Round 8 - Decks

[kev]

My feedback on the posted decks:

xdude tried replacing death pends with earth pillars/pends in this deck initially but we concluded early death quanta was important.  Now that we took out BWs and some skull shields, it's probably a good idea.  I haven't tested it at all but I wonder whether it's dangerous to straddle the rush/stall decision.  I might just replace the recluses with earth pends and up four arsenics instead.

bone walls don't seem to add a lot to stalling ability vs aether's likely fractals, so the BWs are better placed in the fire duo vs darkness.  We could remove the recluses from here and give them to kevkev vs darkness.  Upped arsenics make sense in this case.  If we do remove more death cards (i.e., the recluses), then it definitely makes sense to include as many earth pendula as are legal.

Just to clarify, I wasn't necessarily recommending BWs here, just saying that if they aren't present we can swap death quanta for earth quanta.


I originally mentioned upping ragepots against potential upped dragons, but maybe I'm overemphasizing one deck and upping something else would be wise.  Upped ragepots are really useful against upped dragons only.  Actually though my bigger concerns are having only four critters, being underpillared, and wanting to whittle it down to 30 cards.  Any way we can get more mummies?  If not I'm more in favor of blonde dropping a couple recluses so I can add three upped and our lonely mummy.

we currently have 1 more mummy and 1 more recluse left.  We also have more pillars / pends available.

Maybe this?:

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52h 52r 52r 52r 52t 542 542 542 542 542 5f6 5f6 5f6 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 713 713 713 8po

I'd go -4 lightnings, -1 aether pillar.

hmm, we could drop the lightnings, but graboids and GotP make up most of earth's remaining attackers.  Lightnings are there to bridge the gap until we can chain dim shields and fractal dragons.  If we do drop lightnings, what about -4 lightning, +1 fractal, so we can fractal more reliably?

Yep, I see earth's remaining attackers.  In my experience lightnings suck aether quanta more than allow me to stall, and I prefer the 30-card version.  But I haven't tested this one and it's probably more a style thing than anything else.

I should've said so to start my last post but great job with the decks to everyone involved.  I haven't tested anything so take my thoughts with a grain of salt.

[MrBlonde]

Yeah i think since i am not taking BW's i should take earth pendulums and giving my recluses to kev would be better.

[SteppingStone81]

Yeah i think since i am not taking BW's i should take earth pendulums and giving my recluses to kev would be better.

can team chat for a bit now to finish decks ...

[SteppingStone81]

Here is a revised deck set:

(with updated attached spreadsheet for this round's deck-building.)

Mrblonde vs. pikachufan2164 (Lt.)

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52l 52l 52p 52p 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 593 593 593 593 593 593 594 594 594 594 594 594 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 71a 71a 71a 71a 77c 77c 8pm

Kevkev vs. TheonlyrealBeef (Gen.)

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52h 52r 52r 52r 52t 542 542 542 542 542 5f6 5f6 5f6 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 713 713 713 8po

xn0ize vs. Terroking (Lt.)

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52h 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52q 542 542 542 542 542 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61q 61q 61q 61q 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 622 8pu

concern: probably loses to the immortal.


Marvaddin vs. Majofa ( Lt.)

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4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 52g 52g 52g 52g 52l 52l 52q 52t 52t 52t 52t 52t 542 542 542 590 590 590 590 590 590 5f6 5on 61q 8pm

Here are leftover cards after this set of decks:

3x virus2x flesh spider2x mummy1x bone dragon1x bone wall1x arsenic1x poison1x lightning4x fractal1x deflagration1x earthquake

[kev]

Step, the spreadsheet and 3/4 of the decks look right, but the fire duo should be this, I think:

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52h 52r 52r 52r 52t 542 542 542 542 542 5f6 5f6 5f6 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 713 713 713 8po

I'd love another pair of eyes on that as I'm about to lose consciousness...

Edit: also per my earlier comment we should take a few aether pends using the Event Card for use in the Earth matchup.  I think we're currently taking some earth pends and some death pends but we have an opportunity to take some aether pends and convert aether pillars to death pends instead.  All this does is help EQ-proof us a little, but every little bit helps, right?

[Marvaddin]

I have tested my deck vs AI3. Its fast enough. 10-3, losses were to Owl's Eye and Pandemonium, but it can work vs a deck with little CC. Lets hope for it.

[SteppingStone81]

Step, the spreadsheet and 3/4 of the decks look right, but the fire duo should be this, I think:

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52h 52r 52r 52r 52t 542 542 542 542 542 5f6 5f6 5f6 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 713 713 713 8po

I'd love another pair of eyes on that as I'm about to lose consciousness...

Edit: also per my earlier comment we should take a few aether pends using the Event Card for use in the Earth matchup.  I think we're currently taking some earth pends and some death pends but we have an opportunity to take some aether pends and convert aether pillars to death pends instead.  All this does is help EQ-proof us a little, but every little bit helps, right?

@kev:  fixed the fire duo to what you suggested.  the vault was fine re: that, I had just failed to update the deck code.

re: taking aether pend and converting aether pillars to death pend, that sounds like a very good move for EQ-proofing.  I'll leave that for MrBlonde to do.

[SteppingStone81]

I have tested my deck vs AI3. Its fast enough. 10-3, losses were to Owl's Eye and Pandemonium, but it can work vs a deck with little CC. Lets hope for it.

yeah, with 5 mummies, 6 graboids, arsenic, and some CC and PC, we are trying to give you the best deck we can.  Hopefully it can outrush whatever Fire brings to the table (pray for no RoF).

[xn0ize]

guys.. come to chat please.