Round 3 Discussion

[dragonsdemesne]

Aether is indeed fairly short on quanta most of the time, but if a dimshield gets put up, a discord deck usually loses on the spot.  Still, because we are gravity, maybe they won't use dimshields.  And I've been fairly bad at predicting matches so far, anyway.  It seems alright so far, but I'll look at the decks those teams have already used in the past and try to decide from there what I think is best, and get feedback from there.

[trashduke]

 Dragon - have you had a chance to look any more at match ups?  Did you find a place to throw the gravity shield?  Anyone else have comments or thoughts to add?  Drake?  Captain?  Rutarete?  Sky?

I'll start making some discards and loading up some of the decks while I have spare moment.  But please comment soon so we can have time to make changes.

-Duke

[trashduke]

Also if you don't see a need for the anti-matters this round, it might be best to discard them now since they are very expensive and I don't see another deck using entropy being viable.

Thoughts?

[trashduke]

Decks I'm planning to load into the vault unless I hear otherwise:

Captain

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Trashduke

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Dragon

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Drake

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Sky

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52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52r 52r 52r 55m 55m 55m 55m 55t 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 713 713 713 71a 71a 8pk

Let me know if you want to change anything?

Also I seem to have a math problem somewhere since our vault is showing 198 instead of the limit of 188 cards.  I've double checked our discards and conversions and I don't see where my error is.  I've sent a quick message to the Warmasters in hope that they can spot the error as well, but if any of you see it, please let me know what's wrong....

[dragonsdemesne]

I suck at mindgating, so I have no real opinion on which decks go where.  I will state two quick things for slight improvements

1) I have two mark of gravity, so in my deck, swap two pillars for marks.  (we still have 2 in the vault)

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2) The death/gravity deck has only five upgrades in it.  We could leave it that way for the event card, but the actual reason I designed it with five upgrades is because after I built it with three upped arsenics, I realized I'd recommended discarding one, and so it wasn't available.  The deck was 31 cards so I just cut the 3rd arsenic and didn't replace it with anything.  Otherwise I'd say go with it.

[trashduke]

OK I'll swap in some Marks for your deck Dragon.  For the poison deck, we could keep a 3rd arsenic and discard some other cards... I'd rather do that if you think it's a stronger deck.

Also, I realized my derp in the vault tool (right before CuCN pointed it out to me) - I was discarding upgraded cards instead of unused ones, so I have to make another pass through the discard list.  ugh.

[trashduke]

OK - just did all of the discards and vault conversions - I had to make a couple hard choices, but we can still field our earth/gravy duo next round which was how I prioritized conversions.

If you see any changes that need to happen please make them soon!

 

[trashduke]

Ok, after thinking about this a bit, I decided to swap out a Sundial so that sky could have 3 arsenics...  I think it will be stronger that way and I'd rather win than worry about the event card.

As before, if you want to swap or change what I've done, be my guest, but we are prepped for round 3.

[trashduke]

Sorry for the three poor mind gates so far.... hoping that Captain can pull out a win so we can be 2-3.  In either case, we're going to be down to fielding 3 decks next round.

Here are some thoughts on salvage/discards

Salvage: We saved those phoenixes, so maybe steal some fire?  I like the idea of taking 2 deflags (we've needed PC), maybe 3 fahrenheits and a bolt as well?  Or we could look to get BBs for either our Cata-titans or to build something with our earth stuff (pulvy, golems, EQ, and Grabbow).

Discard. ugh.

The poisoner - depends on who we face..., but right now I'm thinking all of the death module and 5 pends.
Grabbow - save 5 novas and 5 grabbies?
DBH - save 4 discord and 6 black holes

Hopefully I'll update soon with some good news from the Captain.

[Drake_XIV]

My matchup was fine. I just misplayed the first game and he started up before me in the later games.

[trashduke]

I'm glad you feel that you had a chance Drake - the match up could have been stronger, but we did the best we could.

But Hurrah for Captain for winning vs. a grabbow with PC - that will fit nicely in our vault.  Im thinking we should take the deflag, the steal, an arsenic, a grabby, a nova, and a forest spirit (so we can repopulate our own grabby).  What do you all think?

[dragonsdemesne]

We need PC really badly; I'd asked for lots when vaultbuilding, but we didn't include any other than pulvy, so I'd agree on that.  I'll have a look in greater detail when I get home, but a lack of spell PC is one of the (many) reasons we're losing.