On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Kerim Aydin wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, Sean Hunt wrote:
>> I play Drop Your Weapon, indicating Sgeo and Presto!.
>> I play Discard Picking, indicating Presto!.
>> I play Presto!, indicating Schrodinger's Cat and Presto!.
>> [...]
>
> Heh, possibly first nice illustration of difference in gameplay
> between a finite deck and infinite deck with similar initial
> probabilities (this was self-limiting in the old system as there
> was only 1 Presto and around 5 discard pickings of which only
> maybe half were in play at any given time).
Actually, no, finite limits may have helped a bit, but what really
limited such play was the following:
The following Elements for Cards are defined:
* Delayed[N]: You may not play this card if you have played a
copy of this card in the past N times 24 hours.
[...]
Caption: Presto!
Elements: Delayed[7]
Caption: Discard Picking
Elements: Delayed[4]
The Delayed (and related Asleep[N], where no-one could play the card
until N*24 hours after a play) was a major check on powerful cards
especially those that modified others' card holdings.
-G.
