Usual drill. Haven't looked at any other recommendations yet. I'm going to try to emphasize decks/cards that teams haven't seen yet or decks/cards they might believe to be eliminated. I'm probably going to fail and fall back on our presets, but I'd love to see creative options from the team.
Acsabi44 - I fought alongside Acs in War 2. Underrated player; if War 6 saw teams of 7 players rather than 6, you might be strategizing
with Acs this round. Team Fire is doing things differently: each player has one assigned role throughout War. Acs is their Lt, so we'll be seeing six ups.
Most teams are leery of fielding low hp critters against us and I think Fire will be no exception. For that reason I sorta expect to see poisonbolt or their light stall coming. My first thought was grabbow, which does well against BW and can crush Light Stall before it gets set up (we could also tweak in a purify and/or mirror). But then I realized this is an accelatitans dream! They've shown ZERO RTs, Eternities, Freeze, and BB combined. They had one AM in their disc splash, but they lost with that. Seldom do things line up like this. Bonus points that it'd be fair for them to assume our titan deck is dead.
rob77dp - As I think about it more, I like taking a 34-card Light Stall rather than Bonair. Here's why:
- more cc than Bonair
- they don't ever stall. 34-cards will get the job done, and being able to have added consistency in our light stall is rare and provocative.
- Shantu is hiding discords
- We now have hidden mirrors in case they resurrect the psion/lightning deck from R1.
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Kuroaitou - Last round I recommended dim fractalgons and we went with it, less the dims. We still haven't shown dims, so a dim deck continues to be my recommendation. We can either use the dim fractalgon preset or create what'd essentially be a dim splash deck.
BunKeR - Last round I recommended dim fractalgon against time, largely on the grounds they hadn't seen us use many perms. That's even more true now that it's been two rounds and we've used 0 UGs and 0 Dims. I still like dim fractalgon (and we can salvage dims from last round, so we could use them in both the Light and Time matchups).
But, there's a chance Time will field the same deck against us as last round, and it had two deflags. They used deflags in a second deck and steals in a third last round (but lost with both). If they stay paranoid about our perms, despite us not having shown many at all, a dim deck is
probably the wrong route. Jen recommended Shadow Dragons last round, and that's a good option here as well. I suspect this matchup will need some testing. When in doubt, do something unexpected.
ddevans96 - I hinted earlier that from what I know of Team Darkness generally, they are pessimistic and will assume we're taking preset, superpowered decks that squash their strongest strategies. I was talking about dd specifically. Since it appears Team Dark is a democracy and we're 2-0 using our Light Stall, I fell confident dd will build against that deck specifically.
Last round I chose Hurricane because I expected them to try to counter our Light Stall with their grabbow, but they used acceladolls instead. I think my thought process was correct but my conclusion was wrong.
Their best options against our Light Stall this round (in order from most --> least likely imo) are:
- a ridiculous sized Light Stall of their own, maybe with Strat ability they couldn't use last round.
- acceladolls again. Could be salvaged.
- their grabbow. I think this tests well against our Light Stall but I'm not 100% sure.
Spoiler for What would you think about this?:
TTW = 6.67... over a 3 game test. They've shown 0 mirrors and couldn't salvage any last round.
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bripod - The good news is Erf faces
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this round, which makes it moderately less likely we'll face an Immortal. I can't really tell what's going on in Team Earth, so I don't have a lot of conviction in what I have to say here. My best guess is we'll see Adrenastaves or their Pulvy Rush.
- Adrenastaves isn't bothered by Wings or BW and staves have 7hp so they're resistant to our cc.
- Pulvy rush has high hp critters and can knock out our shields. They might've noticed we have problems against perm control and EQ by watching our matches with Gravy.
It's sorta bothered me that we don't have Permas in Hurricane but it actually works out well here cuz lesser reliance on perms. Toadfish > Adrenastaves and Freeze/Sw > everything. I think we'd tweak for 6 Toadfish, fewer perms and more quanta.
