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Boring Book Boar

Post by Khaos » Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:35 pm

itt we talk about this game, and post screenshots of our sweet decks

i saw the storm deck juri made last night, it was rad

i was annoyed you guys didn't pick up on dracula's saber being good against summons.dec

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Post by Skeletor » Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:24 pm

Khaos wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:35 pm i was annoyed you guys didn't pick up on dracula's saber being good against summons.dec
i blame josh
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Post by Khaos » Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:28 pm

josh doesn't even play magic; its safe just to assume he doesn't know what he's doing

i should link him to this thread

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Post by Ashenai » Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:38 pm

I'm reading some strategy articles, because I'm bad at boringbook boar

but I will get better! but not now, because innistrad is out!!!

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Post by Blissful » Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:51 pm

Khaos wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:35 pmi was annoyed you guys didn't pick up on dracula's saber being good against summons.dec
i barely even know the cards, i am not going to do anytning based on matchups unless someone tells me to do that
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Post by Blissful » Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:51 pm

josh seems really good at positioning
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Post by Blissful » Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:51 pm

and josh isnt bad at it either
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Post by Khaos » Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:56 pm

i know i just like to josh josh

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Post by Blissful » Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:57 pm

not playing magic makes you better at storybook brawl, not worse
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Post by Khaos » Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:58 pm

i doubt that's true but maybe

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Post by Blissful » Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:00 pm

okay its probably actually neutral if im honest
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Post by Rylinks » Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:15 pm

Blissful wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:51 pm
Khaos wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:35 pmi was annoyed you guys didn't pick up on dracula's saber being good against summons.dec
i barely even know the cards, i am not going to do anytning based on matchups unless someone tells me to do that
i did tell you to do that!

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Post by Skeletor » Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:27 pm

i liked josh's trick of putting supports on the right and sheep princess in slot 5. you don't have to be a dick, khaos
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Post by Skeletor » Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:28 pm

Rylinks wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:15 pm
Blissful wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:51 pm
Khaos wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 2:35 pmi was annoyed you guys didn't pick up on dracula's saber being good against summons.dec
i barely even know the cards, i am not going to do anytning based on matchups unless someone tells me to do that
i did tell you to do that!
so did i, although sheepishly and while time was running out
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Post by Ashenai » Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:25 pm

Skeletor wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:28 pm
Rylinks wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:15 pm
Blissful wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 3:51 pm i barely even know the cards, i am not going to do anytning based on matchups unless someone tells me to do that
i did tell you to do that!
so did i, although sheepishly and while time was running out
does this have anything to do with the aforementioned sheep princess

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Post by Skeletor » Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:31 pm

Ashenai wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:25 pm
Skeletor wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:28 pm
Rylinks wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:15 pm

i did tell you to do that!
so did i, although sheepishly and while time was running out
does this have anything to do with the aforementioned sheep princess
no
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Post by Khaos » Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:34 pm

Skeletor wrote:i liked josh's trick of putting supports on the right and sheep princess in slot 5. you don't have to be a dick, khaos
that seems kinda obvious to me but then comes with the obvious draw back - whatever you want to slay with in slot 1 does not get the support bonus, so you put peep in slot 7 sometimes anyway

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Post by Khaos » Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:34 pm

being a dick is my god given right

speaking of which: did anyone find out why bracketbot just vanished? maybe dual streaming should go to a separate voice channel in the future or something

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Post by Doug » Thu Sep 16, 2021 5:41 pm

He just posted a humor piece on GG and you just commented on it
It's your turn in Cthulhu Wars
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Post by Khaos » Thu Sep 16, 2021 6:01 pm

he was in fact bothered by the dual stream! i will avoid doing that in the future

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Post by Doug » Thu Sep 16, 2021 6:07 pm

You crossed the streams? You were warned not to do that
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Post by Luna » Thu Sep 16, 2021 11:32 pm

so this is hearthstone?

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Post by Skeletor » Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:28 am

Luna wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2021 11:32 pm so this is hearthstone?
it's hearthstone battlegrounds but with the cards designed for it
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Post by Luna » Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:29 am

hearthstone battlegrounds is supposed to be like the best version of hearthstone right? i heard that one guy made it so it makes sense that it would be. like we didnt even want that mode but some asshole invented it in their spare time

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Post by Skeletor » Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:34 am

it's also the best autobattler imo, or was before storybook

the autobattlers make more sense as a card game because you can understand the distinct interactions and think about them while building your deck before watching it autobattle
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Post by Luna » Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:40 am

so you build a deck and then it ... plays itself? i've only heard of battlegrounds. i don't know how it works

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Post by Skeletor » Fri Sep 17, 2021 2:51 am

Luna wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:40 am so you build a deck and then it ... plays itself? i've only heard of battlegrounds. i don't know how it works
okay well the way this all went down starts with the mod for dota, dota auto chess

it's 8 players. each round you get some money to buy a "piece", in this case a dota hero, in hs/sbb it's a card

on round 1 you can really only afford 1 hero/card and you put it on the board. in auto chess it's a board that's kind of the size of a chess board if dota heroes were the size of chess pieces. in hs/sbb it's like the hs board (though sbb has some back row slots)

then you're paired with one of the 8 players, and auto-first happens. loser loses some life. you go back to the shop to buy more pieces, and improve your setup. then another auto battle, over and over until only one player remains

you have a fixed number of units you can put on the board, let's say 7 but it probably varies a little between games. as the game progresses you get more and more
money that lets you buy better and better units and sell the early units back. all these games are based heavily on tribal synergies so you're usually transforming a deck in a way that maintains synergies with your lower level cards

you can also level up your cards/pieces by buying 3 of the same piece. they combine into a mega piece that only uses one slot

that's pretty much the mechanics of it

when the mod got ultra popular i guess every company went oh shit this might be a brand new mega popular genre and everyone wanted to be the league or dota, or the fortnite or pubg of this new goldmine. so that's why a dozen clones all happened at once
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Post by Ashenai » Fri Sep 17, 2021 10:27 am

Luna wrote: Fri Sep 17, 2021 12:40 am so you build a deck and then it ... plays itself? i've only heard of battlegrounds. i don't know how it works
That's kind of the one-sentence description. You auto-fight many games as you slowly build up your deck, against your opponents as they do the same. The loser isn't eliminated, they just lose some life points (the harder you lose, the more life you lose).

This is interesting because you have to juggle between building towards a powerful mid and late game and taking stuff that's good early so you don't get completely wrecked in the first 10 battles. And you fight each opponent multiple times, so you can often see what kind of a deck they're building towards and try to find a counter for them, so you can beat them in the lategame.

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Post by Luna » Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:02 am

how is this different than like league's auto battler? like, you buy five? cards at a time, because you're building a deck? in tft you have champs on a field and your stuff is pretty static, like you just put guys onto the field and they stay there and to win you have to power them up. so with this i'm guessing that your cards all get shuffled together each time you have to fight somebody and then you get like a hand? so you're like playing the beginning auto chess part every time? where you have to put out cards one at a time or whatever with very low resources but then you build up to more but like in a single match and then you start over for the next one?

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Post by Ashenai » Fri Sep 17, 2021 11:33 am

There's no shuffling and no deck, you know exactly what your layout is going to be every game. The only randomness is in the battle itself, because each creature randomly decides which enemy creature to attack.

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