Guest posts by Hodari

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Crucible Archive / Re: Graviton Moon | Graviton Planet

« on: February 17, 2011, 06:24:39 pm »

and while I don't want to discourage your idea, the mere thought of a Gravity Elemental literally beckoning a small planet to the battlefield seems like overkill. ^^;;;

But a supernova or a black hole is perfectly acceptable?

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Rainbow Decks / Re: My first attempt at a FG killer "The Carapace Creator"

« on: February 16, 2011, 06:06:06 pm »

You use a lot of entropy, death, and time quanta. And as you only have 4 supernovas with quantum towers, I would change the mark to death since it seems to be the heart of your deck.

Another possibility might be life mark to get the carapaces out faster and then use soul catchers to help with the extra death quanta.  A momentum might also be good to handle gods using gravity or phase shields.  Overall though, I have a feeling this deck might need too many combos to really be effective.  The basic concept for it might be more effective in a life/death duo though or even a trio with aether so you still have quints and fractal available.

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Entropy / Re: Dissipation Shield | Dissipation Field

« on: February 14, 2011, 03:18:50 am »

so um...don't use it when you're low on quanta or still need to cast a lot of stuff...
It's really nice in a rainbow deck in later stages of the game though when you have 30+ of each quanta sitting around unused

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General Discussion / Re: Nymph thing

« on: February 14, 2011, 02:02:25 am »

Light nymph is definitely a nice addition to an RoL/Hope deck which is one of the best decks for fighting false gods.  Since you're already using a fractal deck anyway, you're already partway there(also worth noting that fractal isn't that good in a mono aether deck since it uses up all your aether quanta and you have to wait at least one turn to play any of the creatures you get from it.  It works much better in a duo especially with something like RoL's that give you large amounts of quanta to play your creatures and spells from the other element). 

Whatever you do though, don't ever sell nymphs.  The small amount of electrum you get from it can easily be earned in a short time on AI3 or by selling other cards but with nymphs, you're lucky to get one every 2-4 weeks even if you check the oracle daily.  Sell any normal cards you want, especially early on when you're trying to get your first few decent decks upgraded, or even maybe a rare weapon if you're really desperate(can always get those back from t50 farms easily enough..for now at least) but if you sell a nymph and then later decide you did want it, it will likely be several months before you get another of the same one(and even if you do, having more than one copy would help most decks).  Even if you don't ever plan on using a nymph as it is, keep in mind that there is always a chance that the card itself might be changed someday to make it more useful(as light nymph in fact has been changed once already).

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Deck Help / Re: fractal vampires

« on: February 13, 2011, 10:55:12 pm »

Try this:

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7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t8 7t9 7t9 7ta 7tc 7td 7td 7td 7td 7to 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 80e 80i 80i 80i 80i
Nymph can be replaced and any card used unupped if needed..don't worry about the quantum cost on the upped vampires though since with your first couple fractals going to pests, you'll have plenty of quanta for the vampires later on

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Humor / Re: The Trick Question Thread (Elements version)

« on: February 13, 2011, 02:12:19 am »

12 pillars of each element
12 towers
6 upped beast RoL, Brimstone, Damsel, Pest, Gnome, Leaf Dragon
12 pend
12 upped pend
1 cremation
4 Dragon fly(in trainer), Gnome(unupped in trainer), Devourer, Rustler
2 nova, Super Nova
2 QT, QP

which is 63
answer = 60

Also 1 of each mark(upped and unupped), so that's 87 so far if we could get around the 60 card limit.

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Forge Archive / Re: Mountain Lion | Mountain King

« on: February 10, 2011, 04:52:55 pm »

Name is fine.
Mountain King makes me think of a dwarf but I think it is the best you'll get. (Mountain Lord doesn't sound any better)

More like trolls actually..

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Forum Archive / Re: Ban on farms? (READ FIRST POST BEFORE VOTE)

« on: February 09, 2011, 09:26:03 pm »

Simply banning them wouldn't be a good solution anyway.  Where exactly would you draw the line between what's a farm and what's a viable deck that happens to have some rares in it?  In many cases it's obvious but in some, it's not so clear.  In any case, as things are now, players should be free to post whatever deck they want for t50.  Something like what has been proposed for the t500 sounds like a much better way of handling it since people can still submit whatever deck they want but only the best ones will remain in there for long and also there is some incentive to the player to make one that is good enough to survive a while.  Also the new AI3 and 5 decks seem to be a partial solution as well since they offer more chances to win rares from them as well which reduces some of the need for t50 farms.

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General Discussion / Re: How many copies of rare weapons do you keep?

« on: February 09, 2011, 12:40:53 am »

I keep 12 of each rare(max 6 upped obviously)
When first starting off, it MIGHT make some sense to sell a few of them otherwise just so you can get enough to buy and upgrade a decent deck faster but..beyond that, you're better off keeping them until you have more than 12 since they are relatively difficult to obtain(even with farms, it may take a while before you find one that has the weapon you need and no guarantee you'll win it even then..)
Actually for the most part I do the same for all cards now since any time you sell one card to upgrade another, you lose money, though if I'm only a few thousand short of being able to fully upgrade a new deck, I might sell something I don't plan on using for a while

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Humor / Re: The Trick Question Thread (Elements version)

« on: February 09, 2011, 12:26:36 am »

Hoe can you legitimately gain infinite electrum without playing a single game?

create an infinite number of accounts?

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Card Ideas and Art / Re: Computer | Computer

« on: February 07, 2011, 04:19:54 am »

make it a robot, Immaterial, 3 HP, and poisoned, we gots ourselves a nice little card (:

But I'm not sure about the cost of the creature itself.

It would be way to expensive for something that can only be used once or twice before it crashes...oh wait, that makes it very realistic actually

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Humor / Re: The Trick Question Thread (Elements version)

« on: February 06, 2011, 07:48:15 pm »

Obviously I would have needed to draw a card at the start of my turn(and since I ended with no cards left, I must have played it) though in fact it does not matter what that card was since it would be possible to win in this way regardless of what the card was.  And no, I did not have any white nymphs in play and I ended my turn with only 50hp