The R and E card Deck

[halifax]

This is more of a review of an opponents deck than a post about mine.

I played a 1 v 1 ranked match against "Docta Smooth" last night on Colassium 3. Not a very talkative fello that Docta.

My first impression of his deck was that he just put one or two of the most rare and expensive card in his deck: Nil, Leonight, Culdrablade, Terrar, Bistair, Flammfleur, Hell Pyron, one of every Dragon, Ba-al..... and so on. But then I started to notice that he did have a little bit of a theme going, mostly red and green, as he threw in some Fays, Barbarians, Coaliod and such.

I began to think, this guy is in for some trouble, as just picking the biggest most powerfull creatures and spells without any synergy is not going to work.... well some how it did manage to screw up my deck for a good 60 rounds.

My deck, a blue yellow offensive/parasite type, tends to struggle in the beggining of any match as I need to get some offensive creatures out there (Tengu and Frost Beast mainly). On about turn 6, Docta smooth drops a an idol that doesn't allow duplicate creatures to be put down (Granite Idol perhaps?). Well that completely confounded me for a good 20 turns. I usually spend my good spell cards on territories that I want to take from my opponent (Paralyze, Weathering + Tengu, Intrusion) but instead spent them all trying to beat down the damn idol. He did a very good job of fending my off during that time (stupid gasous form!).

Eventually I killed the idol, and saved an intrusion/saint combo alond with a paralyze for the next time he brought that out.

I'm not sure if his deck was good or if that single card just screwed me royally. As far as how he used his deck... well, it was almost as if he didn't know what some of the cards did. Thats fine, there are 500 of them. But he seems to have EVERY card so I figured he knew some thing about all of them. For example, he managed to get a Ba-al near some of my critical lands. I knew it was only a matter of time before he moved him over and started cleaning house, so exchanged my Wyvern out for a Frost Beast. He recognized the mismatch (no scrolls in his hand) and traded out his Ba-al for 40/40 First Strike Neutral Creature that gets you 5 symbols after battle. Good move, I can't reflect neutral creatures with frost beast. So I exchange Frost Beast for a Saint. I figure he will try to bring back Ba-al before I can attack his neutral creature. Instead, on his next turn, he lands on a tower, gets a territory command, and uses it to attack my Saint with his Neutral Creature, no scroll included. That was an instant victory for me. At that point I was thinking, this is just some 9 year old with losts of time on his hands who managed to collect every Massive R and E card and put it into a deck.

Either way, he some how managed to get to 12th online.

[Deunnero]

Sounds like it was a fun match at least.

I probably won't be back online until mid-April, at which time i'll have a few weeks of Culdcept before GTA4 hits. So look me up and we'll have a match that will surely get a WTF? out of you when you see my deck!

[halifax]

Sorry about all the spelling errors in the last post. I was at work while putting that out and something came up.... had to hit send and go.

Any way, that match was capped at 8000 TG or 95 rounds. At about round 80 or so, I finally passed Docta smooth in TG, but it was still close, about 3900 to 3400. Unfortunately, he lost his connection and never got back on that night. I was able to beat his deck, or rather I kept the lead until the 95 rounds expired. However, he was much more of a challenge than the AI.

I hope to be able to play him again.

Halifax

[karsuman]

Ivory Idol or Waste (or both) would probably do a number against this deck.

[jrponalameda]

Well, I finally got enough cards and confidence to try an online game with whoever happened to be on, and my first 3 player game happened to be against Docta Smooth and Darkbird (or something like that). Nice to see a name I recognized from reading these forums....

Docta Smooth was as untalkative as mentioned... his deck was not as mentioned above and it was working pretty well from a newbie's perspective The third player lost connection unfortunately but the Docta and I stayed in until he beat me. I made enough silly mistakes so that I can't say I even gave my deck a reasonable test. High point for me was when he drew a polymorph and used it on a vampire I'd leveled up. He turned it into a Gogma which seemed like maybe an interesting deal for me hehe. He thought so too and raced over there to kill it but the battle was close. After that he was in control.

I'm looking forward to more games, in which I will hopefully not make so many silly errors, like casting telegnosis right after trespass