flyingcat's Gold Archive

[flyingcat]

Archive of my arena decks. Feel free to criticize my horrendous builds.
Card: Graboid
Deck: Antagon's PvP Grabbow (+my mods)

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Day 0: 5-0 with 4-1 Thumbs Up (??? I don't see how this is very creative, but it's 81 electrum  . Rank 63
Day 1: 9-0 with 5-4 Thumbs Up. While this deck might go top ten, I don't think it has a shot at the top unless the number of plays picks up. Rank 46.
Day 2: 14-0 with 6-8 Thumbs Up. Unless some people pull down their decks, I don't think I'll make it to #1. More play PLS?  Rank 20. EDIT: Lol, 4 decks in top ten with age 3. Unfortunately, I'm tenth.
Day 3: 18-0, Thumbs Up can no longer be calculated as it is in the top 10. Rank 10. My goal for this deck is a top 4 finish. Unless I get a good oracle card in a few days, it'll probably become a farm.
Start of Day 4: 26-0, Thumbs Up cannot be calculated as it is in top 3 getting the plays where it counts! Rank 3. If the top 2 drop out I might be able to get to the top!  EDIT: # 1!!!! 
End of Day 4: 30-0, No longer #1 because someone else has 8 more rating. I shall return! I'm happy that this managed to get to #1, (I have screenshots but don't know how to post). It also made at least 500 .  Now that it's Rank 1, I get 45 per thumbs down win.  It'll take a few losses to drop down from #1.
Start of Day 5: 33-1. Assuming second place stays the same rating, I can sustain one more loss. Pretty happy it went 33-0 before losing though, my next highest was a 17-1 in Silver.
End of Day 5: 34-2. Happy it lasted a day at rank 1 (and gave me lots of moolah). Looks like the HP nuke is starting to take it's toll. Only leading by 12 rating now...
EDIT: if anyone actually reads this (besides me), this a card breakdown.
Sanctuary: eats up otherwise useless light quanta, and prevents DBH and provides healing.
Purify: Healing and PDials counter. They will auto quit when they see this. If they don't, the 180+purify should deck them out.
Elite Cockatrice: Was feeling that the forest spirits would strain water quanta, so this was a nice sub.
Rewind: Extra time quanta, and need soft CC for big creatures, or buffed creatures.
While testing with my WingsBow, which should have WRECKED this with Wings, it got out rushed, even with the burrowed shriekers. The only way I can see this losing is a bad draw, VS Black Hole and can't get Sanc's up, Swallow, or SoSac.

[Chapuz]

30-card Grabows tend to have 6-7 Quantum pillars/towers, so I guessed this deck needed 3-4 more.
Keep going!

[flyingcat]

This is a modified version of the one I use to grind silver. I removed the freeze and added a QP for a total of 5. That seems to work well with all the novas. I feel that adding more pillars would clog up the deck.

[Higurashi]

Uh, don't think I've ever seen a grabbow with 6-7 QP's. Antabow has 4, which set the standard. At 35 cards you can go for 5 as evidenced by my rank 4 grabbow in Gold right now (Fenghuang).

As for your attempt, it looks alright. You have some good thinking, so I'm sure you'll arrive at some good builds over time.

[flyingcat]

Thanks! On a side note, I found that while using 4 QP in Antabow, i was often underquanta-ed, so I switched a freeze with another QP. With 5 QP's I can usually start with at least one QP and one nova.
edit: nice job on #1 Higurashi! I probably won't get it with this deck (acorad's has the same age but has so many more plays )

[Ginyu]

http://dek.im/arena is a useful tool, which automatically generates some tables (like them in other threads), so you don't have to put in each information manually.

[Higurashi]

Oh aye, sometimes you have a great winrate but just can't get enough plays. Such is life as an elemental.

[flyingcat]

I'd like to request a moment of silence to all the arena decks who have fallen prey to the NEPS (not enough plays syndrome). Curse you RNG Gods!

[flyingcat]

Yay, I'm back after putting up a farm that lasted 10 days...
Got an obsidian pillar, so... mono darkness derpiness with SoV.
200hp, 2x mark, 2x dexterity

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Went 3-1 with a 1-2 thumbs up, but I got bone dragon, so mono death trolliness will ensue.

[flyingcat]

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HP: 190
Wisdom: 20 cards
Dexterity: 2x
Welp, it was in 4th at it's peak. Might have gone better if it got more plays when it had more HP, and if I had more SoSac. It somehow managed to win at 62 hp 3 times, so I'm happy about that.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Fat man just gave me a turquoise nymph!!! Right after my green nymph yesterday! 
I've already tried a turq nymph arena before, so I'm going to go with the immortality thing and see what happens.
(Inside me): YEESSSSS! I get to play a mono aether deck that everyone will hate.

[flyingcat]

Well, seems I don't know how to Aether. Went 12-3 with 5 thumbs up, but one was from me when I got pwned, so...

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Anyway, I got a purple nymph today (5th this month including alt accounts  ) so I decided to switch my deck.

[flyingcat]

I got an Aether Pillar so I've decided to try Aether-Decking one more time. The purple nymph deck went 9-4 with 7-2 thumbs up, so I guess it was pretty creative  .
190 HP
5 Upped
2x Mark
2x Draw

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Wonder if I can build a successful mono-aether troll this time...