The Dragon's Arena Decks

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 77 Health Points 181/185 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 7:4 Electrum Earned 96 Rank 525 Rating -100 Age (days) 2 Thumbs Up? 1 Thumbs Down? 6

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Novapulverizerbow!  If you hated that... you'll probably hate whatever I put up next :p  I spun earthquake today from the oracle.  I can't speak for anyone else, but earthquake is one of the cards that annoys me the most.

[Chapuz]

Beautiful deck, Dragons. Why did it went so bad? And why not SNs?

[dragonsdemesne]

Thanks   I suppose I could have done something like entropy towers/gravity mark and supernovas, or gravity towers/entropy mark, and dropped the quicksands to free up more earth quanta.  The main reason I didn't do that is that I didn't think of it at the time :p  I don't know why it was rated so low, although people do tend to hate PC and quanta denial, even when it looks cool.  As for win rate, I probably didn't get the quanta balance right.  Other than making sure I had enough novas/SN to power everything, I didn't do any balancing at all.

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 77 Health Points 169/185 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 8:4 Electrum Earned 120 Rank 586 Rating -104 Age (days) 4 Thumbs Up? 2 Thumbs Down? 6

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I know I've done similar decks before, but I don't think I did it with earthquake yet.  I deliberately tried to make it as farm-like as possible, without actually making it a farm, so I used lots of rares and nymphs.  (else I'd probably have included sanctuaries, and maybe sundials, though dials interfere with the nymphs slightly)  Today's card is hematite golem.  I've done a few decks with that before, and I'll try to find something new.  It's a deceptively strong card, so I might be able to find something clever that can still win games.

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 77 Health Points 57/185 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 20:8 Electrum Earned 372 Rank 660 Rating -116 Age (days) 7 Thumbs Up? 11 Thumbs Down? 9

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Wow, look at that thumbs up ratio 55%   And that's with a whole bunch of denial, which people usually hate.  Too bad it only averaged 4 plays/day over the week it was active.  I'd been trying to think of something unique to do with steel golems, and I figured earth/entropy is an odd duo, and then I went with chaos powers off the mark.  Added quicksands/discords to stall long enough for the golems to do their thing, and then, realizing the deck would be overproducing entropy, threw in a few antimatters to use that up.  Holy flash pretty much just for lols, but I thought maybe it would catch some SoSa players offguard.  I know if I were playing Pdials or something, I sure as heck wouldn't expect to be owned by a holy flash in a deck like this.

Today's card is ice dragon.  I'm not sure what I'll do with that one, but I might actually try something quite a bit like the deck you see above.  Chaos powers off the mark, to protect the arctic dragons (with 5hp they are lightning vulnerable, for instance) and some discords/antimatters for stalling.  Maybe some shards of patience, a few other water cards, and bam!

[CrockettRocket]

Do you wright up guidelines cause all your descriptions are practically the same length.

[CuCN]

Novapulverizerbow!  If you hated that... you'll probably hate whatever I put up next :p  I spun earthquake today from the oracle.  I can't speak for anyone else, but earthquake is one of the cards that annoys me the most.

Wow, look at that thumbs up ratio 55%   And that's with a whole bunch of denial, which people usually hate.  Too bad it only averaged 4 plays/day over the week it was active.  I'd been trying to think of something unique to do with steel golems, and I figured earth/entropy is an odd duo, and then I went with chaos powers off the mark.  Added quicksands/discords to stall long enough for the golems to do their thing, and then, realizing the deck would be overproducing entropy, threw in a few antimatters to use that up.  Holy flash pretty much just for lols, but I thought maybe it would catch some SoSa players offguard.  I know if I were playing Pdials or something, I sure as heck wouldn't expect to be owned by a holy flash in a deck like this.

Today's card is ice dragon.  I'm not sure what I'll do with that one, but I might actually try something quite a bit like the deck you see above.  Chaos powers off the mark, to protect the arctic dragons (with 5hp they are lightning vulnerable, for instance) and some discords/antimatters for stalling.  Maybe some shards of patience, a few other water cards, and bam!

Practically the same length.

[CrockettRocket]

Ok, but that did last only 2 days compared to this decks 7. A set of guide lines based on days? :p

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 77 Health Points 1/185 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 36:12 Electrum Earned 612 Rank 884 Rating -141 Age (days) 8 Thumbs Up? 15 Thumbs Down? 21

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15/36 thumbs up ratio is pretty nice, and lasting 8 days is nice as well.  I took some inspiration from the last deck, but I decided to go with blessings rather than chaos powers, just to change it up a little.  It was fun to add several cards I don't use that often (arctic dragon, pufferfish, blessing) and turn them into an arena deck that worked.  I had also thought about using shard of divinity, but I didn't want to make the deck any bigger or cut anything.  I spun obsidian pillar today, and I won't do one of those monodarks everyone hates; I'm not sure what I'll do yet, though.

In regards to the description length for the decks, it'll usually depend on how interesting/unusual the deck is to play, and how long it lasted, and how proud I was of the deck idea.  I also don't usually do more than a few sentences because nobody really cares, anyway :p

[CrockettRocket]

Heh! Copy paste your deck description and then continue into one lengthy PM for me please! I so care! Your decks are original and if I was to keep track of my arena decks, I would run the same thread as you in concept, not decks of course.

P.S. I got anubis and just put up a farm. 6 anubis, 6 sparks (quint spark ya know it!), 6 dim shields 6 mindgates rest pillars and it went 4-4.

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 77 Health Points 183/185 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 4:4 Electrum Earned 72 Rank 725 Rating -127 Age (days) 1 Thumbs Up? 2 Thumbs Down? 2

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I had a lot of fun building this one   The original idea was chaos powered vampires, and it slowly evolved from there.  I added werewolf next,   and then eclipse... and then I got to thinking about a death trio, because of eclipse's buff to death.  And that led to the extremely silly catcher/cat/death card module.  I knew it wouldn't do particularly well (I beat it in testing with the unupped eternal phoenix counter I happened to have loaded at the time) but I knew it should be quite unique as well.  Today's card is maxwell's demon.  I think the last time I had that, I did maxwell + fireshield.  This time, maybe I'll do maxwell + owl's eye or something like that.  (assuming I haven't already; I'll do a quick search)

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 77 Health Points 181/185 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 10:5 Electrum Earned 168 Rank 612 Rating -115 Age (days) 2 Thumbs Up? 4 Thumbs Down? 6

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After surprisingly going 8-0 the first day, I thought I had an unexpected winner, but then it was 10-2 after coming home from work this afternoon, and checking on it just now, it took three more losses this evening.  I'm now unsure whether the fluke was winning a bunch at first or losing a bunch at the end, but given that I didn't expect much from this, I suspect that it was a fluke it got this far.  40% thumbs up is pretty decent, though.  I built the deck around using Eagle's Eye to snipe stuff down into Maxwell's Demon paradox range, and went from there.  Also note that maxwell's is airborne so it works with Sky Blitz/Shard of Freedom as well, as are all animated weapons.  (discord through dimshields rawr!)  Today's card is gnome gemfinder.