Guest posts by Hodari

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Card Ideas and Art / Re: Astral Bridge | Astral Portal

« on: March 25, 2011, 02:10:08 am »

The biggest problem I can see with this would be in a poison deck(fractal/mitosis + forest scorpions + adrenaline + this maybe).  The creatures are small enough that they would have little to no risk of dying and the damage would add up real fast

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Card Ideas and Art / Re: Lithium Golem | Sodium Golem

« on: March 14, 2011, 05:34:43 pm »

I like it...I'm not gonna crack

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Crucible Archive / Re: Fountain of Life | Well of Life

« on: March 12, 2011, 01:49:54 pm »

  With any  emitting creatures plus leaf dragon plus this, your creatures could basically become immortal.  Each creature supplies the  which dragon converts to  paying the cost to keep it alive each turn.  Add in Hope and the player is almost immune to damage as well.

  In short this very easily becomes OP especially with an RoL/Hope deck(and with Mitosis now, this becomes much easier to do with a Life/Light duo).  While it might take a while to set everything up, both of these elements also have plenty of healing which would make it quite possible to do so.  At the very least, the upkeep cost per creature needs to be raised to at least 3 or 4  to prevent this combo.

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General Discussion / Re: After all the new cards in 1.27, which element now needs a new card the most?

« on: March 09, 2011, 12:06:36 am »

Partly in response to Boingo's post, and in general I think a decent suggestion is to create a new Water card with synergy with Earth (both could use it). This would also increase the usability of Tridents by having a deck work around them.

How about a deep-sea creature that eats pillars?

Trident already has the pillar destruction pretty well covered anyway, so I'd say you need something else for an ability, but yes building on the water/earth synergy in some way would be a good way to go

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Rainbow Decks / Re: Cloaked dragon rush (against FGs)

« on: March 08, 2011, 11:43:20 am »

trying this deck out now, but not much luck so far(eternal phoenix 3 times in a row and not drawing phase shields ftl)

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General Discussion / Re: After all the new cards in 1.27, which element now needs a new card the most?

« on: March 07, 2011, 12:30:22 am »

Water and/or Air needs "normal PC".

For water, how about something like Rust / Corrode (maybe have this be a delayed effect even, causing a rust counter to be added each turn and destroy it when it has 3 counters?  And could even have it spread to a random new target after each time the previous one is destroyed.)

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General Discussion / Re: Crusaders are stronger than I had thought

« on: March 05, 2011, 04:02:13 pm »

Aside from the sky blitz, this combo is nothing new as I remember seeing the Vader Saders deck based on this concept posted quite some time ago.  It certainly can be a very powerful combo when it works right but in order to do so, you basically need to have your entire deck based on around it.  This combined with the number of cards involved makes it VERY vulnerable to a number of different counters.  Eternity or gravity shield for instance will completely shut you down and worse yet if your opponent has antimatter or even a crusader of their own, they can use your own combo against you

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General Discussion / Re: After all the new cards in 1.27, which element now needs a new card the most?

« on: March 05, 2011, 06:02:57 am »

I'd say while fire hasn't gotten anything new for a while, it really doesn't need much else as it is already not only one of the strongest elements, but also the most complete.  It has a good selection of creatures, including small, large, and growing ones.  It has permanent control, creature control, direct damage, and quanta generation.  It can be used very effectively as a mono deck for either stall or rush.  It also has strong synergies with other elements(especially aether and water) that make it useful in duo decks.  It has several cards which are cheap enough to be useful in rainbow decks.  How many other elements can you even come CLOSE to saying all that about?

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Rainbow Decks / Re: (1.24) CC? Why bother?

« on: March 04, 2011, 03:00:41 pm »

I'm currently trying out this:

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Sanctuary is definitely nice in here but the one bad thing about them is that they make it much harder to play Miracle when you need to.

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Duo-Decks / Re: Vodoo Overdrive

« on: March 04, 2011, 12:51:44 pm »

seems to be pretty good on AI3 at least, though I'd suggest replacing all the towers with dark pendulums and maybe adding 1-2 more

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General Discussion / Re: Green Mans

« on: March 04, 2011, 04:03:50 am »

Damn furries.

Hell hath no woman like a furry scorned.

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Rainbow Decks / Undead and loving it

« on: March 04, 2011, 02:42:49 am »

Deck Helper comment: 
This deck was posted before the 1.32 game update and as a result may work very differently now.  Use at your own risk.
I've been trying for a while now to come up with a good deck for using the new skull buckler and skeleton abilities and came up with this one:

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Probably still needs a bit of work but it definitely makes a fun way to farm AI5 so far