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Decks / Re: Demigod Prediction Decks

« on: July 16, 2025, 07:47:07 pm »

Lost a game due to deckout against Halwn using the 2nd counterdeck, so I decided to take advantage of the buffed Reinforce and came up with the following modification. Not sure if I was just playing the old deck wrong, or if AI changes made it obsolete?

Halwn

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Also came up with the following for Sesha. Notably very difficult to pilot, as it requires a working knowledge of Imbue and "composite shields" (see spoiler), but it gets the job done. Adding a Slime Shield or a Stonewall would make it significantly easier to play, but simply adding it in and making it a 32 card deck seems to impact consistency, and I'm not sure what would be best to swap out.

Sesha

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Spoiler for Comment on Composite Shields:

I think there's ambiguity in the wording of Shield damage mitigation, and that has a significant impact on Imbue and how the composite shields work - hence, the "working knowledge" part of composite shields.

Similarly to Imbued weapons (as mentioned in a prior post), there's the "base shield", and "imbued shields" that grant the base shield additional passive abilities or sometimes an additional active ability. The best way I can describe it is "think of your base shield as the icon in the game you see" - e.g. if you recognise the icon for the shield as "Solar Shield", then your base shield is Solar Shield. Every other shield is an "imbued shield", and the "composite shield" is what I refer to as the base shield + imbued shields (the unit as a whole). The "flat" damage reduction of your composite shield is derived from the base shield, much like the power of your imbued weapon. Note that this flat damage reduction can be increased via passive abilities that increase damage reduction, such as Slime Shield or Stonewall, but is NOT altered by the base damage reduction from imbued shields.

So for example, if I have 6 Diamond Shields, all imbued onto each other, the "flat" damage reduction of the composite shield will simply be 3, which is equal to the damage reduction of a single Diamond Shield, because the flat damage reduction on a composite shield does not get increased by the flat damage reduction of other shields imbued onto your base. However, if I have a Diamond Shield imbued with an upgraded Stonewall (with 99 quanta, meaning the passive ability gives 11 extra damage reduction), my flat damage reduction will be equal to 14. Do note however, that it's not equal to 15, which is what you'd expect if it also merged the flat damage reduction from the Stonewall.

My understanding of it is that there is the general term "damage mitigation", which I use to mean "this reduces the damage you take via any specific mechanism." However, there's (at least) 4 subcategories of "damage mitigation" which mitigate damage through various mechanisms:

• Damage evasion: The shield makes you "evade" the attack, resulting in no damage taken whatsoever. Examples of damage evasion are Gravity Shield and Chaos Mantle.
• Damage reduction: The shield "reduces" the damage you take from an attack, resulting in less damage taken than the power of the attacker (or more damage in the specific case of Thermal Recoil). Most of the shields in this game fall under this category, examples are Diamond Shield and Tower Shield.
• Damage blocking: The shield uses some mechanism to "block" the damage you'd take from an attack, resulting in no damage taken. This is separate from damage reduction - see cards like Dissipation Field or Shell of Void. (Note that in the case of the latter, the upgraded version of Shell of Void also has a damage reduction ability which reduces damage taken by 1, and then the rest is "blocked" by the separate ability that reduces your maxHP equal to the excess, unreduced damage, so upgraded Shell of Void technically has both Damage Reduction AND Damage Blocking.)
• Damage reflection: The shield reflects the damage from spells - examples are Bubble Shield, Jade Shield.

Appreciation doesn't increase your maxHP based on how much damage is mitigated by your shield, nor does it increase maxHP by how much damage is blocked or evaded by your shield. If it did, what we should be able to do is we should be able to imbue any shield in the game with Appreciation, and however much damage it mitigates, you gain that much maxHP. If you playtest enough, you'll find that that's not what happens. Notable examples are Dissipation Field ("Block all damage...") imbued with Appreciation or Phase Shield ("Completely block enemy attacks...") imbued with Appreciation or Gravity Shield ("Evade all attackers...") imbued with Appreciation. Note that all of these shields formally have 0 damage reduction. For example, if you can bypass the evasion rule on an unaltered Gravity Shield, then you will deal full damage to your opponent. None of these composite shields will increase your maxHP.

In playtesting, I think the more accurate description based on gameplay is that Appreciation increases your maxHP based on how much damage is reduced by your shield. This damage reduction - in the case of a composite shield imbued with Appreciation - is taken from your base shield, and increased by passive abilities (but NOT base damage reduction) from other shields imbued onto your base. This is why this proposed deck is so difficult to pilot - in order for Appreciation to work, you need to ensure that your base shield is either Solar Shield or Appreciation, as Hush, Dissipation Field, and Gravity Shield all have 0 base damage reduction.

The way around this problem would be if you were to imbue an additional shield with a passive ability that increases your shield's damage reduction. The two shields that come to mind are Stonewall and Slime Shield. This would make it so that you don't need to think about "base changing", instead you just need to imbue everything into one composite shield, and it will increase your maxHP. But just adding in 1 copy of this card negatively impacts consistency in playtesting, so I just go without and instead "base change" (see spoiler for "How to 'Base Change'").

Spoiler for How To "Base Change":

Requirements: 2 Imbue in hand, 2 shields in hand, 1 shield in play.

Suppose I have shield C in play, and in my hand I have shield A, shield B, and 2 Imbue. I don't want shield C as my base for whatever reason (e.g. quanta cost, 0 flat damage reduction (for Appreciation/Solar Shield)). Shield A is my preferred base. What you do is:

• Cast Imbue on Shield B. Shield C (base) imbued with Shield B is returned to hand.
• Play Shield A.
• Cast Imbue on Shield C imbued with shield B. Shield A (base) imbued with Shield C + B returned to hand.
• Play Shield A imbued C + B.

But yes! To summarise because I've probably been yapping for too long - reading the card in the case of Appreciation doesn't explain the card, because Appreciation doesn't increase maxHP equal to the maxHP "blocked". If I may, I'd like to recommend changing the language on the card to make it more clear that it's based on "damage reduced" rather than "damage blocked", and while we're at it, clean up some of the terminology for a few other shields to make it consistent. Specifically: Golem Defender, Solar Shield, Shell of Void.

Also there seems to be a bug with Metamorphosis - when my mark power is 127 and I cast Metamorphosis, it only changes my mark, and does not seem to increase my mark power.

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Decks / Re: Demigod Prediction Decks

« on: July 09, 2025, 07:49:41 am »

Perses

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Could use tuning, but as is, seems to work better than one of the two counters listed for Perses, and is roughly 1/4th the cost (specifically, the Gravity/Water one. Is that a typo, or am I just playing that counter wrong?).

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Decks / Re: Innorico

« on: July 03, 2025, 12:37:38 am »

Looks like Dispersion compliments this deck, particularly since subcasts are affected by rico

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This build definitely needs work. Found dispersion/inno quickly mills self hence went full rainbow since want stasis to prevent self mill at some point & made deck thicc

plz help I have no idea what I'm doing

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I'll be entirely honest: I haven't actually played the original DispInnoRico deck much, but here are some of the issues I found, and how I attempted to address them:

• Quanta is weird. When you use mark + Chroma Pendulums, you're only going to be generating every other turn, which feels bad if you're trying to get the quanta to drop a Rico. But when you don't run mark, then you don't have enough quanta to Disp -> Inno. There's a lot of pillars, making it so that sometimes, when you need a non-pillar card, you're stuck with a pillar. But if you remove pillars, you may end up not being able to draw the pillars you need to cast your cards?
• 60 card deck prevents self-deckout, but it also makes it hard to draw the Rico that your deck is named after.
• Sometimes the opponent has PC (e.g. Midas Touch, Deflagration), and if you DispRico, then you end up making them cast their PC, destroying your Rico.

Regarding point 1: I use Equalise and Cyberweapon in order to reduce the cost of my spells: if I can use Cyberweapon to reduce the cost of Inno to 0, then quanta isn't an issue, removing dependence on Quantum Pendulum + mark. This has the added bonus of slight disruption in the form of increasing the opponent's card costs. This however requires that Cyberweapon be on the field for 3 turns: 1 turn is lost to summoning sickness, and 2 turns to reduce Inno to 0. If that's too slow, my backup plan is Equalise: simply convert Inno cost to chroma, and I won't be as reliant on . It also effectively "reduces" the cost - with  mark, you're generating 1  per turn as a baseline, meaning it takes 3 turns to generate quanta for 1 Inno cast. With  , you're generating 3 per turn as a baseline, and if Inno costs 3 , you're getting 1 per turn.

Regarding point 2: I use Scattering Wind + Stormshield in order to dig through the deck and try to find the Rico. Scattering Wind also synergises with Rico and Disp in that it has the potential to increase your mark strength by more than 1, reducing reliance on pillars. Stormshield slightly addresses point 1: if attacked, it can remove pillars from your deck, making it so that you're less likely to be stuck drawing pillars when you need other spells.

Regarding point 3: I splash in 2 PA.

Also one minor point that probably isn't worth a big bullet point: IDK how I feel about lightning. If you cast Disp targetting Disp, I could envision Lightning causing a lot of damage to yourself. IDK how you feel about Drain Life instead, since it'd heal a bit? But with my deck (Stormshield specifically), I could see that being a bit of antisynergy due to  competition.

Definitely could use further tuning, but it's hopefully a start? I am absolutely in love with this idea, since that 1 game out of 20 where I mill 80+ cards from an opponent's deck in a single turn gives me the biggest dopamine rush I've ever had playing this game. I want to improve this deck to make it more consistent, but I'm at a loss for how specifically to do that

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Decks / Re: Demigod Prediction Decks

« on: July 02, 2025, 11:58:30 pm »

Glad to see Imbue making an interesting addition to cardpool. Was worried it'd be too janky

I think there's several reasons why it feels "jank".

The first is that is because Imbue is a card that's just so "out there" in terms of what it does? For example, with Chaos Power, there's things like Blessing/Momentum that are somewhat similar. Even if you've never played with Chaos Power before, you may be able to have an idea of how to use it if you've played with Blessing before. But with Imbue, it's just... Closest thing I can think of would probably be Shard of Integrity, which isn't exactly a "cookie-cutter" card.

The second is that I think this is a higher skill floor card. I think there's that saying in MtG: "Reading the card explains the card", but in this case, if you're not mindful of the fact that there's (at least) 3 facets to a weapon {stats, active, and passive abilities}, then even if you read the card, you won't have a full understanding/appreciation of what Imbue does. (As an aside, is there any site/page that gives more detail/context on what each card does? This would be immensely helpful! For example, is there anyplace I can go to look up and see what shields in the game are "immaterial" or "reflective"?)

The third is that in order to use it for anything practical, you need at least 3 cards: Weapon/Shield A, Imbue, Weapon/Shield B. At least in my playtesting when developing FG Counters, it's frustrating when I die waiting for that 3rd combo piece.

I feel self-conscious because I feel like I'm just rambling/info-dumping to people who may not be interested in listening. But at the same time, I'd like to at least try and address some of these issues, because I think Imbue is a really interesting card that opens up tons of doors via composite shields/weapons, but I can understand if many people overlook it.

In particular, something I'm experimenting with is developing new FG counters based on Imbue or Dispersion. For example, I can't figure out how to play the posted Mirage counter, so I came up with my own. Admittedly it has reliability issues and needs tuning (LOTS of tuning, this is very much WIP), but at least for me, it's more intuitive to play:

Mirage - VERY WIP!!!

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Basically, you don't need to deal with all the "steal + CC" if opponent's Clepsydra are all frozen, and your permanents are immaterial. Known issue is that it sometimes eventually fails to keep up and Mirage Yoink's a Snowflake, or you lose due to damage (because you didn't draw a Druidic Staff). As long as your own Snowflake is PA'd, shouldn't be too big of an issue. If Mirage uses Snowflake to prevent self-deckout, you should win via damage eventually, or maybe it'd be a good idea to forget the DK and just go for damage?

Also while I'm at it, I'll drop this Hydrax deck here in an attempt to show I'm not an Imbue-One Trick Pony:

Hydrax 500 HP EM "Creatureless" Deckout

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Prioritise getting Gravity Shield (GS) and Great Maul (GM) combo active to block most damage from Hydrax, use SoB as needed to draw GS/GM. Play all non-weapon permanents when drawn (Hydrax has no PC). Use GS active on freshly Flying Weapon'd (FW) Prismatic Gladius (PG) or Crusader as needed to push health above 5 HP threshold (prioritise PG > Crusader, as Freeze + PG doesn't increase PG HP, only HP Power). Use Dream Catcher (DC) as necessary to speed up deckout and get Waiter bonus. Hand Drill Priority Ranking: Great Maul > Prismatic Gladius > Crusader. Play every Rico/tower/pendulum obtained via DC, as Rico will help for your final combo. Don't play PG, but keep 1 PG in hand for last turn in case.

Key Combo: On the last turn or second to last turn, cast (Dispersion -> Basilisk Blood (BB)) -> Cast Weapon/Frailty (as needed) -> Miracle -> GS (target self) -> DC (target Hydrax, only if at 500/500 HP, otherwise just pass turn). Depending on Rico count, everything will get Delayed for up to 300-ish turns, and Rico will generally also do Disp -> Frailty to increase your max HP to 500. If Frailty isn't DispRico-cast, manually cast it targetting any creature. Play PG/GM as needed to maintain Equipped/Weapon Master bonus. Cast Miracle, and use GS active on yourself to get to 500 HP, and use DC active on opponent to win midturn for bonus. If you're unable to use GS active on self for 500 HP (because Disp -> BB depleted all  ), then just pass turn and let SoG heal to 500: Full Health bonus (20%) > Midturn bonus (10%).

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Decks / Re: Demigod Prediction Decks

« on: June 25, 2025, 02:33:32 am »

I would greatly appreciate any help in tuning this proof of concept deck. Material Towers are overkill - I don't use for anything at all - but I have no idea how to build good decks, and couldn't figure out a good quanta base for the trio.

Lycaon

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It would seem as though Sun Blade's passive ("When a mirage dies, their owner destroys top card of their deck") is applied per Sun Blade - e.g. if there are 4 Sun Blades on the field, when 1 mirage dies, their owner destroys the top 4 cards of their deck. If Flooding is on the field, 4 Sun Blades mill 16 cards per turn, so wait until the last few turns to play Flooding in order to Magma up to 500 HP.

Lycaon Revised

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Simpler solution using only  / . Unfortunately not the cheapest deck, but arguably the most reliable creatureless 500 HP EM deckout deck I've come up with thus far. It actually makes me think less of some of the prior decks I've submitted in this post, so I might go back and try to revise some of them. However, it requires attention to detail, because there's one critical combo that needs to be executed. The "why" is listed in the spoiler, and is why this post is so long

Key points:

• The basic idea is to stall using Wings while accumulating quanta for Stone Skin (SS). Win condition is the combo below in bold underline.
• Try and hold one SS in your hand until right before you win, that way if Lycaon Nightmares you, you can still get 500 HP EM.
• If possible, try to wait until Lycaon drops several Ricochet (Rico) before playing Scattering Wind (SW). Use them as needed in order to refresh hand (in case it's too filled with unplayable cards), but otherwise try to wait as long as possible before using SW. This is because SW increases the mark power of caster by 1 - with Rico, this effect can be amplified such that your mark power can potentially be increased by more than 1, making it suitable for charging for SS.
• Personally, when I use SW, I normally just use it on my entire hand rather than any individual card. IDK if that's the correct way to play that card though - I'd greatly appreciate it if anyone could give me pointers on the correct way to use SW!
• Use Snowflake (SF) active on a card in your own hand in order to prevent deckout. Key targets are Nightmare'd Shadling or Werewolf, or in some circumstances your own Wings (see below bolded section in bullet point below regarding Imbue). Remember you cannot use SF active the turn you play it! Luckily you should be able to shuffle through your deck using SW, so you shouldn't have too much to fear from SF being the last card in your deck.
• If you would deckout next turn (i.e. no cards currently in your own deck), use SF active prior to Imbue.
• Use Imbue + Dull Khopesh (DK) + Scorpion Claws (SC) in order to speed up milling. In fact, I think if you don't pull the combo off correctly, you'll run out of Wings before you can mill Lycaon out. Assuming 1-3 power, DK + SC mills 4 cards from Lycaon's deck per turn, + 1 card minimum for turn draw, so plan accordingly for Waiter bonus.
• Combo conditions: Imbue + DK + SC in hand, SF on board. NO WINGS IN HAND (no restriction on Wings on board). Lycaon must have at least 3 UNFROZEN Rico. With SF on the board, cast Imbue targetting DK to ensure SF active gets retained (to prevent self deckout). See spoiler after this list for reasoning/Imbue behaviour.
• In order for SF (imb. DK) to mill, it needs to deal damage. On occasion, Lycaon will use Antimatter on SF, and then combine with Chaos Power, resulting in 0 Power SF (no damage = no mill). Use Protect Artifact on Snowflake to prevent this. This can be done prior to Imbue, and will not impact your ability to Imbue weapons! (Added tip: if you do this under high-Rico situations, there's a chance you'll PA Lycaon's Rico, meaning it can't be frozen by SF, so you may be able to cast Imbue sooner!)

Spoiler for Additional Section on Imbue + Weapons:

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of Imbue is as such: When Imbue is cast involving 2 weapons/shields with active abilities, Imbue takes the active abilities and stats (numbers) of the weapon/shield currently on the board. If only one of the 2 has an active ability, then regardless of which one is on the board first, the resulting weapon/shield will always have the same active ability, and obviously if neither has an active ability, then the resulting weapon/shield will not have an active ability. Imbue always retains passive abilities of all merged weapons/shields.

If you cast Imbue targetting Scorpion Claws (SC), you run the risk of ending up with a Dull Khopesh (DK) with DK stats/active/passive + Snowflake (SF) passive rather than SF stats/active/passive + DK passive. There are 4 possible sequences that can occur based on the order/target Imbue is cast on.

Sequence 1:

• 1st Imbue: SF (on board) + SC in hand => SF (imb. SC) in hand
• 2nd Imbue: DK in hand => DK played onto board
• 3rd Imbue: DK (on board) + SF (imb. SC) in hand => DK (imb. SF + SC) in hand
• 4th Imbue: DK (imb.) in hand => DK played onto board

This sequence results in an imbued DK with DK numbers/active/passive + SC passive + SF passive.

Sequence 2:

• 1st Imbue: SF (on board) + SC in hand => SF (imb. SC) in hand
• 2nd Imbue: SF (imb. SC) in hand => SF (imb. SC) played onto board
• 3rd Imbue: SF (imb. SC) (on board) + DK in hand => SF (imb. SC + DK) in hand
• 4th Imbue: SF (imb. SC + DK) in hand => SF (imb. SC + DK) played onto board

This sequence results in an imbued SF with SF numbers/active/passive + SC passive + DK passive.

Sequence 3:

• 1st Imbue: SF (on board) + DK in hand => SF (imb. DK) in hand
• 2nd Imbue: SC in hand => SC played onto board
• 3rd Imbue: SC (on board) + SF (imb. DK) in hand => SC (imb. SF + DK) in hand
• 4th Imbue: SF (imb. DK + SC) in hand => SF (imb. DK + SC) played onto board

This sequence results in an imbued SC with SC numbers/passive + SF active/passive + DK passive.

Sequence 4:

• 1st Imbue: SF (on board) + DK in hand => SF (imb. DK) in hand
• 2nd Imbue: SF (imb. DK) in hand => SF (imb. DK) played onto board
• 3rd Imbue: SF (imb. DK) (on board) + SC in hand => SF (imb. DK + SC) in hand
• 4th Imbue: SF (imb. DK + SC) in hand => SF (imb. DK + SC) played onto board

This sequence results in an imbued SF with SF numbers/active/passive + SC passive + DK passive.

The critical parts to retain are: Scorpion Claws passive, Dull Khopesh passive, Snowflake active, and either Scorpion Claws or Snowflake power. Hence, Sequence 2, 3, and 4 will all suffice. If Imbue is cast targetting DK, then that can only result in Sequence 3 or 4. If Imbue is cast targetting SC, then that can result in Sequence 1 or 2, and since we want Sequence 2, that's only a 50% chance of executing properly. In conclusion, cast Imbue targetting DK.

Spoiler for Additional comment regarding Imbue + Wings:

If there is a Wings in your hand, either do NOT cast Imbue (wait until no more Wings in hand), or if there is only 1 Wings in hand, use Snowflake active on Wings prior to Imbue. In low-Rico scenarios, you may not have enough Rico get your fully imbued weapon on the board. If Imbue is used in a high-Rico scenario, it will fuse your board-Wings with hand-Wings.

The fused double-Wings will not last double the duration. More testing is needed to derive conclusive results, but it seems to add the two turn counts while decreasing turn count by 2 each turn. E.g. if you have a Wings on board with 0 turns remaining, if Imbued with a fresh Wings (5 turns), the resulting Wings will have 5 on the turn counter, but decrease by 2 each turn, so the Wings (imbued Wings) will only last 2 turns.

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UI/UX Suggestions / Nova Indicator Visibility Issue

« on: June 12, 2025, 05:58:07 am »

Normally, when you use Supernova/Nova, there's an indicator that shows that you've used it, and if you use another Supernova/Nova, you'll summon a singularity to your field.

This indicator is difficult to see if your hand is full. Not sure how to attach screenshots.

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Decks / Re: Demigod Prediction Decks

« on: June 04, 2025, 06:27:04 am »

I would greatly appreciate any help in tuning this proof of concept deck. Material Towers are overkill - I don't use for anything at all - but I have no idea how to build good decks, and couldn't figure out a good quanta base for the trio.

Lycaon

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It would seem as though Sun Blade's passive ("When a mirage dies, their owner destroys top card of their deck") is applied per Sun Blade - e.g. if there are 4 Sun Blades on the field, when 1 mirage dies, their owner destroys the top 4 cards of their deck. If Flooding is on the field, 4 Sun Blades mill 16 cards per turn, so wait until the last few turns to play Flooding in order to Magma up to 500 HP.

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Decks / Re: Demigod Prediction Decks

« on: May 27, 2025, 07:18:37 am »

Phoenix

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Notable Issues: Relies on a very specific set of combos, as a result, consistency is impacted, but works more often than not. Would appreciate help tuning to be more consistent. Has trouble dealing with dragon rushes from Phoenix.

Dispersion + Metamorphosis to fast charge Earth Quanta. Unless you're desperate, before playing Stonewall, make sure you also have an Imbue + Mirror Shield (this is to give Stonewall immaterial + Reflective). Final Shield combo needs to be Stonewall x2 + Mirror Shield + Appreciation in order to get 500 HP EM. Save 1 Dispersion for Disp+Reinforce to prevent deckout. Use Miracle + Holy Light at the last turn before Phoenix deckouts to get EM.

If desperate when setting up, can use Dispersion + Holy Light in order to heal 10 HP without consuming the Holy Light (using Dispersion + [Spell] does not consume [Spell]).

Protect Artifact is not run because it's redundant for the Stonewall when Imbued Mirror Shield. With Disp+Meta, your mark gets so strong that you eventually don't really need the quanta from pendulums, so they're really only there to help set up your shield. Once your shield combo is set up, redundant/extra copies (Mirror Shield or Stonewall) can be discarded, they're only found in such high quantities in order to be more likely to draw them.

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Decks / Re: Demigod Prediction Decks

« on: May 27, 2025, 01:50:17 am »

I got Nosferatu today for Colosseum, came up with this.

Nosferatu

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Notable issues: sometimes Nosferatu gets lucky and manages to steal some Stone Skin, or uses Nightmare after I've used all my Stone Skin, so I lose out on either EM or 500 HP. I'd like to splash in a few Sanctuary, but I don't know what to cut out, and if I make the deck thiccer, I notice it impacts consistency, so this is the best I was able to come up with on my own. Would greatly appreciate feedback and/or optimisation/tuning.

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Decks / Re: Demigod Prediction Decks

« on: May 25, 2025, 08:09:33 am »

Hi sorry, first time posting, and I'm not sure how to get the formatting done like everyone else, but I got bored and tried making some 500 HP decks to various levels of success. I'd appreciate any feedback/optimisation/tuning, since I have no idea what I'm doing (both in terms of how to post on the forum, and in terms of deckbuilding)!

Thetis

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Should be pretty self-explanatory: play Diamond Shield, and wait until deckout. Use Hand Drill to replenish deck. As needed, either use Precog to dig for Diamond Shield, or ideally use it to ensure Waiter bonus at the end. Play Dry Spell to get the Water Quanta for Purify, and if you're lucky, get enough kills for Murderer bonus. (Since the intent is to win by deckout, you don't need to play the creatures from Hand Drill - in fact, it's better if you don't since you get Creatureless bonus.)

Perses

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The idea is similar to the deck for Thetis, except we need a bit of Gravity for Gravity Shield. Key idea is to get a turn 1 Protected/immaterial Gravity Shield. Metamorphosis is used similarly to Septima Rhay's usage in this deck, except switch first to Earth (for faster Stone Skin) then to Time (for Hand Drill). Gravity Shield doesn't seem to block weapons, so use Flying Weapon on Perses' Pulverizers. Hand Drill the Pulverizers, and play them to get Weapon Master and Equipped bonuses.

Swamp (edit: Version 1, Rareless)

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If you open with 2 Metamorphosis, cast one on yourself so that you're more likely to be able to drop a turn 2 Dream Catcher. Once Dream Catcher is out, Metamorphosis mark to Earth to fast charge Stonewall. Once you have 63 Earth quanta, Metamorphosis back to Aether, and start milling. Depending on game state (cards discarded by Swamp), it may be possible to Metamorphosis to Darkness later on so that you can play weapons/permanents (Shank of Void, Eclipse) for Equipped/Weapon Master/Grounds Keeper bonuses. If you do, be careful to not self-deckout due to lack of Aether quanta. Remember you can mill yourself for Waiter bonus.

Needs time to set up though - prone to losing if Swamp gets an early Eclipse/Shark.

Swamp (edit: Version 2)

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Stumbled upon this idea from Septima Rhay/serprex using Dispersion + Metamorphosis to generate fast Earth Quanta to fast charge Stonewall. Much faster at generating Earth Quanta to deal with the early Eclipse/Shark than version 1, but requires a lot of rares. If the 2 Snowflakes are unavailable, replace with 1 Reinforce and dealer's choice of 1 Dispersion/Metamorphosis/52 Pickup.

After first Disp+Meta, charge Stonewall (mark = Earth), then Metamorphosis to Chroma to eventually build for Snowflake. Use Snowflake to prevent self-deckout. Holy Light + Dispersion at the end for Murderer bonus.

St. Invictus

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I stumbled upon this concept from serprex (specifically the deck from Schwa at this link), and fell in love with the idea. I tried doing a few tweaks to optimise it against some Demigods, specifically St. Invictus. Definitely needs optimisation, the least polished of these decks. Can fail if St. Invictus gets lucky with the random creatures via rewind (e.g. Shard of Focus, Lifesmith, Ironclad Blacksmith, Null Mantis). Not sure if it'd be a good idea to use Equalise to reduce the Life Quanta cost of shield/weapon (i.e. use both Earth & Life Quanta for equalised equipment), or if the concept is doomed from the start?