If you don't keep Aces in your deck, you can probably remove two suits. AI plays a Queen on your 10♠/9♠? No problem, play a 7♠ anyway. The fewer suits you have in your deck, the more likely it is you'll be able to follow suit. (In fact, you can do that with yx_'s deck to defend against the AI plays above.) Remember, to play on a pile, you must either continue the order or follow suit. (For example, with just 10s, 9s, and 7s, you'd be in trouble if the AI knew to play a Queen on your 9, reversing the pile and effectively locking it, or to play a Joker on a 10 in a pile not at 26 yet, pulling out your 10s from the other piles and preventing you from hitting 26.)įirst, remove all cards in one suit.
However, if you only have a few ranks, then you're vulnerable to moves by the AI. The more cards and ranks you have in your deck, the less likely it is an individual card will appear when you need it. The idea is the same as in most other build-a-deck games: a smaller deck with more cards per rank is better. The Caravan AI is not particularly smart, so I've not seen much use in building a particularly sophisticated deck, but I've done this partly out of habit and partly just in case.
