CC Graboid Rush

[genraenera]

My twist on the standard graboid/shrieker rush:

by genraenera

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Its a pretty simple deck, and crushes anything with 100 health, I designed it as my first pvp deck.

2x Longsword:  6 damage for 1 quanta?  A no brainer.  (highest damage:cost ratio in the game)
12x Stone Tower:  Quanta, and just the right amount.
6x Elite Graboid:  Your main source of damage, at a relatively small cost.
4x Elite Shrieker:  Your other main source of damage.  There are 4 instead of 6 because they cost a good bit of quanta to play, you dont want 5 of these in your opening hand.
6x Basilisk Blood:  1 earth quanta for 6 turns down and out, the perfect form of CC.

I'm thinking of working in 2 diamond shields, but then I'd have to take out something... and to be honest I love the deck as is.  Its only major weakness is permanent-heavy decks, seeing as earth has no perm control without gravity mark.  Against other rush decks it will win pretty consistently seeing as you can completely disable their first 2-4 creatures with BB.  Any comments/advice/criticism is welcome.


Edit:
I wanted to check and see when you can only play either a graboid or a long sword (you have both but only 3 quanta), which is the better play.
Turn:                1      2      3      4      5      6
Longsword:       6      12    18    24    30    36
Graboid:           2      12    22    32    42    52
Ok clearly Graboid is the better choice.  Problem solved 

Something to remember if you make this deck, you can BB your own shrieker if it becomes antimattered, avoiding the +5 hp per turn to your foe.

[Terroking]

Looks like a solid deck. I too, find Basilisk Bloods as one of the best control cards in the game.

But...

Shouldn't this be in the Mono section?

[karthikking]

He probably considered the time ability to make it non mono

[genraenera]

Yeah I figured it was technically a duo because of the time ability/mark, but whatever.

If this is supposed to be in the mono section, someone move it for me 

[bigbadbanana]

Very solid looking deck. I like it.

[jmdt]

I'm thinking of working in 2 diamond shields, but then I'd have to take out something... and to be honest I love the deck as is.

I tested the QI, and you can get away with -1 tower + 1 diamond shield or + 1 shrieker if you want to.

[genraenera]

Well, I'm not having too much excess quanta at any point in the game, even on my last turn i rarely have over 10 earth quanta.  I really don't want to have to take out a tower, 12 seems to be the minimum for this deck to be crazy fast while also keeping your foe's offense at bay for a good 5 turns.

I'm definitely not adding in another shrieker, its bad enough having 3-4 of them in my starting hand on occasion.

I think I'm gonna keep the deck as is for now, seeing as It usually kills in ~6 turns, which conveniently is how long BB keeps enemies delayed