14th Trials - Challenger's Entrance

[PlayerOa]

TIME TO ENTER THE TRIALS
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-Name of Task
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Note: In the event more there are more than four challengers for one element, priority will be given first to players with the higher Phase 1 scores and second to a combination of score/post count.

Challengers:

• deuce22

Master STANDIN of is NOT defending.

[deuce22]

Why not try for one last trials attempt... would be nice to know if war is going to happen again or not

Task 1 - Deckbuilder 1

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Not a lot of unique decks last aether trials, but this was probably my favorite. Went 1-1, should have gone 2-0 but my turn 2 discord trolled me in the loss. Anyways, I like this deck because odds of turn 2 discord is very high, which usually allows you to build up enough quanta for silences and a dragon by the time your opponent can play something useful. It's not a fast deck, but an average draw can be tough to beat.

The counter

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Lots of options for counter, but tried to look for consistency here. Sanc is arguably a must because it disrupts disctroll and silence, which leaves you only to deal with damage. Obviously discord can troll quanta, and could lose before get what you need. But ~50% quanta + upped light quanta + upped sancs + dials makes your ability to draw and play early sanc very likely. The inability for the deck to OTK makes it a virtual guaranteed win once sanc is out unless dials and dims both hide.

Task 2 - Deckbuilding 2

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Only Eternal Phoenix and Gemini are options. Both are relatively easy to counter with 40% aether. Figure going building for EM would be best. Gemini lacks CC outside of lobo, so quinted purple nymphs counters pretty hard. Added BEs to destroy lobo (for EM) and dims (prevent deckout), dragontal to speed it up a touch.

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Spoiler for Buffed Gemini:

Since Gemini is easy to counter and EM, may as well beef it up a bit while keeping the same card aether/gravy card numbers. Since it's vulnerable to renewable CC, replace the creatures with immortal dragons and SoW replaces momentum. Add sofo for PC. GPs can be used on own sofo or on enemies. And tech in a few lightnings because they can be used on enemy creatures or direct on HP. Overall still beatable, but much more challenging than current version.

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War bonus - team time last war

Loyalty - i've done a few of these aether trial things before