I have started counting cards for quite a while now. For practice I am playing online on a website. I set the deck count = 6.
I have reached a count of +10 multiple times, however is this good enough to bet like half your pot?
I am influenced by the movie 21 and I would bet a lot when the count reached +15 or +16 but in real life I have never reached such a high count.
Where in the count is it profitable to bet a lot of money?
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Gacha, gacha everywhere. Everything seems to be gacha these days – including the new mech game Mecharishi that came out the other day and has managed to hold my attention for longer than much of this sort of thing does.
One of the longer-term and more successful examples out there at the moment is the popular Honkai Star Rail, which has just announced the arrival of its latest 3.5 update. But when is it, what will it bring, and what news has been released so far?
HoYoverse has announced that we can expect the version 3.5 update to arrive on August 13th, so less than two weeks away from the time of publication.
This update officially kicks off the second half of the Amphoreus story. Trailblazers will encounter new companions, confront fresh enemies and events, and witness old friends in entirely new forms. Hysilens and Cerydra will also make their long-awaited debut as playable characters, joining players in the next leg of the Amphorean trailblazing expedition.
Version 3.5 introduces two powerful new characters to the team of Trailblazers. The first is Hysilens, commander of the holy city’s knights and a 5-star Physical-Type character following the Path of Nihility. Hysilens excels when paired with characters who specialize in DoT.
The other 5-star Wind-Type character following the Path of Harmony, Imperator Cerydra, is the holder of the Law Coreflame and the initiator of the first Flame-Chase Journey
HSR V3.5 will see the limited 5-star characters Stellaron Hunter Kafka and Silver Wolf return in the first and second halves of the Version 3.5 warp event
This is an interesting one. Version 3.5 brings a toggle to the in-game audio that allows you to toggle between the original in-game dub and the original licensed voice actors. This is being added to help increase immersion for players.
Honkai Star Rail has so far passed an astonishing 150 million downloads across PC, iOS, and Android. That is a lot of potential income for HoYoverse when you consider it sits beside its other gacha behemoth, Genshin Impact.
You can download the new Honkai Star Rail update on August 13th, and we will update this page with go-live times once they are released.
If a planeswalker than has been turned into a creature (not a planeswalker that turns itself into a creature with “prevent all damage” like Gideon) takes Infect damage, what happens?
I know that Infect damage is applied as -1/-1 counters, and I know that the planeswalker will have both damaged marked on it, as well as have it’s loyalty reduced, but what I’m unsure of is if the -1/-1 counters further reduce the loyalty or if they only impact the power / toughness.
As a follow-on, do the -1/-1 counters stay on the planeswalker when it is no longer a creature? And if so, could this be used to prevent a Gideon from using it’s “become a creature” ability (or at least kill it if it does)?
I keep getting different sources for Chez Geek and it’s add-ons. Is there one source for all of it?
What is the relationship between lands and mana in Magic and what do each of them do? A good answer should especially include how a new player should think about them.
Note:
This is an attempt to create a canonical question about the relationship between lands and mana in Magic.
Beginners are often confused about this given the same symbols are used to mean different things across basic lands, non-basic lands, and mana costs. This can lead to confusion about lands being mana, about non-basic lands putting basic lands into play, or even about what mana is.
I’ve been playing the game for 50 years and this happened to me recently:
I had the following rack
PBQZJDH
And so I could not play a legal move.
I’ve been trying to work out the odds of this (no legal word on the first turn) happening.
I know using the CSW2019 is known (0.572% (or 1 in 175)), but that has many strange words in it. This is regarding the first word of the game covering the center square of course. How many of the 3,199,724 racks are there with no playable word? I’m thinking the overall probability (out of 16,007,560,800) is near 1.000% or 1 in a 100.
The opponent decides to use the activated ability of Nevinyrral's Disk. When the artifact is tapped to use it, I respond by casting a Stifle, which counters the Disk’s ability, avoiding the total destruction that would result.
My question, however, is the following:
Nevinyrral’s Disk is normally placed in the graveyard after being used;
but its activation was countered;
therefore, does the Disk remain on the Battlefield, or is it placed in the graveyard from the game in any case,as indicated by the card text, even after its ability was countered ?
My hand is K8643 4 AQ862 64. As West, I deal and pass. With E-W silent, N-S bid:
N S
2D 2NT
3D 6H
What should I lead?
Published: Aug 2, 2025 11:32 am