Mindgate False God Deck

[Werv]

Deck Helper comment: 
This deck was posted before the 1.32 game update and as a result may work very differently now.  Use at your own risk.
I just finally finished upgrading a potential false god deck.  Not really sure what constitutes as a high win percentage but as of now it is slightly less than 60% (out of 66 total games).
Basically a stall and then used their own deck against itself.

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I have a detailed tabulated score sheet if anyone is interested.  I will post it when each god has been fought by 5 good rounds.  I consider bad rounds when I started with 1 pillar or 4 of the same nonpillar card.

Anyways discuss comment, suggestions  all welcomed.

[ISlayCasuals]

i'm no expert, but here is what i think:

1) you need to include all wins and losses in your statistics whether they be legit losses or bad hands. you wouldnt discount a win if you had a beast opening hand would you?


2) your deck is way too huge. 60 cards is excessive especially when the theme of your deck is mindgate and you only have 4 of them. in addition, you have a protected eternity to bounce creature cards to prevent decking out (which you'll have to mindgate for first, but shouldnt be too much of a problem)

a good tower/deck ratio is 1/3. meaning right off the bat, you can drop 4 quantum towers. i would suggest trying to cut your deck down to 50 cards first, then 40.

[Kurohami]

I think you would win more often by deck out than by killing the false god, 4 mind gates in 60 cards won't let you set up very quickly. Winning by deck out would make each game quite long, so I wouldn't think this deck would be a efficient god farmer.

[Werv]

Let me first say thanks for the feedback.
@ISlayCasuals:  My win % includes my bad starts, i just like to see how often a deck receives a bad start. I will take that out if/when i post the data.
Conserning the 4 mindgates. I honestly feel 4 is the right amount.  With this build, there are plenty of draw to get them, and most of the game, I will only be able to produce from one or two.

@Kurohami:  The stall win occurs less rarely than one would expect.  You basically get a copy of every other card of theirs, and late game 2 or 3.    This adds up exponentially and I will usually win with 15-20 cards left in the deck.  But yes the games are quite long.  I mostly wanted to see how this stacked compared to other false god rainbows (as far as win%, not profit).  I find this deck more fun to play than rol/hope.
 

[kobisjeruk]

i'm liking the looks of this deck but 6 PAs seems like overkill imo
how about -2 PA, +2 Hourglass? and maybe unupped sundials with mark instead?

i tried my modification and liking it a lot and yes, 4 mind gate is enough

[Werv]

Let me know how that works out, I felt like i kept getting screwed when i had less PAs, and thought the need to draw so many cards was unnecessary.  But card draw might be more beneficial.

[kobisjeruk]

the thing is, PA is only needed for the most important permanent, Eternity (or Pulverizer depending on your draw/duality)
having 6 PAs as dead card in some fights can be the difference between winning or losing, even 4 seems a lot to me (after getting 2 in starting hand vs Ferox)

whereas having tons of Electrum Hourglass is never a dead draw
not only having multiple help switch the focus of permanent controls from your other important permanents, but it is always good having draw +cards per turn (something called 'card advantage' in M:tG)

the only FG that could cause trouble is Seism, but i found out slowrolling your towers should give you plenty of time to stall until you get the PA (and only then you need just 1 for your towers)
i SS the most recent fight vs Seism but i forgot to save the starting hand...it was looking bad, 5 towers, 1 Thorn Carapace and 1 other Permanent, but i played the towers one per turn and luckily got a PA by the third turn
and heres how it end :-



death by graboids ftw!

[kobisjeruk]

managed to deckout DG by accident
i was thinking the deck need at least 1 creature to avoid deckout (such in case of DG) but didnt notice he was out of cards (i was 1 draw away myself)
got 3 PAs in the starting hand so that helps a lot (1st goes to my hourglass, 2nd to my mind gate)

[Werv]

I have been trying with your revision, and yes i say that works much better. I have never decked out, or come close to it.  Glad your enjoying it.