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? = forest scorpion (upped)First off, I've never been a
player. Never even had a mono
rush deck. I'm not a hater, I just always found something else more interesting at the time. But I got onto this kick of trying to build a different kind of T50 killer poison deck with the new cards, or old cards with new buffs. The problem is I kept having to juggle multiple elements in a compact deck which never worked as elegantly as I'd like. Deathstalkers require a buff just to get in the game, puffer fish are costly, dune scorpions have a habit of not showing up early in the game and still needs a buff. The advantage to the forest scorpion are 2-fold: it has base attack (i.e., works right out-of-the-box) and it has adrenaline within its element. But forest scorpion's poison is only added 2 out of 4 turns and the base attack is only 2, so for card cost and damage considerations, the frog is a better choice (upped = 5+4+2, unupped = 3+3+3+3) vs upped scorpion (2+2+2+2). Add an opposing shield and the frog advantage widens.
So I decided to add a trick from the deathstalker decks I'd been playing and use unstoppable as a buff to forest scorpions. The advantages are 2 fold: the base attack becomes 3, so now you can hit the sweet spot of adrenaline with maximized attacks AND you avoid shield altogether.
NOTES:
-When this deck goes off, it's quite frightening. By turn 3 or 4 you can have 2 scorpions dealing 24 direct + 4 poison damage.
-Otyugh, eternity, thorn carapce, fire buckler and antimatter are not your friends.
-Dragons were more of an afterthought than an essential component, but I figured since you'll have plenty of quanta, might as well pick something with punch outside of otyugh range.
-The shield is unupped on purpose--I wanted every opposing creature to get poisoned (even artic octopi.)
Please try it out--tell me what you like and what needs work.
*EDIT: Disclaimer: After filling this post, I found a similar deck in the deck help section created independently by manaboy100 (
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,11202.msg147326#msg147326). It's a bit bigger and I think probably suffers from not getting the poison applied fast enough, but you can judge for yourself. I also found a mono
deck by Tdoggg10 (
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,10995.msg145061#msg145061) which looks serviceable, though I haven't tested it myself.