Oracle : Hermes

[TheForbiddenOracle]

Might wanna add to chain shields early... 12 Fire Lances, used 3 to devastate my health

[papipapo514]

I finally beat Hermes with this deck, but i had a good draw cause i made a purple nymph with SOR/quintessence on 3rd turn.
So i kept on anti-matter his monsters, great for my HP but he fire bolted me a lot till i draw jade shield and made dark nymph on 10th turn.
It was closed, i was at 17 HP, i think he could killed me with a rush but i finally won 
I guess i was lucky, Hermes is not very friendly FG

This is the deck i used, if it ll be usefull ...

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NB : sry for my poor english

[Avenger]

needs some decks that work well specifcally against Hermes

No Rares of Upgraded cards.
Use Protect 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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+1 pillar -1 PU helps a little with quantum balance.

[dunsel]

This straight up works.  I've never beat this god before and now I've got a win on him!

Thanks for the deck.

[automeris]

I had only beaten Hermes once before (with a CCYB variant) when I got him for my next false god today.  I had lost miserably the last time I had him with a slightly upgraded version of the Protected Phase Shield deck in the opening post.  I was trying for several hours, after reading this thread, to put together a deck of some sort.  Finally I decided just to play with the version of Ready & Waiting I had been playing with decent results yesterday against random false gods.  The only adjustment I made was removing an Ulitharid that I didn't think would be useful against Hermes.

I won with mastery. I did get a good draw.  I got a quinted and sharded Purple Nymph on turn 3, and I drew my Explosion and a Supernova before he played the only Fire Buckler I saw.  He played two dragons fairly early, which kept me constantly healing 30 a turn whatever he managed to do with his growing creatures.  I never liquid shadowed those two.

I also had a pet Shrödinger's Cat, which drew an early fire bolt.  He hit me with several firebolts, then usually healed me right up after.

Ready & Waiting (adjusted for Hermes)

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I would be very curious to hear if anyone else tries this deck against Hermes and what their success rate is.  (Or against any of the other false gods it is good against, for that matter.  Scorpio, with Purifies added, for instance.)  I rarely have time for more than the three games a day (with my pet) these days, and haven't really been able to give this deck the kind of testing I would like to give it, though it has been slowly evolving.

[Anothebrother]

Does anyone think that a fat    /  /  deck could work?

  :
Poison
Bonewall
Plague
Arsenic

 
Sundial
Hourglass
Eternity
Turt. Shield

 
Sanctuary
Morning Glory
Miracles
Reflective shield?

 
SoG
SoD
Animate?



I feel like something with these elements could work but every time i end up making it too busy and too much is going on

[Xenocidius]

I just beat Hermes for the first time ever using the deck in the OP. (Now the only God I haven't beaten is Rainbow, which will change when the Oracle squeals on him.)

I didn't get a PA early enough, so I had to sacrifice a shield to stall him. I was down to 10 HP by the time I started the chain. He firebolted me twice, bringing me down to 4 HP. I PUed a 27|5 Lava Destroyer a few times to draw firebolts away, and killed him quickly. It was then I noticed that you can actually grow the Lava Destroyers after Puing them. A surprisingly effective counter.

[Jaymanfu]

Yep, just save enough for your PA's and you can keep growing them as he uses his CC on them

[Viveleslardons]

needs some decks that work well specifcally against Hermes

No Rares of Upgraded cards.
Use Protect 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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It didn't works for me for this first try, I had only one shield that I used as soon as possible (turn 3 or 4). I used 2 parallel universe during this time of protection, but then.. I have been dead really fast!
I'll try another time

Maybe could you edit instructions too? (there aren't protect artifact anymore )

[TheForbiddenOracle]

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4/6 in Trainer, fail (draw) against real Hermes. If you have all the cards upgraded it might do some good for -2 Pillar +2 Pands

[Jaymanfu]

Im guessing its supposed to be darkness mark?

[TheForbiddenOracle]

Im guessing its supposed to be darkness mark?

Wow apparently I'm prone to silly mistakes. Also thanks