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« on: December 15, 2009, 10:10:19 pm »

It also might be worth saying that Disaru has been around for a loooong time, though I think he took a break for a while?

@Disaru - Scaredgirl owns every strategy here.  Most of the people who have been on this forum for a while don't even go there anymore. :P

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« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2009, 10:10:19 pm »

(i made the first hourglass/rainbow strategy :P)
Oh my.
You have no idea how dangerous this is to say that here.

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« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2009, 10:10:19 pm »

Hi everyone, old player just dropping in  ;D I'm probably a noob by now, but I just decided to put out some old strategies that might not be known. I'm not liking this new trend of stacked rainbow decks (i made the first hourglass/rainbow strategy :P) so i think its good to encourage other strategies.

Strategy #1

Gravity Towers (very little needed, low cost cards)
Animate Weapon
Titan
Gravity Force

Optional:

Reverse Time
Sundial
Novas for quantum

Note: this strategy is not expensive because the non-upgraded cards are already low cost. The only cards you really need to upgrade are Animate Weapon, and maybe Reverse Time, Sundial if you choose to use them.

Main Strategy: Fly your titans, with 8DMG/70HP, it dishes out a lot of damage for low quanta cost. The key to this strategy is to gravity pull your titans, with 70HP it can take a lot of damage from your opponent before dying. With 6 titans, it can take 70x6=420 damage once pulled.

Optional Strategy: I know having multiple titans is difficult (except for vets like me :P jk) but you can reuse titans or even one titan (although the likelihood of drawing it will be drastically decreased). Anticipate when your titan is about to die (add the amount of damage your opponent is dishing out + potential cards in their hand) and then reverse time your titan. Then replay it the next turn and its back to a potential 70DMG control.

You can even use sundials for MORE damage control (or to keep your titans alive), but you can also reverse time an almost-dead titan, hasten it, then replay it - ALL IN THE SAME TURN, to avoid taking any damage.

I know this strategy needs to draw a few cards to be present in your hand to be viable, so you can add hourglasses (to help draw all the cards you need), damage dealers (titans may not be enough damage), and maybe even splash cards (since all these cards are relatively low cost, so you can easily play them all in the same turn with a few novas/supernovas.

Strategy #2

If anyone has ever faced a veteran with a pillar called "Mark of Fire" or "mark of time" card (not talking about normal pillars), these "pillars" go behind the player's original mark instead of the pillar area. If all their pillars go behind the mark, you can't select it for Earthquake. This is not so much a strategy as exploiting a game bug hah but these rare cards arent in circulation so you'll rarely see someone with all "mark of fire" pillars.

Strategy #3

This is a very old strategy,but I'm not sure if it's still in effect. Has near 100% success with anything but FG (can't deck FGs out). It's upgraded Dissipation shield + Quantum pillars. Use AE on it to secure your win, and fill it with serious creature/permanent control.
It can also easily be (and SHOULD be) incorporated into any rainbow deck, as your last move to stay alive with all the quantum you've built throughout the game. I sometimes end rainbow games with 1000+ quanta in total, so thats 1000+ damage it can take before breaking.

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« Reply #3 on: December 15, 2009, 10:10:19 pm »

lol WOOPS :/ nevermind I said that then lol you can check wiki though, I published the first one, so I'm not sure how you can dispute that :P

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« Reply #4 on: December 15, 2009, 10:10:19 pm »

LOL Chris, you beat me to it.

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« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2009, 10:10:19 pm »

Yeah... unfortunately, Disaru, the Dissipation Field strategy isn't nearly as effective as it was before upgrades and Sundial came out. I remember just how annoying it used to be, though. ;)

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« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2009, 10:10:19 pm »

It also might be worth saying that Disaru has been around for a loooong time, though I think he took a break for a while?

@Disaru - Scaredgirl owns every strategy here.  Most of the people who have been on this forum for a while don't even go there anymore. :P
I don't care if he started back in 1974 or just yesterday. What difference does that make? I only read what he is saying today and I don't read it differently based on his experience in the game.

That second paragraph is more of the same childish forum drama I've come to expect from you CB!. You have some opinion on these strategies or do you want to talk about me again?

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« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2009, 10:10:19 pm »

(i made the first hourglass/rainbow strategy :P)
Oh my.
You have no idea how dangerous this is to say that here.
I don't know about dangerous but it sure is pretty funny. :)

OP you can't just pick a one card and say you invented it. Before Sundials came out Hourglass was the only card with hasten and a very logical choice for any rainbow deck. For example when I made my first rainbow deck my main strategy was to draw as many cards as possible so I took Hourglass and Sundial before anything else.

If you want to say you invented a deck, there has to be more strategy involved than "Hourglass/Rainbow".

Btw did you know that I invented Time/Aether/Anubis?

I have some opinions on your strategy tips:

Strategy#1
Someone posted this idea before on some other thread. It's one of those things that sounds awesome in theory but pretty much sucks in reality. I haven't seen any deck that has been sucesful with this strategy. Even though you have massive HP, your opponent will usually just slowly kill you. If you have some deck idea involving this strategy (that you think works) I'm interested to see it.

Strategy#2
I've personally never even seen these. Like you said, not really a strategy.

Strategy#3
This is also one of those things that sound good. But in reality most rainbow decks don't use this strategy because it's nothing special. Personally I think it sucks because it doesn't help you early in the game when you are vulnerable.

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« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2009, 10:10:19 pm »

Strategy#1
Someone posted this idea before on some other thread. It's one of those things that sounds awesome in theory but pretty much sucks in reality. I haven't seen any deck that has been sucesful with this strategy. Even though you have massive HP, your opponent will usually just slowly kill you. If you have some deck idea involving this strategy (that you think works) I'm interested to see it.
I think that might've been me. I posted a deck using that strategy in the Gravity subsection of the Mono-Deck section. I ran Otyughs in the deck to help control creatures, so that your Titans didn't die as fast, so that you could kill the opponent faster.

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« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2009, 10:10:20 pm »

Btw did you know that I invented Time/Aether/Anubis?
Hahaha

That was my FIRST strategy when i started this game. I started with time, won a second Anubis early.  8)

Gave up after a while cause it was slow and switched to FFQ/OE after winning 3 OE in one round of spinners. From there moved to Mono-aether.

Tried a few others in between but nothing really great.

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« Reply #10 on: December 15, 2009, 10:10:21 pm »

Well, it seemed that Disaru didn't realize that sarcasm...
To be or not to be, I can do both at once. Go learn quantum mechanics, n00b.

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« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2009, 10:10:21 pm »

When SG said she invented Time/Aether, I think that was sarcasm...
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