I've been using the same deck for a while and I'm in the process of upgrading the cards slowly but surely. Every once in a while I'll thrown in or take out a card -- often pillars/towers -- but what I currently have seems to be working quite well, quanta-wise. My QI, however, is quite interesting...
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4ta 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52r 52r 52r 52r 52t 52t 52t 52t 560 5rk 5rk 5rk 6rq 710 710 710 71d 71d 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q8 8pl
The first card is a non-upgraded SoR.
My deck runs into many problems which makes it hard for me to calculuate the QI, but here's what I did:
-I count my deck as a trio-deck. However, since I don't have any
pillars at all (and it works that way), I simply chose to ignore the elment entirely.
-I count Shards of Readiness as being equally divided among all 3 elements,
included.
-Since I'm ignoring
, I don't count the Chimera at all, nor do I count the Scarabs' "Devour" cost. It would be pretty hard to calculate even if I wanted to.
-I have 6 Mummies in my deck, all of which count towards
. I usually end up with about 2 Pharoahs out by the end of the game (or, at least there's no point in having more). I counted using the ability of 3 Pharaohs though, because other cards that may not necessarily make it out are all conted for. I figure I go through about 2/3 of the deck each game, so about 2/3 of the Pharoahs are used. Makes sense.
-I typically use my first SoR on a Pharoah, and second on a Scarab. Because of this, I counted 2 of the Pharoahs' abilities twice, but 1 of them only once (assuming that possibly I'll only use
for it half the time).
-I counted towers as not only "pillars", but as -1 quanta each.
-I counted Eternity's ability twice, since if I have one out and can use it, I'm probably going to use it on
something. It may be situational, but mainly only to save
. If
isn't an issue, I usually use it.
Following all the above "rules", I ended up with very close to 6 QI in
(5 26/27) and very close to 4 QI in
(3 17/18). Putting the 2 together, I end up with close to 5 (4 42/45). That sounds good, and all, but it makes me wonder why my QI for
is so much higher than my QI for
. Do you suppose it could be because
is more important at the beginning of the duel (I need to get Mummies out, need a steady Bone Wall, etc.) while
is more important at the end (I need to keep generating scrabas, I don't need to put out more Bone Walls once they start devouring)? To me, this makes sense, because the less-important one can "wait" until later and you have more of a chance to draw the right cards while your waiting, while the more-important one you need right away or you can't do anything. Am I onto something here, or are both of my QI's just way off, but in opposite dirrections...and maybe they should be the same? o.O
P.S.: If you count
mark as 2 pilars, then I can only be alloted about 1/3 points for Devour (due to the Chimera's massive 7 and the SoR's 8/3) in order to have a QI for 5 in
. Even though it's situational, I typically do have plenty of
throughout the game (RoL + Fractal + Hope comes to mind as a good example as to when I don't...). Interesting that it seems my QI would be realatively low if I were able to acctualy calculate Devour properly.