After brainstorming ideas for speeding this deck up and suggestions from other players, I wanted to publish the data I have gathered thus far. After seeing how unupped rainbows worked with the antabow, I assumed I could improve the efficiency of TADAbow by replacing a QT in most of my variant testing. Automulligan seems to help this choice out quite a bit as well. Just as a general rule of thumb, if a deck variant is not within 200 score/hr after 50 games, 100 score/hr after 100 games, and 50 score/hr after 150 games, I give up on it.
| Variant | TSE | Avg. TTW
| Games
| Win % | EM % |
| -1 QT, +1 Elite Wyrm | 1513.085 | 7.43216
| 200
| 99.5% | 83% |
| TADABow (original) | 1507.522 | 7.585
| 200
| 100% | 85% |
| -1 QT, +1 Elite Pegasus | 1479.639 | 7.43
| 200
| 100% | 78% |
| -1 QT, +1 Hourglass | 1465.789 | 7.47739
| 200
| 99.5% | 81.5% |
| -1 QT, +1 Flesh Recluse | 1439.748 | 7.33562
| 150
| 97.333% | 79.333% |
| -1 QT, -1 Phase, -1 LD, +1 Flesh, +2 MP | 1427.379 | 7.76871
| 150
| 98% | 79.333% |
| -1 QT, +1 Discord | 1417.621 | 7.63265
| 100
| 98% | 78% |
| -1 QT, -1 BH, +1 Peggy, +1 Flesh | 1384.004 | 7.30208
| 100
| 96% | 77% |
| -1 QT, -1 Crawler, +1 AW, +1 Discord | 1382.415 | 7.70408
| 100
| 98% | 77% |
| -1 QT, +1 UG | 1316.6 | 7.47423
| 100
| 97% | 74% |
| -1 QT, -1 Grabbie, -1 Crawler, +1 Wyrm, +2 CP | 1273.141 | 7.7551
| 50
| 98% | 66% |
As you can see, the removal of a pillar makes it more difficult to find quanta to heal up for an EM. Initially, I had expected an additional pegasus to be the new champion because it is more stout and hits hard. The good news is I found a more efficient variant, the bad news is, the results are so close, my guess is 500 games are probably required for each of the top 3 or 4 before anything conclusive is decided. If anyone else who loves this deck + stats wants to help out, I would be much obliged. I will probably get around to it after getting the FG Study a bit more organized, and before T500 comes out so I can reap the rewards of the score farming. If anyone has additional variant suggestions, I can test those as well. I am still considering testing a fate egg and trying to work in a forest spectre somehow. For now, I will replace the OP version with the Wyrm variant, but not update the elder by elder stats because those are a pain to calculate. I have shared the excel file below for anyone who is actually interested in the raw data.
Shared file:
https://rapidshare.com/files/1753035091/TADAbow_Testing.xlsx
