Guest posts by SteppingStone81

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Draft - Battle Results / Re: Draft II, Cards

« on: June 28, 2011, 04:05:32 pm »

Steal

wow, immo and phoenix both available for picks 6 & 7 :-O

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Grid / Re: Grid - Round 8

« on: June 28, 2011, 03:59:40 pm »

Holy cow!

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War Archive / Re: War #3 - Round 14

« on: June 28, 2011, 03:57:49 pm »

First! Good luck to and !

Fixed your post!

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Round 13 / Re: (Fire) Gen. Napalm Grenade 2 - (Underworld) Lt. tttt 0

« on: June 28, 2011, 03:39:15 pm »

Juicy salvage; it looks like fire will have a shot vs entropy after all.

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FG Proposals / Re: Dragons Might

« on: June 28, 2011, 03:55:11 am »

In fact, I dont really like the idea, dragons even havent skills to make it interesting.

But dragons are awesome ... admit it!

p.s.  your avatar is a sky dragon

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The Arena / Re: t500 bonus spin strategy

« on: June 27, 2011, 09:03:29 pm »

If i have two of the same should i spin the other one three times and hope it matches up?  Or is there some better strategy?

definitely best strat

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Grid - Battle Results / Re: Round 7 Results

« on: June 27, 2011, 08:13:49 pm »

i spend 2 Relics to upgrade, and Spend 3 Relics to disperse the Skull Shield to Dimensional Shield.

First successful use of disperse ... kudos!

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Round 13 / Re: (Entropy) Lt. vagman13 2 - (Death) Gen. MrBlonde 0

« on: June 27, 2011, 08:10:09 pm »

the only team to leave the 60 card sweet zone willingly. you guys had guts. see you next war team 

I actually disagree; our guts were removed when we were embalmed in Team .  Otherwise, thanks and good luck!

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Round 13 / Re: (Entropy) Lt. vagman13 2 - (Death) Gen. MrBlonde 0

« on: June 27, 2011, 07:52:34 am »

Good try, MrBlonde!

Good run, team !

Enjoyed doing battle with teams .

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Grid - Battle Results / Re: Round 6 Results

« on: June 26, 2011, 07:45:18 pm »

O RLY? Those would have been your picks if you had assumed the match was going to happen? Tell me what decks would you have used? 24 life pillars 6 dragons?

This is late, and doesn't matter, but I laughed after reading the post.

The objective function in this event is not to win every match, but to get the most relics. Ergo, if you can field sub-par decks but win a huge number of relics in expectation, you should do that.  Round 5 I overreached with sub-par picks and got smacked down by kirch, but it still might not have been the wrong decision a priori.

Here I felt that I had the best EV with mummy-titan-BH-(chimera) for 18 relics, although probably not a >50% win rate.

Speaking of ugly picks, how did crusader-long sword-antimatter work for you?

p.s. - upgrades are only worth it if they increase your expected relics won by more than the number of relics spent.

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Round 13 / ~~ War #3 - Match Results and Countdown ~~

« on: June 26, 2011, 04:45:59 pm »

Duels: 4/4 Round has ended Battle Results: # Win Player vs Loss Player 1 Lt. vagman13 2 +9 vs (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,27995.0.html) Gen. MrBlonde 0 -30 2 Gen. Sevs 2 +6 vs (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,28032.0.html) Lt. pikachufan2164 0 -30 3 Gen. Zeru 2 +9 vs (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,28008.0.html) Gen. Higurashi 0 -30 4 Gen. Napalm Grenade 2 0 vs (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,28040.0.html) Lt. tttt 0 -30 Remaining Battles: # Player vs Player Make sure you record your matches correctly Element Total Duels (4) W L M +18 2 2 0 +6 0 1 1 0 -6 -24 2 1 1 - -42 1 0 1 -12 -60 2 0 2 - PENALTIES Penalties are explained in detail HERE (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,27917.0.html#notes) Total = The adjustment to Vault this round due to all changes. W = Wins L = Losses M = Modifiers from Events, Penalties and Other things.

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Rainbow Decks / Re: Crematorium - Computer Aided Speedbow Optimization Part 2

« on: June 26, 2011, 12:28:23 pm »

This kind of optimization does not work as well when you restrict substitution to only 1 card at a time.  Also, did you allow the mark to vary?