Decks
Posted: 31 Jan 2011, 09:31BotArena comes with a large amount of decks already. My own contribution (as I don't directly code) is to implement the preconstructed decks made by Wizards, as well as the Daily Decks. These decks are included in the release.
I also have so called "deckcheck project" where I implement decks from the Deckcheck site. It got a bit jumbled when the site died, now I'm taking decks from deckcheck.org (I set a boundary of not using their decks from September 2010 or earlier since those should already be in the old archive).
This is the list of 2882 decks I have implemented so far. All of these decks should be working under BotArena, and as a bonus I tried to give them the right card pictures for the era they come from and format they were played in.
These decks shouldn't probably be combined in a directory with any others since during random play they would terribly dilute them because of their sheer number. Also, this list contains a LOT of similar decks (lots of Faeries, Goblins, Affinities, Merfolk, Valakuts, etc.) - the more an archetype was played, the more variants it has here. There can even be duplicate decks. I suggest copying individual decks you REALLY like to your main directory. The purpose of this archive is to be comprehensive (and complete, though it's far from that at this point - at this point I have over 10000 decks with unknown support status and I don't have much time to test them).
Anyway. This is a thread to post your own decks, but bear in mind that tournament-winning decks from Kamigawa era onwards that are supported by BotArena are already, for the most part, implemented. I'd like to see some maverick decks here, decks that are a jumble of many different sets, decks that use some weird combos or cards that is implemented but not played much at the tournaments, interesting singletons (which are hard to implement as there's much greater chance they use something unimplemented), etc.
I also have so called "deckcheck project" where I implement decks from the Deckcheck site. It got a bit jumbled when the site died, now I'm taking decks from deckcheck.org (I set a boundary of not using their decks from September 2010 or earlier since those should already be in the old archive).
This is the list of 2882 decks I have implemented so far. All of these decks should be working under BotArena, and as a bonus I tried to give them the right card pictures for the era they come from and format they were played in.
These decks shouldn't probably be combined in a directory with any others since during random play they would terribly dilute them because of their sheer number. Also, this list contains a LOT of similar decks (lots of Faeries, Goblins, Affinities, Merfolk, Valakuts, etc.) - the more an archetype was played, the more variants it has here. There can even be duplicate decks. I suggest copying individual decks you REALLY like to your main directory. The purpose of this archive is to be comprehensive (and complete, though it's far from that at this point - at this point I have over 10000 decks with unknown support status and I don't have much time to test them).
Anyway. This is a thread to post your own decks, but bear in mind that tournament-winning decks from Kamigawa era onwards that are supported by BotArena are already, for the most part, implemented. I'd like to see some maverick decks here, decks that are a jumble of many different sets, decks that use some weird combos or cards that is implemented but not played much at the tournaments, interesting singletons (which are hard to implement as there's much greater chance they use something unimplemented), etc.
Test them out to see if his hunches were right.