The Dragon's Arena Decks

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 78 Health Points 182/190 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 16:6 Electrum Earned 264 Rank 528 Rating -108 Age (days) 3 Thumbs Up? 6 Thumbs Down? 10

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I'm pretty sure I did something like this once before, but it's a fun idea, and it seemed to be a good way to minimize the problems of having ten fogs in the deck.  Not really much to say about the deck itself, as it is quite self-explanatory.  The only thing I'll mention is that the red nymphs work well on buffing firefly queens, and green nymphs hit some good sweet spots for adrenaline on several creatures, and make extra fire quanta on the fireflies as well.

edit: Today's card is bone dragon.

[Submachine]

When building the deck, do you remember the reason why you went with SoFrees?

[dragonsdemesne]

The one above?  Well, they do make good sense with the firefly queens and the fireflies.  They don't help the blue nymphs with evasion (I tested that once a long time ago) but they do help with the rest of the air creatures in the deck.  I picked them more for the spell evasion than for the shield bypass and damage, because there are already other stallbreaking things in the deck, like blue nymph gas or simply decking out via bonds or whatever.

[Submachine]

I was just wondering if you took that into consideration that it's a combo that you'll rarely get working, mainly because there are only 6 of it in a 120 card deck and also 24/120 creatures that they can even affect. x) Also bear in mind that since it's a combo, they both needs to be drawn. I'm not a math junkie, but drawing both has a 0.01% chance. (calculation can be inaccurate)

[serprex]

0.01 is assuming your starting hand is 2 cards (& doesn't consider drawing into)

In reality you'll start with 1-2 of the 24 in your opening hand, & SoFr will quickly become a highly efficient draw

[Submachine]

How would it look with 7 or 8 cards?

[serprex]

~24% to have both in opening hand (nb 80% of hands have one of the 24 creatures)

Useful links:
http://stattrek.com/online-calculator/hypergeometric.aspx (chance of N copies in X cards)
http://deckulator.blogspot.ca/2010/11/building-sligh-deck.html (input x/12/3 0/1/1 for result of 24%)

[dragonsdemesne]

I didn't expect most games to last long enough to get a full four shards out, but I figured two would be fairly reasonable in an average game.  Also, the number of creatures is slightly misleading, because the queens make more fireflies.  Even 1-3 out of 4 shards can be enough to win games.  I remember losing a CL game once to chaos wyrms solely because an elite wyrm dodged three devours on the same turn with only one shard of freedom out.

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 78 Health Points 62/190 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 26:10 Electrum Earned 396 Rank 629 Rating -122 Age (days) 7 Thumbs Up? 7 Thumbs Down? 19

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I thought this was pretty clever, and used a lot of underutilized cards, but apparently not many people agreed with me.  The deck has good rushing capabilities, but also has decent stall potential with lucihope and miracle, and has good stallbreaking measures with poison and shard of patience.  It's like several decks in one, which is why I thought it was cool, but I guess not everyone else thought so.  Today's card is butterfly effect.

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 78 Health Points 1/190 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 33:10 Electrum Earned 528 Rank 509 Rating -117 Age (days) 9 Thumbs Up? 11 Thumbs Down? 22

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Voodoo butterflies!  Who would have guessed?  The deck actually had a really long winning streak the first few days, going something like 20-0, but it didn't last.  Today's card is fog shield.  (again... le sigh)

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 78 Health Points 182/190 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 14:7 Electrum Earned 252 Rank 656 Rating -130 Age (days) 3 Thumbs Up? 7 Thumbs Down? 7

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50% thumbs up is pretty awesome   Not too much to say about the deck, as it is quite simple.  (scarabs have airborne)  The lightning storms and eagle's eye were meant to synergize with scarab devour (which was usable with shard of readiness) to weaken creatures enough that they could be devoured.  Then one sky blitz, because AI won't play it except to OTK.

Today's card is purple dragon.  Not yet sure what I'll do with that one.

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 78 Health Points 186/190 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 10:5 Electrum Earned 144 Rank 655 Rating -128 Age (days) 2 Thumbs Up? 2 Thumbs Down? 8

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I thought this would both do better than this, and get more thumbs ups.  I guess I can't predict them all... ah, well.  Today's card is red nymph (huzzah!)