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I wasn't like a huge fan of TF2, but had some fun pubbing around as Soldier / Scout. I did love Shadowrun, which was a class-based shooter with a huge skill cap and all sorts of abilities that linked together in creative ways. Also, I would be a plebe and buy it for Xbox One.

So... should I buy Overwatch?

My mana was pretty great, the splash felt fairly free. I think I played one basic swamp? My deck felt a bit light on meat and answers, and all the removal came from black. Would have had to draft very differently to get UG to function properly.

I think Sun Titan and Hero of Bladehold qualify as win conditions. I do like that you were able to field a straight-up functional two color deck.

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All the hype for Overwatch makes me really sad that Shadowrun didn't catch on. That was the most addicting, innovative team-based game I've ever played. Such brilliant design, that was panned in its era for "not having single player".

I remember spending a good chunk of money to get one a few years ago, and then cutting it almost immediately for being underpowered.

If I were to do something like this, I think it'd have to be more simple, e.g. after 10 picks, take away one chip of each color. It's not so important at the moment really. Probability mechanisms are easy to tweak, I think the bigger question is: what kind of behavior do you want your draft to...

Another thought: there should maybe be some correlation matrix between archetypes. Like, if you take Spells-Matters cards, you probably want other Spells Matters cards, but you also want spells. Madness wants self-discard. I mean, maybe Delver should just have the "spells" tag and the "spells...

Yeah, that could be useful. I've been playing with a couple ideas. 1) sampling without replacement Say we have our initial pack, WWUUBBRRGG. If we sample without replacement, we cap the initial packs at a max of two cards of a color per pack. Initial packs tend to be more diverse this way...

I think it's more of a discussion of "what kind of cards work as 3-color cube cards".

Right. Theoretically you would just have a site online people could draft at, then could hop on and battle it out between decks whenever they like.

Basically, I wrote a function to update the bag and create packs. Did the above listed method, and took the red card every time, then after 13 picks got a mono-red pack. It's a very naive approach: I don't remove cards from the pool when they are drafted, and there are no guidelines for certain...

Code output below, very rough first cut:

Yeah, may be useful eventually. For now I was thinking about how to handle color distribution with a weighting scheme. First idea: something Bayesian. Simple approach: imagine you have a bag with 2 tokens for each color (2 red, 2 green, etc.). Whenever you put a card in a pack, you select...

Yeah, I mean, my first take was going to be in R (because that's what I know), using just a subset of my cube as a test bed. I am positive it would be time consuming to implement (annotating the cards, weighting parameters, etc.), which I'm find with, as long as the potential end product isn't...

Kinda sorta serious though....

Yes, that could be one application. The idea in my head is to have a big card pool (1000+ cards) that is largely unstructured, and let random chance / player choice dictate how they want to navigate through that pool.

Yeah, you would play against other people who had solo drafted.

I've never played Hearthstone, but somehow it's entered my brain that they have a solo drafting format. I was thinking about creating something like that for MTG. Currently it would just be in super prototype phase, but could develop from there. Basic ideas: X packs each containing Y cards...