Jun 7

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6/7/2011 8:07 PM 

While play testing on Saturday I stumbled into a humorous situation.  We had a deck laid out, but we just wanted to fit one more card in, but couldn't figure out what to take out.  After top minds came together...we couldn't figure out what to take out.  Then someone asked how many cards were in the deck, which was 60.  He said just go 61, it won't hurt.  Top minds agreed, 61 is fine.

But then there was an pause, and I asked the question no WoW player ever dares asks.  "If 61 cards is acceptable for a deck, is a 62 card deck acceptable?"  Top minds went into overdrive.  "62 is too much!  The math gets worse at 62!  62 will cause you to get bad draws!  62 cards will ruin your credit score!"  (ok, maybe I made that last one up.)

I just found it funny that 61 seems to be an acceptable but for some reason you go 62 and you just might as well throw the deck in the garbage, you just entered some strange zone where you aren't ever going to draw the cards you need.  I am no math major, numbers do tend to give me headaches, but is it really that big of a jump from 61 to 62 in terms of chances of drawing a certain card?  I just found the whole conversation funny.

Back to the original point of TOP MINDS suggesting I just add a 61 card deck.  I only had 60 sleeves....  :/