User blog:Godofcyanide/TFL Domination: Addendum - The Truth About Deck Power

(I will edit in links to previous posts here.)

Hey folks, god of cyanide here again.

Three things of note:

1) I finished in 10th place(!!!) in the wildest event ever, Nemesis Rising. Nemmy is a HOUSE. I would like to ironically thank Phungu81 for resting at the end of the event, which allowed me to ninja into 10th in the last half hour, and also thanks to my awesome allies for the stream of great seeds that enabled said ninja maneuver.

2) I'm currently rocking hard in RtR (in top 20 or so as I type this). After this event, I will be waffling between first and second tier (but I plan on acquiring some raid cards and at least be able to continue to aid my allies) for a few weeks for two reasons. One, for at least the next four weeks, I have to devote more time to my job. The other is so that I may finish writing this series. ;) Oh, and my CC will appreciate the cool-off. :D

3) I think I have cracked the deck construction equation, and it turned out to be relatively simple. I will explain it to you as I learned it earlier today, and then give a TL;DR at the end. Trust me that the explanation helps clarify things some, so you should read...

One last thing before I begin: Much credit goes to Masarujasu, Mna78 and Fatihalptekin for their contributions to the cracking cause, though their specific contributions and my collaborations with them caused me to keep pushing. And the answer is surprisingly simple.

Earlier this afternoon, while in chat here, one of our team ripped a raid card from gold medals. I typed, "If Mobage really knew what they were doing, they'd drop an x7 in my medals and watch me dive for more tiers on the Space Bridge (I stopped at Tier 3 on Loop 2 and bought the Tantrum pack for 2x5 and 2x3 MTMs)."

Guess who rips an alt Rampage shortly after? This guy. I really oughta do this with the lottery LOL. I immediately dive into the 4th tier of loop 2 of Space Bridge Hell (I have a good chance at something now as I now rip any bot and get an MTM) and get... Headstrong bot. Meh, but, take it, right?

I had heard from other players that a half of a 7x raid was worth running if you could run 3xMTMs. I never fully bought in on that as it seems like it would be too squishy to deal more damage than other guys. Well, let me watch some combats, then toss it in and watch more combats, watching for survivability v. damage dealing. I made a few interesting discoveries, bearing in mind all testing I did was against Level 8 bosses and some higher-level Jazz.

- Each of your team members has a specific number of hits he takes before he dies. Yes, specific. Watch combats, counting how the boss hits and who dies when and you will see it. MTM Headstrong die in 3 hits... And so does the Rampage alt! Meanwhile, for my non-raid cards, Ep Starscream dies in 4 turns, Dr. Arkeville in 5 and new Cyclonus in 6. I did a rough estimation and figured out that, for this event, dividing your cards' Health as seen on Team Edit by 40,000 and rounding up should give you the correct number of hits the card can take, bearing in mind this is rough and I'm purposefully ignoring Defense for simplification.

(I will finish this shortly.)