Round 2 - Strategy

[Skydaemon]

Strategy discussion thread so that we don't overclutter the deckbuilding one.

Fights:

Demagog - 10 men - dema is entropy's hardest fight, they will use their best deck, I think they give you a flying discord deck similar to what $$$man faced (see test deck thread)
Dreggs - Stinnger - initial thought is that fire uses a poison/bolt deck
Terroking - cebra
$$$man - Immolation - initial thought - time has 3 aether fights, I think they can make 3 quanta denial decks for them if they can, or maybe one poison, for $$$man I think they use the entropy antimatter/devon dragon deck against him, second choice is blessed dune scorps
Korugar - Indrejue
TimerClock14 - gocubbies1212 - aether has 3 time and 2 earth fights this round
coinich - The Dictator
Skydaemon - Ryan666 *** Boosted element event card - they have no hard fights, expect a good deck
Legit - thraexis11 - aether has 3 time and 2 earth fights this round


We got an "easy" round this time, fighting mostly rookies other than demagog.

lieutenants:
nilsieboy
dragoon
implosion
Gl1tch
jumbalumba
jmdt
Amilir
Malduk
Kuroaitou
quantumT
dragoon1140

What our enemies know about Earth Vault after round 1 (all other enemy vault info on other tabs here also, as well as totalenemyvault which is a sum of each card used by every opponent excluding earth decks, and totalvault which is total war card usage stats for all teams including earth):
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tRLJcYOYO7m3u_pXTsxiTCg&authkey=COSNv4QJ#gid=1

Fights Last Round Element Total X 1-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 2-0 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 1-1 0-0 7-2 0-1 X 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 1-1 0-1 1-0 4-5 1-0 0-0 X 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 1-0 0-1 1-1 1-0 0-0 5-4 0-0 1-0 1-1 X 0-1 0-1 0-0 2-0 0-0 1-0 0-1 0-0 5-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-0 X 0-2 1-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-1 2-0 6-3 0-2 0-0 0-0 1-0 2-0 X 0-0 0-0 2-0 1-0 1-0 0-0 7-2 0-1 0-2 1-0 0-0 0-1 0-0 X 1-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 2-0 5-4 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-2 0-1 0-0 0-1 X 1-0 1-1 0-0 0-0 2-7 0-1 0-0 1-0 0-0 0-1 0-2 0-1 0-1 X 0-1 0-0 0-1 1-8 0-0 1-1 1-0 0-1 0-0 0-1 0-0 0-2 1-0 X 0-0 1-0 5-4 1-1 0-1 1-1 1-0 1-0 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 X 1-0 5-4 0-0 1-0 0-1 0-0 0-2 0-0 0-2 0-0 1-0 0-1 0-1 X 2-7

Because of the upped card event bonus.  Here's a list of the elements that used light cards last round and how many.
- None
- 2 hope (fire queen powered)
- 8 holy light, 6 blessing (scorps), 2 miracle
- 6 holy light
- None
- None
- 3 photons, 2 reflective shields
- None
- 14 morningstar, 24 miracle, 4 mirror shield, 8 blessing, 7 holy light, 2 golden dragon, 6 photon
- 2 miracle, 1 morning star, 6 holy light
- 5 morning star, 2 hope, 1 miracle, 3 holy light, 1 golden dragon

So far, the most common non-pillar cards (excluding team earth decks) are:
-poison 55
-deflag 52
-discord 48
-lightning 45
-nova 44
-steal 40

Most common creatures are:
-flying weapon 39 (I'll call this a creature)
-phoenix 38
-graboids 36 (this is excluding team earth decks remember)
-devourer 30
-lycanthrope 28
-abomination 26
-horned frog 24

Most common weapons:
-discord 48
-arsenic 25
-morningstar 20
-owl's eye 18
-titan 18

Most common shields:
-dimensional shield 37
-wings 23
-bone wall 17
-ice shield 19
-procrastination 12
-dissipation shield 11

Interestingly, not a single gravity shield has been played by anybody yet, they're one of our potential banes.

[Skydaemon]

I've been keeping the enemy vault up to date, if you want to see what elements have used so far that's accurate for everything up to and including legit's fight.  Same with the intel threads, all fights you see in those are in the enemy vaults.

Remember, 24 max of same element cards, and 12 max of off element cards.

I've also added a "totalenemyvault" tab.  It automatically sums every card used by all opponents which we know about, if you want to see what's getting a lot of use.

[Legit]

Wow, nice work. This will be crucial for next round. I think I'll just give you karma for all the hard work you've done for this team (And because you have 0).

[Skydaemon]

As of now, the enemy vault and all intel threads are complete with the round 1 battle data.  The statistics in the totalenemyvault should be accurate too.

[TimerClock14]

sky the event cards were removed just earlier you may wanna revise this topic

[Skydaemon]

Thinking about my matchup.

EQs/devourers/discords are a good way to deal with their miracles which will almost certainly be there.  Morningstars and blessed dune scorps are also blocked by wings, the issue with that deck is I need to get them out on the second round somehow, not wait 4 rounds to build up the quanta.  If I end up vs dune scorps, speed in getting the shield up matters.  If it wasn't for the miracles the voodoo deck might've worked.

Something with a protected grav shield and grav pull might work too if it's fast.

Another option is a variant of the immolation golem rush with a couple eq's.  Basically, golems can outgrow miracles eventually, and a set of eq's ought to ensure that. 
-I'd peg SKY1 at a 40% chance of beating dune scorps, and 100% of beating miracle/SS stall deck.
SKY1 Deck (70%):
-adjusted into following during testing
-the purify never prevented losses because the scorps were still there and often in multiples when you use it, better to focus on win conditions like getting cards on the table early
-the novas are effiiciency things, 1 nova+2 immolate = 3 lava golems, which is important if they're potentially rt'ing them

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4vj 4vj 55q 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58u 58u 58u 58u 58u 58u 590 590 590 593 593 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5fa 5fa 5fa 5fa 5faOr a flying discord deck, as the discords mess up the miracles.  Pretty much exactly what terro took minus the upgrades.
-I'd peg SKY2 as a 55-60% chance of beating miracle dune scorps, and 0-5% of beating stall deck.
SKY2 Deck (30%):

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4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vl 4vl 4vl 4vl 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 590 590 590 590 590 590 593 593 5f6 5ia 5oi 5oi 5oiOr maybe a devourer denial: - I think these might both get used by timer and legit.
SKY3 Deck (0%):

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 591 591 591 591 591 591 593 593 593 593 593 593 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5uo 5uo 5up 5upI believe I'll be facing one of these decks:
Deck 1 (50%) blessed dune scorp:

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5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5lf 5lf 5lf 5lf 5li 5li 5li 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rt 5rt 5rt 5rtDeck 2 (40%) eq, ss, miracle deck: I think they use this against time

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58s 58s 58s 58s 593 593 593 593 593 593 594 594 594 594 594 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5lh 5lh 5li 5li 5li 5li 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mqDeck 3 (10%) flying morning star deck: I think they use this against entropy and I'm not sure my opponent has the morningstars to make it

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5f0 5f0 5f0 5f6 5f6 5f6 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5lh 5lh 5lh 5lh 5lh 5lh 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo