Oracle : Hermes

[Marvaddin]

Well, well, Oracle have predicted Hermes as FG for today. As none of my decks work against him, I come here for help. And, looks like I will just pass, lol.

[Nume]

The only way that deck would have a chance is if you got a protected fire buckler out before he got any destroyers, and even then you'd need some kind of healing to stand a chance.

[kobisjeruk]

Thorn Carapace + epic healing?

Life for heal and carapace
Earth for PA
um... how to get lots of creatures?
quinted FFQ? Fractal his brimstone eaters? that might work. Can't test it out though

godofdeath...is this your multi?

[The_Mormegil]

needs some decks that work well specifcally against Hermes

No Rares of Upgraded cards.
Use Protect Artifact on your Dimensional Shields. Parallel Universe his Lava Destoyers.

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I used a slightly different version of this: no quintessence (it's more trouble than it's worth) and 3 SoG. For Explosion bait. I used a mostly upped deck, though...

If your hand doesn't suck, and his hand isn't an autowin, you have decent chances. I won.

Strategy is simple: get the quanta for dimensional shield and enchant artifact, once you're almost dead chain Dim Shields with enchant artifact (but beware of Fire Bolts! Keep the shields up if your life is less than 40 or so).

If you can't play them in pairs, you're dead. If you can't keep it up, you're dead. Shards are there not for healing but for protecting your towers and making him waste explosions (in the case you are without a protect artifact for the dim shield). Twin Universe a Golem FAST (wait for him to get to around 10 in health first, though) to make him waste Fire Lances on it. Twin Universe really grown golems for damage. You can grow them too, if you have excess quanta...

[Optimalist]

Thanks for the deck! Almost EM'd him. Got a card instead! woohoo!!!

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I used a slightly different version of this: no quintessence (it's more trouble than it's worth) and 3 SoG. For Explosion bait. I used a mostly upped deck, though...

[deluxeloy]

needs some decks that work well specifcally against Hermes

No Rares of Upgraded cards.
Use Protect Artifact on your Dimensional Shields. Parallel Universe his Lava Destoyers.

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tried this one but failed miserably. got almost no pillars, and lost them right away. I barely got enough quanta for one shield.
too bad....

[Krahhl]

You don't need the quints. When you TU destroyers, they're usually big enough to take a fire lance or two, and you'd rather have him target the destroyers than your face anyway. If you replace them with pillars, you should be fine. You probably want to take out one pillar though to cut it down to 30 cards, since many losses come from not drawing a shield or protect artifact to keep the chain going.

[deluxeloy]

You don't need the quints. When you TU destroyers, they're usually big enough to take a fire lance or two, and you'd rather have him target the destroyers than your face anyway. If you replace them with pillars, you should be fine. You probably want to take out one pillar though to cut it down to 30 cards, since many losses come from not drawing a shield or protect artifact to keep the chain going.

hurray! this one worked! he almost fireballed me to death, but it held!
thank you!

[dragonsdemesne]

I got Hermes at the oracle, so I built the first listed deck, except I took out the 4x Quintessence and added 3x Stoneskin.  I don't know how that would've done, because my opening hand had one pillar that got hit with explosion on turn 1, and I never drew another pillar all game.  The Ash Eater I had as a pet drank a Rage Potion and died on turn 2 :p

[johannhowitzer]

^ Had the same problem.  One tower to start, BOOM, and no towers at all for the next 15 cards.  Which would have been fine, if the first tower had stuck.  Recommend reserving one Perma-Quint for the tower stack, provided you draw 1-2 to start.  All I could do until I died was discard - with 3 EA and 4 Phase Shield in hand.  I threw away 3 PU.

[Chodos]

It worked on my first try. I have a partially upgraded deck. 4 towers and 5 pillars. I replaced the 4 quints with 3 SoG's and didn't get to play one single SoG, but I think it is the better strategy. I won and got a fire lance!

[majofa]

Added a much more reliable version in the OP.