Shard of Patience Decks (Suggestions Welcome)

[laxnut90]

Since its most recent buff, Shard of Patience has become one of the most powerful cards in Elements.  It is oftentimes used in False God farming decks and Platinum Arena farming decks due to its ability to One Hit Kill opponents with high HP.  To maximize its effect across a wide range of creatures, Shard of Patience is sometimes combined with Fractal and/or Mitosis.  Other times, it is used with creatures whose abilities benefit from the buff (e.g. Otyugh, Scarab and Vanadium Warden).

In this thread, I am compiling a list of the most successful Shard of Patience decks.  I will sort the decks based on Arena Level and FG farming status.  Please post any decks you believe should be added to this list.


Platinum Arena Farming Decks


Refraction Index

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http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,46476.0.html


New Old Times

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Swallow

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My Version:

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Brave Malignant Ball that Could

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http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,48157.0.html


SoaPy Wardens

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http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,48849.0.html


False God Farming Decks


Refraction Index (False God Version)

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New Old Times FG OTK

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http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,37815


The Melancholy Death of Chrysaora

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http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,48843.0.html


Gold Farming Decks


Brave Damselfy Blitz That Could

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Brave Old Times That Could

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A Patient Blitz

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Patient Hope Mitosis

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http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,50389.0.html


New Old Tosis

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Patient Pestal

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Vampire's Holy Navy

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http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,49058.0.html


Silver Arena Farming Decks


Snowball Lightning OTK

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Patient Vu

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A Ballsy Rush

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Snowball Barrage

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Uncategorized Decks


Malignancy Is A Virtue

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Submitted by ElementalDearWatson: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/profile/?u=184


Toxic Singularities

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Submitted by kaempfer13: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/profile/?u=5327

[ElementalDearWatson]

There's one that I use for level 4, when I'm playing for fun, rather than farming.  I've never tried it out farming anything, but I don't imagine it'd do much good beyond Silver.

I call it "Malignancy Is A Virtue".

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Fairly straight forward - Aflatoxin your own Photons, heal yourself with Bonds, have your Shard out until you've got enough oomph to kill the opposition, then kill them.  You can also use Aflatoxin on opposing creatures, and Skull Shield will protect you from the resulting Cells but, as a general rule of thumb, only do this after you've infected one of your own creatures.  The healing from the Bonds will almost always be better than destroying 1 enemy creature.

I've not collected any data on it, but it seems to win most of the time.  Weaknesses, obviously, are Permanent Control and Gravity Shield. 

[CuCN]

I think your deck will be better using a water mark, switching the water pendulums to bone towers, and replacing the photons with sparks.

[iloveashley3]

i like your gravity nymphs in your version of "swallow", nice. 

[iloveashley3]

There's one that I use for level 4, when I'm playing for fun, rather than farming.  I've never tried it out farming anything, but I don't imagine it'd do much good beyond Silver.

I call it "Malignancy Is A Virtue".

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Fairly straight forward - Aflatoxin your own Photons, heal yourself with Bonds, have your Shard out until you've got enough oomph to kill the opposition, then kill them.  You can also use Aflatoxin on opposing creatures, and Skull Shield will protect you from the resulting Cells but, as a general rule of thumb, only do this after you've infected one of your own creatures.  The healing from the Bonds will almost always be better than destroying 1 enemy creature.

I've not collected any data on it, but it seems to win most of the time.  Weaknesses, obviously, are Permanent Control and Gravity Shield.

theres your deck^

[kaempfer13]

There's one that I use for level 4, when I'm playing for fun, rather than farming.  I've never tried it out farming anything, but I don't imagine it'd do much good beyond Silver.

I call it "Malignancy Is A Virtue".

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Fairly straight forward - Aflatoxin your own Photons, heal yourself with Bonds, have your Shard out until you've got enough oomph to kill the opposition, then kill them.  You can also use Aflatoxin on opposing creatures, and Skull Shield will protect you from the resulting Cells but, as a general rule of thumb, only do this after you've infected one of your own creatures.  The healing from the Bonds will almost always be better than destroying 1 enemy creature.

I've not collected any data on it, but it seems to win most of the time.  Weaknesses, obviously, are Permanent Control and Gravity Shield.

theres your deck^

I think the malignent cell+feral bond+SoP strategy is executed best in this deck (sobras are fillers and can f.e. be replaced with sundials, skullbuckler and additional SoPs or fodders):

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(Strategy is to create a singularity and infect it, then cast epinephrine on the resulting malignent cell(will create 4 malignent cells 1st turn))
However this is highly luckdependant and most likely not competitive with the decks in the op.

[ElementalDearWatson]

Quote from: CuCN on October 23, 2013, 12:05:56 PM<blockquote>I think your deck will be better using a water mark, switching the water pendulums to bone towers, and replacing the photons with sparks.
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The reason  I don't use a water mark is to get as much quanta as early as possible.  Having the mark can mean getting your Aflatoxin played 1 or even 2 turns earlier than if you had a different mark, which can be important for healing.  Playing the Shard is nowhere near as important as playing Aflatoxin.

As for Sparks vs. Photons, I don't see what difference it makes.  The only difference, as far as I can tell is that if you're desperate and you've got a Bond or two but not yet got Aflatoxin or the Shard then you can still play Photons and get healing, which you couldn't with Sparks.

[ElementalDearWatson]

Quote from: iloveashley3 on October 23, 2013, 03:10:54 PM


theres your deck^

Thanks.  The posting interface on this board is terrible.

[ElementalDearWatson]

Quote from: kaempfer13 on October 23, 2013, 06:15:25 PM
(Strategy is to create a singularity and infect it, then cast epinephrine on the resulting malignent cell(will create 4 malignent cells 1st turn))
However this is highly luckdependant and most likely not competitive with the decks in the op.

That's an interesting take.  I've got a Malignant Cell deck and I've got a Singularity deck, but I've never tried both together.  I may play this one and see how it goes.

[laxnut90]

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There's one that I use for level 4, when I'm playing for fun, rather than farming.  I've never tried it out farming anything, but I don't imagine it'd do much good beyond Silver.

I call it "Malignancy Is A Virtue".

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Fairly straight forward - Aflatoxin your own Photons, heal yourself with Bonds, have your Shard out until you've got enough oomph to kill the opposition, then kill them.  You can also use Aflatoxin on opposing creatures, and Skull Shield will protect you from the resulting Cells but, as a general rule of thumb, only do this after you've infected one of your own creatures.  The healing from the Bonds will almost always be better than destroying 1 enemy creature.

I've not collected any data on it, but it seems to win most of the time.  Weaknesses, obviously, are Permanent Control and Gravity Shield.

I have added your deck to the list.   

I personally prefer to use sparks so that Aflatoxin will kill your creature even with an SOP on the table.  A photon with SOP on the table would outrace the Aflatoxin on it.  Also, six photons is probably overkill.  I would recommend running no more than four or five creatures as Aflatoxin fodder.

All things considered, I think the deck has the potential to be a strong farmer due to its mass healing abilities.

[ElementalDearWatson]

Quote from: laxnut90 on October 25, 2013, 11:49:21 PM

I personally prefer to use sparks so that Aflatoxin will kill your creature even with an SOP on the table.  A photon with SOP on the table would outrace the Aflatoxin on it.

I just don't put the Shard out until I've got at least one Cell on the board.  Once that's happened, unless I'm desperate for health, or I think there's immediate danger of my field being killed off (such as the AI having Rain Of Fire), then I save my Aflatoxins for CC.

Also, six photons is probably overkill.  I would recommend running no more than four or five creatures as Aflatoxin fodder.

Interesting.  What would you replace them with?

[laxnut90]

Also, six photons is probably overkill.  I would recommend running no more than four or five creatures as Aflatoxin fodder.

Interesting.  What would you replace them with?

I would recommend adding a third Shard of Patience or, potentially, a situational card such as Purify.