Mono Darkness Classic [Bronze League][upgraded]

[Xenocidius]

by Xenocidius

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Pros: Wins very consistently, wins against a huge variety of decks, EMs often. That means more rare spins for you.
Cons: Slow. That means less rare spins for you.

Darkness is quite literally the most balanced element. It has CC, PC, denial, stalling and healing. This versatility lets it win against almost every deck in Bronze League. Unfortunately, it's quite slow - I'd guess around 7-10 TTW.

[gumbeh]

This is pretty much what I used prior to FG farming. Very versatile. I had a slightly different quanta balance, though, due to fewer vampires + packing a couple dragons in order to burn some of the massive quanta I was generating.

[Jappert]

Bootsza would deserve some credit for this I'd say:
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,20936.0.html

I did the TTW tests for it:
tested on High speed AI

Upgraded AI3 EM Grinder [Ver 1.26]:

Games: 200

Avg ttw: 9,531

Avg. sec/game: 80,168

Wins: 196

Losses: 4

Ems: 154

Win%: 98

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Score gained: 5994 Electrum gained: 7754 Time overall (min.): 261,883 Sec/Turn: 8,412 Score/Min: 22,888 Electrum/Min: 29,609

ttw 3: 0 ttw 4: 0 ttw 5: 0 ttw 6: 0 ttw 7: 22 ttw 8: 35 ttw 9: 53 ttw 10: 38 ttw 11: 22 ttw 12: 13 ttw 13: 7 ttw 14: 3 ttw 15: 2 ttw 16: 1 ttw 17: 0 ttw 18: 0 ttw 19: 0 ttw 20: 0

- What became immediately clear is that this deck is quite slow, yet it get's off alot of EM's
- At first I thought I could maybe get 200 wins without losing with this deck, I still managed to lose 4 though.
- Losses were mainly due to very low dmg (no eclipse, opponents CC etc), giving the opponent time to get steammachines rolling + permafrost, dragons and fahrenheit.
- It's very possible I missed a few EM's because I made a small miscalculation in dmg. (gotta count fast, drain dmg + damage on the field after eclipse etc).
- Score and Elec gain is still very nice because of all those EM's.
- Very fun deck!

[Xenocidius]

Bootsza would deserve some credit for this I'd say:
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,20936.0.html

Although I hadn't seen Bootza's deck before posting this one, they are quite similar, yet for different purposes. I'm not sure if Bootza's deck would perform quite as well against Bronze League.

[Max Fire]

I did 18 games with this deck in bronze league and I had 18 victories
This deck is very awesome.

[hello12]

My Arena Deck loses badly even though its 5 Horned Frogs(orcales card) 5 attack speed ups(more attack in 1 shot) The idea for that was was the horned frogs to get the more than 1 attack shot for best benefit.

[Pkmn31337]

I don't get how the pro and the con reduce and increase spin ratio :p

Well, I think this is a deck worth trying, I'm gonna save money for it.

[Xenocidius]

With the release of the new shards, I'd recommend everyone to grab this deck and go all-out on Bronze League.

[iTry]

If using unupped version (which still works very well), what order do you reccomend we upgrade the cards?

[vidurkhanna]

wat would be the unupgraded version??

[Picheleiro]

Its too damn fragile against immorushes. There are too many Phoenixs in Bronze now.

[Xenocidius]

It's quite possible to win against immorushes, though I haven't used this deck for a while, so I'm not sure.

Incidentally, though this deck was one of the best decks of its time, other Bronze farmers, notably the Wrecking Ball, are a better option, I think.