Round 7 - Decks

[Shantu]

Please, use this. That lightning is infinitely better.

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I'll edit the salvages for this deck.

Also, playing the game with Entropy is foolishness and an unnecessary loss of so-important Death cards. We either make a real deck or a suicide.

[Malduk]

I'm not sure how I feel about playing that deck against Entropy. Losing Poison means we have zero chance later on as any and every opponent will field CC deck, and CC beats all our leftovers.
As much as I hate to be the one suiciding, especially against Valimont and Entropy, if we lose that match, thats it. We're dead in the next round. If we lose all 3 fights, we're dead this round.

Looking at chances for that deck to work... the only deck we could beat is their own poison stall IF we get faster poison draws, and IF they dont decide to add Nova/Purify (which I would certainly do in combo with Pandemoniums and shields).
With any reasonable chance for it to work, I'd be all for fighting them, but as is... suicide seems like only reasonable option. 

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Contents of Vault if we go with Shantu's versions of MasterMinds deck, and remove Malduk's deck:
1 Fog Shield
5 Shockwave
4 Wings
2 OE
2 Dark Pendulum
5 EQ
1 Reflective Shield
1 Freeze
1 Bone Dragon
6 Poison
1 Bone Wall
2 Arsenic
7 Death Pendulum

Total 38

Keep 8

Fruitless brainstorming.

[MrBlonde]

Can't we save at least 1 lightning? Freeze will be useless vs the adrenaline deck, unlike lightning.

damn. this is what happens when work gets crazy. Sorry guys. Lieutenants not having moderator rights really sucks.

[xuru]

Can't we save at least 1 lightning? Freeze will be useless vs the adrenaline deck, unlike lightning.

damn. this is what happens when work gets crazy. Sorry guys. Lieutenants not having moderator rights really sucks.

I was on chat for a long time as always before dead line. No decision has been finally made.

[MrBlonde]

I was on chat for a long time as always before dead line. No decision has been finally made.

Thanks xuru. You guys should have just gone ahead and done it. Oh well my fault all. Sorry. 

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Based on the deck and comments made here (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,17402.msg236497#msg236497), I would say Mastermind should be facing off against Chargers and Air cards.

Specifically these:
2 Air Pendulums
2 Fog Shields
2 Flying Weapons
3 Owl's Eyes
4 Shockwaves

So, the Freezes and BBs are good.

[Shantu]

We didn't change it because the lightning would have meant -1 pendulum, which is -1 from one of the decks, and we couldn't remove any.

Damn, we got the worse deck. I hope MM knows how to play it.

[Malduk]

Well some notes about the deck:

Keep graboids burrowed.
There are 4 Shockwaves in the deck. If the opponent has quanta, but keeps cards in his hand, its likely Shockwaves or surplus EEs he cant fly. So, if Fog is not up, and you have more Mummies than he can CC in one turn, drop them down. Your goal is looking for opportunities to get more than 5 damage from a single Mummy. Alternatively, if you get a better quanta production, making him waste before he can play EE is good too.
If Fog is up early, it gets tricky as you have only 1 Deflag in the deck, and he has 2 Fogs. In that case, it might be better to hold on till you can deflag and do as much damage in that turn as possible. You'll need to use your best judgment here.
Also, please draw early Arsenic. 

[Mastermind79]

Well some notes about the deck:

Keep graboids burrowed.
There are 4 Shockwaves in the deck. If the opponent has quanta, but keeps cards in his hand, its likely Shockwaves or surplus EEs he cant fly. So, if Fog is not up, and you have more Mummies than he can CC in one turn, drop them down. Your goal is looking for opportunities to get more than 5 damage from a single Mummy. Alternatively, if you get a better quanta production, making him waste before he can play EE is good too.
If Fog is up early, it gets tricky as you have only 1 Deflag in the deck, and he has 2 Fogs. In that case, it might be better to hold on till you can deflag and do as much damage in that turn as possible. You'll need to use your best judgment here.
Also, please draw early Arsenic. 

Thanks thanks thanks. And early arsenic happens all the time for me.

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Do you think I should show the deck we thought Kael would be taking, or is that revealing too much?

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[Malduk]

Its not revealing anything, thats the deck from his last round. Sorry for your loss btw