Shrieking Gemfinders

[Xelax]

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Idea is to fractal the gemfinders a couple of times, until you're spamming out Earth quanta like nobody's business. Then you can get out about 10/15 Shriekers or Golems, and start dealing a load of damage! Fun times!

I know it's not exactly original, but I hadn't reeeeally seen it done with Earth, and I hadn't seen *anyone* use Gemfinders in a deck. So I thought I would. You could reproduce it almost exactly with Air and Damselflies, although obviously there are some differences. Anyways. Thoughts?

[jmdt]

This looks quite interesting. Especially with the granite skin / phase shield combination.  2 SoG coulld be useful for potential 250 hp EM's with this deck

[wavedash]

SoGs could really help. Perhaps replacing the Thunderbolts could work?

[Xelax]

I hadn't actually considered SoGs- for some reason I always tend to overlook them.
I put the Lightnings in just for a little bit of base CC just to make sure you can survive long enough for the 50 quanta needed for Granite Skin. I'll have a mess around with SoGs though- thanks jmdt and wavedash

[Kuross]

Is an interesting idea... perhaps drop the shreiker and 2 bolts for 3 Sogs? Shreiker could mess with your Earth Quanta base if you fractal a lot of them and the CC, though nice, could be offset by the Sogs anyway.

Out of curiosity, I am assuming you are going for PvP here. Am I right?

[Xelax]

Is an interesting idea... perhaps drop the shreiker and 2 bolts for 3 Sogs? Shreiker could mess with your Earth Quanta base if you fractal a lot of them and the CC, though nice, could be offset by the Sogs anyway.

Out of curiosity, I am assuming you are going for PvP here. Am I right?

It works well on AI3, okayish on AI5, but yeah the plan would be PVP. That's the annoying thing about trainer- you can't test on other players, even pvp duel, and I wasn't going to make the deck myself because if it didn't work, who wants 6 Gemfinders?
I might put that in the suggestions actually.

The idea for the Shrieker was so you had a choice for high level damage if you had a lot of quanta, or low level if you're a bit short, with the Golems. Maybe just sticking with the golems is an idea.

Anyway, the main feedback coming through is SoGs, so I'll see my way to sticking them in

[Xelax]

I originally had pendulums in here- a couple of Earth Pendulums and an Aether Mark, but I was advised to change mark and just forget the Pendulums. I'm wondering whether to put them back in, just for the times where the Gnomeriders don't come and you have to play something or discard. Whaddaya reckon?