The Dragon's Arena Decks

[dragonsdemesne]

I didn't think it was a -good- idea, I thought it was a -fun- idea.  (which is what I meant by 'brilliant' :p)

[dragonsdemesne]

185hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: IMMORTAL
wins: 15 losses: 5 rank: >500 Rating: -108 age: 2

7/15 thumbs up



I'm a bit surprised this got almost 50% thumbs up.  Maybe it's because nobody else was creative/stupid enough to use siphon life solely off of a triple mark :p  I did that because I knew I wanted to use shard of void, but that there would be a lot more darkness quanta floating around if I used a darkness mark.  Plus, I wanted some sort of spell in case there was a situation where the player was at 1hp from shards but had some sort of defense against the immortals.  In practice, however, now that I think on it, that probably never happened.  The best defense against SoW immortals is a reflective shield, and that blocks siphon life as well.

Today's card is pulverizer.  I've had that one a few times, so I'll probably end up doing something incredibly weak that won't win any games :p  That, or I'll end up doing something everyone hates, but I'll try to avoid that as well.

[dragonsdemesne]

185hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: PULVERIZER
wins: 21 losses: 8 rank: >500 Rating: -94 age: 3



8/21 thumbs up

Sorry... I couldn't think of much to do with pulverizer, so I built this as a kind of baseline test; I figured only the people that thumbs up everything would thumb up something like this.  Lately my decks have been getting more thumbs ups than usual, so I figured this was a good chance to see whether people are really giving more thumbs ups or not.  Of course, the sample size is really too small to get an accurate feel for such things, but as a rough guess it's not bad.

Today's card is entropy pendulum, giving me lots of options, and I promise to do something more creative than this one...

[TribalTrouble]

*takes out notepad for Entropy*

[dragonsdemesne]

185hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: ENTROPY PENDULUM
wins: 3 losses: 3 rank: >500 Rating: -83 age: 1

2/3 thumbs up



This was based on a BL deck I tried out this season, but probably won't use again.  (I kept bottomdecking the SoP... :p)  I in turn stole the basic idea from somebody else in BL, with the main addition that I made being the pests.  The idea was to get as much synergy between SoP and the creatures as possible.

Today's card is crimson dragon.  I'm thinking I might just try a simple dragon/sky blitz rush and see how that goes.  Interestingly, it's not something I can recall seeing much outside of monoair.

[dragonsdemesne]

185hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: CRIMSON DRAGON
wins: 9 losses: 4 rank: >500 Rating: -110 age: 2

3/9 thumbs up



I hadn't seen this done in arena recently, so I thought I'd give it a try.  Not really too much to say about it; it's a very simple rush, very quick and painful when it works, but very bad when it doesn't.

Today's card is quintessence.  Not sure what I'll do with that, yet, but we'll see... maybe some sort of quinted nymph deck?

[TribalTrouble]

Quinted Water Nymphs maybe?

Also, I would've had unupped Phoenixes instead of Seraph myself. I like it, although I might've also added a Fog Shield. Nice job!

How many Burning Towers do you have...

[dragonsdemesne]

I ended up doing quinted wyrms with shard of wisdom.  It's 4-1 so far with 2 thumbs ups.

Phoenixes definitely make sense in place of Seraph, as it would ease the rather severe quanta strain on all those big fire creatures.  The fog does make sense, but as I was going for a pure rush, I didn't even look at any defensive cards for that deck.

I have 30 of each of the upped towers and pendulums, plus one or two more in some elements from FG/halfblood spins.  (I've got all the buyable cards)  I figured it would be very unlikely to ever need more than that for anything, and I've got lots of electrum if I ever change my mind, so I stopped upgrading any more at that point, and 30 was a nice round number.

[dragonsdemesne]

185hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: QUINTESSENCE
wins: 44 losses: 10 rank: 448 Rating: -73 age: 8

13/44 thumbs up



A surprisingly simple and effective deck, yet one that I cannot recall seeing before.  It got a bunch of its losses on the 7th day, and there's no point leaving it up at 1hp for the day, as one game will knock it out, so I'll make a new deck and get more plays with it instead.  This deck isn't as fast as something like chaos wyrms, but it is CC resistant with quints, and even without shards of freedom it can bypass shields.  I added the silences because pdials completely owns monoair (I've played enough pdials to know monoair rush is basically a free win for pdials) so I threw those in to disrupt sosa chains, or miracles, or whatever the player might be doing.

Today's card is fate egg.  I know I've had that one a few times before.  I did a SoR-PU deck the last time I think, and I did a giant denial rainbow another time, but I'll try to find something extra special and unique for such a cool card.

[dragonsdemesne]

185hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: FATE EGG
wins: 4 losses: 3 rank: >500 Rating: -100 age: 1

0/4 thumbs up



Nobody liked the randomness of the fate egg deck... or maybe it was the random nuisance cards like quicksand.  Ah, well...

Today's card is reflective shield.  Because none of you voted for fate eggs, I am punishing you with pdials! :p  Well, sort of.  I changed it slightly and made it a 60 card version as well, so it is somewhat different, but it's probably still very annoying.

[dragonsdemesne]

185hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: REFLECTIVE SHIELD
wins: 37 losses: 12 rank: >500 Rating: -113 age: 6

thumbs up: 13/37 (1337! )



SoSaless pdials!  As a result of the lack of light quanta drain from the SoSas, I was able to include lots of miracles and sanctuaries to accomplish much the same thing, only with a different quanta base.  Nothing particularly exciting, but hopefully some players were caught unawares by the fact that I didn't have any shards of sacrifice in the deck, and were needlessly restricting their own damage to play around something I wasn't even using.  It did quite a bit better than I thought it would, given the lack of SoSas and the large size of the deck.  (I did the 60 card thing as an attempt to dilute the extra copies of mirror shield, which is my typical strategy when getting a subpar oracle card like that or chimera or something)  It also somehow earned over a third thumbs ups, which is bizarre considering the previous fate egg deck had 0/4.

Today's card is acceleration.  I think I've done SoF acceleration, voodoo acceleration, and some big dragon acceleration things before, but I'll doublecheck my history and try to find something new and exciting to play against   (edit: apparently the only time I've ever used acceleration I put up a farm, so I can do anything I want!)

[dragonsdemesne]

That's the deck I came up with yesterday.  Overdriven guards, with some BH/silence to stall for them to build up, and PU for the kill.  (hopefully!)  It got 0 plays, so no stats for it.  I'm making a new deck because I spun turquoise nymph   Also, as per my tradition, I shall pick a new avatar as I have spun a nymph.