Oracle : Paradox

[Rember]

Ahem. Why doesn't anyone just use mono-aether? Cheap, no/minimal rares, effective.

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Play Dim shields once you hit 18 cards in your deck, chain, wait for him to build up momentumn, play your phase dragons as they come, and then PU his blessed giant creature over and over at about 40-100 HP before your dragons would kill him. Simple.

Either go with 3 lobos or 3 silences IMO. Should work though.

[Aves]

Why lobos? The point is that Paradox has no way of getting past Dim. Shields, so unless your draw is terrible, You don't care about what it does, until its sudden-death PU time. You want it to bless its creatures.

[ddevans96]

Lobo would be solely for removing generation after blessings have been drawn out. Two miracles is probably more than the deck can handle, and definitely three.

I would add one more, just to be safe.

[Rember]

Lobo would be solely for removing generation after blessings have been drawn out. Two miracles is probably more than the deck can handle, and definitely three.

I would add one more, just to be safe.

That. You would keep him between 2-6 light quanta and below 12. No need to lobo everything, he still gets to use blessings.

[Aves]

Ah, is that necessary? As in other sudden death tactics, you gain a huge boost in damage potential; the Miracles dont matter because the AI would never think to use Miracle. It thinks you can do around 32-37 (4 dragons, with or without lobo) damage. Then, add 4*20 or 4*30 damage. That's a +80 to +120 damage boost. Somehow, I doubt that the AI would play miracle at  100 HP when youre only doing less than 40 damage before that.

[ddevans96]

Rarely hurts to have a decent fail-safe.

[Rember]

Yep, I prefer my counters to be as reliable as possible. 

Feel free to test both in trainer if you'd like. At the very least you'd save some time getting a quicker kill if he manages to pull a miracle and at best you'd prevent a loss due to chain breaking or whatever.

[Aves]

True, true. Well if the shield chain breaks it's GG anyway, because paradox will PU its own blessed creature. But I concede to the point. 
I'm going to stubbornly stick to 1 lobo, though. Less rares = more newb friendly. My poor newb acc... I never did get around to using you again
On the plus side, it went from level 6 to 7 as a result. 

[Higurashi]

I use MA quite often on Paradox, but never unupped since I have RoL/Hope on my alt too (mostly unupped, but with SoG's). RoL/Hope is just a bit better is all.

[Bhlewos]

Tried a slightly modified RoL/Hope.

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Kept two RoLs in simply because of all the posts on this topic about Paradox not getting his RoLs in time and screwing over the RoL-less Hope decks. 4 SoGs for healing, though I only had one before I killed him. I'll slip in a Miracle for more EM success next time.

[furballdn]

I'd like to add the firebolt sudden killer to the list of unupped viable decks for paradox. Nothing he has can get through your shields, so you can safely build up your fire pile, and then one shot him with your fire bolts. Put up your own reflective shield if he has one up.

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[Xenocidius]

Funnest deck to use against Paradox ever. Nuff said.

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