Twelfth Matchup: (Stop KillinG my Golums!)
For this matchup, there is the reigning champion:
Mono-Earth Shrieker Rush
The classic shrieker rush deck! Fast and simple. With the bestest, most overpowered creatures ever created by the zanzarinobeano.
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Then there is the challenger:
Korugar's Fire Rush
This deck was put up for testing by Korugar. Its a fire rush deck with a slight bit of creature control, and a whole lot of permanent control.
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Results:
I played 100 games for each side, 200 total. (actually 243 games if you count farm decks)
Stats!:
Mono-Earth Shrieker Rush:
Win/Loss= 84/16, 84%
Turns to win (TTW) of 6.95
16 Elemental Masteries
Points gained: 2052
Electrum gained: 2737
Korugar's Fire Rush:
Win/Loss= 75/25, 75%
Turns to win (TTW) of 8.67
11 Elemental Masteries
Points gained: 1650
Electrum gained: 2205
All farm decks have been removed from the data.
Shrieker deck did great as usual. 84% win rate with no farm decks is totally solid.
Korugar's deck also did well, and ended up with a 75% win rate. The deck usually does quite well against rainbow decks. The large amount of explosions in the deck allow you to get rid of bothersome shields, as well as a couple other permanents.
As with other cremation fire decks, sometimes this deck has trouble getting started. If you don't have a cremation card or no photon to use it on.. then you will just sit there. One game was an extreme example, it was against a farm deck... where the deck took 15 turns to win. That is some slow going against a deck that does nothing to interfere with you.
The deck relies on Lava destros to do damage, so if the opposing deck has creature control, you are automatically in trouble. The deck lost 6 times against fire stall decks... and it lost in epic fashion. It really has 0 chance of ever winning against this type of deck... lava golems can never get set up to do damage.
(shrieker btw won its games vs fire stall, more creatures + more hp= win)
The deck also does somewhat badly vs rush decks. There weren't that many floating around this time.. but in a battle of pure speed, you will usually lose. Sometimes you can save yourself with a nicely timed use of firestorm, but those times are rare.
Korugar's fire deck is totally playable at a 75% win rate (80% win rate if you factor in free wins vs farms)
But overall, Shrieker was still faster to play, and put up better numbers all around.
Winner is Mono-Earth Shrieker Rush!