Half-bloods Are they worth it now?

[pervepic]

Yes, they are worth of playing now, especially after new Gods came out and AI was improved. New Gods are not easy at all and some Gods learned to use Eternity, so some games could take forever to win those. But Half Bloods are still often beatable with the usual Graboid Rush (like 14 Towers, Graboids, Shriekers and 4 Basilisk Bloods) or Mono-Darkness (with some Syphons to kill Otys and Maxwells), Mono-Aether or Fractal-Chargers, or Fire stall (something like 6 Shards and Bolts, 2-3 Fahrenheits and Shields, maybe 1-2 Explosions) or Mono-Light or Flying Owls (with Shards and Air Nymphs) or Dune Scorpio-Pharaoh Decks with Shards or Death Deck (with Cats) There are many possibilities. Useing quick Rainbows, something like this

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is a possibility too.

Besides, Ai5 has great variety of decks and it gives upgraded cards sometimes.

Just in case, to avoid deckouts, a bit bigger version of this deck (might be complitely unoriginal, I don't know):

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 ??? are Sanctuaries

[QuantumT]

Vader Sader is also a very solid choice for ai5.

[Chodos]

I stopped doing HB after the change where Feral Bonds stopped collecting health gain like vampire ability. Then I started grinding FG's and got tired of loosing more than half the time on a good day. Upped cards are great rewards, but I just need a spell for a bit now where I just win a lot against a fun deck. My card rate has been really, really low. After about 30 wins, I got one upped card and one unupped card.

Going to keep grinding just for fun anyway.

[Genuinous]

I think AI5 is worth farming but only until you can make a great FG farming that. I started (completely unoriginally) with SG's almost unupped FG farming deck, with which I did beat a few gods, but my score was falling and it was bothering to only win once in 4-5 matches.
Then I switched to AI5 with the same deck and barely lost (90-95% winning). Games weren't the fastest with the deck, but it was stable and I quickly collected electrum for a fully upped FG farming deck (CCYB). Haven't played AI5 since, because (after upgrades) I'm easily above 50-60% winning (no depressing or score losing) and I get a lot more electrums.
So imo farming AI5 is for newer players collecting for FG farming decks, after that it's not worth it.

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Take Fire stall, the original with SoG, not sanctuary--->slim it down--->farm AI5--->get cards
I started with 2 SoG and had a 60-70% wins, now with 6 it's at least 80% and with some upped cards from spins, I made the CCYB. It's a good way to make money and score. I tried the bolt-antimatter deck and that one works well too. In coclusion: they are worth when you're using a good deck(mostly unupped, i don't see why farm half-bloods when you can farm FG) and you have the objective to upgrade cards for FG farming.

[TheForbiddenOracle]

Take Fire stall, the original with SoG, not sanctuary--->slim it down--->farm AI5--->get cards
I started with 2 SoG and had a 60-70% wins, now with 6 it's at least 80% and with some upped cards from spins, I made the CCYB. It's a good way to make money and score. I tried the bolt-antimatter deck and that one works well too. In coclusion: they are worth when you're using a good deck(mostly unupped, i don't see why farm half-bloods when you can farm FG) and you have the objective to upgrade cards for FG farming.

Read my sig for a Fire Stall...

[(...)]

Take Fire stall, the original with SoG, not sanctuary--->slim it down--->farm AI5--->get cards
I started with 2 SoG and had a 60-70% wins, now with 6 it's at least 80% and with some upped cards from spins, I made the CCYB. It's a good way to make money and score. I tried the bolt-antimatter deck and that one works well too. In coclusion: they are worth when you're using a good deck(mostly unupped, i don't see why farm half-bloods when you can farm FG) and you have the objective to upgrade cards for FG farming.

Read my sig for a Fire Stall...

That's a great one, already saw it. I use less CC but it's rather for my playstyle.

[Captain Scibra]

I actually developed an  / low-damage stall, the best variant having 80% wins, 33% or more EM rate, and about 16ttw:

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Feel free to comment on the deck thread.

Does pretty good on cash from just the winning alone, it's very mechanical and straightforward, just eat and destroy everything lethal.  Go ahead and try it in the Trainer a few times if you don't believe me.  It's what I use when I'm looking for some fun and unexpectancy.  Only loses to extreme cases like early Immortal spamming, basically why it's perfect against AI5.

[Jenkar]

Some Stats

Games	Won	EMs	Upped card wins	Unupped card wins
100	85	73	7	22

[TheForbiddenOracle]

Some Stats

Games	Won	EMs	Upped card wins	Unupped card wins
100	85	73	7	22

Um, you didn't tell us what deck you used

[Jenkar]

Some Stats

Games	Won	EMs	Upped card wins	Unupped card wins
100	85	73	7	22

Um, you didn't tell us what deck you used

My bad. A not-totally upped version of Uncle Jellyfish's Firestall, the one in your sig.

[tttt]

Some Stats

Games	Won	EMs	Upped card wins	Unupped card wins
100	85	73	7	22

That's less then 1 uped card per 10 wins. Sounds really unrewarding o_O