Speed Nymphs [Life][Water]

[willng3]

Apparently setting up farms and taking a break from the game can have some good results...I came up with this rather devious deck idea while helping a poor soul earlier this evening:

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by willng3

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Not much of a difference here, but I find the quantum issues aren't as common with the changes made.  I took the following stats for 50 AI3 games:

avg. Sec/Game:  112.180
Sec/Turn:            12.27
Clicks/Game:       28.82
Clicks/Turn:         3.15
Score/Min:           8.71
Electrum/Min:      8.93

Time overall (min.):  93.483
Wins:  46
Ems:   6
Losses:  4
Score:    815
Electrum:  835
Avg ttw:  9.140
This is a deck for FUN, I didn't design it with AI3, T50, etc. in mind.  However, it manages to crush AI3 with ease so it's fairly efficient outside of the realm of fun.  Strategy is fairly simple:  play towers/pends, use Nymph's Tears to breed your own Nymph army, then Adrenaline the heck out of everything on the field.  SoR helps this portion quite a bit.  Heals are available in the event of bad draws (which there are always plenty of).  Puffers are just sick when used in such a way, so I added them as well.  The deck is prone to some quantum denial/CC but is pretty sturdy.  Feel free to offer any comments/feedback necessary.

[TheonlyrealBeef]

Looks interesting, just one thing, why not remove 2 water towers and life towers, and replace them with Life pendulums? I'd say you don't really need Water Nymphs anyway, and it reduces the chance of bad draws. Just my idea. Or was it because you didn't have those pends upped yet?

[willng3]

Looks interesting, just one thing, why not remove 2 water towers and life towers, and replace them with Life pendulums? I'd say you don't really need Water Nymphs anyway, and it reduces the chance of bad draws. Just my idea. Or was it because you didn't have those pends upped yet?

I did this in trainer to keep my farm running .  But yeah, I was considering a similar idea myself.  I'll have to look into it tomorrow .

[TheonlyrealBeef]

Looks interesting, just one thing, why not remove 2 water towers and life towers, and replace them with Life pendulums? I'd say you don't really need Water Nymphs anyway, and it reduces the chance of bad draws. Just my idea. Or was it because you didn't have those pends upped yet?

I did this in trainer to keep my farm running .  But yeah, I was considering a similar idea myself.  I'll have to look into it tomorrow .

Lol, I thought this was a farming farm since it has SoRs Maybe I should do this too, keep people happy and think up great decks

[~Napalm]

Lol... 2/2 Scorpions weren't good enough for you. You HAD to go after the 3/5 Puffers 

[Lluis83]

The deck is pretty fast (for being a nymph based deck.) Good work:)

[willng3]

Lol... 2/2 Scorpions weren't good enough for you. You HAD to go after the 3/5 Puffers 

Puffers can survive most CC, Scorpions are just too frail.  I also noticed the AI tends to target the puffers before the nymphs which is pretty useful.

[Klaymore]

Adrénalined Puffer are just sick damages 
I like this deck: could maybe be improved with adding a shield or some Congeal for CC ?

[willng3]

Adrénalined Puffer are just sick damages 
I like this deck: could maybe be improved with adding a shield or some Congeal for CC ?

Shields aren't necessary; the deck is so fast that shields aren't needed most of the time, plus I don't like the thought of the shields upsetting quantum balance and slowing down Nymph spawning.  I've found that is pretty tight in this deck, so Congeals might not be the best idea.

[willng3]

I've run some more trials on this deck, and beef's suggestion of swapping out Towers for Pends worked magnificently.  My original thought that this deck was devious was false; this deck is downright evil  .  I've outrushed most t50s, crushed AI3s completely, and had feats such as this: 
This was the screenshot I took the turn before I pulled off a 6ttw (I went first).
The game above pointed out something I had not realized previously: Water Nymph possesses much more power than I had originally believed.  SoR'ing one of them effectively allows a massive Nymph spam which completely swarms the opponent before anything can be done to retaliate.  I didn't think I would ever do a ttw study for a nymph deck, but this one has peaked my interest and I will do just that.  Expect stats "soon" .

[jmdt]

This looks like 3 kinds of fun.  You should submit it to the deck archive.

[willng3]

This looks like 3 kinds of fun.  You should submit it to the deck archive.

I'm glad you think so, but I must ask, which section of the deck archive would you prefer this submission?