Darkness [Ninja Series]

[ninjaclone09]

by ninjaclone09

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I had both luck and strategy here this time. I went 42-8 using this deck on pvp 1.

Some of you may notice i changed my avatar from devourer to liquid shadow. While using this deck i realized how great liquid shadow was. I only used it in the liquid antimatter deck theonlyrealbeef had made, which was a very good idea. Darkness has always been my favorite element and its probably why i took so long to submit this. I was toying around with many decks. First i tried making a parasite deck. Then a gargoyle+liquid shadow. Then a dragon+liquid shadow. Afterwards, i made a dragon and devourer deck. I tried working in some extra cards(nightfall, drain life, steal, cloak, dusk mantle, dagger, shard of void) and i didnt really like it. Finally, i went back to my dragon+liquid shadow idea and got it to work. I made this simple deck above. It was really just using liquid shadow on dragons. However, i found many more uses for it. I could use it on cards like lycanthrope, forest spirit, fire spirit, lava golem, and steam machine before they used their abilities. It also worked against otyugh. I also used math at some times to find which time to use my liquid shadow on my dragon. The two big weaknesses for this deck were the opponent using creature control and this deck not having permanent control. Freeze could really screw up dragons with liquid shadow since they are poisoned, and dimensional shields can do the same so i have to be careful fighting aether. Also, permanent control could get rid of the dusk mantle that in many cases saves the game for me. Luck also came into play. More than once I had RNG come into play and win it for me. One game i was playing a fractal pest deck and managed to get out 2 dragons before he got his quanta denial started. I couldnt play dragons but i could play liquid shadow. He put up his dusk mantle and started playing dragons. I had luck on my side here. I liquid shadow'd my dragons and managed to get many hits on him. I was hanging in there. In the end, he drained one of my dragons and the other one had 1 hp left and was poisoned. He had 3 hp and a dusk mantle up. He fractal'd dragons and i was going to lose next turn. long story short, i had a fifty/fifty chance of winning. And luck was on my side and i won.

I had a lot of fun with this, and really like the liquid shadow card now. Real simple deck here.

constructive criticism is appreciated. link to ninja series:

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,33456

[Skotadi Phobos]

why is there the extra pendulum? Other than that it looks to be a decent deck.

[Djhopper :)]

why is there the extra pendulum? Other than that it looks to be a decent deck.

What makes you think that the pendulum is the "extra" card?

31 cards is fine though. Mabye a drain-life or three would be good to make use of the extra quanta once you're combo is out.
(Expensive combo=lots of quanta=drain life fun?)

[omegareaper7]

Needs a couple steals.

[ninjaclone09]

Before i was really focusing on additional cards that werent part of the main strategy(nightfall, steal, drain life, dusk mantle) and finally i decided that on this deck id just put in one additional dusk mantle and the rest of the cards focusing on the main strategy.

[tyranim]

i would have imagined a cloak would be involved in a ninja based deck (stealth)

[ralouf]

I'd take out 6 pillar for 6 devourers actually and maybe a few pends for steals

[furballdn]

Mono without steals, drain lives, vampires, or devourers? MADNESS!!!!

Very creative and neat! As for advice, You could probably add in a vampire stiletto or cloak to protect your equipment and dragons. Cloak is underused anyways.

[ninjaclone09]

i dont have a stiletto ;( really want one though(and an eternity).

Cloak is a good card, maybe i could switch a couple liquid shadow for a couple cloaks? i dont feel like testing it again, and this already works fine enough for me 

[puri1]

i would have imagined a cloak would be involved in a ninja based deck (stealth)

Agreed, if no steals then a Cloak or two will at least let you quietly set up your dragons without worrying about your pillars.

[joshiex29]

ok good but why use pendulums? why not pillars they gain the same thing and with the same colour you are really only gaining one darkess so why?

[Aves]

ok good but why use pendulums? why not pillars they gain the same thing and with the same colour you are really only gaining one darkess so why?

Having a pillar-pendulum split gives you a marginal statistical advantage because of Earthquake. In reality, it actually doesn't matter too much; Denial decks based on EQ do exist, but are uncommon. Its a force of habit to make decks this way for many of us in the community. Also, try not to necro old threads- this thread's last post was 2 and a half months ago.