Oracle : Neptune

[Xenocidius]

The Chimera in the above deck should be replaced by another Time Tower. Other than that, yes, Instosis is a great counter to Neptune (like most other FG slayers in existence .

Edit: According to the Instosis thread, it should actually be replaced by a Phase Shield.

[the_unknown]

yup it works... i lost an EM cuz i couldn't get the phase shield out i added in 4 SoG and 2 electrocutor

[automeris]

Here is a possibility for another unupped counter to Neptune.

I have been playing a modification of Xenocidius's deck against Fire Queen (http://'http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,9597.72.html'), which is a fairly quick EM and fun to play, and also seems to work unupped:

Easy EM deck:

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Use Aflatoxin on a Firefly, OTK for the win.

I added a second Aflatoxin because not getting it until late sucks, and probably would be worse against Neptune.  I also took out one Phase Shield and replaced it with four upped Sundials, which makes the deck larger but makes it play smaller.  You do have to make sure you are not stuck with a Sundial at the end when you want to play your combo and attack.  I have also been experimenting with having another couple of different shields in the mix for the early game.

Looking at Neptune's cards, I decided that this same deck should work against him with the addition of a second Fire Storm.  You only get six Condors instead of seven because of the extra Fire Storm you need in your hand along with the Sky Blitz when you play the fractal, but all his creatures die.  I hit him with six 48/25 Condors.

This is the deck I actually played against Neptune, although the Antimatter turned out to be completely useless, because I got an Aflatoxin in my opening hand which I played on his first creature, an Octopus, and by the time I played antimatter on a dragon two turns later, I never let him attack.  I put it in in case he got an early dragon and I drew it.  It didn't stop me from getting an easy EM.  I was only on my second Phase shield with 4 cards still left when I had the entire combo and won, and two of the cards undrawn were Hourglasses.

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The deck should work unupped.  I had plenty of quanta for all my plays except for the Miracle, which I ended up playing with 12 quanta (after waiting several turns from when I first could have played it while he hit me with Shockwaves, and while I let him hit me with his weapon for 7 under a Sundial) at the same time I played my second Phase shield, because I was down to 11 life and was afraid he might get three Shockwaves.  Without Sundials and with an extra Dimensional Shield there probably wouldn't be a problem there.

[King of doom]

I used the unupped deck in the OP and I accidently used 6 pendulums because I was too lazy to switch that much with my RoL/Hope deck. I won with 83 health left and won an Arctic Dragon. =D

[furballdn]

Instosis should be added to the OP.

[ddevans96]

MA with explosions needs more than 6 phase shields ~.~

[oblivion1212]

Here is a possibility for another unupped counter to Neptune.

I have been playing a modification of Xenocidius's deck against Fire Queen (http://'http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,9597.72.html'), which is a fairly quick EM and fun to play, and also seems to work unupped:

Easy EM deck:

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Use Aflatoxin on a Firefly, OTK for the win.

I added a second Aflatoxin because not getting it until late sucks, and probably would be worse against Neptune.  I also took out one Phase Shield and replaced it with four upped Sundials, which makes the deck larger but makes it play smaller.  You do have to make sure you are not stuck with a Sundial at the end when you want to play your combo and attack.  I have also been experimenting with having another couple of different shields in the mix for the early game.

Looking at Neptune's cards, I decided that this same deck should work against him with the addition of a second Fire Storm.  You only get six Condors instead of seven because of the extra Fire Storm you need in your hand along with the Sky Blitz when you play the fractal, but all his creatures die.  I hit him with six 48/25 Condors.

This is the deck I actually played against Neptune, although the Antimatter turned out to be completely useless, because I got an Aflatoxin in my opening hand which I played on his first creature, an Octopus, and by the time I played antimatter on a dragon two turns later, I never let him attack.  I put it in in case he got an early dragon and I drew it.  It didn't stop me from getting an easy EM.  I was only on my second Phase shield with 4 cards still left when I had the entire combo and won, and two of the cards undrawn were Hourglasses.

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The deck should work unupped.  I had plenty of quanta for all my plays except for the Miracle, which I ended up playing with 12 quanta (after waiting several turns from when I first could have played it while he hit me with Shockwaves, and while I let him hit me with his weapon for 7 under a Sundial) at the same time I played my second Phase shield, because I was down to 11 life and was afraid he might get three Shockwaves.  Without Sundials and with an extra Dimensional Shield there probably wouldn't be a problem there.

worked like a charm 

2 firestorms really make sure your condors get 20+ damage, and with fractal i didn't need to use sky blitz..

[Higurashi]

MA with explosions needs more than 6 phase shields ~.~

Noticed I hadn't posted my alt counter in this thread, so I'll respond to this and give you a solution.

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The saving grace here is that you usually don't need the Bolts to kill, so if you get rushed due to a low draw, you can kill off Dragons and Crawlers with them. This exact scenario happened to me yesterday, and it saved my bacon. Mind you, I use 6 upped pends and 10 in total instead x)

For an even safer counter, go 10 pends and 3-4 SoG's. Oh, and always start Dim chain around 40 HP unless you have healing. His Shockwaves can do a total of 48 HP, but he won't draw 'em all of course.

[ddevans96]

Used that, one pend swapped for a fahren, 5 upped pends. Could have ended badly because of a bad quanta draw that broke a dim chain for one turn, but I got fire quanta long before enough shockwaves came out.

10/10, will use again

[nighthawklol]

Deflagrations are for Permafrost Shields

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This deck worked like a charm, thanks for the help. I added in a few of my upgraded cards, of course, to make it a little bit easier to generate quanta.

[furballdn]

If you've the shards, SoW is a much better replacement for deflag :>

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[Fosius]

I used the unupgraded deck in the first post, worked like a charm, was worried that I wouldn't have enough firepower, but kept drawing phase shields at the right time, my 3 deflagrations I drew at the start where wasted though, since I never had to use them. Thanks