As most of you know by now, I’ve played a LOT of card games. I usually do pretty well for myself and TheHyperloops is synonymous with being competitive. What most of you may not know (depends on if you’ve been in our discord for a while) is that we seldom blame our losses to our “rolls” or attribute our “wins” to them either. Like sure, to win a Major event, you will likely need some things to go your way, but all of your first rolls coming out as blanks isn’t something that you’re stuck with and focusing on what you CAN control is important to playing and doing well. I’ve been playing Legends of Runeterra (an online card game by Riot, the people who made League of Legends) and a recent Reddit post I came upon (embedded below) had a really good breakdown and I wanted to share it with you. Even if you don’t play LoR, if you find the knowledge imparted to you useful, please go give them an Upvote or drop them a comment to tell them. A single voice in a crowd is hard to hear, but it can be quite loud during silence.

For me, there is still a bit more than that involved, but I agree wholeheartedly with the overall theory / concept. For some of us (destiny players), we look at the rolls and see trash and blame those rolls as the main factor to our loss when it’s really just a subset of a larger whole. I’ve recently been playing whomever I can get a game with on TTS when I’m looking and there are a ridiculous amount of people who still blame rolling out and hitting double blank, but they don’t blame themselves for running Phasma3 or realizing that the 2 First Order Stormtrooper dice each have 2 blanks which is 11% to hit the double blank…. it’s 1 in 9 times. They don’t blame the fact that they proceeded to play TWO Riot Shields before a single point of damage was dealt to them and that they have a 3rd blank in the form of the 2r1 Ranged side now and ended up rerolling 0-1 times. “How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults or resolution enough to mend them.” – Benjamin Franklin

Think about the games as they go on, before they happen, after they happen. There is a lot of information to dissect from them. Even at this point, I’m still questioning my decisions and trying to ascertain the best way to handle situations. Strive to be a better version of yourself, you can do it!…. all night long! Until next time, may the rolls be with you… and if they aren’t then discard to reroll!

~HonestlySarcastc