Collection of Blacksmith's favorite duo's
Throughout my days I've stumbled over many good duos. At first I wanted to make a compilation of them but since I like the decks so much I think each one of them deserves their own thread.
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Game areas and staticsPvp: It's evil, it's good, and not so fun not face.
Ai4: It has a good win rate vs ai4 like 60% problem is the extra card draw.
Bronze: Yes would do this easily.
Silver: Around 60% win rate I guess
Gold: Can't be much more than 30%
Average ttw vs ai3: ≈ 14 It's slow since it's very denial before damage builds up
If anyone like to I'd be very happy to have some more exact testing with this deck^
Game playWhen shard wore color less you could get a sofo first turn almost any game in this deck you get a sofo second turn 80% of the times and first turn 10% of the times. When you got a sofo destroy things as fast as possible.( best target is often pillar/pends ) Play fire eater when possible and gp when needed.
Tactics and combosThe combos are pretty simple:
- Play gp on sofo when needed.
- Use rage pot on opponents stuff when needed and on sofo when you can. A pro tip can be not to play rage pot on opponents stuff when you got a gp on a sofo, sometimes it can be good it taking damage so you can use ability more often.
Card by card usages and alternate versions- Sofo: It's evil, very evil, use it as damage defence and shield in this deck. I don't really think I need to say more about it.
- Red nymph: I only play 3( I also only got 3 ) since it has fairly strong def and when you play it rarely dies. Les then 3 could make the deck a bit unstable and lower the ttw pretty much.
- Fire eater: You very rarely see this fellow being played. It's not a bad card actually it's just out concurred by other cards.( personally I think the upped one should do 3 damage )Anyhow I think the card is better than a normal pillar in this deck since there are another better targets for CC in this deck and it needs all damage it can get.
- Gravity pends: I know that the deck is a little bit over quantaed and thats because you really want a second turn sofo. This also means that a version with gravity mark and fire pends would do much worse.
- Gravity pull: Works so very good with sofo but you can also use it as CC on your opponents creatures. It's the only CC card than can destroy a flying titan. I only play 3 in this deck but I think adding 1 for a pend would be ok too.
Optional cards- Amber nymph: When facing rainbows and some other decks amber nymph can be very helpful for both em and complete lockdown. I use to play those decks with -1 gravity pend and +1 amber nymph. In my opinion it's just as good or even better with it.
Upgrade priority- Gravity pends: Since you want sofo as fast as possible, with un upped ones you will get it turn 4 instead of turn 3
- Sofo: Since it's cheaper
- Fire eater:Actually it's useless un upped in this deck, if you don't have it play fire pillar/pends instead.
- Red nymph:I actually prefer red nymphs in this deck, stronger rage potion is very good, however I don't I won't upped my red nymphs until I have 6+ of them.
- Gravity pull:Doesn't really matter but it's cool to have deck fully upped
Dictionaryrage pot= can both be rage pot or red nymphs ability.
ttw=turn to win
CC=Card control
At last I would like to say thank you t acasibi. I've thought about making these threads for a logn time but I knew it would take time therefore I never did. However your words in chat the other day motivated me to do this. Also thank you to Afdarenty for checking for errors.
