Guest posts by ivalmian

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Rainbow Decks / Re: ivalmian's Rainbow SpeedDeck (kills almost all FG with elem mastery)

« on: January 29, 2010, 09:04:28 pm »

I finally hit 100 games.  Here are the updated statistics. (http://elementsstatistics.comxa.com/getstatistics.php?dv=2872398504)

I managed a 0.48 win rate, which is pretty good since my 2 most frequent opponents were Gravitron and Rainbow (23 games against these two).  All but 6 of the wins were with Elemental Mastery.

Notes:

• The deck is clearly better for me with more sundials and a 2nd FB.  I will forever have them in.
• The Aflatoxin was a toy for me, but not worth it.  Often I did not have the death quanta to fuel it.
• Only in 1 game would I have needed a miracle to stay alive while also having the light quanta to use it.  It also would have had to be in my hand at the time.  I do not miss taking this out of the deck.
• The Rainbow deck is about staying alive in the early game.  Once you turn the corner, you will win with EM.  For that reason I favor the extra SD defense, and extra FB.  This combo beats out SoGs easily, and the stats I have prove it (compare to my earlier SoG deck).
  
• 12 of my losses I attributed to not getting enough towers out quick enough.  Because of this I will be removing the Aflatoxin for another tower.
• Other options for that slot are the Arctic Squid, another SD, a Permafrost shield, Antimatter, Purify, SoG, or the Miracle.

I like how the deck is playing, and other than the 1 card modification I mentioned above, I am going to keep playing with this variant.  I know its not one of Ivalmian's official variants, but the attached deck is my variant of choice.  I'll call it the "Vreely Life Variant", due to having another FB, and more defense with the extra SDs.  I'll show it here without the Aflatoxin.

I did play 80 games with Jangoo's variant and either I am not as good of a player, or I am a bit more unlucky.  I pulled off a 45 percent win rate with it.

Deck shown below.  Its really 39+1, where the 1 can be your flavor of the day (permafrost, squid, miracle, SD, Antimatter, SoG, Purify, etc.).  Put it in place of one of the QTs shown below.

hm.. it seems you're a little quanta starved since you took out both sns and added only 1 qt..

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Rainbow Decks / Re: ivalmian's Rainbow SpeedDeck (kills almost all FG with elem mastery)

« on: January 29, 2010, 08:03:16 pm »

hm.. i'm trying with 2 upped sundials... still not sure if they are better then unupped though :p

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Forum News and Announcements / Re: System overload

« on: January 29, 2010, 08:02:21 pm »

IRC is my favorite chat system :p

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Trio & Quartet / Re: Nymphomania (anti-FG) + stats

« on: January 29, 2010, 05:05:08 pm »

nice and probably fun to play, but is quite worse than standard rainbow

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False Gods / Re: ''Improved steal'' in 40 card deck rainbow against FG

« on: January 29, 2010, 05:02:45 pm »

In my deck steal is 1 in 40 precisely BECAUSE it is situational.

Against Gemini I use it to either steal lobo or gravity tower (both are essential since early lobo will effectively stop ALL of his momentum, while having a quinted oty by turn 3 is an automatic win, something you usually can't afford with just QT though)

Again Fire Queen I used it to steal ferral bond, this allows me to survive even while my shields are down and pretty much guarantees an EM if  I win (with 20 creatures I heal by 40HP, which is VERY nice)

Against Elidnis and Scropio it is UBER useful if you steal the aether tower early, or to steal a weapon (say the nasty arsenic) if the card is later on

Against Morte stealing Arsenic is often what saves me from being poisoned to death

Against Incarnate you more or less HAVE TO steal his boneyard if you don't want to be overwhlemed by his skellies.

Paradox/Rainbow/Destiny I like to steal their hourglass

Miracle.. I like to steal his early emerald tower since it prevents him to FF spam and also helps me get my own queen/druid combo going active... Later in the game I usually steal light tower in an attempt to slow down his miracle wall.

Chaos Lord, I always save my steal until I have 100+ damage worth from creatures and then I steal his dissapation shield and bam!, he is down to 50 HP

Other gods, other uses... but as you use, you generally DON'T need many steals, but against every god you need like ONE or TWO.. this is why I chose to have one and to use it situationally... Steal is often NOT a clear game changer, but it is also VERY useful and it is often a FREE card (since no other dark quanta are used in my and most other FG grinder decks).

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General Discussion / Re: The Sundial Nerf: Analysis and Solutions

« on: January 29, 2010, 04:59:45 am »

seriously.. congeal is not a solution, it affects one creature, and only for 4 turns, most fgs put more than 1 creature EVERY turn, as such, you would have to run a water oriented deck.......... solution is what i and puppychow did:

shields + quint for creatures + pa for permanents...

we know this works, because both of our decks work!

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Rainbow Decks / Re: ivalmian's Rainbow SpeedDeck (kills almost all FG with elem mastery)

« on: January 28, 2010, 09:40:42 pm »

After 15 games:

ivalmian jangoo variant:
destiny         3   0 (em)
hermes         1   1 (em)(wow, dead in 4 turns)
divine glory   0   1 (almost....sigh)
miracle         2   0
rainbow         1   1 (20 effing cards w/o an hourglass/oty/phase shield)(em)
fire queen      1   0  (no qt in draw)
paradox         1   0 (em&3cards)
scorpio         2   0
chaos lord      1   0 (crazy game, had to force him to deck-out)

80%
I'm afraid to keep playing...I'm due for a "market-correction"

Clearly this is skewed, as I've been fortunate to be presented w/ FG's other than Seism/DG/Graviton.  I think there may also be some that I forgot to record.  Wins and losses though, so hopefully they're a wash. 

I have added a single card though, which was critical to both wins vs. Scorpio.  That would be purify.  Figured it was more than worth it to have the one water quanta purify and increase the deck to 41 cards than to lose because of 20 poison before you can ever get your own deck goin.

80%... rofl.. I've never had 80% on any deck :p

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False Gods / Re: The False God Farming Challenge

« on: January 28, 2010, 04:44:11 pm »

90 games is certainly too short :p at 10min/game I think most deck would only make 9-10 games, not enough to even cover all gods

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Rainbow Decks / Re: ivalmian's Rainbow SpeedDeck (kills almost all FG with elem mastery)

« on: January 28, 2010, 04:42:58 pm »

Ha hahahaha

Chalk it all up to lady luck smiling on me for a few games, I'm sure it will go back to "normal" soon

seriously, keep me updated on how it goes

Also.. when I play, I actually replace the SoG with sundial... may be 'tis a better thing :p

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False Gods / Re: god farm?

« on: January 28, 2010, 04:41:37 pm »

Did you try ivalmian's?

Yes, but without SoG, because i haven't one

When i see 41% or 60% of win, i'm perplexed  and i fell the most unlunky.
In my 100 games, 3 times i took ''Eternity" at the end. So i have 3 wins under just because a bad luck.
I didn't make stats each time i have no quantum in my first hand or just one; and each time I had to wait 5 turns for 2 entropy to play ''Supernova''.

But i was extremely lucky for card. 12 cards on 32 wins. (40%)
 

It's ok, I actually put a sundial instead of SoG into what I play (my only difference with jangoo's variant)

Also, in 100 games you should expect to loose 2-3 games due to eternity being the last card... the thing is, in 100 games, that's only 2-3 % additional loss

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Rainbow Decks / Re: ivalmian's Rainbow SpeedDeck (kills almost all FG with elem mastery)

« on: January 28, 2010, 12:29:38 am »

Haven't had much time to play lately:

Here's my first 6 games w/ the Jangoo variant...

ivalmian jangoo variant:
destiny         1   0 (em)
hermes         1   0 (em)
divine glory           0      1 (almost....sigh)
miracle         2   0
rainbow         0   1 (20 effing cards w/o an hourglass/oty/phase shield/sundial)
fire queen      1   0  (no qt in draw)

Very promising!  Both losses could be considered close.  Would've been my first win vs DG.  And I'm pretty sure my draw qualified as BAD vs Rainbow.

 

One of my decks works for elfreth ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO *the universe collapses*

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Dark Matter / Re: New God: Dark Matter

« on: January 27, 2010, 11:35:50 pm »

Actually he spams Black Holes. In one game he was playing more black holes than where needed to get rid of my quanta and continued to play them even if I have only 4 quanta total.
As long as he is playing them stupidly I can live with this god. What's annoying is the amount of the "ultra rare" nymphs he has in his deck. Your only chance with a rainbow deck is to play an Otyugh before he gets the first Nymph out.

he once played 2 black holes in a row when i had only 2 time quanta...   after that I was at a happy 0...