Guest posts by Toenail

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Rainbow Decks / Re: Fire Lance sudden killer 1.25 (work with no upgrade)

« on: June 14, 2011, 08:31:29 am »

I think I finally broke my chain of bad luck at 26 wins. It was brutal.

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Paradox / Re: Oracle : Paradox

« on: June 04, 2011, 06:20:22 pm »

The deck in the OP seems a bit inconsistent. I had the same problem that many others had where Paradox did not play a ROL until it was too late to do any good. Fire Lance sudden killer (1.25) is another unupped deck that seems to be more effective against Paradox.

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

« on: June 04, 2011, 09:33:00 am »

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6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6rn 6rn 6rn 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u7 6u7 6u7 77f 77f 7dq 7dq 7gp 7gp 7gp 7k6 7k6 7n3 7q5 7q5 7q5 7q9 7q9 80h 80h 80h 80i
  A slight modification by adding two Sundials. Pros: Seems to have increased my EM's overall. In addition, I like how they can give you a turn to consolidate vs momentumed creatures. Cons: Deck may need another QT.
   This is my first fully upped deck and I began farming it just a few days ago. I made several mistakes that cost me at least 6 games. 55% win percentage if you factor out my mistakes.

Below is a quick 100 game sample:

 

FG*************   W   L  EM's Cards
            
Akebono********   2   1   0   3
Chaos Lord*****   1   0   0   0
Dark Matter****   1   4   0   0
Decay*********    1   1   1   2
Destiny********   0   2   0   0
Divine Glory***   0   2   0   0
Dream Catcher**   0   1   0   0
Elidnis********   3   2   1   0
Eternal Phoenix   0   3   0   0
Ferox**********   2   1   1   2
Fire Queen*****   4   1   0   2
Gemini*********   3   1   1   2
Graviton*******   1   7   0   2
Hecate*********   2   2   0   2
Hermes*********   0   2   0   0
Incarnate******   2   0   2   0
Jezebel********   1   2   0   0
Lionheart******   3   0   1   2
Miracle********   1   4   0   0
Morte**********   1   0   0   0
Neptune********   4   0   3   1
Obliterator****   0   3   0   0
Octane*********   3   2   2   3
Osiris*********   5   0   3   4
Paradox********   2   2   0   1
Rainbow********   0   3   0   0
Scorpio********   0   2   0   0
Seism**********   4   4   1   2
Serket*********   3   2   1   2

Totals********   49  54  17  30

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Dream Catcher / Re: Oracle : Dream Catcher

« on: June 01, 2011, 08:16:00 am »

Just EM'd DC with the following deck:

Mark of Entropy
4 Enchant Artifact
4 Druidic Staff
4 Adrenaline
3 Sanctuary (unupped)
4 Flying Weapon (unupped)
4 Quints (1 upped 3 unupped)
7 QT's
6 Snovas
2 Jade Shield


Very lucky opening hand with 2 towers, snova, staff, adrenaline, quint, and enchant artifact. EA saved my life since DC had a BE out on the 2nd turn. Since this deck is a little fat, you are reliant on either a lucky draw or a bad draw for DC. Sanctuary is probably expendable but I threw them in as added protection and healing since I had the 4 EA's to protect my towers.

Thanks for the OP.

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Akebono / Re: Oracle : Akebono

« on: May 31, 2011, 08:46:12 am »

The unupped deck in the OP works well but you almost have to draw a NT in your opening hand or within the first 4 turns. I managed to get my nymph on the table on turn 4 and I had 15 hp left at the end of turn 5.  After that, it was a thing of beauty.

Thanks for the post.

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Rainbow Decks / Re: Fire Lance sudden killer 1.25 (work with no upgrade)

« on: May 29, 2011, 09:50:54 am »

Thanks for the information. I changed my deck to a Flay Em style like you recommended and have done fairly well. However, I am now 16 wins without a winning spin. Has that happened to anyone else or am I just incredibly unlucky?
 

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Rainbow Decks / Re: Fire Lance sudden killer 1.25 (work with no upgrade)

« on: May 28, 2011, 11:11:21 am »

     I kept the stats for my last 44 games (2 days) against FG's using this deck. Out of 9 wins, I have yet to manage a winning spin. Is everyone else still receiving a 33% payout or have you seen a general decrease in payout percentage?

I really like this game, but I don't see how you can create a competitive deck unless you play 16 hours a day.


Morte                0/2
Scorpio              0/1
Rainbow            0/2
Destiny              3/1
Seism                0/2
Hermes              0/1
Decay                 0/4
Chaos lord         0/2
Incarnate           0/1
Miracle               1/0
Eternal Phoenix 0/1
Gemini               1/0
Graviton             0/2
Paradox             1/2  (bad draws/ broken chain)
Octane               0/2
Hecate               0/1
Elidnis                1/1 (broken chain)
Dream Catcher   0/4
Serket                0/1
Obliterator         0/1
Fire Queen         1/1
Neptune             1/0
Osiris                  0/3

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Rainbow Decks / Re: Fire Lance sudden killer 1.25 (work with no upgrade)

« on: May 10, 2011, 11:18:57 pm »

Not sure if I understand how anyone is getting "rich". After playing today, I have won 6 FG games, lost about 11, and have not won a single card. Is this normal? Have the designers adjusted the payout or am I just having a run of bad luck?

Thanks,

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Rainbow Decks / Re: Fire Lance sudden killer 1.25 (work with no upgrade)

« on: May 10, 2011, 09:19:32 am »

New player, 1st post.

I have been using this deck for FG's and have had fairly good results. Initially however, my shield chain seemed to break about 50% of the time so I modified the deck as follows:

Burning Pillar- 7
Firebolt- 6
Farenheit- 1
Fire Pendulum- 6
Reflective Shield- 1
Light Pendulum- 1
Dimensional Shield- 6
Lobotomizer- 1
Sundial (upped)- 2

It seems to be more consistent now to get all 6 shields out but I have a couple of questions:

How often do you win a card in the spins? Seems to me that the win ratio is pretty low, somewhere around 1 card to every 7 spins.

How has Sundial getting nerfed affected the use of the card in this deck? I am second guessing my decision to spend the money to up this card after reading about how weak it is now compared to before.

I have tried putting a couple of SOG's in but it seems to increase the chance of breaking the shield chain. Nothing worse than wading through Obliterator, Jezebel etc.. to finally get a game against Ferox and have the shield chain break with 8 cards left in the deck.

The deck that I used to farm my way up to this point:

Mark of Fire
Wind Pillar- 17
Deflagration- 5
Elite Worm- 5
Flying Weapon- 3
Owl's Eye- 5 (got lucky on several spins when I first started playing)
SOG- 4
 
Deck was very consistent for levels 1-4 but got hosed pretty regularly above that.

Last question:

I have the following upped cards:

5 SOG's
5 Elite Worms
1 Elite Anubis
1 Electrum Hourglass
2 SOD
1 SOR
2 Quantum Towers
2 Sundial

I had originally been working towards putting together a rainbow deck (Hence the upgraded Hourglass and Quantum Towers) to replace this deck as a FG killer because of having to skip half the FG's available. Should I continue to work towards a rainbow deck or try and upgrade this deck instead? If so, which cards should I sell and which cards should I hold onto according to their playability.

Thanks to Twinsbuster for posting the deck.