A Heart of Darkness: Apocalypse is Now!!!

[jmdt]

After playing a mono dark deck yesterday for the first time, I found several things I liked (vampires + nightfal) and several things I disliked (everything else).  Driving to my guitar lesson I had the bright idea of making a PSNbow around this concept to fill in the gaps.  The basic idea is making a super 'alpha vampire' with buffing for damage and stalling.  Stalkers have synergy with nightfall and give unremovable damage and TU lets you copy your alpha vamp for lolz.

All suggestions and feedback are appreciated.

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[Bloodshadow]

Darkness rainbow. I like. No time to try it now though (I haven't played Elements in a while due to schoolwork).

After playing a mono dark deck yesterday for the first time

You never used Darkness decks before? I'm surprised, since you experiment with decks so much.

[WakSkylicker]

Don't you think Nymph Tears costs too much? I'd swap it out for maybe a deja vu seeing as you have some buffs in there for vamps.

[LongDono]

I like the idea however.... Rush decks will still eat you alive in PvP unless you get lucky, Nymph tears needs like 3 Snovas to go off and you run 30 cards and 6 s novas so in the corse of the game you need to draw 3 snovas just to turn a card into a Nymph.
You should win almost every game against control decks though.
I really like the idea.
Take out tears for a upgraded version of that card that poisons.... it is a water card that uses death to poison.
I would like to see an arsenic in this deck though that might be adding to much death. Basicaly you heal so much it should have tons of time to stack poison. Maybe take a deathstalker and a discord out for a arsenic and that water card that adds poison, or keep deathstalker in and ttake out nymph tears.... no matter what I think you should take out nymph tears.

[willng3]

I like the idea however.... Rush decks will still eat you alive in PvP unless you get lucky, Nymph tears needs like 3 Snovas to go off and you run 30 cards and 6 s novas so in the corse of the game you need to draw 3 snovas just to turn a card into a Nymph.
You should win almost every game against control decks though.
I really like the idea.
Take out tears for a upgraded version of that card that poisons.... it is a water card that uses death to poison.
I would like to see an arsenic in this deck though that might be adding to much death. Basicaly you heal so much it should have tons of time to stack poison. Maybe take a deathstalker and a discord out for a arsenic and that water card that adds poison, or keep deathstalker in and ttake out nymph tears.... no matter what I think you should take out nymph tears.

Nymph's Tears isn't quite as slow as you might believe.  I've PvPed jmdt using a deck of mine with ~5.7ttw against a very similar PSNbow and still had it get beaten because of that Nymph coming out.  Arsenic could work, but anything else would risk upsetting the balance in the deck.  However, Speedbows (particularly The Healbow) could pose a problem.

[PoLdeR]

How about this?

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[jmdt]

So I finally dusted the cob webs off this deck (I actually forgot about it).

Thanks to some tweakage and feedback from thenewguy, I finally made a version of this concept I'm (mostly) happy with.  Let me know if you guys have any other feedback.

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[thatnewguy]

Gotta say, i'm sad i overlooked this when it was first made. As it stands now, I am happy with the version posted below, it's next on my list

[nilsieboy]

i really like this deck, always enjoyed vampire in my speedbow but never thaught that i'd base one on them

[jmdt]

i really like this deck, always enjoyed vampire in my speedbow but never thaught that i'd base one on them

Vampires are win.

[Tea is good]

did you really find that deathstalkers did enough damage to raise them over flesh recluses in a 100 damage game? or did you really not have enough death?

[jmdt]

did you really find that deathstalkers did enough damage to raise them over flesh recluses in a 100 damage game? or did you really not have enough death?

Normally i dislike deathstalkers, but they have a few advantages in a deck like this.  First there are 9 separate buffs in the deck, so they will generally not sit unused.  Second, healing makes up for poisons naturally slower kill rate and also poison cannt be removed which helps in case CC creeps up.  Finally, with momentum + nightfall + epi + deathstalker + TU (big combo, but I've done it more than once) you can pull 32 unblockable damage in a turn (8 poison counters).

Since the deck runs off supernovas, I have the choice of 2 stalkers or 1 spider.  Stalkers nicely run off 1 supernova where it takes 2 to play a recluse.