When the Oracle gives you a card, which ones should you skip?

[TheIdioticIdiot]

ferox is an example of AI failing with adrenaline, I don't have screen shots, but look in the "Most Humiliating FG Defeats" thread, there is one there I think

[Sevs]

ferox is an example of AI failing with adrenaline, I don't have screen shots, but look in the "Most Humiliating FG Defeats" thread, there is one there I think

I think it is serket too that fails and only uses the green nymph once then stops.

[TheIdioticIdiot]

ferox is an example of AI failing with adrenaline, I don't have screen shots, but look in the "Most Humiliating FG Defeats" thread, there is one there I think

I think it is serket too that fails and only uses the green nymph once then stops.

found the post by ravingrabbid

MIND CONTROL: ENABLED.

Also, what's Ferox keeping in hand.


Also, not em for a single point...

[Rainchild]

I wholeheartedly disagree with this topic.

The fun in Arena (for me) is to build a deck around any card the Oracle gives.

Granted, some cards really don't do so well with many copies in the deck.
But getting even a couple of wins with a deck built around Sky Blitz is a rewarding experience.

[Rutarete]

I got Rustler on Wednesday; I took one look at that and said 'not happening.'  I mean, what kind of deck can you make with that, especially one that the AI can play?

Some of the ones I'd skip:
Other: probably everything except SoG/SoD/pillar (you could maybe do mono-other with animate weapons, or use SoR if you had lots of nymphs)
Entropy: Dissipation Shield.  This is a good card, but I don't think it would do well in the arena.  For one, unless your wisdom were either 0 or max, you'd have some upgraded and some not.  For another, I don't think the AI would play it at the right times.
Death: if you had the right cards, you could probably make any death card work okay.
Gravity: Graviton Mercenary, Chimera.  The mercenary just sucks, and while the Chimera has its (rather narrow) place, the AI is really bad with it, and you don't really want five copies of it in your deck.  (or ten!)
Earth: Plate Armour.  It's pretty bad, one of the worst cards in the game.  I suppose you could combo it with Otyugh or something, but I'd skip.
Life: Rustler, Emerald Shield.  Rustler is a very narrow card, and I doubt you'd get the AI to use it right.  I mean, look at Ferox; often he won't convert light to life on its turn, and even worse, Rustler has an extremely high AI priority for things like Epinephrine or Blessing that you would rather have on almost anything else.  Emerald Shield is not that great a shield, though it has its place, but again, like Chimera, you do not want five of them in your deck.
Fire: I think any card here would be playable if you had the right cards to support it
Water: Flooding.  Probably this is one of the worst cards in the game, and FIVE copies in your deck?  Ugh.  Give me Rustler any day over this...
Light: Probably any card would work here if you had the cards to support it.  I've already skipped Blessing twice since Arena went live, but that's in large part because I have zero upgraded light pillars/pendulums, so any light deck I made would probably be rather bad.
Air: Thunderstorm.  This is probably the worst air card, and I don't think I've ever used it, or even seen it used, other than by random AI decks.  You might be able to make a case for skipping Fog Shield or Sky Blitz, not because they are bad, but because five copies is bad.
Time: Procrastination Shield.  This is probably the worst shield in the game; I'd probably play Tower Shield over this :p  The rest you could probably make a deck around if you had to, like scarab or deja vu, but there wouldn't be much room for creativity.
Darkness: Eclipse, Voodoo Doll, Liquid Shadow.  Eclipse gets redundant with five copies, and if you had a mix of eclipse/nightfall due to your wisdom level, the AI will play one of each, which is a waste.  Liquid Shadow is the crappiest darkness card, and I'd always skip that.  Voodoo Doll isn't bad, but I doubt that any of the good decks using it would be playable by the AI.
Aether: Probably any card here could make a deck, given the supporting cards again.

Some of the nymphs might be worth skipping, but it would be so fun to make a deck with five (or six nymphs, given that you would have just won one from the oracle) that I'd have to try it.  The first day arena went live, I got red nymph and made a fire stall deck.  I even got to use my SoRs for the first time!

I consider almost this whole post BS. DO you even have reasoning for demeaning all these cards?
Your post gives me the feeling that you've only seen the AI use them instead of finding better uses for them.

[pervepic]

I skipped Quantum Shield yesterday.

[Svenningen]

I dont see a point in why LS and vodoo are autoskips, sure ai can mess it up, but thats the challenge, make a deck AI can play!

I'd probably skip these, and i wont bother giving reasons for them.

Other: Dirk and shield
Entropy: Diss shield, BE and elf
Death: plague, virus, shield and dreamcatcher - mostly because 5copies..meh
Gravity: Fire eater, catapult and gravshield
Earth: shrieker(zzz), PA, shield and titanium armor
Life: shields, bond and mitosis - I just dont want 5copies D=
Fire: RoF and fireshield
Water: shield, tears, purify and flooding
Light: shields (hope could work) luci, nymphs, miracle and holy light
Air: Skyblits and thunderstorm and fogshield~~
Time: scarab and procshield..
Darkness: cloak, nightfall and dusk shield
Aether: quint, mindgate and yes, fractal.

Thats my list of cards I skip, I tend to skip other if 1. previous deck doing good 2. my own lack of upgrades.

[PlayerOa]

Why skip?
I have two scenarios:

- I have a good deck in arena that works
- I have a bad deck that is not active

So in the first case, I skip almost every card, and in the second a build a new deck no matter which card.

[TheCrazyMango]

Sven, fireshield would be a great card imo, i actually built a 30 card deck with 4 copies, if you want a turn 1 fireshield, then you are good to go.
Fractal, just set up an unupped pestal with dragons instead of vamps, it works well.
Shrieker, just make a shrieker rush with EQs.
Dreamcatcher run a immo-phoenix with some flesh spiders

[Newbiecake]

AI doesn't know how to use adrenaline is the thing, it only plays one and stops at that

Check the behavior of Serket. Or did I get ninja'ed already? I didn't read all the posts.

[TeamBftw]

i know rules are made to be broken, and the exception proves the rule, etc . . .

 . . . but my fog shield deck has done better then any other deck I've made, currently 48 and 3, rank 8 gold league.  I'm not writing to brag, the deck is your standard evil SNrainbow, but it does work.  And I've seen a bunch of similar decks rank high with tower shield as their oracle card, and at least one mono black do very well with dusk shield as the oracle card.

[Hat]

I wonder if anybody could make a good deck based on stone skin.