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Gunnar_Zarncke comments on The Problem of "Win-More" - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: katydee 26 March 2014 06:32PM

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Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 27 March 2014 08:24:35AM 2 points [-]

This narrow/broad thig sounds familiar. I haven't played Magic but a comparative game (a long time ago) and there was a time where I calculated for each card its effectiveness: Basically the chance to deploy it multiplied by its damage and then use the set maximizing the overall total. This means that a very powerfull card that requires lots of other cards and/or preconditions is less valuable than say two average cards. This caluclation of course only works if the effects of the cards are (basically) additive. In that game it was mostly the case.