Radlands: Cult of Chrome Preview #9: Lobotomizer

[@coyotemoon722]

This one looks fun and truly rad

[@universityofradlands]

Cult of Chrome: bringing the rad back to Radlands. 😄

[@davidcroghan170]

very cool card @TroyPeiffer nailed the math. With the water refund in the case the card gets turned into a punk seams pretty low risk. Cant believe we have over 30 more cards to find out about!

[@universityofradlands]

Exciting stuff for sure. Lots of camps and combos to explore when this drops.

[@TroyPeiffer]

This is a very interesting camp, one that provides some fun RNG. One correction, though, is that you said that there is slightly less than 1/3 chance of drawing an injure and having the lobotomy be unsuccessful. That would be true if you were pulling only one card from the deck. Given that we are pulling three cards, we have to do some math. In order for the lobotomy to be successful, we have to pull three non-injure junks. What are the chances of that? Well, in a vacuum, since there are twenty injure junks, the first card pulled has a 46/66 chance of not being an injure. Assuming that is not an injure junk, the next card has a 45/ 65 chance of not being an injure, and again assuming that card is not an injure, the third card has a 44/64 chance. We then have to multiply those probabilities to arrive at our probability of pulling three non-injure junks from the deck. So, 46/66 x 45/65 x 44/64 = 91,080/274,560, or 33.17% chance of pulling three non-injure junks. Therefore, the chances of a successful lobotomy (i.e., getting the restore of the person) are roughly 1 in 3. 2/3 of the time you will pull an injure junk.

[@universityofradlands]

Thank you for the clarification. That's some good mathing right there. There will be two types of lobotomizer players: those who do the math and those who don't 🤣 Thanks for watching and commenting. I really appreciate all the interaction you provide to the channel. Thank you ☺️

[@TroyPeiffer]

@@universityofradlands knowing the math on this camp is important because if you try to restore a 3 or 4 water person, 2/3 of the time you will lose that person. Pretty risky.

[@universityofradlands]

Agreed. Probably not worth the risk for one of the named people. Everybody else is fair game.

[@cubictony]

Great math, and this is assuming that the deck is still 66 cards thick, cards will be depleted as early as camp selection, and card abilities such as Interrogation and Scientist to consider. Radlands is starting to feel like a poker game.

[@cubictony]

I imagine a possible scenario where an opponent plans to activate Bounty Office but you got Lobotomizer and managed to punkify your person.

[@universityofradlands]

That would be a great counter. I'm sure the bounty office player wouldn't be overly excited to see this across the table 😂. You'd be fighting on the inside hoping it whiffs or restores, neither is a good outcome for your strategy.

[@nightwishpower]

Really good with the new obelisk

[@universityofradlands]

Great combo! I think the new obelisk is great in general. Really fun trying to make that new win condition.

[@happiness7474]

I like it

[@universityofradlands]

It's a fun one for sure. Thanks Ms for watching and commenting. Much appreciated ☺️

[@davidlisteresq]

This one looks very interesting. There's nothing like this in the base game. A bit of a "risk/reward" situation.

[@universityofradlands]

It does add tension/suspense in a good way. In playtesting the card was worded to flip one over at a time instead of three at once and that made it a real nail biter by the third card 🤣. Thanks for watching and commenting. I really appreciate it. ☺️

[@davidlisteresq]

@@universityofradlands ooh yeah I think I'd play it like that

[@universityofradlands]

Just keep in mind three cards are always discarded. So even if the first card is an injure symbol two more still need to be discarded.