Talk:Card Almanac/@comment-1163664-20120402184323

Someone asked, "Does anyone know if the cost per card of fusion or the effects on the base card are better if you fuse 6 cards at once versus 6 cards individually? Sometimes it seems like this might be the case."

So far, I have observed that fusing 6 cards simultaneously compared to fusing the same 6 cards individually gives the card that is fused additional growth. On a Rottweiler, fusing 6 Childs simultaneously gives 330 Growth and costs 2,460 tokens (260+320+380+440+500+560), while fusing 6 Childs individually gives 328 Growth and costs 2,395 tokens (260+320+375+430+480+530). My results from further fusions are not accurate because I used some cards of the same type as the Rottweiler which may skew the results (see below).

Since then I have observed that fusing the same type of cards (Tombie with Tombie, Mombie with Mombie, or Bombie with Bombie) results in additional Growth compared to fusing mismatched types (Tombie with Mombie or Tombie with Bombie). On a Poison Dart Frog (Tombie), fusing 6 Childs (Tombie) simultaneously gives 380 Growth and costs 2,669 tokens (270+340+409+480+550+620) compared to 330 Growth and 2,460 tokens (260+320+380+440+500+560) when fusing 6 Mummies (Mombie) simultaneously.

For the next six cards, fusing another 6 Childs simultaneously with the Poison Dart Frog gives 300 Growth and costs 4,331 tokens (585+640+694+749+804+859) compared to 229 Growth and 4,425 tokens (625+670+715+760+805+850) when fusing 6 Roosters simultaneously. And for the next six cards, fusing another 6 Childs simultaneously with the Poison Dart Frog gives 214 Growth and costs 5,819 tokens (869+910+950+990+1030+1070) compared to 169 Growth and 5,487 tokens (839+869+900+929+960+990) when fusing 6 Doberman Pinschers simultaneously.

So while fusing card individually may cost less, it is at the expense of some Growth. When able to, try to fuse all of the same type of cards together. For example: Tombie with Tombie, Mombie with Mombie, and Bombie with Bombie).  While this will increase the cost of the fusion, more Growth will result.  Additional testing is still needed to see how much divergence there is in Growth between fusing cards individuallly versus fusing them simultaneously.  And what is the difference in Growth when fusing 5 of the same type of card versus 6 of the same type.