Oracle : Paradox

[TheArchduke]

I've had a very easy EM with this mod of the OP decks:

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Frankly, I don't even think the lightnings are necessary, more Lobotomizers would probably be better (I only have 2 upgraded, though). I think I'll replace them with an extra dragon, sanctuary and lobotomizer when I get Paradox again...

Good deck, just used it to great effect, and I agree - the lightnings are not useful. Your extras are good suggestions, and I might also consider adding extra quanta generation and/or reducing the card count to 30. Very easy to avoid decking out by using the lobos to neutralize the ROLs.

This deck does still suffer from a common problem with paradox, which is that it is slow while Paradox is fast. Prepare yourself to get hit hard before you have the quanta to play a fractal, play all the ROLs, collect quanta from the ROLs, and then play Hope, especially if you don't have upped aether quanta generators. Still, when you get those out, it's smooth sailing from there.

[jade_giant]

Ok, I've been playing this deck against Paradox and every game is an EM. I've never been a big fan of the Phase Shield based decks as I seem to get screwed by them regularly, but the Hourglasses negates that here. This is about the most stable deck I've played against a False god:

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Wait until Queens and Fireflies are big enough to one shot Paradox. Try to wait as late as possible to start the shield chain if you can (as in you will die the next time you take damage). Don't worry about how much damage you take as you can heal it all later. Draw liberally through the deck with hourglasses. Use Eternity to bounce 1 Firefly enough times for Feral Bond to heal for the EM if necessary.

Had one game where the 2 queens were literally the last 2 cards in the deck. Won with EM! I've won when the Feral Bond was the last card, when Shards came late, 4 Phase Shields were in the last 6 cards (seriously) and still won with EM!

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[Grizzox]

Ok, I've been playing this deck against Paradox and every game is an EM. I've never been a big fan of the Phase Shield based decks as I seem to get screwed by them regularly, but the Hourglasses negates that here. This is about the most stable deck I've played against a False god:

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Em'ed with this fully upped. Liked it, but seemed strained for time quanta. Perhaps -1 Sundial and -1 QT, for +2 Time Pends?

EDIT: 4-0 EM's with this deck. Made the changes as above and never feel strained for Hourglasses or bouncing Fireflies.

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[TribalTrouble]

The deck above works wonders and really does work perfectly since getting a late FFQ out is counteracted by the Eternity + RT that prevent deckout.