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I love your first two suggestions. I wonder if a simpler approach might just be to let tables to have a scheduled start time. Give the option during table creation to start the game at a specified time, instead of when the host hits a button. So I could make a "real-time" table for a spars...

Jellby wrote: ↑21 January 2026, 20:04 Would anyone play this game?

I would if it's best 2 out of 3 so it's fair.

It makes sense. The only argument against it is that the Elo ratings of the top players in every game are currently a fairly good indicator of how much luck impacts the game, and by doing this we would lose that signal in favor of an arbitrary 1-5 rating that inevitably will be imperfect, if not pl...

Not to bring more negativity to this, as I love poker, and think it is a completely reasonable inclusion on this site, but this implementation was clearly not ready to leave beta.

I noticed there are a lot of 3’s. It would obviously be pretty subjective in the end anyway, but I suppose it could do with some work either way, huh?

Your Elo ratings are game specific, as are your K-factors. I'm talking about your Elo rating for any specific game. I didn't use the phrase "overall elo." I think maybe the phrase “all time” was confusing. This is the designation bga uses for your non-arena rating for a given game. Your ar...

Each game on BGA is already rated on a 0-5 scale for "luck." I propose that the K-factor used for Elo calculations ("all-time" and "arena") be determined in part by this luck rating, with more luck-based games having lower K-factors. Why? On BGA, your Elo rating for a g...

Mirror is a “fairytale forest” B card. It has 1 power and when it doesn’t win the flag it puts a fairytale forest card from your bench on top of your deck. Its natural target is troll, but it scales well to the C deck with unicorn, cauldron, and even carriage if you’re living on the edge. It also ge...

I think the Beach Club Set, Dwarf/Fairy/Thief combo, and Secret Base Thief/Zombie decks are the three best combo decks in this game, but I have seen Yodelers/University decks also get some surprising wins. I'm curious if anyone has ventured more into drafting B-set cards instead of A-set cards to c...