Post by: ffun on November 21, 2011, 01:18:47 pm
Quoting DD's post on the other thread:
Possible decks next round: (haven't counted yet to see if all 7 are possible at once)Considering our R6 savage, we could be able to field 2 Ghostals or 2 Exploding Times (though mind we're pretty short on Eternities and HGs as well, which are also needed in the Light Stall).
Time/light stall
Ghostal
Ghostmare (with extra steal/less nightmares due to vault)
Time/death
Exploding Times
Time/entropy discords
novabow
Iffy decks that are theoretically possible but would probably suck:
time/gravity with black holes/pharaohs
monotime
Post by: valuka on November 21, 2011, 08:09:02 pm
Tested this vs :airs remaining decks:
vs :entropy deck has i went 5-0
The harder was the 2nd that is 10-4 but the Ai was dumb sometimes.
The other deck was i thinked vs :air is :light stall, testing this tomorrow
* I forget in my workplace tested bp's last round version without ups and ssword, that work much better. But i want to try out without novas, there will be usefull in other deck.
Post by: inthisroom on November 21, 2011, 09:18:35 pm
Last round's winning decks:
They salvaged from these:
They fielded only two decks last round and won with both, I also had a look at their Round 5 results, but they won only one match there and this seems to have been without salvage due to the event card.
I think they can build:
Ghostmare
Mono :darkness
:darkness with poison
Post by: ffun on November 21, 2011, 09:39:57 pm
Considering their salvages, they can also rebuild one of their loosing decks to a very good extent, since they can salvage dim shields, lightinings and fractals:
Finally, they can also build a air duo and play wings.
I think their most likely choices is either a death/aether deck (a modded bonebolt) or a death/darkness rush (with steals and vamp dagger). Wings is a final option as well.
First tried exploding times, but it won't do well against either of these decks. Then I tried a modified ghostmare:
It won well against the bonebolt with dim shields (8-2), but did only ok vs. blonde's death/darkness (4-4). I'll test it a bit more later vs the other bonebolt.
Meh, uneven results vs the other decks - so it seems only a hard counter to one of their decks. Might scratch this idea.
2-4 vs. darkness duo w/o BW
3-3 vs. the other bonebolt
I'll test ghostal next.
Post by: inthisroom on November 22, 2011, 12:20:33 am
As their Poison duo seemed the biggest threat so far, I started testing vs it and I went 9-1 in trainer
Then I tested it vs their Ghostmare from last round (you never know), it was a bit more difficult, only 6-4, even vs AI.
Post by: dragonsdemesne on November 22, 2011, 02:44:30 am
For the death match, I was thinking that our time/poison deck might actually work alright. Poison gets around all of their shields, and they have dimshields, bonewalls, skull shields, and wings if they salvage them from our suicide deck, which I'd expect them to do.
Post by: dragonsdemesne on November 22, 2011, 05:04:50 am
As these decks stand, 32 cards have to be converted into pillars/pends (didn't count the exact split for each) which is extremely painful but doable. I'd start with 1x dimshield, some fractals, the 6 black holes, 2x blessing, 1x dune scorp, at least 1x sanc, some phoenixes (but no more than 4 converted; need 6 for ET deck), 1-2 arsenic, 1-2 titanium shield, and at least 1 lycan. We'll have to convert even more, but that's a start.
GHOSTAL (x2; two identical ones can be built. Substitute creatures include Anubis and Fate Egg; anubis works in time/aether, and fate egg is a cheap and possibly quite effective fractal target)
TIME/LIGHT stall: (I had to ditch most of the RTs and an hourglass here to make things fit. If I didn't take an HG here, it would've had to come from ghostal or the 2nd one from ghostmare; I removed one from ITR's ghostmare that he tested as well, for the same reason; we had only 8.)
EXPLODING TIMES: (instead of ghosts, it's running dragons, pharaohs, and more phoenix, and I'm a little nervous it's too quanta light. It also probably doesn't need that many eternity/RTs, and some might be used elsewhere)
GHOSTMARE: (I took away one hourglass and made it a pharaoh, it is otherwise identical to the one ITR tested)
POISON DIAL: (I *really* want someone to use this deck, because we have so few creatures in vault that we need to use stuff like this and ghostals. Removed short sword and added fog and unupped poisons, otherwise the same as the one bripod beat water with last round)
TIME/EARTH DUO: (BBs for CC, because we can't spare RTs in a deck like this. pharaohs instead of ghosts, and all pends because the deck is basically earth, and pharoahs will make use of the crapton of time quanta the deck will make. Might be worth using a 3rd pharaoh instead of the shield. Without more time cards this deck might kinda suck, but the time/entropy discord/RT I felt was too weak, since the RTs were needed elsewhere, and we couldn't spare the gotps for midrange attackers; the damage would've been from discords, abominations, and dragons of both elements, which is too slow IMO)
Post by: dragonsdemesne on November 22, 2011, 05:19:27 am
[22:17] <bjessee> Looking at it now. You know that we can only convert 24 pillars/pends, right?
[22:17] <dragonsdemesne> wut
So either we have to shortchange all our decks by about a pillar, or suicide something anyway.
Post by: ffun on November 22, 2011, 03:56:03 pm
4-6 vs. bonebolt (BW nullifies the arsenic, while fractal recluses come really fast, not giving you much time before needing to chain dials, so to win you need to get lucky and be able to deal lots of poison early before the shields or draw lots of deadly poison/poison)
5-5 vs. death/darkness w/ BW (both BW and steal for the arsenics really hinder the dgm potencial for the deck)
5-5 vs. death/darkness w/o BW:
Again, stealing the early arsenics is really bad for the deck, and upped vamp daggers are a pain
Post by: dragonsdemesne on November 22, 2011, 05:58:50 pm
If we rearrange the decks around, time/death and time/entropy decks are also possible, but I figured those would be weaker. Time/entropy probably needs loads of RTs for the discords, and I didn't think we could spare them, and time/death's bone walls are expensive, so I figured those two decks were not as good.
Based on the # of pillar/pend we can get, we have to make a suicide deck it seems, which is unfortunate; we'll have to look at that as well.
Post by: ffun on November 22, 2011, 08:34:12 pm
I'm not sure if it's the best choice vs death due to this 50-50 result. For the poison dial, I think valuka had good results for it vs team :air, so maybe we should use it there?
Update: testing Ghostal vs death, I think it's virtually impossible to loose vs. their bonebolt variants (with our without dimshields), except in the case of horrible bad luck (I went 6-0). The problem is again vs. death/darkness. It's pretty easy vs. the AI (4-1 and 4-1), since it chooses to steal the wrong stuff (HGs or Eternities instead of Dim Shields). Vs a real person, he'll choose to steal the shields at the right time to deal the maximum dmg... but even then I think it's possible to win, but not as easy and it's a very close match up. So far I think it's the best choice vs. death. I would rather have less shields in the deck and more pillars/pendulums, but I understand we are using 6 due to our overall lack of pillars. :/
Post by: inthisroom on November 22, 2011, 11:28:33 pm
Tested vs their 3 winning decks from round 6
As expected, it did pretty well vs the CC-less deck they used against us last round, 5-0 in trainer.
5-0 vs CCCombobreaker's Grabbow from round 6
If they show up with their Pulverizer deck, it's going to be a lot of fun... for them. 1-4 in trainer.
Tested vs other decks they might use
5-1 vs bogtro's losing deck from last round, but the results don't really reflect reality, it would have been a very different matter vs a real player.
Don't really think a lot more testing of Ghostal is necessary, it comes down to that, if they have PC, they will most likely win, if they don't, we will.
As :earth should initially expect to play vs :gravity, here are the two decks :gravity played last round, so we can get an idea, what :earth might throw at them.
:gravity winning deck
:gravity losing deck
Post by: valuka on November 23, 2011, 08:18:32 pm
I very liked this it lost vs :air 2 times from ~10 match because that devourers only sucks :light quanta.
The other is this:
Not so strong but it can win sometimes ( in trainer about equal ).