The Essential Halfblood Farmer

[arles]

I've been trying this setup (swapped 2 steal for 1 immortal, use only pillars and use darkness mark). I've been getting destroyed by the top 50 so far. I can't imagine how brutal I'll get beaten by the half blood. Am I missing something here?

[pikachufan2164]

I've been trying this setup (swapped 2 steal for 1 immortal, use only pillars and use darkness mark). I've been getting destroyed by the top 50 so far. I can't imagine how brutal I'll get beaten by the half blood. Am I missing something here?

AI5 is generally much easier than T50. AI5's advantage of having a 30% upgraded deck, 200 HP, double draw, and triple mark are overcompensated by their randomly generated decks, which generally have little to no strategy or synergy to them.

[arles]

Actually, to be honest, I can't even beat a well-played level 3 time mark with good use of empathy and Pharaohs. They just get a bunch of scarabs out there and wait out my shields.

[arles]

I don't know, maybe just grinding over time lets you 54% of the time. But, I've faced 10 half bloods and lost to 6 of them with this setup (even adding the steal function - which won 2 of the 4 games I had). All someone needs is an ability to destroy your shield (fire, butterfly, gravity, ...) and you're toast.

[TheForbiddenOracle]

I don't know, maybe just grinding over time lets you 54% of the time. But, I've faced 10 half bloods and lost to 6 of them with this setup (even adding the steal function - which won 2 of the 4 games I had). All someone needs is an ability to destroy your shield (fire, butterfly, gravity, ...) and you're toast.

  can't destroy unless they have pulvy, for butterfly you could try a lobo if you have one, and just not gonna say anything about . P.s. it's not a good idea to double post

[arles]

So, is there a better farming build for newbies? I'm trying to build up my coins and get to 500 and it seems like I'm just wasting time with this build. I've been doing mostly level 3, and it does OK - but I lose 1 out of 3 and my score has actually gone down since I've started. I just would like something I can build towards and it seems like I'm wasting a ton of time playing as I don't really know where to go from here.

[TheForbiddenOracle]

So, is there a better farming build for newbies? I'm trying to build up my coins and get to 500 and it seems like I'm just wasting time with this build. I've been doing mostly level 3, and it does OK - but I lose 1 out of 3 and my score has actually gone down since I've started. I just would like something I can build towards and it seems like I'm wasting a ton of time playing as I don't really know where to go from here.

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[Whoopin]

Okay, for everyone who needs a bit of help with this, here is what I play.

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The immortals add a bit of damage and can get under the Gravity Shield, The Lobotomizers draw permanent control cards, so they act as a buffer for your shield as well as adding a bit of damage.

If you want to upgrade for more efficiency, do so in this order: Dimensional Shields, Pillars, Immortals, Lobotomizers, Dragons

I have 4 Phase shields in my deck, and that one quanta can be the difference between winning and losing.

When playing this deck you want to wait a while before playing any shields.  Each turn of small hits you take will save you a turn of bigger hits later in the game.  You shouldn't expect or try for a mastery with this deck.  I try not to get below half health, or more than 4 points of poison on myself.  This way you have enough health to survive some direct damage.  Most of the time I have around 17-19 cards left in my deck when I play my first shield.  This means that I should have about enough shields to last me the rest of the game. (3 turns of protection times 6 Shield equals 18 turns of protection)  Once you put out a shield, keep them up for the remainder of the game. Only use the Lobotomizer against creatures that can make you lose such as Momentum, Destroy, Light creatures when Hope is out, Mitosis (which has synergy with Empathic Bond), etc.  As far as getting creatures out goes, its always worth waiting the extra turn to put out a dragon rather than an Immortal. 

There are a lot of ways this deck can lose, but don't get discouraged.  The point is to grind out lots of games to get as many spins for upgraded cards as possible.  Finally as a word of advice, don't quit a game because of the AI's shield.  The AI is dumb and will cast a bad shield over top of good ones giving you a chance to win.

[ViralDrake]

Tried playing this, but forgot to change mark from fire to Aether! LOLFAIL

Also, what is the point of  Web? Does airborne do anything?

[Essence]

Not to this deck.  Right now Airborne interacts with 2 other cards -- Sky Blitz and Wings.  If you don't have them, Airborne is irrelevant.

[omegareaper7]

Not to this deck.  Right now Airborne interacts with 2 other cards -- Sky Blitz and Wings.  If you don't have them, Airborne is irrelevant.

You forgot about iridium warden.

[Essence]

Good catch. +Rep.