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Thought it might be interesting to highlight decks the AI plays strongly.

MCTS Level 8 : firemind top decks / legacy.Counter Slivers
I have yet to beat the AI in a best of 5 games duel with the strongest challenger so far being B_Zombies_Infect_40 with which I have managed to win a measly total of 3 games so far.

LOL Sliver decks are BRUTAL.

Tell me about it! Any suggestions for strong counter decks would be most welcome.

Can be close, but my 'Way of the Empty Hand' deck works against it (Not taking into account the bug I found with Breathstealer's Crypt)

# 10 spells
4 Anvil of Bogardan
2 Breathstealer's Crypt
4 Coldsteel Heart
2 Dark Suspicions
4 Ensnaring Bridge
4 Fabricate
4 Fractured Powerstone
4 Liliana's Caress
2 Noetic Scales
2 Null Brooch

# 5 lands
4 Drowned Catacomb
6 Island
4 Nephalia Drownyard
10 Swamp
4 Tainted Isle

ShawnieBoy wrote:Can be close, but my 'Way of the Empty Hand' deck works against it (Not taking into account the bug I found with Breathstealer's Crypt)

Unfortunately it did not fare too well in an AI vs AI duel (albeit starting life = 10), which means I will have no chance!

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java -splash: -Xms512M -Xmx1024M -jar Magarena.jar --headless
--ai1 MCTS --str1 8 --deck1 "legacy.Counter Slivers.dec"
--ai2 MCTS --str2 8 --deck2 "Way of the Empty Hand"
--life 10 --games 7 --duels 1 --threads 4

=================== AI vs AI (headless) ====================
Threads : 4
Life : 10
Duels : 1
Games : 7
Using random seed 35240610642606
P1 : monte carlo tree search [8]
P2 : monte carlo tree search [8]
============================================================
Duel 1 of 1
D1 : Firemind top decks  /  legacy.Counter Slivers
D2 : Player decks  /  Way of the Empty Hand
------------------------------------------------------------
Game  Won  D1  D2  Duration
1     D1   1   0   84.99
2     D1   2   0   167.49
3     D1   3   0   319.46
4     D1   4   0   117.90
5     D1   5   0   169.36
6     D1   6   0   110.71
7     D2   6   1   454.78


What can I say, I enjoy 'different' decks - Johnny through and through

I developed a deck that's very effective vs a Bant Sliver deck...

Pure green. A few different mana accelerators (including a single mana creature enchant, often on the first sliver.) Prevent all combat damage out the ass (Spike Weaver and Dawnstrider) Lots of elvish synergy. Forestwalk. Lots of tutors -crazy flexibility (and a number of ways of getting creatures directly into play, avoiding counterspell.) A graveyard draw option. A reusable nuke option (Silklash Spider,) that doesn't touch your own creatures, if the opponent plays a Galerider Sliver.

It often gets going around single digit life, and is kinda slow in terms of finishing off the opponent, but with any half-reasonable draw, you're never in any danger.

# 18 spells
2 Acidic Slime
3 Birthing Pod
4 Dawnstrider
2 Elvish Champion
2 Elvish Harbinger
4 Ensnaring Bridge
2 Fauna Shaman
1 Hua Tuo, Honored Physician
2 Immaculate Magistrate
2 Kalonian Hydra
2 Llanowar Mentor
1 Norwood Priestess
4 One with Nature
1 Silklash Spider
2 Skyshroud Poacher
1 Soul of the Harvest
3 Spike Weaver
1 Vigor

# 1 lands
20 Forest

I think this is a neat kind of puzzle challenge. Figuring out not only what deck works against a particularily strong opponent but is also played well by AI.

This thread gave me the motivation to add a feature to firemind.ch that I was contemplating for a while: Deck Challenges

Each user can only submit one deck to participate in the challenge and whoever gets the highest win percentage wins the challenge.

I added this sliver deck as the first challenge: https://www.firemind.ch/deck_challenges/1

Let me know what you think (and if you can beat my 8-Rack deck )