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Hyped scorpions hit hard https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=12300.msg153715#msg153715
« on: September 07, 2010, 03:41:05 am »
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? = forest scorpion (upped)

First off, I've never been a :life player.  Never even had a mono :life 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 :life deck by Tdoggg10 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,10995.msg145061#msg145061) which looks serviceable, though I haven't tested it myself.
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Re: Hyped scorpions hit hard https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=12300.msg153770#msg153770
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2010, 06:18:05 am »
I like the idea,  I've been meaning to try momentum adrena scorpions for a while.  I did a staff deck like that before that was very fun.  The problem I find with scorpions is that they need healing to be effectice over other life cards.

SCORG (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,11287.0.html) is the best use of adrenascorpoions I've seen so far.  That deck works quite well.

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Re: Hyped scorpions hit hard https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=12300.msg157823#msg157823
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2010, 02:59:17 pm »
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Re: Hyped scorpions hit hard https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=12300.msg157940#msg157940
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2010, 08:39:04 pm »
Looks very interesting. Not sure if six Unstoppables are necessary, but I'll take a look if I have the time.

 

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