Oracle : Hermes

[Mataza]

I hate Hermes.
I used the deck in the op and died miserably. 4 dim shileds in starting hand, first draw another dim shield. All 3 pillars got exploded by turn 2.

It probably was bad draw, but I cannot believe that people claim Hermes to be beatable without rares and unupped while other (imho easier) FGs are supposedly unbeatable without upped cards.
But mostly I just hate Hermes for being such a damn effective FG.

[ddevans96]

First win in three games. Played with 5 PU, 4 upped towers, and 1 upped pend. It seems the stars (r fireworks) have to align somewhat, because getting the shields out too early means death by chain-break, too late means death by fire lance, and every shield has to be matched with an EA. But when it does work it's hilarious

[gumbeh]

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

Firebolted dead. Shard of some kind might help, idk.

[dragonsdemesne]

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Schooled Hermes with this variant of Liquid Antimatter.  Instead of using some improved dusks or vampire daggers, I just took them out because with all those explosions they'd never survive, anyway.  I put in some chaos powers to beef up the creatures before AM/LSing them.  Upgrade the rest of the deck if you have the cards, obviously, but other than that, I'm pretty happy with it.

[TStar]

Surprised nobody else has tried this yet and posted it.  Pretty much the perfect Hermes counter that gives you easy EMs.  The only way to lose is to faildraw really:

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???? are upped Shard of Sacrifice

I'm not sure if it'll work unupped since your pillars could get wrecked before you can get a Dune out but there might be a modded version that will work entirely unupped.

P.S.: This deck works pretty well on Graviton and Rainbow as well

[Jappert]

It works T

[Torph]

The Enchant arctifact + phase shield didn't work for me.. got only one phase shield, so it's probably a bad draw. Are there any more reliable decks?

[puri1]

OP deck worked like a charm. However, I waited the extra two turns to lay down my pillars so I could PA them. Basically, if you have at least three pillars at that point then at turn four you have exactly enough quanta for a PA Dim Shield (6 aether, 2 more earth). If you have more than two PU in hand and you need to discard one don't worry, two should be enough at a time. It gets a little risky with the lances, but his Destroyers should be rough and ready at that point so you shouldn't have to survive too long assuming you can PU enough of them.

[nolf]

Lost with the OP deck by 6 HP or in other words, by not drawing a third dim shield in time. But the concept is pretty sound, I'll try it again next time I face Hermes.

[Avenger]

Splat works perfectly vs hermes. Thanks Tstar & Jappert.

[ralouf]

Just EM'd with that : ? ? ? are Sosac.
Yeah 8 rare cards.

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[furballdn]

Just EM'd with that : ? ? ? are Sosac.
Yeah 8 rare cards.

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Too bad those SoSacs are one of the rarer rares. *sigh*