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Post by tortimer on Jan 7, 2012 23:47:39 GMT -5
I just got done being completely dominated by a red discard deck by JoolsITA. It was pretty impressive. After a while I was just reading each card and watching him play. I knew I had no chance never got one card in play. Now I'm really going to work on a discard deck. I have played around with one yesterday but couldn't do very good but after watching a good one it looks like fun. I know he had me very frustrated.
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Post by Brontobeuf on Jan 8, 2012 0:19:41 GMT -5
It's my current favorite strategy. Discard.
The problem is the rarity of Doomsday, Divine Intervention and Ancestral Discoveries...
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Post by Tuism on Jan 8, 2012 1:35:59 GMT -5
I think any Strat that reduces things to their most basic component, ie cards, has the greatest potential. That's counters and discard. Or milling (but that's just too damn slow)
I have 4 doomsdays, 3 DIs, 2 ancestrals. Even mysterious strangers took me VERY long to get 5 of.
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Post by Diomedia on Jan 8, 2012 6:09:20 GMT -5
I've been coming up against a lot of discard decks, I'm getting some success countering them now, political patronage, Machiavelli and Ezio de Firenze, if you get them down quick enough you have a decent chance.
Someone must be telling me to play discard though 8 Doomsday 5 Ancestral , 6 Divine Int, and still not 1 Cesare :s
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Post by Tuism on Jan 8, 2012 6:27:38 GMT -5
I've been coming up against a lot of discard decks, I'm getting some success countering them now, political patronage, Machiavelli and Ezio de Firenze, if you get them down quick enough you have a decent chance. Someone must be telling me to play discard though 8 Doomsday 5 Ancestral , 6 Divine Int, and still not 1 Cesare :s Please contribute your interesting rares collection in our survey  acreedrecollection.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=game&action=display&thread=150Thanks  |
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Post by joolsita on Jan 8, 2012 7:32:48 GMT -5
Lol that makes me really blush...!!!
My discard deck, I swear, was initially a simple test without any important ambition, of course I made it because I was crushed by someone who was playing with a clinical precision (needed for that type of play - discard) a similar deck. I have something like 9-10 different type of decks and gameplay and personally I like to "rotate" deck choices each match. Sometime I won in very few minutes, other times I was crushed without any hope... But that's the fun.
Today for example I started playing my top 3 control decks, lost all of three matches against three different very fast aggro decks - nearly to the point of a ragequit, LOL! And then suddenly I make a new type of deck, a very consistant and fast aggro one. The next seven games (two of them against these mentioned aggro opponents) I won without even reaching day 6 or day 7... Personally I like control, hate any discard decks but luckily I can manage them (given the time to understand opponent's playing one, eheh!).
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tokyodan
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Post by tokyodan on Jan 24, 2012 8:24:23 GMT -5
What is a discard deck?
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Post by Tuism on Jan 24, 2012 8:34:16 GMT -5
Faith (red) has cards that make people discard cards from their hand. A good discard deck can often lock an opponent who's hand is empty by making them discard their daily draws just as they draw them.
They can be very frustrating to play against, but they can also be outpaced since if you get big cards past their discard wall, then they're on the defence, needing to answer those threats. a popular strategy is discard and animus reboot which wipes the board.
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Post by Brontobeuf on Jan 24, 2012 9:18:35 GMT -5
"discard" means "put a card from the hand to the archive".
For instance, in Faith:
Divine Intervention
Cost 1
Gives 1 ressources.
Opponent discard the card in his hand with the highest cost.
When you play this, the opponent will just take automatically his biggest card and throw it in the archive. If you play the Divine Intervention half a second after the end of day, the card will resolve just after the draw phase, forcing your opponent to discard whatever he just drew if he got no cards in hand. That's what we call here "discard lock".
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Post by crazygambit on Jan 24, 2012 11:39:01 GMT -5
I don't even run Doomsday in mine. It's just too slow to matter much IMO. Ancestral Discoveries is a much better use of that spot.
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Post by Ringel on Jan 24, 2012 11:46:18 GMT -5
Ancestral is really powerful. I don't mind facing discard decks until these come out.
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Post by Tuism on Jan 24, 2012 12:18:03 GMT -5
Generally you either run doomsday or you run all the other discards. No point in tossing singles and then drop doomsday when your opponent likely has nothing left anyway.
Ancestral is really strong. I wish I had more of them. It's a double tutor in effect!
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Post by setzer777 on Jan 24, 2012 12:23:15 GMT -5
The nice thing about Doomsday is that pairing it up with Impending Pandemic (return all agents and sites to hand) creates a universal wipe that even safe agents fall to. It's expensive, but it clears the board and leaves your opponent empty-handed (while you can re-play anything of yours that got wiped).
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Post by rav950 on Jan 24, 2012 14:18:09 GMT -5
The nice thing about Doomsday is that pairing it up with Impending Pandemic (return all agents and sites to hand) creates a universal wipe that even safe agents fall to. It's expensive, but it clears the board and leaves your opponent empty-handed (while you can re-play anything of yours that got wiped). Yeah, I like that combo too, but slow as you say and a Scientific Espionage on Doomsday turns it right around on you. I have a Doomsday deck in the works, just only have 1.  |
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tokyodan
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Post by tokyodan on Jan 24, 2012 16:34:15 GMT -5
Man. this game just keeps getting deeper! ACR is not that old. How'd everybody develop such knowledgeable and advanced strategies so fast?
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