Round 10 - Main Topic

[EvaRia]

I would appreciate if we keep all our deck-building and salvaging discussion in THIS topic.
Final decks and salvage/discards will go in their own respective topics, but it's best to keep the discussion in one place.

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Vault/Deck Tracking Spreadsheet (maintained by Pika): https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AuLG6-uKpq33dDBuNnNjUXpUXzZIcWZtTDM0V3hVTFE&hl=en&authkey=CNy7_eUG

Deckbuilding: Duel phase has started

Duels: Round has ended

Standing Vault:

 
1x Aether Pillar
6x Aether Pendulum
0x Lightning
0x Dimensional Shield
0x Parallel Universe
5x Phase Dragon
0x Phase Spider
0x Fractal

 
0x Owl's Eye
0x Wind Pillar
1x Azure Dragon
1x Fog Shield
0x Shockwave
0x Wings

 
0x Devourer
0x Nightfall
2x Vampire Stiletto

 
0x Death Pendulum
0x Bone Dragon
1x Arsenic
0x Bone Wall
0x Plague
6x Mummy

 
5x Graboid
3x Earthquake

 
7x Nova

 
0x Burning Pillar
0x Fire Pendulum
0x Fire Bolt
4x Deflagration
1x Rain of Fire
0x Rage Potion
5x Phoenix
0x Fahrenheit

 
1x Momentum

 
1x Forest Spirit

 

 
4x Sundial

 
2x Purify


Salvageable Cards:

by EvaRia

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4st 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5up 5up 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 7tb 7tf 7tf 7tf 7tf 7tf 8pu

5x Dimensional Shield 1x Fractal

by EvaRia

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4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vg 4vg 4vg 4vg 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 8pj

6x Abomination

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52q 52t 52t 5of 5of 5oi 5oo 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 713 713 718 718 7181x Owl's Eye 3x Shockwave 1x Wings 1x Bone Wall

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5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f6 5f6 5f6 5fb 5fc 5fc 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5i7 7gm 7h2 7h2 7h2 7h22x Fire Pendulum 2x Burning Pillar 1x Rage Potion 1x Phoenix

by EvaRia

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4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 590 590 5ia 5ia 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rk 5rk 5rs 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 8pm

2x Deflagration 1x Graboid 1x Fog Shield 2x Earthquake

Discard Pile:

by EvaRia

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5f6 5f6 5f6 5f6 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61q 61q 61q 61q 61r 61r 61r 61r 61r 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8po

by EvaRia

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5f6 5f6 5f6 5f6 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61q 61q 61q 61q 61r 61r 61r 61r 61r 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8po

by EvaRia

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52h 52h 52q 52q 52q 52r 52r 52r 52r 542 542 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 622 622 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pk

Conversions:

1x Obsidian Pillar
1x Steal
1x Minor Vampire
5x Poison
2x Mummy
6x Pandemonium
1x Momentum
4x Black Hole
1x Reflective Shield
1x Sundial
1x Purify

Into
5x Aether Pillar
19x Aether Pendulum

Penalties:

6x Abomination

Match-Ups:

Higurashi (Gen.) Vs. Kakerlake (Gen.)

by EvaRia

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5oc 5oc 5of 5of 5of 5og 5ol 5on 5on 5on 5on 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 61o 61o 61r 61t 61t 61t 61v 61v 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 808 80g 80g 81q 81q 81q 8pr

pikachufan2164 (Lt.) Vs. MrBlonde (Gen.)

by EvaRia

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5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5up 5up 5up 5uq 5uq 5ut 5ut 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 622 622 622 622 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 7td 808 81q 8pt

YoungSot Vs. Zeru (Gen.)

by EvaRia

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5f0 5f0 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f7 5f7 5fb 5fb 5fb 5gi 5gi 61o 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8po

UTAlan Vs. Jen-i (Gen.)

by EvaRia

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61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61v 61v 61v 61v 61v 61v 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pu

deuce22 Vs. LongDono (Gen.)

by EvaRia

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4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 590 590 590 590 590 593 593 593 593 593 61r 61r 61r 61r 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pm

EvaRia Vs. majofa (Lt.)

by EvaRia

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4vh 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 590 590 590 590 590 5c1 5f6 5f6 61o 61o 61o 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 620 620 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pm

(...) Vs. Dogg

by EvaRia

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52h 52h 52q 52q 52q 52r 52r 52r 52r 542 542 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 622 622 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pk

willng3 Vs. Napalm Grenade (Gen.)

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52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52p 52p 52q 52q 52r 52r 52r 52r 61q 61q 61q 61q 61t 61t 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pk

Event:



If your Mark matches your Team's Element: Discard 6 less cards if you lose.

Post your deck requests early, the quicker we get this done, the more prepared we can be!

[EvaRia]

Ugh, losing with both PUnixes tore a lot out of our vault...

Our PU count is really, really low, and our Lightning count took a big hit.

Annoyingly, with the need to continue fielding 8(!) decks, this is gonna be a really tough round for us.

I would recommend doing some suicides/pseudocides against earth and time to give us a bit more of an edge and to decrease our player count.

It's getting waaaay too difficult to field 8 decks with our core cards going down the drain.

[YoungSot]

Ugh, losing with both PUnixes tore a lot out of our vault...

Our PU count is really, really low, and our Lightning count took a big hit.

Annoyingly, with the need to continue fielding 8(!) decks, this is gonna be a really tough round for us.

I would recommend doing some suicides/pseudocides against earth and time to give us a bit more of an edge and to decrease our player count.

It's getting waaaay too difficult to field 8 decks with our core cards going down the drain.

Agreed. Strategic suicides makes a lot of sense.

[deuce22]

indeed Eva. Thank god Higs didn't lose, otherwise we would really be hurting. On the plus side, we got more dims, which gives us 2 monoaethers. We also get to salvage more shockwaves, which will go well with wings and azure dragons (lack of PUs kind of hurts though, but throw in a couple of spiders and a phase dragon or 2). We can also run a Fire stall with RoF and pots.

So that leaves 14 lightning for 4-5 decks?

Hopefully the next event card will let us salvage some of our lost lightnings, but that is unlikely. Also, I thought someone said there was an event card where you can switch to any of your team-members decks, which might be helpful if that is indeed true.

On another crappy note, fire can salvage up to 5 fractals, boo!

EDIT: vagman just had a huge win over fire. It would be even more epic if sevs could pull out a win over kevkev.

[EngPhys]

I would prefer pseudo-suicides (yes I'm going to help out until I leave or get replaced). Yes we lost a lot of PUs, but we can salvage 3 phoenix and 5 deflag. We should still be able to run 8 decks, one may be weaker but have a good chance to win against ONE remaining deck (read: EQ Hema Dragon). That said, any team down to 1 player will have the most predictable vault, so if we can find creative ways to win against said teams without using up too many lightnings, we can probably pull off 8 decks.

For now, keep crossing your fingers for a good event card.

[deuce22]

Hopefully sevs will win (might be a long shot, but who knows), which I believe will knock death down to 2 decks. What this would mean for us is that we would have 3 matches against fire, and 1 against death (wonder if they would use SS stall...).

If sevs loses, then I think we will still play fire 3 times, but play death twice. In which case RNG better not screw us again because we can't afford it.

[EngPhys]

In the meantime, EQ grabbies is an avenue we should explore against death. When I tried to build one, it worked well against EQ/SS but failed miserably against other decks. This only happened because I was trying to make a deck that could be used twice.

Though, what I think we should focus on until the event comes out are creative solutions with lesser-used cards for the teams that can only field one deck. This could be the key to maintaining 8 working decks, at least for this round.

[deuce22]

After running through a lot of different scenarios, I think our best bet is to keep the pressure on fire and death. Even pure suicides (not suggesting it) to time and earth are beneficial because we can still easily beat them the following round, and it helps us weaken our toughest opponents. Hopefully EP (and will?) are RNG assigned to a weak opponent since they have a chance of needing subs.

We can still bring 2 bonebolts against fire (grabbow is probably the other play here), and hopefully we will only have 1 match against death next round, which we would only need to develop 1 deck that can beat them.

Again, the event card can change things a lot (was the difference between EP winning and losing this round, imo), so let's hope for the best and no more RNGfail!

[EvaRia]

Pure suicides against time and earth are ideal.

We can't be greedy about cards anymore. We just can't deal with having to use 8 decks anyways, so cutting the amount of players we need to field to match our card pools will be ideal.

We have enough in our vault for 1 PU deck, 3-4 Lightning decks, 2-3 Dim decks, and like 2/3 with dragons.

Considering overlap, that's about....  5-6 decks? We can't afford to go for 8 anymore.

[willng3]

Yeah still not sure about the upcoming duel phase.  I'll probably only be so sure when Round 10 is posted (which it may have been, but this is the first thread I looked at when I got online, so ) and I can see when the round starts/ends.

[deuce22]

a little motivational music

[EngPhys]

Hopefully sevs will win (might be a long shot, but who knows), which I believe will knock death down to 2 decks.

You know, with everything that went wrong this round, I don't think we have much to complain about. Maybe another team can do the dirty work and take down death for us (looking at fire lol). We'll have to wait for matchups to be posted, but hopefully we get the lion's share of weak teams.