New quest decks

[Nordos]

mhm... If it's too complicated, well, dunno...

Anyway, do we have a simple deck around flying? I tried to build one:

"flyers" | Open

4 Tundra
4 Sprite Noble
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Celestial Colonnade
2 Jace's Phantasm
4 Ornithopter
4 Favorable Winds
4 Hallowed Fountain
4 Warden of Evos Isle
4 Cloudfin Raptor
4 Windreader Sphinx
4 Sublime Archangel
4 Aven Squire
2 Suntail Hawk
4 Nimbus Maze
4 Angel of Jubilation

I don't know if I got all good flyers or if I missed some

[Sloth]

We have the following decks based on flying:

WU Radiant 2-3 (flying creature deck with Radiant, Archangel, Gravitational Shift and Moat)
WUR Abraham Lincoln 3 (flying creatures deck with Flamebreak and Earthquake=
WU Raven 3 (WU Spirit deck)

Maybe you can make a mono U one?

[Nordos]

"WB Heroic" | Open

4 Fabled Hero
2 Gift of Immortality
4 Emerge Unscathed
4 Agent of the Fates
4 Tormented Hero
10 Plains
7 Swamp
4 Angelic Destiny
2 Indestructibility
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Marsh Flats
4 Virulent Swipe
4 Phalanx Leader
4 Gift of Orzhova
2 Shadow Lance

Hmm... How about that kind of deck? Maybe not enough creatures? I included Gift of Immortality and Indestructibility in order to let the creatures survive...

[Sloth]

"WB Heroic" | Open

4 Fabled Hero
2 Gift of Immortality
4 Emerge Unscathed
4 Agent of the Fates
4 Tormented Hero
10 Plains
7 Swamp
4 Angelic Destiny
2 Indestructibility
1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
4 Marsh Flats
4 Virulent Swipe
4 Phalanx Leader
4 Gift of Orzhova
2 Shadow Lance

Hmm... How about that kind of deck? Maybe not enough creatures? I included Gift of Immortality and Indestructibility in order to let the creatures survive...

16 creatures and 22 spells that target creatures will create very bad hands for the AI. Favored Hoplite, Setessan Battle Priest and Wingsteed Rider aren't worse than Tormented Hero.

And the AI can't use Emerge Unscathed.

I'm confident that blue is the better heroic color than black, but that doesn't mean there should be no black one.

[Nordos]

Yes, at first I thought about WBU heroic, then I actually prefered black over blue (2 things which affected my decision: blue didn't had a 1-drop which fitted into the theme and he didn't had a rebound spell. And the Agent of Fates is pretty awesome for the AI, IMO, since it actually opens a 'path' for the creatures of the AI.
As I said, I wasn't quite sure whetever to reduce the spells and increase the creatures. I will try to build some other Heroic decks, too (maybe WB with a possibilite to bounce it's own enchantments back to his hand?)

[Sloth]

blue didn't had a 1-drop which fitted into the theme and he didn't had a rebound spell.

Distortion Strike is the best rebound spell for Heroic.

[Nordos]

huh? I totally missed that one o.O Ok. Gotta redo it for sure

"WU heroic" | Open

2 Spirit Mantle
4 Tundra
2 Triton Fortune Hunter
2 Artisan of Forms
4 Fabled Hero
4 Triton Tactics
4 Favored Hoplite
4 Glacial Fortress
2 Wavecrash Triton
4 Distortion Strike
5 Plains
4 Flooded Strand
2 Angelic Destiny
4 Phalanx Leader
4 Aqueous Form
4 Battlewise Hoplite
5 Island

hm.

[Sloth]

"WU heroic" | Open

2 Spirit Mantle
4 Tundra
2 Triton Fortune Hunter
2 Artisan of Forms
4 Fabled Hero
4 Triton Tactics
4 Favored Hoplite
4 Glacial Fortress
2 Wavecrash Triton
4 Distortion Strike
5 Plains
4 Flooded Strand
2 Angelic Destiny
4 Phalanx Leader
4 Aqueous Form
4 Battlewise Hoplite
5 Island

hm.

The AI can't use Triton Tactics and Artisan of Forms very well. Here is the result of some testing and diversifying:

Bilbo Baggins 2 | Open

4 Tundra
4 Glacial Fortress
4 Seachrome Coast
1 Wanderwine Hub
4 Flooded Strand
4 Plains
2 Island
4 Favored Hoplite
2 Battlewise Hoplite
3 Phalanx Leader
2 Setessan Battle Priest
3 Triton Fortune Hunter
1 Wavecrash Triton
4 Fabled Hero
4 Distortion Strike
1 Angelic Destiny
1 Chosen by Heliod
1 Divine Favor
2 Ethereal Armor
1 Hero's Resolve
2 Hyena Umbra
1 Nimbus Wings
2 Spectral Flight
2 Spirit Mantle
1 Wings of Aesthir
1 Wings of Hope

[Sloth]

Here is a mono red artifact deck.

Robot Santa 3 | Open

16 Mountain|SOM
4 Great Furnace
1 Mox Ruby
4 Memnite
3 Signal Pest
4 Frogmite
3 Myr Enforcer
4 Oxidda Golem
2 Etched Champion
4 Cranial Plating
4 Whipflare
4 Galvanic Blast
4 Lightning Bolt
1 Pillage
1 Hammer of Purphoros
1 Blood Moon

[Nordos]

Mono Black deck whith creatures who don't go to the graveyard and Endless Whispers

"They return" | Open

2 Hero's Downfall
4 Endless Whispers
2 Dread
4 Bitterblossom
4 Endless Cockroaches
2 Undying Beast
4 Demonlord of Ashmouth
24 Swamp
4 Magus of the Abyss
2 Mortuary
4 Doom Blade
4 Go for the Throat

[Sloth]

Mono Black deck whith creatures who don't go to the graveyard and Endless Whispers

"They return" | Open

2 Hero's Downfall
4 Endless Whispers
2 Dread
4 Bitterblossom
4 Endless Cockroaches
2 Undying Beast
4 Demonlord of Ashmouth
24 Swamp
4 Magus of the Abyss
2 Mortuary
4 Doom Blade
4 Go for the Throat

I like the idea of the deck, but it's very inconsistent. It all depends on Endless Whispers. I couldn't find any other cards that profit from your creatures not going to the graveyard, but i didn't check all colors or possibilities.

[Sloth]

The AI is now ready to play a Splinter Twin combo deck:

Abe Sapien 3 | Open

4 Scalding Tarn|ZEN
4 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
4 Arid Mesa
1 Mountain|MBS
1 Island|MBS
4 Volcanic Island
2 Tundra
1 Plateau
2 Idyllic Tutor
4 Splinter Twin
4 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
4 Breaching Hippocamp
4 Village Bell-Ringer
3 Sky Hussar
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Lightning Helix
2 Spell Snare
2 Mana Leak
1 Mental Misstep
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk

[lazylockie]

The AI is now ready to play a Splinter Twin combo deck:

Abe Sapien 3 | Open

4 Scalding Tarn|ZEN
4 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
4 Arid Mesa
1 Mountain|MBS
1 Island|MBS
4 Volcanic Island
2 Tundra
1 Plateau
2 Idyllic Tutor
4 Splinter Twin
4 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
4 Breaching Hippocamp
4 Village Bell-Ringer
3 Sky Hussar
4 Swords to Plowshares
2 Lightning Bolt
2 Lightning Helix
2 Spell Snare
2 Mana Leak
1 Mental Misstep
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk

I would suggest more combo protection and less removal. Doesn't matter if you (human) have a fattie as long as AI can combo next turn.

doesn't need to be Counterspell, because AI will throw this in front of the first thing it sees, but something more subtle like Dispel, Rebuff the Wicked, Mizzium Skin.

[Sloth]

I would suggest more combo protection and less removal. Doesn't matter if you (human) have a fattie as long as AI can combo next turn.

doesn't need to be Counterspell, because AI will throw this in front of the first thing it sees, but something more subtle like Dispel, Rebuff the Wicked, Mizzium Skin.

Good points. Here is an updated list:

Abe Sapien 3 | Open

4 Scalding Tarn|ZEN
4 Polluted Delta
3 Flooded Strand
4 Arid Mesa
1 Mountain|MBS
1 Island|MBS
4 Volcanic Island
2 Tundra
1 Plateau
2 Idyllic Tutor
4 Splinter Twin
4 Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
4 Breaching Hippocamp
4 Village Bell-Ringer
3 Sky Hussar
2 Swords to Plowshares
1 Lightning Bolt
2 Lightning Helix
2 Spell Snare
2 Mana Leak
1 Mental Misstep
1 Rebuff the Wicked
1 Dispel
1 Turn Aside
1 Ancestral Recall
1 Time Walk

[serrasmurf]

Hi,
I really like the Sorin vs. Tibalt matches in the quest challenges.
Any chance we can add some more of those?
KR