Round 6

[RavingRabbid]

I mostly agree with the two decks proposed up until now.

Is WTFbow against earth a bad idea? It doesn't care for most they've used last round, it just deals lots of damage fast.

For some reason, I expect Darkness to use either their nova deck (or the anti-pande one, possibly.)

At this point, aether can and will expect our Void deck vs them, expecially because hain almost lost to it already. I wouldn't be surprised if they went fractix for real or with the novabow. I wouldn't use sopa because I expect either a lot of PC or a lot of PUs. Actually, possibly a novabow with a single purify in, so poison isn't a choice either. Perhaps, the SoPaDevs trident deck could work, but I don't see this as a clear matchup.

[JonathanCrazyJ]

tested, and dev trident doesn't work due to marks and lightnings or dims, and I literally have no other ideas against aether. I really dont think fractix is likely when we have dessi and permafrost but grabbow is, and either lightning or dims mono. I just can't see any possibility other than void tbh.
Will test wtf bow vs earth but i quite like the nova patience it works well against most of what i expect.
I expect nova from darkness too, or drain bolt. Damseltal should do ok against both but i hadn't considered pande, what would you suggest running instead?

[JonathanCrazyJ]

OK so I tested WTF bow against earth and it doesn't run as well as the nova-patience. The CC and PC of Nova-Patience is needed against pulvy and nymphs in the mono, and to slow down the rush in the bows (grabbys needing to stay burrowed), so i'm happy with nova-patience vs earth.

Damseltal still got 3-2 against AM pandestall, when played suicidally (just playing all at once, maybe keeping 1 back incase they all get killed it does better because they won't have one stand-out Am target. It's a hard match-up and i might have been lucky, but I find the bow a bit more likely, and this is one of the few decks we have that can match its speed.

Anyone got any ideas to pluck out of this air against aether? I was just thinking Void Dials has the best chance against the widest range of their decks. Was thinking this version:

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5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5i8 5i8 5i8 5l8 5vi 5vi 5vi 5vi 5vi 5vi 7h3 7h3 7h3 7h3 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 7tb 7tb 8pt

will put everything except aether in the vault to make sure i'm not forgetting anything

[JonathanCrazyJ]

Discard:

-2 Vagger (2)
-2 Nightmare (0)
-5 Toads (9*)
-5 Crawler (8*)
(-2 Steam (0), -4 freeze (9))

-2 Freeze (9)
-2 Drys (4)
-2 Queen (5)
-4 Steam (0)
-2 Tears (10)
-2 Deflag (1)
(-3 spark (6) -3 photon (6))

Salvage:
+1 Wings
+3 Shockwaves
+1 Crawler

+2 fractal
+2 vagger
+2 vamps (might be usable)

+1 Toad
+2 Crawler

[JonathanCrazyJ]

YAY I found a solution to darkness that beats grabbow (not trap-bow though), and has a 60% winrate against drainbolt:

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Seems low on quanta, but works better than -1 dragon +1 quanta because it needs the extra creatures vs drainbolt.

If nobody objects i will switch the decks later this evening.

[JonathanCrazyJ]

OK Spiel, went back to damseltal, but replaced SoFree with wings, to hopefully give you enough stall against grabbow, while still having the rush power for drainbolt. Also means steal won't be an issue at it would be with the wings/crawler deck. Good luck!

[Manuel]

will play today at 7p.m gmt