The Eternal Scorpion anti FG deck.

[jallenw]

The Eternal Scorpion (Non-Upgraded)

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I decided to try to make this build a non-upgraded fg farmer.  It seems to work against some of the fgs.  Basically, any of them that do not have perm control or momentum, which isn't very many: Destiny, Elidnis, Ferox,  Fire Queen, Gemini, Incarnate, Miracle, Morte, Neptune, Paradox, Scorpio
I have had a few wins against some of these with this build.  Any comments on how to improve the deck without upgrading would be welcome.

The Eternal Scorpion 1.5

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The idea of a viable poison deck against FGs seemed like a good challenge, so I'm undertaking to get this strategy a viable win percentage.

This is a brand new deck idea of mine and it is UNTESTED.  I am not claiming to be the first to think of this strategy, I am only trying to perfect this strategy. I played a few games against fgs with various version of this build, and it is a WORK IN PROGRESS.

As you can see, it needs many things, such as upgraded time towers, in order to really maximize it's potential. 

The basic idea of the deck is as follows:

Play 1 dune scorpion with momentum in order to get the poisoning started as soon as possible.
Use invincible flying eternities to bounce creatures, forcing the fg to play more cards.
Hide behind a turtle shield, sundials, and shards to survive until the fg dies.

This deck is currently large, however the sundials and hourglasses seem to balance that aspect.  It needs more quanta generation, but my hope is that upgrading the towers will solve that problem.

With the deck as-is I have already defeated several fgs and come close to defeating others. 

There are, of course, several fgs that may be impossible to defeat, such as divine glory.

Here is the current list of cards which have not been added to the deck yet, but might be valuable additions to the build.

Mark of Time instead of Entropy, with Quantum Towers and Pendulums.
Antimatter
Pandemonium
Chaos Power
Butterfly Effect
Bonewall
Firestorm
Purify
Ray of Light (could be used in conjunction with nightmare against some fgs)
Steal
Cloak
Nightmare

Please feel free to give me any suggestions or experiment with the build yourself.

[cookiepirate]

i really don't see why you made this have snovas
quints are useless, quint/momentumed scorpions do 1 counter a turn, thats not worth the 3 cards for the quanta
i suggest making it a duo  / and take out PA, snovas, and quints.
i suck at "refining" decks but this^^^ should make the deck 100000000X better

EDIT: the cards in your list will only make the deck slower/worse

[zse]

Look here
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,17360
and there
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,11715
for Dunes.

[jallenw]

quint is for the flying eternities not the scorps.

zse: I am aware of those other decks.  If I had wanted to copy someone else's build, I would have done so.  I prefer to work on decks of my own design.

It took months of testing and changing for me to build my other FG grinder, I am sure that this deck will need massive retooling as well before it is viable.

[jallenw]

I'm currently changing the deck to attempt a completely non-upgraded version with as few rares as possible.