Monday, July 30, 2012

ROTU Tables

Here are some resources I created for building ROTU decks.  This takes some of the fun picking interesting letter combinations and building a deck.  It gets down to trying to maximize the number of cards available to play by picking the right 3 letters.  Alternately, it could be used to pick you letters and then finding the best faction to fit those letters.

Here is a raw breakdown of # of cards per faction for each letter.

Letter # Arch Asc Dra Han Jam Lot Mon Pur Sev Syn Chi Mag Tech Unaligned
A 83 29 4 5 1 7 9 9 2   1 3 4   9
B 127 26 8 19 15 18 6 10 2 3 1 3 2 2 12
C 116 16 15 13 12 9 10 8 6   4 2 5 2 14
D 107 19 6 10 6 11 17 9 4   4 5 2 4 10
E 48 6 2 4 7 3 8 2 6 1 2 1 6
F 97 5 10 12 7 10 10 19 4     4 1 3 12
G 62 9 9 9 6 7 10 2 2 2         6
H 67 8 9 8 4 4 10 1 1 1 3 2 2 14
I 68 1   6 5 2 14 21 4   2 2 2 5 4
J 51 6 7 11 2 7 5 2 2 1 2     1 5
K 36 2 8 4 6 3 5 3 1 1 1 2
L 52 1 6 11 8 1 5 6 1 1   1 4   7
M 111 5 19 13 11 12 6 5 11 3 2   2 4 18
N 45 10 4 5 1 5 1 2 2 1 3 2 9
O 41 1 7 6 13 3 1 3 2 2       1 2
P 96 15 7 3 7 9 9 5 14 1 1 7 1   17
Q 6 2 3 1  
R 90 11 12 12 13 10 6 4 3 1 2 3   3 10
S 215 17 27 24 35 16 20 16 7 1 8 4 7 9 24
T 214 10 23 23 20 18 32 28 13 4 2 4 4 33
U 19 2 3 1     7   1 1 1 1     2
V 20 2 2 1 3 1 6   4     1      
W 56 2 7 8 8 4 6 2 2 5 1 4 1 6
X 10       1 1 6 1     1        
Y 16   2 1 7 1 2           1   2
Z 11 1   3 1       2   1       3
1864 202 191 216 199 165 209 163 99 23 40 48 38 44 227



Add to this the number breakdown by foundation because you need to be able to include foundation in the deck.
Letter # Arch Asc Dra Han Jam Lot Mon Pur Sev Syn Chi Mag Tech Unaligned
A 7 4   1   1     1     2 2 1  
B 11 2 2 2 1 2 2 1 1 2  
C 7 2 1   1   2       1 1   2  
D 7 1   2   1 1 2         2 2  
E 5 1 1 1 2 3  
F 6   1 1       3 1       2    
G 4 1 1 1 1             1      
H 4 1 2 1 1  
I 6       1   2 3       1 1    
J 2   1     1                  
K 4 1 1 1 1 1 2  
L 4 1 1   1 1           1 1 1  
M 9   3     2     2 1 1 1 1 2  
N 0  
O 2   1       1                
P 12 3       2 4   3       2 1  
Q 1 1 1  
R 11   1 4 4 2           2   2  
S 25 2 3 2 5 2 3 3 2   3 5 3 2  
T 9 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 3  
U 1 1                          
V 1           1                
W 6 2 2 1 1 1 1  
X 0                            
Y 0                            
Z 1               1            

Then check the number of hitters available.  Hitter in this is just printed fighting 6+.  This excludes some characters that can be used as hitters but is a good start.
Letter # Arch Asc Dra Han Jam Lot Mon Pur Sev Syn Chi Mag Tech Unaligned
A 8 1 3   1   1 1     1        
B 15 2 1 2 2 5 3  
C 16 4 2 2 4   2 1             1
D 15 3 1 3 1 1 2 1 1   1   1    
E 2 1 1  
F 8   2   1 2   1 2            
G 13 4 1   1 1 2 1 1 2          
H 10 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1  
I 8     2     1 3 2            
J 17 1 3 6   1 2 2 1 1          
K 16 2 2 1 2 2 5 2  
L 12     1 3   3 3   1     1    
M 17 1 1 4 1 2 5 2 1            
N 4 1 1 1 1  
O 5     1 2 1   1              
P 6 3         1   2            
Q 4 1 3  
R 9   3 1 2 1   1 1            
S 34 4 6 7 6 1 6 2   1 1        
T 35 4 6 6 2 3 8 1 4 1  
U 3 1 1           1            
V 3   2   1                    
W 6 1 2 1 1 1
X 5           3 1     1        
Y 3   1   2                    
Z 4     3 1                    


And finally combine it all for a total ranking by letter.  The rank is the number of foundation available x 2 + number of hitters + number of cards available / 10.  This is obviously very subjective.  It might be a good start for your first two letters to make sure you have sufficient foundation and hitters.  The third letter might be best to choose based on a 'broken' card (e.g. Imprison) or alternate power generation. The highest ranked letter is highlighted.  Note that 'S' is the best letter for 5 different factions.

Letter # Arch Asc Dra Han Jam Lot Mon Pur Sev Syn Chi Mag Tech Unaligned
A 40.3 11.9 3.4 2.5 1.1 2.7 1.9 1.9 2.2 0.0 1.1 4.3 4.4 2.0 0.9
B 57.7 8.6 5.8 7.9 5.5 10.8 4.6 4.0 0.2 0.3 0.1 2.3 2.2 4.2 1.2
C 61.6 10.6 6.5 4.3 8.2 1.9 8.0 2.8 1.6 1.0 3.4 3.2 1.5 5.2 3.4
D 47.7 6.9 1.6 8.0 1.6 4.1 5.7 5.9 1.4 0.0 1.4 0.5 5.2 4.4 1.0
E 22.8 3.6 0.2 2.4 0.7 2.3 4.8 0.2 0.6 0.0 0.1 0.0 7.2 0.1 0.6
F 33.7 0.5 5.0 3.2 1.7 3.0 1.0 8.9 4.4 0.0 0.0 0.4 4.1 0.3 1.2
G 29.2 6.9 3.9 2.9 3.6 1.7 3.0 1.2 1.2 2.2 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0 0.6
H 26.7 1.8 4.9 5.8 1.4 0.4 4.0 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.3 0.2 0.0 2.2 1.4
I 30.8 0.1 0.0 2.6 2.5 0.2 6.4 11.1 2.4 0.0 0.2 2.2 2.2 0.5 0.4
J 26.1 1.6 5.7 7.1 0.2 3.7 2.5 2.2 1.2 1.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.5
K 33.6 0.0 2.2 2.8 3.4 4.6 2.3 7.5 2.3 2.1 0.0 2.1 4.1 0.0 0.2
L 31.2 2.1 2.6 2.1 5.8 2.1 3.5 3.6 0.1 1.1 0.0 2.1 3.4 2.0 0.7
M 54.1 1.5 8.9 5.3 2.1 7.2 5.6 2.5 6.1 2.3 2.2 2.0 2.2 4.4 1.8
N 8.5 2.0 1.4 0.5 0.1 1.5 0.1 0.2 0.2 0.0 1.1 0.3 0.0 0.2 0.9
O 13.1 0.1 2.7 1.6 3.3 1.3 2.1 1.3 0.2 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2
P 45.6 10.5 0.7 0.3 0.7 4.9 9.9 0.5 9.4 0.1 0.1 0.7 4.1 2.0 1.7
Q 8.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 1.2 0.0 0.0 5.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.0 0.0 0.0
R 48 1.1 6.2 10.2 11.3 6.0 0.6 1.4 1.3 0.1 0.2 4.3 0.0 4.3 1.0
S 125.5 9.7 14.7 13.4 19.5 6.6 14.0 9.6 4.7 1.1 7.8 10.4 6.7 4.9 2.4
T 86.4 7.0 12.3 8.3 4.0 4.8 15.2 7.8 7.3 0.0 3.4 2.2 4.4 6.4 3.3
U 6.9 3.2 1.3 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.7 0.0 1.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.2
V 7 0.2 2.2 0.1 1.3 0.1 2.6 0.0 0.4 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0
W 41.6 1.2 5.7 2.8 7.8 1.4 4.6 1.2 1.2 4.5 1.1 3.4 3.0 1.1 2.6
X 6 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 3.6 1.1 0.0 0.0 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
Y 4.6 0.0 1.2 0.1 2.7 0.1 0.2 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.2
Z 7.1 0.1 0.0 3.3 1.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 2.2 0.0 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3
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4 comments:

  1. Joshua KronengoldJuly 30, 2012 at 4:55 PM

    The problem, of course, is that it doesn't really matter how -many- cards there available so much as having the -right- cards. B is amazing for the Jammers not because it has 18 cards, but because those cards include Battlematic, Battlechimp Potempkin, Ba-Boom, Big Macque Attack, Bomb Factory, etc. Whereas T, while having as many letters, just isn't as interesting.

    Generally, when designing a ritual deck, I -start- with looking at a letter shared by two foundations in the same faction -- or some other foundational type of cards in a faction. Then I look to see if there's support higher in the faction for that letter to support them. Functionally, you're going to have to pull your FSS and foundations from the same pool of letters as your hitters, support, and power gain cards, so that kind of synergy is very important.

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    1. UnknownJuly 31, 2012 at 11:36 AM

      Yes, in the ranking of letters in the last table, B comes up as the best letter for Jammers. It is followed by M. Since this corresponds with your winning Monkeys In Black deck, it seems to give a good place to start.

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  2. AnonymousJuly 30, 2012 at 4:57 PM

    The spacing on this is a little odd, but a good resource.

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  3. UnknownJuly 30, 2012 at 7:32 PM

    Willow,
    The tables looked OK on my iPhone, but are missing columns for Magic, Tech, and Unaligned. I'll have to work on it.

    Josh,
    I know this is simplistic, but it helps me generate ideas.

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