Animation Fixation

[CactusKing]

I must say, I am disappointed as for what passes as a gavels rush these days. It's disgusting. Poorly used flying weapons are crossing our borders illegally and stealing our jobs. They're sending swords that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing luciferin. They're bringing steals. They're paracites. And some, I assume, are good people.

But I have the solution! I am here to make animate weapon great again! BEHOLD!

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by CactusKing

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Seen here beating AI4:

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I am particularly proud of this one. It is the fastest animation rush in this collection

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Mass PC & CC, massive stalling capabilities with a good draw

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I made all these decks myself (except for a few more recently added by ValerianFlame). If any have been posted before please tell me so i can give credit to the original creators. The arsenic deck is an original variation of PDials.
Note that I didn't include screenshots for everything because it would have taken too long. If you reeeaaaallly want a picture of one of these decks beating AI4 please feel free to PM me. Spread the word and together we can make animate weapon great again.

[Mr Muffin]

You want screenshots of these beating half bloods? Well here you go. By the way this thread should be here. http://elementscommunity.org/forum/deck-compilations/

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That eclipse was a bad idea but it came one turn before the kill turn. This took 1 attempt.

Spoiler for Morning Glory:

This took 1 attempt.

Spoiler for Arsenic:

I prefer regular pdials over this because of the antisynergy between flying arsenics and sundials. This took 1 attempt.

Spoiler for Discord and Druidic Staff:

As you can see I ended 1 hp away from EM  . This took 1 attempt.

Spoiler for Pulvy:

I should have put the unstoppable on a warden if but it didn't matter because I drew the unstoppable 1 turn from kill turn. This took 2 attempts.

Spoiler for Fahrenheit:

On my first attempt I died with the enemy at 2 hp. This took 2 attempts.

Spoiler for Longbow:

This took 2 attempts.

Spoiler for Gavels:

For some reason this decks screenshots weren't working for me so I made this in case anybody else has this problem. I had a rough time getting this screenshot so I think "standard" (I'm not sure how to build a great mono gravity) mono gravity might be better than flying gavels. This took 5 attempts.

[CactusKing]

I do have screenshots, i just didn't post them all. Thank you for proving my point though!

[antiaverage]

Made some slight tweaks to Discord + Jade Staff

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It's actually quite a bit of fun, nice one!

[JonathanCrazyJ]

Isn't the feral bond a bit odd with only 8 max creatures unless mito mutant?

[CactusKing]

Made some slight tweaks to Discord + Jade Staff

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It's actually quite a bit of fun, nice one!

I specifically included unupgraded elfs for CC and unupped druidic staffs because they generate +20 healing per turn with adrenalin instead of the +15 you get from jade staffs.

[antiaverage]

Isn't the feral bond a bit odd with only 8 max creatures unless mito mutant?

Put in more as a placeholder, not sure what I'd prefer there yet.

I specifically included unupgraded elfs for CC and unupped druidic staffs because they generate +20 healing per turn with adrenalin instead of the +15 you get from jade staffs.

Unupgraded Elfs have 3/2 instead of 3/3, which is worse for CC, the only advantage is they are cheaper by 1 quanta.

I agree with you about the staves.

Either way I was just sharing what I threw together to play with, it's not a commentary on your build nor provided as an improvement.

[Mr Muffin]

Isn't the feral bond a bit odd with only 8 max creatures unless mito mutant?

Put in more as a placeholder, not sure what I'd prefer there yet.

Though this probably isn't the best card to put there in this case a shard of gratitude > feral bond. Other options could be perhaps a giant frog, chaos power, or another epinephrine.

[antiaverage]

Though this probably isn't the best card to put there in this case a shard of gratitude > feral bond. Other options could be perhaps a giant frog, chaos power, or another epinephrine.

I was playing with Chaos Power being there before reading this, still not sure, but good suggestions. I'll try your other thoughts.

[ValerianFlame]

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This deck is pretty trash when compared to other decks, but it was one of my first thoughts when making a dagger deck. The deck grew on me though, and it's probably one of my favorite non-cremarush decks.

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Had trouble with this one, but while facing a half blood with crusaders, I got this idea.

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I also had trouble with this one, but I was able to make it work somehow. Yay for gravity decks! (Well, and air.)

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For an earth deck, I had to look for some guidance on the Wiki. I knew graboids could work, so I'd need time pends. My leftover time quanta could be spent on GotP, as it's a solid rush card.

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I wanted to make a Damseltal at first, but I knew that wouldn't work. I then tried for a deck like this, but with sky blitz. The quanta was too low for me to use sky blitz in most matches, so I went with this.

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I had a time with this deck, using discord to spread a lot of quanta. This deck was mostly speedbuilt, but whatever, I liked it.

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This deck looks like it's very prone to bad draw, and in a way, it is. I had trouble making the deck to satisfy me, but in the end, this was my choice.

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So far, this deck has given me the most trouble. I wanted to make an original catatitan deck, but I was worried that it wouldn't be "original" so I went with a catatitan with SoB

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The titan deck above didn't give me the most trouble, this did. I tried making a Earth/Gravity/Air, but that didn't work out too well for me. Then, I did something like this, but with more pulvy, AW, and SoR. I had to beat around the bush and take out some cards to make this deck even seem viable. To think this was the one card where I was like: "This will be easy."

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Now for a slightly less original deck: Adrenastaves! Now for this one, I wanted to make it a little more original by adding SoFr, making the deck more prone to bad draw, but the staves also ignore shields (shields with -2 or -3 damage are a huge problem for some adrenastaves).

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Cactus, Muffin and I had a discussion on his deck vs mine, and both of us had fair points. This deck is more prone to bad draw, but it is slightly faster imo.

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This one was easier to make than most of the other decks. It may have slightly unbalanced quanta generation, but it seems fine for an EQ Denial.

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This deck is kinda rushed, due to the over-quanta on Aether Pends, but I was paranoid about bad draw.

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This deck wasn't a hassle to make. I love Fire/Air as a duo, not because of UG, but because of SoB Air Rushes. 21 damage with Sky Blitz and SoFr, PER EE? I'll take it! Plus, there is just enough quanta for everything, and the deck is consistent too.
Fun Fact: Upped SoB's Import Code is 7ee. Eagle's Eye acronym is EE. Eagle's Eye also does 7 damage. Coincidence?

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I couldn't make a trolly deck (rip) so I figured: "Time is good at drawing things. Maybe if I get my cards out while the opponent can't" and then this happened.

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At first I tried something involving eclipse and epinephrine, considering 8 damage converts to 17 damage. However, the deck seemed too inconsistent, so I went with a darkness rush with Gargoyles.

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Geez, I can safely say this one gave me THE most trouble out of all the animate weapon sets. I tried a good few archetypes before this mediocre deck, and I'm glad I don't have to do anything else.

[Mr Muffin]

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Much too much aether quantum and probably quantum in general. A deck like thats quantum base should be mostly light towers with a few light pendulums with mark of aether. You could also replace some towers (if you do in fact change it to mostly towers) to either some (two would likely be best) improved miracles or more damage like a -2 light towers +2 archangels.

[ValerianFlame]

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Much too much aether quantum and probably quantum in general. A deck like thats quantum base should be mostly light towers with a few light pendulums with mark of aether. You could also replace some towers (if you do in fact change it to mostly towers) to either some (two would likely be best) improved miracles or more damage like a -2 light towers +2 archangels.

I had to upgrade cards I didn't have upgraded, as I made a partly upgraded version in the actual game.