First of all I highly recommend you read the OP. I'm not really sure how you could have read it and come to all these conclusions... But I numbered a few and will address them directly:
1) It isn't "under the guise" of anything. I posted this because I am one of the people that would use this deck. I have almost 80k score but only about 70 upgraded cards (30 are the Mono-Aether FG farmer, 28 are vNG, and then I have some misc cards I've won from FGs). So when the oracle doesn't give me cards that fit one of those two paradigms... I still want a deck that can win regularly and stay in the game til I get a new one. And I think a lot of other Gold League-ers are in my position, so I felt it appropriate to help them (the same way this community helps people in so many other ways - DECK IDEAS)
2) If you are building monos and duos that are staying up for 4-5 days really have to ask 2 things: what league are you in? and if you are in gold league how upgraded are the decks you are posting? Gold league is the most cutthroat league and unless you are always running hard rushes with PC (mono fire/darkness) or all upped decks I have a hard time seeing decks win better than 5 to 1, which is the bottom of gold league.
3) Look at my deck again and tell me it's a speedbow. It is a stallbow full of PC and regen and draw. It has like 2 creatures unless the oracle gives it one (and most of the time those aren't good rushers anyways...
4) No, I have no intent of destroying the arena. I am just pointing out this is useful for people to do if they can't see a way to do better. If it is an ongoing issue that really is undermining the arena, then I am more than willing for them to do something about it even if it totally breaks this deck's viability. I even think that'd be an improvement.
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Hi
I'm aware I came on a little strong yesterday, sorry for that.
I did actually read all the posts on this thread and even though I understand you have "cash problems" (let's call it that) I'm still not a big fan of any blueprint where the oracle card is just interchangeable, I must admitt, though, that I never really liked the fact that before already, many players just copied decks that were posted by others but that's just a personal point of view, I've played elements for almost one and a half years before even having a look at the forum and I would never have thought of using a deck I hadn't created myself, I'd almost consider this as a cheat code, but again, this is just my point of view.
I play platinum league, level 72, all my decks are fully upped, I generally have enough cash to up the necessary cards to fit with the oracle card so I do indeed not have the same problem as you (I play at work where I have plenty of time to grind...)
I'm aware than I'm not the king of deck builders but like I said, they're all mine and work to my satysfaction, I win far more than I lose, whatever level I farm, sometimes changing decks 5 or 10 times in one evening.
Refering to the speedbow that isn't one, even though I've read the posts, I didn't look what the deck actually looks like, that wasn't the point, it was really all about the blueprint/oracle card issue.
Even though it might have sounded like that a bit yesterday when I "unleashed my wrath"
I don't think you're the devil trying to break down the holy developper's glorious plan, but I still think initiatives like that aren't necessarily good for the game because they prevent creativity.
I hope that softens the quite-unlike-me vehemency of my post yesterday.
PS. I farm in some sort of round-robin, one match in each league, bronze to platinum, first of all this prevents me from getting bored - I love to get the spins in all leagues - but the point is that even with my fully upped decks, I can sometimes light three lights in the platinum league and then get my butt handed to me by an unupped bronze league deck, so it's really more about good deck building than about having lots of upped cards and cash.
