Old War Decks and Strategies

[Dragoon]

These are the decks used against Time in the last War and some of the creators thoughts when they made it.

Won with a few Dragons+Procrastination Shield and lots of Deflags

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55k 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rq 5rq 5rq 5rq 5rq 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61u 622 622 622 622 622"I've looked at all the  decks, and they only way they all do damage is through Graboids, Dragons or Deja Vus. These can ALL be killed using Lightning. It's a good thing that we have 0 Lightnings left, eh? Well, we DO have other forms of creature control, like Scarabs and Lobotomizer. Union, I'd primarily suggest you to take Deck 6, the Fractal Scarab, with 1 extra Aether Pillar."

Lost with a Blessed, Adrenaline'd Deja Vu deck

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Lost with an Immolation/Time aggro

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4vj 4vj 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5ul 5ul 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5un 5un 5uo 5up 5up 6u3 6u3 6u3 74b 74b 74b
Won with a Devourer + Dragon deck

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5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f6 5f6 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5ul 5ul 5ul 5up 5uq 5ur 5us 5ut 5ut 5ut 5ut 5uu 5uu"he doesn't have creatures with more than 5 hp, you will use the duo : dark+fire deck, with rage potions you will kill his dragons or any else creatures, also you must pack 3-4 steals, and 2-3 liquid shadow (in case he has flying eternity), and rest black pillars and dragons.

Lost with an Anubis+Fire Spirit+RP deck

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52q 52q 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i7 5i7 5i7 5i7 5i7 5i7Lost with an Anubis/Pharaoh + Dim Shield/Lightning deck

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4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vl 4vl 4vl 4vn 4vn 4vn 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52t 52t 52t 52t 52t 52t"Time: Rewinds, eternity, sundials, for stalls.  Counter: Perhaps a creatureless time/death poison stall deck as well. 5 rewinds/5 dials/2-3 arsenics/bone dragon or two to drop on last turn.
Time/Death could be a decent counter. We *could* go with Mummies. I somehow think all elements would expect poison against them lol If thats the case, maybe they wont pack rewinds, and could just use eternity for that. Mummy needs two rewinds to be places back into deck, so they might be safe on board.
No one's gonna be stupid enough to rewind a Mummy, and if they are, pack a Gravity Mark to ensure if anyone makes that mistake it will be costly, or at least bluff them into thinking so.  Time's cards are not that cheap; a Discord and Butterfly Effect deck with Mummies might very well be interesting to counter with, with Novas fueling the Gravity and Time...  Against PuppyChow's speed Time deck there is almost no chance however, without a specially prepared deck with Phase Shields, Bone Walls, and Sundials.  Don't underestimate that rush.
To be honest, deckout strategy works for them, thats why we have poison. They are also relatively slow in deploying their deck. I would def pack poison, and make rounded deck. We SHOULD be able to win both matches.
Concerning Time i was thinking the fractal decks may come in use here.  Death/Entropy Rush.  Fractal? Maybe even Fractal for both."

Lost with a Earth/Time deck with EQs, RTs, Dragons, and Enchant Artifacts

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52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52q 52q 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58s 58s 592 592 592 594 594 594 594 595 595 595 595 595 595"Time doesn't have very many attack options (There's Graboids, but then they don't get any Dragons, letting your BBs take them on 1:1).  Time decks often rely on large amounts of control, so going creatureless nullifies that, and the Titanium Shield utterly destroys any Scarab spam. I think it also the covers the fact that  decks seldom carry healing except in the form of SoGs, which, thankfully, won't be a problem here."

Lost with a Graboid Aggro + EAs

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 591 591 591 591 591 591 593 593 593 593 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5uo 5uo"I had figured you'd be prepared for Pulvy, and so would take EAs, but I also figured you'd manage not to draw them at least 1 game"

Lost with a Pharaoh/Deja Vu + Empathic Bond deck

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52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52q 52q 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58s 58s 592 592 592 594 594 594 594 595 595 595 595 595 595
Lost with Dragons + Flying Eternities

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58s 58s 594 594 594 594 594 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5lh 5lh 5lh 5li 5li 5li 5oi 5oi"Nice work guys, just like to say that I've added some more cards to Azumi's deck (Titaniums in case of a Scarab spam, ect.) in an attempt to make it less prone to deckouts, in the case of a Phase Shield+Sndial deck that takes Eternity."

Won with Dragons + Devourers

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58q 58q 58q 58q 58q 58r 58r 58r 58r 58r 593 593 593 593 593"EQ's will get rid of their pillars so they can't RT with eternity, and they won't be able to play their dragons either. Half the deck is pillars so the devourers won't be a problem. No permanents other than pillars so the two steals I'm sure they'll bring won't help them. If, for some reason, they decided to use rage potions instead, he'd have to take upped ones to kill the golems in one go, and still use two to kill a dragon."

Won with Dragons + Devourers

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55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55r 55r 55r 55r 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58q 58q 58q 58q 58t 58t 58t 58t 593 593 593 593"For the Time deck, we're pretty sure they're going to be forced to use /  with Devourers, but they could also use the 5 EQs we gave them last round. Either way, I think that using our /  oty/Plate Armor deck is the best option, since it should enable us to control out the Dragons that will surely be 's only offense. We don't need to take Gravity Shield there, because both Time and Darkness Dragons are 10/5, but that makes them edible by 1 Armored Otyugh."

Lost with Dragons + Holy Lights

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Won with a Dragon/Lightning Aggro

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5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f2 5f2 5f2 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f6 5f6 5f6 5f7 5f7 5f8"mono-red-bolt or poison-bolt? sundials/shields/reverse times/eternity dont hurt much.  im not big worryed about this one, the only problem should be quinted anubis, and thats all. i would preffer going with mono fire, with few crits, for this one."

Lost with a Fractal Scarab deck

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5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f3 5f3 5f3 5f3 5f3 5f3 5f6 5f6 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61u 621 621 621"maybe poison-bolt, very similar to the deck, plastiqe played last round? => i dont think, they will play the same deck - like they played against coke - again, or any suggestions? at least NO rainbow, reverse time sucks! or the fahrenheit-dragon rush? or the aether-fire?)
The deck is weak against perm control, but they used what was probably their only fire/time deck in round 1 and lost.  They probably salvaged deflags from coke but I don't think they'll have enough fire cards to make a true duo deck.  I'm willing to bet they do have a time/dark duo deck laying around and I know bojengles favors darkness, but choosing to use what little perm control they have left (and the likely devourer deck) against fire seems borderline crazy.  I've been testing it and I think I'm going to use a fire mark instead of aether.  I could replace a fire pillar with my newly acquired fire mark, but I'm very unlikely to be up against earthquakes so it probably won't matter."

Lost with Fractal scarab

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5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f3 5f3 5f3 5f3 5f3 5f3 5f6 5f6 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61u 621 621 621Same as above

Won with Hematite Golems and Dragons

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5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f2 5f2 5f2 5f2 5f7 5f7 5fb 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5lc 5lc 5lc 5lc 5lc 5lc 5li 5li"for syco i decided to play the deck with miracles, cause i tested it and it was very nice against times round4 deck (and i exspect exactly that), take early devourers out with holy lights (to prevent fast black dragons, or also enlight them, if he gets one out) OR to heal you (maybe a turn before miracle/kill of enemy), 1 rage pot for every dragon, etc. (bad we dont have more), 2 fhs and 4 dragons for good damage and the 2 miracles (dont use them too late, dragon-spam possible if enough quanta) to gain time-advantage. also ABLE to win (with fhs, hls, miracles) if they really try eqs, and IF we lose that matchup, no important cards (ok, burning pillars) lost."

Lost with a suicide deck

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Won with a Sundial/Phase Shield Stall

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5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5c6 5c6 5c6 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 622 622 622 622 622 622 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae"I figured time would take reverses, to counter adrenaline, or hope based decks.  I didn't want to take a deck out deck because I knew time had eternity.  So I went with a deck with too many creatures to control."

Won with Devourers and Dragons

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5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bt 5bt 5bt 5bt 5c0 5c0 5c0 5c0 5c0 5c0 5c4 5c4 5c5 5c5 5c6 5c6 5f6 5f6 5f6 7ac 7ac 7ac 7dm 7dm 7dm"Thought we'd surprise a deckout deck with deflags, but the shortage of cards made decks difficult to make.
Gl1tch should the fire mark deflags against time, in case they pull those phase shield shenanigans again.  Other than that, a normal life rush should do fine."

Lost with a Discord/Dissipation Shield + smattering of Time cards

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5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5lh 5lh 5lh 5li 5li 5li 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5og 5og 5om 5om 5om 5om 5om 5om"Avoids Sundials, Procrastination Shield, Scarabs, Rewinds.  Kill with MS and UG.  Stay alive with Miracle.  If they don't have any PC, save up the UG and use them as CC.  If they're playing Time-Light, save up your UGs and use them all at once when you can kill them.   Edit: Works well against most Time decks, but not against Time-Earth.  Could possibly add more Pillars to compensate for EQs."

Won with a Discord+Dissipation Shield and a smattering of Time cards

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4t4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i9 5i9 5i9 5ib 5id 5id 5id 5if 5ig 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61u 61v 61v 61v 61v 61v 61v"A basic Stompy with a little defensive backup from water."

[Dragoon]

Finished all the decks.  I'll go back and highlight some strategies they had against Time.

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Enemy observations about us:

1.  Most of their attack creatures have 5HP or less.  Use Lightnings and Rage Potions.
2.  They'll try a deck-out strategy.  So pack PC or use Poison/UG/Bolts to get around Eternity+Shields/Sundials.
3.  Mummy is RT resistant.
4.  Time is slow and expensive.  Discord and EQs will hurt.
5.  Time relies on control through Scarabs and RT+Eternity.
6.  Titanium Shield stops Scarab swarms dead.
7.  Time doesn't usually heal.
8.  Don't use Immolation/Nova decks or multi-card combos.  RTs kill that strategy.
9.  Time doesn't usually carry PC.  Phase Shield stalls can work.  But you still need a win condition because they have Eternity.