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Originally Posted by ghost whistler
Now i'm confused; so are you saying that each box will give you exactly the right amount of every card as per it's frequency (ie 2 copies of every card you can only ever run 2 of)?
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Since some cards you can infinitely stack in Powerstorm what you've just said is impossible. However, unlike other games Powerstorm is:
a) played by the hand; and
b) punishes you mechanically for drawing matching cards
Because of "b" it's generally undesirable to have more than 3 of any one card in your deck, and is typically best to have 1 or 2 copies of each card in the deck. Some cards you really do need 2 copies of.
The reason "b" exists is because we aren't a Magic clone with a universal resource mechanic. In Powerstorm, you just play cards typically without tapping mana or paying a resource cost. So cards that are just out of control with more than 1 copy are limited to 1 per deck overtly on the card. But some cards are not that bad if you can play just once, but get incrementally more abusive if you can stack a lot of them -- our "matching" system (from the Comprehensive Rules game) comes in to address that.
Powerstorm has pretty detailed deck stacking rules and play balance constraints. It's not "4 copies of everything, play it as you draw it".
Based on our knowledge of the mechanics we tried to figure out a collation that balanced playability with cost. Two starter decks and a box of draft packs gives you 1 to 4 copies of every card in the game. How many you get of each card is based on our best guess of cost vs. relative utility to create a tournament viable play set.
You'll need 2 copies of a lot of cards to build viable decks (so a set of just one of everything probably wouldn't work out well for you) and you'll need only 1 copy of some other cards (so having 4 copies of those is kinda useless except for building multiple decks). You may want more copies than we give you of some cards, but it's probably not strictly necessary to have a tournament viable deck.
Our collation numbers are online here:
http://www.veritasgames.net/ps/collation.html
We've been testing decks built on one box of cards and those work fine and can actually beat decks built on a much larger pool of cards.