Oracle : Dark Matter

[jsrjohnny]

Light-less Poison Dials worked brilliantly for me. To anyone having trouble with the nymphs: Remember that you can use a Shard of Sacrifice to prevent the AI from playing creatures. I generally use Sundials when a FG has 3-4 cards in it's hand, then play SoSac when it's hand gets full, forcing it to play a creature (which it won't, with Sacrifice active) or discard a card.

[ColorlessGreen]

To anyone having trouble with the nymphs: Remember that you can use a Shard of Sacrifice to prevent the AI from playing creatures.

This is an important enough statement that it needs quoted.

I would consider this basically key to dark matter with pdials and pdials-alikes.

[Zso_Zso]

Here is another crazy PDials variant that also works well against Dark Matter:

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Yes, its fat and sanctuaries do not synergize well with SoSa, BUT hear me out:
1. Try to get a sanctuary up ASAP, that will stop him from BH-ing you to death
2. Early-to-mid game, use sundials, divinities and sanctuaries to stay alive, let him pack lots of damage
3. Use SoSa late-game when you must to heal back to a high-HP EM, his damage outweighs your sanc-hurt in SoSa, just watch out for your HP when playing the SoSa, you need to be above 40+4x(#sancs).

[Daenyathos]

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Tried to adapt this deck to what upgraded cards I had. Ended up EMing Dark Matter with this:

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Unfortunately, before the healing and shields kicked in, I was left with only 2 HPs, and I only survived because I had a virus pet (which I used a turn later than I should have) that got rid of a charger for me, otherwise I'd have been toast...

Cheers!

[Pella]

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Wildlife Sanctuary (Freeze or Be Eaten):

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Get a sanctuary down as soon as possible.
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Yeah, right.  I had Quantum Towers that refused to produce any for several turns.  When they finally started to build toward the 4 I needed for my first Sanctuary, Dark Matter hit me with BH three turns in a row.  The FG theme music was still going strong when he EM'd me.

[ColorlessGreen]

The FG theme music was still going strong when he EM'd me.

Sorry for the brief hijack here, but I've been playing since autumn 2009 and I just now learned that FGs have their own special theme music.

Maybe I should try playing the game with the sound on at least once.

[Pella]

The FG theme music was still going strong when he EM'd me.

Sorry for the brief hijack here, but I've been playing since autumn 2009 and I just now learned that FGs have their own special theme music.

Maybe I should try playing the game with the sound on at least once.

Music is a setting separate from sound.  You can turn on the music and still play without the sound effects.

[ColorlessGreen]

The FG theme music was still going strong when he EM'd me.

Sorry for the brief hijack here, but I've been playing since autumn 2009 and I just now learned that FGs have their own special theme music.

Maybe I should try playing the game with the sound on at least once.

Music is a setting separate from sound.  You can turn on the music and still play without the sound effects.

Oh, I know. I just play with all sound off, since I'm usually listening to other music or watching something or talking to someone or whatever other thing that means I don't generally want my web browser to make noise.

[Optimalist]

This was too fat for the Anti Matters to actually matter.

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Get a sanctuary down as soon as possible.
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Yeah, right.  I had Quantum Towers that refused to produce any for several turns.  When they finally started to build toward the 4 I needed for my first Sanctuary, Dark Matter hit me with BH three turns in a row.  The FG theme music was still going strong when he EM'd me.

[Submachine]

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Updated 4 arse deck, still EMs quite easily.

I won an upgraded Relic from Dark Matter with this today.

[trashduke]

Here's another Pdials variant that does well vs. Dark Matter.  Basically switch out all of the pendulums for pillars, so you never really get much light quanta build up and generally have enough death quanta (it deals better with black holes).  I got this from dragonsdemesne's handy FG counter page http://elementscommunity.org/forum/false-gods/my-upped-fg-counters/

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[bripod]

Absolutely one of the hardest FG's to defeat... I only have a 27.27% win ratio vs Dark Matter, the lowest of all FG's...

Sanctuary seems like a must in any deck vs DM as BH's will keep your Q drained and leave you tossing cards.
Lobo also seems like a great fit to kill off the healing power of Angels and get rid of shield passing Momentum.

The Aether Light Duo in the OP does have its appeal but might be rather dated, so I played around a bit and came up with this:

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I generally try NOT to play Light Pends until I have Sanct in hand and can generate 3 Q to play it in the same turn.
Yes, GP can be a pain but with 3 Dragons on screen it's just a one turn annoyance...

Hope this provides some relief for someone...

-bripod