Mindgate deck wants to go to pvp2

[Evan_85]

Here's my favorite pvp1 deck. It's hilarious, I played it more than my other 30 combined.

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592 592 5ia 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 623 623 623 623 623 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 7q5 7q5 7q5 7q8 7q8 8ps

So usually if I upgrade the key cards of a deck, it gets viable in pvp2 too. Well, not this one, as the heavy sofo presence makes a permanent based deck suffer a lot.

I know I should include heavy CC, or at least a lot of protect artifacts, but I can't just add them, as the current 39 cards is already it's critical mass. eg: 6 lightning makes it really unstable. I'd drop the dim-shields gladly, but than I'll need another way to survive the first 8-10 turns while the deck starts to work.

So... any idea to make a permanent-heavy deck survive in the sofo-spam?

[Gandora]

Well... if your only worry is SoFo I'd highly recommend some lobotomizers.

Problem is, they interfere with your Eternity. Also you might want to have them very early.
So Flying Weapon and Lobos would work, but since you already are on your limit, you might have to
cut down on your shield and Mindgates.

If I had to change it, it'd look somewhat like the following:

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61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61u 61u 61u 623 623 623 623 623 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 7n2 7n2 7n2 7q5 7q5 7q5 7q8 7q8 8ps

Of course, there are lots of alternatives.
E.g.

Stop SoFo with BB or Congeals.
Or Bolts (Ice or Fire)
Mind Flyers instead of Lobos.
As you said: more PA or Lightnings.

Most of those changes would probably ask for a cut down on other cards you already have
or making it more rainbow which makes it harder to focus on the amount of you need.

I think it's quite difficult to make Mindgate work in PvP2. Maybe a Turtle Shield would be better instead of so many Dim. Shields.
However, I'm sorry that I couldn't be of much help. I hope you find a good solution.

[Evan_85]

Thanks for the hints..

Indeed, making a gatebow looks quite tricky, but I keep running into one in pvp2. That's a fun and brutal deck, though rainbow means it doesn't have the gate's synergy with the Eternity. It has sose instead - my two favorite cards in one deck.

Though keeping on the duo side... I just don't think Lobos are fast enough, as sofos tend to come in the first turn. Lightning or splashing PA does the trick - maybe it would indeed worth to ditch the dims and use procastrination.

Well, there are some other constructions I'm working on right now, but I'll certainly get back to that idea too. Especially since sofo got less common since I opened that thread.