Frogs, and Epi's, and Swords, Oh My!!!

[jmdt]

For a long time I used Celidion's adrenaline rush  (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,1482.0.html) with good success.  The initial goal of my ttw study was to see if the life rush or the shrieker rush was faster.  After testing I was sad to see the life rush was almost 0.4 turns slower than a shrieker rush.

So began my testing to find a faster life rush.  I tried various ratios and combinations and finally ended up with the below deck as the fastest life rush possible based on ttw, having 4 turn kill potential that the previous life rush did not.  Comparing to the benchmark shrieker rush, the deck has a ttw of 5.965 beating a shrieker rush at 6.080.

Before someone asks: upped frogs are better than unupped frogs with epinephrine and the longswords are important to a 4 turn kill and 2 is the optimal number.

Enjoy.

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[redium]

I played this deck with a rush deck, it is extremely fast.  A scary addition to the top50.

[yahoo123]

Y is upped frogs better than upped? unupped frogs deal 1 more dmg with adrenaline ???

[Kurohami]

Y is upped frogs better than upped? unupped frogs deal 1 more dmg with adrenaline ???

Upped frogs gets through shield better, and it does more damage when not adrenalined.

[jmdt]

Yeah, more often than not you will not have adrenaline so having the upped frog makes the deck a good bit faster.

[manaboy100]

Why this deck has 2 Swords?

[TheonlyrealBeef]

Why this deck has 2 Swords?

So there's a higher chance of getting one before you win, otherwise you rarely draw one.
Remember it's a rush deck, so unless you're unlucky, you'll seldom get to see two swords at a time.

[jmdt]

Why this deck has 2 Swords?

So there's a higher chance of getting one before you win, otherwise you rarely draw one.
Remember it's a rush deck, so unless you're unlucky, you'll seldom get to see two swords at a time.

Exactly, swords are very important to the speed of this deck (sub 6 ttw) and having 2 sword allows you to have a better chance of drawing one early.

This deck is another candidate to use a few life pendalums to help with eq.

[jmdt]

Forgot about this deck.  Finally updated it with pendulums.

[TimerClock14]

Forgot about this deck.  Finally updated it with pendulums.

isn't it just USEM now?
EDIT: but with epis instead of heals?

[jmdt]

Forgot about this deck.  Finally updated it with pendulums.

isn't it just USEM now?
EDIT: but with epis instead of heals?

This deck was actually the deck I rocked before I made USEM and went the EM direction.  It predates USEM by a month or two.  This build is a whole turn and a half faster than USEM, but obviously gives up EM potential.  I originaly posted in the old ttw thread and made this thread just so it would have a home for discussion and linking.

[grindpower]

Would taking out an epi or two for 1 or 2 improved heals improve the EM rate while keeping good speed?