Guest posts by SteppingStone81

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Deck Help / Re: Need help with TU Deathstalker deck (anti-FG)

« on: October 25, 2010, 03:19:06 pm »

With 6 SoGs, you probably don't need that many phase shields, but you should definitely have 3 or 4. I think you should keep some TUs, they will help get your damage out much faster.

+4 phase shields
-2 TU
-1 Arsenic

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This is working nicely ... I'll post results after 100 FGs.  thanks.

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Deck Help / Re: Need help with TU Deathstalker deck (anti-FG)

« on: October 25, 2010, 03:14:26 pm »

Add another arsenic if you want that extra weapon slot filled, or just take it out...

Ok ... but what is the logic behind having 0 or 2 of a weapon but not one? 

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Deck Help / Need help with TU Deathstalker deck (anti-FG)

« on: October 25, 2010, 05:27:43 am »

Does it need stalling (e.g. phase shields) in order for poison to run its course?

Other improvements?

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spoiler contains working version:
Seems to work better with no TU, just phase shields, scorpions, momentum and SoG

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Rainbow Decks / Re: Skittles challenge - Taste the Rainbow

« on: October 24, 2010, 06:25:04 am »

Even though this deck fits the name more, name's been taken, sorry (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,12134.0.html)

That deck has nothing to do with skittles.

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Rainbow Decks / Skittles challenge - Taste the Rainbow

« on: October 24, 2010, 05:29:22 am »

Original Skittles were red , orange , yellow , green , and purple (in a red package).

So, deck must be fire-gravity-time-life-death with a fire mark.

Pendula look like skittles, so I used three of each color.  Then I added scorpions for some crunch.  Momentum because once you start eating a pack, you can't stop.  Fire shield to keep greedy fingers away from my skittles.

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

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Delicious.

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General Discussion / Re: Starting hand probabilities, or "how many of this card should I put in my deck?"

« on: October 23, 2010, 05:39:19 pm »

Ah cool, I didn't realize someone else had already posted about this. 

Anyone have ideas on how to incorporate the auto-mulligan into the probabilities?

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General Discussion / Starting hand probabilities, or "how many of this card should I put in my deck?"

« on: October 23, 2010, 03:30:50 am »

If I put 'm' pillars in a deck of 'N' cards, what are my odds of drawing a given number of pillars?  (or any other card for that matter)

Turns out this is the hypergeometric distribution.   Here's a link to a google doc to play around with different starting deck sizes:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AuUTIrbqhIKTdGQ4MXREYWJkbzl2VGgxMUx3UDZrQkE&hl=en&authkey=CMnAmIMD (https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AuUTIrbqhIKTdGQ4MXREYWJkbzl2VGgxMUx3UDZrQkE&hl=en&authkey=CMnAmIMD)

As an example, for a 30-card deck and a 7-card starting hand, the probabilities of drawing 'k' pillars when I put 'm' pillars in the 30-card deck are:

Number of card drawn (k) -->	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Quantity of card in deck (m)
0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1	0.77	0.23	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0.58	0.37	0.05	0	0	0	0	0
3	0.44	0.44	0.12	0.01	0	0	0	0
4	0.32	0.45	0.19	0.03	0	0	0	0
5	0.24	0.43	0.26	0.06	0.01	0	0	0
6	0.17	0.4	0.31	0.1	0.01	0	0	0
7	0.12	0.35	0.35	0.15	0.03	0	0	0
8	0.08	0.29	0.36	0.2	0.05	0.01	0	0
9	0.06	0.24	0.36	0.25	0.08	0.01	0	0
10	0.04	0.19	0.34	0.29	0.12	0.02	0	0
11	0.02	0.15	0.31	0.31	0.16	0.04	0	0
12	0.02	0.11	0.28	0.33	0.2	0.06	0.01	0
13	0.01	0.08	0.24	0.33	0.24	0.09	0.01	0
14	0.01	0.06	0.2	0.33	0.28	0.12	0.02	0
15	0	0.04	0.15	0.31	0.31	0.15	0.04	0
16	0	0.02	0.12	0.28	0.33	0.2	0.06	0.01
17	0	0.01	0.09	0.24	0.33	0.24	0.08	0.01
18	0	0.01	0.06	0.2	0.33	0.28	0.11	0.02
19	0	0	0.04	0.16	0.31	0.31	0.15	0.02
20	0	0	0.02	0.12	0.29	0.34	0.19	0.04
21	0	0	0.01	0.08	0.25	0.36	0.24	0.06
22	0	0	0.01	0.05	0.2	0.36	0.29	0.08
23	0	0	0	0.03	0.15	0.35	0.35	0.12
24	0	0	0	0.01	0.1	0.31	0.4	0.17
25	0	0	0	0.01	0.06	0.26	0.43	0.24
26	0	0	0	0	0.03	0.19	0.45	0.32
27	0	0	0	0	0.01	0.12	0.44	0.44
28	0	0	0	0	0	0.05	0.37	0.58
29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.23	0.77
30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1

e.g., if I put 3 voodoo dolls in a 30-card deck, I have a 44% chance of starting out with zero voodoo dolls.  If I up this to 5 voodoo dolls, I cut my chances of starting with zero voodoo dolls to 24%.

Hope this helps people.

Note: if you want to figure out the probability of getting a card within N turns ... just change the number of draws (cards in starting hand) to: 7 + N

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Issue Archive / Dive and Web interaction

« on: October 18, 2010, 05:33:23 pm »

As I understand it, web ability removes flying passive ability from a creature.  However, creatures are still able to use dive ability after being webbed.

(Maybe the wrong place to post this, but it seems like a bug with dive functioning when the creature is no longer flying).

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False Gods / Re: Most humiliating FG defeats

« on: October 18, 2010, 04:01:11 am »

Divine Glory wondering why she drew zero Fire Towers, zero Miracles, and just one Morning Glory.   

(http://imageplay.net/)

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Deck Help / I'm Bringing Mummy Back - (Help request)

« on: October 14, 2010, 11:44:13 pm »

Goal:
I am attempting to build a functional deck around the passive ability of mummies to turn into pharaohs when rewound.

Restrictions:

• No upgraded cards

This deck seems to lend itself to a  trio:

• : mummies
• : rewind, pharaohs' scarab ability
• : scarabs' devour ability

The biggest problems I've encountered here:

• Very slow deck
• No permanent control
• Only slow CC
• inconsistent quanta needs over time (need early, mid, and late)

Before I scrap this idea entirely, I thought I'd post here on the forums to see if anyone has any suggestions to get this deck functional.

Here's a current (not very successful) version:

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I've met with little success incorporating the following:

• precognition
• scarabs
• black hole
• momentum
• titan