Round 2 - Decks

[kev]

A couple quick additions:
As I said in team chat, DoSA would be bad against grabby rush w/EQs.  Dunno how I went 3-0 to start but it's definitely under 50%.

As I think more about it I become more confident that GG's deck may be mono-gravity, flinging massive dragons and armagios.  I think the sanc deck is under 50% to win there.   Either QC or PC would serve you nicely, though.

On multiple recommendations I'll start testing a EQ stall versus Light decks tomorrow.  Maybe something like this:

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Edit: tested in AI3 against icebolt, firebolt, and their Wings deck from last round.  Lost once against the Wings deck, but I'm happy with what I have.  I'll use 3 upped arsenics.

[icecoldbro]

I see Blonde`s deck and I keep seeing its lacking in quanta, a couple death pends wont fuel the whole thing, itll just make it sloppy.
Dim shield isnt great addition to Fractal thanks to its higher cost making it hard to drop at right time when needed, and preventing slots that could be occupied by Recluse, lighting however is a plus with me specially with Fractal as its low cost and usage is very varied.

[SteppingStone81]

We need to finalize decks pretty soon, so I thought I'd post the options still under consideration.


Mrblonde vs RR (water gen)

Fractal recluse

(Current choice)Death + EQs[/list]
KevKev vs Coinich (light gen)

Earth stall 

(Tested; happy)[/list]
xdude vs Jen-i (time lt)

Pandabonium 

(Current choice)mono mummy  *** if sub can use event card ***[/list]
Daxx vs wavedash (life lt)

DoSA 

(Tested; happy even vs bolt deck)[/list]
ICB vs GG (gravity gen)

Rewind deck 

(Current choice)Discord-BHbow w/ rewinds and deflags or steals[/list]
Xnoize vs Kakerlake (earth gen)

immo deckair deck with wings/shockwaves

SS81 vs Willing3 (aether)

Darkness (4 steals) duoEQ deckDiscord-BHFire/death outdeckPandebonium 

(tested ok only)[/list]
Marv vs  Mith (darkness)

Deflag deckRewind deckimmo deck

[Marvaddin]

Looks like we got some good choices until now.

For last 3 decks:
Earth: like said before, immo deck doesnt seems good, earth have BB, and the ones with graboid also use to have Rewinds. Wings / Shockwave seems better, although BH Discord also can work.

Aether: Discord-BH, if we are not going to use it in other game (in fact, I think its more useful here than vs Earth). If we are, EQ. Some Steals are also great.

Darkness: If no one is going to use the immo deck, I feel it could be good here. Its good vc GotP, quanta denial and steals. Some deflags for Dusk Mantle / Vampire Dagger could also be useful.

Opinions, please?

And now we are finishing the decks discussion, what about if we decide what to salvage and discard, so I can do my job?

[SteppingStone81]

Aether: Discord-BH, if we are not going to use it in other game (in fact, I think its more useful here than vs Earth). If we are, EQ. Some Steals are also great.

Did a bunch of testing on aether matchup.  (thanks to kevkev and ICB for the help testing!)

Darkness duo

loses to pestal,does well vs mono (stealing dim shields), (so far) untested vs bows.

Discord-BH

worked somewhat ok against whole range (pestal, mono aether, bow), but nothing extraordinaryLoses to mono + purifies (gets shut down by dim shield chain).

Pandebonium

tested reasonably well against grabowuntested elsewhere

EQ deck

not tested extensivelypreliminary success against mono, mono + purify, pestal

grabow

untested

fire/death outdeck

untested

[Marvaddin]

This immo deck vs Earth has a good amount of raw power, so it could go through some BB and Rewinds, good deck.

However, Im not so confident abou my deck itself. Should I really use Arsenic vs Darkness? It will probably be stolen. Anyway, looks like time is over. I suppose Im going to use this anyway 

[kev]

However, Im not so confident abou my deck itself. Should I really use Arsenic vs Darkness? It will probably be stolen. Anyway, looks like time is over. I suppose Im going to use this anyway 

It may be stolen, but you have backups.    Not sure how familiar you are with the deck, but the premise is to wait until critters are on the field then play BW + pande.  The arsenic is sort of an afterthought, but necessary to win.  I HIGHLY recommend you practice with it, it's one of those decks that takes time to get used to.  At least it did for me.  xn is in chat 23 hours a day, and I know he'd be willing to practice and give notes if I'm not there.