Alright got the first post updated.
The Event CardWell, I personally don't find Relics all that important unless it gives us access to about 5 upgrades per person. With that amount any one of us would be able to build a decent Frogtal or Animate Weapon deck. I also have little faith in putting our hopes in our Support Teams for supplying us with a reliable source of Relics. Therefore 5 upgrades seems like a far off number and 1 extra Relic probably won't make much of a difference in the bigger picture. I'm going to support bidding a single Black Dragon and being done with it. If you disagree, I'm all ears.
Match-upsSeveral of Helston's proposed match-ups look good to me, although I'll have to do a bit of testing to make sure regardless.
- Expecting to see either an Immo rush equipped with a bunch of CC or a Firestall. Sot is well known for preferring stalls which ironically makes a rush all the more likely.
- PUgons equipped with both Silences and Lightnings gives us CC protection against Firestalls (barring Sanctuary usage) and CC for Immo Rushes. Dragons are also resistant to CC in general as a bonus. Upping quanta sources first is going to be a priority for me as it just means I'll be able to win much faster.
- AdrenaTitans is also a possibility, though I agree that it would be smart to keep this hidden for now.
- Frogtal with Silences is a possibility as well, but if they decide to use a FireSancStall then we're at a considerable disadvantage.
- Common sense tells me to expect Devtal or Bonebolt here, but a Grabbow with a bunch of Lightnings would probably be a likely choice as well (see Round 1 of last War against Fire for a similar scenario).
- A Grabbow would probably work against Bonebolt for the simple reason that if the opponent can't Lightning anything then the deck loses a lot of its nuance. Aether used a similar tactic against Time during War 3 with the results I'm expecting. Devtal should be countered pretty well, but random utility cards such as Dim Shields or Lightnings could complicate things. However, I don't see our own Grabbow beating Aether's Grabbow. I'll need to test all of this more.
- Frogtal might work against all 3 decks, but I'm naturally concerned about the Devtal match up.
- With vaults being severely limited in terms of off-element cards, I'm somewhat doubtful that we would see a Grabbow or anything else using Novae in the first Round from them; Death seems like a more logical choice given the ability to splash random Purifies. Rather, I would expect to see anything using Dims, Wings, Discords or possibly a Firestall. They will not attempt to stall us unless they use a lot of CC as well.
- With this in mind, Devtosis or, better yet, Pestosis seems like a good choice here. Gravity has shown a historical weakness to Devtal so this seems plausible. Of course, CC is pretty unkind to this deck.
- PUgons with Lightnings would also be a good choice here. CC is pretty useless against the Dragons and Lightnings serves to deter opposing rushes or get the Dragons under Gravity Shield.
- Just about anything with Lobos and Dim Shields. Momentum gets taken care of while Frogs or whatever else can just roam free. Something rushier like Frogtal would make this a better match-up against Cata-Titans.
- I'll expect either Dims or Wings here, if not a Firestall. I wouldn't expect a deck such as Blessed Pegasus or a Grabbow for the simple reason that we have access to decks that leave them in the dust.
- Frogtal with Silences would work well against the first two, but Sancs complicate things against Firestall. I'll need to test this one as well, as I know for a fact that Light's FireSancStalls are much weaker than Fire's.
- Ghostal with Dims is definitely a high risk here. They used Wings versus us during our first match up last War, so we might see this again. An
duo with Discord might be used against us as well. Ghosts are probably their biggest resource, so we may as well counter them as much as possible.
- A duo with Wings and Shockwaves is probably our greatest chance to hard counter those decks, though it might be a bit obvious.
- Our largest Firestall also might work here, but I'd be most concerned with how it would deal with Ghostal.
- With the restriction of 6 Graboids in their starting Vault the odds of us having to face a Grabbow during the first round is reduced significantly. Instead we'll be at greater risk of facing Mono Entropy decks with a splash of control such as Reverse Time, Pandebonium, Discord/BH, or some other obscure Novabow.
- Our Wings deck counters just about all of these except Pandebonium. I'm not too sure how likely it is we'll see that one over the other decks.
- As it turns out, Sanctuary does not counter Discord despite being designed to do so
. No to Monks.
Oh and Member Roles...I'll have to decide on those after I'm satisfied with our deck match ups.
