Oracle : Hermes

[ralouf]

They are ? I have 10 upped I keep winning only this card when I got a special spin.

[Boingo]

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?

Yeah, 1 phase shield in 15 cards is frustrating.  I drew 5 TUs but since he was only growing a fire spectre, I waited.  Last turn he drops heavy armor on it but since no further shields arrived so Boingo died a firey death.

[coldfusion]

First win vs hermes ever with EA Phase Shield. A good opening hand meant I stacked up lots of quanta early. Hermes decided not to draw a golem but plate armoured his spectre to 20/9. TU that 5 times and it's over in 2 turns.

[Higurashi]

For some reason Splat doesn't work for me at all, so I started looking at other options that could use SoD's and SoSa's with a Light mark. Poison without Arsenics wasn't enough damage, so I got a crazy idea: because you're in danger of getting quanta-denied with Explosions and you need to stay at 30 cards to prevent faildraws as much as possible, what you want is card advantage.

Where is there card advantage in spades? That's right, Aether.
Easiest EM I've ever had. I could toy with him with my fat SoD's.

by Higurashi

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I ran this with 6 Dragons and 12 towers, but I got a 4-tower draw, which won't happen often, and you only actually need 4 Dragons to kill (in the unlikely event he plays Fire Buckler before you play your first Dragon), so here's a hybrid because the only way he can win is by quanta denial.

Winrate: 3-0
Fat EM's: 3

[ARTHANASIOS]

Personally, I find Hermes the most difficult of all the False Gods. Hermes just can beat you so easily and sometimes even the recommended decks won't work (it is so easy to get a bad starting hand).

[dragonsdemesne]

SPlat pretty much destroys Hermes.  It's the deck I always use when I get Hermes predictions.  I have a win/loss record at home for it, but I'm at work now, so I don't have the exact numbers.  I'm pretty sure it's something like 4 or 5 wins and 0 losses.  Even with the AI playing more intelligently against SoSa than it used to, it's still pretty easy.  It'll still grow its creatures if you have SoSa active, too, it just won't play any more.

[Junkers]

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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This deck works like an absolute charm. Kudos to the designer...

[memimemi]

I just beat Hermes in 9 turns with this:

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[bobknows]

slapped this together in about 2 minutes, won:

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as it turned out he deflagged all of my towers, but I got one combo out first and stalled with the SoSacs.

How I think it could be improved: less SoD,  more SoSac, and only 5 quint/sow each. with all the growing creatures he has you really only need one combo to win.
this really has a lot of potential, but I'm not the one to perfect it, maybe someone more experienced would like to look at it?

[ShareWarFare]

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

[furballdn]

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

Er, yeah. that deck is in the OP (opening post of the thread) as well as his page on the wiki. SoSac also does great against Hermes if you have them.

[Cheesy111]

Spoiler for Hidden:

For some reason Splat doesn't work for me at all, so I started looking at other options that could use SoD's and SoSa's with a Light mark. Poison without Arsenics wasn't enough damage, so I got a crazy idea: because you're in danger of getting quanta-denied with Explosions and you need to stay at 30 cards to prevent faildraws as much as possible, what you want is card advantage.

Where is there card advantage in spades? That's right, Aether.
Easiest EM I've ever had. I could toy with him with my fat SoD's.

by Higurashi

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6rm 6rm 6rm 6rm 6rm 6rm 6rt 6rt 6rt 6rt 6rt 6rt 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 808 80f 80f 80f 80f 80f 8pq

I ran this with 6 Dragons and one less tower, but I got a 4-tower draw, which won't happen often, and you only actually need 4 Dragons to kill (in the unlikely event he plays Fire Buckler before you play your first Dragon), so here's a hybrid.

Winrate: 2-0
Fat EM's: 2

Fat EMs, easy to play without thinking, great deck.  Thank you!