So what did you just take down from the Arena?

[Essence]

Obviously no one wants to give away their current tech -- that's silly.  But once your deck is taken down (assuming it wasn't Top 10 and thus something you hope to resubmit later), there's no point in not sharing your experience with it.  Here's the first deck I submitted to the Arena, which did quite well for itself, peaking out at 5th place:

by Essence

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7q4 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q4 7qe 7qe 7qe 7qe 7qe 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t9 7t9 7th 7th 7th 7th 7um 7um 7um 7um 8ps

The card I spun was Obsidian Pillar. 8)   At 78th level, it had all of the bennies except it only started with 180 HP.

With 12 Pests, 12 Rewinds, and 8 Nightmares, there's a lot of denial in here.  4 Steals don't hurt either.  When I retired this deck it was because I was so happy to have spun a Nova -- ironically, the resultant rainbow denial deck I built didn't do nearly as well as this beast. 

[TheCrazyMango]

i had a stone skin graboid rush up earlier, it went pretty bad though

[truddy02]

I had this up in Gold league for 3 days.  It was in the top 10 the last 1.5-2 days or so with a peak of 4th.  It had 3x mark but regular card draw and 180 or so HP.  My spin was dirk.  I actually spun nova the next day but this deck was doing so well, I kept it. 

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4t3 6rj 6rj 6rj 6rj 710 710 710 710 710 713 713 713 713 713 713 718 718 718 718 718 718 71a 71a 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 8pk

[Dragoon]

I got lucky and drew an Entropy Pendulum. I decided I wanted to build a hand denial deck. Originally I had something like this:

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500 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 74a 7ae 7dm 7dm 7dm 7qb 7qb 7qb 7qb 7tb 80g 80g 80g 80k 80k 80k 80k 80k 80k 8pu

But after getting 7 losses in my first ~20 games, I decided to actually go into the trainer to diversify and refine the deck. I ended my deck today with this:

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50u 5f6 5f6 5v1 5v1 6rn 6rn 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 74f 74f 7dm 7dm 7q4 7qe 7qe 7qe 7qe 7qe 7qe 7th 7th 80k 80k 80k 80k 8ps

I think I peaked around 17th rank. Ended up with a 67-15 record.

[Jangoo]

Here's the first deck I submitted to the Arena, which did quite well for itself, peaking out at 5th place:

So ... what happened after that? It just rapidly dropped out within a day or two?

[Mithcairion]

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58t 58t 5f6 5f6 5rq 5v1 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 71e 74a 74a 74a 7ae 7ae 7jv 7jv 7n6 7qa 7qa 7qa 7qa 80b
This was a deck that I ran yesterday.  It wasn't much fun if you were unprepared for a massive hungry Scarab quite quickly, and Unstoppable Deathstalkers were there simply for more funsies.  It did OK, went 33-6 on the day it was up.  200 HP, 2x draw, 2x Mark.  Credit for the idea goes to BatCountry who trolled T50-ers with a deck like this.

[Essence]

Here's the first deck I submitted to the Arena, which did quite well for itself, peaking out at 5th place:

So ... what happened after that? It just rapidly dropped out within a day or two?

Hi, reader.  Scan a bit further down:

When I retired this deck it was because I was so happy to have spun a Nova -- ironically, the resultant rainbow denial deck I built didn't do nearly as well as this beast

[Amilir]

by Amilir

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5us 5v0 5v0 5v0 5v0 744 744 744 744 744 744 744 744 745 745 745 745 745 745 74i 74i 74i 74i 74i 74i 7tb 7tc 7tc 7tc 7tc 7tg 7tg 8pt

2x mark, 2x draw, 195 HP.  Ended with 97-20, rank 25.  All you need is a little imagination.

[Chromatophore]

All you need is a little imagination.

And loads of upped cards :p

[Genuinous]

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55v 5de 5if 5oh 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u5 713 74b 77g 77g 7ah 7ah 7ah 7ah 7ai 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7dm 7dm 7dm 7jr 7n0 7t9 7tf
1x Mark, 2x Draw, 200 HP, 30 Upgrades
(Level 59, Gold League)

I'm not sure about the exact built, played around with it a little bit, but the base was similar.

First day it went 36 - 0.
Topped at Rank 4 with 108 - 17

I likes spinning pends

[Onizuka]

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6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 713 713 77g 77g 7ae 7ae 7ds 7ds 7gm 7jr 7qb 7qb 80k 80k 80k 80k 80k 80k 8pj

This is what I currently have in the Arena (Platinum). Even with the silence nurf, I'm still getting the wins in.
Currently Rank 14, but stayed around 5/6 for most of its length. Has gone 149/27.

I got an Aether Pillah now, so moar fun up ahead

[Essence]

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6rm 6rm 6rm 6rm 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ad 7ag 7ag 7ag 7ag 7ag 7ag 7ah 7ah 7ah 7ah 7ah 7am 7am 7am 7am 7am 7am 7ap 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7go 7go 7go 7go 7go 7gp 7gp 7gr 7gr 7gt 7h0
This went something like 45-12.  SoG+Feral Bond + craploads of critters = stay alive.  SoD= avoid OHK.  Growth, Dragons with Mitosis, and of course sheer swarmage for the kill.  I have no idea whether it won by deckout or by damage, but it was definitely a winner.

Oh, the card spun was Cockatrice.