Oracle : Paradox

[icecoldbro]

Worked perfectly for me, lovable deck

[manaboy100]

Oh LUL, he didn't summon any RoL until the end xD He took 7 turns to kill me


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-3 Lightning +2 Electrocutor, a Fractal

[deluxeloy]

Oh LUL, he didn't summon any RoL until the end xD He took 7 turns to kill me


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-3 Lightning +2 Electrocutor, a Fractal

mark of light i guess?

[Ryli]

Oh LUL, he didn't summon any RoL until the end xD He took 7 turns to kill me


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-3 Lightning +2 Electrocutor, a Fractal

mark of light i guess?

It's a mark of water, if he had any intention of summoning his mind flayers

[kobisjeruk]

Oh LUL, he didn't summon any RoL until the end xD He took 7 turns to kill me


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-3 Lightning +2 Electrocutor, a Fractal

electrocuter is kinda redundant with 4 mind flayers
the reason i include mind flayers instead is to make it rare-less
lightning is there for buffed dejavus that hasnt been activated (paradox usually keep them for another blessing target) but if you got money to burn, this is a much more awesomer decklist :-

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also, a different approach (untested but it should work just as well as long as you dont get super-rushed) :-

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[Krahhl]

The fractal and hope version works fine, though mono aether does the job too. (Actually aether/water duo without rares.)

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I guess it's a little more dependent on RNG as you may fail to draw shields to continue the chain, but if you wait as long as you can before starting it, probably when you have 16 or 17 cards left if Paradox doesn't get a lucky fast start, you should be fine.


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[kobisjeruk]

your tricked up mono aether is a fine example of the power of mono aether vs false gods with no PCs
i wouldnt advise using mono aether vs any other FGs (although there are some variation, some of those can be found in other anti-FG decks) but paradox is truly a cakewalk with this deck

[kev]

The problem with the trio is it's not fast enough to prevent a rush by Paradox.  Imo loboing RoLs is unnecessary.  Just use the following deck, get up to 11ish RoLs and then either fractal dragons surprise to prevent him Miracleing or fill the board with dragons and let him run out of Miracles

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[kobisjeruk]

lobo effect is not necessary, true
but paradox has the ability to turborush you if you let his RoLs go unchecked
its not a matter of letting him not get to 12 quanta for miracle, its more about denying him any light quanta for improved blessings...of which he has tons of

your anti-paradox has a lot of redundant cards...if you get a lot of hopes and fractal (and dragons) early, you wont get as many rols and he only need 2 rols to fuel a blessing
and if you cant stop blessing shenanigans...you're pretty much screwed

[kev]

lobo effect is not necessary, true
but paradox has the ability to turborush you if you let his RoLs go unchecked
its not a matter of letting him not get to 12 quanta for miracle, its more about denying him any light quanta for improved blessings...of which he has tons of

your anti-paradox has a lot of redundant cards...if you get a lot of hopes and fractal (and dragons) early, you wont get as many rols and he only need 2 rols to fuel a blessing
and if you cant stop blessing shenanigans...you're pretty much screwed

Those are both valid arguments and I didn't test either of the decks against Paradox over a significant sample.  It was my experience that fractaling more RoLs to feed Hope is an okay option if he spams blessing, and in fact if he does it quickly the trio deck is too slow to cope anyway.  Also too many redundant cards isn't frequently a problem in a deck with 17 pillars.

I'm okay agreeing to disagree.  Neither deck is awful and neither is perfect.  But I do like the duo better.

[Krahhl]

You can play more RoLs to block uber-blessed creatures, yes, but you may end up decking out if he plays a mirror shield and you fail to power past miracle with dragons.

[TheForbiddenOracle]

A lot of decks can stand up to Paradox quite easily... you just need some CC and/or some hard hitters either quinted or have a shield strong enough to block the hard hitters