Owl Sanctuary Unupped Stall

[Contrary]

by Contrary

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I'm sorry for all the spam D:. Here's another deck, hopefully more useful than my last. It's pretty straightforward, Owl's Eyes for damage and CC, Fireflies for damage and quanta, Sanctuaries for healing.

Having some trouble with quanta balance though. It also struggles against other control oriented decks.

[Sevs]

Max damage is 43 in this deck which makes it pretty slow. The healing helps and it does alright in AI3 untill you face the mono aether or sometimes the voodoo and FFQ deck.

What if you transitioned it from being a stall to sort of a rush using the same mechanic?

Like this

by Sevs

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[Contrary]

That looks good but that's a completely different deck. What I want to focus on here is hard creature control through Owl's Eyes and healing from Sanctuaries. Similar to Fire Stall in a way, except with creature damage instead of bolts. You're right, I'm finding that my damage output is consistently low. Maybe I should try to incorporate Wyrms/Dragons?

[majofa]

Adding a Fog Shield can help. Maybe find a way to put a few more Pillars in there?

Another option would be to drop the Fireflies entirely, put in some Pendulums and use 3-5 Azure Dragons.

[Contrary]

I tried all sorts of things, switching up Fireflies for pends, adding Azure Dragons, Golden Dragons. The Fog Shields helps a great deal. I thought that defence against creatures would be unnecessary as the point of this deck is to zap all the creatures, but that's not realistic thinking.

Instead of Fireflies and Flying Weapons, I now have Pendulums and Crusaders. Seems to work a lot better, though the quanta economy is still a bit awkward.

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[Rember]

My suggestion would be wings and a good balance of crusaders/sancs. Seems to be a bit slow unupped, though. By the way the quanta balance on the crusader deck you posted is WAY off.

Something like this?  ???

by Rember

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e: just successfully decked out the rainbow AI3 with this, rofl.

[TribalTrouble]

O.o keeping an eye on this. May be a good idea to use my 3 new Owl's Eyes for together with my upped Crusader
edit: died in 10 turns to the fire/darkness ai3 1st game(no Owl's Eye drawn)
2nd game same ai3 win 14 turns with 2 owl's eyes drawn and 3 crusaders. Barely won with 10 hp left. Why? Steal +Sanctuary= Mass Healing Stall + Mass Rush =_(
3rd game versus air/life(FFQ)Owl's Eye+Crusader+Wings+5 Pendulums first turn . My crusader gets shock waved on sight . 2nd crusader shares the same fate. 3rd crusader gets 2 turn-snipe->shockwaved =(. 3 FFQ out + 5 FFs+hope+Owl's Eye+Tons of quanta= I rage quit lol.
4th game I faced mono aether ai3 and the wings came in really handy when I had 3 cards left and was going to 1 turn kill him when he plays dim shield+wings+dim shield+wings . Yay for mindgate making the ai confused ^^
5th game Light/air gets decimated by my mass snipe.

After these games I think I have to disagree with you Johann. It does take up more hand space but I haven't had a time where it was the only card in my hand nor where it clashed with Owl's Eye. Only the 3rd game would've liked Fog better. Maybe have -1 Wings -1 air pend +1 Fog but other than that meh.

[johannhowitzer]

Fog Shield will be more effective than Wings here, since Wings is more selective and stands a better chance to be entirely ineffective.  Wings is also more costly - clashing with Snipe - and is temporary, requiring more deck space and faster creature kills.

[Contrary]

I agree with Fog Shield over Wings.

Hm. It seems as though this concept is not viable. You know I don't just post every deck I think of- for every one I post there's five other ideas I had abandoned (Black Hole Scorpions, Cat Immolation, Blessed Wardens, Mitosis Crusaders, to name a few). This deck showed really great results the first couple time I tried it, but it seems as if it doesn't have the damage output to be effective.

[Pineapple]

Sanc-OE Deckout:

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It uses owl's eye, it uses sanctuary, it's kinda stall-like.

[TribalTrouble]

Sanc-OE Deckout:

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It uses owl's eye, it uses sanctuary, it's kinda stall-like.

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