I lost with this actually. His hand filled up with about 2 more cards than me, and instead of bolting my creatures, he simply sniped them. Maybe he didn't have any bolts... maybe make the deck a few cards bigger.
I'm worried it may prevent you from getting an emerald shield in time... Maybe you could add a couple of Pandemoniums and hope they TU his cards? Or 2 Novas, a Deflagration, and a Reverse Time.
Did he use the Explosions on your pillars? If not, might have to include a couple of daggers.
That could work. Even with 45 cards, you'll draw an emerald shield in your opening hand the majority of the the time, and within the first 10 cards 80% of the time. An early shield actually isn't even an absolute necessity; if you can get an antimattered EE, you can stall a few gasses off. Plus you have the heals.
Overall I do like the deck - it makes sense, countering everything Octane has. When I played it I was easily able to stall him. It may just be that I got very unlucky with the RNG (as I always do) and that "randomness" element in the AI's actions made it not firebolt my creatures. Or that octane just didn't draw any
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He did use explosions on my pillars. I don't remember which color he focused on.