The Dragon's Arena Decks

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 78 Health Points 126/190 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 17:6 Electrum Earned 276 Rank 565 Rating -102 Age (days) 6 Thumbs Up? 6 Thumbs Down? 11

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Nymph arena decks are always fun... and not just because it means more nymphs for the harem :p  They're often more unique when designed to be such because most people don't have access to five or six nymphs the way you get when you make an arena deck around it.  This one's kind of got a bit of everything going on in it, too, which I think makes it more interesting.  The thumbs ups didn't really agree, unfortunately.

Today's card is pharaoh.  Dunno what I'll do with that one, yet.  Recently I did a SoFr/Sky blitz deck with it when I got fog shield as my card, so it'll be something else.  I think I did a red nymph deck once as well, to use rage on scarabs and pharaohs.  Monotime isn't particularly exciting, but also remains a possibility.  Maybe water for shard of patience?  I don't think I've done that yet.  Or... actually, I just had a -really- funny idea.  I don't know if it can be made to work, but I'm sure as heck going to try...

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 78 Health Points 188/190 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 1:3 Electrum Earned 24 Rank 585 Rating -108 Age (days) 1 Thumbs Up? 1 Thumbs Down? 0

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Sadly, 'cool deck' and 'good deck' often aren't used to describe the SAME deck.  The one person who lost to it appreciated it, at least.  I tried to pick cards that synergized well with the pharaohs, or were at least useful in filling any inherent weaknesses in the playstyle.  Today's card is ice dragon; I'll look for something interesting, but dragons are hard to be creative with because there are twelve of them, and the good dragon ideas get spent twelve times as fast.

[CrockettRocket]

For ice dragon consider shard of wisdom to cover for ice dragons lower attack then most of the other dragons. Then maybe look for other synergies between Air and aether, like webs. Notice that recluses are great mid hitters, so the deck would be good at burst damage really well, and continue the rest of the deck build for burst damage. (Not trying to tell you how to build your deck, I just personally think this idea is a rather cool one and its still rather effective.

EDIT:For ice dragon consider shard of wisdom to cover for ice dragons lower attack then most of the other dragons. Then maybe look for other synergies between water and aether.
Note: AI wont play wisdom on not immortal creatures. Might wanna throw in 2 immortals and some quints.

[ddevans96]

Ice dragons have fairly low attack, yes - Arctic Dragons do not, which is probably what dragons is going to have to work with.

[dragonsdemesne]

Based on the suggestion of a guest in chat, I went with a death duo using aflatoxin and skull shield and condors, and then added some of my own stuff to round it out.  It's actually fairly interesting, I think.

[CrockettRocket]

??? ice sheild blocks one, and has a lot better stalling mechanics then skull shield. I think its personal preference, and I prefer ice shield over skull shield.

[dawn to dusk]

??? ice sheild blocks one, and has a lot better stalling mechanics then skull shield. I think its personal preference, and I prefer ice shield over skull shield.

skull shield creates death effects while ice shield cant. also, the quanta needed is doubled (unupped, tripled upped)

[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 35:11 Electrum Earned 576 Rank 618 Rating -118 Age (days) 9 Thumbs Up? 13 Thumbs Down? 22

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Some random guest in chat gave me the idea for this deck when I asked what to do with ice dragon.  He'd said skull bucklers, aflatoxin, and desiccation, and then I filled the rest out myself.  Seems to have done fairly well on the thumbs up side, and lasted 8 days as well.

Today's card is armagio.  I have a very silly idea I am going to do with this one...

[CrockettRocket]

At least you have nymphs to soak up all that water quanta generation.

[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 13:6 Electrum Earned 216 Rank 542 Rating -115 Age (days) 2 Thumbs Up? 5 Thumbs Down? 8

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Mitoarmagiopult!  Or mitosofopult or whatever needs to be done...  Several silly concepts here.  The green nymphs were perhaps the only odd choice, and I picked those because they worked fairly well with armagios, going from 2 to 8 damage, and with mitosis, that means that they'll have lots of targets to adrenaline, if all goes well.

Today's card is parasite.

[CrockettRocket]

The quanta balence for in that deck seems very strained with green nymphs, think it would have been fine with regular epinephrines though

[dragonsdemesne]

Perhaps, but I didn't mind so much because only one green nymph in play is really necessary; if it can't afford to play the rest, it's not that big a deal.  I didn't want to use regular epinephrines because with all the targets from mitosis (ideally, anyway) I wanted there to be a repeatable source of adrenaline for them.