Guest posts by Ekki

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Trio & Quartet / Re: scarab spamming is fun! remade

« on: November 22, 2011, 01:40:27 am »

What other stalls could you add? LOL, is the name "Procrastination" not enough of a hint as to what it does?

IDK if you refer to me but I'll suppose that
I think Sundials are OK to stall until the Scarabs are big enough, I just added that -maybe- a bit more stall could be of use, like Reverse Time or Gravity Pull, but those may make the deck too fat.
As I said:

*snip* maybe in stalling early game (but sundials seem to do that OK).

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Crucible Archive / Re: Forest Monster | Swamp Monster

« on: November 22, 2011, 01:36:20 am »

@Ekki
i'm think BB is basilisk blood, right?  but what is PC?

BB is Basilisk Blood, and PC is Permanent Control (as CC for Creature Control)

diss shield/field right?  if you have both Swamp monster and entropy shield and some quanta,  shield still guard you until you don't have anything to drain. 

all damage after can't do anything to you because swamp monster still protect your shield,  and it will protect until it's dead. 

So if I get it, that's what I said I like it that way.

I like it. Great concept.
Here's some new wording:
If your permanent would be destroyed or stolen deal 3 damage to this card instead.

Stolen would be redundant, since it has to destroy your permanent to steal it. So it would be something like "If your permanent would be destroyed deal 3 damage to this card instead." Credits to Rutarete, I just changed one word

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Duo-Decks / Re: Innundation Deck!

« on: November 22, 2011, 01:33:38 am »

This deck's pretty cheap. It's worth less than upping one card. No rares either

Yeah, the fact is, I'm farming FG's to fully upgrade my RoL/Hope. Once i do that, I'll do myself an upped deck to farm some shards or another Lobo (because i have only 2 ), and then I'll be ready to do this, because I'll be buying every single unupped card (done it before having my account reseted). So I guess my tests will have to wait some loooong time. Fortunately, they would be a good enough reason to necro this thread, so you'll get my news

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Trio & Quartet / Re: scarab spamming is fun! remade

« on: November 22, 2011, 01:26:38 am »

Well, look's basically OK to me. Some concerns though:

Something tells me that you'll need a bit more quanta.

You might have some quanta troubles there.

Also, that Enchant Artifact seems out of place. I mean, you're packing it (I guess) so that your Eternity doesn't get PC'd, but chances are that it will end up clogging your hand when you could have drawed a Sundial or Time Pillar. Also, 30-card decks are faster at drawing, and that would let you take out the Novas.

Other than that, I'd like to see this deck with 6 Pharaohs, since you need to draw one earlier in the game.

BTW, how is this deck doing in your tests??

i havent  bean counting games but im guessing 4 losses in pvp out of 50ish games and 3 in lv3\elders out of 50 but ill probly do some actual testing, and 6 pharohs is too many in my opinion

Huh, OK, remember that PvP is full of 50-card-newish players, so it's just useful if you take in account against what deck you're winning (this requires some knowledge about decktypes and synergies to actually work), so I recommend AI3 and Arena for tests. As I said:

EDIT: Seeing the video. You faced a 70-score guy in PvP, with Quantum pillars in his seemingly basic deck. Maybe you should try it in Arena (bronze is OK) or AI3/4, I see potential in the Pharaoh/SoR combo.

Why enchant artifact? Otherwise the deck looks fine.

enchant artifact is for the eternity, it got crushed and because of that i lost a game.

That is a bad reasoning. Supposing that you will draw one single EA in your deck, right when you need it, and after you drew 2 novas, is not as useful as it seems. There will always be a counter to your deck (like an earlier Lobotomizer or Mind Flayers), and many soft counters like PC and CC, so you can't pack everything because you're making your Pharaohs less effective. I say focus on Scarab spamming and maybe in stalling early game (but sundials seem to do that OK).

I've seen a deck like this (even before the new SoR) farming Half-Bloods, so I guess this one will have even more potential.

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Trio & Quartet / Re: scarab spamming is fun! remade

« on: November 22, 2011, 12:58:47 am »

Well, look's basically OK to me. Some concerns though:

Something tells me that you'll need a bit more quanta.

You might have some quanta troubles there.

Also, that Enchant Artifact seems out of place. I mean, you're packing it (I guess) so that your Eternity doesn't get PC'd, but chances are that it will end up clogging your hand when you could have drawed a Sundial or Time Pillar. Also, 30-card decks are faster at drawing, and that would let you take out the Novas.

Other than that, I'd like to see this deck with 6 Pharaohs, since you need to draw one earlier in the game.

BTW, how is this deck doing in your tests??
EDIT: Seeing the video. You faced a 70-score guy in PvP, with Quantum pillars in his seemingly basic deck. Maybe you should try it in Arena (bronze is OK) or AI3/4, I see potential in the Pharaoh/SoR combo.

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Duo-Decks / Re: Innundation Deck!

« on: November 22, 2011, 12:42:15 am »

maybe as a title you could use "negative five" as a reference to how your opponent will have 5 negative creatures.

Yeah, sounds good

Also, tried this on Arena, always lost my sixth match (yeah, got to the sixth match four times), and I think I should add 2-3 losses and 2-3 wins that I don't exactly remember. So it's a rough 70% wins.  Anyways, it's still a WiP (Work in Progress), so be there waiting for more stats (once I make it again since I sold it for my FG farmer )

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Science / Re: Determinism

« on: November 22, 2011, 12:26:04 am »

There's an alternate definition scientifically:
The idea is that given all variables, one can always determine the outcome of a result.

In a physics sense, this means that if you are given say, the location and velocity of every atom in the universe, you could predict the future infinitely, including human reaction, evolution, and motion of all bodies.

Because of Quantum Mechanics, this theory is now dead.

Would you please expand on your last comment. I thought the uncertainty principle just referred to the inability to measure both position and momentum not an inability for every particle to have a specific position and momentum.

Quantum Theory just killed lots of things. Even the fact that particles have a specific position and momentum. They don't. They always have an unknown something that is like Schrodinger's cat, both here and there. Anyways, it's still a theory.

Thus it would be impossible to measure and thus know both facts but if they were known the reactions could be predicted (with the possible exception of Free Wills).

I don't think the unpredictability is about "Free Wills", unless it's just a way of giving a "charge of randomness" to particles.

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Science / Re: Neutrinos ----- Newly Discovered Tachyon?

« on: November 22, 2011, 12:20:07 am »

Soo, you made a Neutrino|Tachion card, then googled them? Or was it the whole way around??

Anyways, the article seems like a regular news article- a bit mediocre. Saying that the Neutrinos were faster than light by 60 nanoseconds, without saying the magnitudes involved is a bluff.

Now, back to physics, my physics teacher said me that right after the Big Bang, all that matter (that we call Universe) expanded waaaaay faster than light (some light years in a couple of seconds, or if I remember well, even some thousand light years in less than a second). I mean, it's not strictly impossible to travel faster than light. I know that discovering would turn physics around, but I just fail to get it...

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Card Ideas and Art / Re: Neutrino | Tachyon

« on: November 22, 2011, 12:08:04 am »

This whole thing of the imaginary number makes me think "too hard to code", otherwise, looks like a "no more shields, bro" statement.
Is shield shatter an active or a passive skill?? If lobotomizing is the way, so be it.
Also, what about immaterial/PA'd shields?? I guess they aren't destroyed.
I'd like to see too, how would this affect hp-based spells (like catapult, devour and skull shield -if you manage to lobo it-) and auto-kill-ish spells, like RT, freeze+shockwave, catapult (again).
Well, the fact that it has imaginary health makes it so complicated that it needs more notes...

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Card Ideas and Art / Re: Stem Cell | Stem Cell

« on: November 21, 2011, 11:04:19 pm »

I agree with srm. It would get used in a lot of rainbows for its sheer versatility and cheapness. Cost should be raised a fair bit more.

Ya, I'm still waiting for that awesome / duo with 1|8 Oty's all over

Seriously though, this is really powerful. I mean, it also gains 5 hp? I know it fits thematically, but it should be fixed quanta wise. Not to mention growing or mutations...
But the fact of using your opponents' creatures is just evil, so I totally approve of this

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Science / Re: Determinism

« on: November 21, 2011, 10:13:14 pm »

*Philosophic and not scientific because there is no experiment to test the positive claim of Free Will existing.

As far as I know, you can't test the positive claim of Determinism either.

Determinism in this context is not the positive claim that causality exists. It is the negative claim that no Free Will exists that could alter the effect caused even with the same causal variables.

That said it is not rational to be biased toward either the positive or negative claim when both are equally untestable/unprovable.

Well, I actually wanted to mean what you said in your last sentence...

However, if we assume the human race being nothing more than a chemical reaction of the universe, we can compare ourselves to any repetitively constant output in a given experiment. Unless I'm just spouting ridiculousness.

Well, you can't know the exact position AND direction of a same small enough particle (I think it had to be subatomic). That said, knowing the EXACT ouput of this "chemical reaction of the universe" would be impossible, and since some of our reactions are directed (at least indirectly) by some of that small enough differences of a particle, it would be impossible to determine the output of a single human fetus even knowing all the possible data about it.
Apart from that, there's a theory in quantum physics, that everything can happen with a large enough sample. Literally. I mean, your rubber could turn into uranium and travel to Andromedae, then come back as gold (one in a bazzillion-trillion chances of happening). But if you take in account smaller things and smaller differences (like where's a particle inside a neuron), you got bigger chances of random stuff happening.
In the end, you can't know if that "random" output is actually random, or if it is just the data you miss from the input the one that make those things to happen. So it ends being a philosophical debate.

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Science / Re: Determinism

« on: November 21, 2011, 07:44:21 pm »

*Philosophic and not scientific because there is no experiment to test the positive claim of Free Will existing.

As far as I know, you can't test the positive claim of Determinism either.