The worst part about getting a new deck is thinking it's been shuffled, then drawing the same card 3 times in a row.
Well apaprently, my iPad doesn't know how tio shuffle.
In One Game I get three hasten dooms in a row, in another I get 3 Summon Staffs. See the images.
Let's just say my doom did come sooner than later. That wasn't a fun game. I ama shamed that Advanced Baron Balde beat me with a surprisingly pwoerful team.
If I did my math correctly, the odds of there being 3 Hasten Dooms in a row in a shuffled deck is roughly 4% (Assuming it's Baron Blade's deck). That's unlikely, but if the deck is played enough...
And of course, the likelyhood of actually drawing the Dooms is even smaller, but again, I suspect it's in the realm of reasonable occurance.
I actually made the comment to Jeremy at a con, recently, about how the electrlonic game actually is random. When I'm playing with physical cards, I tend to unclump my decks before actually shuffling them, which results in fewer instances of this kind of experience. It's actually less random, as it reduces the likelihood of the same cards coming up.
I honestly like that the electronic version occasionally hits those clumps, as annoying as they can sometimes be. It's not exactly the same experience I get with physical cards, anyway, so I'm fine with that aspect being different, also.
It sucks when the villians get cards clumped together, but it also feels cheaty if the heroes do, too. Awesome examples of times I had lucky like that:
OMI (AbZ's Onboard Module Installation) draws an OMI, searches, shuffles. Play OMI, draws OMI even after shuffling. I look to my group and swear I didn't use any sleight of hand, jokingly. I search, and draw. I play my third OMI, draw into ANOTHER OMI. I'm speechless, since that's twice I shuffled and it still surfaces. It was a fun turn.
I also had a game against Deadline as the Naturalist. I draw into Crafty Assault three times in a row, destroying six catastrophes total that way.
Ran a demo at a con once where a player picked up Ra and got an opening hand of 3 Summon Staffs (Staves?) and a Staff. She thought it was a horrible hand until she read what they actually did...
I played a game with my son a couple of weeks ago and I (after shuffling well each time, I swear!) used summon staff to draw another summon staff 3 times in a row.
We laughed a lot. He's 8 and said it was the greatest day of his life.
I've yet to see a Hasten Doom in the app without seeing at least one more behind it. Then yesterday against Ambuscade it was two Armed and Dangerous back to back.
Edit: Not that I think the app is cheating, just my bad luck.