Round 6 - Strategy

[edunavas]

Xinef  Xuru

Dragoon  smuglapse

Smokefree  implosion

[Dragoon]

So yeah, not too many options.  We'll have to convert some of our cards to give us enough Pillars/Pendulums for 3 decks.  And we can only make 3 decks since they have to be exactly 15-15 Duo decks: Darkness, Fire, and Aether.

Against Light, Devourers would be pesky and help keep Light quanta down.  Dusk Shield would also be great against any Light creatures and Morning Star.  However, I think the Fire Duo would also work pretty good since Phoenixes are a good counter to their Bolt decks.  Deflags will help against any shields they may use.  Aether Stall would probably fail against Light's Bolt decks and I'm not sure if 5 Dim Shields could stall long enough against their bigger decks.

Against Death, Devourers would be good . . . until they Plague'd them.  Steals and Dusk Mantles however would be handy against their Arsenics and creatures.  With 4 Dragons, it's probably one of our faster decks.  Aether Stall won't work well because of Poison.

In conclusion, I think Smokefree should probably take a Fire Duo, Xinef a Darkness Duo, and I will take the Aether Stall and hope they don't take Poison.  : P

Something like these I guess:

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5f6 5f6 5f6 5fa 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5rn 5rn 5rn 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2

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5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rm 5ro 5rs 5rs 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5ul 5ul 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5uo 5uo 5up 5up 5ur 5ur

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5rl 5ro 5rq 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 622 622 622 622

[Xinef]

I'm so relieved that Brion's deck last round had 14 fire cards and not 15. Otherwise we would be left with 30 Time cards, so with 12 converted and 2 saved Time cards we would be at 44 Time cards, and thus forced to make an illegal deck.

But luckily we can make those 3 decks. The question is, how to spread the time cards between the decks. With aether, we can try fractal scarab with a single scarab, or even fractal anubis, since would be abundant anyway. Or take one anubis and one scarab to have some flexibility... ok, to have a bigger chance of drawing something early...

As for the fire and darkness decks, I think we would do better to indeed keep the dragon and pharaohs in it, since if we lose the fire deck it would be nice to keep at least one strong deck.


Anyway, there is one good thing about your suggestion that I take the darkness deck and you take the aether deck. You can upgrade the scarab and the hourglass, and thus gain a lot.
I can upgrade stilettos, mantles and let's say pharaohs, and also gain a lot.
The fire deck wouldn't benefit as much from the upgrades.

[Dragoon]

I think we can't quite make that fire deck since we have exactly 45 Time cards.  It means the Fire Duo has to take one dead card which is a bummer.