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Deck Ideas => Deck Help => Topic started by: iancudorinmarian on October 01, 2013, 02:09:47 pm

Title: Mindgate deck
Post by: iancudorinmarian on October 01, 2013, 02:09:47 pm

Hello everyone, I'm trying to build a mindgate rainbow for my brother and I need some help.
He doesn't have many rares (only 1 of some shards and some weapons) and no upped cards.

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vk 4vk 592 592 5og 5og 5rk 5rk 61o 61o 61o 61u 623 623 623 623 623 63a 63a 63a 8pu

From what I know he has only one lobotomizer. (I think he has an arsenic or two as well, but I didn't think of using it in this deck)

Help please :)

Title: Re: Mindgate deck
Post by: ColorlessGreen on October 01, 2013, 03:27:00 pm

Personally I'm not a big fan of rainbow mindgate decks. Generally speaking, I find it better to play a mono and have a whole lot of aether quanta at my disposal to fuel the mindgates (and generally to fuel some dim shields/lightnings/etc as well to keep me alive while getting set up) and rely on the mindgates themselves to produce quanta from the opponents deck. It generally comes pretty quickly when you can activate four different mindgates with your excess of aether quanta and get four copies of a tower or a nova or whatever. This can cause problems when the opponent relies entirely on their mark (or pends) for one type of quanta, but I don't find that comes up as much as I find myself quanta screwed when using a QP/aether split.

If you want to stick with the QP/aether model, I'd recommend dropping the novae and going up to ~10 QPs. Nova's speed isn't going to help you since you're going to be slow and reactive by virtue of the fact that you're using mindgate, and over time (which you have a lot of using a mindgate deck usually) a QP is gonna produce more usable quanta. Also, if you stick with this model, add some more CC (shockwaves, lightnings, rage pots, etc) since you are going to be reactive for the first like 6-7 turns while waiting for enough mindgates and the quanta to use them.

Title: Re: Mindgate deck
Post by: xyan on October 01, 2013, 04:01:24 pm

CG is right about the benefits of using mindgates in monoaether, however you can still run it that way but also use 1/3 to 1/2 of your pillars being QP -- as this helps prevent having no quanta for cards you copy if you cant grab their quanta sources through mindgate. With this idea though, make sure you pack dim shields and phase dragons at least so you have sure forms of damage and protection (as you will be stalling a long time with quanta sources other than aether of your own).