Rock-Paper-Scissor-Lizard-Spock Competition - VOTING

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Voting Time

If you somehow by some reason forgot what we're voting for, don't worry, some participants explain their decks (although not necessary.) To ensure all submissions are the same as they were sent to me, I'll be quoting them directly from my PM inbox (the only alteration I'll do is add deck tags if there were none.) If you don't know what this is all about, you can find all the rules to this Competition here. Alternatively, use this fancy flowchart :

Please remember that the criteria for voting isn't which combination of decks is the hardest counter (we can do that ourselves), but rather whatever criteria you want. In other words, it's fine if you want to vote for decks that have 100% hardcounters to eachother, and it's also fine if you want to vote for a combination of decks that while not being a complete counter are still usable out of the competition. The voting criteria is yours to decide.


Submissions

Spoiler for dragonsdemesne:

The five decks and how they counter/are countered by each other:

General:
All five decks have a shield that prevents all damage dealt by two of the other decks.
In the cases where poison is used, all counterdecks have a way to easily deal with any poison that was accumulated.
Any counter deck that plays its shield/wing shield chain and draws its poison counter in time, cannot lose, even with the worst possible RNG after that.

1) nymph queen rush (30 cards)
15 tower 3 permafrost 3 purify 6 water nymph 3 shard of patience

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-counters (2) adrenavampscorp (permafrost blocks all damage, purify removes any poison accumulated)
-counters (5) adrenastaves (permafrost blocks all damage, SoP gives OTK if needed to beat healing)
-countered by (4) fractal salvagers (gravity shield blocks all damage, 33 card gravity deck wins by deckout)
-countered by (3) UG/wings (6 wings blocks all damage, 5/6 UGs will OTK it)


2) adrenavampscorp (31 cards)
6 minor vamp 4 tower 6 epi 6 scorp 6 pend 3 jade shield

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-counters (3) UG/wings (jade shield blocks all damage, 30 cards loses to deckout vs 31)
-counters (4) fractal salvagers (jade shield blocks all damage, and gravity deck has no defense vs these creatures)
-countered by (5) adrenastaves (jade shield blocks all damage, staffs heal any poison accumulated, adrenastaves is 1 card bigger so wins by deckout)
-countered by (1) nymph queen rush (permafrost blocks all damage, purify removes any poison accumulated)

3) UG/wings
6 dragonfly 12 pillar 6 UG 6 wings (30 cards)

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-counters (4) fractal salvagers (6 wings blocks all damage, and 5/6 UGs will OTK)
-counters (1) nymph queen rush (6 wings blocks all damage, 5/6 UGs will OTK)
-countered by (2) adrenavampscorp (jade shield blocks all damage, 30 cards loses to deckout vs 31)
-countered by (5) adrenastaves with jade shield (jade shield blocks all damage, staves can't be killed & bypass wings)

4) fractal salvagers with gravity shield
6 salvagers 5 grav shield 16 pend 6 fractal (33 cards)

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-counters (1) nymph queen rush (gravity shield blocks all damage, 33 card gravity deck wins by deckout)
-counters (5) adrenastaves (gravity shield counters staffs, and 33 cards decks out 32 cards)
-countered by (3) UG/wings (6 wings blocks all damage, and 5/6 UGs will OTK)
-countered by (2) adrenavampscorp (jade shield blocks all damage, and gravity deck has no defense vs these creatures)

5) adrenastaves with jade shield
6 unupped druid staff 10 tower 4 jade shield 6 epi 6 AW (32 cards)

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-counters (2) adrenavampscorp (1 jade shield prevents all damage, staffs heal any poison, adrenastaves is 1 card bigger so wins by deckout)
-counters (3) UG/wings (jade shield blocks all damage, staves can't be killed & bypass wings)
-countered by (1) queen rush (permafrost blocks all damage, SoP gives OTK if needed to beat healing)
-countered by (4) fractal salvagers (gravity shield blocks all damage, 33 card gravity deck wins by deckout)

Spoiler for bossitron:

SoW reflect

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defeats psiontal(reflective) and vader saders(high damage creatures and negates vampire)

Pdials

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Defeats SoW reflect(no creatures) and psiontal(psions don't pass through sundials or sacrifice)

NT monowater

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beats Pdials(purify) and SoW reflect(too many creatures)

Psiontal

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beats vader saders (dims nullifies vamps) and monowater(again dims)

Vader Sader

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defeats Pdials(healing passes through sacrifice) and monowater(stalls)

Spoiler for Naesala:

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Spoiler for How it's done:

Monotime beats Ghostmare by being able to play the Ghosts while stalling enemy Ghosts.
Ghostmare beats Nova by RT-ing growth creatures and outdamaging/outrushing/Draw denying
Nova beats Mono Light by CC-ing Rays, stealing Sancs and matching healing, and growth creatures to outdamage.
Mono Light beats Devtal by Sancs countering Devs and Flashes killing vampires.
Devtal beats Mono Time by outdamaging and having plenty of quanta while denying it for expensive nymphs.
Monotime beats Nova by RT-ing growth creatures and strong against CC. Can also deckout Nova.
Nova beats Devtal by CC-ing everything then outdamaging.
Devtal beats Ghostmare by quanta denial and healing damage.
Ghostmare beats Mono Light by outrushing/RT-ing angels/Nightmare.
Mono Light beats Mono Time by being able to easily recast creatures and outdamaging.

Spoiler for iancudorinmarian:

Paper

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Paper>Rock because that deck is too fast for that poison bow and the heals add up to 120 hp.
Paper>Spock because this deck is too fast for that OTK to have time to get going.

Rock

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Rock>Lizard because poison gets through bonewall and all that CC does nothing. Lizard also has only 6 creatures, not enough for all the CC in that Rock deck.
Rock>Scissors because poison gets through dissipation. Scissors also has no counter to any card in the Rock deck.

Lizard

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Spoiler for Hidden:

Lizard>Spock because the OTK is not fast enough. 6 lightnings are 30 damage already.
Lizard>Paper because Paper is a creature deck and Lizard is a perfect counter, being a stall with lots of CC and bonewalls.

Spock

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Spoiler for Hidden:

Spock>Scissors because OTK beats dissipation easily. The only way to win is deck-out, which is very unlikely.
Spock>Rock because the poisonbow is not fast enough and it will get his hand full of useless CC.

Scissors

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Spoiler for Hidden:

Scissors>Paper because that deck has absolutely no chance to win once the Scissors gets his dissipation out.
Scissors>Lizard because the bonebolt can't do anything after dissipation is out (if it has more than 30 hp)

Spoiler for majofa:

Spoiler for Hidden:

These decks are 100% counters. That's right, they will win everytime... even with the AI playing the decks... even with the WORST possible draws against the BEST possible draws.

ROCK (Reflective shields and healing)

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ROCK crushes LIZARD:
Lizards are slow and the Psions just won't be in play fast enough before they start getting reflected back.

ROCK crushes SCISSORS:
1 attack creatures are useless against damage reduction shields. Even drawing 6x RoLs and the rest of the creatures there after wouldn't equal a victory and the Shards of Gratitude are just the icing on the cake.

PAPER (34 card deck. No damage, no defense)

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PAPER covers ROCK:
Easy victory. Bigger deck versus no damage.

PAPER disproves SPOCK:
Rhymes with rock. The outcome is the same.

SCISSORS (Reflective shields and 14 creatures with 1 attack)

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SCISSORS cuts PAPER:
What's the minimum number of 1 attack creatures you need to guarantee a victory? The answer is 14. This deck has that.

SCISSORS decapitates LIZARD:
Again with those slow moving Psions and those reflective shields. Bigger deck too.

LIZARD (Psions only powered by the Mark. *Note: even though this can can only get out 5 Psions, it needs 6 in the deck to guarantee victory)

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LIZARD poisons SPOCK:
The lizard is more specifcally a chameleon - just look at all those pretty colors. Those normal shields are useless.

LIZARD eats PAPER:
Nom Nom. At worst this will be a last turn victory.

SPOCK (Damage reduction shields)

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SPOCK smashes SCISSORS:
Look at all those shields. Bigger deck too.

SPOCK vaporizes ROCK:
Easy victory. Bigger deck versus no damage. Sound familiar? Just remember this mantra: 'What Paper does to Spock, Spock does to Rock.'

Spoiler for SpikeSpiegel:

Spoiler for Overall cool graph with stats:

Decks, explanations & C.

Spoiler for Scissors:

Scissors

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Spoiler for Paper:

Paper

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Spoiler for Rock:

Rock

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Spoiler for Llizard:

Lizard

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Spoiler for Spock:

Spock

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Explanations:

Spoiler for Scissors:

- has 100% win rate vs Paper; this latter deals no damage, so basically one more cards is enough to seal a 100% win rate by deckout.
- has 99,5 % win rate vs Lizard, that deals no damage and has no damage reduction nor healing. The same amount of cards cannot grant a 100% win rate, but "just" a 99.5%.
- is countered by Spock with a chance of 83% (according to sim); this percentage can easily go above 90% with human players, since RoL's are countered hard by UG and Thunderstorm.
- is countered by Rock with a chance that I estimated above the 90%. Rock is able to kill Scissors even if all NT's are stored at the bottom of the deck. The only few chances for Scissors to win are that all Ice Shields and all Dry Spells are stored at the bottom deck, while having a perfect starting hand.

Spoiler for Paper:

- has an estimated win rate >80% vs rock. I played Paper vs Rock 10 times in trainer and I've won 10 times. The strategy is to seal Rock's towers with PA and winning by deckout. Miracle and Sancs are useful in case Rock can play a NT before a PA.

Spoiler for some screenshots:

- has a 93,6% win rate, according to sim, vs Spock. Mirror shield grants protection from UG and the win comes by deckout.
- is countered by Lizard with a 100% chance; both decks deal no damage, Lizard wins by deckout always.
- is countered by Scissors with a 100% chances by deckout.

Spoiler for Rock:

(Rock stats are only estimated because the sim doesn't recognize Dry Spell)
- has a 100% chance to win vs Lizard. Rock can deal 100 damage even with all NT's as last cards, while Lizard is basically a monopillar deck with 6 mirror shields.
- has an estimated win rate above 90% vs Scissors; Rock is able to kill Scissors even if all NT's are stored at the bottom of the deck. The only few chances for Scissors to win are that all Ice Shields and all Dry Spells are stored at the bottom deck, while having a perfect starting hand.
- is countered by Paper with an estimated >80% chance. Paper can easily seal Rock damage source, winning by deckout.
- is countered by Spock with an estimade >80% chance. Wings are able to give perfect protection to Spock, while Rock has no defense against UG. Rock can have a chance only if all Spock's wings are stored at the bottom of the deck.

Spoiler for some screenshots of Rock deck:

Spoiler for Lizard:

- has a 100% win rate vs Paper, by deckout.
- has a 92,5% win rate on sim vs Spock; mirror shields counter UG and the victory comes by deckout.
- is countered 100% of times by Rock, as stated above.
- is countered 99,5% of times by Scissors, as stated above.

Spoiler for Spock:

- has a 83% win rate vs Scissors (according to sim); this percentage can easily go above 90% with human players, since RoL's are countered hard by UG and Thunderstorm.
- has an estimated win rate >80% vs Rock, since Wings hard counter NT rush, while Rock has no defense vs UG.
- according to sim, Spock is countered 93,6% of times by Paper by deckout, while mirror shield counter UG.
- according to sim, Spock is countered 92,5% of times by Lizard by deckout, while mirror shields counter UG.

Spoiler for mathman101:

Hello COs Zawadx and Dm1321,

Here are my Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock decks for the competition:

Spock

Spoiler for Sanctuary Stall:

Sanctuary Stall - counters Devtal deck and Life OTK deck. is countered by a Immorush and Life Rush

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Beats Devtal - Sancs stop devs and can outheal the vamps.
Beats Life OTK - SoD stops a 100 hp OTK, and miracle/sancs slows down damage for deckout.
Losses to Life Rush - Adrenaline is faster then the Sancs and miracles combined even in a long game.
Losses to Immorush - Golems can grow larger enough to outlast miracles, even with sancs.

Rock

Spoiler for Devtal:

Devtal - Counters Life Rush, and Life OTK. Is countered by Sanc Stall and Immorush.

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Beats Life Rush - Devs steal quanta and slow down the NT just enough to gain lockdown. Vamps for added healing if NT starts is too fast.
Beats Life OTK - Devs can steal needed quanta for the OTK, and slow down quanta needed for the shield chain.
Losses to Sanc Stall - Sancs stop devs and can outheal the vamps.
Losses to Immorush - Novas and immos create enough extra quanta to mess up devs and to get golems out fast enough.

Lizard

Spoiler for Life Rush:

Life Rush - counters Sanc Stall and Immorush. is countered by Devtal and Life OTK.

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Beats Immorush - Adrenaline is just fast enough to speed past the growing golems.
Beats Sanc Stall - Adrenaline is faster then the Sancs and miracles combined even in a long game.
Losses to Devtal - Devs steal quanta and slow down the NT just enough to gain lockdown. Vamps for added healing if NT starts is too fast.
Losses to Life OTK - Dims and Dials chain can outstall as Life duo has no PC.

Paper

Spoiler for Immorush:

Immorush - counters Devtal and Sanc Stall. Is countered by Life Rush and Life OTK.

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Beats Devtal - Novas and immos create enough extra quanta to mess up devs and to get golems out fast enough.
Beats Sanc Stall - Golems can grow larger enough to outlast miracles, even with sancs.
Losses to Life Rush - Adrenaline is just fast enough to speed past the growing golems.
Losses to Life OTK - Dims and Dials chain can outstall as Immorush has no PC.

Scissors

Spoiler for Life OTK:

OTK - counters Immorush and Life Rush. Is countered by Sanc Stall and Devtal.

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Beats Life Rush - Dims and Dials chain can outstall as Life duo has no PC.
Beats Immorush - Dims and Dials chain can outstall as Immorush has no PC.
Losses to Devtal - Devs can steal needed quanta for the OTK, and slow down quanta needed for the shield chain.
Losses to Sanc Stall - SoD stops a 100 hp OTK, and miracle/sancs slows down damage for deckout.

I hope they all qualify as Counters, as I tried to get each above ~70% winrate in the game simulator.

Thanks for hosting,

--mathman

Spoiler for RootRanger:

Rock

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Spoiler for Hidden:

Rock has very strong defenses. Sanctuary and Miracle allow it to easily deckout Scissors, which has very low damage. Lizard is defeated as soon as Reflective Shield is played. Rock itself is decked out by Paper and Spock.

Paper

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Spoiler for Hidden:

Paper is large enough to deckout Rock and Spock, which are stalls with no damage. With no defenses, Paper loses to Scissors and Lizard.

Scissors

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Spoiler for Hidden:

Scissors has enough damage to kill Paper, but not enough damage to kill Rock or Spock. Scissors can beat Lizard with its Reflective Shield.

Lizard

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61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 625 625 625 625 625 8pu

Spoiler for Hidden:

Lizard has enough damage to kill Paper and Spock. Lizard is vulnerable to Reflective Shield, so it loses to Rock and Scissors.

Spock

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52l 52l 52l 52l 52l 52l 5ld 5ld 5ld 5ld 5ld 5ld 8pq

Spoiler for Hidden:

Spock has enough of a defense to beat Scissors, but not enough to beat Lizard. Spock can deckout Rock, but is decked out by Paper.

Every combination was tested in the simulator, all accurate within 1%.

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Rock - Shriekerquake

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 590 590 590 590 590 590 591 591 591 591 593 593 593 593 593 593 8ps

Because rock is associated with Earth and stuff like that.

Paper - Bonewall/Skull Stall

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52l 52l 52l 52l 52l 52l 52r 52r 52r 52r 52r 52r 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 8pk

  A deck the AI is hilariously bad at playing, but a hilarious way to stall out a deckout win.

Scissors - Gravity Shield Deckout

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55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 749 749 749 749 749 749 8pl

A deck that no one in their right mind would actually play unless their opponent were literally forced to play an NT deck, but yeah, here we are!

Lizard - Upped Bacteria Rush

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7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h8 7h8 7h8 7h8 7h8 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 8pp

  Lizards are the only one of the five choices to be capable of reproduction, and oh how this deck grows oh so fast!

Spock - Boltless Firestall

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5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f7 5f7 5f7 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5lc 5lc 5li 5li 5lj 5lj 5lj 5lm 5lm 5lm 8pq

Astonishingly, a deck not unlike this one was actually recommended to me once upon a time.  Two fireshields were removed from the original deck to make the weakness to Bacteria feasible.

Rock > Scissors - all the creatures hit through the shield, easy win
Rock < Paper - Skull Shields kill all the creatures fairly easily due to low HP, and block all damage once they reach skeleton form
Rock > Lizard - EQ denies all the potential babynymphs.  NQ/NT are both expensive and require quanta cards to be cast on.
Rock < Spock - Creatures die to ragepot, healing cards survive any damage that gets done.

Scissors > Paper - bigger pure deckout beats smaller pure deckout
Scissors > Lizard - every creature is >5 HP, so no damage for the NT deck once a single shield comes out.
Scissors < Spock - Faren kills through the Gravity Shield quite thoroughly.

Paper < Lizard - Nymphs have enough HP to survive skull shield, and bonewall is ineffective against the sheer number of creatures.
Paper > Spock - Bonewall (sequentially used) block the only source of damage in the deck (one Faren strike per turn) long enough for deckout.  It's like 7-turn Dims!

Lizard > Spock - Nymphs are immune to single Ragepots and should outrush this deck despite the healing.

Spoiler for flyingcat:

Spoiler for Rock:

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5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 8po

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5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rk 5rk 5rk 5ro 5ro 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5v1 5v1 5v1 5v1 5v1 5v1 8pt

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5f5 5f5 5f5 5f8 5f8 5f8 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fu 5fu 5fu 5fu 5fu 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5li 5li 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 8pq

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5lg 5lg 5lg 5lg 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 621 621 621 621 621 621 624 624 624 62m 62m 62m 62m 62m 62m 8pq

Spoiler for Spock:

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5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 8po

Rock Smashes Scissors: I see your damage-less stall, I bring a bigger deck
Rock Crushes Lizard: I see your deck has no damage. I deck you out!
Paper Covers Rock: I have damage. You're dead.
Paper Disproves Spock: I'm faster than you.
Scissors Cuts Paper: I have sanctuary and CC, I deck you out.
Scissors Decapitates Lizard: We both have no damage, but I deck you out!
Lizard Eats Paper: Lol your ghosts attack you.
Lizard Poisons Spock: I have reflect shield and more cards. GG.
Spock Crushes Rock: I have damage. You don't.
Spock Vaporizes Scissors: I have damage. You don't.

If you somehow by some reason are not in this thread even though you PM'd an entry, please make sure that

1. You did not send your entry only to Zawadx
2. You actually did send your entry to me

and if any of these is true, just contact us and we'll fix it ASAP. I don't think I've missed anything, though.

The entries are quite long, but please do take your time to read through all the interesting submissions!

To vote, you have nothing.

[Fippe94]

Dragondemesne's 2nd deck seems to be missing the Jade Shields.

[Dm]

Dragondemesne's 2nd deck seems to be missing the Jade Shields.

It is the code I was sent. Below I submit his PM without any alterations.

Spoiler for Hidden:

The five decks and how they counter/are countered by each other:

General:
All five decks have a shield that prevents all damage dealt by two of the other decks.
In the cases where poison is used, all counterdecks have a way to easily deal with any poison that was accumulated.
Any counter deck that plays its shield/wing shield chain and draws its poison counter in time, cannot lose, even with the worst possible RNG after that.

1) nymph queen rush (30 cards)
15 tower 3 permafrost 3 purify 6 water nymph 3 shard of patience
7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gp 7gp 7gp 7gq 7gq 7gq 7h8 7h8 7h8 7h8 7h8 7h8 7hi 7hi 7hi 8pp
-counters (2) adrenavampscorp (permafrost blocks all damage, purify removes any poison accumulated)
-counters (5) adrenastaves (permafrost blocks all damage, SoP gives OTK if needed to beat healing)
-countered by (4) fractal salvagers (gravity shield blocks all damage, 33 card gravity deck wins by deckout)
-countered by (3) UG/wings (6 wings blocks all damage, 5/6 UGs will OTK it)


2) adrenavampscorp (31 cards)
6 minor vamp 4 tower 6 epi 6 scorp 6 pend 3 jade shield
5ut 5ut 5ut 5ut 5ut 5ut 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7an 7an 7an 7an 7an 7an 7ao 7ao 7ao 7ao 7ao 7ao 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 8pt
-counters (3) UG/wings (jade shield blocks all damage, 30 cards loses to deckout vs 31)
-counters (4) fractal salvagers (jade shield blocks all damage, and gravity deck has no defense vs these creatures)
-countered by (5) adrenastaves (jade shield blocks all damage, staffs heal any poison accumulated, adrenastaves is 1 card bigger so wins by deckout)
-countered by (1) nymph queen rush (permafrost blocks all damage, purify removes any poison accumulated)

3) UG/wings
6 dragonfly 12 pillar 6 UG 6 wings (30 cards)
5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5od 5od 5od 5od 5od 5od 5om 5om 5om 5om 5om 5om 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 8po
-counters (4) fractal salvagers (6 wings blocks all damage, and 5/6 UGs will OTK)
-counters (1) nymph queen rush (6 wings blocks all damage, 5/6 UGs will OTK)
-countered by (2) adrenavampscorp (jade shield blocks all damage, 30 cards loses to deckout vs 31)
-countered by (5) adrenastaves with jade shield (jade shield blocks all damage, staves can't be killed & bypass wings)

4) fractal salvagers with gravity shield
6 salvagers 5 grav shield 16 pend 6 fractal (33 cards)
749 749 749 749 749 74j 74j 74j 74j 74j 74j 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 80i 80i 80i 80i 80i 80i 8pu
-counters (1) nymph queen rush (gravity shield blocks all damage, 33 card gravity deck wins by deckout)
-counters (5) adrenastaves (gravity shield counters staffs, and 33 cards decks out 32 cards)
-countered by (3) UG/wings (6 wings blocks all damage, and 5/6 UGs will OTK)
-countered by (2) adrenavampscorp (jade shield blocks all damage, and gravity deck has no defense vs these creatures)

5) adrenastaves with jade shield
6 unupped druid staff 10 tower 4 jade shield 6 epi 6 AW (32 cards)
5c5 5c5 5c5 5c5 5c5 5c5 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ak 7ak 7ak 7ak 7an 7an 7an 7an 7an 7an 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 8pn
-counters (2) adrenavampscorp (1 jade shield prevents all damage, staffs heal any poison, adrenastaves is 1 card bigger so wins by deckout)
-counters (3) UG/wings (jade shield blocks all damage, staves can't be killed & bypass wings)
-countered by (1) queen rush (permafrost blocks all damage, SoP gives OTK if needed to beat healing)
-countered by (4) fractal salvagers (gravity shield blocks all damage, 33 card gravity deck wins by deckout)

[rob77dp]

Dragondemesne's 2nd deck seems to be missing the Jade Shields.

I see Jade's at the top of the 2nd column in dragon's 2nd deck... 0.o

[Fippe94]

Yeah, they were added some time after I made that post

[RootRanger]

I concede to majofa. While my designs come close, only his reach 100%. Well done.

[Naesala]

Good luck everyone ^_^

[Dm]

Added flyingcat to the poll.

[dragonsdemesne]

I concede to majofa. While my designs come close, only his reach 100%. Well done.

His decks are 100% counters, but they are also unplayable (at least in the sense I assumed) because they aren't viable outside this event.  I don't know how the votes will go, but it depends on how each voter interprets 'playable deck'.  They are certainly all legal decks, in that sense, bu they will also all lose to ai1.

[RootRanger]

Added flyingcat to the poll.

It's funny how paper beats all 4 of the other decks. flyingcat is clearly trying to win mrpaper's vote.

His decks are 100% counters, but they are also unplayable (at least in the sense I assumed) because they aren't viable outside this event.

It would be a shame for the best entry to lose because of semantics.

[CuCN]

it depends on how each voter interprets 'playable deck'.

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/competitions/new-competition!!-rock-paper-scissors-lizard-spock-deckbuilding-competition/msg1173784/#msg1173784
Here, Spike defines 'playable' to mean that it is possible to load the deck and enter a game with it. By this definition, every submission here is playable.

Anyway,

Please remember that the criteria for voting isn't which combination of decks is the hardest counter (we can do that ourselves), but rather whatever criteria you want. In other words, it's fine if you want to vote for decks that have 100% hardcounters to eachother, and it's also fine if you want to vote for a combination of decks that while not being a complete counter are still usable out of the competition. The voting criteria is yours to decide.

[flyingcat]

Added flyingcat to the poll.

It's funny how paper beats all 4 of the other decks. flyingcat is clearly trying to win mrpaper's vote.

His decks are 100% counters, but they are also unplayable (at least in the sense I assumed) because they aren't viable outside this event.

It would be a shame for the best entry to lose because of semantics.

Root's onto me...