So I was somewhat bored, so I decided to take the light element and make a duo deck with every single element. All decks have at least a 50% win rate in unupgraded PvP. And I strove for unique deck designs. This took me two days. However, almost all these decks require a skilled player, because good timing is almost everything with these decks, you'll see why.
Advice as to how to improve these decks without changing the premise or core strategy appreciated.
Arrows of Light Hover over cards for details, click for permalink
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Blessings of FamineHover over cards for details, click for permalink
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Light of the Universe
Light of the UniverseHover over cards for details, click for permalink
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Ashes of HeavenHover over cards for details, click for permalink
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Perhaps if I am facing a creature control via poison, I might do that in order to maintain a longer damage average since when the ashes get poison too high, I could turn them into phoenixes, getting myself a phoenix with an attack of 12.
Surprisingly versatile since the rage potions also work as creature control.
Abominable HopeHover over cards for details, click for permalink
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Anyway, you play luciferin, gather the light needed for hope, play hope and you are gold. This deck had an almost 100% winning rate in unupgraded PvP. Its weakness is really just against magic like lightning bolt, fire bolt and such. Otherwise it has at least mediocre success.
I really liked this deck.
RedemptionHover over cards for details, click for permalink
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Anyway, gist of the strategy is this. You play the boneyards, photons and deathstalkers, I usually luciferin the photons for a quick source of light, but it is often better not to if your suspect rain of fire or thunderstorm. Anyway, it just takes three turns at most to get enough to bless a death stalker. Of course death stalkers are prime targets for creature control. But usually they get at least one hit in for two poison. They die and you get some skeletons, preferably at least two. When you think you have enough skeletons/photons, you luciferin then hope, and just wait out for the poison to strike the coup de grace, perhaps blessing a lighted photon/skeleton to hasten the process and get some longevity.
GlowstoneHover over cards for details, click for permalink
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Strobe LightsHover over cards for details, click for permalink
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The Dragon WeepsHover over cards for details, click for permalink
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However, the white nymph, has stats 8/8, making it extremely powerful. So what you do is first you play those Blue Crawlers, after that you turn the pendulums into nymphs, you use the free lucifer ability to turn those crawlers into light generating creatures. Then just play the dragons and tears as needed. Purify is the only defense, but for some reason, that didn't hurt this too much.
Particle-Wave DualityHover over cards for details, click for permalink
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But its the sundials that really make the deal, allowing one to get plenty of tiime to build up the quanta and cards needed to pull it off.
Fallen AngelsHover over cards for details, click for permalink
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Edison’s EnigmaHover over cards for details, click for permalink
5lf 5lf 5lf 5lf 5lf 5lf 5lj 5lj 5lj 5lk 5lk 61p 61p 61p 61p 61p 61r 61r 61r 61r 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pqBless the sparks, parallel universe the sparks, lucifer the sparks hope defense. Simple but rather effective. Parallel universe gives you some much needed flexibility. You need to think hard though about how you distribute the blessings. You could use them mostly on a single spark getting you a handful of really powerful and hard to kill sparks. But that weakens your hope and takes some extra time. Where as just blessing every spark in your hand can get your hope up and effective fast.
