Darkness [Ninja Series]

[furballdn]

ok good but why use pendulums? why not pillars they gain the same thing and with the same colour you are really only gaining one darkess so why?

Having a pillar-pendulum split gives you a marginal statistical advantage because of Earthquake. In reality, it actually doesn't matter too much; Denial decks based on EQ do exist, but are uncommon. Its a force of habit to make decks this way for many of us in the community. Also, try not to necro old threads- this thread's last post was 2 and a half months ago.

^ Exactly this.

[joshiex29]

ok good but why use pendulums? why not pillars they gain the same thing and with the same colour you are really only gaining one darkess so why?

Having a pillar-pendulum split gives you a marginal statistical advantage because of Earthquake. In reality, it actually doesn't matter too much; Denial decks based on EQ do exist, but are uncommon. Its a force of habit to make decks this way for many of us in the community. Also, try not to necro old threads- this thread's last post was 2 and a half months ago.

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[bogtro]

***TRIALS RESPONSE***

To begin with, this is a nice concept. Although Liquid Shadow is not an often-used card, it can be useful in some specific strategies. However, it does appear like it can be improved.

Firstly, this deck almost certainly could use some steals. With the poison effect of liquid shadow, this deck will miserably fail against Dim shield. Secondly, the Dusk Mantle seems strangely out of place here - why would you choose to add that card in? Since this deck is for PvP1, keeping the deck at 31 cards is not a bad idea, for the deckout advantage should this ever become relevant. Some nice additions to this deck would be cloaks or nightfalls, but you can't do everything.

I would suggest removing the dusk mantle, which doesn't really seem to have any positive effect on the deck, removing 1 dragon, 1 LS, and replacing them with 3 steals. Since you already had slightly too much quanta, this will allow you to remove 1 pillar and one pendulum. You could then add in 1 nightfall, making it a 30 card deck with a perfect Quantum Index (http://elements.alanbeam.net/qi.php?deckCode=5uk+5uk+5uk+5uk+5uk+5uk+5uk+5uk+5ul+5ul+5ul+5ul+5ul+5up+5up+5up+5uq+5uu+5uu+5uu+5uu+5uu+606+606+606+606+606+606+606+606+8pt&showImage=1) of 5. If you wanted to keep the deck 31 cards, you could add in another nightfall, a cloak, or a pillar, depending on the direction you want to head in.

by bogtro

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This modified deck allows more chances against annoying permanents, still maintains the drag+ls combo, and is slightly more balanced in terms of quanta flow.

[ninjaclone09]

Actually, i think my deck was as balanced as it could get for quanta. The dusk mantle is just useful no matter what situation; 50% chance of miss usually isn't very bad. The reason i had no steals, or nightfalls, or  cloaks, is because like you said i couldnt have everything. I kept adding additional cards in my previous decks that kinda threw off the main strategy for the deck, so i just decided, why dont I keep it simple? And thats what i did. btw thanks to everyone reviewing my decks, its pretty interesting( woulndt mind being told why this is happening though)

[OliverYang]

Looks like a good deck, but why are there Dark Pendulums when the deck's mark is Darkness?

[omegareaper7]

Looks like a good deck, but why are there Dark Pendulums when the deck's mark is Darkness?

Protection from earthquake. And aside from that, why not?

[furballdn]

Looks like a good deck, but why are there Dark Pendulums when the deck's mark is Darkness?

Mono decks generally have a pillar/pend split to guard against earthquake.