How to evaluate vanilla creatures

[Hazardus10]

Wicked Guide. Great guide for beginners in card making and in deck making.  I can't wait to see what is added

[OldTrees]

Good guide. +102 Rep I especially liked the additional detail you went into.

Rules 1-3 are:
High expected damage per Quanta Cost is good
High expected damage per Card Cost is good
High expected damage per Turn Cost is good
The true cost of a card is a function* of these three costs (quanta, card and turn).

Rules 4&5 are:
Expected damage is a function* of damage per turn, frequency of disruption and resilience to disruption.

*This is one of the big questions of card design/card balance. The person to find these functions ...

[10 men]

Thank you all for the friendly feedback, I am happy that my little article resonated.

An inspiring article, 10 men. It deserves to be in the wiki.

Cool. Do I also get an image of Johnny Depp linking to it on the front page?
But I think that the second post should be included as well, since I am referencing it in the first.

[RavingRabbid]

Random fact:

A deck with a single skyblitz and 29 damselflies in 0.032 turns faster (Average TTW: 5.46752) than a deck with 30 damselflies, or something close to that.

If you ever run a deck like that, remember to swap out a damselfly for a sky blitz.

[ColorlessGreen]

Random fact:

A deck with a single skyblitz and 29 damselflies in 0.032 turns faster (Average TTW: 5.46752) than a deck with 30 damselflies, or something close to that.

If you ever run a deck like that, remember to swap out a damselfly for a sky blitz.

This right here is the kind of vital information I read the forums for.

Did you run a simulation on 28 damselflies and two sky blitzes? I could see two sky blitzes being a slightly better TTW (but I could also see it going the other way). How about three? Where's the sky blitz sweet spot?

[Acsabi44]

Random fact:

A deck with a single skyblitz and 29 damselflies in 0.032 turns faster (Average TTW: 5.46752) than a deck with 30 damselflies, or something close to that.

If you ever run a deck like that, remember to swap out a damselfly for a sky blitz.

This right here is the kind of vital information I read the forums for.

Did you run a simulation on 28 damselflies and two sky blitzes? I could see two sky blitzes being a slightly better TTW (but I could also see it going the other way). How about three? Where's the sky blitz sweet spot?

"A deck with a single skyblitz and 29 damselflies in 0.032 turns faster...than a deck with 30 damselflies "
Following your logic, a deck of 30 SkyBlitzes is (0.032*30)= 0,96 turns faster! That's almost a full turn!

[furballdn]

Briefly skimmed it. Very, very good article. I've been wanting, and the community has been needing, for something like this for a long time. Well done. Have some tasty +rep.