I made a quick vault edit to see how it would look like with phoenix, deflag, charger, momentum salvages. Gonna change after discussion.
Salvage pile:
Salvage 6 from Higurashi's win.
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Salvage 6 from mrpaper's win
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Salvage 6 from Evaria's win
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Matchups:
Battles
Decks for round 8:
Higurashi vs :entropy
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mrpaper vs :earth
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Evaria vs :time
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UTAlan vs :death
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with the new event card on... It seems obvious to me we must the option of having more upgraded cards with monos. We don't have marks left so this is useless ( I doubt many still do) and converting to get more aether cards i not that useful since our leftovers becomes more pillars/pends anyway. Let's try to build two MA if possible, we will think if its the best option, but I could use 24 upgraded cards while higs could use up to 36 (so a full upped deck). I could use it well against earth, keeping 6 unnupped pends/pillars in case of eq and fully upped for the rest. I should beat a mono earth if they went that way (even with SS to heals) and grabs deck too with lightnings + tons of DS.
I'd like somthing like this:
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Let's explore possibilities.
First card:
A meta game card. Not this round but on the rounds after that, stuff like extra fractals helps us cover phoenix / mummy / frog saves. As in we save the non-aether cards knowing that we have extra fractals stocked. It also helps us support extra phase dragons in case we run multiple MA or if our MA loses. We can't save any cards this round, so stocking up some phase dragons & fractals can be a good idea. Unless we run MA this round, this seems to be the only choice.
Second card: We can choose this one and make two decks with extra upgrades .
Think simple. Its fast, also can replace lightnings with dimensional shields.
Gen. deck
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MA lt deck.
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Third card: Like mrpaper says. We can run double MA decks. One he posted;
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And another like this one;
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My vouch is event card #1. Get 3 fractals and 3 phase dragons while preserving enough decks or salvage some silences to surprise our opponents. If not, #2 with the decks i posted above. But then again, i won't probably get to play anymore till the end, so its only fair your say so has a higher weight.
Against :entropy this round; Surprise attack (edited for more pillars)
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Option 1:
We have 9 fractals and 4 creature packs to fractal. What i mean is we have sufficient creatures (3 mummies, 4 frogs, 9 phoenixes) to field 4 fractal decks but can barely support 3 fractal decks (3 for each 3 deck = 9 fractal). So we have useless frogs at hand because we rather fractal the other stuff.
Besides that, right now the vault with a sensible initial salvage (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AqCh8-BfWOzYdGd5YU9TMkhMM0xwRGVnTUlyZ19YTlE&hl=en_US#gid=35) holds 51 pillars / pendulums. Assuming we use 13-14 pillars for 3 decks and 7 pillars for graboid, we can damn 4-5 pillars, even a single phoenix.
Conclusion: If we are to choose this event card, we have 7 to 9 cards that we can convert to aether cards without losing any one of the graboid / bonebolt with fractal mummies / double fractix / MA decks at all. Those 8 cards can be any combination of fractals / dimensional shields or silences to surprise our opponents.
Option 2:
The only non-MA deck with aether mark we can build is frogtal. I tried to use entropy pendulums and time pendulums but they have no support at all. So any other choice than fielding a MA along with Frogtal is a bad choice compared to option 3. What we can do is fielding double MA and a frogtal to maximize upgraded cards while using decent decks. And in order to maximize benefit, Gen & Lie could use two of these decks. Not judging if they are suitable decks against our current opponents.
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Option 3:
To maximize the benefit, we should take both of the MA (with dragons) & MA (with PU phase recluse & double dragons) plus two of [Bonebolt - Fractix - Another fractix - Graboid - Frogtal]
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**Decks fielding single MA are same as above minus the recluse deck, plus one of the other decks. Fielding only one MA means increasing the chances of 1 / 4 of the matches to win by sacrificing new deckbuilding / vault polishing advantage of option 1.
** The decks i posted in opt2 and opt3 have same amount of upgrades in total. The difference is option two is spreaded among three decks and uses some odd deck in an attempt to make use of the event card, and the balance changes if non-lie non-gen members take those decks. Again, I'm not judging here the efficiency of the decks nor if they are suitable counters.
My analysis:
- If we choose Event card #1: we get new 7 to 9 aether cards without losing any deck we used on round7 while having enough pillars for 4 decks in round8. The only condition is using graboid this round.
- If we choose Event card #2: we need to field fractal frogs or it wouldn't make much sense. Any other case makes option 3 better.
- If we choose Event card #3: we better field double MA. Single MA increase winning chance of only one of the matches in which case option 1 is better.
My personal choice:
Event card #1