Guest posts by Dengeki

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Darkness / Re: Favorite Darkness card?

« on: December 01, 2011, 03:50:48 am »

  this is a hard question, i really like the most of these cards. but id have to say i use cloak more than any of them. it gives me a few turns to find my pro-artifacts, it draws out one of thier destroy or steal cards, before they can even target what they want. if i mutation, or shard a fate egg, they dont know what they are up against. and its supprise when cloak goes away. i just really like this card.

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Darkness / Re: Best duo with darkness

« on: December 01, 2011, 03:44:42 am »

  + , i like to use accelerates, and gravity pull on them. of course, after they get sufficient power, vampire them.
  +  , other than the obvious combo synergy here, and the great shield to use. indium warden and basilisk blood will stall thier weapon, when you target the voodoo doll with it. a fun way to say stop it.
  +    adrenaline on pests steal 2 quantum, vampires, mitosis, its all around just good. cloak can help the life creatures out. there are just alot of combinations of these 2 colors i have found that really work well.
  +  , other than the obvious. time control mixed with dark control cover just about everything. also you can vampire a scarab and as long as you make a new one every turn, it will never die from the poison. (i also use this scarab trick with accelerate.).
and i did pick 2 other options, but dont feal the need to example them here.   
   arcacia i like your list, good job on that. pretty much covers all the basic ideas.

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General Discussion / Re: not enough unupgraded rainbows!!

« on: December 01, 2011, 03:02:24 am »

  it might be also that after 18 years of deck building experience, i know how to use 40 cards to efficiently achieve my goals, and the right ratio of the cards in that deck to get what i want when i need it. but with my 40 cards, i get a great start, and survive mid-late game, when/if anything stops me long enough to make it that far. but i know in this game statistically 30 cards should be what you need. especially if your using the speedbow, and rush earth decks. but even when i ran speedbow i had to run 37 cards just to get the first turns i wanted out of them. however the fate egg/shard deck can run at 30 cards. but after about 6-7 turns you loose. unless exceptionally lucky. and thats only if you get lucky to have the whole combo in your opening hand. and not multi copies of half of it. and like i said in my post, "in my experience",.
but seriously, i feal as though these posts have gotten off topic, guy needs help with un-upped rainbow decks. there should be another topic started if we wish to continue this discussion based mostly on the common difficulties most folk have on being able to build efficiently.
  sorry for ruining the core of your topic.

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General Discussion / Re: not enough unupgraded rainbows!!

« on: December 01, 2011, 01:12:53 am »

also its been my experience all decks run smother with 40 cards.

I think you're trying to say, "All decks get themselves completely smothered if they are run with 40 cards," which is something I agree with.
Seriously. Smaller = Better.

actually i meant exactly what i said, and i have tried to run this deck upd, and nupd. and at 30 cards you get stumped most of the time. atleast with this deck, my rainbow entropy deck, my gravity/earth deck. all of em, when i want to go with speed i go down to 35 cards, and even at that low i start noticing a suffering of when i get what i need.
when i run decks at 30 cards i have to wait for combo cards, pillars, pretty much everything for a great start, when i run 40 cards i get the right balance of what i want, and can possibly first turn get started, instead of waiting for 2-4 turns with 5 of half my combo in my hand, for one card of the other half.  so when i said "in my experience all decks run smoother* with 40 cards, that is what i meant. unless your just making fun of my mispelled word smother-when meant smoother*.  but since the context clues following this quote- clearly describes what i meant, i dont think you are.

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General Discussion / Re: not enough unupgraded rainbows!!

« on: December 01, 2011, 12:27:35 am »

my first unupped rainbow deck was SoR+fate eggs, it runs better(even with my new upped version) with Nupd novas, just 5-6 of ea of those cards 7-12 quantum pillars, mark of  , then add some controll cards. add  like 1druid,2 quints for when you get bad hatchings. um pulveriser with pro artifact for aether kill. and if need be use the 3-6 of sundial for early card draw.  then customize it with your favorite cards like i did, but wont say here what else goes into it. also its been my experience all decks run smother with 40 cards. i always get the ratio of what i need and when, but at 30 cards i get too many copys to pull off fast combo's.  i was using this Nupd deck to kill fg and silver. but if 40 cards is too much try to make 35 cards staple minumum(imo). hope this helps.
 

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General Discussion / Re: Most Hated Deck

« on: December 01, 2011, 12:17:50 am »

  well its not  decks, i run pulverizer/pro-art.
it cant be  poison decks, i run purifys,
scarab decks dont bother me, i am too fast.( just slightly too fast.)
  guess its speed bows, i need atleast 4 turns to know if i can win or not regardless of my opponents deck. and that stupid fire golem is pretty much insta win, against everything i play.
  and also i dont like duality decks, if you want to play my cards, go donate/buy&upgrade them your self. and if they ever make a card to stop deck manipulation, ill be running it in all my decks as well.
 

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Level 3 - Armory / Re: Sphinx | Sphinx

« on: December 01, 2011, 12:05:06 am »

at first i didnt read this card correctly, said its crap time already has anubis.  lol. then when i joined forums on my own account and was voting i read it again. realizing the text. at the time i said one word to my friend "TaDa!!" and i reset my poll to include a vote for this creature. i realize its use is limited and    are not usually together. but it would be a nice card for me to use instead of my 3-6 pro-artifacts i run. and it would make a possible control card to use when facing FG/gold/platnums. since they like to mess with my stuff alot.
 

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Anvil Archive / Re: Battlestar | Galactic Battlestar

« on: November 30, 2011, 11:57:08 pm »

well i can see, from reading these posts. that you feal the fact that its, technecally a 6atk, and then a 11atk. is too simplified. but its not. you have to take full best case when evaluating the effects. doesnt matter that shield is going to effect its variables twice or not. and if this card is a shield based survival card as it seems from the previous arguments, then why isnt the defence of the upd version 6, so that all the shields has a chance to effect it. it is however an optional control for the boneshield, which i think there should be more options to battle it. also just want to clarrify i love this creature, but am slightly against its stats, atm. but the ability is good and thematic. and also i am curious as to how adrenaline is going to effect it. i really see no reason why "succesfull attack" is nessesary, if phase shield stops it so doesnt the spark get stopped. and bone shield technecally stops it, then the extra spark also wont pop and isnt as usefull for that. i would seriously reverse both versions powers, and defence. then it becomes a generally 5damage/9damage. twice effected. and really its not even twice effected since shields will only hit ea. one once.  if i didnt make these opionions very clear sorry, tried too, and i hope they make sence. 
 

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Anvil Archive / Re: Donate | Give

« on: November 30, 2011, 11:14:24 pm »

I would definately use this card, and often find myself in a situation, where i wish i could give away something, like dissapation shield so i can drain their quantum, or like said earlier to replace their weapon with my discord so i can get quantum shuffle. not to mention a real jew deck can be made using relics+ this card-for the win-imo. and yea it would be nice to give them useless cards maybe ones they cant cast just to shorten their hands in general. and you could give them voodoo dolls ( that is if they still consider you the owner) and then use area damage cards that only effect thier side, like the fire one, or upd pandamonium. and maybe even if cloak also defines an owner separate of controller, then you could pass that over to prevent them from seeing thier field.  you could also give them fire shield or the  one and attack using voodoo dolls. this card opens alot of possibilities even with our small selection of cards we have atm. although it would be better after their are more of a selection.
 

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General Discussion / Re: Weekly Featured Cards poll - Earth

« on: November 30, 2011, 10:43:57 pm »

   i would have voted for antilion, but i think it should go under some alterations, described in buff this card section. before its worthy of a feature. but i picked pro artifact, because it gets very little use.(except by me-cause 3 go in every deck). and also didnt want to pick most of the others for reason of them being already used alot and understood fairly well, they will get their time im sure.  not supprised shrieker has no votes yet.

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Anvil Archive / Re: Quantum Flash | Quantum Flash

« on: November 30, 2011, 07:24:06 pm »

i really feal that these cards are great, it has many advantages. including being able to recover from certain control cards. how-ever when not used in that fashion, they will become possibly to powerfull in comparison. i suggest that they cost6/5 or 5/4;  since it also draws a card, and on average the cost of draw a card is 1-3. but overall i like this card i did vote for it , and will continue to vote for it as it moves up the chain.  and i feal its fair to pay upd price of 4 or 5, since i am getting 3 of what i need and a card.
 

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello all

« on: November 30, 2011, 06:42:06 pm »

  nice another player that takes pride in deck building. cant wait to play you in pvp-.