Game 1: WIN.  With a slightly low quanta draw, I was pretty nervous to start, but I managed to stabilize around 30hp and started healing back my hp via antimatter, and then started killing things with maxwell's.  I also had a turn 4 shield which was very helpful; had I not had that early, I'd probably have lost.  I had to make some key decisions about whether to play antimatter, maxwell, or dragons early on due to quanta shortages, so be careful when you use this deck; in the early game, you have to make the right decisions.  (hint: don't worry about early damage; save the dragons until you've controlled the board)  Maxwell's can kill dragons/frogs, and the titanium shields block the little stuff, leaving only cockatrices that get past both of them.  I got a gnome fairly late, and I was concerned I might deck out, but once I got a gnome and slapped BE on it, I blew up all ferox's bonds and staff, and cruised to an easy win.  It was even an EM!   Not bad for an unupped rareless deck.  This deck might be prone to being outrushed, but once it stabilizes, it should win most of the time, unless it decks out.  Use purple nymphs if you have them.  With a few upgrades, I would use micro abominations instead of gnomes, and a shield or tower shield instead of titanium shield, so that you can make it a mono.  I suppose you could use photons and a shield even unupped.

Game 2: LOSS.  Ferox was just a little bit too fast on this one.  I'm hermesnot sure whether this was smarter than the first version or not; on the one hand, titanium shield > shield, but on the other, entropy mark > earth mark.  As it turned out, in this particular game, because I had a photon and a shield in the first hand, I'd probably have been better off with the earth version.  I ended up having to spend antimatters on cockatrices because he got so many frogs and cockatrices, and then by the time the dragons came out, the maxwell's I'd been picking frogs off with wasn't enough.  I -almost- managed to stabilize my damage, but there were just too many dragons.  One turn he topdecked two of them, and the next he topdecked a third to finish me off; without that one, I might've stabilized in time.

Game 3: LOSS.  I had 2 antimatters, lots of quanta, and 2 maxwell's early.  The problem?  All of the creatures Ferox played were not killable by maxwell's.  I faced down a whole bunch of cockatrices and 1/1s with adrenaline, and didn't get the shield.  The loss was extremely quick.  Had one or two of the cockatrices been dragons, I'd ironically have done better :p

Game 4: WIN.  I used the earth mark version above again, and had no problems at all, despite the fact that the earth mark means I have -less- entropy quanta to do everything.  I AMed the first dragon, which kept me healing from everything else, while demons killed all the frogs.  I even ended up with EM.  Either I'm having godawful RNG with the photon version or very good RNG with the titanium version.

Game 5: LOSS.  Used the titanium shield version.  Ferox won the toss and played his entire hand first turn.  I had a 2 pillar start.  I -almost- stabilized in time, but he topdecked a third jade dragon after I'd maxwelled two away.  With one more pillar or less incredible luck from Ferox and I'd have had an easy win; I had two AM in hand I couldn't play, and I had a titanium shield out after turn 4.  Unfortunately, I was at 15hp facing two cockatrice and a bunch of stuff the shield was blocking; ordinarily, with 2/4 dragons out of the way already thanks to maxwell, I'd have been okay, and I was ready to AM a cockatrice the next turn, but Ferox topdecked that third dragon... I think he only has four, too.  RNG simply hates me... :p  In any event, the deck seems to have potential, and with 50% quanta, the 2 pillar start was unquestionably an anomaly.

Game 6: LOSS.  7 pillar starting hand, and 10/14 in the first 7 turns.  I still ALMOST made it, because the other 4 cards were AMx2, titanium shield, and a gnome.  AM on the two biggest creatures while shield reduced the rest of the damage.  Unfortunately, I kept getting pillars and pillars and pillars, then a dragon and a BE... but no more AMs or any maxwells for CC.  I topdecked a maxwells the turn before I died.  Stupid RNG.

Game 7: LOSS.  (earth version)  6 pillar 1 dragon start.  Got no shields or antimatters all game.  A late maxwell helped me a bit, but it was too little too late.  I drew 2 maxwells, 2 dragons, and the rest was all pillars.

Game 8: WIN.  (earth version)  Pretty typical game on both sides.  I was rather late getting dragons, so the damage took awhile, but I had the game under control thanks to a couple early antimatters.  Demons came along a bit late as well, but I was able to hold off until then between my shield and the antimatters I'd gotten so far.  Ferox didn't get a really fast draw like he sometimes does, but he didn't get a terrible one, either.

Game 9: LOSS (earth version)  1 antimatter was all the CC I drew.  No demons, no other antimatters, no shields.
Game 10: WIN (earth version)  Ferox got a turn 1 epicock (6x tower, cock, epi), but I got a turn 2 antimatter off on it :p  Maxwell's came out right after that and nuked all the frogs and dragons while that cockatrice kept me healed.  I coudn't find a gnome to put BE on, so I ended up AMing my own dragon, casting BE on it, and AMing it again that turn, and using the dragon to destroy the bonds.  I won the game with 12 cards left in my deck, having never drawn any of the earth cards.

Game 10: LOSS (earth version)  Never got any antimatters or titanium shields all game.
Game 12: WIN (dunno where game 11 went, but the record shows 12)  (earth version) Basically got a perfect draw.  Given how important the shield was, I think perhaps room for another titanium shield should be found.
Game 13: WIN (earth version) Pretty straightforward, was never in any danger.
Game 14: WIN (earth version) Ferox got a huge early game, but I played antimatter on the dragon, got the shield out, and he did very little for a long time after that, and I managed to recover nicely.
Game 15: WIN (earth version) Both sides had a slow start, but I won.

Game 1: Loss.  I took majofa's idea and replaced the hourglasses and shockwaves and one pillar with sundials.  The reasoning was that shockwaves do very little for the deck, and that without a time mark and upped hourglasses, the dials will probably draw almost as much over the course of the game, plus give you more stall.  Unfortunately, while I got all my stall elements out, my fractal was somewhere in the last six cards, and Fire Queen OTKed me with all six of her fire lances.  (well, not all in the same turn, but she got all 6 lances and used them all on me over the course of the game)  One less lance, or an earlier fractal, and I'd have been fine.  Using sundials instead of shockwaves was definitely the right call, but it might be better to not replace the hourglasses for the late game to help avoid this situation.  Even so, if it weren't for topdecking all the lances, I'd have had an easy win.  I think this deck should work most of the time.  I'll definitely try it again next time, possibly with -2 dial +2 hourglass or something like that.


Game 2: Win.  I went with -1 sundial -1 dimshield +2 hourglass to get through the deck faster.  Fire Queen had an extremely slow start, so I had absolutely no problems at all winning.  The lances were scary, though; after putting up my first dim around 60hp, I ended up winning with about 20hp due to lances at my face.  My opening hand was 5 quantum pillar, 1 sundial 1 dimshield against an early EE, but fire queen played no creatures at all for the first 6 or 7 turns, so I had pretty much free reign to do whatever I wanted.  Due to the lances being a potential problem (indeed, they are basically the only way this deck can lose) I think I'd recommend dropping a quantum pillar and maybe one other card for something like heal or sanctuary. 


Game 3: LOSS.  -1 pillar, +1 heal.  I had a great hand and good draws.  Lots of dims/dials, lots of quanta, and fire queen started off pretty slowly.  I had everything to OTK rather quickly, except for the fractal.  I kept drawing, and drawing, and drawing, and drawing... and guess where the fractal was?  <sigh>...  Drew my last card, got the fractal :p  Played vulture, fractal, rain of fire, sky blitz.  I did 192 damage, and then decked out next turn.

The shockwaves that majofa had in his version of this deck would've given me the game, but 99% of the time they would've been dead cards.  Not this time... :p  It might well be worth putting one shockwave back in instead of the heal I swapped a pillar for this time, just to get that extra oomph over the finish line for the next time this happens.  Two I think is probably overkill, though.  I had pretty much the worst case scenario possible for number of fireflies on the board (lots of flying EEs out) and was still only 8 damage shy.  One more death was all I needed.

Game 4: WIN.  Added +1 shockwave to the previous deck, for a 31 card deck, as well as to help prevent the problem of last game.  I got a fairly slow start, but fire queen got an even slower one, so even though my bottom three cards were dimshield dimshield and #31 was fractal, I still won.  I didn't need the shockwave.

Game 5: LOSS.  Had a pretty good start, but then I couldn't find my dimshields in time.  The last 4 cards had 2 dimshields and part of my combo; I ended up getting firelanced and EEed to death.

Game 6: WIN.  Couldn't find the hourglasses or the sky blitz, and after a nasty scare where I was almost OTKed by firelances, I decided to try and do a two turn kill by playing vulture fractal rof and going with ~150 damage on the board, because if I didn't, and fire queen topdecked another lance, I was screwed.  It worked out in the end.

Game 7: LOSS.  Firelanced to death because rain of fire was in the bottom 3 cards.

Game 8: LOSS.  I'm starting to get -really- pissed off with this deck.  1 dimshield all game with 11 cards to go, and ended up losing with 3 sundials in hand because I didn't have any time quanta to play them.  Next time I'm going to try and design something new, because this clearly isn't working.

Game 9: LOSS.  Modded the deck slightly to try and increase my chances.  Removed all dimshields, went up to 6 dials, went to mark of time and more hourglasses to try and keep the sundial chain going all game, and then with the shield slot free, added reflective shields to prevent the firelance OTKs that seem to happen all too frequently while trying to complete the combo.  Everything went perfectly according to plan, until I got down to 1 card left in my deck, and discovered that I did not have enough death quanta to play all the vultures I had in hand, and fire queen hadn't filled his field up with fireflies yet because there hadn't been as many turns, so I couldn't make the kill.  (I'd also been rather iffy on air quanta, having only 3 air for several turns in a row, and then finally getting enough air for sky blitz at the last second)

Game 10: LOSS.  I had everything I needed... except air quanta to sky blitz.  Fahrenheit got past my dials.

Game 1: WIN.  I had several ideas for a deck here, from dimshields to wings to otyughs to liquid antimatter, and when I saw majofa had done liquid antimatter, I figured that would be a good place to start.  Based on how things played out, I think the only way you can lose is if you bottomdeck all the nymph's tears.  I got a weak draw with 4/5 of the obsidian pillars early (and so less entropy quanta) but I still had a nymph's tears early, and one purple nymph dominated the game.  Just remember not to use liquid shadow too early on AMed spiders; you want to keep some healing you, particularly at the beginning.  Keep steals for electrocutors.  I didn't have to steal an electrocutor that game, so I stole a dimshield on the last turn when he had 12hp and I had 4 nymphs out.  I also got an EM, which should happen most of the time, I think.

Game 2: WIN.  Lots of NT, pends, and steals to start, but no obsidian pillars for awhile; an early lobo would have been tough to overcome, but Gemini didn't get one until it was far too late.  Pretty easy win; it was also an EM.

Game 3: LOSS.  Gemini wins coin toss, plays turn 1 lobotomizer.  No steals.  GG.

Game 4: WIN.  Gemini had a 1 gravity tower start, which meant that no massive dragons came out for a long time.  This resulted in me dominating the board with my nice hand, but failing to do much damage with LS spiders in the meantime, and dimshields blocked my nymphs.   I was worried I'd deck out, but finally Gemini got a 2nd gravity tower and managed to get a dragon out, which with LS helped kill him in the end.  I think I had about 4 cards left in deck, one of which was a steal.

Game 5: WIN.  Easy game; everything went according to plan.  Slightly slower due to a lack of early obsidian pillars, but the purple nymph kept everything under control.

Game 6: WIN.  Gemini's early spider rush was a bit scary, but nymph's tears came out in time for purple nymph, and it was straightforward after that.

Game 7: WIN.  Took a long time to get obsidian pillars, but gemini never got lobotomizer, so despite taking 20+ turns to win, I was in no danger.
Game 8: LOSS.  Gemini came out swinging unbelievably fast.  Four spiders and an immortal, and I just couldn't antimatter everything in time, despite having a decent hand.  Was down to like 60 by the time my purple nymph came online, and it -almost- saved me, but I ended up at 3 entropy on the last turn, and couldn't AM one more thing to buy more time.
Game 9: WIN.  Very easy.  Got an EM.
Game 10: WIN.  Spider spam early nearly got me, but purple nymphs stopped them in time.
Game 11: WIN.  Easy win.

Game 1: (blessed otyughs) LOSS.  Several people at the end of the graviton strategy thread recommended this.  I found it to be too slow, although admittedly I had a 1 pillar + 1 pend draw, so it took until turn 4 to get an otyugh out.  However, I don't think it has much of a chance, so I'll be looking for something else next time.


Game 2: (rainbow control with flayers) LOSS.  Taken from majofa's strategy thread, but added more quanta because it was really quanta light, and added gravity shields because they're really good against him.  (majofa had steals for graviton's shield, but he only has 2 in the deck so it isn't reliable)  I got 1 pillar all game, so I don't know if the deck even works.  I suspect it's probably too slow, but I might give it another try, since thais game was a joke.  -1 flayer -1 hourglass and probably -1 quint, for +3 quantum pillars, would likely be a good start.


Game 3: (modded rainbow control with flayers) LOSS.  I had a turn 3 quinted flayer, and I loboed everything like a boss.  However, because I took the steals out, when Titan hit the field, it killed me before my flayers + quinted fire spirit could do the same.  I'd added the lightnings, but they weren't needed at all.  Next time I will drop the lightning, add the steals back, and everything should be good to go.  I'll probably get rid of the antimatter as well; it's expensive at an 8 cost, and with a gravity shield or wings out, nothing can get through to heal you anyway, unless it has momentum, and if the flayers are doing their job, then they've loboed everything.


Game 4: LOSS.  I tried to fix the weaknesses of the game 3 deck, but I never got a steal or an hourglass, and my 2nd water quanta took forever to get, so my quinted flayer was late.  I got a wings but it was exploded.  Complete blowout; lost in like 7 turns.


Game 5: LOSS.  Planned on auburns to stall, dry spells to get past gravity shield (though firestorm helped there) but it was simply too slow, though much better than any of the decks I've tried so far.  I got him down to around 130.  It also went a bit slow because my first hand had 3x stone pillars and 1x water pillar, so it took awhile to get a nymph out, and the first one was hit with gravity pull.  Graviton unexpectedly helped me get past his gravity shield by firestorming my field, but I just didn't have enough quanta and auburns to keep everything at bay all the time, and when titan hit the field, I had no answer for it.

Game 6: LOSS.  Dropped the dry spells that were originally intended to bypass gravity shield by damaging my own nymphs (graviton will do this for you with fire storm) and 2 pillars and added 4 purifies, to help counteract a titan after getting an auburn lock down.  I had the supreme misfortune to draw in this short 8 turn game all four purifies, lots of pillars, and no tears whatsoever.

Game 7: LOSS.  I got pretty much an ideal draw against an extremely bad graviton draw, and still lost.  This has no chance.

Game 1: LOSS.  I made two major miscalculations when deciding upon this deck.  1) Rage elixirs do 6 damage, not 5.  2) Hecate will use liquid shadow as CC.  I also failed to draw any freezes at all.  Do not use this deck.


Game 2: LOSS.  I'd been thinking this would be a good idea, and majofa was kind/prescient enough to provide a sample build in his threads.  Unfortunately, as it turns out, it's too slow.  I lost in 5 turns even with a 12 attack vamped doll on my side.  I did have only a 2 pend start, but I did topdeck a couple more.  The deck will probably get some wins, but it's not in the solid category of 'counter deck' that I want for this thread.

Game 3: LOSS.  I tried the PA gravity shield thing again, but loaded up with colossal dragons, since the AI won't try to kill them with rage potions.  Turns out that even with a turn 3 PAed gravity shield, I still lost terribly.  I took loads of damage from the voodoo dolls poison/raging, and an extremely early dusk/dagger meant that even with 3 early dragons out, the AI got an EM against me.

Game 4: WIN.  Tried the PU/AM deck again, and I got basically the perfect draw.  Just enough quanta, and several AMs/PUs meant that I had enough vampiric stuff to keep alive, while that and the LS/AM combo helped slowly get Hecate's hp down, despite the healing from his dagger, the poison, and the nonAMed dolls.