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browngm1
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posted October 24, 2005 10:42 PM |
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Advanced decks
I have been thinking about ways to make the best possibilities in decks. I dont really have anyone to play against though so i dont know how my ideas will work. Does anyone have any good ideas?
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J-Tech
Hired Hero
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posted October 25, 2005 01:19 AM |
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Well, in my limited experience, the name of the game seems to be cycling. That is, the ability to continually draw cards from your deck, as a result of special (or not so special) effects.
Income gathering locations are the obvious choice here. The faster you deplete your deck, the faster you are getting to the cards you want in hand, the more cards you can buy, and the faster you can get back to cards ditched into the discard pile. Any deck will find themselves at the mercy of luck of the draw, until they can get a steady card draw of 2-3. Including the "cycle out" phase at the end of the turn, that means you're getting through 4 cards a turn.
Without proper cycling, even the most tuned deck will be struggling to catch up to an opponent drawing 6 cards per turn.
J-Tech
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startune
Promising
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 25, 2005 10:48 PM |
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These are generalities that can be at least partially true, but the most important thing is that your deck is built to work with itself. I have one deck that is built to operate well on only 2 cards per turn, and I rarely get a level 4 creature into my army at all.
Only playing your deck against competant opponents can yield the feedback necessary to make a superlative deck.
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Jonathan Bjork
Director of Games Development
DGA Games
http://www.dgagames.com
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doc8466
Known Hero
Event Coordinator Annapolis MD
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posted October 26, 2005 05:52 PM |
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I'm with you J-Tech. I chose Order back at GENCON just because of their income ability. Nobility/Estates/Mining with a gold mine had me drawing 6 or more cards per turn. Granted it was the first tournament and we were all pretty much novices, but with my draw ability and shear army size (which replenished itself quickly after knocking out the first player in the finals) and Dragon Golems phase 1 with Ultra First Strike, I squashed 'em! And since we were playing teams and using "resource sharing" anything I didn't spend got sent to my partner and vice-versa. We were loaded and HUGE!
As I gain more experience playing other competent players, I'll look forward to discussing strats then!
-Doc
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Psychobabble
Known Hero
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posted October 29, 2005 02:38 AM |
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It seems to me that life has a potentially powerful strategy here. If you start with 3 peasants you've got a jump in early game generation and then if you concentrate on angels you can make all your mines gold mines for the (chance of) extra activation. I don't have enough gold mines or angels to do this (1 and 1), but anyone care to see how it works?
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startune
Promising
Adventuring Hero
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posted October 30, 2005 04:16 PM |
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The peasant / angel deck is a popular build, and it works well. Decks can easily be defined to defeat it, but with enough crusaders in the mix, it is what I would call a powerful rookie deck.
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Jonathan Bjork
Director of Games Development
DGA Games
http://www.dgagames.com
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