The Dragon's Arena Decks

[dragonsdemesne]

200hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 2x mark
Oracle Card:FOREST SPIRIT
wins: 45 losses: 8 rank: 56 rating: 173 age: 7



It's a bit of a goofy speedbow, sure, but it did alright, though nothing special.  The highest rank I can remember seeing it was in the 30s.

Today's card is Hematite Golem.  There's a few possibilities around that one...

[dragonsdemesne]

200hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 2x mark
Oracle Card:HEMATITE GOLEM
wins: 15 losses: 5 rank: 281 rating: -16 age: 3

I'm a bit disappointed in how this one performed.  I guess it probably just didn't have enough offense compared to most speedbows; it was probably too slow.  It did seem to get more thumbs up than usual, though; I can't recall ever seeing a speedbow that didn't use QTs or pends before.



I got reverse time this morning.  If I don't screw up on deck design like I just did, this one should be a strong contender.

[Tom Bombadil]

did you confuse rating with rank? maybe your deck suffered from bh, inserted in many speedbows and killer of your deck...

[Calindu]

did you confuse rating with rank? maybe your deck suffered from bh, inserted in many speedbows and killer of your deck...

From my own experience with those kinds of speedbows I think it's the stress on and quanta.

[dragonsdemesne]

did you confuse rating with rank? maybe your deck suffered from bh, inserted in many speedbows and killer of your deck...

Probably :p  I switched them, since it didn't look right to have a negative rank!

200hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 2x mark
Oracle Card: REVERSE TIME
wins: 24 losses: 7 rank: 300 rating: -24 age: 4



Worst.  Ghostmare.  Ever.  The SoSas were me trying to put my own touch on things, but maybe it antisynergized with the nightmare hp gain too much.  I've never really understood how come ghostmare does so well in arena, since I usually beat them pretty easily with my arena farmer.  I made sure to include steals for sanctuaries and two hourglasses, because the ghostmares that do the best against me are the ones that steal my hourglasses and draw with them :p  I suppose I'll just have to learn to build a better ghostmare... never done it before :p

Today's card is toadfish.  Not sure what I'll do with that, maybe monowater, water/air, or water/life, but ghostmare is boring, and I suck, so my ghostmare sucks too, so it's changing.

[dragonsdemesne]

did you confuse rating with rank? maybe your deck suffered from bh, inserted in many speedbows and killer of your deck...

From my own experience with those kinds of speedbows I think it's the stress on and quanta.

Possibly, but from my own experience the best speedbows are the ones with black hole spam; those ones often kick my ass in the arena really hard, which is the reason I used three.  And yeah, maybe I should've gone with Elite Pegasus instead of Morning Glory, especially without quantum towers.  Also, I want to mention that this quoted post was calindu's 1337th post.

[Calindu]

did you confuse rating with rank? maybe your deck suffered from bh, inserted in many speedbows and killer of your deck...

From my own experience with those kinds of speedbows I think it's the stress on and quanta.

Possibly, but from my own experience the best speedbows are the ones with black hole spam; those ones often kick my ass in the arena really hard, which is the reason I used three.  And yeah, maybe I should've gone with Elite Pegasus instead of Morning Glory, especially without quantum towers.  Also, I want to mention that this quoted post was calindu's 1337th post.

Those black holes spam decks are really hard to beat, but since you need 3 SNs to play the 2nd one I think that's the first problem.
OFF Topic:Neah, it was my 1336th one  .

[dragonsdemesne]

160hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: TOADFISH
wins: 30 losses: 10 rank: 242 rating: 14 age: 6



A deck with Inundation and Shard of Patience and positive rating is a success in my book :p  I think I'll call the deck SPlat: It's what's for dinner.  SoP counters SoSa-based decks, purify counters poison, and puffer gets through shields like permafrost and gravity shield and makes a general nuisance of itself.  Inundation stops RoL/Hope, and octopus and permafrost hopefully slow down rushes enough to win.  Voids were mostly just to farm, but they'll beat some stalls.  It got quite a few thumbs-up, and hopefully those who beat it won some SoPs :p

Today's card is Sundial.  There's a ton of possibilities there for creative deckbuilding, especially when it's upped.  I could do poison SoSa dial, but that's just evil... maybe something like Void Dial?  I dunno yet...

[dragonsdemesne]

200hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 2x mark
Oracle Card: SUNDIAL
wins: 10 losses: 5 rank: 357 rating: -74 age: 3



After careful consideration, I decided to make this silly deck solely to make people argue about whether it is a mono (because it needs only light quanta) or a trio. (because it has time and air cards)  It turned out to be a good thing that it got very few plays, but hopefully some people got to farm my shards.

It is time to make a new deck.  I cannot stress how excited I am about this one... (hint: see avatar/mood to the left)

[dragonsdemesne]

160hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: AMBER NYMPH

After 6 days, the deck was 54-5 and in 6th place.  After 7 it's 59-8 and still in 9th place.  As overpowered as amber nymph is, it's actually funny that my purple nymph deck here http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,28528.msg444791#msg444791 (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,28528.msg444791#msg444791)did slightly better, even though that nymph isn't quite as good.  (still awesome, though)

I got Quantum Pillar as my card today, but I simply have to know if this deck can win with 1hp, so I'm leaving it up some more and skipping that.  I just wanted to post the peak stats after 6 days, as a point of reference.

edit: after 8 days, 64-13; it's still getting wins at 1hp   I got butterfly effect so the nymph/discord deck is staying up until morning.

edit: after 10 days, it finally dropped out of platinum at 66-24.  I got solar buckler for my card, and having 10 of those in a deck isn't really going to be very successful, so I'm putting up a new shard farm today.  Enjoy!

[Corri]

Do it work ???

This is the second arena deck I submitted. (the first was in gold)

200hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 1x mark
Oracle Card: BONE DRAGON

by Corri

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Mark of DEATH
(all cards in this deck are upgraded, and the bone dragons were ivory dragons from the oracle and my max wisdom, but I don't actually own any ivory dragons, so I used bone dragons to show you the deck image as close as possible)
wins: 97 loss: 16 rank: 58 rating: 373 age: 5

Just thought I'd let people see what I'm using, since I'm about to change it up.  I'm getting a bit nervous with that age, since it's already at -32hp and tomorrow it's going to be -64.  I'll post the next deck after I quit using it as well.  It's in my best interests not to reveal the deck while it's actually up in the arena, but there is no harm in revealing it after I'm done using it.  My oracle card now is Aether Pendulum, which is another reason I want to switch it now; that's a decent card, and I'm worried that if I get a crappy card tomorrow I'll either have to build a junk deck or play with -64hp.

The idea of the deck was to Cremate the gemfinders/balls and drop lava destroyers, obviously, but with the added twist that when you cremate stuff, the soul catchers give death quanta for the ivory dragons that I had to use.  I really don't like the death element and I couldn't think of any good deck based on death as the main element, so I decided to splash death in this way, and it did a lot better than I thought it would.

[dragonsdemesne]

I had a farm for a couple days due to stupid cards from oracle, but the one up right now (4th day) is rank 8, with reverse time as the card.  It's gotten several thumbs-up, probably because I built a deck using it that wasn't ghostmare or speedbow :p  In fact, the RTs are the only time cards in the deck.