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Rolth

Campeur

Inscription : 24-10-2011

Messages : 76

The Pack Deck - Help is Appreciated!

Characters:

[card]Fenrath[/card]
[card]BloodSword[/card] (+ warrior attack version)
[card]Wild[/card]

Cards:
[card]Bestial[/card] x3 - Gives a chain on Fenrath and otherwise has attack +3
[card]Blood ties[/card] x1 - Attack +3 as well, also the damage to the other characters gives them min attack +1
[card]Dirty Trick[/card] x3 - Gives +1 defence and chains with any Zil card, mostly used for Heads or tails to give +4
[card]Fly off the handle[/card] x3 - attack +2 and chains with any Zil card
[card]Heads or tails[/card] x3 - Used after Dirty Trick
[card]Lunation[/card] x3 - With all three out on an odd turn gives attack +3 and defence +6
[card]Smart Ass[/card] x1 - Mainly just used to get a chain
[card]Wanted![/card] x1 - I just got this card actually so I haven't used it very much yet, but this seems like a good card because of the chain as well as a nice survial tool
[card]Weapon Dance[/card] x1 - Used as a chain card
[card]With Evil Intentions[/card] x1 - I also just earned this card, but it seems useful for healing as well as a debuff.

Other options for my deck include an additional [card]Blood ties[/card], [card]Dances with Volk[/card] x1, [card]Distracted[/card] x1, [card]Oh, I'm Good![/card] x1, [card]Taming the Beast[/card] x3, [card]The Howls[/card] x3, and [card]Weapon Dance[/card] x2.

I do not use Dances because it tends to make my games last longer and I do not always win unless the other person has low health and defence on the turn I play it. I do not use Oh, I'm Good! because it just doesn't seem to help me at all. I could easily switch Taming for Heads. It seems like every time I use Taming I end up wanting the extra attack and every time I use Heads I want more defence... I can't find a good use for Howls at all. At the best I can get a second attack at 5 physical damage but that does not happen until turn 4 and then if they kill the character on that turn then at the best I can get 4 damage. Plus, Kotoba decks using Imperial Armor just kill this effect.

I have all of the core cards included, but I feel like this deck does not flow as well as I had hoped. It seems like I lost a chain by not using [card]Faceless[/card] and can't seem to pick it back up. Also, I often end up with 5 cards that I can't chain at all on the 1st turn. Suggestions? I've noticed that I have trouble against Compendium decks and healing decks. And of course I still can't kill [card]Foam Giant[/card]...

TheUnsane

Habitant de Guem

Inscription : 02-10-2011

Messages : 234

Re : The Pack Deck - Help is Appreciated!

the pack is going to have problems with mages, compendium just rip em a new one with crystal storm, really the only hope is to 1 shot em early before they dragon armor everyone... I wish there was a good use for the howls but i can't see one it needs sumthin else to add synergy.....

not using Dances seems silly it wins me plenty of games keeping fenrath or the character with 2 lunations aequiped alive is vital and sometimes you get lucky and still hit high and finish off the opponent.

I find all is fair in love... and war to be a better combo than dirty trick + heads or tails.... also they can be used apart to some effect.

I'd drop smart ass,weapon dance and wanted...

heres what I've been using I do ok in the level rooms

Fenrath Wild Bloodsword warrior buff version

not really much decision there fenrath is needed for buffing your min attack,wild for the free lunation and the damage buff when taking magic damage is the pack's only real chance against mages, well besides the compendium... and bloodsword is marginally better than faceless (when shes not on the field) dark might have her beat a little but the +1 she gives her team makes up for it, also dark doesn't synergize with the love/war combo as well til shes wounded.

3 all is fair in love...
3 and war
3 Bestial
1 clumsiness
3 Dances with Volk
3 Fly off the Handle
3 Lunation
1 Nehantic stone

i probably need more utility cards.. wild is a shadow guem... so i wonder if throwin in a shadow spell can be helpful for her...  kiss of death could be nice when 3 or 4 characters are dead... suspicion of treason can screw non mercs over sometimes...

I've toyed with the idea of using blood ties... i used 2 when i was brand new and didn't have the right cards yet.. fenrath can chain em with bestial for +6, or someone with a bestial can chain em with fly off the handle for +5... and hurting your own characters early buffs their min attack..... but using em can end up being the difference between surviving with 1 or 2 life and getting one shot.... and I'm pretty much guaranteed a loss if fenrath or a character with 2 lunations gets 1 shot in the first 3 turns...

ive tried the amenzy tourny by switch love and war for dirty trick/heads or tails and bloodsword for dark, but i just get slaughtered there.... did see a couple people last week with over 1600 elo using the pack... beat one of em... so im not sure what they are doin that im not..

all and all I seem to get slaughtered by compendium and circus. other mages are a tough fight usually in their favor kotoba seem to be evenly matched,sap comes doin to luck of the draw.. if you go first and draw a lunation their elfine's second attacks are crap, but on the slip side if they go first and hypnotic melody - quick draw, bye bye fenrath.... immortals are a pain often comes down to luck on how hard I'll hit once dance drops my min to 0 thankfully i almost always win via damage when everyone is dead..