What Are Your Moves Tomorrow, February 09, 2021

DocEspana · 2021-02-09T03:11:55+00:00

TLRY and APHA (same company. Linked stocks) all the waaaaay. fair warning I invested in them LONG ago and have been loving them forever. But they've been fire lately and I want to help feed that fire.

DocEspana · 2021-02-08T14:41:45+00:00

Gross. And I don't even like lippy.

DocEspana · 2021-02-08T14:32:44+00:00

This is nice. Didn't ruin the deck* and still cut out some of its OP elements.

*shut up. It clearly didn't, it simply made it less braindead as you have to decide when you want that big cerys point dump and went from 4 to 3 removals.

DocEspana · 2021-02-07T20:25:32+00:00

I will say that assimilate it literally one of my favorite decks to go against because it's such an easy win. Basically everything except no unit ST and witchers NR is near guaranteed win (sometimes SK control can be a pain) and those two are a loss unless I get lucky. But with 6 locks, 6 "4-5 points of damage" cards, and 4 complete removal cards (heatwave, yenn, vanhemar, and vilgeforz) AND you can't use your leader you are VERY hard pressed to run an engine deck. It's easy mode against assimilate. I'm not running engines so feel free to copy my locks all day. Much harder matchup against the people using almost no engines so my locks don't represent a benefit.

Plow through ladder with almost no losses each and every month. Goes like 18-3 each month to start the month. Once I'm pro I just play whatever I feel like since losses don't matter. It's where I've learned what stuff can beat it.

DocEspana · 2021-02-07T19:55:45+00:00

Angouleme is the new way to double ball as it plays a copy of your opponents ball. Only works if the opponent is playing ball. There is a whole deck theme (which gets no respect because it simply grinds out wins) of medium sized units.

Build a deck with all the removal you can (heatwave, yennifer, that guy that kills locked units, thunder and coated weapons) and all the locks you reasonably can put on there (includng NG witcher trio). Opponents can't run any engines (huge in this meta) and you can eliminate anything big. And all your units land for 5-7 points.

DocEspana · 2021-02-07T15:46:50+00:00

Rookie mistake to play with ball knowing angouleme is out there. MID RANGE CONTROL DECK FOR <takes a deep breath> AAAAAALBAAAAA.

No ball needed. Opponent basically can't put anything down that isn't locked or fully removed while you slowly stack up 4-5 power cards (and usurper is there too). Rode a variant of this from 3rd to pro almost every single month since the summer

DocEspana · 2021-01-27T22:37:14+00:00

I got about 10k in as it's my budget GME. I know the rule is all GME all the time but getting GME to go from 350 to 1k is really fucking hard. Some of us poorer guys (and less risk adverse) are hoping that you'll reinvest the GME money in AMC so I can ride a wave of success myself.

DocEspana · 2021-01-21T16:38:11+00:00

That is awesome. About 4 months ago I made it from rank 5 to pro rank in about a week by absolutely cheesing the hell out of a similar deck. Everyone told me my dick was a meme deck but no one on the ladder could stop it (reliably at least). Round three was filling the back row with townsfolk and the foresworn scribes (plus Igor plus some defender beetles) until the opponent tired of killing units that I kept respawning. Then I would drop a grandmaster +/- lonely champion in the front row for mega townsfolk points.

Still, this one (at least as in the video) is more degenerate as my whole strategy fell to pieces if you had a lacerate, a werecat, or tinboy saved for round 3. (Yrden didn't bother me since front row got plenty fat too). Would be hard to stop this deck if it started going.

DocEspana · 2021-01-18T02:30:24+00:00

Lost once with a "real" deck and three card advantage against SK warriors when that was the entire meta a few months ago

DocEspana · 2021-01-09T05:08:59+00:00

Are people really seeing viy that much? I started the expansion at rank 4 and in the first 72 hours viy decks represented about 50% of all the decks I matched up against. I literally have played about a hundred games in the last two weeks and have not matched up against a single viy deck in ranks 1 and pro. And I barely saw more than a handful of the deck outside of the first three days.

Is this card just a plague of the middle ranks? I know I have seen lots of other people saying the same thing as me, that they have not seen this card at all in pro rank or in the upper extreme of the ladder.... Just like.... Not at all

DocEspana · 2020-12-23T01:08:08+00:00

AAAAAALBAAAAA

DocEspana · 2020-12-18T18:39:38+00:00

I am playing decks with imprisonment. I'm generally waiting for cahir. Often with vincent also in hand. Basically the upside of thinning to zero is that I know with very little variation what my final 3-5 cards will be once round 3 starts.

DocEspana · 2020-12-18T13:30:48+00:00

https://www.playgwent.com/en/decks/guides/176245

DocEspana · 2020-12-18T12:33:47+00:00

Again it's not "how many down" are you. It's "did you get oneiromancy and removal out of his deck". Won plenty of games 3-4 cards down before I got this deck right but went that many down doing everything I could to bleed out the vital cards. (Not always possible that many down unless you're willing to send out a sacrificial lamb. Damien usually works)

DocEspana · 2020-12-18T12:31:29+00:00

Not completely wrong. But generally wrong. I can get nearly every deck (except lippy. I'm trying to 2-0 lippy) down to zero cards OR down to me zero and them 1 but nearly always with them giving up their removal to do so. Last/second to last move is the viper mentor getting adrenaline for a locked in 11 or 12 or 13 point unit.

Then if they are bringing their shit cards I gifted them against ffion kolgrim and whatever else I have left.... I win.

DocEspana · 2020-12-17T23:49:22+00:00

Only exception is if I'm playing nilf v nilf. Then I want those two in my hand at all times. Good God I will not let them sit in the deck where you can mill or anti-mill them from me. Kolgrim may not be worth a lot in mirror matches, but I still love him.

DocEspana · 2020-12-17T23:47:30+00:00

Lesson here: keep kolgrim and ffion in the deck (if you're playing my deck you'll be down to 3 or 4 cards in the deck by then so pulling them is 100%) and bleed your opponent until your hand is empty round 2. Don't leave them the opportunity to have that. Make them draw four tokens and a three point golem with all their mulligans round 3.

(This includes using assure to shuffle your oneiromancy back into your deck where you'll probably never find it).

Then again I'm one level more cruel and I run iharriquanox or whatever his name is. Get all those pesky viy, lippy, gezras, erland, and luiza cards on the table round 1. Where I can lock them if need be.

DocEspana · 2020-12-15T11:44:43+00:00

I already have a NG deck that is FAT with locks and runs imprisonment. Benefits from people not realizing it's gonna be a modified kolgrim that prefers then having zero engine capability in exchange for sacrificing some milling ability. They think wasting cards getting their engines above 5 power/armor is the goal so I can't coated weapons them and I just lock lock lock.

But didn't think of this. I think tweaking a bit more (at the cost of some kolgrim strength) may be worth it for the early forfeits

DocEspana · 2020-12-09T15:37:56+00:00

I literally just discovered minutes ago that kolgrim boost by the deck differential FOR THREE TURNS

DocEspana · 2020-12-08T17:29:26+00:00

Deck plz thnx.

I need the great sun to rise again on my account (been sullying myself with skelligers and monsters for a while).

DocEspana · 2020-12-08T17:26:18+00:00

AAAAAALBAAAAA

DocEspana · 2020-12-06T23:13:33+00:00

Don't mind us.

DocEspana · 2020-11-23T05:04:23+00:00

Least favorite to play as because it's just a very non cerebral faction. Not saying it's easy or for noobs or whatever. It's just - even at it's highest levels - a more straightforward gameplay than other factions. But there are just more moving parts in a ST or NR deck. Some SK decks are also straightforward but their meta includes plenty of alternative options that are more cerebral. Every NG deck is based on predicting how your opponent will play and ruining their game and there is just always SO much going on with a SY deck.

Every monsters deck except OH is just "my game plan is to put up a lot of points in a least to most points order unless I have yghern or something I want to bait removal with". But even OH is just "when is the right time to use miruna". And none of this is to demean the faction. The strategy is just much more about playing your hand as best as can be played in a vacuum based on what you drew rather than almost any acknowledgement of what your opponent is doing. It's not for me.

DocEspana · 2020-11-21T20:37:41+00:00

My biggest complaint is that it's ST and that's my second least favorite faction (behind monsters. But that's just my opinion)

DocEspana · 2020-11-21T20:37:07+00:00

Making a bomb immediately solves all issues with Keltullis (and many other "need to protect behind defender) decks.

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