Submachine's Quest in Platinum

[Submachine]

Oracle Card: Firebolt.

Spoiler for Hidden:

STAMINA 195; Wisdom 20; Int 3; Dex 2.
Wins: 51; Lost: 6. Age: 8. HP: 1.
Rank: 5. Thumbups: a bit less than 34/51. Taking it down as low HP stalls serve no good.

Level 71 Health Points 1/195 Max Upgraded 20 Oracle Upgraded 3 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 51:6 Electrum Earned 1020 Rank 5 Rating 221 Age (days) 8 Thumbs Up? 34 Thumbs Down? 17

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Quest Completed! Overquantad Firestall proved to be worthy to reach Plat Rank 1 and here is the evidence.

Now that my main quest is over, i will continue collecting more arena decks, but only as a sidequest now. I won't use my old format any more, so I'll just stick with the full dek.im format from now on. Submachine reporting out. - 2014.05.05.

Today's oracle card is Pegasus. That card particularly asks for either a SoFree rush or a 60-card creature spam rainbow deck.

Oracle Card: Firebolt.

STAMINA 180; Wisdom 20; Int 3; Dex 2.
Wins: 55; Lost: 7. Age: 8. HP: 1.
Rank: 31. Thumbups: a bit less than 39/55. Taking it down as low HP stalls serve no good.

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NEW RECORD! It reached Top 3 rank with 51-3 score. I'm getting closer to reach Plat 1.

Today's oracle card is a time factory, let's see how that will do.

[Submachine]

Oracle Card: Time Factory.

Level 72 Health Points 1/200 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 2X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 35:10 Electrum Earned 540 Rank 740 Top Rank ~66 Age (days) 12 Thumbs Up? 10 Thumbs Down? 25

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I tried to do a combination of the 2 last decks and this was the result. I catched a glimpse of being at Rank 66 someday, but since i didn't monitor it daily, i may have missed a better top score.

2014. september 14.

Oracle Card: Time Factory.

Level 71 Health Points 1/200 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 2X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 48:7 Electrum Earned 708 Rank 34 Rating 95 Age (days) 8 Thumbs Up? 11 Thumbs Down? 37

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The smaller it is, the worse it gets, I guess. I snatched a peak of Rank 21 with 44-5 on Day 7, but maybe there was more of it earlier. I don't really know how I can improve this deck. Maybe I should try a fat SoV variant which less combo chance but with much more drawpower.

2014. may 29.

STAMINA 195; Wisdom 60; Int & Dex 2.
Wins: 56; Lost: 12. Age: 9. HP: 1.
Rank: 538. Thumbups: a bit less than 49/56. Yes, it survived 9 days before falling out of Top 500.

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Record maintained! It reached Top 3 rank with 40-0 score on Day 5. I'll reach you one day, Plat 1 spot!
Next time I should try varying with pendulums, devourers and SoVs.

Today's oracle card is Anubis, but I'm tired to do anything from that, so I'll just wait for tomorrow's card.

2014. january 20.

[Submachine]

Oracle Card: Phoenix

Level 73 Health Points 1/200 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 2X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 42:20 Electrum Earned 648 Rank 456 Top Rank 24 Age (days) 10 Thumbs Up? 12 Thumbs Down? 30

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Finally something that worked again! This deck topped at Rank 24 with 42-8 on Day 7, so pretty good. I'm taking it down early, because it has only 1 HP left and I doubt it will do any better than a fresh, 200 HP deck.

Next time I spin Phoenix though, I should really get into building a stompy deck.

2015. September 17.

Oracle Card: Phoenix.

STAMINA 200; Wisdom 30; Int & Dex 2.
Wins: 16; Lost: 6. Age: 3. HP: 192.
Rank: 741. Thumbups: 6/16.

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I should have gone the monofire rush way (the current plat 1 monofire's oracle card was phoenix too), but I wanted to try this. Tests showed that it's vulnerable to VDB and pdials with reflective shields. I haven't tested it against Swallow, but the 6 shockwaves were there to handle early SoFs.

Today I got an Emphatic Bond. It will either be monolife or a FFQ deck.

2014. January 24.

[Submachine]

Oracle Card: Fire Pillar.

Level 71 Health Points 1/200 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 2X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 20:7 Electrum Earned 312 Rank 820 Rating -142 Age (days) 9 Thumbs Up? 6 Thumbs Down? 14

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The stall worked much better. Next time I should try to build a Stompy rush deck.

Oracle Card: Fire Pillar.

STAMINA 200; Wisdom 30; Int & Dex 2.
Wins: 56; Lost: 10. Age: 7. HP: 72.
Rank: 236. Thumbups: 24/56. Taking it down.

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I should have gone the monofire rush way AGAIN, but I didn't do it... AGAIN! Instead I was experimenting with firestalls. It topped at Rank 21 with 38-4 on day 4.

Today's oracle card is GoteP, so it's time to refine my previous ghostmare deck.

2014. February 01.

[Submachine]

Oracle Card: Ghost of the Past.

(Note for myself: next time I should try Stealmare)

Level 71 Health Points 72/200 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 2X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 16:6 Electrum Earned 252 Rank 523 Rating -100 Age (days) 7 Thumbs Up? 5 Thumbs Down? 11

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I call this madness the Fatmare. It was less nightmare for the players than to me, who got my deck balanced almost exactly between Rank 470 and 500 all the time. This way I could neither get a high rank nor could I drop out of the arena. But at least now I'm free! ^^

About the deck, it seems low again on both quanta and creatures. Next time I know what I should do. 6 ghosts, 6 vampires, 2 eclipse, rest hourglass and quanta. Nothing else. I wonder how that will do.

2014. June 14.

Oracle Card: Ghost of the Past.

STAMINA 185; Wisdom 20; Int 3; Dex 2.
Wins: 44; Lost: 6. Age: 8. HP: 1.
Rank: 48. Thumbups: 13/44.

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This version was a different build of ghostmare than what I tried previously, but the results are extremely close to equal (and that difference can be counted for RNG), even the thumbsup ratios. It topped at Rank 15 with 43-4 on Day 7, so it was just a bit worse than my previous version.

Next time I get ghostmare opportunity, I will try working with vampires, mainly because this time I only had 6 creatures in a 39 card deck (with some extra drawpower ofc).

2014. February 24.

Oracle Card: Ghost of the Past.

STAMINA 195; Wisdom 60; Int & Dex 2.
Wins: 48; Lost: 6. Age: 8. HP: 1.
Rank: 70. Thumbups: 11/48.

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It did much worse than the previous variant, mostly because AI kept nightmaring devourers and nymphs, and preferred summoning anything else before the ghosts from the quanta. Despite its bad start (it only got 7 plays on the first 2 days and was lurking on the border of Top100 for the rest 2 days) it somehow managed to top at Rank 10 with 39-2 on Day 6.

Spoiler for previous Ghostmare:

Oracle Card: Time Factory.

STAMINA 195; Wisdom 60; Int & Dex 2.
Wins: 56; Lost: 12. Age: 9. HP: 1.
Top Rank = 3.

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Note for self: next time you get a ghostmare opportunity, try combining ghosts with vampires.

2014. February 08.

[Submachine]

Oracle Card: Schrödinger's Cat.

STAMINA 200; Wisdom 60; Int & Dex 2.
Wins: 54; Lost: 14. Age: 8. HP: 1.
Rank: 784. Thumbups: 19/54.

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This was my first take on a Rainbow deck, so let's see. Its highest rank was Rank 38 with 14-1 on Day 2, then it started chain-losing, but then it managed to come back to Rank 45 with 38-6 on Day 5. When it was at 72 HP, it still managed to get 5 wins, so it wasn't bad at all.

However, now comes the problem. I could only test it with a low amount of decks, and I have absolutely no idea what did those use who could beat it in its early phase. I only got 1 reply about it from dragonsdemesne in the late phase, who suggested putting in more miracles. I also don't know whether purify was needed or not. But what I do know, that the setup speed was highly RNG-reliant, so maybe it was just about bad starting hands. Cats also opened a bit of vulnerability to VDB, so I exclude them next time. And for eliminating a bit of RNG, I may try adding 1-3 more pillars.

[Submachine]

Oracle Card: Enchant Artifact.

STAMINA 200; Wisdom 60; Int & Dex 2.
Wins: 18; Lost: 5. Age: 4. HP: 184.
Rank: 512. Thumbups: 0/18.

Spoiler for Hidden:

Level 70 Health Points 184/200 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 2X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 18:5 Electrum Earned 216 Rank 512 Rating -92 Age (days) 4 Thumbs Up? 0 Thumbs Down? 18

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink Deck import code : [Select] 77i 77i 77i 77i 77i 596 5ia 5ia 77j 77j 77j 77j 77j 77m 77m 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gn 7go 7gq 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 7h3 7h3 7hi 7hi 7hi 7i6 7i6 8pm

Compared to the last attempt, the new deck was better because it got more wins, but definitely lost all the support. (0/18 upvotes) But lol, I can understand all of you. ^^"
The deck topped at Rank 225 with 8-1 on Day 1. The improvement included changing Poseidons to instant Quicksands, adding 1 more purify and more control at the expense of some wardens. I got rid of wardens because I noticed that they tend not to use their valuable attack powers after SoPa is taken down. Despite I can see an improvement, I don't think that this deck is Rank 1 material, so next time I should try to build something else if I get EA.

Today's Oracle card is Rage Potion. Let's make the Master of Rage Quit proud.

Oracle Card: Enchant Artifact.

STAMINA 200; Wisdom 60; Int & Dex 2.
Wins: 8; Lost: 4. Age: 2. HP: 196.
Rank: 545. Thumbups: 5/8.

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The only good thing about this deck is that it got more than half of the upvotes.

Now the drawbacks: it was weak against VDB and mono air rush, and sometimes even had bad draws. Next time I should include Area CC to mess with rushes, but i don't know how i can deal with VDB. I also should try adding more purifies to beat SPlat and PDials more consistently.

Today's oracle card is nova... What the hell am I supposed to build from that?!

[dark ripper]

desiccation should be enough for rushes like mono air. About VDB my opinion is you shouldnt be concerned. It already is unstable and with quicksands you mess with it quite effectively I would say. About pdials of course you need to add a couple more purifies. But seems to be an interesting deck and of course there is not a perfect counter for everything:p About the nova well you can make thousands of decks from rainbow rushes to CCYB stalls. you decide!

[Submachine]

desiccation should be enough for rushes like mono air. About VDB my opinion is you shouldnt be concerned. It already is unstable and with quicksands you mess with it quite effectively I would say. About pdials of course you need to add a couple more purifies. But seems to be an interesting deck and of course there is not a perfect counter for everything:p About the nova well you can make thousands of decks from rainbow rushes to CCYB stalls. you decide!

If that deck comes up again, I'll take your advices into the math too. But until then, let's see what happened meanwhile.

Oracle Card: Nova.

STAMINA 200; Wisdom 30; Int & Dex 2.
Wins: 0; Lost: 2. Age: 2. HP: 196.
Rank: 458. Thumbups: 0/0.

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This deck did awkwardly awful. Not even it didn't get any wins, but it also got 2 plays in total during 3 days!!! That's the reason why I'm taking it down.
Now the worst part of Plat is when you're not getting enough plays while someone else gets 10 plays the same day. This is ridiculous.

Ways of improving include changing the mark to earth, and dropping all Supernovas next time if possible, because they just slowed me down.

[Submachine]

Oracle Card: Titan.

STAMINA 200; Wisdom 60; Int & Dex 2.
Wins: 38; Lost: 11. Age: 7. HP: 72.
Rank: 459. Thumbups: 16/38.

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I got derailed for a moment, but now I'm back on trails. Let's see. The best state of this deck that I know about was Rank 131 with 32-6 on Day 5. I start to figure out that maybe SoFo > Overdrive in any kind of these decks, so my next improvement will be changing all overdrives to SoFos. Apart from that random purify in there, it did very well.

Today's oracle card is a weapon again. I already made Titan, Vampire, Discord, Hammer, Morningstar, Pulverizer and I will do Shortbow now. Let's see how good will it do. :3

[Chapuz]

Why don't you use the arena dek.im? It generates the code dragonsdemesne shows in his threads

[Submachine]

Why don't you use the arena dek.im? It generates the code dragonsdemesne shows in his threads

I use it but only for gaining the deck code. I don't use it fully because that version contains a lot of extra information that is not needed and I like to put only the most important things here.