Grey Nymph timebow

[Shoriu]

So at the beginning i was looking for a good deck to make money by grinding platinium league ; as the oracle give me a grey nymph last week and never used it i tried to put her in a deck.

Here is the deck :

by Shoriu

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I think it does quite well for the moment ( 3 matchs 3 wins 2 Ems (nearly 3) ) BUT game are awefully long -___-"
I beat a frogtall (by deckout), a basic rainbow and a MA with aether nymph.

How does it work ?
1/ build your defense
2/ wait for quint (depending the kind of deck your facing, if you think there is a lot of CC )
3/ eat/growth/infect/lobotomize/rewind in order to control the field (something funny is to rewind a malignant cell in order to slow the opponent draw)
4/ say thanks to Permafrost shield
and sometimes 5/ say thanks to eternity which prevent you from decking out (always thinks about decking out ===> Do not quint all of your creatures, there's only six of them, usually i don't quint Forest Spectre to feed eternity)

It will probably be better with more upped card ^^
I'm waiting for your advice (maybe you know a better way to make money, in this case feel free to teach me XD )

P.S : the search function doesn't work for me, so i don't know if it has already been post.

Edit : as poison break my spin i might add a purify ..... ( poison deck are such a pain...)

Edit 2 : so after playing 40 games here is my stats   Win : 13
                                                                                  Lose: 27
                                                                                   EM  : 10
This deck tend to have REALLY bad draw ....
Anyone had an idea to improve it ? (i might try a variant whit SN maybe, for more speed ...)

[Shoriu]

No one has an idea how to improve this deck ?
His weakness are imorush, poison rush and novabow for the moment + bad draw ... What should I do ?

[gumbeh]

Aflatoxin is more effective with Flooding - but only if Afla is your main strategy. (If it is, you need more Afla.)

Include a free or cheap creature to Rewind. Your Forest Spectre should be growing, not rewinding.

You have many different kinds of CC. Which of them rarely get used? You can probably drop 1 or 2.

You probably don't need 3 Enchants. In modern CCYB variants, folks have 2 enchants - one for your shield, and one for weap or sanc depending on what FG you're facing. For your deck, 1 for your weap and 1 for situational use should be plenty.

Similarly, you have several sources of healing and HP increase. SoD and Miracle are generally for situations where the win is guaranteed, but you want a fat EM. If winning is not easy, stick to survival tools like Sanc & SoD and cut the rest to reduce "bad draws".

[Shoriu]

Thanks for your advices.

Actually this deck is made for platinium and i never seen the build CCYB so i didn't know my deck was a kind of variant ^^ Aflatoxin isn't the "heart" of this deck, actually it's more for mid-game, when you have dealt with the first "wave of creature" thanks to Oty/Maxwell..... then you just block the opponent field, that way he can't threat you again.

You were right about rewinding forest spirit, i should put a RoL in this deck.

I know there is a lot of CC but because in platinium there is so many differents decks i need to have an answer for eachone. This way sometimes it's Ulitharid which save me and give me a free win, and other time it will be otyugh. But the issue is that it's mainly depending on your draw, therefore on your luck.....
I put 3 enchant in order to get one early for my electrum hourglass, if not it will be usually steal/destroy right after i played it.

Maybe there is too much healing wich clog my hand ; and i think drop some will in fact be a good idea, cause when i got the victory i used to have too many healing power.

[gumbeh]

Nah, you're not running a CCYB (CC? Why Bother?) variant. That deck has a lot of people using it and it gets a lot of testing, though. Having excess copies of PA is nice, but reduces your chances to draw other things that you also need. The slimmer you can make your deck, the harder it is for you to get "bad draws". You can hang on to your hourglasses and wait for the PA, or just let some of them be destroyed when you know you have more.

You mention all of your CC cards being useful at one time or another, but that's probably because of the size of the deck. Some days you draw Flayer 10 turns ahead of Oty, sometimes the other way around. Be completely sure that one of them couldn't take the place of another

Good luck!