Oracle : Hermes

[aerendhil]

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Hello everyone ^o^

I almost killed him with that deck, he was down to 37 life points.
How could I improve it ?

[TribalTrouble]

Just gonna leave my opinion here,

Upgrade order for OP (My opinion) :
Enchant Artifact to make the enchant happen faster, be more reliable, since you tend to have enough aether quanta usually. Also, as I discovered with these upped, this creates excess Earth quanta. What can use Earth Quanta? Golems. PU Golems + Earth Quanta = Even stronger Golem (Note: the earth quanta is a BONUS for the deck, don't rely on it too much, for example don't PU a Golem early on with only 10 Attack...)
Dimensional Shields to make it so that you don't die if you don't have exactly 6 or more quanta. Can be a life saver.
PUs for same reason as above, these all make the deck more reliable.
Pillars. I put these last by my preference of, unless I can upgrade ALL the pillars, it really isn't worth it as much as the 2-3 different cards I NEED out.

[rickerd]

Lucky win with the first deck

[yee]

I just won 3 cards (Fire Lance, Explosion and Fire Storm)!!!

Used this deck

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[Joseph7]

I used the deck listed on the first original post on this thread (dim. shield/parallel/protect artifact) and I won easily. Thanks so much for the great deck idea! I also got an upped fire bolt off the spin 

[Jonny]

Spoiler for Hidden:

needs some decks that work well specifcally against Hermes

No Rares of Upgraded cards.
Use Enchant Artifact on your Dimensional Shields. Parallel Universe his Lava Destoyers.
(Start the Shield chain early, otherwise, he'll Fire Lance you to death.)

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You need a good draw and a lot of concentration to pull this deck off. I won (2/11, 10 in trainer).

[edit] Did it! Finally!



I got lucky and Hermes played nothing but deflagration on my pillars for the first couple of rounds. The destroyer was his second creature on the table and I had a handfull of PUs to make them work.
Well, it is good to know that Hermes really can be beaten with an unupped deck.

[dragonsdemesne]

Saw memimemi's post and decided to mod the deck a bit to this:

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I only got 1 quint and 1 lightning bolt in the top half of my deck, so I had a bit of trouble as you can see, but I think it's got potential, since I still got him fairly low even with crap RNG.  If I'd played the two SoWs on that ash eater (I assumed I'd draw a 2nd quint someday :p) I could've gotten him down to 10, since he had that ash eater fully stacked on turn 2. (after he got earth quanta)

SPlat used to be the best deck against hermes, but it's dead.  I tried poison dials without any success.  (0-2)  Maybe I'll go back to the dim/PA thing or even the LA thing?  Next time I get hermes I might try one of those, or else give this deck a second shot, because I think it would do alright most of the time.

[procproc]

I think I've  had pretty decent success against Hermes with poison dials. I don't have numbers, but I'm fairly sure I've beaten it a few times randomly FG farming.

[procproc]

@dragonsdemesne: I just gave that deck a shot partially upped and it worked for me. I think it'd be tricky to make it into something that could EM with much regularity, but it's probably good as a staple deck (even unupped and rareless!)

[Avenger]

@dragonsdemesne: I just gave that deck a shot partially upped and it worked for me. I think it'd be tricky to make it into something that could EM with much regularity, but it's probably good as a staple deck (even unupped and rareless!)

Without shards, that deck wouldn't work. Otherwise it is an interesting idea.

[Zso_Zso]

This is what I use for Hermes and it seems to work well enough:

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Yes its a variant of PoisonDials, but instead of Arsenic uses Morning Glory, because that cannot be destroyed by Explosions. Also low on sundials as they can be blown up but can still help sometimes -- usually use them very early if I lack something to play, don't play them in tight case when blowing up would get you killed. Rely mostly on Sacrifice to stay alive.

[manaboy100]

This is what I use for Hermes and it seems to work well enough:

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Yes its a variant of PoisonDials, but instead of Arsenic uses Morning Glory, because that cannot be destroyed by Explosions. Also low on sundials as they can be blown up but can still help sometimes -- usually use them very early if I lack something to play, don't play them in tight case when blowing up would get you killed. Rely mostly on Sacrifice to stay alive.

EM with 172 HP, won a Fire Shield.

This deck completely worked like a charm, but it's not really noob-friendly tho. Might want to put this on the first post, in case you want to add the best working deck