I mainly just play 1 deck for a season in ladder, and I normally have to train myself to memorize cards in my deck to find offboard lethal as well as reading my opponent hands. The thought process behind not using one was due to the easier switch when I play on my phone sometimes particularly during lunch break at work. I wonder if there any other person in this forum who doesn’t use deck tracker?
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Yes, me. I like it that way and didn’t need it for Legend so don’t have reason to use one. Never did. Don’t like 3rd party softwares at all, you may never know when they will become illegal and get account ban for them. Skills are improving much better without them in my opinion because you have to pay attention to every card instead of just watching them in a list.
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Used to have firestone for battlegrounds but thats long gone…seemed to cause a lot of disconnects.
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Yeah I heard a lot of reports that Firestone might be the culprit of constant in game crashes
You might as well count me in
I don’t rely on tracker to track my cards, but to track my record.
I was grateful for having that functionality while playing sludgelock, because sometimes just life happens and you get interrupted and forget how many sludges were on the bottom, or was there any (re)shuffling effects to change that, so it was great
But now I’m back to good, old, normal decks, and I really don’t need any tracker to help me memorize the cards. I’ve been doing it for 9 years before installing tracker, and I don’t see any difference between my best rank then and best rank now. In fact, I don’t just memorize the cards I’ve seen, and threats still in their deck, I also automatically calculate the odds of draws and compare to odds of other scenarios and options.
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No wonder you were able to hit top 100. You understands how to dig for lethal and offboard damage being buried deep in your deck.
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It takes many, many games on a deck for me to know this, but yeah
Take weapon rogue as an example, because it’s the ultra-easy version of such a deck where drawing for lethal is common
It took me less than 100 games to learn exactly what I can reasonably hope to get from my own draws and what from, say, stick up, and then around 200 games to be sure when one is definitely better than the others, all without ever explicitly calculating and comparing the two. That’s intuition - your approximate experience in a similar situation is compared against consequences of picking each option, and the result is your intuition.
If I was relying on tracker to track the card, my intuition wouldn’t be as developed as it is in the game, because it wouldn’t be working at all. Once you start explicitly, actively thinking about something, that means you stopped using System 1 (intuition, fast) and started using System 2 (deliberate thinking, slow).
Since sometimes the tracker will just stop working (it happens), or you might play half of your games on cellphone (it happens) or you may end up playing on the MT-s or Worlds, it’s much better to never rely on tracker for tracking cards. It can literally stop you from progressing.
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many play on cell phones like i do. We don’t track
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I started with closed beta in August 2013, and have never used a deck tracker.
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I have never used a deck tracker. Just not fun for me. Not trying to min max every game and nowadays you don’t need a deck tracker to tell you to draw your I win cards first. Its not that hard to play without one, you just have to think more.
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Same here, although I started like a few days before or maybe after GvG was released, It was around november 2014, I think.
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I’ve never used a deck tracker once since open beta when I started playing.
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whats deck tracker?seriously
why not just write it down?
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I never started using one until about 3 weeks ago.
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Used Firestone for BG, but the program is so clunky and takes up a lot of resources. Stopped doing that and doing fine.
What I sometimes do is when I have a netdeck I put the deck in my browser and check that every now and then. Mostly for mulligans, when it’s a new deck I play.
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In only use decktracker in arena to save me some time by conceding if there is no card that can turn the tables or if I have a discover or draw card to check if anything really helps me at this point. Never did for standard as I get the feeling I am getting better with a deck if I learn it by heart. Also the yugioh dramatic vibes hit: “My grandpas deck has no pathetic cards Kaiba!”… proceeds to draw needlerock totem that I completely forgot theres still one left.
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I never used tracker during the first time (played 3y 2014-2016). Just returned last December right after the expansion came.
I only use arena tracker to track my runs. Luckily i have arena score roughly 6 wins / run so now i have almost of decent decks (except the decks depend on tourists and older legendaries which soon be rotated)
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if you can’t remember less than 30 cards (assuming you don’t play highlander), you’ve got bigger problems than the usage of a deck tracker
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The vast, vast majority of my games are on mobile, so no deck tracker.
I do use one on PC, but mostly to record replays, not really to keep track of what’s in my deck. I usually know the important things still in there.
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i dont use deck tracker and im enjoying the game as its supposed to be played
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