Oracle : Neptune

[Sh00pdaWoop]

With the deck in the OP, I only had to use 1 explosion, although I did have quite a few quanta issues at the beginning (only started with one pillar, had to discard two cards), I did manage to win.  I started chaining shields at 29 HP with 17 cards left, and he shockwaved me all the way down to 1 HP.  On the turn right before my 3rd or 4th dim shield would wear out (I didn't draw another) I managed to kill him.  Won an octopus.

[Beforememory]

Used slight mod of opening post

by Beforememory

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5f6 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61s 61s 61s 61s 61s 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61v 61v 61v 61v 61v 6rn 6rn 7dm 7dm 8po

Won 2 cards and got the EM!

[furballdn]

I personally find this deck better

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61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f7 8pu

Fire bolts just seem to do much better than phase dragons since the phase dragons can still be affected by some of Neptune's cards (permafrost shield for example). With fire stall, all you have to do is wait until you have the 113 quanta and bolt Neptune to death while your Fahrenheit also helps with the work. Just remember that Neptune has 12 shockwaves so he can do up to 48 damage from the spells. Try to chain shields at either around 18 cards or until your health is close to 48.

[the dictator]

I had some success using the standard FireBoltOTK, without nova and reflective shield.

I won really easy with the following deck:

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5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f7 5f7 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 6rn 6rn 6rn 8pu

[rickerd]

I know Neptune isn't exactly a problem FG for most people, but I've found this abbreviated version of CCYB to EM a huge majority of the time and virtually never lose.

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6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u7 6u7 77f 77f 7dq 7dq 7gp 7gp 7n3 7q5 7q5 80h 80h 80i

Yeah that's right CCYB is very good against much FG's but I use the normal form.

[Mataza]

Ouch.
Just had the worst draw ever against neptune. I used this.

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Basically the same as in the op, but with -4 immortals, +2 pillars, +2 lobos.
My hand sported 1 pillar. By the time I could play a dim shield I had less hp than a shockwave.

[furballdn]

Just wondering, how important are the deflags? Neptune's shield essentially turns your immortals into 1atk creatures and your dragons into 2atk creatures....Actually, that's a lot. I can now see that the deflags are pretty important.

[nolf]

I only tried the OP deck once and lost and since then I've simply returned to my first (unupped, without rares) FG farmer, liquid antimatter:

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,17730

I win regularly with this deck, mostly EMs, too. The only thing that can happen and will most probably cause a deckout is that Neptune doesn't play any dragons. You can win with 6 crawlers on which you use the combo (6x6x6= 216 damage), but chances are your last combo card is hidden at the bottom of your deck.

Very simple strategy with Neptune: Play the pendulums, ignore the Octupuses, keep the liquid shadows for later. Play your first antimatter on a crawler if he doesn't have any dragons out yet, the latter are always preferable, of course (antimatter = healing you for 13 instead of damaging you). Play a Dusk Mantle when you have the quanta, Neptune has no PC. Your HP will probably rise back to 100.

As always with liquid antimatter, calculate the damage you will cause once you've played both the combo cards. An arctic dragon runs at 13/5, which means 5 turns of hurting him 13 HP (only when previously antimattered, otherwise he'll heal himself), so 65 damage. Three dragons are not quite enough (195 damage), so you want four dragons or three dragons and one crawler or two dragons and two crawlers or one dragon and four crawlers. With Neptune, you can really wait with the liquid shadows until you are down to a few cards and then play all of them together.

[Pkmn31337]

Ouch.
Just had the worst draw ever against neptune. I used this.

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Basically the same as in the op, but with -4 immortals, +2 pillars, +2 lobos.
My hand sported 1 pillar. By the time I could play a dim shield I had less hp than a shockwave.

I tried a little modifications (including upped versions of the cards used), and managed to win. Neptune took about 12 hp in shockwaves, the rest from critters, taking about 83 damage, but worked and won a card.

[ishner]

not enough deflags

[jacker]

FP deck worked excellent!!! And i got 2 up cards. shockwave and abyss crawler

[Jappert]

Deck that Artea posted, fully upped:

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6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u7 6u7 6u7 6u7 6u7 6u7 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 7q3 7q3 7qd 7qd 7qd 7qd 7qd 8ps

Nice deck. Once you get the Neurotoxin going you can use CP's to increase healing (use it on an opponent Crawler/Dragon before you AM it). Turtle Shield actually helps alot also!

Solid choice if you wanna run an upped deck imo.