btw. Why do people use maxwell demons and ulitharids ? Unupgraded elves perfom (with otys) kind of better (10% possibility to get something scary, but neutralizes all scary things, whatever A/D they have, or whether they have an ability or not)., while beforementioned creatures are very situational.
I prefer to run one upgraded and one unupgraded elf. As well as anubis and protected eternity and animated and twin universed pulvy ( ok, sometimes druids get a twin). Probably something to do with UBC love
well, think of it this way:
how many creatures actually need to be mutated before they can be eaten?
-gemini's massive dragons
-creatures with growth that have been out for a while
-pumped up light dragons when fighting miracle
everything else isn't that hard to eat because the false gods have enough small creatures to allow you to eat bigger things within a few turns...
so how do we deal with those creatures?
-for the massive dragons, i just use improved mutation (fallen druid's ability) then eat it with an oty. If it is something powerful, i have plenty of sundials to stall while i turn it into something weaker
-growth... I use my eternity to return them, or fire storm and paradox them (or just paradox if it's a lava golem)
-light dragons... i can either mutate them then eat them or just work my oty up to a high enough hp to eat it, which isn't too hard with all the fireflies...or i can firestorm then paradox them.
Non-upgraded fallen elves may make it a bit easier...but when you only have 1 druid in your deck in the first place, you're better off using the upgraded version. Also, it is often useful to turn your own creatures into owerful mutants.