Silly question

By 987654321, in Strategy and deck-building

"Highlander" is a challenge where you build a deck with only one copy of each card. At my understanding, Highlander is a movie about inmortal Scottish guys who fight themselves to determine who's the coolest. With a soundtrack made by Queen. I wonder where this denomination comes from.

Highlander is a movie about immortal guys from various places (the titular character happening to be scottish) who remove the head of each other competitor to win some ill-defined prize, because "in the end, there can only be one." That's why there's only one copy of each card in a "highlander" deck.

Highlander is a movie about immortal guys from various places (the titular character happening to be scottish) who remove the head of each other competitor to win some ill-defined prize, because "in the end, there can only be one." That's why there's only one copy of each card in a "highlander" deck.

Yep. Though the concept of "there can only be one" falls down somewhat given the number of sequels and spin off series, rendering it more "there can only be...several"

"There can only be one" is their motto, because it's up to the toughest of them all to behead the rest. Beheading = increase in power for the executioner = greater chance of being that one ultra-powerful being. I never saw the show, but it got silly according to what I read about it.

It's not technically correct to use about decks since the cards don't fight internally for anything but attention, but snowflake is even less correct ;)

We could call them "diversity decks".

Ah, thanks.

It's not technically correct to use about decks since the cards don't fight internally for anything but attention, but snowflake is even less correct ;)

And now, a derail... I'm not seeing anything in that URL that refutes the commonly-held belief that no two macroscopic snowflakes are precisely alike. It merely refers to many different categories of falling snow crystals, and itself has an additional link that reiterates the unlikelihood of two snowflakes (in the popular sense of the term) ever being alike.