As a preface, I generally don’t like sending the same decks round after round. While prepping for R1, opponents look at decks used by Team Air in previous Wars but nobody is really sure what to expect. At this point, opponents have seen six decks and about 2/3 of our vault, and that’s what they’ll build against.
With that in mind it won’t be surprising that I
definitely don’t like sending the same deck against the same opponent twice in a row. Opponents will build against the six decks they’ve seen but if we’ve already sent one against an opponent it often becomes a 50% probability in their head: either we’ll send it again or we won’t.
Regyptic – When we’re facing the same elements as last round and we didn’t use my previous recommendation, my job is easy.
I recommended our grabbow cuz maj is scared of our perms and is likely to take something stall-breaky with PC. They sent their dark duo elsewhere last round and sent us flying titans instead. Props to Burd for picking the right deck and giving Water their only loss. Lt grabbow continues to be my recommendation, though.
neuroleptics – Ugh. They sent a really good mix of decks last round and assuming Jen is right about them having more DBH in vault they have an even better mix. The
only PC they used last round was against us; they didn’t even throw an explosion in their 36-card grabbow! I strongly suspect they won’t use the same earth duo, so I recommend we go perm-heavy. Let’s show them how real men make Flying Titans (i.e. real men don’t need to up their AWs). Including a couple Wings to protect against DBH (and mercs, stone golems, grabbys, etc.) would be money.
Chapuz – I like Dimfractalagon here. I think Time will look harder at our decks used last round and try to put us on one, and we didn’t use many perms last round. PC/momentum/direct damage is less likely here than elsewhere. Burst damage counters RT and especially Eternity.
ji412jo – everything I said last round, +1. The fact that they haven’t seen Hurricane yet is just icing on the cake.
zso_zso – I might be underthinking this, but PU dragons looks too good to not bring against us. I sorta wanna salvage DBH and play it here. This would wreck havoc:
Yes, I’m serious. Assuming you all hate that, I would recommend either Dim Fractalagons or Flying Titans, if either is available. Both are stall breakers that can be quick if needed. If you go Dim Fractalagons, using the Str ability to sub in Silences is wise to prevent Miracle, dim chaining, and the like.
Anthraxx – I'm looking through maul’s Entropy writeup and I have to agree: I’m not sure what to make of their R1. Looking at what they sent, what they won with, what we sent, what we won with, and what I know of Cali, I feel like a mono Entropy rush is on its way. I like Bonair here.
