Oracle : Rainbow

[dragonsdemesne]

Rainbow had a bit of a slow start (though so did I, with 0 RoLs until about turn 5-6) and by timing the fractal correctly, I managed to beat it. 



Only difference between the RoL deck posted above was pendulums instead of towers (didn't have 11 upped towers, but did have 4 pends) and 1 light dragon for 1 archangel. (since I only had 2 archangel)  Pet was schrodinger's cat, who despite a turn 1 gravity pull, managed about 4-5 damage before dying due to rainbow's crap start.

[Xenocidius]

Rainbow had a bit of a slow start (though so did I, with 0 RoLs until about turn 5-6) and by timing the fractal correctly, I managed to beat it. 

Rainbow always has a slow start

[Higurashi]

EM without healing, you say? Don't mind if I do.

[furballdn]

Argh! Rainbow has miracle! So annoying! You tend to get decked out when your liquid antimatter deck is too slow and he suddenly miracles when you have 3 cards left.

[Boingo]

RoL/Hope deck looks promising until you draw 2 dragons, 4 fractals and 2 hopes but never see a single RoL.  I swear they were in there somewhere....

[coldfusion]

Skak'ar's works quite well. Although it is a game of numbers that's out of your control. Rainbow had a slow start but I was 2 damage away from killing him with 2 twin universes. Gambling he didn't have a miracle didn't pay off and it was over

[crazyphysicist]

I would say black holes work wonders against rainbow.
Just won him by the following deck:

by crazyphysicist

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55m 55v 55v 55v 744 744 744 744 744 744 744 744 744 748 748 74f 74f 74i 74i 74i 74o 74o 75m 75m 75m 75m 80h 80h 80h 80h 8pu

Should add 1-2 grav nymphs for more stable outcome, and upgrade all the cards.
And yes, no shields.
One should be having guaranteed 36hp heal each turn after quinted nymph is played, and more black holes for emergency healing and Miracle prevention. Quinted, overdrived dragons will finish him off. Armagio can be overdrived or grav pulled, depending on situation.
CC will stuck his deck.

But grav nymphs are so rare...

[UnderneathTheLens]

I would say black holes work wonders against rainbow.
Just won him by the following deck:

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Should add 1-2 grav nymphs for more stable outcome, and upgrade all the cards.
And yes, no shields.
One should be having guaranteed 36hp heal each turn after quinted nymph is played, and more black holes for emergency healing and Miracle prevention. Quinted, overdrived dragons will finish him off. Armagio can be overdrived or grav pulled, depending on situation.
CC will stuck his deck.

But grav nymphs are so rare...

Tried it... but got bad draw with no quints.

[Barragor]

Rainbow is definitely hard unupped, though maybe (with Supernovas, since most people have those) you could set up flying adrenaline druid staffs with quint... along with grav shield that should provide enough healing to be able to uotdeck him... That does require the staffs though, which are kind of rare... Still no reason not to try it out and possibly expand out Anti-FG arsenal though ^^

[AnimationX]

I'm thinking along the lines of massive healing and BHs with a protected eternity and removal shield. But still no ideas on how to stall long enough to setup.

[dragonsdemesne]

I'm liking the looks of that gravity deck with quints, but I've only got one amber nymph.  For those few lucky enough to have 3-4 of them, I'll bet something similar to this would work very well.  If you could get a quinted nymph out on turn 3-4 or so, you'd have the game in the bag.  (although that's true against a lot of decks :p)  Running out of cards might be a problem, though rainbow does have double draw and a lot of hourglasses, so maybe you could win by decking him if you didn't get any damage out early.

[AnimationX]

I'm liking the looks of that gravity deck with quints, but I've only got one amber nymph.  For those few lucky enough to have 3-4 of them, I'll bet something similar to this would work very well.  If you could get a quinted nymph out on turn 3-4 or so, you'd have the game in the bag.  (although that's true against a lot of decks :p)  Running out of cards might be a problem, though rainbow does have double draw and a lot of hourglasses, so maybe you could win by decking him if you didn't get any damage out early.

I tried something like this before-I had a rainbow with a purple nymph and a gravity nymph, with several black holes and healing. I was able to completely heal off all damage done to me, but I decked out due to rainbow having all his control cards clog up his hand, forcing him to draw 1 card per turn and not use hourglasses :x. Maybe add in a FFQ to supply stuff he can control?