Checco515;n9173940 said:
I see we have an elite player here :surprised:, sorry for making you lose time with my trashtalking.
I checked the Leaderboard though, you are not in the top 1000; by your definition, are all the decks you use trash, too?)
I've been using an Eithne deck with 3 scorches, a Milva to reset the buffed cards, a bunch of hawker supports and a Braenn/Sapper to dump the buffs into. I have been running this deck since Dwarves and Reveal were emerging as net decks almost 2 weeks ago. Very similar decks are starting to emerge on the ladder albeit often including a Borkh, Dragoons, and fire trappers. It bugs the hell out of me as now people have grown accustom to playing around my many scorches, before my deck was far less popular and therefore shutting down the triple 20 strength spotter and 4 buffed dwarves that those two decks were abusing. Seeing as Gwentlemen lists what is essentially the deck I've been using as a "tier 1" deck (I loathe that terminology) I can safely say that no my deck is not trash.
I can however say that yours by contrast is complete garbage as it uses the mulligan archetype which is completely buggered simply due to the unintended phenomena known as "deck sequencing theory", in essence any card you mulligan will likely be at the top of your deck and therefore the mulligan loses an immense amount of its intended value, you're not randomly drawing a card from the deck as was CDPR's stated intentions, you're recycling the same few cards.
Test it yourself with a silver card, mulligan it away first and then use 2 officers or one and Francesca and you'll see that it keeps being redrawn, if not first then second and very rarely as the 3rd, do this more than once... I do like the deck conceptually but when you're taught how the mulligan is not nearly as random as you'd be lead to believe and start applying that knowledge to the game, you should quickly realise how pointless the entire mulligan archetype has become. When compared to say Discard which simultaneously redraws trash cards whilst thinning the deck and simultaneously nurturing Ciri dash in a safe unshackleable location Mulligan cannot hold a candle to it.
In order to fix Mulligans and as a consequence the mulligan deck archetype CDPR will need to either place cards that are redrawn during the mulligan at the bottom of the deck or alternatively shuffle the deck post mulligan, I'd argue for the former over the later as it doesn't mess with Xarth as much. Yes this would be a significant buff to mulligans but everyone gets one so it really doesn't matter. CDPR (rethaz) has stated that they don't intend to implement such features, citing things like creative directions and other rhetoric. This is quite amusing as rethaz previously stated that mulligans are pure RNG and that we're just idiots buying into things like confirmation bias. As soon as it was mathematically proven he changed his stance to something a like 'oh we want this because it adds complexity at the highest level', the truth however is that it really double downs the RNG luck factor of your initial deck draw, heavily restricts deck building, undermines the mulligan mechanic and makes an entire archetype irrelevant. The counter argument he displayed was that Guardian and Xarth, a mere 2 cards that aren't even staples of the NG faction would be effected whilst completely ignoring how big an effect this has on the game itself and that an entire archetype is flawed because of it.
ash and Johnny work pretty well in my mulligan deck, Sarah is sadly necessary though.
