Round 1 - Salvaging, Discarding, Penalties and Converting

[wizelsnarf]

agreed. I think we would have to pack blessings in a rustlers deck...

[Daxx]

So Graboids instead of Rustlers then.

I'd like to keep the Titan as it makes the momentum'd scorpions deck really quite nasty.

[hrmmm]

np -- your deck just use 2 othys.
take out 3 otys then, and keep the titan?

Conversion:
6 Sundial
2 Mind Flayer
3 oty
1 thorn carapace ?

[wizelsnarf]

If you check the first post of mine on the front page I have a running list. I thought we could drop a dissipation shield. I think we have 5 and we could maybe discard 1 and convert another so we have 3 total...

[Daxx]

If you check the first post of mine on the front page I have a running list.

Ah, that's useful. Thank you.

[Glitch]

i would prefer graboids over rustlers.
since everybody uses high cc against us we need some more critter protection.
and shriekers (evolved grabs) have a nice synergy with adrenaline -- 8dmg sweet spot.

Also, now that the Age of Light card has been thrown out, our synergies with are limited and less useful (IMO) than other strategies with other elements; Rustlers hold little use for us at this point.

But it'd be nice to at least have 4, because they're more likely to be used than graboids, which happens to be a trio.  I've used adrenaline+shrieker before, it's not a good duo.  It's actually the deck that ruined earth's win-streak last war.

[hrmmm]

dont like rustlers for the following reason:

any opponent packs cc against life. and they pack it heavy (as we saw in round 1).

also we dont have anyo other life cards for a duo (blessings)
the little rustler will be nr.1 targed for any opponent. of corse they could be used as a bait.
but thats not the point of having them.
of corse we could pack them in our ffq deck. but are they realy needed in this deck?

i would like to have graboids:
they dont see them comming
they are less vulnurable against cc (all other critters we have are, except the dragons)

i would say, we try to put up our decks as fast as possible, then we can see if we can change something on the propaganda win/converting.

btw. we allready discarded the nymph tears?

[willng3]

i would prefer graboids over rustlers.
since everybody uses high cc against us we need some more critter protection.
and shriekers (evolved grabs) have a nice synergy with adrenaline -- 8dmg sweet spot.

Also, now that the Age of Light card has been thrown out, our synergies with are limited and less useful (IMO) than other strategies with other elements; Rustlers hold little use for us at this point.

But it'd be nice to at least have 4, because they're more likely to be used than graboids, which happens to be a trio.  I've used adrenaline+shrieker before, it's not a good duo.  It's actually the deck that ruined earth's win-streak last war.

At this point we need to think outside of the box.  The other teams already know what decks we have, they have fantastic ideas on how to counter them now since we went 1-8 last round, and they're also planning on us using duos for all of our games.  The deck hrmmm has adapted is closest to the last thing anyone will expect us to throw at them.

[wizelsnarf]

When is Salvaging Over? Once the timer for round 2 ends? If that is the case we can still trade nymphs tears for something else to discard.

Let me know...

[Daxx]

I thought it was when the deckbuilding phase is over, so that we could in theory use the cards we salvaged in our decks for the next round.

[wizelsnarf]

okay should I change the nymphs tears for something else then? Please let me know. I just tossed them up so we would make sure to have our 48 cards up there. We need 43 pendulums discarded and no more. That means we need to choose 5 non pendulum cards to discard. The dissipation shield and nymphs tears seemed obvious to me but. We could throw out some thorn carapace or something instead?

[Daxx]

Well, let's see what we're not using this round. If we have superfluous cards then we can get rid of them.