Life after Instosis?

[Altissimus]

So Instosis has done me proud...I have about 100 random upgraded cards now after farming FGs for a while.

I'm short of shards, so looking at farming Silver/Gold/Plat (Instosis actually does pretty well against Gold and very well against Silver).

However...

...Instosis has its weaknesses, and I also to be fair I'm pretty bored of it now.  Need something else, and something a bit more resilient to PC. 

I know there are some strong Rainbow Control builds out there, but what can take down plat?  What can reliably take down 90% of the FGs?

What's the top of the pile, no expense (shards/upped cards) spared?

[jawdirk]

I experimented with a lot of shard grinding decks and I found that the best I could find were decks that had a high percentage to win against silver. You can find decks that win against gold and platinum, but getting the special spins is least frustrating when you have a 90%+ chance of winning.

Against silver, I had the most success with variations on speed bow. Needless to say, the meta game shifts around a little in bronze and silver so you might do really well one day with a deck, and then the next day it seems like you can't get any special spins with it. Sometimes I would drop down to bronze when my silver deck was having a rough day. By now I have sets of most of the shards, and I hit the point of diminishing returns. Here is the last deck I was using (It is 1.31, but I haven't tried it for a while):

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Wrecking ball is also instructive. Speed bow with shard of serendipity is fun too once once you win six of them.

[Mathematistic]

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If you happen to have 6 SoR (You have some anyway for instosis), give it a try. It is an excellent gold league grinder and an OK plat grinder.
As for the SoFos, sub with explosion and fog if you don't have them.

[Altissimus]

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If you happen to have 6 SoR (You have some anyway for instosis), give it a try. It is an excellent gold league grinder and an OK plat grinder.
As for the SoFos, sub with explosion and fog if you don't have them.

This looks interesting but it also looks a bit slow.  I wonder if it would be improved by the addition of a Trebuchet?

With no shield and only a 6-point heal, I just feel you'd be extremely vulnerable to rushes until you get your 4-card combo off and start generating scarabs.  Wouldn't you lose every game against fire or life rushes?

Happy to be proved wrong

ETA - don't see the point of the Gravity mark.  Wouldn't an Entropy mark be better and upgrade the novas to supers?

[Mathematistic]

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If you happen to have 6 SoR (You have some anyway for instosis), give it a try. It is an excellent gold league grinder and an OK plat grinder.
As for the SoFos, sub with explosion and fog if you don't have them.

This looks interesting but it also looks a bit slow.  I wonder if it would be improved by the addition of a Trebuchet?

With no shield and only a 6-point heal, I just feel you'd be extremely vulnerable to rushes until you get your 4-card combo off and start generating scarabs.  Wouldn't you lose every game against fire or life rushes?

Happy to be proved wrong

ETA - don't see the point of the Gravity mark.  Wouldn't an Entropy mark be better and upgrade the novas to supers?

Once you get scarabs rolling, rushes are doomed. As long as you can eat whatever they drop, you are good to go. Yes, it is vulnerable to rushes with bad draws. Life rushes are beatable as long as they don't heal too much, as this is somewhat a rush as well. Immolation rushes start with low hp too (sometimes Rewind helps) and the same thing can be done as long as they don't burst too much. In the latter case, SoFo can be a mean of heal regeneration with BHs.
I tried, trebuchets are "win more" cards that makes your match better only when you get rolling, at the point that extra assistance is not too necessary. Why would you need extra damage when you have 8 scarabs on the field anyways?

  mark is for scarabs. With it, CC becomes as easy as cake. Also, the occasional SoFo BH drain might be helpful vs rainbows/immorushes.

[Thracken]

Mathematistic, I just want to thank you for sharing your deck! I've gotten pretty sick of Instosis / Poison Dials, and after making a minor tweak (another rewind subbed for the dagger), your deck is now my current FG/Gold farmer.

It's refreshing to have something new that works as well as this does. Quanta/speed seem fine, and as long as you can get scarabs out in the first couple turns, you'll do pretty well against just about anything.

I've actually beaten some of the harder false gods with this - Miracle, Dark Matter, and even Rainbow. I don't beat them every time, but it's nice to know that I have a fighting chance against even the tougher false gods.

My version of the deck:

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[furballdn]

Why is this in FG section? I doubt there's a deck that can reliably take down 90% of FGs. The best FG farmers right now are instosis and sosac dials.