Swarm of Ants (aether/earth)

[godofdeath500]

Just for fun, but effective, nonetheless.

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Came up with this idea while thinking and listening to music (thank you Issues). It surprisingly works good against AI3 and somewhat against AI4, sadly, I don't know the Arena stats because I had to make this Trainer edit.

Ants are pretty strong and tough hitters for only  (4/4), which means in a pinch, you can fractal them and play all of them for pretty massive damage output. I'm surprised a search didn't turn up anything similar or otherwise. Gnomes are unupped so they don't mess with the already fragile RNG in this deck, which for some reasons likes to start you out with only 1 or 2 pends every game... Huh.

Spoiler for Basic Strategy:

Play as normal until you can Fractal Gnomes. Block damage with Diamond shield until you get enough quanta to fractal either Ants or Golems, depending on the situation.

[andretimpa]

guards and phoenixes are similar fractal targets, using different cards around the combo (chargers, explosion, immo). For some reason antliontal is regarded as a silly deck. Do you really need to fractal gnomes first?

[godofdeath500]

guards and phoenixes are similar fractal targets, using different cards around the combo (chargers, explosion, immo). For some reason antliontal is regarded as a silly deck. Do you really need to fractal gnomes first?

I've found that it helps with the speed, but you don't necessarily HAVE to. I put that because in my testing of it, on average, fractaling Gnomes first led to 8-10 turn games, whereas Antlions led to 11-13.

And I have heard of guardtal, but never seen an effective antliontal. Hence this.

[Zawadx]

Antliontal never sees competitive play because Fractix and Gravytal are straight up better. The former can rush faster with immo or splash in fire card, while the latter has a strong lategame with chargertal. Both also have ways around shields. If you're forced to use Earth/Aether as a duo, Golemtal provides a strong deck.

[godofdeath500]

Antliontal never sees competitive play because Fractix and Gravytal are straight up better. The former can rush faster with immo or splash in fire card, while the latter has a strong lategame with chargertal. Both also have ways around shields. If you're forced to use Earth/Aether as a duo, Golemtal provides a strong deck.

I'll just modify this to be a *not so* fun deck, then.