Round 6 - Strategy

[asymmetry]

Strategy ~ Round 6



xdude VS    MrBlonde (General) +6 up


implosion VS    Smokefree   (Substitute)


Rastafla VS    Lava Golem   (Strategist)


asymmetry VS    Killsdazombies (General)  +6 up


Wizardcat VS  mrpaper (Strategist)


Fenix2011 VS Kurohami (Vault Organizer)

[asymmetry]

Biggest attenuants:
1- We "lost" 2 spots due to an overall average round.
2- We versus 2 generals

Our advantages:
1- With our current pillar/pend stock, we can fuel 6 decks easily. We may need to convert "useless" salvages anyway, just in case our round is awesome and we can bring team members back to the game.
2- We're at the point we can predict our enemies vaults, aswell as their deck choices. I'll do my best at planning in this round. No more procrastination. -_-
3-  We're 5th in vault size (??)

[asymmetry]

I like our variety of elements, also the fact that no one appears twice. It gives some clarity to planning.

xdude we can all agree Hope RoL is a bad idea, right? Expect tons of bonewalls, and I hope with all my being they don't deduce we don't have purifies.

implosion ... Semi RoL-hope? flying stars+ miracles? Idk, time had a horrible last round, so I honestly don't think they're prepared.

Rastafla ... Damn. Unless they found a counter for the deck I used versus Kev... we can re-use it. We even have stone dragons and pillars now.

asymmetry I'd like to go fiery with this one... we have 2 fire shields available, oh wait, dragons too, and 6 more phoenices... is a second phoenix rush viable? Or... well, give me some time.

Wizardcat ... I'll study their vault before writing nonsense.

Fenix2011 will most likely pack discords. 99% sure. A speed nova or a phoenix rush seems viable, but their vault is highly prepared to counter that. So we should probably make a second deck to counter the counter... well... you get what I mean.

Agree? disagree? discuss!

[Wizardcat]

Actually, RoL/Hope is only a bad idea if they pack Plague, and I haven't noticed many of those from Death. Our creatures're pretty hardy for the most part, and I think they will be similarly skeptical about our use of RoL/Hope... Additionally, RoL/Hope destroys Bone Walls. It might be worth the risk.

[asymmetry]

Actually, RoL/Hope is only a bad idea if they pack Plague, and I haven't noticed many of those from Death. Our creatures're pretty hardy for the most part, and I think they will be similarly skeptical about our use of RoL/Hope... Additionally, RoL/Hope destroys Bone Walls. It might be worth the risk.

Don't forget they can up retrovirii

[Wizardcat]

Of all the cards to up (Bone Wall, Flesh Recluse, et cetera), you think they will use Retroviruses? Skeptical.

[asymmetry]

Of all the cards to up (Bone Wall, Flesh Recluse, et cetera), you think they will use Retroviruses? Skeptical.

Well, if I were MrBlonde i'd get a bit intimidated about this recent, smashing win

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,16395.0.html

but we have 3 days to speculate, and 6 matches to analyze.. -_-

[suxerz]

Based on my lazy random vault scouting:

  - Few choices: Eternity/rewind + EQ, Eternity/rewind + Dim shield + Anubis, and... I don't know what else.
They have exactly 90 cards to fill 3 decks so they might have 1 suicide deck.

  - I believe they have 3 EQ now so that might hurt our fire deck (a little). Does 3 EQs make a big threat?

edit: scratch that thing about EQ - they won with a sub. -.-' So, I believe that's a green light for fire deck?

[xdude]

Testing with sux show that Plagues can't do shit to stop me.

[asymmetry]

*Evil laughter* alright. solved. Thanks sux

[xdude]

*Evil laughter* alright. solved. Thanks sux

Testing with sux shows that Fractal Retrovirii CAN do shit to stop me. And it's the nasty type -.-

[Salamence_747]

Does anyone else remember a post somewhere saying that death didn't have Viruses? I seem to remember them posting that somewhere...

...Found it!

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,15783.msg215853#msg215853

And a bit later:

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,15783.msg215883#msg215883