Oracle : Morte

[Higurashi]

At first I was feeling too sleepy to try the deck in the OP, but I went for it.



As usual when I try to counter FG's, I forget to change from Aether mark. Why anyone puts up a deck on the forums without the mark code is beyond me, but anyway.. as per usual it served to help me (as it did against Gravyton when I apparently got a Purple Nymph for pet. second turn Quint ftw).

Drew some cheap Sundials and tons of Dims to stop Morte completely. I probably could've EM'd him if I wanted to take that risk. The reason I saved the screenshot is because it reminded me of a OTK HB deck with Afla, Mirror Shield, Graveyard, Thunderstorm, UG and Fractal Condors. 9 47|48 Condors? Don't mind if I do.

That there is what's left of Morte's field of Dragons, Angels, Rays and Condors. :>

[Xenocidius]

My CCYB Morte counter:

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I tried to keep it as condense as possible, eliminating unnecessary cards. There could still be a better deck against Morte, and I'll try to think of one.

A possible idea could be Flying Titans. They get around Bone Wall and are almost impossible to kill

[TStar]

Morte counter in the first post works like a charm when upgraded.  I tossed in 6 SoGs just to get the easy EM.

[ddevans96]

Beat him again with my 40 card variant, 6 cards left this time. With mine, at least, you have to hold off on chaining for as long as you possibly can. Play shields over sundials since they block arsenic and you have to be more careful with card drawing if all your tears are at the bottom.

[Xenocidius]

Mono Aether (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,23368.0.html) claims a high winrate against him:

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[Jappert]

Mono Aether (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,23368.0.html) claims a high winrate against him:

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No purifies or ways to work around bonewall.... really?
I can imagine various ways of getting screwed with mono aether vs Morte. You'd allso have to start chaining fairly early since either Archangels, Arsenic or Bone Dragons will start hurting quite early in the match. His poison damaging through your shield while his bonewalls stall make things worse.

I didn't test this though, just theorycrafting!

[Xenocidius]

Yep. SoGs make Purifies unnecessary, lobotomizing Retrovirus makes Bone Wall fall fairly quickly. Said deck has claimed 12 wins and 2 losses in 14 games against him. I'm surprised too.

[Masarykoi]

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I used this and it worked great; got a little low at one point, but from there on out it was smooth chaining, and I got back almost up to 50 by the end with a large amount of time left.  In other words, if for some odd reason you happen to have 2 blue nymphs and 3 SoGs lying around, but not enough for a fully upped deck, try this out.

[Avenger]

A possible idea could be Flying Titans. They get around Bone Wall and are almost impossible to kill

Good idea, though titans are rares.

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[ddevans96]

Lost this time. I played a sundial in conjunction with a dim shield when I was in a hurry to draw the tears. 2-1 with it now.

[Beforememory]

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Just beat him with a 60 variant of the opening post =)
probably wasn't the best way to do it but it worked

[Xamuel]

Used majofa's deck, beat Morte with 46 HP left, spun an upped angel.

Note:  there is a limit to how many permanents you can have out, and it's easy to run into that limit with this deck!  Don't play more hourglasses than you need.  Two should be plenty.  I was only able to get 8 unstable gasses out--  9 after turning the last air pendulum into a nymph.  I used one gas, created another (which couldn't be used right away), ended the turn, then used nine gasses for the kill.  Good thing Morte wasn't smart enough to heal in that situation, and I wouldn't want to gamble on it again!