Recently I took a bunch of white cards having to do with lifegain I had lying around and threw them into a deck.
I got up to 8442 life.
I started getting hundreds of +1/+1 counters (due to Sunbond effects and by stacking Spirit Link and Lifelink on things like Serra Avatar.
My question is how to best visualize this for the other players. I have tried dice, but they become obsolete, and even the relic counters from Ultrapro goes up to 999 and stacking them on cards is also confusing (as far as calculating the lifegain from said creature).
The only other idea I have is using a pencil and sticky notes.
Help would be greatly appreciated, because I find this to be a fun deck, but I don't want my playgroup to detest it due to the math suddenly becoming fuzzy and/or taking too long to visualize.
The majority of players at my LGS I see with a "count" higher than what is normally represented on a single die will usually resort to dice positioned in their numeric position. For example, if you have six 6D, then you arrange them in two rows, three columns and ensure you don't go over 999. Representing 0 is tricky and most players will "shift" or stack dice to represent the zero. One player uses 10D for this express purpose. I'm not a huge fan of this method.
One player has a mat with a scale. One side runs from 10 to 90 in increments of 10. The other side goes from 1-9. Very similar to this mat (different design obviously). He slides two metal "coins" up and down this scale. Whenever he surpasses 99, he'll add a die as a 100x multiplier. He doesn't do anything for counters AFAIK. I like this method personally but haven't found a design I liked.
I personally just use a cheap a 3"x5" notebook from the dollar store to track life. I prefer this method over any dice since it's far too easy to bump the table and move dice. It also lets me look back on matchup to see how my deck played out on a particular game. Our store players has an unspoken rule where both players (or all in EDH) keeps track of everyone's life totals. So a small notebook really helps for that. For counters, I use several different colored glass "drops", I have blue, green, yellow and clear. During a game where I want to cut down on the number of counters on the table, I'll declare what each color denotes, such as blue is 1x and green is 10x, and write it down to avoid any issues. I used to use dice but I had a couple of my favorite 25 year old dice inadvertently stolen so I don't use dice that way anymore.
I got up to 8442 life.
I started getting hundreds of +1/+1 counters (due to Sunbond effects and by stacking Spirit Link and Lifelink on things like Serra Avatar.
My question is how to best visualize this for the other players. I have tried dice, but they become obsolete, and even the relic counters from Ultrapro goes up to 999 and stacking them on cards is also confusing (as far as calculating the lifegain from said creature).
The only other idea I have is using a pencil and sticky notes.
Help would be greatly appreciated, because I find this to be a fun deck, but I don't want my playgroup to detest it due to the math suddenly becoming fuzzy and/or taking too long to visualize.
One player has a mat with a scale. One side runs from 10 to 90 in increments of 10. The other side goes from 1-9. Very similar to this mat (different design obviously). He slides two metal "coins" up and down this scale. Whenever he surpasses 99, he'll add a die as a 100x multiplier. He doesn't do anything for counters AFAIK. I like this method personally but haven't found a design I liked.
I personally just use a cheap a 3"x5" notebook from the dollar store to track life. I prefer this method over any dice since it's far too easy to bump the table and move dice. It also lets me look back on matchup to see how my deck played out on a particular game. Our store players has an unspoken rule where both players (or all in EDH) keeps track of everyone's life totals. So a small notebook really helps for that. For counters, I use several different colored glass "drops", I have blue, green, yellow and clear. During a game where I want to cut down on the number of counters on the table, I'll declare what each color denotes, such as blue is 1x and green is 10x, and write it down to avoid any issues. I used to use dice but I had a couple of my favorite 25 year old dice inadvertently stolen so I don't use dice that way anymore.