The Dragon's Arena Decks

[dragonsdemesne]

200hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 2x mark
Oracle Card: REVERSE TIME
wins: 72 losses: 12 rank: 20 rating: 321 age: 7



Even though Rewind has antisynergy with Shard of Sacrifice (smart human should just not replay the creatures after rewinding until SoSa is done) the deck did reasonably well, and the highest I saw it at was rank 6.  Even with that antisynergy, the rewinds do at least stall the human's draw for a turn, buying time for poison, or another turn to keep the SoSa chain going.  SoSa obviously cannot be used now that the deck has 72hp max, so I'm changing it tonight.  The new card is druid staff.  I've had that one before, and I did adrenastaves with steals off the mark, and it didn't do very well.  I'll try something a little more interesting this time...

[dragonsdemesne]

160hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: DRUID STAFF
wins: 10 losses: 5 rank: 334 rating: -34 age: 1



Another failed druid staff deck!  I think it did marginally better than the last one.  I got a 4th (!!) purple nymph this morning, so I'm changing to that.  I had a rank 5 deck with that awhile back, a gravity duo, but I'll try a new one.

[dragonsdemesne]

How stupid can an arena deck be and still stay in the top 500 in platinum? (barely)  About this stupid...

160hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: PURPLE NYMPH
wins: 5 losses: 6 rank: 482 rating: -173 age: 1



It's all the nymphs I own, minus the other purples.  And please don't stare at the upped aether nymph! (she doesn't like it!)  That was before I used the forum and knew 90% of pvp events were unupped.

[dragonsdemesne]

How overpowered is Shard of Sacrifice?  About this overpowered...

(last time I made this type of deck: 75-2) http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,28528.msg427562#msg427562

200hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 2x mark
Oracle Card: SPARK
wins: 31 losses: 9 rank: 319 rating: -44 age: 3



It's not quite as good as the previous deck I linked, but it's close.  More ball lightnings but less gemfinders and a few other things, and then +1 purify and +2 SoSa for the metagame.  That destroyer deck, however, was before cremation got nerfed and SoSa was created.  This is probably why I've seen very few cremation decks lately in the arena; they just can't beat SoSa, as least in their standard form.  Adding SoP or things like that would probably let you beat SoSa, but then you'd have dead cards in every other matchup.

Tonight's card is Golden Dragon.  I'm not sure what I'll do with that yet, but this deck clearly isn't a contender anymore.

[dragonsdemesne]

160hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: LIGHT DRAGON
wins: 4 losses: 2 rank: 299 rating: -25 age: 1

I'm surprised this even got 4 wins... maybe because sundial counters SoSa. (assuming the AI even knows that)  Any half-decent deck that doesn't rely on SoSa should have beaten this more often than not.



Chrysaora was spun today.  It's time to be an ass with SoSa... (yet again)
edit: Chrysaora deck is rank 5 with 54-4 record so far
edit: 62-4, rank 2, and the deck above it is older, and the deck below fairly far away.  I think this one will actually make it to the top   I just wish that some of my decks that actually deserved a #1 had made it, like my lava destroyer deck or my purple nymph/BH deck; this one's going to make it only because of an unusually high number of plays; the rank 3-5 decks are 48-2, 44-1, and 51-3, and the same age.  I've had other ones that would have been #1 if they'd gotten more plays, or there hadn't been someone with an abnormally high rating/ridiculous number of plays at the top, but #1 is #1, so if I do get it I'll be satisfied; I've earned it, just not with this deck, lol.

[dragonsdemesne]

[Calindu]

2000hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 2x mark
Oracle Card: SPARK
wins: 31 losses: 9 rank: 319 rating: -44 age: 3

Darn, I wish I could have 2000 hp.

[dragonsdemesne]

2000hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 2x mark
Oracle Card: SPARK
wins: 31 losses: 9 rank: 319 rating: -44 age: 3

Darn, I wish I could have 2000 hp.

And I wish I could do better than a 31-9 W/L with 2000hp... I suck 

[dragonsdemesne]

200hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 2x mark
Oracle Card: CHRYSAORA
wins: 77 losses: 6 rank: 1 rating: 574 age: 7



Somebody gave my deck the 6th loss in the last few minutes... shame on them!  I'm posting the deck now because I'm going to add SoD in place of some cards to compensate for the 72hp max it has now.  I doubt it'll survive for long with that hp penalty, but I'll keep it going as long as I can, and hopefully some of you will get some nice electrum out of it!

The lone puffer was because I figured the deck would get a lot of water quanta piling up quickly (the reason why I only had double mark and maxed everything else) that it didn't need.  Even with only 2/6 upped SoSas it managed to do very well; I can't really complain.  For the record, rank #1 gives 5x electrum rewards, which I didn't know until now, as the best I have achieved in the arena is rank #2 before this.

edit: I've tweaked the deck slightly to account for the 1hp max, including a 3x mark for hp that no longer helps.  I'm still 85-12 and rank #3 and it's day 9... wtf?
edi: 87-19 / rank 46... still keeping the deck up until tomorrow because my card was turtle shield... yuck.
edit: 89/24 on day 10...   Light Pend today from oracle; I think I'll just leave this up so you can farm SoSa/SoD from me, though.  I'm too lazy to figure out a good light deck this morning.
edit: 91-27 on day 11, and rank 435.  Acceleration is the card today, so I'm skipping that and seeing if the deck can survive another day.
edit: 93-29 on day 11 and the deck finally dropped out of the top 500.  It got 16 wins and 23 losses while at 1 hp :p  My card was acceleration, so I'll just put up a farm until tomorrow.  Enjoy!

[dragonsdemesne]

180hp, 30 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: QUINTESSENCE
wins: 11 losses: 4 rank: 281 rating: -16 age: 2



This deck was designed to punish exactly one deck archetype; the kind that has creatures but no form of board control of any sort.  Apparently that's 11/15ths of you!    If you can't deal with a quinted nymph, you lose; otherwise, you clobber this deck.

Today's card is purify.  Quite a few possibilities with that one, and it's great against the current generation of arena farmers.

[dragonsdemesne]

200hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 2x mark
Oracle Card: PURIFY
wins: 42 losses: 8 rank: 66 rating: 320 age: 5



There was some sort of problem with platinum arena this week, so the statistics might not be entirely accurate this time.  The deck was in the top 25 briefly, but so were 0 day old decks that were like 5-0, due to some sort of weirdness.  Anyway, here's the deck; I expected it to do alright (maybe top 100, as it did) but I didn't expect miracles.  Platinum arena does seem to have returned to normal (there were 0 day old decks in top 100, and the #1 deck only had like 400 rating, instead of the usual 600-700) and today's card is Crimson Dragon, so I'll see what I can make happen here.

[dragonsdemesne]

160hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: CRIMSON DRAGON
wins: 50 losses: 4 rank: 116 rating: 101 age: 5



This deck did extremely well, far better than I was expecting.  However, due to the arena bug that was occurring, the first 2-3 days this deck was up it had a negative rating.  At one point it had a 32-2 win record but had negative rating :p  With a 50-4 record, it's probably a top 10 deck, though.  I'm really not sure how it did as well as it did, but I guess simple is good :p  Black hole for the first several turns to stall to give the dragons time to beat down worked great.  If I get one of the cards in this deck in the future, I might make it again, since the arena rating system is working now, and I can see how it would actually perform.

Today's card is Wyrm.  The quality of that card plus the bugged rating of the previous deck has convinced me to make a new deck, even though this one could probably survive another day or two easily.