting vault? We didn't post it on any thread, private or otherwise ...

[jumpoffduck]

Where did you get Entropy's starting vault? We didn't post it on any thread, private or otherwise ...

Google Docs's "See revision history" is awesome.

[Amilir]

This is very interesting.  I'm surprised there haven't been more comments.  Actually, I'm surprised at how little quanta other teams had.  We took 165 pillars/pends and we had quanta problems anyway.  Granted, we WERE discarding quanta over basically everything else, but still.