the Embodiment of Septic Devil

[Basman-1453]

What the heck it's composed of?

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What the heck it's named after?
the Embodiment of Scarlet Devil, the sixth cardinal Touhou game.

(Protip: If you're pissed off with my bizarre deck names, why don't ya design an effective, efficient, and fun deck, then give the deck you designed even more bizarre name just to piss me off? )


What the heck is its agenda?

• Get Nymph Queen (NQ).
• Have the NQ summon more NQ and Grey Nymph (GN).
• Have the GN afla enemy units.
• Have the shield block resulting Malignant Cells.
• ?
• Profit~

How to use this deck?
This deck is comprised of two parts, the 'rushy' part (since it feels more a domination deck than a rush deck ^^;) and the afla part.

For the 'rushy' part, get a bottle of Nymph's Tears, cast it on a Water Pillar to get a NQ, then start using her to summon more lackeys. Keep a few pillars and pends in the field (I usually keep 2 pillar and 2 pends) to fuel, primarily, the NQ's ability.

For the afla part, you'll need a GN and, ideally, a shield ready. Have the GN poison the enemy unit with her ability (which, for all purposes, have the same effects as the alchemy spell Aflatoxin). Then, once it turns to a Malignant Cell, shield it (so that it can safely multiply) or poison it again if you don't have the shield (so that it won't overwhelm you).


What should I watch out for?
Due to the nymphs' thick HP, most damaging CC don't do much against the NQ's 5/6 frame (nevermind GN's 7/8). However, that also means that Gravity Shields are going to be a problem. Consider afla-ing your own units to get around the shield.

Watch out for Emphatic Bonds, too. Careless usage of aflatoxin is going to benefit your enemy more than you with a few of them on their field.

Reverse Time can be problematic since all your units costs 8   to summon normally.

Otherwise, it'd be most of the list of watchout-if-you-rush suspects: Antimatter (fell free to afla the victim in question), Purple Nymph (feel free to afla the nymph in question), opposing rush/growing units (afla them too), et cetera.


I think this deck can use a bit more modifications!
Feel free to tweak the deck a bit (tweak it too much, and you'll need to follow its agenda rather than this deck's). Possible modifications to the deck may include, but not limited to~

• swapping a few pends with pillars
• swapping Ice Shields with Skull Shields
• a Plague/Dry Spell or two (A word of caution: Dry Spell affects your side of the field too)

[JonathanCrazyJ]

Since death nymph abilities aren't expensive, I would say -2 to 3 pends +2 to 3 water pillars.

Your Water pillars can be split between pillars and pendulums. Earthquake ruins nymph decks, do everything you can to break up your quanta producers.

You need all your water quanta for nymphs, deffo skull shields rather than ice.

Maybe 2 dry spell isn't the worst idea but hard to know without testing. i would say it would just clog your hand in early game.

[Chapuz]

There are several duo pillar + NT decks. My favourite one is with Fire Pendulums, because the Nymphs can be used either as CC or to make it rushier.

[Basman-1453]

Since death nymph abilities aren't expensive, I would say -2 to 3 pends +2 to 3 water pillars.
The punchline there wasn't as much for keeping up with their costs as to exploit their offensive prowess (7 attack for practically 4 is quite the bargain, y'see).

Your Water pillars can be split between pillars and pendulums. Earthquake ruins nymph decks, do everything you can to break up your quanta producers.
Noted. The reason why I didn't put water pends was more because you can mistakenly thought them to be death pends (or vice versa).

You need all your water quanta for nymphs, deffo skull shields rather than ice.
Not exactly that much, but I must agree that skull shields are a quite viable alternative to ice shields.

Maybe 2 dry spell isn't the worst idea but hard to know without testing. i would say it would just clog your hand in early game.
I must admit that I have yet to test variants with Plague or Dry Spell. I clumped 'em there just for the mass CC.

[Faro]

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I used it a lot against bronze.

afla + volture + skull shield + dry spell = OP

[Basman-1453]

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I used it a lot against bronze.

afla + volture + skull shield + dry spell = OP
... provided the vulture have withessed that first blood (otherwise they'll succumb to Dry Spell as well, since DS also affects your side of the field). ^^;

[Faro]

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I used it a lot against bronze.

afla + volture + skull shield + dry spell = OP
... provided the vulture have withessed that first blood (otherwise they'll succumb to Dry Spell as well, since DS also affects your side of the field). ^^;

I know, I did that mistake too... 
but once you have a Gray Nymph out you kill almost everything, it's only a matter of timing the Voltures