Rainbow (FG)

[Cynxos]

I really have to say I'm surprised with how hard Rainbow became.
I remember days when I would whoop her ass so easily. But now it seems the tables have turned.
From what luck I had, I can say that PA seems to be kind of an instakill for her.
That and q-denial, is a sure win.

[hellkaiser]

quant denial is pretty pointless on rainbow

with a x3 mark of time all he needs is three hourglasses which he can easily play in multiples in a turn

then it's

draw 2 = +2 standard advantage for a FG but......

draw 3= +3 suddently he's 2 shy of a new hand and just replaced everything he played more or less

he usually also drops out several towers per turn leading to a sort of pseudo supernova effect and further solidifying his advantage in a STUPIDLY fast rate

then..... he starts using his ridiculous drawpower and quant gain to then throw out pre burrowed elite graboids and of course lets not forget throwaway werewolves who then if not immediately smashed become 6/6 and bigger than an oty

add to this his permanent control is ridiculously good combining stealing your advantage to bolster his own (not like he needs it <_<) and just plain destroying it while steamrolling you with explosions

he can easily play 1 for 1's with impunity as his net advantage gain per turn is like upwards of 5 times what we have

as for his burrowers i've a major problem with all this untargettable crap i really do

now....... burrowers<immortal

there is a small small gap that you can slap out a fast oty with a quint and catch them thus building some semblance of advantage on the board HOWEVER

the speed this guy has it's literally more luck rather than anything if you can get that kind of a turn 2-4 advantage between his permanent control

as i've said before i was unimpressed mostly by the new additions to the card pool too

what works on him?

old reliables such as PA and such help to stem the tide

pulverisers in conjunction help to stop the stack up of hourglasses

but really it's just NOT enough

firewalls are mostly dead draws

hourglasses get stolen

no longer will he target your bonewall as a priority and instead just run over it with his monsters

new additions like black hole don't do enough to his already incredible speed and natural advantage and on top of this he's got miracles out the wazoo

all in all the best built false god incorporating an unkillable almost creature presence lightening fast draw power and advantage gain superb control of permanents and self restoring that would make miracle blush

he is in fact TOO BLOODY GOOD

how about he get's a proper look at and somethin goes

i would vote for an ironically EVIL change to his setup

how about take his hourglasses (he can still steal yours) and replace them with upped sundials

he can still use them better than we can but he ALSO will not be able to run over everything in his path

and since it's nerf it's been used less and less so i see this as this ****er's just desserts

of all the gods i want to see THIS on toppled and taken down a few pegs

if not he'll just be the one that i skip and ignore out of just pure frustration already the gods are stronger but this guy is just a sick joke sometimes if not 90% of the time

[Cisz]

As I said before, counter him with both immortality on your creatures and protected items. His raw fire power is not that great. I managed to kill him several times with 1 anubis (played with quintessence, to be on the safe side) and only 3 enchanted artifacts. The problem is as usual, that you only need enchant artifact for ~50% of the gods, so it's a waste of cards sometimes, and same for the anubis. What works against rainbow is useless against Ferox, miracle, or incarnate.

[Aviyor]

I've never won this without a deck-out. I suppose protected Otugyh/Gravity shield could work, but I'd imagine the gravity shield would be worthless against most gods, as their mobs are either too weak or can have momentum.

[Andran]

I finally beat him, using a standard rainbow deck.

The key cards were an Oty with quintessence, a bonewall, and a protected Eternity. These cards were enough to keep myself alive until Rainbow decked himself out.

During the same fight, I also brought him to an inch of his life (6 hp) before he cast Miracle.
Getting to the end-game was a major struggle, though. The score is now 1-10 or something

[Glitch]

I've found pillarless decks confuse most of the AIs into letting you win.  They'll waste cards on pillars, but what harm could a photon be?

[darkfrogger]

I beat him by deck out many times using a protected shield that relies on your quantum and quinted mind flayers.

[DKane]

Rainbow is just dull as the state it is now . Just remove it out the game or tweak him down a little .

[Climax]

I agree, Rainbow has gotten a bit overpowered. I mean.. Rainbow was hard before the fixes to A.I. and such, but now it's just plain annoying. My only wins against Rainbow are when I have a great draw or when Rainbow has a bad draw most of the time now. Rainbow can always bring things out and beat you even when you're having a good draw as well.

[darkfrogger]

i actually find divine glory and dark matter to be more difficult than rainbow

[Kurohami]

Rainbow is not impossible to beat, even my going no where deck beat him once in a very very long while. But I think it is all but plain wasting time fighting with him, since the odd you will win is very low and his deck is sooooo diverse you can hardly spin two of the same card in the spinner, let along three to get the card. So, if you win, congratz it's 120 electrum if you EM, but if you just quit you can use the time to maybe beat incarnate twice or something. I say that because Rainbow really likes to take his time and use his great multitude of hourglass to draw card one after one, all the while have you wait there with nothing to do.

[Mashimaro]

Try Gravity Shield+PA+Oty+Quint in your deck, other hp recovery options are your choice.
If you set that up early, Rainbow wont be hard to beat. This also applies to FireQueen.

Regards,
Mashimaro