Pharaoh's Shadows

[blueberrymania]

Okay, so here's my most recent deck. Its till under testing, but looks like it will work out fine, since it won against an aether that had quantum pillars, dim shields, and mind gate.

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5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5ro 5rs 5rs 5rs 5rs 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5uu 5uu 5uu 5uu 5uu 5uu 8pt

Its one potential weakness that I can see is lobotomy skill.

Basic strategy: Play pharaohs as quickly as possible. Once you have three scarabs on field, start using liquid darkness on them. MAKE SURE YOU ADD AT LEAST ONE SCARAB PER TURN.


Strategy against dim shield: Use eternity's reverse time function to prevent your opponent from obtaining dim shields.

Testing stats:

PVP1: 1 win/0 loss by death/0 loss on cards
PVP2: 5 win/4 loss by death/0 loss on cards
bronze: 2 win/1 loss by death/0 loss on cards
level 4: 0 win/2 loss by death/0 loss on cards
false god: 0 win/2 loss by death/0 loss on cards

Once testing of this root strategy is done, I'll post the modified deck and start testing it. However, this deck still needs quite a bit more testing.

[Calindu]

Wat? Liquit Shadow on 2 attack creatures? With no way to eat anything?

[blueberrymania]

@Gandora the steals are a good idea.

@Calindu Liquid Shadow is for vampire trait. And the scarabs don't die because you just keep adding more.

[omegareaper7]

@Gandora the steals are a good idea.

@Calindu Liquid Shadow is for vampire trait. And the scarabs don't die because you just keep adding more.

2 attack vampires for 2 cards.... you might as well just use minor vampire, same attack, less cost.

[furballdn]

@Gandora the steals are a good idea.

@Calindu Liquid Shadow is for vampire trait. And the scarabs don't die because you just keep adding more.

2 attack vampires for 2 cards.... you might as well just use minor vampire, same attack, less cost.

He could cast them on the Pharaohs! 2 cards + 4 + 9 for a 4 attack vampire!

Your combo is too complicated and inefficient. If you had the LS there for CC it would be one thing, but attempting to use LS for healing in this deck is like putting a Holy Light in an immorush in the hopes of EM. Honestly, you're better off running cloak instead of LS. Cloak costs less and protects your creatures from threats like being devoured, early CC, or lobo

[blueberrymania]

yeah, but if cast on pharaohs, pharaohs would die.

[furballdn]

yeah, but if cast on pharaohs, pharaohs would die.

With 9 hp, they wouldn't die for a long time. 9 whole turns is way more than how long most games last.

Regardless of how you cut it, using LS on pharaohs or scarabs is not a good idea. It's just too impractical. The trouble that you have to go through doesn't even bring about a tenth of what you put in.

[rob77dp]

Maybe a 'better' idea for spells used on scarabs is Acceleration or Overdrive...?  Gravity goes with the devour skill (of the non-accel'd scarabs for CC against opponent) and as long as you add one scarab every turn the accel/OD won't kill its target - only increase the ATK.

[neuroleptics]

well, the fact that you tried to create a new deck worth commendation. But given that this deck doesn't seem anywhere near efficient, you could have posted in deck help section instead of putting it here. Lot's of newbies would follow blindly and got frustrated later.
If you want to prove the efficiency of this deck, you could have provided a minimum statistic of 20-30 matches (for me it's sufficient).
I think the deck is slow. Any information on TTW? this deck don't look like stall either....so, i would say it's hanging in the balance; either win because of week opponent or rng. The eternity could have been doubled and one last thing, a mere healing of 2hp, using 4  is meh. Perhaps modified your deck a little using other cards? 

[blueberrymania]

I guess you're right that it still needs plenty of work, but may i point out that newbies probably don't HAVE pharaohs?

[neuroleptics]

I guess you're right that it still needs plenty of work, but may i point out that newbies probably don't HAVE pharaohs?

That depends how you term newbies, most grind AI3 and i did that last time and got my 5th pharoah in a day. Maybe you could try some shards.  Shards make the deck different and give rise to many new deck strategies

[treebeard xiii]

I guess you're right that it still needs plenty of work, but may i point out that newbies probably don't HAVE pharaohs?

actually pharoah are quite easy to get with a level 3 with them and most of the time using hbs have them having pharoahs is not something surprising i got 6 pharoahs long before 6 of any other rare and i definately got 12 long bofore 12 of any other rare.