Scorpio
Scorpio has 2 copies of each of the following cards:
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| Mark : 3x Death |
| Creature Control : 6 Congeals, 2 Ice Lances, 4 Arctic Octopus, 4 Ulitharids |
| Permanent Control : None |
Strategy:
This god tends to bring out Deadly poison cards and puffer fish quickly to rack up poison damage extremely quickly on you. Whereas player made poison decks are easy to kill quickly if you get your damage dealers out quick, trying to kill 200 hp before the poison overwhelms you is a horribly difficult task. The trouble with Scorpio is once the puffer fish get out or a deadly poison card is played, unless you can heal yourself, kill the creatures, purify the poison, or shield yourself quickly, you will most probably be dead.
For this matter Mono-Aether is out, even if you get a lobotomizer out quickly, the deadly poisons will kill off your health just as quick, and at 3 points a card, the damage stacks very quickly along with the puffer fish you need to kill. Gravity is out too, the ice lances or congeals will come out too often for your otyughs to eat the physalias and then puffer fish, in which poison will overcome you. Fire won’t work either, they do brilliant damage, but the creatures are too fragile, and the poison damage will kill you before you deplete 200 hp unless she gets a really bad draw.
Darkness is very good unless the enemy piles on poison quickly, couple that with water and you have a very powerful anti-scorpio deck, since the freeze can delay his creatures, drain life can heal you to an extent along with vampires, and steals will kill off the enemies shields AND as an added bonus it renders her puffer fish completely useless. However limited drain lifes mean you must use them sparingly, which you usually cannot.
Firefly Queens Deck does have a chance, but the chances are low since your deck takes time to set up, Scorpios deck is heavily creature control based, and she can in essence, deny you the chances of playing any cards, even worse, theres also the ice shields reduce damage by 2, killing off your damage AND freezing you 30% of the time.
All in all, if you can steal a permafrost shield, you’ve wiped out roughly 30% of the poison (and 20% of the damage) you’d normally suffer from, leaving the physalias and the puffer fishes to be killed off and the arsenics to be destroyed.
Scorpio is usually rather easy with a Hope deck. If you get an Electrocutor out, you can lobotomise his Ulitharids before they can do it to your RoL’s, and then you just need to get enough Archangels/Light Dragons out to kill him before his poison kills you. Or, if you can heal as much as his Deadly Poisons can do, you only have to stop the Arsenics before they can add to it and then do enough damage through his Permafrost Shield. Light Dragons have a slight edge here because of that.
Poison Dials is extremely effective against this FG (as of 1.32) 99% of the time. The other 1%.... he manages to draw a purify at a bad time. But he only has two of those out of over 100 cards, so the odds are extremely low. Works much better than Mono Aether + Purifies.
Oracle Counter
Mono Aether + Purifies is the best known counter to Scorpio. Lobotomize his Physalias, try not to deck out.
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Currently there are no fully tested non-upgraded decks against Scorpio.
