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[Vendanna]

Easy, it depends greatly of the time zone and also the Random number generator deciding if your deck gets selected or not. In my case it happened to me too, in which the first day my submitted deck didn't got any "fights" but now its the top poison deck (in top 25) in gold league.

it could be worse tought, I recall having 3 gold rings out and only 1 more to get the special spin, and I got paired against my own deck, which decided to kill me fast and then I got a lousy 5 electrum as result

[poperekov]

hah) never had fights against my deck

[Assassine]

i created a deck a few hours ago. it now has 3 wins and 3 loses, but -24 rating. Why?

[willng3]

i created a deck a few hours ago. it now has 3 wins and 3 loses, but -24 rating. Why?

Losses subtract more rating from you than wins give you.  How much each loss removes from your total rating depends on the League you're in.

[Assassine]

thanks. is there any table to see which win/lose rate you would need to stay at 0 for every league?

also, i just heard something about decks getting weaker while theyre older, is that true?

[willng3]

thanks. is there any table to see which win/lose rate you would need to stay at 0 for every league?

I performed a search just now and couldn't find one.  It would be interesting to see.

also, i just heard something about decks getting weaker while theyre older, is that true?

Yes.  Each day that your deck stays in the Arena its HP decreases.  The amount doubles each day.

[Assassine]

so its starts at -1 hp after 1 day and doubles every further day?

i am at 4 wins 3 losses now, and -12 rating. so in silver, you gain 12 rating / win and lose 20 rating / lose, means to stay at 0 you need to have 5 wins for 3 losses, 1,66 wins / loss.

[willng3]

so its starts at -1 hp after 1 day and doubles every further day?

It used to start at -1 before zanz changed it to -2.  Other than that, yes you're correct.

[suxerz]

so its starts at -1 hp after 1 day and doubles every further day?

i am at 4 wins 3 losses now, and -12 rating. so in silver, you gain 12 rating / win and lose 20 rating / lose, means to stay at 0 you need to have 5 wins for 3 losses, 1,66 wins / loss.

About the deck age decay, willng is correct and you can also see this by hovering your mouse over the "?" next to your deck's age.

About the rating, bear in mind the rating is dynamic - it changes every now and then. Therefore, you can't really calculate those things accurately. However, I do see if we could gather enough data on the average rating gain per win/loss for every league, we could estimate the optimum win/loss rate. ...or we could just ask zanz! 

[Assassine]

i dont know how frequently it shifts, but its still the same for me atm

i got a golden nymph and tried to get a nice fast deck out of it, but i dont have much cards yet.

was on 4 wins 3 losses yesterday, now got 4 losses over the night and went into the inactives.
Any hints what i coulda done better on this one / how a good arena deck should look in general?

[Aves]

Well...
In your deck, the strategy seems to be draw cards and spam scarabs for fast damage. Unfortunately, that is very slow, because the ability cost for scarabs, the price of pharaoh, and the price of golden nymphs is very expensive, meaning you won't be able to get them out fast. A good stall will have set up by the time you really get your damage going, and a good rush would kill you before you'd kill it, because you have next to no healing.
In short, it's slow and has no protection against fast damage, PC, and has very limited protection against CC.
Time's mid-range attacker is GoTP- For a faster build, but by no means a tested or good build,
Try setting up mark of aether, 15 time pendulums, 6 GoTP, 5 nymphs, 4 fractal, 2 eternities, 3 RT

[Assassine]

will try that if i get a nymph again lol. thanks

when i played against it to test, it rushed me pretty fast, maybe it was drawluck though.