How to make the best possible rare farm deck

[chriskang]

This thread is made for players who are in the Top 50 and intend to share their rare cards.
It's NOT a strategy for new players who want to win rares.
If you're new to the game and looking for advices, here's a starting point:
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,522.msg5018#msg5018 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,522.msg5018#msg5018)


The best possible rare farm deck is made of:

18 x random pillars (NO quantum towers)
6 x rare card of your choice
6 x another rare card of your choice



Here are the stats (chances to get something out of the deck after 1 spin):
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With a (24 pillars / 6 rare) deck

Nothing	49.8%
Pillar	16.4%
Rare	33.8%

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With a (18 pillars / 6 rare1 / 6 rare2) deck

Nothing	61.8%
Pillar	1.6%
Rare1	18.3%
Rare2	18.3%

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With a (12 pillars / 6 rare1 / 6 rare2 / 6 rare3) deck

Nothing	71.1%
Pillar	0.1%
Rare1	9.6%
Rare2	9.6%
Rare3	9.6%

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With a (6 rare1 / 6 rare2 / 6 rare3 / 6 rare4 / 6 rare5) deck

Nothing	81.0%
Rare1	3.8%
Rare2	3.8%
Rare3	3.8%
Rare4	3.8%
Rare5	3.8%

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In any case, if you want to setup a successful farm deck:
- never put quantum towers in it
- never put more than 3 different card types


(yes, I was wrong in the other thread)
If you want me to test other combos, please let me know. I'll edit the post.

[chriskang]

Another interesting statistic:

- chances to get any rare with a (24 pillars + 6 rare1 + 0 rare2) deck:	33.8%
- chances to get any rare with a (23 pillars + 6 rare1 + 1 rare2) deck:	31.9%
- chances to get any rare with a (22 pillars + 6 rare1 + 2 rare2) deck:	31.2%
- chances to get any rare with a (21 pillars + 6 rare1 + 3 rare2) deck:	31.6%
- chances to get any rare with a (20 pillars + 6 rare1 + 4 rare2) deck:	32.7%
- chances to get any rare with a (19 pillars + 6 rare1 + 5 rare2) deck:	34.5%
- chances to get any rare with a (18 pillars + 6 rare1 + 6 rare2) deck:	36.5%

This leads me to this conclusion:
Refrain from adding a rare card to your deck if you don't have at least 5 copies of it.
If you add a card with 4 copies or less, this will make your farm deck worst overall.

[jmizzle7]

Good work, Chris. Glad to know that my 'field research' was correct. Haha

[Scaredgirl]

Good job. Interesting numbers.50% chance of winning at least something is pretty high.

[Daxx]

Thanks Chris. Hopefully this will become common practice.

[r3h0ld3r]

Forgive me if I'm naive, but how do you win with a deck like this, and against who? 

Can you give examples?

[Daxx]

Forgive me if I'm naive, but how do you win with a deck like this, and against who? 

Can you give examples?

The idea isn't to win with this deck. You play with your regular deck when playing, and set the rare farm as a deck before registering your high score and logging off. Then, if you are in the t50, the rare farm will be the deck people fight against, because the database calls your most recent deck.

[chriskang]

Forgive me if I'm naive, but how do you win with a deck like this, and against who? 

Added disclaimer at the top of the post.
Thanks for letting me know it wasn't clear

[r3h0ld3r]

Ahhh.  Got it.

That's cool you guys are lookin out for those wanting to farm some rares.  Thanks for the tip.

[rawr]

Not really relevant until the update, but if you wouldn't mind, what are the chances of winning a card if your deck is 1 rare, 29 pillar, 2 rare, 28 pillar, etc.  This would be helpful for everyone in t50 who wants to farm themselves.

Actually, more useful, you could just break the 6 rare, 1 rare up into stats for each individual rare.  That way, when content updates come out, t50ers farming themselves using glasses and rares will know what they should do.

Also additionally, you could just provide us with the math and figures for calculating this all up.

Any / all of the above would be appreciated.

[Van Cleef]

How does 4/4/4/ 18 Pillars work out?  I threw one up there since I only have 4 sog's, but if it won't work very well then I'll just put somethin' else in instead.

[Scaredgirl]

How does 4/4/4/ 18 Pillars work out?  I threw one up there since I only have 4 sog's, but if it won't work very well then I'll just put somethin' else in instead.

It'll work just fine. Thanks for helping out other players.