Oracle : Hermes

[Avenger]

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Spinning on the concept of BW+CC, I made something more suited to combat Hermes. For future tries I'm going to pack 2 AM's, since even though the huge early Destroyer I never managed to nom never got to hit me even once, it could've given me an EM instead of me ending with a dangerous 30-ish HP due to Lances.

As with all Rainbows, get bad RNG with towers and you'll end up dead. In this case because of no BW. Mine went up around 36 HP. Nom extra Otys if no food is around.

I won with this deck on last round with exact damage. The problem is probably the lack of damage (my dragon perished to an early firewall). Anyone with a shard of wisdom should use it.

[Paranoid4ndroid]

Spoiler for Hidden:

If oracle told you its Hermes, use this deck

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I got nothing in spins, but it was easy win. First thing you do is use Enchant Artifact on pillars. Then simply wait until you have around 40hp left. At this point you should start to chain your shields/enchant artifact them and use spare    to Parallel Universe his Lava Golems, when they have 10+ hp

Oracle told me about Hermes and I just tried this deck against him ('cause if I'm not mistaken it's the only one among suggested decks which is totally unupped and I couldn't do otherwise), well I must say that I miserably failed but I think I was quite unlucky. I managed to EA my pillars early, but I drew no more EAs and I was forced to play my DSs without EA in order to avoid death from his pumped golems (but he smashed my DSs pretty fast, and obviously without shields I died pretty fast too). When I had 13 cards left in my deck, 5 remaining EAs were still laying there (that's because I think I was unlucky). Anyway I liked the idea of this deck (although I noticed it is very EA reliant and if you don't draw them you're pretty much done), maybe I'll give it another try.

[ColorlessGreen]

FWIW I personally don't really like to EA my pillars unless I'm in a situation where I have a lot of EA's in hand and a low number of pillars (and even then, usually not unless I'm in danger of discarding the EA's). Hermes does spam explosions, but it usually isn't enough spam to really shut down your quanta generation, while having a dim shield exploded is probably game over.

The deck is definitely very draw-dependent, but it does work fairly frequently and is definitely worth playing IMO.

[Paranoid4ndroid]

FWIW I personally don't really like to EA my pillars unless I'm in a situation where I have a lot of EA's in hand and a low number of pillars (and even then, usually not unless I'm in danger of discarding the EA's). Hermes does spam explosions, but it usually isn't enough spam to really shut down your quanta generation, while having a dim shield exploded is probably game over.

The deck is definitely very draw-dependent, but it does work fairly frequently and is definitely worth playing IMO.

You're right, I feared he would have shattered my pillars and that was my fault, I had just one EA in my starting hand and I thought "hey, I'll draw EAs for sure, there are still 5 of them in my deck" but I was so wrong. Anyway thanks for the tips.

[trashduke]

For what it's worth, I just won with a mirror/SoW deck.  But Hermes had the slowest start I've ever seen...  I had to toss out a SoW b/c there were no creatures to play it on!  Very strange game.

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[Higurashi]

That's pretty damn common for Hermes. He tends to play just a few growers. Though they come out fast, growers are perfect targets for Quint+SoW+Mirror since he'll keep growing them. The bigger issue in making such a deck consistent against Hermes is the quanta: with 12 Explosions he'll easily destroy all your towers if you pack too few. 8 is far, far too little. Luckily you don't need much quanta or CC, so you can easily remove 2 Thunderbolts for 2 Towers, or more.

[Grizzox]

Been EM'ing against Hermes regularly with a Speed Poison Kamikaze variant.

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The extra Arsenics and Towers are there to mitigate multiple Explosions from Hermes. You can add one or two weapons or towers to personal taste. As with all Kamikaze decks, just make sure not to deck yourself out.

[Higurashi]

I may have found a more reliable deck for me than the usual Poisondials-and-pray, but I've only played it twice so far (both EM):

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As early BW as you can to protect Towers from Explosions (unless you draw lots of Towers). Arsenic once you have a big BW or just several in hand. You'll wanna get about 10 Poison counters at least.