Cremation/Soulcatcher Deck (needs expert opinion)

[Tea is good]

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Strategy: play soulcatcher(s)r, drop ball(s) of lightning, cremate it/them if you have the cards, drop a lava destroyer and a minor phoenix, within the next two turns you can usually drop a bone dragon and/or a flesh recluse. This deck is incredibly fast at making quanta. Even if you don't have soulcatchers you can still make 7 damage first turn.

Remember: Ball of Lighting can make 0,3,4,6,7,9,10,12,13,15,16,18,19 death quanta and/or 9 fire quanta + 22 other quanta. Normally you get 1 soul catcher, so it would be 4 death quanta and 9 fire quanta.

Ball lightnings don't need Cremations to get you a bunch of damage.

Marks:
Earth: if you want to grow your lava destroyers (possible cc)
Fire: main mark, works for turn 3 phoneix or lava destroyers

Mods:
explosions: pesky shields!
any 1 cost cards: wow you can make this a rainbow by adding some cc or something. (congeals and lightnings are what come to mind.)



WARNING: don't waste all your money on this deck (yet). Play it in trainer, it's fun but erratic.

Conclusion: I feel like this could become one of the fastest decks around, I suck at making decks and this has already gotten multiple 4 ttw matches easy. If I can get some expert help, it will be pretty awesome.

[TheIdioticIdiot]

how about lightning catcher?
for the title

[Bloodyfrenzy]

pretty cool deck will definitely try it out

[LongDono]

Balance will be the key with this deck.
Maybe 1 less dragon for something else?

[Tea is good]

I find that many times, I end with a crap load of death quanta at the end, upwards of 60, but never enough at the beginning. Makes me want more dragons, but I hesitate to go over 30 cards.

[johannhowitzer]

how about lightning catcher?
for the title

Or Lightning Rod.

[Tea is good]

ok revote.

Anyone want to tell me how I can optimize deck a little? I find that I have so much quanta made, but I can never find the creatures, or that I have all creatures and no quanta. It doesn't want to balance. Also, do you think phoenixes are better than golems for this deck (i'm starting to think so)

EDIT: testing with
+3 drags
-6 lava golems
+ 6 phoenixes
-3 Ball lightings


doing pretty good with more cremation targets, plus phoenixes suck up cc and can be reborn.

[johannhowitzer]

Mm, Spiderrix.

[Tea is good]

but it has more dragons than spiders.

[johannhowitzer]

Dragonix?

[Essence]

I find that many times, I end with a crap load of death quanta at the end, upwards of 60, but never enough at the beginning. Makes me want more dragons, but I hesitate to go over 30 cards.

It's a rush deck.  You're always going to have mountains of spare at the end, but that's ultimately irrelevant to your goal, which it to minimize TTW.  If losing a dragon for another Recluse drops your TTW by .4, it's worth any amount of excess quanta in the endgame.

[Pain]

My only concern with your deck is that there are 18 no cost cards, meaning, you may not always begin/draw the necessary ones.