Crusaders busting skulls (CBS) 1.27 FG-grinder (Rainbow)

[k_huna]

first: yeah, i like it... but honestly... why should you use skull buckler if you can use a spine carapace? Why do you want to turn your opponents creatures into skelletons if you can totally get rid of them? just to double rewind them? (who wants to pay 6 to get rid of a creature instead of just eating them for 1 with your oty?!). Also spine carapace kills creatures way faster... so i would change at least one of the bucklers for a carapace

[omegareaper7]

first: yeah, i like it... but honestly... why should you use skull buckler if you can use a spine carapace? Why do you want to turn your opponents creatures into skelletons if you can totally get rid of them? just to double rewind them? (who wants to pay 6 to get rid of a creature instead of just eating them for 1 with your oty?!). Also spine carapace kills creatures way faster... so i would change at least one of the bucklers for a carapace

Skull buckler gets rid of threats like ruby dragons and other small creatures like physalia and phoenix without letting them do more then a couple attacks, while also filling up there field so they can't play as much.

[k_huna]

but even ruby dragons just have a 25% chance of beeing killed, so theres not so much of a difference to the carapace...

[zse]

first: yeah, i like it... but honestly... why should you use skull buckler if you can use a spine carapace? Why do you want to turn your opponents creatures into skelletons if you can totally get rid of them? just to double rewind them? (who wants to pay 6 to get rid of a creature instead of just eating them for 1 with your oty?!). Also spine carapace kills creatures way faster... so i would change at least one of the bucklers for a carapace

Why use Thunderbolt when it deals only 5 damage while Ice Lance can deal 200 damage?
1 is a lot easier to get than 201 .

Why use Skull Buckler when Spine Carapace does almost same thing?
2 is a lot easier to get than 7 in deck using Q.Towers, or Q.Towers + Pendulums.

Who wants to pay 6 to get rid of a creature instead of just eating them for 1 with your oty?!
One who wants to use Eternity lock (= prevent opponent from drawing new cards).

[k_huna]

I don't know... i think skull buckler can make things even worse against gods with rewind/eternity, nightfalls, graveyard+ nightfall and feral bonds, also spine carapace is better against creatures with more than 3 health (wich is normaly the case against gods)... and those 7 arent tooo hard to get...

[Optimalist]

Wondering why use a time pendulum with mark of time? is this to reduce effects of earthquake?

[TheForbiddenOracle]

Shouldn't you add a Fallen Druid since you added graveyard?

[zse]

Shouldn't you add a Fallen Druid since you added graveyard?

Graveyard -> Skeleton
Skeleton + Eternity -> Random Creature

[xn0ize]

Shouldn't you add a Fallen Druid since you added graveyard?

Graveyard -> Skeleton
Skeleton + Eternity -> Random Creature

Fallen druid produces mutations, Mutations > random creatures in many games.

[zse]

Shouldn't you add a Fallen Druid since you added graveyard?

Graveyard -> Skeleton
Skeleton + Eternity -> Random Creature

Fallen druid produces mutations, Mutations > random creatures in many games.

True. But there is that fine line between being good enough and overkill:
Random creatures (good enough) < Fallen Druid giving mutations (sometimes great, usually overkill)
- and -
Using good deck with 1 card less > adding 1 card more which may "in many games" give some extra value that may or may not be needed for winning.

All in all it really comes to players preferences & playing style. Some may like to get more splashy wins after using F.D., while others settle with bit less spectacular wins and less messing around (clicking on ~10 mutant creatures with abilities every turn). I believe both strategies will have about the same win rates though.

[Sug81]

Mutation is a great spell. I prefer mutation creatures than rewind-random creatures. But mutation has a disadvantage. If your opponent plays Parralet Universe most of the cases you lose the game even if you were wining . This is the reason I think in this deck is better the rewind ability. Because you have this without extra cards and it is not necessary worse then mutation.

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I love this deck, it reminds me of the old school non SN rainbows, maybe i'll take some stats.