Had him today as my Oracle prediction and having played the tu/overdrive deck a few times against him, I wanted to come up with something else, a 500 HP EM deck!
Looking at his deck it seemed to be a pretty hard task, he can kill you pretty quickly, being able to play dragons quickly, and can also fill the field with small creatures thanks to the Queens.... but after some thinking I came up with this pretty complicated deck:
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5if 5if 5if 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6rm 6rm 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 749 749 749 749 749 77e 77e 77k 77k 77k 77k 77k 77l 77l 77l 77l 77l 7ai 7do 7do 7k2 7n7 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q5 7q5 7q5 7q5 7q8 80d 80d 80d 8ps
The idea is to get to the point where you have a Grav Shield out, a Mindflayer that takes cares of the Queens and to use BB/Schockwave on the Pegasi.
Hourglasses help to draw faster, same with the Sundials, which of course also stall. The Phase Shields are great to stall until the Mind Flayer is out, I feared Grav Shield alone could let through too much damage in some cases. It's really no problem to change between the Shields. Playing 6 Grav Shield and no Phase Shield could of course work too.
The Firestorms are there to clear his field if the Queens had time to produce some fireflies (also kills Leaf Dragons). It does reduce the Queens HP to 4, which is annoying, but thanks to the Eternity you can always rewind them and then lobotomize them again. Plague isn't an option since after a while the Dragons would again be able to deal damage, not what you want. Don't think Pandemonium would be a good choice either.
You might notice I only have 5 Skins, but with 2 SoD it's (barely) enough to get to 500 (74*5+32=402 extra HP). The SoDs also increase the usefulness of miracle, so 3 or 4 could definitely be played. The main reason however to play only 5 Skins is to avoid getting your hand full with em and not be able to draw fast anymore.
The second Gemfinder makes sure you will have more than enough earth quanta by the end.
Overall I was quite happy with the result (won
), but I can see a lot of little tweaks and changes being possible.
One idea could be SoB, but since I only have 1 (unupped too....
) right now I couldn't play it anyway.