(Message davew:1360)
Subj: Re: [L5RINFO] Game Design and Speed - Tournament Play
From: David Williams <l5r@TSTONRAMP.COM>

  To: L5RINFO@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 17:59:26 PDT
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>One of the ultimate examples of this was the Black Lotus /
>Channel / Fireball decks which had a 99.5+% first turn
>kill rate in ultimate MTG games.

Way off topic...

Actually the statistically best Ultimate Magic deck was the 33 Wheel
of Fortune, 25 Black Lotus, 2 Feldon's Cane deck. Because it was only
a 2 card combo, it failed at half the rate that the
lotus/channel/fireball deck failed at.

Wheel/lotus has about a 98.5% kill rate.
Lotus/channel/fireball only has about a 95% kill rate.



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By the way, the rest of your post was terribly accurate and well
put-together. Understanding all that stuff is basically step one in
long-term CCG design.


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David Williams
l5r@tstonramp.com
Lead Designer - Legend of the Five Rings CCG, Deadlands CCG
Alderac Entertainment Group

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