Guest posts by at8mistakes

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Farming Studies and Statistics / Re: List of decks used against Arena with Stats 2.0

« on: January 21, 2012, 01:33:08 am »

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I know that this deck has been significantly nerfed lately, but I can farm Gold league fairly successfully with it. It could be a bit more efficient, but all of the extra cards have a use. So far I'm 27-14 with it, with 3 rare spins. 90% of my victories are EM's as well. (I know 3 out of ~50 isn't much, but it's a lot of gold, and is funding my next farming deck.)

I'm sure most are familiar with the deck, but I'll give a few notes.

Ideally, I want to play the Anubis and a Quint. Then fly an Eternity, twin universe it, and quint both with the Anubis and 2nd Quint. With another Eternity as your weapon, that lets you rewind 4 creatures per turn.

With your phase shields to stall, that's usually enough to rewind the opponent to less than 15 damage per turn, which you can heal.

Never, ever, ever play your GotP until you can fractal it and do a lot of damage quickly. If it dies, you can't stall with Phase Shield/Rewind the GotP.

I've won several games  by letting my shield's lapse for a few turns, then letting my shards heal me up. This is how I generally outlast decks that have their own Phase Shields.

Don't be afraid to take damage, don't play the shield right away. You can heal up later and save your shields for when you really need them.

Use the Anubis to test the waters if you don't have a decent setup. You can still fly and quint 2 Eternity's, giving you 3 total.

This deck is slower than many of the rush decks, but I don't mind longer games if I win more often. 8)
 - However, after getting used to playing the Deck, there will be a point fairly early one when you know how the game will turn out. Most of the time, you know you will win, you just have to wait until you have the right cards to finish them off. Sometimes, you'll know you will lose. But! Until you've played ~50 or so games with it, don't quit too early. With the amount of stalling/rewinding in the Deck, I've made a comeback in many games.

Decks with a lot of poison are hard to deal with, but if you can rewind them/stall them long enough, you can outheal/outdamage them enough to win.

Decks with quicksand, or a lot of PC cards will hurt you. But again, if you can stall/rewind them enough, you can win.

Decks that don' take the "draw 2 cards" perk are extremely hard to lose to.

Don't twin universe/fractal a Pharoah or Scarab, since you don't have any quanta to have the scarabs eat anything. I do this once a week. 

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General Discussion / Re: Elements on iphone

« on: August 25, 2011, 05:20:10 am »

I play it every so often from my HTC Evo 3D, no special app needed. It takes me a few seconds to size the screen correctly to the board's size but it's entirely playable.

It is a bit slow, but it's a mildly intensive game (by old computers/new phone standards) so it's not unexpected. It helps a little if you turn the settings down. I wouldn't sit and play 10 games in a row like I do on my PC's, and if there was an optimized version for the phone I'd be all over it, but it runs okay as is on my android.

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Rainbow Decks / Re: (1.27) CC? Why Bother? - unupped

« on: August 02, 2011, 09:04:53 pm »

Well again, the problem is not decking out. That was just a small comment about adding the purify. The problem is my loss rate is much higher than what I've read others have had with this deck, and I've sunk too much money into it to do much else other than lose 95% of my games.

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Rainbow Decks / Re: (1.27) CC? Why Bother? - unupped

« on: July 25, 2011, 12:53:33 am »

 I should have been more clear, sorry. I rarely deck out with this, except against poison heavy decks. I added a purify to the mix since I've lost quite a few to poison, but because poison decks usually have bonewalls that can skyrocket up, I tend to deck out against them instead of succumbing to poison damage now. I don't deck out often, I just meant that I changed my poison losses to deck out losses.

 I stop using my hourglasses around 10 cards or so, since if I can't win in the next 10 turns, I wasn't going to win anyway. I've played another 50 games since my last post, and have only won 2 more times. I did win a supernova so that's a step toward having 6 of them, but this deck is draining my funds much better than it is adding to them (including won cards.)

 I just don't have to luck to pull this deck off.

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Rainbow Decks / Re: (1.27) CC? Why Bother? - unupped

« on: July 24, 2011, 10:41:55 pm »

 Hm, my win loss ratio is fairly terrible with this deck. Out of 100 games, I've only one three (twice to Decay, once to Neptune.)

 I even had half the deck upgraded from my previous Rainbow deck . Am I just unlucky or is this most people's going rate? I'm in the process of raising 9000 to switch to supernovas, but I've lost more than I've lost about 3000 just playing, and have only won 2 upgraded cards, so even if I sold them I'm still down ~800.

 Any help for the new guy? The only thing I've done that isn't on the list is added a Purify to help against the poison decks. It works great, but I usually end up decking out now instead of losing outright.