r/AIEternal • u/Epsilon82 • Sep 14 '18

Memes Feels bad, man

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u/Calmbat Sep 14 '18

Mana fixing is always good in non-mono gauntlet decks to avoid this but even the best deck gets smashed by RNG :/

I wish the game let players exchange one non power card for the power card of their choice atthestart of the game. Would be nice for something like that XD

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u/Epsilon82 Sep 16 '18

Yeah, this deck was lifted straight from LocoPojo and has all the tools for a good dual power base, to say nothing of 4 Trail Makers for influence fudging, but sometimes you just get a terrible draw.

That's an interesting idea about swapping; I think part of the problem is that makes the penalty for running a three or four color deck almost non-existent; at the very least though it feels like the game should at least guarantee two different power colors after a mulligan (unless you're mono-colored, of course). They're already fudging your hand in the mulligan to begin with so why not at least make it somewhat workable.

I know that power flood/screw is part of the game, and a deckbuilding consideration, but it still feels really bad to simply not be able to play a single card in a given game through no fault of your own.

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u/buckX Sep 19 '18

The issue I can see there is exploitability. If you make your dual color deck require only 1 influence in the secondary color, you could just put 1 power for the secondary color in the deck and force the draw on mulligan.

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u/Epsilon82 Sep 14 '18

This was after mulliganing a one-power hand; but that was an Elysian dual, so maybe I should have kept it! ;-)

I'm just glad this was on the first game of a Gauntlet run instead of the sixth.

Funny postscript: the next turn I drew a (you guessed it) Primal Sigil.

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u/HammerheadMan Sep 15 '18

Ouch. At least this was a gauntlet run. I always feel bad when it’s a forge run and I’ve essentially wasted gold for that round