Some Pillar Statistics

[david707]

I do statitics. Now imagine you want to it to be very likely for you to get at least a certain number of pillars in your first hand.
If you wanted at least a 95% chance of getting at least a certain number of pillars in your hand, this is the least number pillars you should put in a 30 card deck.
1: 13, 2: 19, 3: 24
Now say your feeling lucky and only want a 90% chance.
1: 11, 2: 17, 3: 23
Now say your feeling very unlucky and want a 99% Chance.
1: 17, 2: 23, 3: 26

And thats why most poeple use about 13 pillars. They might not relise it, but stastically it gives you over 95% chance of getting at least one pillar in a hand of 5 cards, in a deck of 30 cards.

I'd also recommend that you have a bare minimum of 11 pillars.

19 Pillars is a good number in a deck thats mana heavy.

[kev]

stastically it gives you over 95% chance of getting at least one pillar in a hand of 5 cards, in a deck of 30 cards.

We use 7-card hands... plus a draw of 1 if you're not first to act.  So... yeah.

Also, here's  (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,5676.0.html) some valuable notes on how many pillars to take.

[PuppyChow]

Also of note is that in any hand where you don't have any 0 cost cards, you get a single redraw without noticing it.