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« on: May 19, 2011, 11:35:10 pm »
I'm on the edge about protect artifact now. I finished upping my deck last night, and I'm moving on to making my own FG deck version to try to earn gold/rares a little faster.
I've found Fractal to be possibly just as useful as protect artifact. As in, fractal is often a very situational card which never gets played. In many games it wins the game though. I haven't actually counted the percentage of my wins that fractal has actually played a significant and game-changing roll in, and which games it has been a discarded card taking up drawspace. I'm just looking at fractal and thinking a change from the original deck like this might be something interesting to try (kind of reverting back to the unupped version):
add:
1x mindgate
1x protect artifact
1x improved antimatter
2x quantum tower
remove:
1x fractal
I found when I got a protect artifact out, my games were much more consistent; it's not necessary in all matchups, but it allows a quicker transition to gameboard dominance. The mindgate as well helps with dominance: It acts as an aether quantum hourglass. This allows for pumping out quicker element-producing cards, as well as stealing the opponent's counters (ex. explosions, which only cost 1 to play). The value of mindgate may outweigh the value of fractal in game-to-game scenarios. However I might be entirely incorrect. I see it, however, as a choice between the two... and in this case, mindgate can be played and activated quite quickly as opposed to fractal, which requires some momentum or favorable situation to be played.
edit: Alright it's later in the day and I've tried this change. Everything is upgraded with the exception of enchant artifact. So far I've found that the wins are almost identical really... doesn't feel too much different. One big bonus though is having just a couple extra cards in the deck; that's helping with the last couple turns in a game where I would've normally decked.