Swallow [Patient Otyugh][Pulled SoFO][Platinum]

[Chapuz]

Plat records:
LOSS - Mono darkness, first turn Drain Life making oty have 3 HP, devourers take all the  .
LOSS - Cremation rush, outrushed and only could play 1 Oty and 1 Sofo, no quanta for GF SoFo.
WIN - Mono darkness, close, 2 SoP stolen.
LOSS - pandemonium lobo'd 2 early Otys and kill an early SoFo.
LOSS - 4 quinted gravy nymphs, 2 quinted SoFos, 3 SoFos killed by Overdrive when just played.
LOSS - Wardens and bone walls.
LOSS - mono darkness, too many early devourers with nightfall.
WIN - mono darkness SoV
LOSS - stolen SoP and too many devourers before I can play an Oty
LOSS - Squid freezing 2 Otys and a SoFo while SoFre air creatures killed me
LOSS - 4 early minor phoenix and a fahren, outrushed.
LOSS - UG rush, 2 early SoFos killed by REs.
WIN - death rush with bone walls.
LOSS - mono death with bone walls.
WIN - speed poison, lucky with the purifies.
LOSS - mono gravity, he had SoFo 1 turn earlier than me and that destroyed me.
WIN - gravity + fire crappy deck
LOSS - Mono darkness, too many cloaks made my GPd SoFo die
WIN - mono air, early SoFo
LOSS - mono light with only nymphs and golden dragons, late SoP
LOSS - Shrieker rush with EQs.
WIN - mono air
LOSS - mono air
LOSS - flying glories
LOSS . mono air
WIN - Ghostmare (that was mean, Faro)
WIN - flying glories
LOSS - Octopy before my Oty
LOSS - fahren, all the SoFos killed as soon as played
WIN - mono Fire
LOSS - Ghostmare, no GP (ban Vangelios)
LOSS - mono darkness
LOSS - armagio + overdrive
WIN - mono darkness
LOSS - early squid
WIN - mono darkness
LOSS - discord + pest
LOSS - DBH
WIN - dune scorp stall
WIN - FFQ


Maybe my luck will increase later...

[AyneSPoV]

Can this deck work with 3 shards of focus and 4 shards of patience?

[dragonsdemesne]

Yeah, that should be fine.  Looking at the original list (4 sof and 3 sop) I think that it might actually work better with 3 focus and 4 patience, because you really need SoP early.  The decks I build around shard of patience I usually use four, anyway.

[rob77dp]

Yeah, that should be fine.  Looking at the original list (4 sof and 3 sop) I think that it might actually work better with 3 focus and 4 patience, because you really need SoP early.  The decks I build around shard of patience I usually use four, anyway.

I concur with dragon on the "yes for 3 SoFo and 4 SoP functionality" here.  Related note: When I switch over from PDials (on the rare occasion where I grind Plat nowadays) to Swallow, I use the OP deck with +1 SoP (so 4 each of SoFo and SoP).  <-- that first (and usually 2nd) SoP is an ASAP need (2nd or 3rd turn)!

[AyneSPoV]

Alright, thanks for the reply.
Other thing, what should I upgrade first? (I can only upgrade 15 cards).

[dragonsdemesne]

Upgrade the otyughs first for sure; they are so much stronger upgraded than not.  After that... I'd probably do pillars/pendulums; those will always be useful.  You can win upped shards from the arena, so I'd recommend not upgrading those.

[matewu]

Hello i tried this deck and love it.

Recently i tried some mod with iridium warden thast i find to have higher winrate (but much lower emrate:( ) against plat.

deck is more rushy, more steady at start at cost of no healing. I will be glad with some tips about it from swallow players

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[CrockettRocket]

-1 gravity tower +1 gravity force

[Jaydos99]

Just switched from PDials to this version of a swallow deck.

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Note: I only had 3 SoF's so I went for 3 SoF's and 5 SoP's. Certainly not the most efficient version of swallow but it still worked which surprised me.  Seems to be weak against RT, Quanta denial due to high cost gravity cards and Aether/Immortal decks.

I like the way that you can change play style quite freely based on the situation and win games that might not have seemed possible in the first few turns (bad draws, rushes etc). I found that turning SoF's into black holes on the last turn helps you get some neat EM's every couple of wins. There seems to be a lot of counter PDials decks so for now I'm going to stick with Swallow.

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[CrockettRocket]

Just switched from PDials to this version of a swallow deck.

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Note: I only had 3 SoF's so I went for 3 SoF's and 5 SoP's. Certainly not the most efficient version of swallow but it still worked which surprised me.  Seems to be weak against RT, Quanta denial due to high cost gravity cards and Aether/Immortal decks.

I like the way that you can change play style quite freely based on the situation and win games that might not have seemed possible in the first few turns (bad draws, rushes etc). I found that turning SoF's into black holes on the last turn helps you get some neat EM's every couple of wins. There seems to be a lot of counter PDials decks so for now I'm going to stick with Swallow.

P.S Don't know how to display deck image as this is my first post on forum also

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There you go buddy.

[raliaris]

I've played tons of games with a Chimera in the place of 1 NT (and also -1 SoF and +1 SoP ) and I feel that it is really useful. It helps bypass annoying shields (especially the tons of Bone Walls that I face in the Arena) and also provides a last - resort means of defense, which can last many turns, because usually it's going to have a lot of hitpoints.
The NT is a useful card, but having 2 copies in this deck is a little too much, in my opinion. There's the draw chance, of course, but most of the times the important thing is to cast an Otyugh, a SoF and a SoP as early as possible. You can still get many EM's with one NT and the shards. I haven't kept stats, but around 40% of my victories are with EM.