Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-11710472-20130716183644/@comment-10976699-20130716194356

This is a tough question to answer.

(1) People have tried to decipher the formula before, and come up with various formulas that are close, but no one to my knowledge has figured it out exactly. As for looking through cards not in your line-up, that will be particularly hard because their output depends on bonus and weapon modifiers. Mobage gives the stats of the reward cards during the event, but you don't get to see the weapon modifiers. The cards tend to be in classes, where tier 1 cards are consistently close with a little power creep each event, tier 2 are close, etc. So, e.g., a tier 2 card will replace any tier 3 card in your deck, and probably most older tier 2's.

(2) Deck power is not 100% correlated with avg damage output, so not every 12.5k DP is equivalent to every other 12.5k DP deck. Also, avg damage varies a lot through the strength of the bosses. Based on my prior event decks, I can estimate that in order to 1-cube a 10m boss, you'd need about 12.5k DP, 15m - 13.5k DP, 20m - 14.5k, 30m - 16.5k. But a 16.5k DP deck will not do 30m dmg to a lvl 8 boss (more like 20m).