Deckbuilding Competition: The Worthless Warrior

[ddevans96]

The Worthless Warrior

The last two titans of War #9 stand against eachother.
A final clash looms over the elemental planes, and the last man standing will claim riches beyond their wildest imaginings.
Suddenly, a madness comes over you. You throw yourself, brazenly into the fray...
Unfortunately, your only weapons are those unclaimed by all those who have gone before...

Rules

• You must build two decks, one which you would send against Team Air, and one which you would send against Team Darkness.
• IMPORTANT: Imagine that this is round 1, and you know nothing of what either team has left available to them. Do not include thoughts on what either team are likely to play in the final round.
• You may only use cards which were not included in any of the original Vaults from War #9 (see below).
• You should include a brief reasoning for each deck, as to how it might stand a chance against popular Air / Darkness decks.
• Post submissions in this thread.
• Your decks must:
  
  • Be at least 50% of one element. This element is your choice, and CAN be different between your two decks.
  • Have 12 upgrades, at least 3 of which should be from that deck's 'Main' element.
  • Only have cards from your 'Vault' (see below).
  • Essentially, for those following war, your decks are both "General" decks, but do not need to be from the same element.

Your Vault

Your Vault includes an unlimited number of Pillars and Pendulums, and 6 of each of the following cards. You MAY NOT use more than 6 of the same card across both of your decks (if you use 4 Schrodinger's Cats against Team Air, you may only use a maximum of 2 Schrodinger's Cats against Team Darkness).

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You have no time at all!

[Timdood3]

Spoiler for To take vs darkness:

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The deck has a 33% winrate against pestal.  It's not extremely quanta reliant, and tends to have excess quanta, making lockdown difficult.
Against monodark the outlook is a bit more grim (with a sub-5% winrate), but with this vault, you kind of have to hope to get lucky.  It's not about winning, it's about having a chance, right? 

Spoiler for To take vs air:

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Uncreative....But somewhat effective.  It has a ~22% winrate against mono-air with sofree and sky dragons.  Again, with this vault it's not about winning, it's having a chance <3

[kirbylover314]

Spoiler for Darkness:

Shard Golem Rush

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Main Target: No-Dims Devtal. Current testing has given a 33% winrate (1/3 games), but games are quite close, with coin toss being a big factor. HP difference at the end of the game is often 20 HP or less.


How It Works: Try to make some decent Shard Golems. With luck, you can get one that hit's for something like 15. Draw with SoB when occasionally and play SoSe occasionally, and hope RNG gives nice stuff.


Strengths:

• Can survive early lockdown

Weaknesses:

• Unreliable quanta production is bad for both SoI and SoSe
• Dies to early Nightfall/Eclipse easily, since you have no defense, unless you get one from SoSe
• If Devtal contains Dims, you are almost 100% dead, as you have no PC, unless you get one from SoSe

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Vamp Dragons

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Main Target: Air Nymphbow. Current testing gives a win rate of 75% (3/4 games won).


How It Works: Lobotomize early Nymphs with Liquid Shadow. Try to get Amber Nymph out as fast as possible, to remove quanta for Unstable Gases. Once you can prevent Ignite from being used, play Liquid Shadow on Colossal Dragons to heal.


Strengths:

• It can shut down the UG strategy with luck

Weaknesses:

• Dies to the Nymphbow if it has Discord
• Amber Nymphs are squishy, Shockwave is in perfect kill range

[ProBacon]

Darkness

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A lot of Darkness decks revolve around fractaling some other card. This is my best attempt at a rush deck that can do enough damage early before the fractal starts causing problems

Air

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This deck is mainly to take away the quanta of your opponent. Mainly to take away from nymphs and to take away from UG. The Turquoise nymph is there for damage and to protect the Amber nymph

[vagman13]

Decks :

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Brave bugs and dragons vs   

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Vampcondors vs 

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Will add descriptions later

[JonathanCrazyJ]

Kirbylover314 your first deck is illegal, it must be at least 50% one element.

[RootRanger]

Might as well get these posted, before somebody else posts literally the exact same decks, because there aren't exactly that many choices...

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Spoiler for Darkness:

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[JonathanCrazyJ]

Spoiler for Against Darkness:

Serendipitous Thinking

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Description to come.

Spoiler for Against Air:

Brave Caution

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[Zyardran]

Spoiler for Vs. Air:

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A small amount of rush with healing always serves well against Air

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Variety keeps things interesting. With the right cards and the right luck, this deck can be very useful.

[Zawadx]

Spoiler for Thoughts and decks:

Yeah, this is going to be tough. Looking over the vault, the most glaring weakness is the lack of cc (except aflatoxin, but that is way too slow and will backfire on your very soon anyways). You have a rush option in Elite Fireflies, SoB and Turquoise Nymphs/Phase Salvagers, but a rush is not the best idea. Darkness has all the tools to shut down such a fragile rush, with vagger, nm and devs perhaps complemented with cc. There's actually no darkness deck it'll consistently beat. Air's suite of fog/wings/tstorm/shockwave makes this deck of 2/4 hp critters VERY risky, but it does have a chance vs BNymph Duo, RT Splash, Catatitans and slow starts from other decks.

Darkness's decks are a problem, especially since our lack of cc makes their mono very safe. So we just need to conjure up some cc! Sounds like a paradox? You're damn right:

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This deck is VERY versatile, which is a good thing as darkness will be tricky. You have a few options:

1. If facing a rushy deck (dragon/gargoyle mono, grabbow) get a Shard Golem with paradox out fast. You want to have exactly three SoSe in hand and less than 3 of the other shards, so try to set your hand up like that! It is right to not play pillars and force discard of a 4th SoSe if it is stuck in your hand. In case of extra SoBs, just play them. Fast. Once you have set up the cc golem, you have a very strong advantage. Keep the pressure on him and try to win before he can come back with nm or dusk shenanigans.
2. If facing one of the stally decks (Siphonary, Entropy Stall) you need to play a more careful game. Use SoSe for card advantage, and try to play cards so that you are one step ahead of their answers. Hold onto your SoBs as you don't want to hasten your own demise, and play them with SoI as your strongest threat.
3. If you have a god draw with a couple of pillars and a hand full of shards, then you should ignore the above and just get out that shard golem to finish him. Even vs RT actually, because the chances of you winning the slow game is pretty slim.

The SoI Wiki Page is a good thing to reference while playing.

Alright, we have scraped up a decent deck vs Darkness, but that has removed our only decent rush. That's still alright though, because having a 60% winrate deck is better than scraping out two 40% win rate decks. I'm not joking. 60% winrate means 68.256% chance to win the match, but if you have two 40% winrate decks the chance of you winning at least one match is only 53.411%. Even if you counted 2 wins as twice the value of 1 win, you have 0.6348 wins vs 0.6826+ wins. So now we find a decent deck for air without the cards already place in the above.

SoB-less rushes will be weak though, due to a much slower gameplan. With SoB, you could punish your opponent for having high cost cards like BNymphs and Dragons and slow cards like cata. But if both decks play linearly as normal, the vulnerability to cc is very glaring. I'll just say that it is too risky due to cc and wings.
 
Ok then, what do we have that resists cc and wings? Well, the one and only:

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LS Dragons boasts a very strong answer to both Wyrms and BNymphs due to pseudo lobotomy, and can challenge air's duos with a great quanta draw thanks to BNymph. You hold a strong chance vs general rushes thanks to vampire dragons being very strong hitters. Just hope you draw the quanta as needed!