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Round 3 Support team discussion https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=40233.msg498983#msg498983
« on: May 15, 2012, 11:14:21 pm »
This is going to be quite important and crucial, so I think an extra thread should be made for this.

Deadline for R3 support team battles: Support team battles have ended.

Non-rare cards we use(d) in Round 3:
:life โ€” 5 attackers, 1 defender (not attacked), 2 relics
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Non-rare cards used in Round 3:
Sizes of support teams replaced by number of defenders.
Added decks from failed match between Earth and Gravity.

:aether โ€” 3 defenders, 3 relics, 6/6 matches included
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Spoiler for Air:
:air โ€” not attacked by our team, 3 relics, 5/5 matches included
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:darkness โ€” not attacked by our team, 2 relics, 6/6 matches included
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:death โ€” 3 defenders, 3 relics, 6/6 matches included
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Spoiler for Earth:
:earth โ€” not attacked by our team, 2 relics, 6/6 matches included
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:entropy โ€” 1 defender, 2 relics, 6/6 matches included
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:fire โ€” 1 defender, 3 relics, 6/6 matches included
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:gravity โ€” 5 supporters, 1 relics, 5/5 matches included
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:light โ€” 1 defender, 2 relics, 5/5 matches included
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Spoiler for Time:
:time โ€” not attacked by our team, 3 relics, 6/6 matches included
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Spoiler for Water:
:water โ€” not attacked by our team, 4 relics, 6/6 matches included
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In-element cards our opponents can use without restrictions:
Put into one deck to save space. Add Psion!
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« Last Edit: May 21, 2012, 01:58:46 pm by Helston »
Team :life, reigned by :aether: Long live Frogtal! - Wat

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Re: Round 3 Support team discussion https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=40233.msg499017#msg499017
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2012, 12:47:37 am »
Deck ideas for attackers:
These are merely skeletons to get the ball rolling. Credits to Helston for quickly summarizing our options in team chat.

Grabbow (without Adrenaline)
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Toadbow (without Staves)
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Healing Firestall (without Fahrenheit, Deflagrations, might want to pack in another damage source)
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Scorpion Firestall (without Fahrenheit, CC)
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Frogtal (without defense, might want to add Heals)
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Stoned Dragons (without Adrenaline, healing)
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« Last Edit: May 16, 2012, 12:50:40 am by drolly »
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Re: Round 3 Support team discussion https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=40233.msg499053#msg499053
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2012, 02:11:56 am »
UPDATE: I was going to update the first post (I did aether as of how they are right now), but it feels a bit time consuming, especially when we don't know how many of these cards defenders will be allowed to use. UPDATED UPDATE: Ah screw it, I reckon I can work a bit faster than I did for aether.

More examples/ideas: Wings duo (good luck trying to get that off the ground with what we've got), fire duo with deflags, momentumed scorps (won't work too well without adrenaline), a stall-ish water/life duo, poison/BW/scorps, blessed scorps (forget that one), antimatter/carapace/heal stall and so on and so forth. There's plenty we can do when we're not restricted by the contents of our Vault. Really wish I had this many ideas coming to me during vault building.

Some suggestions for the above:
-The earth stall isn't a bad idea, but doesn't work too well in practice and could probably do with a bit of a revamp. Might do a bit better in this far more restrictive meta, however.
-Grabbow needs a reworking too. Those adrenalines added a lot to the speed, with a combined total of 9 targets to use it on. Might be best to forget about it completely and use other rainbows.
-Cards which would work in the Toadbow (which needs at least 3 life cards): Heal, Forest Scorpion, Momentum, Poison. Probably best to add in 3x Heal and Momentum.
-Healing Firestall
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-Scorpion Firestall's was never much of a deck to begin with, probably better off focusing on other ideas.
-Frogtal: Heals and Lightnings are what we want to add in there. Maybe +2 Heals, +4 Lightning?


We could do with some more fast decks, and probably some decks with off-element dragons, which aren't too easy to come by at the moment.

My personal preferences for teams to attack:
1. :fire - 2 support team, used almost all the :fire cards
2. :aether - 2 support team, used a large variety of :aether cards as well as a few other important ones. Can use Psion, but as our shield potential is limited, this isn't too relevant this round.
3. :entropy - 2 support team. Used a wide variety of :entropy cards and can't pull off a standard grabbow.
4. :light - 3 support team, but likely to attack. Used a variety of :light cards and can't firestall. Forest Spirits should ward off any earth stalls.
5. :death - 3 support team. Used a variety of :death cards and also likely to attack.
6. :earth - probably 3 support team. Used enough :earth cards to limit them somewhat, and they're probably going to be on the offensive.
7. :air - 2 support team. Quite a few :air cards still up their sleeve, including a couple of nasty ones. In such a good position in the overall standings that they might just set both to defense.
8. :darkness - 4 support team. They're in a similar position to us. With so many cards used one would assume they'd be ripe for the picking, given that they'll have quite a few attacks this round. However, it's pretty likely they'll be putting a lot of effort into their support team battle next round, like us, so any match between the two of us could be very even.
9. :water - 2 support team. They're a the biggest target out there, and were no. 1 on this list until I realised that they'll know this. They're going to be defending the four relics they've got, probably with both support team members.
10. :time - 2-3 support team. Very few time cards used this round means that with 2 defenders they could play almost anything. Even one defender would be dangerous.
11. :gravity - probably 5 support team. Like with darkness, they're in a similar position to us. Unlike darkness, they've used very few gravity cards and only have one relic, which they'll undoubtedly have someone defending.

Put myself, drolly, Kai and UnderneathTheLens and Belligerence on offense and swishy on defense. Doesn't really matter who attacks what, but better to associate players with opponents regardless.

Here's a good addition if we were looking for a rush:
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The recent Nymph buffs got me thinking if I could use Nymph's Tears at all (not that the buff helps this deck at all). Turns out a water duo is still pretty quick, and has the added bonus of 3|6 Nymphs. I've also realised we need to be careful of Mind Flayers (I was thinking Lobos initially, but they're rare and so can't be used in support battles) because of our likely dependence on Forest Spirits and Scorpions. At least that's only possible for aether or rainbow decks, and unupped rainbows don't usually worry about Flayers.
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Re: Round 3 Support team discussion https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=40233.msg500007#msg500007
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2012, 03:50:11 pm »
My thoughts on Support Team duels:

Attacking:

kai vs  :fire xn0ize:
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I'm expecting DimShields (who am I kidding... from the moment I joined team Life, I've been seeing DimShields around every corner). I say we fight Fire with Fire. And Aether with Fire, too. Why not.

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Helston's Firestall.

Belligerence vs  :aether Coinich:
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A surprising amount of cards banned. I expect to see Psion, but maybe not, because we have 1 of the only 2 spell reflecting shields in the game. I say whatever we use, we use at least 1-2 Emerald Shields, just in case.

Deck: I'm really not sure. Maybe something like:

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To take advantage of the lack of DimShield, and avoid Wings maybe?

UnderneathTheLens vs  :entropy Bloom:
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Right. My DimShield paranoia is returning in full force. I'm not sure what to use, though. Maybe the Nature's Wrath variant kai used in R1?

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Frogs instead of Cockatrices since we used Cockatrices this round.

drolly vs  :light ak65ala:
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... I don't know. These guys have thrown out some pretty unexpected decks, so I have no reason to believe that they won't continue that trend. Something versatile is probably our best bet. How about a Grabbow?

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I filled the last few slots (skeleton taken from drolly's post) with things to counter possible things Light might throw at us.

killsdazombies vs  :death Daccoo:
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I can't even begin to guess what they'll throw at us. Maybe Helston's Nymph's Tears deck?

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The Life Nymphs are strong attackers,  fairly CC resistant, and the deck is pretty quick.

Defending:

swishy vs  :death Shrink:

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Frogtal perhaps? With 1 person on defend, we can use DimShield to make it viable.
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Maybe a few Heals/Lightnings?

Edit:
An edit was made to the Round 3 Support Team matchups.

Unless something went awry, we have no defensive support team battles this round.

Second edit: I totally didn't think about the fact that defenders would be able to use banned cards based on how many defenders each team has. The decks I suggested were using the assumption that the cards that their respective team used wouldn't be used. With Helston's overview, I realized how much of a disadvantage we're at attacking...

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Re: Round 3 Support team discussion https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=40233.msg500279#msg500279
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2012, 02:17:13 am »
Quick thoughts from iPhone:

Thanks or the input Belligerence. Unfortunately I'm finding myself disagreeing with you. On the other hand I've got a fairly good knack of being counter-decked (see Grid, last round in War (although Devtosis not winning is bewildering), my two BL seasons) despite how much I think things through so what you suggest might be much better than my suggestions.

:fire: after the lightning trick we pulled last round I'm expecting Phoenixi with either off-element CC or shields. Hence why I think a Phoenix/Heal/Deflag/scorps or frogs duo our could would work. Susceptible to being outrushed by Dragons or Seraphs, which might also be used, esp. Seraphs

:aether: Three defenders, ouch. Fractal > Firestall, Dim > Rush. I'm thinking the Toadbow, add in Chrysaora somewhere.

:entropy: Their choices are a lot of CC or dragons. Or both. Not sure for now.

:light: Wings + Pegasus + Blessing would work vey well for them. So well that a poison/BW duo should be unexpected.

:death: That pick I do like, Belligerence. Alternatively a heal/spirit/purify/shield duo. The rush could be better, because without adrenaline or high HP creatures, we're suckers to Bone Wall. This deck would prove that wrong (maybe).

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Re: Round 3 Support team discussion https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=40233.msg500288#msg500288
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2012, 02:26:26 am »
Seems like I keep forgetting things... we went over it the last 2 rounds, but yet for each of the deck ideas I suggested, I was basing them off of the idea that the cards each respective team used would be banned. Since they'll be defending, attacking just became significantly harder...

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Re: Round 3 Support team discussion https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=40233.msg500291#msg500291
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2012, 02:29:08 am »
Only attacking :death and :aether. They each have 3 defenders, the others only have 1 and as such are almost as restricted as us.

Here are some rough builds. They all need testing and tweaking, which I can't do all myself:

vs :fire
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Check it out vs the UG deck they used last round (keep in mind that repeats are very unlikely) and anything you can think of that includes Crimson Dragon, especially fast decks (like PUgon)

vs :aether
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Try testing vs fractal stalls, maybe a bonebolt and some aether rushes. Use phase spiders over Psion, I can't see them sending any our way. No real idea what they'll be sending us.

vs :entropy
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This is a complete guess. Any thoughts on entropy at all?

vs :light
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Hard to fit any more dragons in there, unfortunately. Try it against a Pegasus duo, no idea what else.

vs :death
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Try it out against death rushes, pandebonium/boltbow. Dims and Wings would ruin is, but it's risk I reckon we should take.
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Re: Round 3 Support team discussion https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=40233.msg500902#msg500902
« Reply #7 on: May 19, 2012, 04:30:51 pm »
I got a PM from Aether today, I'll skip to testing the deck Helston suggests using.

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Bonebolt 1 - 5:
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Too much CC. So many shields. Can't seem to find a version without the Arsenics, so I just tested it with them included. I doubt the result would be much different, Arsenics or not.

Frogtal 5 - 0:
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Random fact: AI Fractals Forest Spirit over Horned Frog. Random fact 2: AI saves up quanta to play Fractal when using 6 quanta that turn to play a DimShield would result in a win. If played by a human, I expect that the result would be close to 4-5/5-4.

Generic Aether deck 5 - 4:
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Went 4 - 0, then the AI learned how to play DimShields and won 4 in a row. With only 1 Deflgration and 1 Momentum, this is most likely a loss against a human.

The deck does decent enough, but against Aether I can strongly feel the lack of PC. 1 Deflgration and 1 Momentum just isn't enough. I suggest either a deck with more PC (Nature's Wrath, maybe?) or - Chrysaora, + Momentum. The Chrysaora, at the very best, can inflict 6 poison, usually inflicting only 2-3 poison, if I even draw it. It doesn't really add up.

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Re: Round 3 Support team discussion https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=40233.msg501065#msg501065
« Reply #8 on: May 19, 2012, 10:58:16 pm »
Gah, Real Life has been stealing all my time since Thursday so I haven't been and won't be able to do much for my team which desperately needs help :(

Any thoughts on entropy at all?
Just a quick thing: So far, Entropy has shown a liking for fat stall decks in support team battles. These can be well built with Chaos Seeds and Mutations, with 1 defender they can take either Pandemonium or Sanctuary. Belligerence's quite right by fearing Dimensional Shields. Frogtal should counter some of their stalls as long as these don't include Panda or many shields, I suppose. We also might consider to include Deflagrations against Disses or Dims (Firestall with >=2 Emeralds?). Or Entropy is going to change their general strategy - I don't know.
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Re: Round 3 Support team discussion https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=40233.msg501142#msg501142
« Reply #9 on: May 20, 2012, 01:37:30 am »
They might have taken far stalls in the past, but it's hot ouch of an option this time. They can only use one of diss shield and pande. If they stall a flooding/AM stall looks most likely. They could easily build a dragon deck too. Perhaps some sort of stallbow? Otherwise the Frogtal is our best bet as far as I can tell.

My Life/Fire duo is rather lackluster vs Fire. If I was fire I'd run a Fire Shield/SS stall and watch all our creatures hopelessly kill themselves, or a Dragon/plate armour/Tit shield duo. Maybe even a cloak/dragon duo, but this seems a little less likely. Perhaps an Azure Dragon/Fog duo?

As for aether... this one has me stumped. More thoughts to come.

Also, we need to schedule these matches. Assuming no one's done so already, I'll get onto Kai.
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Re: Round 3 Support team discussion https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=40233.msg501147#msg501147
« Reply #10 on: May 20, 2012, 01:48:39 am »
I'm be playing plastiqe ( :entropy). Shall I just take frogtal + lightning then?

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Re: Round 3 Support team discussion https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=40233.msg501202#msg501202
« Reply #11 on: May 20, 2012, 02:56:39 am »
Unless anyone has a better suggestion, sure. I'd have to rate Flooding/AM as rather unlikely anyway due to the lack of an alternative win condition and the fact that it's generally a water-heavy duo, especially without a Diss shield. Flooding/diss shield is a fairly big risk thanks to our forest spirits, too.

Still looking into aether, still stumped.

BINGO! FFQ/Hope. Thank you Team Life from War #2!

Latest deck for Kai vs :fire
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Deflags are largely unnecessary without rares to worry about, unless they go for another UG deck, which is a risk I'm willing to take. Rain of Fire serves as better CC than Rage Pots if you're going for a deckout. Thorn Carapaces don't do much vs Fire, they're far too slow. The Crimson Dragons are an alternative win condition, because who doesn't like those? I'm fairly happy with this build.

And here's the FFQ deck for :aether. If you're worried about Psions, you could probably swap the Scorpions for Emerald Shields. I'm not too worried about deckout because of how many cards aether has access to, and how likely they are to try to actually kill us:

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And some testing of this deck:

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3-1. About that loss. I had a bad draw, no Queens in my top 15 or so cards, and no creatures in my top 11 or 12. That first creature was a Forest Scopion, which the AI, to my utter horror, decided to Fractal. By the time I had hope up I had 27 poison counters on me. If I hadn't done that I probably would've won.

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4-1. I didn't bother finding a replacement for Arsenics either, and a human may have won an extra one, but I'm fairly confident that this deck could beat any variations they manage to come up with.

And a quick little reminder will, you can't sub for any of the support battles this round, it has to be someone from the support team or the Lieutenant because they're attacking battles.
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