How to win against a deck with Shards of Sacrifice?

[willng3]

Decks with SoSa won't start using them until the damage dealt to them breaks 10 damage.  In saying that, I've had several games where I've kept 9 points of Poison damage on the opponent for the entire duel until it got to the point where on my next turn I would play my cards I'd held in my hand and put its HP below 40.  After that point it can't activate SoSa without killing itself, and you're in the clear.

Also, note that unless the AI activates SoSa when it's taking 20 or more damage a turn it's actually losing HP.  If your deck can stall it well enough then eventually it'll end up doing itself more harm than help by using SoSa.

At this point I don't even use specialized counters to SoSa decks in Platinum simply because the AI has several flaws when using it which makes it much easier to beat.

[Plantifant]

Just use sosa too.
ai uses sosa less smart than we so if he has 70 cards (35 turns),
it doesn't have to mean he'll use all sosa because those are spread over it's whole deck

32 turns buddy.

[Qohelet]

I think only real problem with Shard of Sacrifice is when it comes to Arena Deck design. If I must always desing my decks against SoSa - I have to make some kind of stall deck. And how many us like always play against well designed stall decks? I mean low damage, high heal/hp deck, so player with SoSa don't benefit what you have in field. Basicly you need only one Morning Glory to beat up SoSa -deck when all other cards in deck are just for maximize health over long game. Playing succesfully against good stall, you need good staying power, you don't want deck out, you don't want too much damage. Eternity is must, healing is must, purify is good one.. BUT if my stall deck include Deathstalker, Unstoppable and Quintessence. All other cards just for keep my deck alive. It's gonna be very long annoying game, even if you have remotely good deck against that. You have 6x purify ?, but can you heal enough?

My current arena deck is anti-SoSa deck - so there is only 3 (x2) creatures: Ulitharid, Purple Nymph and Death Nymph. Damage output is very low, even with Morning Glory. If all goes well you see only quinted creatures. With Wings spam (x10 in deck = 50 turns) and miracle + divinity shard spam deck is pretty solid. Still I beat it with my speedbow about 5 times.

SoSa is most stupid card at the moment, kinda anti-intellectual brainfart. Can't see how this card can bring something interesting to this otherwise good game.

[Polari]

AI likes to dump all SoSas it can immediately, dropping itself to very low life totals. I've won a few times with rainbows by having one big creature and antimattering it when the shards come out.

[Qohelet]

AI likes to dump all SoSas it can immediately, dropping itself to very low life totals. I've won a few times with rainbows by having one big creature and antimattering it when the shards come out.

Yea, it's different story when player is using SoSa and against that you desing your Arena deck.