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    Quesse's Avatar
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    Quesse Mithril
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    Sargatanas
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    Miner Lv 70
    Quote Originally Posted by Aeyis View Post
    It can give you a deck at your fullest potential. Rarely, but it can happen. 2 or 3 of the NPCs cards are fixed, and aside from that the NPCs total deck is only 7 orso cards, nearly all of which are strong.
    It can't because if you have say, 29 cards, it will only give you random 1 star cards and MAYBE one other card even if you have a bunch of two star cards. That is not Random. Even at 60 cards it is not truly random and you will never end up with multiple 5 star cards.

    However with SWAP you can get multiple 5 stars so there is precedent for the rarity rules to be broken but random follows them. So a random rule without true randomness is not random.
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    Player JayCommon's Avatar
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    Indaki Sativa
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    Gilgamesh
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    Dark Knight Lv 60
    Quote Originally Posted by Quesse View Post
    However with SWAP you can get multiple 5 stars so there is precedent for the rarity rules to be broken but random follows them. So a random rule without true randomness is not random.

    Random adheres to the same rules Swap does. You still have to choose a deck that lives by the tier rules to enter a Swap game. Just because the mechanic itself allows you to potentially break your tier limit, doesn't mean you can break it before you enter the match.

    I have gotten a Random hand once that adhered to my max potential with 60 cards. Squall plus 4 random out of my 3* pool. Conversely, I have gotten multiple hands of 5 1* cards due to their pool being larger than any other pool (except 5* is the same, but we can only have 1 of those at any time so their statistical value is lowered). The %s are definitely skewed in the favor of giving you crap, but you can get your max potential.

    Using Swap mechanic as a basis to an argument for being able to break the tier restriction is a flawed argument, because you can't even enter the match breaking that rule.
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