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Demongod

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Quality over quantity https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=890.msg9117#msg9117
« Reply #12 on: December 15, 2009, 10:10:14 pm »

Quote from: Dragoon
...more thematic than practical.
The thing is that ALL of the "regular" FG decks are thematic- to the point of being way less effective than they would be otherwise. Imagine Incarnate with a few devourers/steals/drain lifes. Or rainbow with half the hourglasses! Fire Queen with explosions.
Incarnate with steals and drain lifes would still be weak.  Devourers though may or may not absolutely f*** over a rainbow.

As for thematic decks, they are all pretty optimized as it stands.  Rainbow with half the hourglasses would be far easier (I run both pulverizer and eternity in my deck, so I use the steals on the hourglasses to keep her/him from drawing too quickly and overwhelming me).  Rainbow in fact becomes nigh-impossible if you allow the card draw to remain on the table for a while, because then you're plain boned.

Fire queen with destroys would also be pretty easy.  Certainly no harder than Graviton. 

While I haven't faced these FGs (I'm using a 45-card upgraded rainbow...basically the 43 card version with a miracle and pulv thrown in), here's the gist of it:

Quantum denial: there's already a FG for that.  He's called Seism.  If you wanted to make him impossible, just make his deck, throw out the steel golems and replace with electrum hourglasses.  GG.



Evil Hamster

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Quality over quantity https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=890.msg9118#msg9118
« Reply #13 on: December 15, 2009, 10:10:14 pm »

What I meant about half the hourglasses is he would take twice as long to deck out- by far the most common way of beating him. It would also tend- through fewer cards- to make his creature control more effective. He won't gravity pull, freeze then lightning bolt all on the same creature in one turn. Granted- if you can lock him down you might get more kills through outdamaging his miracles, but it would be more of a challenge.

 

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