Guest posts by Stomper

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Forum Archive / Any variety in Top 50?

« on: December 15, 2009, 04:10:05 pm »

Whoo-hoo!  Thanks for all the help guys.  I was actually IN the Top 50 (for something less than 20 mins, but still ...).  Couldn't have done it without your input.

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Forum Archive / Any variety in Top 50?

« on: December 15, 2009, 04:10:05 pm »

Very helpful.  Thanks.  Still trying to come up with something on my own, rather than just copy an existing deck/strategy.  I may be too late to the game for any pioneering, but I gotta try.

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Forum Archive / Any variety in Top 50?

« on: December 15, 2009, 04:10:04 pm »

Wow.  Okay, that's news to me.  I've never seen poison work that fast.

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Forum Archive / Any variety in Top 50?

« on: December 15, 2009, 04:10:04 pm »

"typically 2 otyughs, a firefly queen, a druid and a graveyard"

Hmm.  Seems like I've seen many more than that (3-4 otyughs and 2 druids), but some may have come from parallel universes.  But yes, seems like I have to slow my deck by loading it up with more creature removal.

I can see that poison would not be stopped by those Top 50 defensive strategies, but I'm not sure what qualifies as a "speed poison."  With a good start, my deck wins in 5-6 turns vs. lvl 3.  Without a good start, I usually win lvl 3 in no more than 9 turns.  Can any poison deck do the same?

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Forum Archive / Any variety in Top 50?

« on: December 15, 2009, 04:10:04 pm »

Are there any Top 50 decks that do not use otyughs, sun dials and bone walls to hold you off while building up a large number of creatures (via fireflies and boneyards) to feed empathy and grind you down?  This is all I see, no matter whose deck it is.  I have yet to see a Top 50 deck in which the color of the player's mark was relevant -- it is all quantum towers, all the time.

I realize that some decks will be better than others, but there is a basic problem with game balance if we must all play variations on the same deck in order to succeed.  What am I missing?

Okay, there's a certain amount of whining here, because I built a speed deck that does very well at lvl 3 (win/loss ratio is 8/1 after more than 2000 games) and appears to be somewhat unique, but this same deck is useless against any Top 50 that gets a decent start (much less pseudo-deities).  I'd be more inclined to take responsibility for my deck's limitations if it turned out there are other successful speed decks and I just missed some key issue -- but I haven't seen any such decks.  Did I overlook them?  Or is this a basic flaw in the game itself?

Edit:  A simpler way to say it -- are there any decks other than rainbow that can win consistently against Top 50 and pseudo deities?  I'm not seeing them, and I would expect to see them in the Top 50, right?