This is What I'm Using

[EmeraldTiger]

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It is not meant to be a competitive deck. I am slowly upgrading it. any thoughts?

[ColorlessGreen]

I do not personally find QPs to be terribly useful in a mindgate deck, though I know lots of people disagree with me on that. I prefer to just get my quanta for the opponent's cards by mindgating pillars/etc and just hope they don't have anything terribly important that's fueled by the mark.

Regarding the steals, I'd kinda recommend swapping to a dark mark and just fueling the steals from the mark/pends. Don't even really need that many pends as you don't need to be able to play the steals that quickly.

In order to get down to 30 cards to be able to chain dim shields more effectively, I'd recommend dropping the immortals in favor of ~2 phase dragons.

A couple lightnings are pretty excellent in decks like this IMO.

[Marsu]

Yeah, the Immortals are the one thing I don't like either. I understand that you want to have some kind of damage to prevent every game from lasting 20 turns and in case you're up against a stall - but I'd go with CG there and throw all the Immortals out and add only 2 Dragons instead.

[Lord Xen]

Why not remove the quantum pillars, replace dark pendulums and add an extra steal. That will help reduce the quanta strain the deck seems to have on your aether cards.

[timetock]

full mono aether with mindgates and dim shields. I used to run that.

[ColorlessGreen]

full mono aether with mindgates and dim shields. I used to run that.

Add in a sprinkling of thunderbolts (and sometimes a lobo or two) and that's my favorite mindgate deck.

[EmeraldTiger]

I was trying to go for a strategy steal-er deck.