Ideas for round 2

[jippy99]

I guess I'll start this cause I'm online first.  Here are our matchups:
Morm vs. Gavsword ( )
Hisar vs. Torb ( gen.)
Amilir vs. Jmdt ( lt.)
Noobiecakes vs. kirchj33 ()
omegareaper7 vs. Zeru ( gen)
jippy99 vs. deuce22 ( )
QT vs. SnoWeb ( )
Truddy02 vs. Acsabi44 ( )
Discuss.

[The_Mormegil]

I thought noobiecakes should have started this. I'm still a bit too fixed on roles, I suppose.

Not good matchups this time. At all.

Fire is always a tricky one, dark is strong against us and there's a General too, gravity has a lieutenant and momentum destroys most of our decks - that, and they can't be rushed effectively. Light can be devastating with their stall, Entropy's general is... well, is Entropy's general, aether is on a roll, time is almost a counter-element and earth is too versatile and good.
So, I think we've got some good thinking to do.

Regarding the event card... I don't really see us using it much, as most of our decks are duos. But it might be good to mention that some of our opponents will be inclined to use monos.

I think they can try a Firestall on us. They will definitely bring a way around bonewalls, plus some deflags and CC. They could do a rushy time splash as they did with gravity last round, but without the upps, I think they will bring a firestall. That being said... I'm trying to think of a good deck for this matchup. It will probably be a rushy stall, if I can build a decent one.


I'm a bit lost against darkness.
Amilir should probably take our grabbow + UGs.
I'd personally take eqs against vs light, because both light and earth can make a decker, but we only have one Twin Dragons deck to field. I'd say we use the otk against earth, for four reasons: first, earth can pack eas in any deck; second, earth's BB will be less of a problem to an OTK; third, light's deck are almost all vulnerable to eqs; fourth, they probably won't think we'll use the same deck twice in a row.
Entropy can produce good mono decks, and they have a failing round to recover from. I expect them playing a good number of monos. I would go for something that kills both entropy's stall and monoentropy... whatever that is. Probably a bonewall OE with poison.
For aether, I'd go with an UG deck.
Against Time, a flying MS would be a good choice. Also quinted spiders... which would benefit more from having a General use it.

[Hisar]

Against darkness I'm thinking of maybe a grabbybow or flying morningstars, the reason being I need something resilient to devourers.  Another option would be to pack an OE/Bonewall with a bunch of extra pendula, but that would make it less stable.

I was also considering an air/light/earth trio with enchant artifacts splashed so I can save at least one sactuary from steals.  However, that would require salvaging the light pendula and pillars from the water deck we beat, and I'm not sure that's worth it.

Here's the deck:

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[Newbiecake]

Against darkness I'm thinking of maybe a grabbybow or flying morningstars, the reason being I need something resilient to devourers.  Another option would be to pack an OE/Bonewall with a bunch of extra pendula, but that would make it less stable.

I was also considering an air/light/earth trio with enchant artifacts splashed so I can save at least one sactuary from steals.  However, that would require salvaging the light pendula and pillars from the water deck we beat, and I'm not sure that's worth it.

Here's the deck:

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I disapprove, sorry Hisar. Too little  quanta, PA unnecessary; most devtals run only at max 2 Steals. I suggest an FFQ deck instead.

I can see us bring a mono Dragons/Wings/UG deck against Aether.
Grabbed UG is always good against Gravity; upgrade Grabbs.
For Darkness I think we can use FFQ to counter devtal, which is highly likely they'll use against us.
The rest Morm said I'm fine with.

I'll make us some decks when I get home.

[jippy99]

I'm thinking of using the event card with UGs and a fire mark.  The generic air deck would work.  And in response to morm, look at the first line of my first post.

[The_Mormegil]

I'm probably going to play Animated Titans.

[jippy99]

This is what I've been using:

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[QuantumT]

Against aether, you're definitely going to want to bring deflags. Otherwise your dragons just become dead cards a good portion of the time.

The choice for dragons vs. OEs will have to be made based on whether or not we think they'll bring immortal creatures. I'd probably bring at least 1 though, because even if they do bring immortal creatures, it still does decent damage at least.

[truddy02]

If anyone wants to talk decks in chat, I will probably be in there most of the time from now for 3-4 hours.

[truddy02]

I think we should take the PU dragon blitz against light for a few reasons.  First of all they used enchant artifact in their stall against us last time.  They may take the exact same deck thinking we can't beat it without upgrades.  Also it beats their firestall, and seems to win more than it loses against their dune scorp deck.  These seem to me to be the three most likely decks for us to face from the decks they used last round. 

[Newbiecake]

Against  (lieut):

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Against  (gen):

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Idk for the other three...

[truddy02]

I think I would rather have 1 more OE in place of a druidic staff.  Then it is even with the number of adrenalines and OE can be a savior in some situations.  Here is the deck code:

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