My Bronze Bow (5 upped cards)

[Fuqyew]

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Currently using this to grind bronze.  Deck is versatile.  Mono Aether is the biggest pain, considered adding an elf or possibly a druid.  Has all the essentials.  Weapon choices are optional really.  I chose MS and ARS, high damage immortal weapon and another that deals pesky poison.  The shields are not really huge on defense, but fire shield and skull shield kills enemy creatures and that helps.  I chose to use 2 heal and 1 holy light as holy light has a weapon factor against certain elements.  I added plague specifically for use with maxwells demon....in use with creatures that have equal amounts of life/atk.  All creatures have a low cost as well as most all the cards.  1 Nymphs tears, random nymph, but imho every one of them is useful especially with a bow.  Considered trading hourglasses for dials.  Deck can be semi rush.

Supers are neccesary.

Extremely effective for a AI3 grinder.

[Chapuz]

Bronze is full of mono aether either with dragons and immortals or Psions. I would choose a pulvy instead the arsenic.

[Fuqyew]

I would love to and thanks for the helpful suggestion.  I don't have one atm, accidently sold it.  I've got multiple of the others.  So as soon as I get one that will definitely be a change over.

[Drake_XIV]

So, for that, -Graboid -Arsenic +Pulvy +Flesh ?

[kimham8a]

Cool deck, has all the makings of a supernova rainbow. Usually these decks have more supernovas but this deck you said isn't a rush, so it should be fine. A few cards in there seem unusual but nothing wrong with them, (nymph's tears, holy light, plague)
I noticed there's no gravity quanta usage in there. Put in something that uses gravity, there are some good cards waiting. I'm not going to mention any specific cards, as I think you should have the chance to continually tweak your deck  without having tweaks shoved in your face. 

A tool I'd like to recommend to you is the elements game simulator. It lets you find the winrate of decks against certain opponents. You can try switching a card or two at a time, and see which has the better win rate.

[Fuqyew]

Ahh yea the simulator.  Forgot about that entirely.  Thanks.

The nymphs tears, plague, and holy light.

I've found since I only have QP's and nov/supers using a steal on their pillar let's me define what I want my nymph to be, unless I run into another deck that isn't using any...then random of course.  I just played against a trio grav deck with accelerated dragons, pillars, and pendulums.  I was able to steal a grav pill (late in the game) and create a grav nymph which completely shut them down.  The tears are definitely somewhat out of place and I have a squid I was considering using, but I like the "what's it gonna be factor" lol.

Holy light I added for healing, but I wanted some other kind of creature control card as well.  Death and Darkness are popular in bronze, real popular, so that is my main reason for adding that card.  10 heal or 10 amazing damage that has saved my butt on more than one occasion.

Plague...some more creature control.  I run into a ton of rush decks, shreiker...life...golem...all kinds.  If I'm having a bad run, it's nice to be able to infect everything on their side to slow my death down.  I've found that the plague also helps with creatures that have atk=health.  Let's me paradox them.  I guess a thunderstorm, RoF, panda could all be other options as well, but I'm trying to keep the quanta as balanced as possible.

Gravity.  I originally added an upgraded Oty to the deck, but I fond he was useless for the most part unless I got lucky and got him out really early.  I had considered replacing with a gravity pull, but since the deck is delicate on the number of creatures I don't want to take away from any damage I can inflict on the person, although it is a good defense card as well.  Right now I'm on the fence between accel accel or a charger. 

Also considering exchanging my phase for a psion.  With the charger and psion the damage is almost guaranteed provided no dials or death ensue, what do you think?

I also want to note that I have a ton of shards, all of them.  But, playing pvp I like the challenge of building decks that don't use them.  There are really a TON of decks you can build with shard usage that just decimate, but it's almost cheap to win that way.  I only build shard decks for FG grinding.  On that note I'm still waiting to see someone build a wisdom deck without just using aether creatures.....any immortal creature, I think a wisdom deck could be deadly.

[kimham8a]

Yeah there's nothing wrong with those cards, they're just not popular at the moment in these kinds of decks. I personally might put in a nymph's tears in my rainbow rush, only because of their recent buff.

It's just that supernova based decks like these tend to be rushes, which really don't have the time to lower something's hp by plague, or to wait for maxwell's demon while with the plague. That's why I thought it strange to see it. Also do you manage to draw more than once/twice with your hourglass? Unupped, it's quanta heavy by itself. Also for gravity I was thinking more along the lines of pulvy or sofo. Against mono aether it would be all the PC you need when you get one of them.

For the recluse/psion thing, psion. Upped would be harder to say, but right now psion.

Optimise your deck based on your opponent. Do you want it to kill ai3 or bronze (or ai4 or silver)?

[Charming]

Unupped nova is useless here. By the way,you say 'mono aether is the weakness' ,bronze is full of mono aethers,psions,immorushes. I am not sure how this works.