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Deck Help / Am I barking up the wrong tree here?
« on: January 29, 2010, 11:25:38 am »
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Got the Upgraded Poseidon and decided to try building around it, using the Water Mark just for it, the Flayer and the Nymph's Tears was inspired by the "Really Slow AI5 Mastery Deck"'s use of Fire...which got the the card in the first place...
So far I've had little luck with it, only winning one match (A Mastery though) against an AI5 on the strength of Poseidon keeping his off-mark quanta (Entropy) down long enough for a Phase Shield and shards followed by an Quinted Amber Nymph, backed by a Quinted Flayer being able to nerf and hold them off long enough for my Shriekers to get there.
It was slow, and ugly, but it got there...was it a "God Draw" or does this deck actually have some potential?
Edit: WOW! Tried this out on some TOP 50...it works! Decks that rely on Otyoghs and mebbe a Druid usuallly deck out against it...I went up against one guy who had the same size deck as I, but I went first, so I thought I'd deck out first...his miser sundial he hit with 12 cards left saved me. The LD doesn't always work, but I did shut one guy who was powering all his time quanta from quantum towers down to where he couldn't always use his hourglasses. Both Earth and Aether Nymphs have saved me as well...
I really don't think the deck is that great, but I guess its the metagame...that or really good draws...
Got the Upgraded Poseidon and decided to try building around it, using the Water Mark just for it, the Flayer and the Nymph's Tears was inspired by the "Really Slow AI5 Mastery Deck"'s use of Fire...which got the the card in the first place...
So far I've had little luck with it, only winning one match (A Mastery though) against an AI5 on the strength of Poseidon keeping his off-mark quanta (Entropy) down long enough for a Phase Shield and shards followed by an Quinted Amber Nymph, backed by a Quinted Flayer being able to nerf and hold them off long enough for my Shriekers to get there.
It was slow, and ugly, but it got there...was it a "God Draw" or does this deck actually have some potential?
Edit: WOW! Tried this out on some TOP 50...it works! Decks that rely on Otyoghs and mebbe a Druid usuallly deck out against it...I went up against one guy who had the same size deck as I, but I went first, so I thought I'd deck out first...his miser sundial he hit with 12 cards left saved me. The LD doesn't always work, but I did shut one guy who was powering all his time quanta from quantum towers down to where he couldn't always use his hourglasses. Both Earth and Aether Nymphs have saved me as well...
I really don't think the deck is that great, but I guess its the metagame...that or really good draws...