#Good Enough for Government Work - Challenge

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trail monolith
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Start with a standard deck of cards where 20 of them are randomly deleted
Start with an eternal negative Certificate

You must finish the run with at least 4 of each rank and 13 of each suit in your deck.

trail monolith
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bunmp

lost nova
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this seems really hard

modest vessel
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this says a lot about our current society

trail monolith
# lost nova this seems really hard

it's not like you have to make a perfect recreation of a default deck. having three aces of spades and one ace of diamonds fulfills the 4 of each rank part

coarse kiln
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Not a fan of extra requirements to finish a challenge

still eagle
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There's no way around needing to add 22 cards to the deck minimum. There are 24 rounds, and on average we see less than 0.54 standard packs per round. Of these, 1/13 are megas. So about 0.6 cards from standard packs/round. Not nearly enough.

The second way to add cards to your deck are via spectral cards. These are rarer than standard packs.

So the only way to beat this challenge is to get lucky on the vouchers early on and grab illusion.

Either you grab illusion before about ante 6 or you lose.

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(going through old suggestions, sorry for the bump)

trail monolith
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maybe two negative certs?

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the idea was to take a janky, broken, fucked up, bad deck and try to patch it to something usable by the time the deadline (the showdown blind) hits

still eagle
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Maybe have it so that it just gives you illusion to start with?

trail monolith
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also buffed the starting deck to 35

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what does illusion do again?

still eagle
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Playing cards in shop

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Oh I missed the cert

trail monolith
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yeah, that makes it feasible to have the challenge done

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god knows not having cert would make this way too hard

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the other half of this challenge comes from fixing the deck to meet the requirements

still eagle
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It's gonna be pretty rough, given that you're essentially reverse fixing the deck.

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I like it

trail monolith
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@oak hinge you've usually got good input; what do you think of this challenge?

oak hinge
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Anyways, off of that whole.. remixing of this challenges main idea; I like it alot, but thing it'd be a bit too rough as is

still eagle
oak hinge
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Better way to word it;
Certificate helps, and helps more than DNA ever could, but I think both together is the proper level of assistance

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Tho lemme be frl

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It being erratic deck-ified is a big turnoff for me

still eagle
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This is easily enough (especially with DNA giving you the opportunity to copy whichever card you want, provided you draw it) to just win with very little active effort, assuming you can make hands well enough with a bloated deck.

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I think perhaps it might be a more interesting challenge to get both DNA and Certificate (negative, not eternal) a 52 card deck with 27 cards removed, and perfectly reconstruct a standard 52 card deck (not counting enhancements, editions, and seals).

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actually, I kinda really like that idea.

brave burrow
still eagle
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I thought it was illusion was level 1 and magic trick level 2

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but maybe I had it backwards.

brave burrow
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Plus strength and suit changes could help

brave burrow
still eagle
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you're correct, magic trick is level 1

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my bad.

brave burrow
still eagle