Guest posts by 2weiX

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Rainbow Decks / The ULTIMATE False God killing deck!!!

« on: December 15, 2009, 10:10:03 pm »

I started playing THE GODS with this deck completely unupgraded.


obviously i was lucky to play Fire Queen, Miracle and Chaos Lord so much, I dunno.

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Issue Archive / Grog (the Shuffler)

« on: December 15, 2009, 10:09:54 pm »

p.s. Lol, "land".

I heard some ppl say "mana" around here, too...

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Issue Archive / Grog (the Shuffler)

« on: December 15, 2009, 10:09:54 pm »

As is known to those who play MTGO, there's this troll by the name of Grog, who rules over the shuffler. He's caught on to you, guys! Get some brooms and clear out the basement!


My deck is 33 cards, of which 13 are pillars.

That's slightly above 1/3, almost 40%.

In the last two days, I have played about 40 games.
I had to forfeit 21 of those games, because I didn't draw a pillar until the second turn, which sucks, especially against poison, mono-aether and earth-fire.

in the PVPs i played so far this day (12), I had 5 games in which I had ONE pillar in my opening hand. I had ONE game, where I held six pillars.


Now, I know this doesn't really make for some advanced heuristical analysis, but it REALLY sucks to have the opponent (both happened to me today!) go

tower tower tower tower poison poison poison
or
tower tower tower chryssa chryssa chryssa chryssa

while your 34 card scarab deck holds
bone wall (the only copy!)
parallel universe (the only copy!)
steal
scarab
scarab
scarab
blessing

and proceeds to draw
steal
scarab
blessing...

I really like this game, but instances like these happen way too often.
with 40% land, i should be drawing two to three pillars most of the time.
one, meh. four, yay. but i cant imagine that they're clumped this badly so often.

would there be a way for you to make the shuffle algo public?

i bet this isnt the first gripe about the shuffler, and it wont be the last :-D

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Issue Archive / Grog (the Shuffler)

« on: December 15, 2009, 10:09:54 pm »

as a poker player i am aware of these concepts etc etc, what put me on tilt is the frequency with which this seems to happen.

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Rainbow Decks / Scaredgirl's Scarab Scavengers

« on: December 15, 2009, 10:09:52 pm »

I have to Scarab decks, mostly unupgraded.

one is very very fast and i used it to grind level 3 AIs:



the other one fares very well in PVP.

I am constantly moving thunderstorm in and out of the deck, since sometimes it's just pure awesome (killing 20 skeletons FTW) and sometimes (eg vs mono-aether) its just dumb. the jury is still  out on this one, but i THINK i would like to include it. i call this deck the SCARAB TOOLBOX.
firebolt is an a+ game-finisher that usually hits them out of nowhere. kaPLOOW.

the deflagration is nice to time your last wave. play a dial, build your men, deflag the dial and rush in.

i am in the process of upping the pillars to towers.

this last deck has a version that is awesome to grind level3 with mastery nearly all the time, with the following adjustments: w
-1 thunderstorm
-1 deflagration
+2 pillars
+1 steal
+3 bonds
+2 boneyards

hile it's a bit slower, i am able to stall and then play mass scarabs, kill kritters, get skeletons, gain life etc.

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Issue Archive / Turn 1 Incredibleness

« on: December 15, 2009, 10:09:51 pm »

player phantoms just played

turn1
green pillar
quantum tower
blue pillar
owls eye
emerald shield

wtf?

he had NO quantums whatsoever and this was the FIRST EVER turn of the match.