FG: Dark Ages theme - Petrarch

[gavsword]

Petrarch

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Name: Petrarch. After the Italian scholar, Francesco Petrarca, the first to coin the term "Dark Ages"

Crusaders + Firemasters: both look a lot like knights, both fit the aggressive theme of this deck

Titan: Gives crusaders momentum, very powerful and great synergy with other cards in this deck like catapult

Catapult: Duh. Siege weapon.

Fire buckler: Can't have war without some shields

Explosions: Yes. Boom. Explosions are fun.

So it's fun to play with, I can see a lot of potential in here. Any suggestions would be appreciated. If anyone thinks I should try to write a story for this I can, but don't feel like especially cause I'm not too skilled of a writer.

Matchups:
RoL/Hope: The Firemasters can be flung, momentum crusaders are EVIL.

CCYB: Depends on the hand. Antimatter slows it down a lot, but if this deck has a very fast start its very hard to recover from. Pulvy doesnt really hurt this deck too bad because most of the time the titans are being animated. Also if things get close the AI flings the titans and can handle it

Shak'ars revenge: Momentum usually beats it because the Dolls wont take damage from your heavy hitters, no crusader + titan then vengeance is theirs but, firemasters aren't usually fast enough for this combo to really backfire.

Fractal Pests: Really depends on how quickly either goes off. If you suppress them down to the point where they only have firemasters or non-momentum crusaders you have a good chance, otherwise you just get overwhelmed.

LAMS (Liquid Shadow + Antimatter): Can disrupt it a lot, but anything anti-mattered will be launched. So this will probably just end up in boring games which don't really go anywhere.

This deck is difficult to beat, but far away from impossible. It's fun to play, and should be pretty fun to play against.


It's a lot better than my old one. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

[ArtCrusade]

This deck will actually beat CCYB in any case, because the AI will launch antimatter'd creatures asap

The deck looks promision, I like it a lot!

[gavsword]

This deck will actually beat CCYB in any case, because the AI will launch antimatter'd creatures asap

The deck looks promision, I like it a lot!

It depends on when it draws catapult, I put the anti-matter comment meaning that it can slow the deck, but yeah should be rather difficult for CCYB to handle. Thanks for the feedback.

[Scaredgirl]

This deck was so close. It captured the whole concept of the Dark Ages by giving us a glimpse of a Medieval battle. It had everything: Crusaders, Soldiers (Firemasters), Catapults, Fire, Explosions, Otyugh.. wait what? Otyugh? And Chimera? One random Chimera?

You were almost there, but a couple of wrong choices (in my opinion), killed the theme.

One other problem is the fact that it has Miracle. That card alone will probably ensure that you might not get that many votes because players don't like FG who use Miracle (and for a good reason).

[Essence]

It's a hard call, because on the one hand, the theme was defined in the contest itself as "low-magic", but at the same time, the Dark Ages are where a lot of our faerie tales and other legends come from, so it could be that the contest's definition is what's off, not this deck.

That said, Lionheart is basically this deck minus the fire and the mythical creatures, so if you're looking to match the theme better with the same concept, Lionheart is probably the way to go.

[Scaredgirl]

I guess everyone has their own definition of the "Dark Ages" theme. While you could of course throw in all kinds of mythical creatures and call it a "fairy tale", I like decks that tell a story where each card plays a part, rather than a deck that has all the cards from that particular theme thrown together.

In this case I was looking for a deck that shows a picture of a Medieval siege battle. You don't generally see Otyughs running around during those.

That said, Lionheart is basically this deck minus the fire and the mythical creatures..

It's the lack of that makes your deck fail imo. I like the fact that there are Catapults, fire and explosions. Graviton Firemasters also look like they belong in the middle of a siege battle.

[gavsword]

I put the oty's and chimera to give the deck a slightly stronger chance against some matchups. It was one of the first things that went it. I also started with three chimera and slowly cut back. Looking now you're right and I don't need either. The miracle was for me to test with to simulate having 200 life. And then I kept because I liked it, but yeah FG's with miracle annoys me too, so I'll cut those.

Updated

Changes:
- 3 Oty
- 1 Chimera
- 3 Miracles

+ 1 Fire buckler
+ 1 Gravity Tower

Now it better fits the theme, thanks for the fb. Anything else?

[gavsword]

Nothing else needed?

[DevilLoss]

gavsword you just mentioned in chat that no one has beaten this fg deck you made so i took on the challenge taking a bit of a good look at it i decided that this was the smartest choice to beat it

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the deck idk if it has the ability to beat other fg's but i just wanted to beat this one if i have time and the patitence all test it but the battle pretty much emulated to my fire nymph rage potting everything you had took alot of fire qauntam hints the imolation and minor pheonix were perfect for the job my fire buckler lasted one turn before it went boom armigo was able to hold off your fire eaters when i didnt have the fire qauntam needed to kill them yet also he later served as something to help inflict damage to by rage potting him all in all what really saved me was the two miracles i had your deck got me to 28 with the titans you put in it then i miracled and i was a ok after that it took me like 5 trial runs to finally make this deck i dont think it would have worked as well with out the fire nymph

[gavsword]

SS and post it in Majofa's beat my FG thread (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,21061.msg287180#msg287180)