Decks used to farm Platinum?

[moonlighting]

I might suggest this 10men deck:

by moonlighting

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7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q8 7q8 7qe 7qe 7qe 7qe 7qe 7qe 7th 7th 7th 7th 7th 7th 8pt

Ok so this deck will probably look familiar to most, but its effectiveness as Arena grinder might not be so well known. It uses Nightmare to block the opponent's draws and even get some extra damage on him because of the obsession passive.

Very, very recommendable! I've used this deck for fun the past days and man it's effective. Naturally it has alot of problems vs CC decks but nightmare is so goddamn awesome, especially combined with rewinds/eternity. The GotP's are not only there to finish it of, but forcing the AI to discard either a usefull card (I assume it's usefull since it's his) or a 13 self-damage GotP is great.
I love the matches where a single nightmare in an empty hand + your eternity locks him down early. Even better when there are more nightmares and rewinds waiting in your hand. Lovely deck!

I find it less efficient against platinum or gold, as there's no defense and healing cards in the deck, thus when your opponent has high hp, double drawing and upped cards, you're still very often rushed or just slowly killed.

maybe it's because I'm not using fully upped version.

yet I find it more efficient in bronze/silver leagues, although still have a hard time winning 6/5 games in a row.

[TheForbiddenOracle]

by TheForbiddenOracle

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All credit goes to Napalm for vNG, but Fire Storm has saved my ass many times against Destroyer Rushes, I'm even considering -1 Destroyer +1 Fire Storm

[DustySky]

I might suggest this 10men deck:

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7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q8 7q8 7qe 7qe 7qe 7qe 7qe 7qe 7th 7th 7th 7th 7th 7th 8pt

Ok so this deck will probably look familiar to most, but its effectiveness as Arena grinder might not be so well known. It uses Nightmare to block the opponent's draws and even get some extra damage on him because of the obsession passive.

I find it less efficient against platinum or gold, as there's no defense and healing cards in the deck, thus when your opponent has high hp, double drawing and upped cards, you're still very often rushed or just slowly killed.

maybe it's because I'm not using fully upped version.

yet I find it more efficient in bronze/silver leagues, although still have a hard time winning 6/5 games in a row.

I find this deck works fantastic in all arenas including platinum. The towers are a must as they get your GotP on the field very quickly. Get a ghost out there and CLOG CLOG CLOG (:

[Anthraxx]

I might suggest this 10men deck:

by Anthraxx

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7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q8 7q8 7qe 7qe 7qe 7qe 7qe 7qe 7th 7th 7th 7th 7th 7th 8pt

Ok so this deck will probably look familiar to most, but its effectiveness as Arena grinder might not be so well known. It uses Nightmare to block the opponent's draws and even get some extra damage on him because of the obsession passive.

Very, very recommendable! I've used this deck for fun the past days and man it's effective. Naturally it has alot of problems vs CC decks but nightmare is so goddamn awesome, especially combined with rewinds/eternity. The GotP's are not only there to finish it of, but forcing the AI to discard either a usefull card (I assume it's usefull since it's his) or a 13 self-damage GotP is great.
I love the matches where a single nightmare in an empty hand + your eternity locks him down early. Even better when there are more nightmares and rewinds waiting in your hand. Lovely deck!

I've been farming platinum for the last 4 weeks with the mutation of this deck (+ gold nymph + 2 steals) and IMHO unupped GotPs work wonders! The deck's main strength is the hand lockout and draw denial, NOT the discard damage. Having 6 creature you can play and nightmare on turn 2 lets you start the lockdown one round earlier. Of course, this assumes you have 3 Time Towers in your opening hand (pretty common). Cheaper GotPs make the mirrors a little easier as well.

[Elite arbiter]

I've been farming platinum for the last 4 weeks with the mutation of this deck (+ gold nymph + 2 steals) and IMHO unupped GotPs work wonders! The deck's main strength is the hand lockout and draw denial, NOT the discard damage. Having 6 creature you can play and nightmare on turn 2 lets you start the lockdown one round earlier. Of course, this assumes you have 3 Time Towers in your opening hand (pretty common). Cheaper GotPs make the mirrors a little easier as well.

Yeah, this and Day Traitors are wonderful against arena deck, partly because of the increased effectiveness of Nightmare against arena. Not sure which I like better though, both have their fun points.

Also, you mean 7 . Which is generally good, that much harder for Nova decks to play the GoTP horde.

[Bonestorm]

Scorp-poison Plat Farmer (Splat Farmer)

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4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 6rm 6rm 6rm 6rt 6rt 6rt 6rt 6rt 6rt 74a 74a 74a 74a 74a 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q0 7qd 7qd 7qd 7qd 7qd 8ps

Simple but great, decent shot at first turn neuro and SoSac can hold any deck up for a while.

Blanks are Shards of Sacrifice.

Gather cards for a Dune Scorpion and play it backed up with the regular SoSac chain. Works a charm for platinum decks without too much healing or Purify.

Mark is often fairly irrelevant but time is probably best for balance if you dont draw any towers. Light will give you extra HP from SoDs.

[dragonsdemesne]

Interesting deck bonestorm; I'm going to give that a try.  I only have 5 SoSa so far, but that shouldn't change things much.  I'll report back on how it did soon.

edit: Played 3 games in plat and won all three.  The SoSa gives the deck enough time for neurotoxin to work its magic.  While playing it, it feels like a total failure, because without SoSa, all the games would have been completely hopeless, but it does work.

[TheForbiddenOracle]

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Instosis (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,32309.0.html) by Sevs with an added Liquid Shadow for EMs

[Bonestorm]

Interesting deck bonestorm; I'm going to give that a try.  I only have 5 SoSa so far, but that shouldn't change things much.  I'll report back on how it did soon.

edit: Played 3 games in plat and won all three.  The SoSa gives the deck enough time for neurotoxin to work its magic.  While playing it, it feels like a total failure, because without SoSa, all the games would have been completely hopeless, but it does work.

That's basically what it is. A win condition more thorough than the arsen-poison stalls while standing up to brutal denial and ulitising the SoSa/SoD combination. If there was a way to fit in more SoD I'd lean on that because it gives you more breathing space vs immorush and speedbows (more max hp than 1 turn of damage+33 -> can chain one SoSa every 3 turns instead of two.) Slower decks tend to give you enough time to SoSa chain as usual. Increasing max HP also has the cheeky bonus of giving you extra rewards on victory. 

[zombie0]

joker deck that wins more than it should (platinum)

by zombie0

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enjoy fun

[Plantifant]

Zombie does this deck work, cause it seams kinda easy :p

[zombie0]

it works really well 
pros -  absolute house against fire stall.  lances target scarabs, pharaohs ignored by rage pots.  scarab hp calculated BEFORE fire shield.  as close to a counter as there is imo.
          devour power.  can do lots of tricks with unstoppable+SoR chaining.
          immune to paradox ability
          lots of creature fodder to punch through bone walls
          excellent against GoTP/nightmare/rewind
          fun!
         
cons - can be outrushed
          no pharaoh = no bueno.  since im used to no cremation = no bueno...no biggie for me
          takes a few turns to get rolling
          no heals = poison puts a fast clock to win game before loss
          requires rare cards (but available through spins, so not impossible con)

beaten a couple top 5 today with it.  give it a 10 game run, see what you think