PVP Cheap Grabow (Unupped & No Rares)

[Aitvaras]

So I discovered new patch was out.. Had some fun testing the new cards in trainer and started a new account. I finished the AI quests and reset my account (You keep the quests )and sold cards and used the money to make this:

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Stats:
Won 12
Lost 1
Score 506
Electrum 969 + 170 from cards not sold
Eternity (Quest)

The stats are only from playing this in PVP1 it has been slightly modified after the 1 loss.
Basicaly I like thinking about decks more than playing so I wanted to just get that Eternity fast and than figure out a nice Rainbow FG deck

It has beaten some similar decks that use quantum pillars instead of stone pillars, but the one loss is against one of those decks, although this was still being fine tuned at that time.

I will try and test it in pvp1 some more and see if it consistantly beats them now.

[TheIdioticIdiot]

anyone want to try in it in the beginner's league?

[Aitvaras]

Update..

Stats:
Score 1061
Won 25
Lost 1
TTW ~9
Electrum 1824 + 474 from cards not sold
Eternity (Quest)

TTW is very high because everything is such an easy target for CC, which everybody uses.

Won a game with my worst hand (till now) in 9 rounds also having to Burrow for a good 3 rounds that game. Precognition is great! If he killed my shriekers with RoF I would've lost..

So yeah.. didnt get shut down ever but have been slowed down alot of the games.

[ShiningSword]

If you cutted most of the earth pillars and used a few quantum pillars instead you could go with mark of earth instead and get time of the novas and quantum pillars. And have also space for creatures of other elements. I use it that way myself and you are never short of quanta

[Aitvaras]

Yes, that might be better. But it's also what this is a modification of or at least inspired on. (Partly)

Why I chose to do it differently is for this reasons mostly:

There arent realy enought great non-upd rushing cards besides graboid.

Blessing/Pegasus are expansive and isn't consistent even with such a large pillar count as I'm using. (unless we'd go all light and drop graboids)
Golems are way to expansive and not worth it in this deck unless I could get immolations in.
Arsenic is rare and thus wasn't available.

this deck is designed to equal atleast the stronger portion of a typical graboid/shrieker eath deck using time mark. I used to run this deck below and farm Ai3 very good:

6 graboids
6 shriekers
1 short sword
17 eath pillar

So this deck takes the strongest half of that, adds novas, and some utility to be usable in pvp. with the remaining quanta going into the cheapest decent hitters I could find.

Lycanthrope and Forest spirit used in this deck are 6/6 or 5/5 atleast (almost all the time) Forest spirit could grow bigger and Discords give you lucky help here sometimes but your stone quantum still barely ever gets screwed up thanks to all those pillars.

Precognitions are a great way to use your mark when your hand isnt great. They are better than adding in copies of stuff that potentionaly will be a dead card. seeing the opponents hand realy allowed me to trick the opponent or out smart him a couple of times.

I have not tested it vs. a quantum pillar based graboid deck played by someone great, so the wins so far dont feel like justified proof.. but I think the deck realy shines more than most would think at first sight.

[ShiningSword]

I like the quantum pillar version because i can pack what you pack, but double. 2 lycan, 2 spirit, 2 momentum, 2 fog shield, 2 deflag and all i drop is a graboid.  And that means that i can draw them faster and have an extra to use. If you are interested in a duel to test it, i would like one.

[ShiningSword]

well, we could schedule it in chat or by PM. By the way, you should try seeing how well can you make anti rainbow modifications to the deck to see the versatility of your version.