Cactuar JoeSpent a couple hours this afternoon building a lifegain deck and learning that it's really hard to solo playtest a deck that relies heavily on what your opponents do @_@
GrimDeck.comLifegain testing is weird. You end up sitting there with Aetherflux Reservoir and 80 life wondering if it actually works against a combo deck. The few times I've tried goldfish testing interactive decks, I just assign random 'what would an opponent do' moments and it still feels off.
@GrimDeck Yeah, I've been using some working assumptions (three other players who each play ~1 creature a turn) but a lot of it is still very murky.
@CactuarJoe Yeah, that's rough. Lifegain math gets weird fast when you're just making up what opponents might do. At some point you're just crossing your fingers and hoping the pod doesn't run you over before turn 5.