Patient Physalia [Aether/Water/Death/Other] [AI3]

[taejin]

I am still playing with the new shard cards that I have been winning.  I finally got three SoP, so I thought I would try to create a deck with it.  I have been playing this in the trainer (since I don't have all these cards upped yet) against AI3. 

Version 1:

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3 of the ? ? ? are SoP the other 4 are SoSe.

So, the mechanics of the deck should be pretty straight forward.  Play the Physalia.  Fractal when you get enough .  Use the for poisoning. Inundation for some protection and increase the effects of SoP.  SoP to increase your damage.  SoSe when you need some healing.

It works well against AI3 (in the trainer) I haven't tried the others yet.  Let me know what you think about the deck's potentials.  Thanks.

[Chapuz]

I like it! how does it work?

[dragonsdemesne]

I've always wanted to try this ever since SoP came out, but I've never done so yet.  I think I'd use less inundations, maybe 2 or 3, since even in this deck, you don't want more than 1 of it in your hand/in play, and to make use of it, you still need a lot of creatures to get the extra SoP effect.  (or your opponent has to have a lot to kill, in which case you're probably dead anyway)

[taejin]

I think I'd use less inundations, maybe 2 or 3

I think that is a great suggestion.  I would like to actually get rid of the SoSe once I get enough SoPs.  I think the deck actually works best like this:

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with all the ? ? ? being SoP

[UTAlan]

***TRIALS RESPONSE***

This is a nice use of the Shard of Patience, for sure. I agree with most of the above suggestions, such as dropping the Shards of Sacrifice and adding in three more Shards of Patience. Once you get the SoPs going, the SoSas will be useless because you'll be healing your opponent with your buffed Physalias. Also, this allows you to buff them all at once after you use Fractal. Dropping the Inundations to three is nice, as well, because you don't want them filling up slots in your hand when you play Fractal. The biggest problem I saw when testing this in the trainer is a lack of Aether quanta. You are generating quite an excess of Death and Water quanta, which is good for Fractal decks, but you want to be sure to be able to play that key card as soon as possible. The best solution to this is probably switching a few of your Water Towers for Water Pendulums.

Starting with your Version 2 deck, I would make the following changes:
* Drop four Shards of Sacrifice
* Drop one Inundation
* Drop two Water Towers

* Add three Shards of Patience
* Add three Water Pendulums
* Add one Death Pendulum

This will leave you with the following deck:

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I hope that helps!