Oracle : Hermes

[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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+1 pillar -1 PU helps a little with quantum balance.

Yeah today I succeed with this one! (and I won 1 upped card  )
It pretty difficult because he killed 2 times my golem with Fire Bolt (when he has 60 it's hard to resist), so I got very lucky to have a third PU at the end of the game!! (and at the end he could kill him too I think, but he used Fire Bolt on my pv, why? Why just this time?)
Maybe one quintessence could be useful.

Thnaks for the deck!

[dragonsdemesne]

Got hermes at the oracle today and decided to take a peek at the decks people used.  I stole the deck here http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,8652.msg141868#msg141868 and replaced the quints with thunderbolts to take care of creatures in the early game, because quints seemed pretty silly to me in that deck.

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Lost 1 tower turn 1 before I could protect them.  Also lost a pillar a few turns later because it was in a separate unprotected stack.  Bolted one golem and took hits until I had to put the protected shield up.  Sat for awhile behind that, then twinned two golems.  One was immediately killed with about 3x lances + firestorm, and the other one went to town.  I drew a third twin universe and the golems did the rest while I hid behind another protected shield.  It took me a few turns to realize I actually had earth quanta to pump the golems, but that didn't cost me, fortunately :p

[TheForbiddenOracle]

All the EAs/PAs are meant for the Dim/Phase shields

[Bhlewos]

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

Used this deck, didn't know what mark it was so used Entropy on a hunch (I see now that it's water). Quanta wasn't a problem though, as you can see by the screenshot below.



To my amazement, I not only beat Hermes but EM'd him. The incredibly lucky draw helped (I put down a first turn Jade Shield), and his lack of early Explosions as well -- I took a gamble and played my unprotected Pulverizer to kill his Fire Buckler, and it paid off -- didn't see another shield for the rest of the game. +rep

[Bhlewos]

Used the counter again. Got an early nymph out and prayed for no Fire Buckler. Once I got the darkness nymph out it was pretty easy. Late Jade Shield and Pulvy, but I didn't need it -- there were only a couple of turns where his 3-damage firebolts kept me in the single digits. Late PA'd Fahrenheit ruined my EM.

[ddevans96]

RAGE. Drew nothing but pillars and EAs in my opening hand, drew two PUs and more pillars afterwards.

At least it was quick and (mostly) painless.

[willng3]

RAGE. Drew nothing but pillars and EAs in my opening hand, drew two PUs and more pillars afterwards.

At least it was quick and (mostly) painless.

D:

I've always thought it to be a near perfect counter too!

[ddevans96]

It would be if RNG didn't hate me D:

[Rember]

Started chaining at 16 cards left a... wait, no I didn't.
Phase shield confirmed for hide and seek world champion.

[Xamuel]

I was looking at the shield deck and thinking "yeah...  this deck sucks...  should I even bother..."  Then I played it, and it worked quite well.  Sure, I had draws which were pretty close to optimal, but the deck proves once again: simplicity is a virtue.

Spun not one, but two explosions :-)  w00t

[TheForbiddenOracle]

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Tried using this deck but he had a 3rd turn Fire Buckler () and never saw a Pulvy or Jade Shield. Pulvy probably wouldn't have mattered though, since he kept about 3 Explosions until the last turn when for some reason he decided to show it all at once.

[Beforememory]

Used UnUpped Opening Post, with one Up'd TU
I won, got an explosion
TY for deck