Round 2 Discussion

[willng3]

Yay finally found some time to sit down and think about our match-ups properly!  With so little time being left I'm going to probably have to leave most of this up to theorizing rather than physical testing, much to our disadvantage.

- Only one of their decks (the ginormous Entropy Stall) was able to hard counter Dim Shields last round.  I expect them to fully anticipate an Aether duo for this very reason, but then again I expect every single one of our opponents to do the same.  I would guess that PUgons with Silences and Dims with maybe a random Fractal would be able to stop that deck.

- Not really sure what to do here, but I'd expect something full of CC and Bone Walls/Dims so AdrenaTitans sounds like a fine idea.

- Their Crusader deck was quite unexpected last Round, but I would be willing to guess that most if not all of their decks would have trouble facing a Nature's Wrath variant of any type.  Rage Potions kill off Crusaders, Deflags take out weapons, etc.  I doubt they're using much of their salvage from last Round other than for conversion fodder.  What remains of our Grabbow could also work here, provided their deck isn't a FireSancStall.

- ...I really don't know.  We could try the Wings deck or try and catch them off guard with Devtosis I guess.

- Devtosis seems like it would handle everything they used last round easily except the Grabbow and their Sanctuary stall.  I'd also be worried if they ran a Shrieker rush.  Other than that I would suggest PUgons with Lightnings, made into a 34 card variant to deck out their Fractal deck if needed.

- Another opponent I'm not sure how to face.  If they plan to use Shockwaves as CC then our Crusader deck might stand a chance.  However, I'd be extremely cautious of Wings.

Feedback needed and appreciated.

[Helston]

My current thoughts on Salvages:

(Acceledolls) 2x Steal, 2x Liquid Shadow, 2x Conversion fodder.

(Fire/Aether duo) 3x Dimensional Shield, 1x Deflagration, 2x Burning Pillars (which we then discard from our Firestall).

Discards:

(Flying Staff bow) 6x Pillar/Pendulum, 1x Nova, 1x Flying Weapon, 1x Graboid, 1x Staff, 2x Adrenaline leaving us with 5, 5, 4, 6 and 8 left respectively.

(Shockwave dragons) 12x Pendulums

(PUgon) 12x Pendulums

(Firestall) 10x Pendulums, 2x Burning Pillars

Cost of Swishy: 1x Lobotomizer (2 left), 1x Thorn Carapiece (3 left), 1x Gravity Pull (replace with Heal in Adrenatitans, 2 left), 1x Silence (5 left), 2x Dim Shield (8 left).

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General willng3

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[willng3]

My current thoughts on Salvages:

(Acceledolls) 2x Steal, 2x Liquid Shadow, 2x Conversion fodder.
Fine.

(Fire/Aether duo) 3x Dimensional Shield, 1x Deflagration, 2x Burning Pillars (which we then discard from our Firestall).
4 x Dim Shields, -1 Burning Pillar.  We need all the Dims we can get for our Frogtal/PUgons to work.
Discards:

(Flying Staff bow) 6x Pillar/Pendulum, 1x Nova, 1x Flying Weapon, 1x Graboid, 1x Staff, 2x Adrenaline leaving us with 5, 5, 4, 6 and 8 left respectively.
Fine.
(Shockwave dragons) 12x Pendulums
Fine.
(PUgon) 12x Pendulums
Fine.
(Firestall) 10x Pendulums, 2x Burning Pillars
Just get rid of all the off-element Pillars at this point.  8x Pends, 4x Burning Pillars.
Cost of Swishy: 1x Lobotomizer (2 left), 1x Thorn Carapiece (3 left), 1x Gravity Pull (replace with Heal in Adrenatitans, 2 left), 1x Silence (5 left), 2x Dim Shield (7 left).
These are fine.  Consider a Black Dragon instead of a Dim Shield