# TDS to mythic pros cons?

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**Created:** [October 5, 2017, 11:42pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/tds-to-mythic-pros-cons/31214 "2017-10-05T23:42:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lyya](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lyya/32/3650_2.png) [@Lyya](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyya)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 12:30am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/tds-to-mythic-pros-cons/31214/5 "2017-10-06T00:30:05Z")

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In terms of, “how much Mana will that one extra explosion generate, anyway?” I ran a simulation a long time ago that might be of use.

> [@Good news/Bad news](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/good-news-bad-news/20182/18):
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> That’s partially due to the diminishing returns you get with more exploded Gems. Just for fun, I just wrote a simulator that simulates explodes of 1 to 30 gems on an 8x8 board, across a million trials for each number of explosions, and calculates the average number of destroyed gems per explosion. Exploded Destroyed ======== ========= 1 7.561303 2 14.183169 3 19.996500 4 25.084244 5 29.561…

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