Round 3 - Salvaging, Discarding, Penalties, and Converting

[Gocubbies1212]

Round 3 - Salvaging, Discarding, Penalties and Converting
Salvaging
4 x Mummy
2 x Earthquake
2 x momentum 
4 x Bone Pillar 
4 x Devourer
2 x Steal
4 x Freeze 
2 x Water Pendulum
3 x Time Pendulum
3 x Eternity
Discarding
4 x Deflagration
1 x Rain of Fire
3 x Phoenix   
6 x Fractal
7 x Dimensional Shield
2 x Lightning
2 x Steal
4 x Devourer
3 x Minor Vampire
3 x Phase Dragon
3 x Immortal
1 x Phase Spider
2 x Earthquake
4 x Horned Frog
6 x Heal
3 x Burning Pillar
16 x Aether Pendulum
2 x Aether Pillar
Penalties
2 x Holy Light
1 x Reflective Shield
2 x Miracle
1 x Morning Star
Converting
6 x Water Pendulum into 6 x Aether Pendulum
3 x Arctic Squid into 3 x Aether Pendulum
2 x Holy Light into 2 x Aether Pillar
1 x Reflective Shield into 1 x Aether Pendulum

[Gocubbies1212]

All the discarding choices are going to be some of the hardest decisions i have ever made.  18 cards is a ton and i really hope we win more than 6 games.

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,15515.0.html   Mrpaper  (Win)
Salvage:  4 x Mummy  and  2 x Earthquake

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,15553.0.html   Boingo  (Win)
Salvage:  2 x Momentum  and  4 x Bone Pillar

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,15603.0.html   Toimu13  (Win)
Salvage:  2 x Water Pendulum  and  4 x Freeze

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,15605.0.html   Artagas  (Win)
Salvage:  4 x Devourer  and  2 x Steal

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,15611.0.html   ICB  (Win)
Salvage:  3 x Eternity  and  3 x Time Pendulum

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,15494.0.html   Draggon1140  (Loss)
Discard:  4 x Deflagration  and  1 x Rain of Fire  and  3 x Phoenix  and  1 x Fractal  and 3 x Burning Pillar  and  4 x Aether Pendulum

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,15524.0.html   Thraexis11  (Loss)
Discard:  2 x Lightning  and  2 x Fractal  and  2 x Steal  and  4 x Devourer  and  3 x Minor Vampire  and  5 x Aether Pendulum

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,15597.0.html   Tinkady's Deck  (Loss)
Discard:  3 x Immortal  and  1 x Phase Spider  and  3 x Phase Dragon  and  2 x Earthquake  and  3 x Dimensional Shield  and  4 x Aether Pendulum  and  2 x Aether Pillar

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,15612.0.html   Gocubbies1212's Deck  (Loss)
Discard:  4 x Horned Frog  and  4 x Dim Shield  and  1 x Fractal  and  6 x Heal  and  3 x Aether Pendulum  (i think the frogtal is getting a little predictable...)

[Boingo]

Random thoughts:

1. If we take mummies, let's design a deck that uses them effectively.  I think they're a great choice for medium damage at low cost.  Could even fractal them, maybe.

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52g 52g 52g 52o 52o 52o 52q 52q 52r 52r 52t 52t 52t 52t 61o 61o 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 622 622 622 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a2. If we take momentum, how will we use it?
  phase spider
  MF, chrysaora, arctic squid
  mummy
  fire spirit, phoenix
  flying weapon
  devourer, vampire, dragon
  dune scorpion

I don't see an obvious synergy here unless we did a rainbow with novas (or supernovas) to get them into the game.  Momentum would have the most impact on a vampire (extra heal) or dragon (big damage).  So, maybe think of a deck idea to use momentum, or let's salvage something else.

3. Our fractal phoenix deck suffered since we only had 3 (and we faced gravity pulled flying Titans!).  But we have the chance to salvage some more this round...

[icecoldbro]

CUBBIES
add a 6 card penaltie as we have to get a new player to replace tinkadty (very ironic him being sub)

[Gocubbies1212]

CUBBIES
add a 6 card penaltie as we have to get a new player to replace tinkadty (very ironic him being sub)

lol... ok

[Gocubbies1212]

Random thoughts:

1. If we take mummies, let's design a deck that uses them effectively.  I think they're a great choice for medium damage at low cost.  Could even fractal them, maybe.

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52g 52g 52g 52o 52o 52o 52q 52q 52r 52r 52t 52t 52t 52t 61o 61o 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 622 622 622 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a2. If we take momentum, how will we use it?
  phase spider
  MF, chrysaora, arctic squid
  mummy
  fire spirit, phoenix
  flying weapon
  devourer, vampire, dragon
  dune scorpion

I don't see an obvious synergy here unless we did a rainbow with novas (or supernovas) to get them into the game.  Momentum would have the most impact on a vampire (extra heal) or dragon (big damage).  So, maybe think of a deck idea to use momentum, or let's salvage something else.

3. Our fractal phoenix deck suffered since we only had 3 (and we faced gravity pulled flying Titans!).  But we have the chance to salvage some more this round...

im thinking an old fashioned Dune Scorpion/Momentum deck.  not sure though...

[Boingo]

im thinking an old fashioned Dune Scorpion/Momentum deck.  not sure though...

Do we have more than 2?  It'll be a risk since you may never draw one soon enough and we only have a few time pendula at this point (I think), but at this point, many of the decks will be compromised due to heavy card losses this past round.  If we went 6-3 (or 7-2!) we'd be in prime position, but 5-4 is better than most teams.  Start posting deck ideas to see what we need to salvage and how to best use the cards we have.

[Toimu13]

Salvaging
4 x Mummy
2 x Bone Wall
6 x Momentum
4 x Phoenix
2 x Steal
2 x Morning Star
2 x Reflective Shield 
2 x Water Pendulum
4 x Time Pendulum
1 x Flying Weapon
1 x Wings
Discarding
4 x Deflagration
1 x Rain of Fire
3 x Phoenix   
9 x Fractal
7 x Dimensional Shield
2 x Lightning
2 x Steal
4 x Devourer
3 x Minor Vampire
3 x Phase Dragon
3 x Immortal
1 x Phase Spider
3 x Enchant Artifact
2 x Earthquake
4 x Horned Frog
6 x Heal
15 x Aether Pendulum
Penalties
6 x Nova
Converting
6 x Water Pendulum into 6 x Aether Pendulum
3 x Arctit Squid into 3 x Aether Pendulum
2 x Time Pendulum into 2 x Aether Pillar
1 x Reflective Shield into 1 x Aether Pendulum

I'm updating the vault to this.  I saved the vault to an excel file before hand.  But somehow I'm messing up.  I double checked and Gocubbies numbers match the War standings thread.  I've double check between the old vault, this list, and the new vault.  But I'm 2 cards short.  This will take me a few more minutes to fix.  Just FYI for anyone looking at the vault and trying to build decks right now.

[Boingo]

I'm updating the vault to this.  I saved the vault to an excel file before hand.  But somehow I'm messing up.  I double checked and Gocubbies numbers match the War standings thread.  I've double check between the old vault, this list, and the new vault.  But I'm 2 cards short.  This will take me a few more minutes to fix.  Just FYI for anyone looking at the vault and trying to build decks right now.

I don't know if this has anything to do with what you're encountering (or if you've already accounted for it) but last round, after your computer crashed, I noticed that the vault had 1 too many cards (as compared to the official standings) so I removed 1 card from our vault.  Again, I'm not sure if this will help you.

[Toimu13]

I don't know if this has anything to do with what you're encountering (or if you've already accounted for it) but last round, after your computer crashed, I noticed that the vault had 1 too many cards (as compared to the official standings) so I removed 1 card from our vault.  Again, I'm not sure if this will help you.

I read that, and no it doesn't.  Right now I'm too drunk to mess with it though.  Damn Houston Texans lost.

[Gocubbies1212]

I'm officially ungrounded!  ill be on more this week, and sorry for not being online much these last few days until now...

i came up with this in my absence, by the way, these decks are not tested.

Fractal Black Dragon/Devourer:

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5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5ul 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5um 5uo 5up 5up 5uq 5uq 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 622 622 622 622 63a 63a 63aThen this: 
Dune Scorpions!:

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55q 55q 5rt 5rt 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61s 61s 61s 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61v 61v 620 620didnt finish testing dune scorpion deck.

[Toimu13]

I found a problem, we only have 4 Water Pendulums to convert.