Fast Ticket . . . Wow
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baby mario
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About 40% if you play 4 of them.
DJGigabyte
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For people mentioning Rock-Paper-Scissors, I believe that is the standard way to determine going first in Japan, rather than a coin flip or a dice roll, so if we did get this it would probably be altered.
Not 100% sure on this, but that's what I've been told from others.
Not 100% sure on this, but that's what I've been told from others.
losjackal
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Thank you. I suspect many people will conclude that 4 slots in the deck, plus the one fewer actually playable cards during your first turn, simply isn't worthwhile to attempt to increase the 50% chance of going first anyway.
PokeMedic
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No, not as much as you think.
If you don't like RPS you could always......
....flip a coin
Wow.
I'd actually love this card with the old first turn rules. But now? This is ridiculous. You essentially have to play 3 to 4 of these. That makes deck building far less interesting, because techs will not really be nearly as viable with such limited deck space.
This is kinda dumb.
I'd actually love this card with the old first turn rules. But now? This is ridiculous. You essentially have to play 3 to 4 of these. That makes deck building far less interesting, because techs will not really be nearly as viable with such limited deck space.
This is kinda dumb.
StormFront
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People seem to be forgetting that this card won't be coming till after rotation, which means we won't have the biggest T1 offender at the moment being Collector.
Shino Bug Master
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Interestign idea. The big difference between this and Sableye though, is that Fast Ticket doesnt give you additional benefits of going first lile Sableye did, in both offensive and support capability. Fast Ticket just ensures you go first, but the other 6 cards in your hand could easily be garbage and it does nothing to help those. This will only help decks that have 1 sole purpose or a lot of discard viability, like Durant, Cele2 or ZPST. While i really dont see why those decks nedd MORE help, it'll still be fun to go first against people who play 4 fast ticket and donk them =P
Just doing some quick math here (correct me if I'm wrong). Assuming both you and your opponent play 4 copies of Fast Ticket and a 40% probability of starting with it.
40% chance to start with a FT.
60% chance opponent does not have a FT.
24% of the time you start with a FT when you opponent doesn't (.4*.6)
16% of the time you both have a FT.
You'll win PSR half the time, so there's an 8% chance you both start with FT and you win PSR.
Of the 60% of the time you don't start with FT, you opponent will start with it 40% of the time.
The remaining 36% that neither of you has a FT, you'll start first half the time (18%)
Add up 18%, 8% and 24% and you will start first 50% of the time.
I know the numbers are probably a little off, but if both players are playing 4 copies it's still going to roughly be a coin flip to see who goes first. Obviously if your opponent doesn't play FT at all you will start first 70% of the time (40% + 60%/2), and then everywhere inbetween depending on how many FT your opponent plays.
40% chance to start with a FT.
60% chance opponent does not have a FT.
24% of the time you start with a FT when you opponent doesn't (.4*.6)
16% of the time you both have a FT.
You'll win PSR half the time, so there's an 8% chance you both start with FT and you win PSR.
Of the 60% of the time you don't start with FT, you opponent will start with it 40% of the time.
The remaining 36% that neither of you has a FT, you'll start first half the time (18%)
Add up 18%, 8% and 24% and you will start first 50% of the time.
I know the numbers are probably a little off, but if both players are playing 4 copies it's still going to roughly be a coin flip to see who goes first. Obviously if your opponent doesn't play FT at all you will start first 70% of the time (40% + 60%/2), and then everywhere inbetween depending on how many FT your opponent plays.
It could easily come in the May set.
I don't think it will, but it certainly wouldn't be THAT unlikely for it to appear.
vaporeon
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You would have thought Pokemon Catcher would have made then think. "There is a reason we did not reprint Gust of Wind".
Ether way I hope that card does not get released here.
baby mario
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I gave that as the odds of having a Fast Ticket in your opening hand.
NoPoke
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40% is good when you have seven cards drawn. But that isn't the case here as one of your seven has to be a basic. So with only six cards that could be a Fast Ticket the odds drop slightly to around 36%. If the opponent muligans twice then your odds rise to 50%. Not good for turbo-Durant.
Dragonflames1994
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Rock Paper Scizors? :3
Awesome.
Awesome.
KazamBolt
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If you're not being sarcastic, then you're wrong. When a card tells you to play RPS, it's because it is a game of skill, while flipping a coin is exclusively luck.
Ohh didn't think about that... the more you mulligan with Durant now, the lower your odds of going first. Still, this is moot if BOTH of you have Fast Tickers =/ should have been able to stack 'em! lol
You would maybe have a point if we didn't have both Junk Arm and, by the time this is around, Ultra Ball, and even Sage's. Having cards you can just dump easily isn't a bad thing in this format.
And even if you assume we won't have this until after we rotate, we'll still have Ultra Ball and Juniper.
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