Posts from Shadowverse

Need Metaproduction, Silver Girl for 3, and Gold Girl for 5.

It's all here, I just added Metaproduction recently, maybe it will work better now. Yes, it's tough against Shadow, I added a Banisher for 3 with a Puppet, but it's not great. Even in mirror matches, it happens – you dominate at the beginning, and then the opponent finds a Deus, and you don't. Or against Sword with its Alberts.

Three Icarus and three Kittens are too much; they clutter the artifact pool with their enchantments.

I don't play Icarus at all; at one point, I even removed Kittens out of frustration, then I brought them back because they're too good. Instead, you get Lions, Mechanics, 4/3 Golems, they mix up the artifacts, and then they end up drawing themselves instead of artifacts. I used to play Flying Swordsmen, then I switched to Hamelins to double the same 3-mana draw girl, but it didn't really help.

Bio-fabrication is also quite good; I ran with three, but then I removed them when I was revamping my deck and didn't have enough slots. I'm thinking of adding them back to analyze (or ward) more.

Yes, it's tough against Shadow, I added a 3-mana banish with a puppet, but it's not very effective.

I tried playing with banish – I didn't like it. It has its uses in games, but you still fall behind in tempo. And a single banish doesn't do much.
I added two 3/3 gold creatures; it's still not great against Shadow, but it's better against Rune. But it's still not a guaranteed counter. Honestly, I don't know how to counter Shadow right now; I used to run an AoE spell for 4 mana, but I've stopped using it again. You struggle and struggle, but it doesn't seem to matter.

I don't play Icarus at all; at one point, I even removed the kittens out of frustration, but then I brought them back because they're too good. I use lions, mechanics, 4/3 golems, they draw cards, and then they discard themselves instead of the cards. I used to play flying swordsmen, then I switched to Hamelins to double the draw from the 3-mana draw creature, but it didn't help much.

I mainly play two Icarus for the tutor to get the evolution creature on turn four or five. I either want to trade away trash on the board with enchantments or draw Analyzing and spam, for example, a dragon. Because I've had mixed success with the dragon using the old, reliable method I used to kill Dishevelers: you dump everything you have, counter the salamander with evolve, and then go face if you can. It also sometimes helps, in the absence of Ferverntoks, to control Resonance, so you can draw two artifacts from the gold creature or not discard a useful hand after Deuce.
Three swordsmen for the general pool (although I might change that too, I need to think about it), lions and mechanics are must-haves, and I don't use golems; I found Radiants to be not so much a win condition as something utilitarian for trading or taking a bite once a year. I tried Graviwife, similar to Icarus – it's a bit better; you can trade away a strong creature, plus it draws random cards, but I've removed it for now.
In short, it varies; you need as much analysis as possible, and you probably need to fabricate what you need at the moment – Radiants, Mystics, or Analyzing.
There are a lot of options, and I often try different things; I haven't found anything super reliable yet.

It's difficult to win against hordes of weak units, even though they're individually weak. Izra also doesn't work.

What about pigs for 2? Or Lucy, although he's more suitable for unlimited gameplay.

I don't play unlimited, I logged in today to do a daily quest on Blood, but there's some guy with a Blood build running around, so I don't really feel like getting involved. As for the Pig... that's something I'll try as a last resort, if everything else doesn't work out.

Don't you really like having happy followers?

Yeah, right. Sigh. I went for a little walk today, and everyone and their brother took advantage of me.
But you can understand the bloodthirsty ones. In the rotation, they're getting screwed over, so unlimited is all that's left.

I laughed out loud at this fact – that people are seriously playing ranked with Discy, when it's all about aggressive gameplay. What's the IQ level, I wonder? Although, I guess they're just having fun and don't care about the ranking.

Don't you like happy followers very much?

I don't really want that kind of follower for the Protoss.

Well, I'm one of those who doesn't care about the rating; that's why I wanted to become a master. In unranked, I have Arcomage, Blood, Aggromancer, Storm Haven, and in ranked, I have Midtier, Grungerunk, Sylvan, and some kind of broken Portal.

So, yes, people are seriously playing and putting in the effort. They score several thousand points – either farming for Grandmaster status or a place in the leaderboard. But I suspect they're mainly farming for the latter.

People farm with both the Ginger Rune and the Control Sword.

I mainly play the Icarus deck for the tutorial on evolution, around turn four or five.

Ah, lol, I just noticed the Icarus has an effect on evolution. I've added it; let's see what happens.

Graviwaifu, similar to Icarus.

I play it too; sometimes it helps.
I encountered a Dragon on the portal only once, and surprisingly, it was an easy victory. It just didn't work out for him.

with a control sword.

And how is it working out?) I want to try it from the moment I saw the new card for 4, "they made healing on the sword!!1," but I haven't had the time yet.

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Right now, in the arena, I had a good chance of losing the Rune while playing the Sword deck, but this idiot put down Ozzy and killed himself with fatigue. He had a decent board that he could have used to overwhelm me in two turns, and I had an empty hand and 4 cards in my deck.

Haven't tried it. Only today did I finally get around to equipping a full set of Mars, but Roland is still nowhere to be found.

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And what do you think helped stop this winstreak? The guy turned out to be the brother of my ISP admin, and he called the admin to kill my connection! Can you imagine? And even though I reconnected a few seconds later and even made a move, I still got kicked with a loss because the guy also happened to be the son of the cleaner at sygames! :eek: :eek: :eek:



And if it weren't for that, I could have killed the guy on the next turn and reached a 90% winrate in the log.

Recently, after losing a match due to an annoying misplay and closing out of the game, I started thinking about this in the context of comparing it to Hearthstone. I've never been one to rage quit (nor have I ever gotten upset with players who do), but sometimes after an unpleasant loss, I just want to either quickly close the game or switch decks and start a new match.
How does Hearthstone handle this? It allows you to quickly click through and not even see the animation of you losing a star, and if you close the game, nothing special happens. This once again indirectly confirms Blizzard's attitude towards losses – they are not recorded in the statistics anywhere, unlike wins.
What does Heroes of Might and Magic do? You can't click through anything, so you "enjoy" the animation of your rating points flying away. And if you want to close the client earlier, the game will scold you the next time you log in, saying that "you forfeited the match" and that you shouldn't do that, even though your hero was already dead at the time of quitting. I'm not saying that the developers did anything wrong (in some ways, maybe it's even better), but these two approaches are illustrative. Although Heroes of Might and Magic also doesn't have loss statistics, apart from the log.

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Also, is anyone playing Sigil Rune right now? Do you think there's a place for Mysteria (the legendary card for 5 mana) in this deck? At first, I liked playing with Solmyr and throwing chain lightnings at the enemy for 4-5 damage, but then I decided that it's quite rare to be able to effectively use Mysteria. Unless you play through the new legendary golem, which I don't have.

How does Haesik feel about this? It allows you to quickly click through with the mouse and not even see the image showing that you lost a star, and so on. Plus, if you close the game, nothing special happens. This indirectly confirms Blizzard's attitude towards losses – they are not recorded anywhere in the statistics, unlike wins.

They also added an instant concede option on your side, which skips all animations and everything else, so that you get less frustrated. This is one of the most important features in the game.