wickeddarkman

What is a troll?
Scientists are still debating it.
Anyways I'm more willing to talk about how to use paper as a computer.

I believe it was done in the past by cardsets, which is why tarot cards "allegedly" can predict the future because modern simulations are sort of known to do that as well.

There are two "ground rules" I explain when describing stuff like this.

1: if you slip paperstrips in and out of sleeves the furnishing is scraped of the cards ruining them.
2: when you cut out paperstrips they must be long enough to stick a little outside the deck, so you don't have to pry your finger in between the card and sleeves, ruining both.

The difficult part is to figure out the "program" you want to run, do you want to introduce randomness or do you want a clock like mechanism.

Think about the whole complexity within magic, it has been achieved by having a set of rules on how each card mechanic on the cards work, so you will probably have to make up some decisions on a lot of things, like different zones and phases and all of this is pretty similar to how programs are designed in the real world.

If you want cards to carry information you can either use several strips with each of their own information, a sleeve can hold a little more than 8 cards and a lot more paperstrips.

When I run my own "programs" I usually only use one strip to measure card performance in about 60 games of magic
But the whole process can be very time consuming.

In the past, cardsets could be used as calendars, keeping track of the days and months of the year, you got 52 weeks and 4 seasons and all it need is 1 ordinary card of decks.

However, using paperstrips you get to add details about the weather and whatever you want, in the past people had to sort of memorize different ways using their cards by remembering all the 52 cards (more in tarot, and in India they would have 300+ different cards)

It's a lot slower than a computer, but anyone can create their own programs with paperstrips, no programming language is needed, you build it up yourself :)

The whole damn site :)
But their current leader is possibly user: thegreatgodloki
or he's being set up as a possible fall-guy.

Anyways if you are interested in simulations I've sort of started to use paperstrips as a computer.
It's a great tool and needs no programming skills, all you need is sleeves, some worthless cards and about 10 sheets of a4 paper.

This is a very old thread.
These days I don't use a computer, I use a tool that's much slower but more rewarding.
Look up frank karsten and his computer simulations, in the older ones he describes the process.

I guess you searched for computersimulations on the vault search

By odd coincidence the ongoing deck is being haved by the trolls, with one blowing the cover of the other.

I guess it was necroed :)

https://www.mtgvault.com/wickeddarkman/decks/contact-list/
You can link to the good guys list.
Theres a total of 18 people there.

How about adding deadpool ?
I'd make him BRW

It's really cool I used to have a bunch of decks like this.
Just as casual.

Wolverine was GRU.

I had mono, twocolor and three color.
The mono colored were godlike
White was god, black was death, green was gaia, the devil was red, but I can't remember what blue stood for.

Ah ahm the masked mana man, an I ain't gonna show my face until I've won it all...

Northernwarlord:
Think theres room for glasspool mimic ?
I don't see it hit many lists out there, but it's one of my "got to get" cards.

Also prior to the attack one of them necroed a bunch of decks containing the words wicked, dark and man,
Then another one marked which deck to camp in, and they choose "wicked witch of the west"

The necroed owner probably had nothing to do with it, but has been gone for a long time.

Yes, but after 15 posts in here, you should learn stuff about the site and the people.

Every fifth post on mtgvault is a troll post.

Glad to see you help people, the easy approach is to ask what cards they've got first,
Then if they do at least that much work, they probably aren't a troll.

Mtgblackman, this is written in the rules conduit by the designer of the place and is nothing personal.
Notadoctor is new and I'm teaching him stuff.

Sound like something to try out :)
Ninja has a youtube channel, and recently made a "your deck on youtube" post.
If you dig through the top active decks you should be able to spot it if you have an entry.

He makes most on youtube advertising.
Did you watch it ?

It seems like theres been a leak of twitch salaries, so cgb has a 15 minute talk where he compares youtube and twitch.
He's exposing how much he's earning, and leaks a few details on when growth in viewers start to bring in serious money.

At the current state you are gold. I've been less active for some days because I'm restructuring the list to become interactive.

Sure, copy it if you want to :)
Is it actually buildable on arena

Part of the trick is to set it up, you have two options.
It takes three mana to go really dirty on them when you have a wasteland a vision charm and a stifle in hand.

You play the vision charm.
If they fetch you stifle, if they don't you let the effect resolve, then play wasteland and hit the fetch.

I'm pretty ancient in magic, but I've got a nice amount of behaviour stuck on my backbones :)

Missing the tags happens to even the best, and on that note I'm nothing compared to a few others whom I've never seen miss their tags. I have you noted down as someone to recruit if you improve just a little.
I got a couple of others close to recruitment but there's starting to be really long between new recruitment.

Vision charm was probably the card that made me start playing mill, and I tried really hard in legacy at a very early time. I've never forgotten how it turned from being a mill card into a drednought combo kill.

One of its advantages was that you could use it to make all their lands into one type, especially fetchlands, then if they tried to fetch youd stifle in response.

I've been pretty close to recruit you for my list of good posters,
Don't give up on tags and descriptions yet... :)

I love seeing diabolic vision in this.
Have you ever considered vision charm ?

Ia shub-niggurath!

Do you play or GM?

I've GM'ed for a while.

Ever heard of "the laundry"

It's great to see posts like these, and I can't encourage you enough on doing this more often.
Magic theory is extremely complex and filled with a lot of speed bumps.

I'd like to hear you define "matter" a little more, as it seems to me that it's the same thing as "advantage" arena wreaked havoc on the forgotten art of deck theory by doing it all over again, so old phrases have been renamed a lot, and it sort of muddles the field.

Your input on tempo also sounds a little of, but tempo is freakishly difficult in theoretical magic.

In recent years one new "discovery" is "quality"
People used to put such a large amount of faith in cardadvantage that decks became more about drawing, and it all broke down.
The reason is that people had overlooked quality.

Drawing matters, but what you draw matters even more.
Quality is when a card in your hand can be cast and have impact on the game.

Lightning bolt for example is considered a great card, but in scenarios where your opponent has 28life and a 9/9 trampler in play, lightning bolt isn't card quality, while fire // ice will have high quality.

Cards will have different quality in different matchups, so it's important to have a deck with a high number of cards with a generally high quality.

If a deck has a lot of drawcards but have few quality cards, drawing won't help.

But having a high number of quality and just enough draw, that's good.

This is why scry cards have become more impactful, as it gives you some control over your quality.

The interesting thing is what cards people choose to influence quality.

I'm usually presenting people with [[overwhelmed apprentice]] as an example.
It mills, which disrupts an opponents scrying, ruining their quality control. It allows you to scry, increasing your card control.

I often keep a 1 land hand if overwhelmed apprentice is in it, as it allows me to control the odds of drawing a second land.

I'm also wild about [[fathom feeder]] because it's a high quality card, it stops aggression, it exiles combo material by just attacking and being lucky, it draws cards or it's a removal magnet.

I like your idea that there's a saturation point where a deck can go with less colours because there will somehow be enough cards around to build around the internal weakness.

But here's the thing, the meta is very much a mental construct, where people sort of invent and innovate as an unconscious hive mind, and matchups are having a high influence on brew decisions. Whenever something clearly takes the lead, there will be sideboarded against it. So when all the brewers consider what to sideboard against they focus on decks gathering momentum.

This has the odd effect that the old solid decks have a win-rate of 50% against most of the meta. All the old decks are less scary than the new ones so people don't sideboard against those.

So when you show up with a deck that breaks with tradition, it will be adapted against very fast and very hard, so be prepared for a very long test of your theory ;)

Also, thegreatgodloki apologized to you.
I'm cleaning up the rat deck to start from scratch.