Auto-fill needs tweaking

Sinitar
Sinitar Posts: 42 Just Dropped In
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I'm not saying auto-fill needs to spit out top tier decks but when it puts in cards that can't work togeather what so ever i.e. Titans presence with aethersphere harvester ya know the system might be alittle out of wack...but I have found the biggest issue is with colorless cards that effect colors that the Planeswalker can't even use like playing Jace and auto-fill dropping in Bontu monument...anybody else's thoughts on this?

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  • Gilesclone
    Gilesclone Posts: 735 Critical Contributor
    I think it just tries to cram as many of the highest rarity cards as it can.  
  • Mburn7
    Mburn7 Posts: 3,427 Chairperson of the Boards
    It was supposed to provide basic deckbuilding help to newer players, although like most end-game Hibernium content it kind of sucks.  I doubt a fix is high priority, but it would be nice.
  • DBJones
    DBJones Posts: 803 Critical Contributor
    This would be nice, but sounds quite hard. Maybe we could come up with some rules to make at least mediocre decks that we think could be added to the Auto-fill's process? I have some suggestions, mostly with new players in mind.

    1. Prioritize cards costing 10 or less mana. Or 7 plus the Planeswalker's highest mana bonus.

    2. 4-5 creatures, 2-3 cheap (~5 mana), 1 with 5+ attack, and 1 with blocking or berserker

    3. Kill spells and supports are almost always good early on. If available, I'd say 2-3 in black, try to get two otherwise.

    4. Good spells and supports beyond that tends to be more deck dependant, I'd say ones that boost your creatures would be a good start. Manalith and gem changers are rarely dead weight no matter what your deck's like. Also, cycling 1-3 and card draw are usually good.

    5. Direct damage or other impediments to your opponent's creatures are usually good, but a bit more deck dependant, that's why this is lowest on my list.

    Just adding these rules would improve the feature, and I don't think they'd be ridiculously complicated to add. Oh, the ability to make standard decks would be nice too, can it do that now?

    What do you guys think?
  • Mainloop25
    Mainloop25 Posts: 1,959 Chairperson of the Boards
    They should just get rid of it. Fixing it is more trouble than it's worth. 
  • _Daromax_
    _Daromax_ Posts: 22 Just Dropped In
    I don't expect to have a good deck build by Auto-Fill but I would appreciate if Auto-Fill would follow the applied filters. Mainly to create decks from non-mastered cards automatically.

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