mesa's Creative Failure thread

[mesaprotector]

Hello platinum league! 

As some of you who have played me in BL may know, I am very fond of unusual, not-done-before sort of decks. Usually, the results aren't great, but shhh....

I will post in this thread when I feel like it, and update the OP whenever I get a deck which does okay, which by my standards means more than ten wins. Below follow some of my decks that weren't total failures in gold league.

Ice Bolt: 41-20 (22↑)

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... Seriously I did not expect this to do well at all, but it peaked at #2. I figure the squid/flooding combo must be locking down all those rainbow rushes while the deck does enough damage to deal with stalls.
Devonian Dragon: 41-18 (17↑)

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Peaked at #20, won consistently even through day 7. The idea was to make a rush with enough control to annoy any deck.
Abomination: 37-14 (11↑)

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4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vd 4vd 4ve 4ve 4ve 4ve 4ve 4ve 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 8pj

Pretty simple entropy deck, with lots of cheap control. Peaked at #73.
Rage Potion: 27-11 (8↑)

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I apologize for this one... I tried Raging Angels, Raging Titans, and a few other decks but the AI insisted on using the rages as CC.
Air Pendulum: 24-11 (12↑)

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5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oo 5oo 5oo 5pu 5pu 5pu 61u 61u 61u 61u 61u 7oe 7oe 7oe 808 808 808 808 808 80g 80g 80g 80g 80g 80g 80s 81q 81q 81q 81q 81q 8pu

Wings/Phase Recluse - peaked at #25. I guess everyone's using SNbows against gold.  

Lobotomizer: 20-11 (14↑)

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5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5c0 5c0 5c0 5c0 5c0 5c0 5c6 5c6 5c6 5c6 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 61t 61t 61t 61t 61u 61u 61u 61u 61u 622 622 622 622 8pu

This deck began 14-1 and #37, and then did terribly on day 3.

Normally with lobo I'd try a flying weapon deck or mono-aether, but I decided to go with cocktal instead. Apparently people appreciate that.
Steal: 16-9 (9↑)

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4vf 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 52h 55o 591 5c2 5c2 5c2 5f2 5id 5la 5of 5rm 5ul 5up 5up 5up 5up 5up 61r 61r 8pt

Yep, this one was pretty uncreative.
Water Pillar: 13-6 (5↑)

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4t6 4t6 5i4 5i4 5ib 5ib 5ib 5ic 5lh 5lh 5li 5li 5li 5li 5li 7gk 7gk 7gk 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jt 7jt 7ju 7ju 7jv 7jv 8pq

Water/Light stall I threw together in two minutes, made it to #68.
Bone Pillar: 12-7 (6↑)

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52q 52q 6rm 6rm 6rm 6rm 6rm 710 710 710 710 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jq 7jq 7jt 7jt 7ju 7ju 7k2 7k2 8pq

Trying the same thing as the previous deck, but with Death/Light.
Graviton Fire Eater: 11-6 (3↑)

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Fire rush... thing with no control, it somehow got 11 wins. If anyone can explain this to me, please do.
Feel free to give advice, suggestions, compliment/insult me, etc.

[mesaprotector]

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58q 58q 58q 58q 58q 58q 591 591 591 591 592 594 594 594 594 594 594 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 779 779 77c 77c 77h 8pm

My first plat league deck. Card was Shrieker, 180 HP, 5 ups, Triple mark, Dexterity. 3-0 so far, it's cool that wins in plat give you double the electrum.

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Would have left my shrieker deck up (12-4, 6↑), but you can't not make a deck if you get a nymph!

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4vh 4vh 4vh 4vh 4vh 4vh 500 500 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5up 6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u2 6ug 6ug 6ug 7t9 8pt

I'm not sure how this'll do, but I think the idea is sound. 190 HP, 20 ups, Double mark, Dexterity.

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My nymph deck went 7-6 with 3 thumbs, ah well.

On the other hand, I got Shrieker again!

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58q 58q 591 591 591 591 591 591 594 594 594 594 594 594 624 624 624 624 624 624 8pu

200 HP (as if it needs that much), 0 ups, 3x mark, Dexterity.

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Taking my Shrieker deck down at 4-5.

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5f8 5lh 5lh 5lh 5lh 5lh 7do 7do 7do 7do 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jp 7jp 7jq 7jq 7ju 7ju 7ju 7ju 7k2 7k2 7k2 7la 7la 7la 7la 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 8po

Card was Rain of Fire. 170 HP, 30 ups, Double mark, Dexterity.

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58q 58q 58q 58q 58q 58q 591 591 591 591 591 594 594 594 594 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 8po

Card was Hematite Golem. 200 HP, 0 ups, Triple mark, Dexterity.

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Golem deck went 6-5, now I have this deck which is 4-0:

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6rm 6rm 6rm 6rm 6rm 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jq 7jq 7ju 7ju 7ju 7ju 7k0 7k0 7k0 7k0 7k0 7k1 7k1 7k2 7k2 7k2 7la 7la 7la 7la 8pq

Card was Mirror Shield (why else would I have five of them in a deck?). 200 HP, 60 ups, Single Mark, Dexterity. Of course, with all the healing you might have to eat through 440 HP seven times.

[kimham8a]

I must commend you for actually making creative decks. Its nice to fight something new and unusual that gives me new ideas. I think I fought your raging angels deck, and before I saw it, I never even thought there could possibly be synergy between rage elixir and archangel. 

[mesaprotector]

I think you mean Raging Golems, but thanks anyway!

My light deck was not liked very well; 15-6 with only 2 thumbs up. Now I'm submitting something even more annoying.

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52q 52q 52r 52r 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5ib 5ib 5ib 5ib 5ib 5ih 5ih 8pp

Card was Chrysaora. Everything maxed out except for the ups.

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5f6 5f6 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5of 5of 5of 5of 5of 5og 5om 5om 5om 5om 5om 5om 5on 5on 5on 5on 5on 5on 5op 5op 5pu 7ms 7ms 7ms 7ms 7ms 8po

UG should be pretty good against SPlat. The deck is actually +1 Blue Nymph -1 Pend, not sure what happened there.

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5bt 5bt 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bv 5bv 5c0 5c0 5c0 5c0 5c6 5c6 5c6 5c6 5c9 5c9 5c9 5c9 7ae 7ae 7af 7af 7af 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7k2 7k2 8pn

Got bored with my previous deck after it took a day to go 0-1, and put up a rustler deck. 195 HP, 20 ups, Double mark, Dexterity.

[mesaprotector]

Rustler deck did pretty darn well, 49-17 when I took it down (1 more loss would have knocked it out, plus it had 1 HP)

So... let's try a Flesh Spider deck.

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52j 52j 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52q 52q 52q 542 542 5ol 5ol 5oo 5oo 5oo 713 713 713 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 8pr

I'm quite fond of Wings/Recluse decks. This is the first time in a while I've been hindered by lack of rares, as I only have 3 Arsens. 200 HP, 20 ups, Double mark, Dexterity.