Talk:Ishtar/@comment-30480779-20161203032445/@comment-30480779-20161203134139

It's not easily accessible from the menu navigation, but this page apparentl;y existed on the wiki for a while: http://fategrandorder.wikia.com/wiki/Command_Cards

The three servants on the front row create a deck of 15 cards, drawn at a rate of 5 per turn. The two cards you don't use are discarded, not saved, and reenter the deck on the fourth turn after it gets shuffled. So if you keep track, at the very least you can always know exactly what you'll get on your third turn based on the draws of the first two. So if you're on turn 2 (Turn % 3 + 2, for the programmers out there) and heven't gotten Ishtar's Buster cards yet, pop her gems and watch the fireworks on turn 3.

Or you can use Shuffle and pray. It's still too luck-based to be a strategy to rely on, IMHO, but it can make a long, but winnable, fight much shorter.