40 card Timebow

[Laxaria]

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Haven't played a lot of games with it, admittedly, but I am, so far, very happy with how it works. I bet as I play against the harder gods, my opinion of this deck will change significantly, but we'll see.

Essentially, this is a mixture of the different styles of rainbows hovering around. I found that Puppy, Yala and SG have unique styles in their respective rainbows, and I decided to pick out on the best of each of these decks.

A standard 40 card deck with a lot of redundancies. One could argue that the redundant cards only make the deck weaker, but what I am trying to do is to create a situation where you are less likely to not get the card you want. 2 PAs help significantly against gods like Seism, Graviton and Obliterator, while lending you a greater sense of security against gods like Decay with steal. I am not too sure how significant having 2 PAs are (in many cases I suppose one is more than enough. You could swap one out for a FFQ if you wish)

2 RoF + 2 Bonewall lets you stall a little longer, as well as to let you draw a combination like this faster to get up better defences. The double RoF also makes it possible for you to Duo-RoF Decay when he has a full field of Pests, as well as to do so against Hermes and other hard gods. It also makes it more likely to draw a RoF when you have a quinted Oty out against gods like Hermes and Graviton.

The main core strategy of this deck is to try and generate skeletons, or to gain control of the board as fast as possible. Admittedly there are little to no means of getting damage out easily, so feel free to add a FFQ. Although I have often found it sufficient to use Eternity to prevent deck outs while slowly waiting for a chance to mutate a skeleton.

Note that the deck above, in that form, Cannot beat Divine Glory. It is also unlikely to fare well against Eternal Phoenix, Rainbow and Darkmatter.

Some tweaks that you could try include:

-1 PA, +1 FFQ

-1 Pulvy, +1 Butterfly

I haven't, honestly, tested this deck extensively, but I just wanted to share it.

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[sSethia]

Three Otyughs? Do you think that maybe that's a little too much?

[Laxaria]

Three Otyughs? Do you think that maybe that's a little too much?

Drawing one at turn 10 instead of turn 20 is relatively significant.

Going to try this deck with two unupgraded BoneYards instead, eventually. >.>

[Cynxos]

I honestly think that 3 Otyugh and 4 Hourglasses are too much.
That and I suggest taking a boneyard instead of the up'd version, so you wont be quantum heavy on death+ switch to entropy for more convinence with Supernovas.
+I suggest taking a heavy hitter along.

[unionruler]

I honestly think that 3 Otyugh and 4 Hourglasses are too much.
That and I suggest taking a boneyard instead of the up'd version, so you wont be quantum heavy on death+ switch to entropy for more convinence with Supernovas.
+I suggest taking a heavy hitter along.

The smaller the deck, the more effective entropy mark is because the supernova density is considerably higher. Which is not really the case for a 40 card deck. Many people have been looking for a good time mark anti FG rainbow since the eternity and hourglass nerfs in 1.21; if you want to stick to an entropybow fine and well but don't interfere with ongoing research. 4 hourglasses is a little dense but not too off for a 40 card timebow without sundials, same goes for otyughs. And the reason why there is no heavy hitter is it wastes a card slot which could otherwise (obviously) be occupied by FFQ, which is clearly not the deckbuilder's intent. So please show some respect for the deckbuilder.

[Laxaria]

One of the things I disliked heavily about many of the entropy rainbows is the instability of it. While this deck does run quite a fair bit of redundant cards and copies of cards, overall, I prefer it because it is more stable.

Case in point, I had a game against Miracle with Miracle having a 24/24 dragon. Permafrost froze it and if I did not have 3 Hourglasses on the field, there would have been no way for me to finish that match with EM. I'd like to see you try that with a 33-card Entropy Rainbow.

Some of the changes I've made:

-2 Supernovas, +2 Quantum Towers

I found that sometimes, I often had only 1 tower in my hand, which is frustrating. I did not find the SuperNovas very useful sometimes.

I'm contemplating taking out all the Super Novas for 1 unup'd boneyard and either Butterfly over Pulverizer or another Druid. I personally don't want to use the FFQ, because I find that, in many cases, especially with the new gods (Osiris, for example), it simply isn't all that helpful anymore.

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