Wrote this whole thing up to get stats for my deck, but then realized that the thread I was making this for was a "decks to beat plat" not decks to beat gold. Still, 8-2, and here's the commentary. Unlisted are the two matches where I smashed a Frost Shield deck and a RoL Hope, got a spin, and then right after started tracking stats.
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Match 2: (Win) Rainbow water control. Got my Pharaoh out turn 3 due to low pillar count, but swarmed and ate the Physila’s and the Squids handily. But the deck wasn’t put together that well and didn’t even have Dexterity, way too many quantum towers to support basically nothing.
Match 3: (Win) Light Dragon Oracle card. Didn’t get Pharaoh out until turn 3 or SoR’d until turn 4, but it didn’t matter as this seems to be a wacky stall. It quinted its golden dragon, which normally would be bad but by time it got it out on turn ~7-8 I actually could have eaten it.
Match 4: (Win) Immorush! No Golem’s or Immo’s strangely though, I think I ate everything too fast. Chaos power is an interesting choice, delayed me eating an unupped Phoenix by a turn, which made me almost lose. But thanks to my Gravity pends I could depend on eating more than one thing a turn without burning a SoR on a Scarab, which let me turn ~4 splash 2 more SoR’s onto a Pharaoh to jump up to the 7 HP I needed to eat the 11/6 phoenix. Almost lost to the Farenheit getting tons of fire, but won the race by pulling an exact kill.
Match 5: (Loss) Fire Mark Arctic Squid deck. Now I purposely delayed my Pharaoh here, and then splashed it with two SoR’s on it to jump 4 scarabs onto the field to guarantee the squids would be nommed. But then… flood. o.o Which leads to me having very few slots, and actually slammed me out combined with the Frost Shield giving 2 DR and Freezing my precious few Scarabs. Normally I can get over Frost Shield but not with
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Match 6: (Win) Immorush! For real this time! Eternity pulled its weight here, rewound a 15/9 Lava golem that was just always barely out of nomming range. Which let me eat it, and win with 3 hp.
Match 7: (Win) Air/Light deck, had an owls eye out, but let me say that Turn 3 SoR’d Pharaoh with 5 Scarabs on the field is kind of scary and durable. So when it played its Crusader turn 4 I could grab it, Blessed Elite Queen…. I had to let it sit on the field a turn, and then another blessing made me not eat it the next turn. And that was the last turn since then the comp was dead.
Match 8: (Win) Steam machine Oracle card Aether mark. Contains the bane of the deck, Dimensional Shield. Although the deck had essentially zero offense, and the steam machine was unupped… and there was no fire in the deck anyway. It tried to use SoR’s for that I assume, but those kept getting thrown on the squids. So I waited out 3 Dimensional Shields, and the SoR’s drained the quanta.
Match 9: (Win) Nova deck got no Novas. All I really need to say here. And when it did get ‘a’ Nova it could only play a squid off of it. Um… it played an Antimatter, I guess that’s cool. That scarab healed it twice before getting rewound back into my deck.
Match 10: (Win) Blackhole spam more jerk. Unfortunately HoneyPharaoh don’t give a ****. But maybe the lone Honeycharger should have, got totally nommed up.
