It's time for action

[Bootsza]

Oh, it is not like it is a BIG deal but it sure is irritating to come up against (basically) the same deck 50% or more of the time in Arena.  Successful counters stand to make a good living out of it.

I agree with you about new cards bringing greater balance to the game but until then it will bring me great personal satisfaction to try and find a versatile counter and then to plunder the Arena with it.

[SnoWeb]

If you ever find one please post it here ...  8)

[Bootsza]

Roger copy that! 

[Calindu]

Any bonewall deck can take down cremation rushes.

[Bonestorm]

I repeat myself but I believe the solution is more on having card able to soft-counter SoG, immolation and/or SN. With the coming of the new shards I would really like to see cards going in this direction.

Just to point out that my deck had no SoG, Cremation or Supernovas. Fire is overly powerful as it is - it's hard to balance an element that has been powerful for so long. I agree that the three cards you listed are currently overpowered in today's game though.

[SnoWeb]

Just to point out that my deck had no SoG, Cremation or Supernovas.

Which means it is neither a Firestall not an immorush. It is then perfectly fine. You are allowed to put fire decks sometimes.
I don't think fire is more powerful in general. I think it is better played by the AI due to it's zombified base strategy.

8 + 5 + 5 + 4   + 2 + 1 = 25 and the deck is climbing ...
edit: I just saw that said earth deck was an immo-grabo-rush deck ... sic!

[Jappert]

I found that grinding the arena with an anti firestall for a few hours is VERY succesfull in diminishing the ammount of firestalls in high ranks. Only a few losses matters alot and pushing those decks out of the Top 25 is very satisfying for me personally.

I also found my suggested steammachine deck is alot less succesfull then a poisonstall with bonewalls.

I also found that Bonestorms deck is no firestall/immorush and I therefore lost against him 4 times! (not on purpose since I was trying to get my own fire mark based deck on #1)

EDIT:
Having alot of fun with this atm!

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[Artois]

I'm with you... I was gonna suggest bonewalls + poison as the perfect antidote to fire, but you beat me to it   

[SnoWeb]

I'll definitely try this poison stall - it looks quite fun. Another option is the old good denial. As a Pestal has already be proposed in this thread I'll show a Pestosis:

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This deck is also quite efficient against the various Ghostmares ... Have fun.


A day after the fire decks start to fall and what comes next? Death and Entropy obviously ...

[Bootsza]

Loving the updates on Leaderboards SnoWeb!

Lets deal with and later

[PlayerOa]

Just want to throw a pic here I just took:

[poperekov]

omg fire invaders



edit: oops didnt see last post :DD