Oracle : Morte

[manaboy100]

Should add some SoG and more  producer, I haven't won any match with Morte so far with this deck

[icecoldbro]

its doable hard enough and barely but doable
*i used some non significant upgrades*
(http://imageplay.net/es/view/m7Gbd108276/morte)

[chb369]

i used the first deck in the main post and lost at 17 turns left from not getting a purify.

at the end i wondered if these changes could make a difference:

+1 purify (to make sure you get at least one early)
-3 aether pillars
+1 water pendulum
+1 fire pendulum

this is just my opinion of what might be better but I've never tested it sooo... yeah.

[Stickmasterluke]

I grabbed that deck and made some tiny modifications and used some cards that I had upgraded prior to making the deck.

I won.

And this is the deck that I used.

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[gumbeh]

I ended up using a variant of CCYB for a fun twist on defeating this FG. The deck code below uses 2 oty's in place of the 2 lava destroyers - what ended up ACTUALLY happening was that the Oracle gave me an Armagio. I used Fractal on the Armagio when I found myself with a mostly-empty hand and short on useful creatures - when I finally drew an Oty I didn't have the quanta to summon it and Morte was almost dead. Consider running 2 Armagios instead of 2 Otys.

A second Pulvy might be worthwhile due to Morte having much more than 2 GY's, but I got lucky and drew my pulvy fairly early. A few of my own cards were unupped only due to my own cash limitations.

Using stolen Graveyards, my own Bone Walls, and Pulvying extra enemy graveyards, I benefited MORE from Morte's Retroviruses (and my own frequently-dying Fireflies) than Morte did. Any time one of my bonewalls looked to be in bad shape, I activated an Armagio to both soak up all/most of the incoming damage as well as generate more bonewall. Keeping a few armagios on the field helped me force Morte to spam Plague, ensuring that my fireflies frequently died to feed my bonewall.

I'm sure that a quinted Oty would also be effective in keeping one's bonewall topped up and generating skellies, but Armagio ended up being very fun and could potentially make one or both quints unnecessary - while FFQ needs a quint, she could potentially be replaced with another Steal, a Boneyard, or even a Phoenix as alternative methods of keeping the bonewall fed.

by Gumbeh

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[Tea is good]

I don't get why people don't fully upgrade the firebolt/phase shield deck. I mean, you can basically use it every day.

[deadlyd1001]

I don't get why people don't fully upgrade the firebolt/phase shield deck. I mean, you can basically use it every day.

most people have a limited amount of upgrades
they (or at least me) want to upgrade decks that have the most use (in their eyes)
for me those were ccyb and immo rush
this is a situational deck

sorry if i seem rude, but (to me) your wording seemed to imply that upping cards is a trivial act

[Jappert]

Deck in OP didn't work for me once again... (upped)
My initial hand had 5 firelances, wich pretty much clogged my hand in early game. I also started to topdeck alot of dim shields and purifies, VERY little fire towers.

This resulted in having to purify to early (I can't discard shields or lances...), wich eventually led to dying to poison before I could get 113

SIGH

[majofa]

I was working on a better deck for Morte, but so far have found nothing....

[Rember]

So after going 0-4 with the deck posted in the OP with the last game looking like this: I decide to take matters in my own hands and think "well I've never lost to Morte with mostly upped CCYB so how about an unupped CCYB variant specifically tailored for Morte?" I came up with the following:

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Base for the deck is taken from: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,23978.0.html so credit to kirchj33 for that. 4-2 with Morte, the pulvys really help reduce bonewalls and get rid of arsenic and graveyards as a last priority. Fractal is for Archangels and feel free to use it early to prevent loss by deckout light quanta permitting since they can heal themselves from plagues.


Comments/revisions by someone more experienced than me appreciated.

e: Any ideas for making a rareless version work without miracles? The above deck works without the pulvies but can't seem to find a way to stay alive without miracles, been trying this  

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[majofa]

Updated the OP with a no rare/upped card deck. Somewhat challenging to play.

[Jappert]

And another loss with the fire bolt deck. I suggest removing it from the OP since it's completely crap.

reasons of losses:
- An uneven distribution of purifies screws you over (all at start or all at bottom is gg), but even with a good distribution, it's tough.
- An uneven distribution of shields kills you.
- Getting the required fire quanta before decking out is hard, especially if you don't get any towers/pillars at the start of the match.

There's just so many things that need to go right for it to work, I don't see this as a plausible counter.