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because poker allows your combat system to strategyse instead of just brut forcing everything!
for instance you can choose to forgo the best most damaged delt to get the 3 hits by completing the thrice or sextuple attacks!
it gives you far more variables and even people who hate poker can have an easyer time to understand it then creating an equally deep combat system with all the nuances this system allows you without the need for a massive learning curve!
yes it puts some people at a disadvantage but the other option would be a shallow combat system or put everyone at stake 0 and turning the game into a grinding match much more then what it needs to be!
right now the variables in the combat system are the placement of the cards
the 4 types of cards
the card sequences
the card colours
your companions skills!
the quality of the gems
the type of gems!
what kind of attack you choose with your gems!
besides it makes sense temathically its a way for the MC to express his magic and it also representes the randomness of his sorcery!
if the MC had no sorcery so to speak the combat game could be chess or checkers!
the game chosen is to represent how magic is represented based on the personality of the MC and we gotta play with this MC!
for instance Kathy is candy crush i believe or bejeweled or whatever she admitted!
if it was Chloe it could slot machines since she is all sorcery with little magic spark!
for someone like Dylan or someone smarter like Emily it could be Chess while for someone greedy it could monopoly(?)!
what i mean is that it makes sense thematically... i hope i have made sense! or else i need to lay off the numbing drugs!
