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moush
Aug 19, 2009

Rage Your Dream

Vanilla Mint Ice posted:

If he just wants to play pendant dragon than forte isn't super necessary. I'll post my deck later tonight, it's pretty cheap with no legends and wins most games on turns 8-9.

I don't just want to play meme decks, but it's quite fun at the moment.

Here's the video with the decklist btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jx6EKP8Eqw&t=60s

I haven't really commit to a class yet but I have 2 Sibyl's, and Ouroboros and most of the other ramp Dragon cards. I'm tempted to just craft the Bahumuts and make a real ramp deck.

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Hail Mr. Satan!
Oct 3, 2009

by zen death robot
If you're ever going to spend money on the game, I highly recommend buying the precon decks for the legendaries you want to use (IE Forte.) From a value standpoint you come out way ahead of spending the same amount on packs and hoping to get enough dust or the legendary you want.

The Duchess Smackarse
May 8, 2012

by Lowtax
running into turn 5 syb into a turn 6 ouroboros in take two, 2 games in a row, is super fun

Vanilla Mint Ice
Jul 17, 2007

A raccoon is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.

moush posted:

I don't just want to play meme decks, but it's quite fun at the moment.

Here's the video with the decklist btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Jx6EKP8Eqw&t=60s

I haven't really commit to a class yet but I have 2 Sibyl's, and Ouroboros and most of the other ramp Dragon cards. I'm tempted to just craft the Bahumuts and make a real ramp deck.

Yeah that's the type of deck I suspected people would try to figure out, which is a hard ramp to go for a pendant grimnir finish but I suspected it isn't super good because of a reliance of a card that you have no way of searching for. So people gotta put in alternative stuff like storm and ouroburos.

Here's my pet deck which I've refined for months and is the closest thing to a completely original deck that I came up with:


It's pretty budget. You play defensively for first six turns and go on the offense starting on turn 7. Either you win by 8-9 or don't. Games rarely hit 10pp for me. The only card I haven't experimented with adding to this deck is sycther

The Duchess Smackarse
May 8, 2012

by Lowtax
Just went test of strength > heavenly aegis > bahamut in take two. Now I'M the piece of poo poo

This format is awful

Dias
Feb 20, 2011

by sebmojo

Jimmy Hats posted:

running into turn 5 syb into a turn 6 ouroboros in take two, 2 games in a row, is super fun

Please ban Ouroboros from Take Two.

Hail Mr. Satan!
Oct 3, 2009

by zen death robot

Dias posted:

Please ban Ouroboros

Yukari
Feb 17, 2011

"That's going in the cringe reel for sure."




Finally did it. Mostly on the back of sword and shadow, with honorable mention to rune and forest before their nerfs.

The Duchess Smackarse
May 8, 2012

by Lowtax
Just pulled an animated Minthe from a pack :3:

The Duchess Smackarse
May 8, 2012

by Lowtax
Zoe works pretty well in a storm havencraft. Play her turn 3 into a turn 4 octobishop to add some good pressure.

Yukari
Feb 17, 2011

"That's going in the cringe reel for sure."


Jimmy Hats posted:

Just pulled an animated Minthe from a pack :3:

She blinks, by the way.

TheTromboner
Nov 12, 2008
7 hours if rerolls and this is the only time I got more than 4 legendaries. Please tell me this is okay to start with.

Aurelia 1x
Otohime 1x
Nephthys 1x
Daria 1x
Bahamut 1x
Dragonsong flute 1x
Crystalia Tia 1x
Sybil 1x
Maelstrom 1x

Vanilla Mint Ice
Jul 17, 2007

A raccoon is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
It's fine

Yukari
Feb 17, 2011

"That's going in the cringe reel for sure."


I'd keep that. It's got some power legendaries, but it's also a bit spread out.

BGrifter
Mar 16, 2007

Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!

TheTromboner posted:

7 hours if rerolls and this is the only time I got more than 4 legendaries. Please tell me this is okay to start with.

I rerolled on and off for three days and in hindsight probably should have just jumped on the first decent roll I had. (although I was rerolling at work so really it wasn't much of a loss) I started with 2x Albert, Seraph, Cerberus, Odin, Neph (animated), Bloodhungry Matriarch and Alexander.

Since starting from free packs I've picked up 2x Ancient Elf, Eidolon of Madness, Rose Queen, 2x Jeanne D'Arc, Merlin, Fairy Princess, Deepwood Anomaly, Ouroboros, Maelstrom Serpent, Mythril Golem, Fafnir and Heavenly Aegis. I have sixteen Take Two tickets to spend when I have time as well so that's likely to yield a couple more. Most of those legendaries are bad, but you're going to pull a ton of them off free packs. It's not like Hearthstone where legendaries are few and far between.

Yukari
Feb 17, 2011

"That's going in the cringe reel for sure."


Depends on your luck, really. I've had tons of luck in RoB, and absolutely none in TotG.

No Wave
Sep 18, 2005

HA! HA! NICE! WHAT A TOOL!
I havent opened an animated legendary in 200 packs.

Great luck otherwise though.

The Duchess Smackarse
May 8, 2012

by Lowtax
playing versus the shadowcracft aggro 7 games in a row is really fun and good

Yukari
Feb 17, 2011

"That's going in the cringe reel for sure."


Jimmy Hats posted:

playing versus the shadowcracft aggro 7 games in a row is really fun and good

Feels better than playing against Ramp Dragon with their new support.

pacmania90
May 31, 2010
Built an Aggro Blood deck for the new expansion since it's always been my favorite class. It absolutely crushes Dragon, but the matchup vs Aggro Shadow is terrible. Is there a way to tech this against Shadow without sacrificing too much against Dragon? FWIW, Yurius and Alpha Wolfman both feel kind of marginal in this.

https://shadowverse-portal.com/deck...6Fm.6F6Fm.6F6Fm

ZiegeDame
Aug 21, 2005

YUKIMURAAAA!
The tech against Shadow is Hungering Horde to eat all the skelemans at onces

BGrifter
Mar 16, 2007

Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!

pacmania90 posted:

Built an Aggro Blood deck for the new expansion since it's always been my favorite class. It absolutely crushes Dragon, but the matchup vs Aggro Shadow is terrible. Is there a way to tech this against Shadow without sacrificing too much against Dragon? FWIW, Yurius and Alpha Wolfman both feel kind of marginal in this.

This is what I'm running and Aggro Shadow seems to be a coin flip.

https://shadowverse-portal.com/deck...pFW.5_pFW.5_pFW

Spiderweb Imp is huge, such an insane card. The ability to throw down a 1/4 taunt and just go face with everything is a huge difference maker.

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

BGrifter posted:

This is what I'm running and Aggro Shadow seems to be a coin flip.

https://shadowverse-portal.com/deck...pFW.5_pFW.5_pFW

Spiderweb Imp is huge, such an insane card. The ability to throw down a 1/4 taunt and just go face with everything is a huge difference maker.

As aggro-shadow scum player I have to say that yeah, the only thing that can save blood's rear end are those imps (hungering horde is cute but not really as effective). In any case, the game is definitely in shadow's favor.

Hail Mr. Satan!
Oct 3, 2009

by zen death robot
Aegis + Test of Strength is the most bullshit interaction ever.

Aegis would have been great just as "this card cannot be destroyed or banished", the bullshit extra wording just means that they'll have to look really really closely at every Neutral and Haven card from now on to make sure it doesn't make Aegis too good

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

frakeaing HAMSTER DANCE posted:

Aegis + Test of Strength is the most bullshit interaction ever.

Aegis would have been great just as "this card cannot be destroyed or banished", the bullshit extra wording just means that they'll have to look really really closely at every Neutral and Haven card from now on to make sure it doesn't make Aegis too good

Eh, test of strength was pretty much specifically printed for Aegis, no other card can really take advantage of it as well. And the bullshit extra wording is what makes Aegis actually decent (right now Haven is the dumpster class, it can fend off shadow sometimes but it loses horribly to anything else that is not a slow-rear end control deck, specially blood, goddamn, that is a massacre)

As for being careful about future interactions, haven is partly based on white from mtg and taking advantage of that kind of asymmetries is pretty much what it does, so I'm sure the developers have a lot of experience with that.

trucutru fucked around with this message at 11:22 on Apr 11, 2017

Hail Mr. Satan!
Oct 3, 2009

by zen death robot
Test of Strength seems like an anti-aggro card on its face. I don't think its primary purpose was to make an Aegis player untouchable

Indecisive
May 6, 2007


frakeaing HAMSTER DANCE posted:

Test of Strength seems like an anti-aggro card on its face. I don't think its primary purpose was to make an Aegis player untouchable

Test of strength is specifically worded to make it work with Aegis, they did it on purpose. It could just grant all minions ward or something and it wouldn't work with aegis, but they didn't do that.

Yukari
Feb 17, 2011

"That's going in the cringe reel for sure."


Indecisive posted:

Test of strength is specifically worded to make it work with Aegis, they did it on purpose. It could just grant all minions ward or something and it wouldn't work with aegis, but they didn't do that.

I thought it was more of how it was coded, where it should affect the leaders and their choices for attacks, they decided to make it a debuff to every unit instead.

The Duchess Smackarse
May 8, 2012

by Lowtax
It's really, really lame that it doesn't affect aegis. I never wanted to live in a world where I'm forced to pack geryon in my deck @_@

Hail Mr. Satan!
Oct 3, 2009

by zen death robot

Indecisive posted:

Test of strength is specifically worded to make it work with Aegis, they did it on purpose. It could just grant all minions ward or something and it wouldn't work with aegis, but they didn't do that.

No, Aegis is specifically worded to not be negatively affected by it.

Because Aegis is a very poorly designed card

Yukari
Feb 17, 2011

"That's going in the cringe reel for sure."


For those running aggro/vengeance blood, how are the matchups at the moment? So far in the meta, I've just seen tons and tons of shadow (aggro/midrange), and dragon (ramp, obviously), and some sprinklings of the others.

pacmania90
May 31, 2010
Generally, Aggro Blood wins against control and loses against other aggro decks. It really depends on if you can safely trigger vengeance. Sun Haven and Control Blood can beat you, but they have to draw really well.

The Duchess Smackarse
May 8, 2012

by Lowtax
Aggro blood is really weak you should be playing OTK blood, the best blood.

BGrifter
Mar 16, 2007

Winner of Something Awful PS5 thread's Posting Excellence Award June 2022

Congratulations!

Yukari posted:

For those running aggro/vengeance blood, how are the matchups at the moment? So far in the meta, I've just seen tons and tons of shadow (aggro/midrange), and dragon (ramp, obviously), and some sprinklings of the others.

I'm playing at low ranks so it's probably not super indicative of the actual meta, but Aggro Shadow tends to be a coin flip, I crush Aggro Sword and most of the Ramp Dragon I've encountered would be about to stabilize one turn late. The Dragon lists in particular tend to let me goldfish for the first four turns, which tends to work out well.

These are probably poorly optimized versions of the decks though and missing cards.

The Duchess Smackarse
May 8, 2012

by Lowtax
I now have 3 Elf Queens, the legendary that nobody could ever want 3 copies of.

E; One of them is animated tho :3:

trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
lol, went to reddit to check for news or whatever and they are in the middle of a "should porn be allowed in here?" storm. Never change :reddit:

trucutru fucked around with this message at 07:34 on Apr 12, 2017

pacmania90
May 31, 2010
Shadow goes first
Turn 1 - Skull Beast
Turn 2 - Goblin x2
Turn 3 - Catacomb
Turn 4 - Skeleton Warrior, Catacomb

This feels like bullshit. Is there anything in the game that can beat Shadow when they have a good draw going first?

Emalde
May 3, 2007

Just a cage of bones, there's nothing inside.

pacmania90 posted:

Shadow goes first
Turn 1 - Skull Beast
Turn 2 - Goblin x2
Turn 3 - Catacomb
Turn 4 - Skeleton Warrior, Catacomb

This feels like bullshit. Is there anything in the game that can beat Shadow when they have a good draw going first?

Can the same not be said for literally any deck in any card game??

Yukari
Feb 17, 2011

"That's going in the cringe reel for sure."


pacmania90 posted:

Shadow goes first
Turn 1 - Skull Beast
Turn 2 - Goblin x2
Turn 3 - Catacomb
Turn 4 - Skeleton Warrior, Catacomb

This feels like bullshit. Is there anything in the game that can beat Shadow when they have a good draw going first?

Blazing Breath, Unica, grimnir, Rahab/Dragon Warrior, sibyl. Why do I say this? It's happened to me being that shadow player that got the above draw.

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trucutru
Jul 9, 2003

by Fluffdaddy

pacmania90 posted:

Shadow goes first
Turn 1 - Skull Beast
Turn 2 - Goblin x2
Turn 3 - Catacomb
Turn 4 - Skeleton Warrior, Catacomb

This feels like bullshit. Is there anything in the game that can beat Shadow when they have a good draw going first?

Yes, haven can banish all that with a single card.

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