Antlion's Revenge [unupped][Life][Earth][Aether]

[ARTHANASIOS]

The underpowered Antlion will finally have its revenge. In this deck, Antlions can be burrowed first in order to be secured by CC and heal you via Empathic Bonds. When you have enough quanta, unborrow a single one of them and target it with Fractal. According to your opponent, you burrow all of them, some of them or none at all (you will find yourself burrowing and unburrowing a lot). It mostly wins via deckouting 30-card decks, but it can also win with a late-game Antlion rush.

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Advantages: CC-resistant, damage resistant.
Disadvantages: Some shields, bad draws, fatter stalls.

It can beat AI3 with a decent draw, however matches are long, so it is not a good AI3 farmer. Better to be used in PvP games.
Alternatives: Adding Titanium Shields can be useful for better stalling capabilities. Dragons (Phase, Emerald, Stone) can also serve as potential attackers, especially Stone Dragon (you are going to end with plenty of quanta). Finally, every card taken from , or arsenal can serve well this deck, considering it doesn't hamper its overall strategy.

A fun and effective enough deck is waiting to be used. So, have fun!

[whatifidogetcaught?]

More Antlion love! (Don't you love the Holidays?)

I like how you based it off of the Powerfully Impractical topic. Also solves the problems of the unburrowable Antlion with Mitosis. Good work!

[Jonny]

That is a very nice deck and fun to play, too! However, it's hard to beat anything ‒ really anything with it.
The main fallacy is steals and deflagration. They are just too commonplace that you simply can't develop your burrowed army.
But there is an even deeper issue. If you can't get the combo

• empathic bond
• antlion
• fractal

within your first six rounds, you'll get eaten by any rush deck.

[ARTHANASIOS]

It is a trio combo deck. Unfortunately, this is one of those decks that require their combo early in order to be successful. If you're lucky and you get all your cards on hand, it is a pretty effective deck. However, mono-rushes usually beat this, since they tend to rely on cards of a single element and they don't use comboes, so yeah, basically I can agree with you.
Thanks for the feedback.