Post by: BGA_NICE99 on January 12, 2024, 12:41:38 pm
Pegasus summoning
- Pillarless
- Lean strategy
Angel summoning
- Steep growth curve
- Rely on generating :light to kick start the mechanism
- No self-recovery capacity for hp, which is fatal when counter opponents with a rush deck
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on January 12, 2024, 12:52:39 pm
- Pillarless
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on January 12, 2024, 12:58:54 pm
- Vulnerable in early stage while accumulating :fire to summon a dragon
- Rely on placing some tombs on the field before the sacrifice to function well
Overload
- Massive explosion
Post by: Elemensch on January 12, 2024, 07:05:54 pm
That's my current pillarless-yet-all-the-pillars deck.
It might be stronger starting out with a Life Mark and then Metamorph-ing to Chroma after getting some Geos out.
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on January 17, 2024, 01:37:57 pm
- A pinch of hp recovery
- Gentle damage growth
- The effects of the first two points are enhanced by shard of freedom
- Low quanta consumption
Moonlight reinforce
- Countered by strong shield, area of effect, and shield-bypassing effect; otherwise, could sustain pretty well.
- Creature wave
Related deck
Egalitarianism (https://etg.dek.im/forum/index.php?topic=1482.0) (utilising the hope shield for defendence)
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on January 20, 2024, 01:23:21 pm
I have seen few decks with similar idea. This is mine, though.
- Rush strategy
- Pillarless
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on January 24, 2024, 11:07:04 am
- Slash-and-burn farming*
- Transparent employees
Jack farms fungi. He employs an ancient farming method that burn the biomass on the field before farming and resulting fertile soil. When the night falls, fungi grow. Legend has it that he hired some transparent workers. However, it is still a mystery how he could harvest that many fungi with limited manpower during the busy farming season.
*A wiki explanation about slash-and-burn farming
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash-and-burn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash-and-burn)
Related decks
Fart (https://etg.dek.im/forum/index.php?topic=1144.0) (other fungus farmers?)
Fungus kaleidoscope (https://etg.dek.im/forum/index.php?topic=1528.0)
Wicked Jack in Wicked Phoenix (https://etg.dek.im/forum/index.php?topic=1546.0)
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on February 25, 2024, 02:22:29 pm
- Rely on Bubble Shield to eliminate delay
- Carefully estimate the damage received if cast Gravity Pull on Martyr
Bonus - How deep would the Equalize go?
I tucked Antimatter to test whether the Equalize stops at 0 or goes deeper.
Yes, the Equalize will reach negative hp.
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on March 05, 2024, 08:42:34 am
- High strength with moderate hp recovery.
- Low creature's hp.
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on March 06, 2024, 12:21:42 pm
- Click demanding.
- Vulnerable to a variety of CCs.
- Countered by rush strategy.
Avant-garde grazing
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on March 12, 2024, 12:30:53 pm
- Weak to anything bypass shield.
- Basically rely on drawing some Repulsors in early game.
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on March 12, 2024, 04:31:30 pm
- Low damage.
- Long lasting.
Post by: serprex on March 12, 2024, 11:45:35 pm
The idea is cool, but I soon feel bored on this deck. Here, regardless of poor draw. I do not like it because it is too easy to build a super strong defense that counters everything, expecting those cards counter against it. I mean... the border, either counter or not, seems to be too determined.This fits the idea that a weakness a deck can have is being one dimensional, but a lot of optimized decks end up being one dimensional for higher tiers of AI since in that meta you can't afford inefficiency. That's generally how I feel about geodiss/dispmeta decks, they have their big trick, but that trick needs to pay off
I've generally tried for openEtG to not end up with a meta of these sorts of decks, but it's a bit inevitable. A recent case of that was when I was comparing speedfungus to bobbit fungus (https://etg.dek.im/forum/index.php?topic=1531), where the latter has a lot more decisions it can make & adapt with
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on March 15, 2024, 10:12:02 am
- Oversize.
- Weak to rush deck, reflect shield, etc.
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on March 16, 2024, 03:16:31 pm
Hawk
Chicken
* Wiki link The game of chicken (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_(game))
* Only inspired by the concept of this theory, but I do not understand it at all.
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on March 21, 2024, 01:48:06 pm
- Increasing hp recovery through the game via placing more sadism on the field.
- Countered by gravity shield.
* Wiki link Prometheus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus)
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on March 24, 2024, 07:00:44 am
- Demand on a single :death to kick off.
- Need a bit luck to get the Spike-OuijaSource match in the early game.
- Countered by hand protecting permanents and strong shields.
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on March 26, 2024, 11:30:27 am
- Could cast innovation on your own hand if your rival has full hand, and also might be faster to get more Crusaders on the field.
- Countered by the gravity shield, hush, etc.
Interesting facts:
Why are Vikings Associated with Axes (https://scandinaviafacts.com/why-are-vikings-associated-with-axes/#:~:text=Axes%20were%20the%20weapon%20of%20choice%20for%20the,also%20instrumental%20in%20building%20the%20famed%20Viking%20longboats.)
Wiki: Berserker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker)
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on April 01, 2024, 06:49:39 am
Fire spectre summoning
- Casting shard of brave seems to be a better choice than early summoning of minor phoenix or fire spectre.
- Vulnerable to strong or multiple AOEs.
- Countered by strong healing.
Both seems nice, but I wonder whether minor phoenix or fire spectre is more compatible with shard of freedom in early game.
Post by: BGA_NICE99 on April 05, 2024, 06:22:02 am
- Click demanding.
- Countered by effects bypassing shields.