Alternative Mono-Aether Halfblood farmer (Recluse)

[mrbarbarian]

Personally, I dont really like the standard ai5 aether farmer so I thought Id try and make an effective alternative. I am in the process of testing it and will try to keep up to date stats. It was mostly an attempt to see if there was an alternative but still effective way of building a mono-aether. The principle is to use numbers rather than immortality.

Deck:
Aether Mark
Aether Tower - 15
Phase Shield - 6
Phase Recluse - 5
Electrocutor - 1
Fractal - 3

by mrbarbarian

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I know this is upped and I have been trialling both upped and unupped, the stats will be posted below. The idea is to use phase shields to survive long enough to fractal a couple recluses and just overwhelm the enemy with 1.75 str/quanta unit. So far the only real problem was a Maxwell Demon (I played against this twice but the second time I got my lobotomiser out before losing more than 1 recluse and went on to wipe out that deck) and low pillar draws, even with bad draws Ive gone on to win due to the fact I simply saved enough for shields and went from there. A problem Im yet to face is permenant control however I have played a deck with explosions and still won convincingly.

The problem the unupped had was simply being locked down by wings/steal/nightmare and unable to play, aethers lack of control outside of the shields is its major weakness however so far numbers + shields have triumphed the majority of the time. However, Id say unuppeds major weakness is my awful luck. Earlier I played a few games with it and at least 3 I didnt draw a single spider until past halfway through my deck and once I had one shield for that time. Im sure this has nothing to do with the deck based on the uppeds stats and the fact there are 5 spiders in a 30 card deck.

Current Stats:
Wins: 12
Losses: 2
Win%: 86

Un-Upped Stats:
Wins: 4
Losses: 2
Win%: 67

[wespebbles50]

Pretty good but I would take out one phase sheild and add another lobo

[RagingAlien]

i'd just add one lobo, really.

[mrbarbarian]

Probably a good idea, maxwell is a killer unless youve got a reasonable supply of fractals/recluses or you have the lobo out fast.

[Zerker]

it worked very well i really love farming HB cause i dont like the FG Winrate it is fast and fun ty

[tegorter]

Looks good. The deck I made that looks like this uses wings and an air mark, practically the same protection for less cost, you might want to try it. And a couple of SoG's would make the EM-rate go up dramatically.

[mrbarbarian]

Looks good. The deck I made that looks like this uses wings and an air mark, practically the same protection for less cost, you might want to try it. And a couple of SoG's would make the EM-rate go up dramatically.

My only worry would be dragons, maybe worth a try.

[Djhopper :)]

Looks good. The deck I made that looks like this uses wings and an air mark, practically the same protection for less cost, you might want to try it. And a couple of SoG's would make the EM-rate go up dramatically.

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This looks fun and fast using wings.

[tegorter]

My only worry would be dragons, maybe worth a try.

Halfbloods usually don't have more than 2 dragons, so your army of recluses should be able to counter them. I actually EM quite a lot.

Your deck does looks like a lot of fun, Djhopper, but since games against Halfbloods take a bit longer because of their HP I would be very worried about dragons with your deck. Also looks rather vulnerable to CC. It 'd be a race.

This is the deck I was talking about, after a lot of tweaking I'm pretty happy about the quanta balance:

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When I made it I was gonna give it its own topic, but it turned out there was already an old FG-deck which was remarkably similar. Though I don't really see it beating FG's (somewhat) consistently.