Call It Shadespire!

Wouldn't you know it, just as soon as I publish math for the four new bases, SWU adds a fifth. I'm gonna try to make this fast: there's no mathematical card advantage or disadvantage to playing this deck. If you'd like to know the numbers, you can check the previous article (" Call it Swudespire "). The Lake House will give you the same odds of drawing as the "standard" deck in that article. That said, there are a couple of things we can learn from/about Lake Country: 1) The Life value of access to an Aspect 2) The Resource value of 4 Life Clearly, the lost value for getting access to a single color Aspect is four Life in this case. But it's worth remembering that losing something is not necissarily valued at the same rate as gaining something. For example, in JTL the red base gains you consistency and the green base loses you consisitency. Even though they use directly comparable gains and losses, the gains and losses are assigned ...

I doubt anyone still visits this blog from the CISS days, but if you do: this post is very likely a one-off. I'm just working up some numbers for my playgroup and figured I should use what I already have available here, rather than try to cram this novel into discord. I've also forgotten how to format these things effectively. Here are the four bases that I'll be discussing in this post. I'm not about to try to remember their names, so we're going with RBYG. Effectively, all of these bases make an exchange of health for cards - our job here today will be to see how these exchanges change certain probabilities related to card draw (for comparison, we'll also be using a "Standard Base" that has 30 health and no ability). It's unlikely that any of these exchanges will end up being directly comparable. By which I mean we won't be able to craft a perfect X cards = X life ratio that stands up through the 4 bases, much l...