Scarabow: Get Eaten Alive!

[willng3]

I once again found myself pondering a new, creative Speedbow when I suddenly thought about the possibilities of using Scarabs as a means of Offense / CC.  It works far better than I had expected; I introduce you to Get Eaten Alive:

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Yes, it's 6 Pendulums.  The automulligan takes care of the issue rather nicely; I haven't gotten a single hand without a Pend once in my testing.  The fact that you have the Elite Chargers as a backup in case you fail to draw a Supernova or a Scarab on your first turn is a huge advantage which I had not originally considered when contemplating this deck.  The scarabs, while small, are incredibly useful rushers; Chaos Powering them and then eating the opposition makes them something to be feared in seemingly no time at all.  The remainder of the cards are typical of most Speedbows; no Graboids of course due to the strain on .  At this final stage of tweaking I am constantly seeing TTW values of 5-6.  Enjoy

EDIT:  Considered improvements:  Slightly fewer Scarabs and more Chaos Powers.  Changed the Pendulums to 6 after too many complaints were made about the 4:  -1 Scarab, -1 Charger; I don't think it runs as fast but apparently it's more consistent.

[thatnewguy]

This looks like it sucks XD jk
If your going for the nomnom sense maybe -1 charger +1 oty?

[willng3]

This looks like it sucks XD jk
If your going for the nomnom sense maybe -1 charger +1 oty?

Speedbow, no Otys allowed

[xdude]

-1 Peggy + 1 Blessing?

[willng3]

-1 Peggy + 1 Blessing?

Yeah, I considered that too.  The thing is though, that in the rare event that I don't pull a Scarab and I have a Flying Horse in my hand, I can throw him out, slap on several Chaos Power and then put out a massive beatdown the next turn   I would love to fit Blessings in here for stability though

[xdude]

-1 Peggy + 1 Blessing?

Yeah, I considered that too.  The thing is though, that in the rare event that I don't pull a Scarab and I have a Flying Horse in my hand, I can throw him out, slap on several Chaos Power and then put out a massive beatdown the next turn   I would love to fit Blessings in here for stability though

Hm, CP'd Pegasi indeed sound fun . Heavy Armour?

[RavingRabbid]

-1 Charger
+1 UG

Maybe?

[willng3]

-1 Peggy + 1 Blessing?

Yeah, I considered that too.  The thing is though, that in the rare event that I don't pull a Scarab and I have a Flying Horse in my hand, I can throw him out, slap on several Chaos Power and then put out a massive beatdown the next turn   I would love to fit Blessings in here for stability though

Hm, CP'd Pegasi indeed sound fun . Heavy Armour?

My only aversion to Heavy Armor is that aside from increasing my Scarabs' nom ability, this card might be not be too useful and will slow down the rest of the deck.  Although I am still finding my Scarabs get nailed by CC too easily... but that won't stop Rewind regardless, the biggest counter to this deck.  I'll have to think about it more.

-1 Charger
+1 UG

Maybe?

Actually, the current make I'm running has -1 Charger, -1 Scarab, +2 Entropy Pends because too many people didn't believe 4 Pends as being stable enough.  I can't go below 2 Chargers or else I'll run into an excess of rather quickly.  UG is tempting, but I'm afraid it might fight with the Flying Horses for .  If I run a more control-based version of this deck, UG is high on my list to throw in.

[willng3]

Awesome, got this deck TTW'd today.

Games (AI3):   200
   
avg. Sec/Game:   69.910
Sec/Turn:   10.1909621
Clicks/Game:   15.670
Clicks/Turn:   2.28425656
Score/Min:   14.74467172
Electrum/Min:   15.13088256
   
Time overall (min.):   233.033
Wins:   188
Ems:           18
Losses:   12
Score:   3436
Electrum:   3526
Avg ttw:   6.649
   
ttw Details:   
ttw 3:   0
ttw 4:   2
ttw 5:   46
ttw 6:   61
ttw 7:   33
ttw 8:   23
ttw 9:   10
ttw 10:   8
ttw 11:   3
ttw 12:   0
ttw 13:   0
ttw 14:   2
ttw 15:   0
ttw 16:   0
Obviously not as fast as Da Fastest Speedbow Eva! but it's certainly high on the list of decks that use Scarabs as main firepower.  There were quite a few occasions where I lacked a SN in my hand and then there were also occasions where I failed to draw any Pendulums in my starting hand as well.  The Scarabs really come in handy by providing a form of CC as well as rushers; after a CP or two they can really pack a punch quickly.  Reverse Time absolutely kills this deck; several of the creatures cost a great deal of quanta, and without QTs, your only chance of replaying them is to use more SN...which can be incredible difficult due to horrible draws at times.  I still love using this deck in PvP and is still one of the most entertaining decks I have played thus far (of course as the creator I may be a bit biased, but feel free to try it yourself to see if what I say is true).

[jmdt]

Wow, 6.6 ttw AND it has CC.  Very nice.

I've played versus this deck...its legit.