Forgive me for my stupid title, I just cant believe the hype about Quantum Pillars being the most used card, and insanely flawed interpretation of statistical data and calls for nerf.
I'm referring, of course, to this chart:
Same chart suggests that
pillars are used 4,6 times more than
pillars. Does that mean that
pillars are more powerful than
ones and in need of nerf? That is hilarious, especially considering there is a creature that converts as many
quanta to
thus reducing the need of
pillars, and increasing the need for
pillars. Funny.
Statistics are good for nothing if you dont know how to interpret them. And that created another funny conclusion: overwhelming usage of certain type of pillars makes them overpowered! Why is this funny? Because, if you need MORE pillars of certain type in your deck to accomplish the same thing that deck with LESS pillars of another type would, that doesnt say your pillars are in need of a nerf, it means they are in need of a buff!
I know its kinda counter intuitive at first glance, but give yourself a minute and think about that.
That last conclusion in yellow is actually not true in this game as all pillars produce the same, save for quantum pillars which produce effectively 1/4th of what mono deck pillars produce during the opening turns of the game.
So, if conclusions that high usage = overpowered is false, and high usage = underpowered is false, what does the chart tells us? Absolutely nothing about certain pillars being in need of nerf or buff. Easy proof of that is the example of light and life pillars I made earlier.
It is absolutely perfectly NORMAL for quantum pillars to be used 10, even 50 times more than any other pillars simply because there are more possible rainbow decks than any other type of decks that use elements pillars.
And when you add the fact that Scaredgirls rainbow used to be THE ultimate FG killer deck, AND that Puppychows postnerf rainbow deck is widely spread, AND the popularity of speed rainbow decks, AND the fact that number of cards per element is extremely low thus making rainbow pretty attractive option, I wonder how on earth could you possibly come to conclusion that Quantum Pillars are to blame here?
Huge time rainbows were great due to the sundial mostly. Now, they are just slow. Puppychows rainbow, and speed rainbow actually heavily rely on Supernovas.
Which brings me to... Why Quantum pillars are actually not that great:
Supernovas bring 22 evenly distributed quanta at the very same turn they are played. Quantum Tower needs whooping 7 turns to accomplish this, and could leave you (and always will according to Murphy) with low quanta count on the very element you need at the moment.
Cremation needs something to cremate, but brings fire quanta super fast, with some leftovers in other elements to play with. Fastest decks are created with novas and cremations.
Pillars from certain elements brings you 100% usable quanta. Quantum pillars do generate 3 times as more quanta, but that quanta is dispersed to TWELVE elements.
Out of those options, pair of novas are actually the most powerful quanta generators in the game, and are the reason why rainbows are so effective. Not quantum pillars. Rainbows that rely only on quantum pillars to produce quanta are so slow its not even funny. So BUFF QUANTUM PILLARS, or on a more serious note, please dont make conclusions from stats that say nothing about what you're trying to conclude.
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p.s. On the side note, some pretty good informations could be extracted from that chart. There are few cards screaming imbalance but thats not the topic of this thead.
