2 Things: 1) if against red card playing mythical slab thins your deck of atleast itself making it more likely to draw what you need/draw through your deck 2) porygon lowers the chance of getting your basic pokemons that you need at the start or from pokeball, costs you a deck slot and is a possible vulnerability. All of these atleast rn make him not worth it. Maybe porygon2 might give some advantage, but who knows.
Great video! As a math major, there are a couple points that could use a bit more explaining (just speaks to how complex this issue can be). You describe how you might want to play slab before pokeball because the slab might bury a card that you need. The thing is, slab is just as likely to *improve* the order of your deck as it is to worsen it. You might send the Blue you need to the bottom, but you also might send something you don't need to the bottom and bring Blue to the top. Therefore, it only makes sense to play slab before pokeball if you're prepared to hold pokeball if your slab buries a card you don't need. If you're going to play pokeball *regardless* of what your slab does, you should still just play it first.
No you would never hold pokeball unless there's no basic pokemon in the deck and you see one card you don't need is on the bottom. Pokeball takes one card out from the deck. The chance of that bottom card moving to the top is the same as one basic pokemon moving to the top that you could have taken out with a pokeball.
@kennethlinghk Say you have 10 cards left, and you really need one of them. Let's label them as positions 1 through 10. Your card would have an average position of 5.5. A pokeball would thin your deck and reshuffle, improving your average position to 5, but a slab pulling a bad card would reduce it to 4.5.
Both can be true. Generally you want basic pokemon. However say you have all of them already or you don’t need any even if you consider sabrina and whatever might come in the future and red card isn't a concern. In that case holding pokeball after slab would increase your chances.(unless I'm wrong ofc).
I used to count how many psychic pokemon I have in my deck. Usually if I draw most psychic cards already, the odds of finding another psychic type using the slab will be slim.
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Very simple and informative break down, just goes to show how little plays like these can make a huge difference.
2 Things:
1) if against red card playing mythical slab thins your deck of atleast itself making it more likely to draw what you need/draw through your deck
2) porygon lowers the chance of getting your basic pokemons that you need at the start or from pokeball, costs you a deck slot and is a possible vulnerability. All of these atleast rn make him not worth it. Maybe porygon2 might give some advantage, but who knows.
Great explainer on the order! I’m gonna have to save this and show it to anyone that doubts me haha
Great video! As a math major, there are a couple points that could use a bit more explaining (just speaks to how complex this issue can be).
You describe how you might want to play slab before pokeball because the slab might bury a card that you need. The thing is, slab is just as likely to *improve* the order of your deck as it is to worsen it. You might send the Blue you need to the bottom, but you also might send something you don't need to the bottom and bring Blue to the top. Therefore, it only makes sense to play slab before pokeball if you're prepared to hold pokeball if your slab buries a card you don't need. If you're going to play pokeball *regardless* of what your slab does, you should still just play it first.
No you would never hold pokeball unless there's no basic pokemon in the deck and you see one card you don't need is on the bottom. Pokeball takes one card out from the deck. The chance of that bottom card moving to the top is the same as one basic pokemon moving to the top that you could have taken out with a pokeball.
@kennethlinghk Say you have 10 cards left, and you really need one of them. Let's label them as positions 1 through 10. Your card would have an average position of 5.5. A pokeball would thin your deck and reshuffle, improving your average position to 5, but a slab pulling a bad card would reduce it to 4.5.
Both can be true. Generally you want basic pokemon. However say you have all of them already or you don’t need any even if you consider sabrina and whatever might come in the future and red card isn't a concern. In that case holding pokeball after slab would increase your chances.(unless I'm wrong ofc).
Then again if there is still a basic pokemon in the deck and you need a different psychic pokemon and not a trainer card then just pokeball into slab
Slab for me is just the "do i need to evolve X this turn or can i wait", if the answer is i need the evolution this turn i play slab
I used to count how many psychic pokemon I have in my deck. Usually if I draw most psychic cards already, the odds of finding another psychic type using the slab will be slim.
Pokédex makes you look at the top3 of your deck you really only need 1 Pokédex in your deck then do those 3 steps above
Pokedex got more value with slab, but we only have 20 card decks so its hard to fit in with slab in most decks
@ i used the same one that was used on this page but subbed the red card for Pokédex