The Dragon's Arena Decks

[dragonsdemesne]

160hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: WYRM
wins: 55 losses: 7 rank: 20 rating: 226 age: 7



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Looks like last week's deck, doesn't it? :p  It's just air instead of fire.  I was curious to see how a similar deck would do, but in a totally different element, to see whether it was the black hole spam or the other cards that were getting it the wins.  It did about as well, so it's the black holes.  It was briefly in the top 10, but it took a couple of losses right after, which means the last deck would've been top 10 as well if the arena rating system hadn't been broken.  It also took two of the losses while at 32hp. 

Next card is photon.  I'm going to try and find something other than cremation rush or rol/hope for this.  I also finally gained another level (73) so I've got another +5 hp to play with :p

[Calindu]

Heh, faced the deck at 42/2, sure was hard.
Luckily for me, your deck doesn't beat poison dials.

[dragonsdemesne]

Well, I think this next one will be pretty easy to beat :p  At least it's unique; I can't recall ever seeing it before

[dragonsdemesne]

185hp, 30 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: WYRM
wins: 6 losses: 5 rank: 534 Rating: -152 age: 1

So THIS is how bad your deck has to be to fail in platinum league... wow :p  It was 4-1 when I went to work, so I thought maybe it would survive somehow, but people gave it the trouncing it deserved today.  I figure if nothing else, at least nobody has seen this deck before; I know I haven't :p  And now we all know why   I simply had to do something more interesting with photon than use it for immo fodder or rol/hope.

Well, seeing as I have to make a new deck to get plays today, I'll do so.  Fortunately, that card is Bone Wall.  I'll try to do something interesting that isn't just SoSa spam.  I've also already done cremation/bone wall in a duo.  Maybe I'll make a Schrodinger's Cat deck or some sort of ball lightning deck...

[Anthraxx]

This deck lacked a miracle or 2 to stand a chance vs. SoSa stalls. I played it yesterday (I think) and won only cause you didn't draw any sky blitzes. One miracle would seal the deal though, cause I'd run out of defence before I got you back down to 0.

[zhangvict]

I think you should have added a hope as well as a miracle. The rays of light actually harm the deck since they have no other use than to generate quanta. Towers fulfill that purpose better.

[Calindu]

I think you should have added a hope as well as a miracle. The rays of light actually harm the deck since they have no other use than to generate quanta. Towers fulfill that purpose better.

Actually RoLs are better than towers because you actually get 1 damage per turn, 2 with skyblitz.
And now dragon haves a bone wall deck, hope it does well!

[dragonsdemesne]

I almost did add a miracle to that deck, but I must've cut it for something else in the end.  I think you are correct that one or two would have helped a lot.  And yeah, the RoL thing was for the small synergy with Sky Blitz, and the fact that it was the oracle card :p  Also, since this deck doesn't use that much quanta, I think the +1 damage from RoL is probably more useful than the +1 quanta from towers.

The bone wall deck is only 7-3.  It's an aether/death duo using fractal ball lightning, soulcatcher, condors, and ivory dragon.  It won the one game I tested against it; I wanted to see what the fractal priority was.  It fractals ball lightnings before condors, which is what I wanted it to do.

[dragonsdemesne]

165hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: BONE WALL
wins: 8 losses: 6 rank: 471 Rating: -123 age: 3



One more loss will kill this deck, and today's card is nightmare, so here's the old deck.  The AI doesn't know how to play it very well, but I was hoping that at least through lucky topdecks it would happen to play things in the right order at least some of the time :p  A human, for instance, would hang on to at least one ball lightning for fractalling, and know when to fractal balls, when condors, and when dragons.  I'm hoping it was an enjoyable deck to play against; it sure wasn't meant to be serious!

I'm not sure what I'll do with the nightmare yet, but I don't want to do boring ghostmare, and the next most obvious choice, speedbow, is also boring.  I'll try to figure something out...

[dragonsdemesne]

165hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: OTYUGH (nightmare was skipped because arena decks couldn't be created that day due to server problems)
wins: 25 losses: 9 rank: 399 Rating: -82 age: 5



Despite how obvious this deck is, (chaos power on otyughs) I've never actually seen it done in the arena before.  So, of course, I had to post an untried deck to the arena.  As you can see, it sucks, but at least hopefully people had fun.  Based on the low number of thumbs-ups, though, I guess other people have seen this done before, even though I hadn't come across it.

Tonight's card is life pendulum.  Not sure what I can make that's creative with that, but I'm tired of this deck.
edit: It's a silly, silly deck   If it wins any games, you all sux!

[dragonsdemesne]

165hp, 60 wisdom, 2x card draw, 3x mark
Oracle Card: LIFE PENDULUM
wins: 12 losses: 5 rank: 388 Rating: -72 age: 2



Lifestall!  Yeah umm... adrenalined scorpions and a crapton of stuff to heal with, then carapace to kill creatures, mitosis to breed, and you get... life stall.  LIFE STALL.  RAWR.

I'd have left it up longer, but I got steal today; that's a great card

[zhangvict]

Yep, lifestall poison rox. I made a very similar 35 card version of that deck for gold a while back and pretty much everybody voted it up, though it had a horrible record XD. I think 35 cards is better since u get scorpions out faster + mitosis and bonds.