Round 3 - Decks

[MrBlonde]

I hope she will get better!

About Entropy: they have only one matchup against us now, therefor they can use all (3?) purifies they have. I don't think poison is a great idea.

Neither do i, but with what's in our vault we really don't have a whole lot of options.

[Malduk]

I hope she will get better!

About Entropy: they have only one matchup against us now, therefor they can use all (3?) purifies they have. I don't think poison is a great idea.

Neither do i, but with what's in our vault we really don't have a whole lot of options.

I'm going to make some smallish changes to that fire deck against air, so hopefully someone will be online before the deadline to change the post with decks. Also, atm we're breaking bonewall limit, so we'll need another deck for entropy. I'm seriously considering that time deck Smuglapse was testing. Its just as bad as any other deck, but can actually penetrate diss shield eventually, and scarabs are almost immune to AM. Discord might provide some gravity too.

[Malduk]

New deck for Nume, please someone include it in original topic:

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Suggested deck for . Here's the spreadsheet with list of available cards, knock yourself out:
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[Malduk]

Some notes about your decks guys, since I'm not sure who managed to do some testing with their decks... Smuglapse told me to do it. 

MrBlonde - pretty straight up rush deck. Plagues are the only defense, and you'd probably use them only if they spam vampires/devs. Just count quanta and play to get as much damage per turn as possible.

Smuglapse - Mummies first, hold your dragons if possible until some CC is down and you feel its safe, or its an end game.

Nume - your deck needs loads of quanta generated, and you basically cant make a mistake there. Make sure to figure out what their deck is before spending tons of quanta on Dragons.
If they splash entropy, deflags are for Discords. Save 1 Deflag for Shield when you go for the kill. If they field small creature, its likely for BE. Plagues can help against those and Maxwells, while you'll have to save Rage for your own antimattered Pheonix (2-3 AMs per deck). If you can drop Pheonix and Bonewall early, you should be good. Dragons are for the kill of course.

Corrum - straightforward deck. If they go with dim shields and lobo, you can use momentums on the same dragon repeatedly and save others in hand to drop at once if shield goes down (if you see water mark, drop first dragon as soon as possible). Otherwise, they most likely have Lightnings in the deck, so play Dragon and Momentum on the same turn so they have to waste 2 lightnings per drake. Arsenic is great for early game, but as soon as shields start chaining, switch to Titan. Your deck also dont like mistakes much, so good luck.

home_wreckaz - you dont need to think much. Destroy their pillars/pendulums and rush them. Their stuff are expensive. Play Mummies and Spiders first to draw possible lightnings if you can.

Mastermind - you'll need some luck... If they use rush, as soon as you place first bonewall you should be fine. There's tons of CC in there. Play Arsenic whenever, but try to fly OE. Its much harder for them to destroy it if its flown.
If they use Bolt deck, then you'll definitely need luck. Deflags are there for Fahren. That thing can kill you when you switch to Reflective shield (count their cards and quanta to figure out when to switch). Purify is for possible poison.

Shantu - you built your own deck. Good luck.

Xuru - sacrifice a lamb to element gods.


Sorry if I was pointing the obvious.

[home_wreckaz]

Thanks for the note Malduk, I'm not too sure of what I might be up against and things so it's much appreciated.

Also, I've arranged my duel to be around 1pm~4pm GMT eh today or tomorrow, not too sure which day it is but around 10 hours from this post onwards unless he comes online in around 1 hour then we'll play straight away. Gotta head out now.

Also things aren't looking too good for my grandma, she's 90 now and seeing her having difficulty even opening her eyes/breathing, the doc said there won't be much time left. I might be online less frequently over the next few weeks, but I'll try to at the very least settle the timings for my match up so it's easier on Corrum.

[MrBlonde]

No worries HW. RL takes precedence over everything else. Just keep us updated and let us know what you can do when you can. I wish the best for your Grandmother and hope you are well.

[home_wreckaz]

No good, late EQ draws killed me, 2-0 to aether for this match.

[Malduk]

No good, late EQ draws killed me, 2-0 to aether for this match.

That was some major bad luck there. I did about 7-8 games with your deck against dragon/shied and flyer deck, and won easily, because its almost impossible NOT to have at least one EQ in your first 8 cards. Your deck had easier time beating those than corrums deck. 

[Malduk]

I was super annoyed with results of some matches this round, but that win Xuru pulled off is so funny that I still cant believe it happened. If they bothered with at least Discord, who knows what would have happened there.

Shantu lost fairly. That deck Daxx used was something I seriously didnt expect seeing against which decks they lost last round. I still cant believe they used it. Guess is not overthinking their decks much. Anyway, Shantu you made a solid deck, they just used an epic counter.

We were lucky with MrBlondes match... Pure rush is always dependent on draws from both sides, especially when your opponent can CC almost all of your creatures.

My game was rather easy. Expected such deck, prepared for it.

Nume against air: expected dragon deck, prepared for it, went great.

Water made a deck that beats tons of decks can make. Seriously, kudos for their deck. Luckily, Smug had I-WIN card of the event aka Discord. Go .

Two matches against were something that ruined our round. The amount of RNG fail in those games was just insane. I made several variations of the deck they used in those matches, and both our decks won most of the matches, failing once or twice on a badish draw.

Mastermind against fire was a tough luck. I knew Bolt deck would be very hard seeing how we only had 1 reflective shield in the Vault. I said on chat that if I was them, I'd use bolt deck, but was stupidly hoping they wouldnt. This one was all my mistake, should have built a rush with Purify/Mirror rather than CC stall. 

Xuru - lol. It made my day, even though I wouldnt mind at all dropping those cards.


Anyway, sorry for whining, I had to vent somewhere, as this was our worst round so far, and I built most decks 

[smuglapse]

Hey we kept our fire cards. 

And we didn't endlessly complain about how the RNG screwed us like some other teams.  Even though those were some epic screws.

Death - over a trillion served!

[MrBlonde]

No worries Malduk. We did fine. Most of the teams are running about even so we are still number 4 i think in terms of cards. The next 2 rounds will make or break us most likely. Basically we kinda broke even. Lucky 2 rounds, unlucky 2 other rounds.

Thanks for making the decks Malduk!

[Nume]

Looking at the standings, the only other team with more than 5 wins was fire, so we didnt do too bad.