Notes & Combos
Ringo won the race to M1. They're an awesome player and they've got some spice in their deck, but I wanted to try a different type of deck from theirs.
For the diamond leg, I saw a TON of spright and branded. Tear was mostly non-existent. So, I dropped macro and went full-force on necrovalley. It hard counters bystial and branded, whereas with Macro branded can still fuse thanks to Albion.
And I also brought back Dogmatika. Nadir being at 2 changes so much. It is a legitmate board breaker now, and garura is also a +1.
You might notice in the ED there are a lot of changes. 1. I trimmed the fat. I never made redoer, unicorn, access, or dweller so I cut them.
Also, there's a God Slime and Gustav. I learned this from the Gravekeeper channel, but Lord search slime is an OTK on an open field thanks to Gustav. I have a lot of matches where I stopped the opp then OTKed next turn.
A late addition to the mix was Time-space trap hole. This was a suggestion from Fear in the traptrix server. It worked wonders against Branded, and it even came in clutch versus my rank up match to master.
Oh, and I dropped shifter. I was tired of drawing it mid game, and it doesn't hurt spright and branded enough.
Problems: This deck still struggles if Tear pops off. Unless they let Necrovalley go through, you're not beating them going second.
And spright going second is a nightmare. If they get full board, you're going to have to get very lucky and creative to bait the carrot and break their board.
Finally, a special thanks to the Gravekeeper channel and Jay in 4K in the labrynth channel for inspiration and advice. And of course, thanks to the traptrix channel for all their encouragement.
Replays
Got some replays for this stretch. Hopefully I made them varied enough. 977-255-375
- Rank up match going first against umi control.
- Going first against dlink with mostly dogmatika.
- Going second against swordsoul. I was about to scoop, but it was my rank-down match, so I stayed the course. (You could argue they lost the game on their own...)
- going first against branded
- Going second against dlink with an old build trying superpoly and shifter.