Q: How did you decide on what decks to add here?
A: It wasn't easy. There are just too many exceptions that could be made by saying it just needs to have Supernova and to be fast so I broke it down based on the following criteria:
4+ Supernova (SN) - I don't consider a deck to be centered around SN if it has 3 or less SN in it because if it doesn't rely on it being drawn almost every game then it's not that important.
Speed - This was the hardest to judge. Most of these I just confirmed based on a first appearance. I did test a few decks, however, but only those that I absolutely could not decide upon. Fast here is typically defined by 9 or less turns to win.
30 cards - Can't make an exception here. If I say that 31 card decks can be added then that allows for 32 card decks to be more easily allowed as well and so on. 30 just makes it simpler.
Completed decks - I'm not talking about 100% upped or anything like that. I mean no decks with names like "My first Speed Rainbow" or something to that effect. Those decks honestly don't appear finalized. Decks with cards which should be upped but aren't were added simply because you should be able to use your head to figure out what it would look like fully upgraded.
No Mutation based decks - Too luck based for me to call them fast.
Rainbow decks
by forum definition - Not much of a Speed Rainbow otherwise. If your deck isn't in the Rainbow Decks section then it wasn't added.
Q: Why isn't [insert deck's name here] on the list? I think it deserves a place.
A: If it follows all of the criteria above then I may have missed it. Or maybe it was added after this thread was created and updated last. I do try to update this list when I can, but I do not have the type of time where I can immediately add every new Speedbow that appears.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding a deck then I ask that you either contact me in chat or via PM. This thread is not the place to argue for a deck's addition to be heard.
Q: [Insert original deck's name here] and [insert very similar deck's name here] are nearly identical decks. Why are they both included here?
A: My hope is that this thread will be used so that incidents like that stop occurring. However most of the decks listed here have been posted for quite some time and as a result it is pointless to try and urge users to correct their deck to make it less similar now. If they were not pointed out as being near identical to another thread beforehand then the deck's owner should consider himself/herself lucky.
Q: How are these decks organized?
A: First based on different structures (Towers, Pends, no Towers, etc.) and then from oldest to newest based on the original post, not the latest post on each thread. I did this mainly to show which decks can be considered the most original.
Q: I don't believe that [insert deck's name here] is very effective. Why is it included here?
A: I didn't bother looking at the win rate for each deck, just the estimated speed each could win in. I did however leave out some decks whose win rate was so obviously horrid that I treated it as an incomplete deck.
Q: How long did it take to put all of this together?
A: 3 days.
Q: Why did you make this thread centered around Speedbows with Supernova but not Cremation, Nova, etc.?
A: It's just too long of a list. There just might be as many Cremation based Speedbows as there are Supernova based Speedbows, and these are significantly easier to break down into subsections.
Q: So what does this thread show us? What does it prove?
A: That I love you guys. Also that there are less original Speedbow ideas than what some people may realize. This should be a tool for questioning whether our "new" deck idea is anything remotely close to something that has been done before. If it is and doesn't warrant any groundbreaking results then it probably doesn't deserve its own thread. If you have to ask yourself if your deck idea is too similar to another...then that's usually a sign it shouldn't be posted as a new deck.
Q: Can we offer any feedback or suggestions?
A: Of course, just keep things civil
