The Dragon's Arena Decks

[CrockettRocket]

4/6 thumbs up isnt 40% thumbs up ratio.. it's 66 and 2/3's%.

[propheon]

i think its 4/10 so 40%

[dawn to dusk]

4 thumbs up, 6 down.

So yea, it's 40%

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 77 Health Points 169/185 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 12:6 Electrum Earned 240 Rank 514 Rating -103 Age (days) 4 Thumbs Up? 8 Thumbs Down? 4

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77e 77e 77e 77e 77e 534 711 711 71b 71b 71f 71f 71f 71f 74e 77e 77g 77j 7dm 7dm 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dq 7dq 7dq 7dq 7dq 7dq 7gq 7gq 80k 8pm

Absolutely epic thumbs up ratio on this one, 67%   Grey nymph in immorush ftw!  I had done something fairly similar once in a custom rules league match, where both sides agreed we had to use six schrodinger's cats.  That deck was almost exactly like this one, except that I had an entropy mark and cats instead of the gnomes.  (or maybe in addition to gnomes... I don't think I had some of the other stuff like purify, but whatever)  I might have to do the immocat death deck for arena when I get a card appropriate to that.  Today's card is emerald pillar, so I'll be looking for something else this time, though.

edit: I have no idea what I did right, but the emerald pillar deck I have up right now is up to a 9-1 record, which is respectable, but amazingly 8/9 of them so far are thumbs ups!  Hopefully this ratio maintains itself; this would easily be my most popular deck if it does.
edit: Just came home from work, and the emerald pillar deck is now 26-2 and rank 10, with 9/26 thumbs ups, so I have no idea wtf is going on :p  It got 8/9 thumbs up the first day, and then it got 1/17 the second day.  If it gets any more wins, the thumbs up won't be able to be calculated anymore.  I'm pretty surprised the deck is doing this well, though; I thought it might have quanta problems, being a trio, but apparently not.  I also thought it would lose to Swallow, although it should own Pdials, but I can see it beating Swallow if my deck gets a near-ideal draw.

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 77 Health Points 57/185 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 40:14 Electrum Earned 672 Rank 759 Rating -123 Age (days) 7 Thumbs Up? 16 Thumbs Down? 24

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Well, if I hadn't checked this tonight, I'd probably have checked in the morning and thought it made it to 8 days.  Still, so close...  The thumbs up ratio couldn't maintain the momentum of the first day, but it did still get a respectable 40% ratio, which considering how bad the second day was, that's pretty good. 

I took FFQ/hope as a rough basis for my inspiration for this deck.  Obviously, with upped FFQs, light cards are out of the question.  However, I added the firestallish combo of fire buckler and feral bonds.  The bonds are traditionally part of FFQ/hope, and have obvious synergy with all the spawned fireflies.  The bucklers combined with the bonds then act much like buckler/sanc or buckler/SoG do in firestall, killing creatures while keeping your hp up.  Some shards of freedom were added to protect the fireflies as well as bypass annoying dimshields or the like.  Eagle's eyes and red nymphs for CC (as well as rage buff on the queens and nymphs), green nymphs for adrenaline, giving more hitting power and more quanta when played on fireflies/damselflies, and then blue nymphs to help bypass stall decks with unstable gases.  Two explosions for PC (enough to be useful but not so many as to piss people off) and one sky blitz for a finisher (I like having exactly one sky blitz in a lot of air creature decks; just having the possibility of it raises all kinds of potential threats, and sometimes you can get a really big finish with it that you couldn't possibly have gotten otherwise)  Two of each nymph seemed a good balance between QI, having variety of cards, and not just winning off of nymphs.  (plus, I only have two air nymphs to use, though I do have more of the life/fire ones, but I think they'd just have clogged the hand had I added more)

I was pretty proud of this deck.  It takes a bunch of cool ideas and merges them all into one deck in such a way that while it bears a strong resemblance to many other decks (FFQ/hope, firestall, UG stall), yet it's none of these, but something new, or at least new to me.  Today's card is rustler, and I hope that I can find something as cool to do with that as I did with this deck.

[iDaire]

4 thumbs up, 6 down.

So yea, it's 40%

4 divided by 6 is 66.67%
Math. Can't go wrong.

[Zawadx]

4 thumbs up, 6 down.

So yea, it's 40%

4 divided by 6 is 66.67%
Math. Can't go wrong.

/facepalm

Here, Thumbs Up Ratio will be how many of your total games were Thumbs Ups. So the formula = U/(U+D), where U is the no. of Thumbs Ups and D is the no. of thumbs downs. Basically U+D signifies total games played.

So here, the ratio is = 4/(4+6) = 4/10 = 40%

[CrockettRocket]

Its the total number of games played divided by thumbs up. Dont need a more complex formula. The often mistake, the mistake deathreign and I made, was thumbs up divided by thumbs down.

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 77 Health Points 183/185 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 3:4 Electrum Earned 48 Rank 853 Rating -136 Age (days) 1 Thumbs Up? 1 Thumbs Down? 2

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7af 7af 7af 7af 7af 5c5 5c5 5c5 5c5 5c5 5cg 5cg 5cg 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ad 7ad 7ad 7ad 7ad 7km 7km 7km 7km 7km 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 8pq

I very loosely based the deck idea for this from a thread I made awhile ago: (the first deck, divine adrenastaves)

http://elementscommunity.org/forum/deck-compilations/'i-told-you-to-take-the-wizards-staff!'/

Obviously, there are a few changes, namely the leaf dragons and jade dragons and nymphs, but the rough concept is there.  I'd hoped the deck would do a little better (it's probably an autowin vs pdials, for instance) but you can't win them all   Today's card is water pendulum.

[dragonsdemesne]

Level 77 Health Points 183/185 Max Upgraded 60 Oracle Upgraded 5 Mark Multiplier 3X Card(s) per Turn 2X Deck Size 2X

Win:Loss 1:3 Electrum Earned 12 Rank 611 Rating -114 Age (days) 1 Thumbs Up? 0 Thumbs Down? 1

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7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7am 7am 7am 7am 7ap 7ap 7ap 7ap 7ap 7ap 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gq 7gq 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 7h1 7hi 7hi 7hi 8pn

There are only two words to describe flooded mitopatient squid:  Cthulhu fhtagn.

Today's card is blue crawler.

[Submachine]

There are only two words to describe flooded mitopatient squid:  Cthulhu fhtagn.

You made my day. Thank you.

[Chapuz]

I wonder what it lost against