Oracle : Paradox

[furballdn]

Vs paradox I'd just go mono aether with maybe a few PUs in my deck to make use of paradox's powerful buffed creatures.

[Polari]

I got Paradox today and figured that since he, you know, sucks balls, I figured there should be a way to 500hp-EM him. This is what I came up with:

by Polari

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The idea is to sit behind a diamond shield and rewind anything with multiple blessings. I stabilized easily with a shield and one shard (with a second one shortly after). Having only one time tower didn't really matter. There should probably be a fourth shield for consistency. The second gemfinder is there because there's no reason to not play it instead of an unupped tower.

In any case, I failed to realize how fast Paradox fills his board and chokes on cards, so this might take too long to be worthwhile even for laughs with his 100-card deck. Or maybe he'll use the hourglasses to compensate, I don't know. With 40 cards in his deck I tried to move the browser tab aside and multitask, but instead found out that unlike Chrome, Firefox reloads the game when you undock the tab. GG.

[wespebbles50]

I played the unupped deck and it is really bad. I played 10 games and won 2 games 1 barley and lost 8 so i don't know what happenend but I know how to play the combo (not a noob)

[Barragor]

This deck works fine and it's completely unupped and rareless

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[taker]

used the second deck in the startpost and it worked very well. also won 2 upgraded cards, yiha!

[Toge111]

EMs should come easy with this deck.

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- Deckout comes easy with that deck. How do you burn through 200 hp with 4 spiders and 1 lobotomizer, all the while speeding through the deck with precognitions?

[Higurashi]

Have to draw the Recluses early, basically. In other words, it's not a reliable counter. The original at page 4 is more reliable and should be in the OP instead.

[dragonsdemesne]

I used Instosis for a Paradox prediction today and it was an easy win.  You could probably mod it a bit to be even better for paradox specifically; I don't think you need Chimera at all, for example, as I don't remember Paradox having shields.

[Sevs]

I used Instosis for a Paradox prediction today and it was an easy win.  You could probably mod it a bit to be even better for paradox specifically; I don't think you need Chimera at all, for example, as I don't remember Paradox having shields.

as i think higs mentioned before dim shield or an extra time tower are the best replacements for chimera

[ashashin]

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there.

[Boingo]

Since he will always do damage before you can get Hope in place, I added a Sanctuary to the Hope deck to allow for EM.  It may come late in the game, but once you have enough RoLs you can wait as long as you want before fractaling dragons.  I initially thought 4 MFs was overkill, but as I didn't see a second one till 10 cards left, I probably would just stick with 4.

I went with semi-upped (especially dragons) but should work unupped as well:

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[Stein90]

By now I win 3/5 matches against paradox with this deck:

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 55p 55p 5f8 5f8 5lm 5lm 5lm 5oj 5oj 5ro 5up 5up 5up 61t 61t 74b 74b 8ps

Here I list why I choose those cards
Steal: Take the opponent's hourglasses (draw speed up) or aether towers (quanta for DS activation)
Dimensional Shield: Protects you from attack (Mainly in the first part of the match)
Rain of Fire: Eliminate most of the RoL and Deja-vu summoned by Paradox
Elite Otyugh: Devour creatures with less than 6-5 hp
Gravity Shield: Blocks whatever Otyugh and RoF cannot eliminate (Mainly in the second part of the match)
Sanctuary: It recovers hp costantly, even slowing down Morning glory
Eternity: Prevents Deck out
Firefly Queen: Has offense power and works well with Eternity

This is a mostly-unupped version that i try in training mode, obviously a complete-upped deck will give you more chances to win.
What do you think about it??