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Is there anywhere that I can find a full list of LS count I.E. The starter deck card goes out to like 156, But say I wanted to build like a 1200 card deck? Do I have to figure out the soul count myself, or is it out there somewhere, has someone done this before?

No - that yields 1 LS in a 56 card deck (and 0 in a 55 card deck).

I think this works:
1. Divide by 7
2. Subtract 1
3. Round up, if needed

Math is hard.

No - that yields 1 LS in a 56 card deck (and 0 in a 55 card deck).

I think this works:
1. Divide by 7
2. Subtract 1
3. Round up, if needed

I would list it this way:
1. Subtract 1 from the total cards in your deck
2. Divide that number by seven
3. Drop any fractional part of your answer(ignore the remainder).

The whole number answer tells you how many of the total cards must be lost souls.

I know because I just implemented it in a certain online deck editor that will be available soon.

Mike

It won't matter anyway. The tournament will be over by the time you're done shuffling.

Seriously, though, how would you insure randomization of this deck? You would have to separate the deck into parts in order to shuffle at all. Each of those parts would have to have some sorting of cards, especially LSs, just to make sure that they are not bunched up somewhere specific in your deck. You would then have to shuffle each of those piles for randomization. However, you would then have to somehow shuffle the piles together for randomization of the entire deck, rather than just the individual piles.

I don't see how this process could not take a lot of time, and I would think a host would have to still check the deck to make sure that randomization was actually achieved.

If the host isn't satisfied that the deck is truly random then he is free to shuffle it, he could even arrange the cards in any order he wants, I could care less.

Oooooo..... I'm gonna try that next time.

New rule: Hosts gets to arrange players' decks before the round begins.

Woo-hoo! Power to the Hosts! 

See thats the cool part, it still has to be random how you arange it, so you can't just stick all 142 lost souls on top and be done, actually.. yes you could, because then with 20 2-liners, I can last for the next 60 cards.

Nah, I would just take over one of the nice long tables, you know, the ones that can sit 4 players to a side, yeah I would sit in the middle and play california style.