Completely Unupped AI5 grinder, The Sanctuary in the Desert

[TheForbiddenOracle]

by TheForbiddenOracle

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With the introduction of Sanctuary, no longer are SoGs required for Dune Scorpion decks. Strategy is rather simple, play all pillars/pendulums unless the AI has an Earth Mark, then play them one by one to lure out EQ's. After ~5 turns you will start to have an excess of , so play Eternity and start delaying their 2 card draws. Use Hourglasses to get the Dune Scorp + Blessing combo out. If the AI plays diamond shield before you get any poison on them, wait for a second blessing.

Considerations:

- Miracle, useful for electrum and can occasionally help you get an EM. But in the early game, mainly just clogs up your hand, although it can save your life from time to time.
- Sundials, stops incoming swarms AND you can draw with it.

[Rainbowninja]

Kinda reminds me of the level 3 deck of the same principle. Nice deck. Maybe add in a precog or two.

[Minor Vampire]

First Off, this deck is very fun and i'm currently using it as my T50 grind deck. I'm not one for using other's deck and as i did test this into trainer, i took out 2x Hourglasses and added 2x Time Pendulums. I find it more balanced for me since i only need 2 Hourglasses to draw through my deck to find what i need. I was 2x Eternity short but i sub'd those for SoGs til i get 2 more. But overall, it's very interesting and suprisingly fast. thanks for posting

[Pyrodinium]

Very nice deck, You only need one scorpion to pass through and Eternity will take care of the rest

However, I did encounter problems with decking out especially against Water Half-Bloods with generous amounts of Purify.

[Baily18]

Decking out problems? you need 6 time quantum per turn to prevent deckout, just save a dune scorp and rewind it every turn.

[Leo]

Or add a Photon, as I always do (even in my main rainbow deck), decreasing the antideckout cost to 3 .

 

[Pyrodinium]

It seems that + scrop + bless and - 2 hourglass solves the issue.

[TheForbiddenOracle]

Hourglasses are the game changer if you have a bad draw, so I don't want to take 2 out... found this to be effective as well:

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[SriVastra]

I've been playing this deck all morning and I haven't won once.  If they don't smash my scorpions the instant they're played, they just plow through and out damage my sanctuaries, shield or no.  And that's all before I even draw a single Eternity.  Am I missing something?

[TheForbiddenOracle]

I've been playing this deck all morning and I haven't won once.  If they don't smash my scorpions the instant they're played, they just plow through and out damage my sanctuaries, shield or no.  And that's all before I even draw a single Eternity.  Am I missing something?

Well, you only need the scorpions to hit once, and you shouldn't play it unless you can play blessing at the same time

[SriVastra]

Well, you only need the scorpions to hit once, and you shouldn't play it unless you can play blessing at the same time

Yeah, I got that much.  I never played the scorpions without at least one blessing and a guaranteed chance to hit.  The problem was I would get my face bashed in long before the poison did its job.

[TheForbiddenOracle]

Well, you only need the scorpions to hit once, and you shouldn't play it unless you can play blessing at the same time

Yeah, I got that much.  I never played the scorpions without at least one blessing and a guaranteed chance to hit.  The problem was I would get my face bashed in long before the poison did its job.

For this, you may want to add several Sundials to stall, or perhaps even some miracles (see considerations)