My current deck - suggestions / advice please.

[R401JL]

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As I was here doing another post I thought I'd post my deck up and see what everyone thought.  It's my first deck, lovingly and laboriously ground(?) into it's current state which as you can see, is far from fully upgraded.  It seems to work ok, winning more often than not at lvl 5 and most of those being max-wins (but that's empathic bond & miracle for you).

I started off wanting to make a mutation deck and made the silly mistake of filling up on elves and mutations so much that the deck wasn't capable of defending itself.  Anyway, any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

I've had some ideas, like when I get round to upgrading my Oty's I could ditch the plate armour and put a couple of something else in, I just don't know what yet.  I'm defintely thinking of putting parallel universe / twin universe in as you "re-roll" mutants when you clone them.  Tried thorn carapace but it bucks against my antimatters (I don't want to poison the nice -13/5 arctic dragon now do I).  I was thinking of replacing Oty's altogether as they can now be poisoned, but I'm not sure if that "Mammoth" card that may be in developent will make it onto the tables.  The single instances of MindFlayer, Firefly Queen and Anubis were just sort of thrown in but seem to work now and again.  Sorry, I'm rambling, thanks in advance for any help.

[unionruler]

A few elementary problems with this deck. Why do you need 4 fire shields and 4 steals...can't you steal a shield? You don't have enough drawing power--most 60 card rainbows max out sundials and hourglasses. The nova aren't worth their card slots--count on lands to produce quanta for you. And WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU DON'T DRAW THE ANUBIS OR IF IT GETS KILLED? It's your one and only source of quint. I recommend the following modifications:

-3 nova, -1 bone yard, -2 steal, -3 fire shield, -1 mind flayer, -1 fallen elf, -1 plate armor
+2 rain of fire, +2 quintessence, +2 sundial, +2 hourglass, +1 ice shield, +2 bone wall, +1 antimatter

[R401JL]

I should say at this point, I only battle lvl 5's atm, while I grind the deck into some sort of shape.

Thankyou for the feedback, all of this is really good to know.  From my perspective my deck works "okay" so this is exactly the kind of criticism I need.

I can and do steal shields but the steals are also for weapon / artefact theft.   I chose fireshield's because they bring creatures into the Oty's nom range as well as "targeting" creatures with quint.  I could use thorn carapace for the same purpose but I found that impacts on my antimater use.

Only two elves?  The main component of this deck's "raison d'etre" is my amusement, not it's efficiency (I know, I know, I'm a blasphemer) so I want many mutants and often.

As I say the Anubis, Mindflayer and Firefly Queen were just chucked in because I couldn't make up my mind / was "trying out" various aspects to add to the deck.  Without them the deck seems to function fine (but that goes back to my 1st paragraph in this post).

An extra antimatter, of course that's going in, it's my fave card.

Ditch the nova's, yeah I've been toying with the idea for a while but they are handy now and again.

Anyway, thankyou very much for the feedback, I'm off to the trainer to check out some of your suggestions.

[sheno13]

personaly i dont like big decks so if i were you i would try to sortn it up

[Zac33333]

Sell all of it, upgraded first, and build a RoL/Hope fractal deck.

Best descision I ever made. Now I farm FGs easily

[R401JL]

Sell all of it, upgraded first, and build a RoL/Hope fractal deck.

Best descision I ever made. Now I farm FGs easily

I'm really quite averse to playing 'template' decks, I much prefer making my own up for good or ill, yes I'm well aware that my deck is very similar to others, the important thing (to me) is that I made it up myself without reference to other decks.  As for farming FG's, I'm really not that bothered.  I'm here to enjoy the game, enjoy the cards and have fun messing around with the mechanics.  My decks will always be poo because of that but hey, it's only a game right?

personaly i dont like big decks so if i were you i would try to sortn it up

Yes, it is a little unwieldy at times but I can never settle on cards to remove, any suggestions?  Maybe a couple of pillars and a fireshield?

[sheno13]

yeah that is a little hard