SPAM Data & Methodology

Damage of one hit

The roll is a whole number between the ability's minimum and maximum. Element points are your points in that hit's element; resistance is the defender's for that element, capped between −50% and +50%. Ether damage ignores resistances. Shield, AoE splash and some talents add further steps.

Expected damage per cast and per turn

Card pages show these before element bonuses so cards compare fairly. “Average resistance” is the mean of every released card for that element. Abilities that hit all enemies count three targets, the average over the first ten turns.

Effective HP

Spamton income

Overtime (from round 20)

1. All four cards are on the board. An ability with cooldown c is cast on your turns c, 2c, 3c…; limited-use abilities stop when their uses run out; abilities that cost HP or element points are cast only when you can pay.
2. Element points are tracked for the whole match: abilities that add points (Spirits, Multiboost, Cigarillos…) and Element Hearts add them every turn, and every point raises that element's damage and healing by 10%. Point-generating abilities are cast before damage each turn.
3. Critical hits count as their expected value; critical buffs only affect abilities that can crit, capped at 100%. Accuracy multiplies every hit that can miss.
4. The reference opponent has the card pool's average HP and resistances and receives the pool's average damage mix (table below). Percent-of-HP and execute effects use the average HP.
5. Spamtons come in as the game pays them. Every other turn the deck buys one Tox from its plan family at the rarity it can afford with the best expected value, using the real Luck odds and three offers per shop.
6. Team-wide Tox (Berserk, Element Hearts) affect every card; card-local Tox (AoE, Vampirism, Shield, Vitalheart, Ancient Healing) affect only the card that holds them.
7. Talents count only when their effect is start-of-game, gated to a turn (like Life-8) or always on. Talents triggered by deaths, kills or hits aren't simulated, and talents that transform the card (Random Metamorph) are never recommended.
8. Each deck's Tox plan and talents are the ones that score highest. A beam search keeps the strongest partial decks at every size from one to four cards, so the best decks are found without scoring all 10,334,625 possible four-card decks.
9. Damage dealt is averaged over match lengths of 8 to 12 turns, so a long-cooldown finisher that would land exactly on the last modeled turn counts in proportion instead of all-or-nothing.

Deck strength

Multiplying damage by durability rewards decks that both hit hard and survive, the way a fight between two decks actually resolves. The average random deck comes from 2,500 random four-card decks (mean strength 2,547, top 10% above 3,284); the best deck found scores 7,267. An index of 100 is the best deck the model found, 0 is an average random deck.

A card's score blends two halves: how strong it is on its own in the model (damage, durability, utility) and how often — and how high — it appears among the 300 strongest decks the model found. Cards are then ranked and banded by percentile:

Deck tiers use the strength index directly. The four axes on card pages (damage, durability, economy, utility) are percentiles among all released cards.

A card shows a modeled talent pick only when a talent measurably changes its decks' strength; otherwise no pick is claimed.

• No win rates or pick rates: we have no match data for SPAM, so nothing here is measured from real games.
• Cards don't die in the simulation, and targeting order, Taunt and focus fire are not played out.
• Stun, Freeze, Eternity, Vanish, cooldown changes and similar control effects get only a small, capped bonus.
• Phoenix, Reflection, Revenge and other reactive Tox, and the opponent's own Tox purchases, are not simulated.
• The terrain bonus (+5 to one element for both players) is left out because it helps both sides equally.
• Matches longer than 10 turns favour slow-scaling decks more than the model shows.

We re-extract the game after every patch; cards, tiers, decks and every page update together, and patch notes list exactly what changed.

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