MTG thread
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Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Incontrovertible fact of the unfairness of the MTGO shuffling code. : magicTCG
Someone doing things to the MTGO client
Someone doing things to the MTGO client
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lol that's just some random blowhard. The shuffling is not done clientside.
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That reminds me of the first card shuffling algorithm I ever wrote, to troll my Data Structures in Java professor.
Instead of taking the card objects at random and swapping them with other cards in the deck at random, which was the obvious way the assignment wanted us to do them, I assigned each of the cards in the deck a random variable from 0 to 10000 and then created a sorting method for the deck object that sorted the cards in that deck by that assigned number.
My professor called me in front of the class to ask me why I shuffled the deck in that way, and my response was: "Well, it's like taking the deck of cards and throwing it down a flight of steps, 10000 steps in this particular case, then picking them back up in that order. This is similar to how you said on the first day of class that you graded our assignments."
Instead of taking the card objects at random and swapping them with other cards in the deck at random, which was the obvious way the assignment wanted us to do them, I assigned each of the cards in the deck a random variable from 0 to 10000 and then created a sorting method for the deck object that sorted the cards in that deck by that assigned number.
My professor called me in front of the class to ask me why I shuffled the deck in that way, and my response was: "Well, it's like taking the deck of cards and throwing it down a flight of steps, 10000 steps in this particular case, then picking them back up in that order. This is similar to how you said on the first day of class that you graded our assignments."
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Of course the shuffler sucks. It more appropriately represents outlier deck configurations than the relatively little bit of shuffling we primates do with our physical cards.
Also when you get fucked in physical you tend to blame yourself for not shuffling correctly. The blame is internalized. When MTGO fucks you with a twenty land clump there's no one to blame but MTGO. When I was playing I started to get afraid of hands with a lot of lands because it felt like the top four or five cards of the deck would then also be lands. The shuffler is a clumpy bitch.
Also when you get fucked in physical you tend to blame yourself for not shuffling correctly. The blame is internalized. When MTGO fucks you with a twenty land clump there's no one to blame but MTGO. When I was playing I started to get afraid of hands with a lot of lands because it felt like the top four or five cards of the deck would then also be lands. The shuffler is a clumpy bitch.
Xalara
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You don't need to keep shuffler code secret because it is a well known algorithm. That they screwed up the offline implementation doesn't bode well for the server side one since my first thought as a developer would be to copy and paste that
What is everyone's thoughts about the current standard metagame? I'm currently having success playing Brad Nelson's 4C midrange deck, but do wonder if the shift towards whip strategies makes 4C midrange a bad choice.
What is everyone's thoughts about the current standard metagame? I'm currently having success playing Brad Nelson's 4C midrange deck, but do wonder if the shift towards whip strategies makes 4C midrange a bad choice.
Control is pretty weak right now. I'm expecting it to get a boost through new cards in Fate Reforged and/or Dragons of Tarkir.
As an aside, it got tossed into casual conversation on the World Championship coverage a few minutes ago that Helene Bergeot will be on this weekend making an announcement. expecting it to be about the 3 simultaneous GPs in May and fingers crossed for MM2.
OU Ariakas
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Portugese player DQ'ed from the WC's for hiding a Hornet Queen underneath his notepad. Seems like a smart move for a small tournament that is being recorded from multiple angles.
OU Ariakas
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He wasn't in a feature match. Maybe there were no cameras on his table? I thought with this small of a field that everyone would be in range of a camera. They kicked him for playing with an illegal deck since the one he registered was 60 cards and the hidden hornet queen meant the deck he was playing with only had 59 cards.
