Card Wars 1997 Discards

by Andrew Davidson
March 10, 1997

The booster draft system in this tournament required each player to discard two cards into the draft pool.  Two cards per player (normally the discarded cards) were left in the pool and taken out of circulation.
This is an analysis of the cards taken out of circulation.  About half of the cards are unpopular feng shui sites, with Auspicious Termites being the outstanding example.  Note, however, that the winner used Auspicious Termites in his winning deck so it can't be all that bad. Still, I now have 62 of this card - any suggestions?
The most unpopular non-site card was Mooks.  It's a shame that this card is not more useful - it should have been zero cost.

Very Common

25      Auspicious Termites
10      Ancient Temple
8       Mountain Retreat
7       Family Restaurant
7       Mooks
6       Hallowed Earth
5       Ancestral Tomb
5       Grove of Willows
4       Family Home
4       Lily Pond
3       Swordsman
1       Blessed Orchard
1       Cave Network
1       Friends of the Dragon
1       Jagged Cliffs
1       Student of the Bear
1       Test Subjects
1       The Pledged

Common

9       Illusory Bridge
3       Havoc Suit
3       Motorcycle
3       Natural Order
3       Slo Mo Vengeance
2       Comrades in Arms
2       Dance of the Centipede
2       Demolitions Expert
2       Edge Warrior
2       Healing Earth
2       Helix Rethread
2       In Your Face Again
2       Monkeywrenching
2       Netherworld Passageway
2       Orbital Laser Strike
2       Rainforest Temple
2       Sampan Village
1       "Trust Me, I've Got a Plan"
1       Abominable Wave
1       Agony Grenade
1       Beneficial Realignment
1       Both Guns Blazing
1       Chimp Shack
1       Claw of Fury
1       Code Red
1       Dark Traveler
1       Deathtrap
1       Expendable Unit
1       Gunrunner
1       Homemade Tank
1       Ice Warriors
1       Inexorable Corruption
1       Just Another Consumer
1       Mysterious Return
1       New Manifesto
1       Orange Meditation
1       Ring of Gates
1       Rocket Scientist
1       Speed Boat
1       Stolen Police Car
1       Storm of the Just
1       Sword of Biting
1       Thunder Knights
1       Too Much Monkey Business
1       Who's the Big Man Now?!

Uncommon

5       Hill of the Turtle
3       Hostile Takeover
2       Ancestral Sanctuary
2       Seed of the New Flesh
2       Throwing Star
1       Array of Stunts
1       Cellular Reinvigoration
1       Church Official
1       Claw of the Tiger
1       Disintegrator Ray
1       Onslaught of the Turtle
1       Poison Needles
1       Reinvigoration Process
1       Satellite Surveillance
1       Subterfuge
1       The Home Front
1       The Underground
=190    cards
BY TYPE
26      Characters
 8      Edges
36      Events
84      Feng Shui Sites
10      Sites
 1      Battleground Sites
25      States
BY SET
154     Limited
 11     Netherworld
 25     Flashpoint
BY RARITY
91      Very Common
 5      Un/common
73      Common
21      Uncommon
 0      Rare
BY FACTION
  7     Ascended
 10     Dragons
  7     Eaters of Lotus
 11     Flesh Architects
 16     Guiding Hand
 17     Jammers
  2     Monarchs
120     Neutral
 
 

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