dune scorpion - effective fun almost creatureless anti-false-god deck

[siks]

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.
With 1.27 there are new options for this deck, so I thought I might play around with this old deck of mine.
I still love it - the win rate is very high - I'd still claim it is well above 50% even though I do not have the time and energy to collect a lot of stats.
Especially sanctuary is quite an improvement for this deck. Game length for me is between 4 mins and 10. And its very interesting to play.
so - long story short - the 1.27 version - have fun:

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the old deck and the old stats:

I have been playing around with poison quite a bit and mostly I lost a lot against FG. I can not say how much my stats say because I did not play more than 4 times against each FG - but it is a tendency.
I have a win-rate of 55%. I did not check for all the games but the average for those I checked the time was about 4Min/game. The loosing games are quicker than the winning games though.

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I play mostly against FG so I like to have my decks in a way that makes them fun to play. Just fast farming does not make sense for me - because what am I farming for? But its fun to win  - so even though this deck may not be as quick as some - it is definitely fun to play and quite effective.

Strategy is simple - defend yourself till you get a dune scorpion with momentum out. one small pinch then sit back and relax (or struggle to survive  ).

The deck is big - but I like it to be interesting - not doing the same things over and over. With the hourglasses there is a lot happening

My stats so far - Win/Loose ratio (4/1 = 4 wins 1 lost = 4/5 of all games won):
Neptun       4/0
Miracle        4/1 careful not to draw too many cards - but I managed to survive 5 miracles and still kill him with the sixth round - destroy the white pillars
Octane        3/3
Gemini        4/0
incarnate    2/0 - easy
osiris          4/1 ...go eat the scorpions - i do not care - (can be too fast though)
hermes       0/2
fireflyqueen 3/1 fun and challenging but manageable - save the firestorms till she has 50+ poison if you can
chaos lord   4/2
destiny       5/0
divine g      3/5
oblitorator  2/2 challenging but fun - a protected pulvi early in the game is hard to deal with
seism         2/5 without towers it is hard to get a proper defense ...
decay          1/2   - fast poisoning is good - do not let him get you down to much - he can drain a lot
paradox      4/0 - okay - just keep in mind the PU that might be coming...
rainbow      2/2 i just hate him - just won once and I think that was lucky... but I survived 4 Miracles...
dark matter - i quit that guy mostly - just too annoying
dream catcher  1/3 - the butterflies are really hard to deal with -
ferox            5/8
eternal phoenix 2/5  hard because so fast
Elidnis          0/3
Graviton      2/3
Morte           3/0
Scorpio         0/1

i'd like to see variations and hear how they worked - have fun

[siks]

so why is this so very not interesting? 
55% win rate to bad or 4 min/game to slow?
First FG-Killer I made up and felt was good enough to post here - hoped at least for remarks like - "booo - way to big" or "fun to play but to slow..." 
come on - someone appreciate I am sharing this and make me feel the time to make the stats and post it was well invested... 

[kobisjeruk]

i will try out your deck mostly because i like phat a-- deck but also because i rather have interesting match than complete zombiesque grinding/farming

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one thing calls out to me right from the start...whats up with that jade staff?
at first glance i thought it was a jade shield (a considerably better option)
i am tweaking this deck to suit my play style better

heres what i'm working with so far :-

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might include mirror shield for decay/octane

[zse]

I remember seeing this back then, but the huge size of the deck made me not wanting to test it back then. And then this came out 2 days later:
Legit 30 card FG Deck with Brimstone Eater aka Mind Riot by BatCountry (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,15966.0.html)
and unfortunately for you, that deck got the attention instead of your deck. Better luck next time.

In order to get more attention:
1) Try to streamline your deck more, meaning try to keep it under 40 cards.
2)If you make stats, try to present them in more organized form, like this:
Easy FGs: Neptune ##, Gemini ##, Incarnate## ...
Medium difficult FGs: ...
Impossible FGs: ...
Then you could also add complete stats: total wins / lost, and the average of the win% of each FG.

[Jangoo]

so why is this so very not interesting? 
55% win rate to bad or 4 min/game to slow?
First FG-Killer I made up and felt was good enough to post here - hoped at least for remarks like - "booo - way to big" or "fun to play but to slow..." 
come on - someone appreciate I am sharing this and make me feel the time to make the stats and post it was well invested... 

Lol siks. That's a good one. But I see what you mean:
In Elements (as anywhere else), products mostly don't seem to be judged by what they are
but by where they come from ... a renowned player could post any given standard crap he
wants and he will sure run in those 2000+ hits and some 10 pages of posts somehow as long
as the shiny brand-name is clearly visible in the thread title.
Other than that, fat-decks are totally not "en vogue" and sort of scream "newb" when there
are unupped cards in the deck, even if this is for a good reason ... don't know why really.

But anyways, I have a question here: 4min per game? Really?

[siks]

4min/game on average - for the games i wrote down the time. Since there are also lost games in there its probably 5-6 Mins/Average for wins and 2-3 Mins for losses.
Those FG that can regain lifepoints are slower while Neptun, Morte, incarnate, Osiris etc I somtimes managed to beat in 3 Mins.

[siks]

now that I can see the time after every game I win I am sure that 5-6min average for wins is about right - for the 1.27 version - see above

[Jangoo]

That's a lot faster than the deck looks.

HERE (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,21654.0.html) is an awesome tool to convert that game-time you see after each match into pro-style deck-stats. 

[siks]

thanks for that link - I love the commercial 

unfortunately I am using Linux and since you claim it does not work with open office... I am out.

I still promise - the games are fast...ish . Of course its no 3min win deck but the turns are very quick since you do not have to care about your creatures much.

[Seraph]

Lol siks. That's a good one. But I see what you mean:
In Elements (as anywhere else), products mostly don't seem to be judged by what they are
but by where they come from ... a renowned player could post any given standard crap he
wants and he will sure run in those 2000+ hits and some 10 pages of posts somehow as long
as the shiny brand-name is clearly visible in the thread title.
Other than that, fat-decks are totally not "en vogue" and sort of scream "newb" when there
are unupped cards in the deck, even if this is for a good reason ... don't know why really.

But anyways, I have a question here: 4min per game? Really?

sad truth of it all.
Why do you need the steals?
I would suggest using another antimatter and another eternity + AW (Eternities have been key stall cards for Eternal Crusader, Eternal Chaos by Snoweb and DSKFG by Bucky1andOnly

[zse]

sad truth of it all.
Why do you need the steals?
I would suggest using another antimatter and another eternity + AW (Eternities have been key stall cards for Eternal Crusader, Eternal Chaos by Snoweb zse and DSKFG by Bucky1andOnly

^ Fixed.

I now tested this for some dozen games, and I actually liked the steals here. Often I used those to take Eternity, Hourglass, Vampire Dagger, Feral Bond, Graveyard and whatnot: either stall FG or getting some additional healing.

I believe I got >50% win rate, but I didn't count games, sorry. The games that I ended up winning lasted usually some 8 mins (450-500 sec), and every time I lost, it was due to not getting enough quanta - many times I was also forced to discard cards for many rounds due to that. 15 Quantum Towers just don't seem to be enough for ~60 card decks.

All in all this deck seems to be OK like it is now. With some tweaking for better quantum-balance this deck could become really good.

[TheForbiddenOracle]

What is the point of that lone SoD?