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Title: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: Nameless on October 10, 2011, 06:23:16 PM: What do you think and what would be in it?
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: Bobbert on October 10, 2011, 06:32:59 PM: Probably Standalone, Egyptians, or Phillies.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: lightningninja on October 10, 2011, 06:41:27 PM: Egyptians or Magicians or combined.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: SomeKittens on October 10, 2011, 06:53:47 PM: Quote from: Thomas Hunter on October 10, 2011, 06:32:59 PM
Probably Standalone, Egyptians, or Phillies.
Phillies took quite a beating this year, I don't think they'll find their way into top decks.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: lightningninja on October 10, 2011, 06:57:34 PM: Definitely not as the fastest or best. Smallest, possibly they can get 1-2 pretty consistent blocks, but that's about it.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: CJSports on October 10, 2011, 08:59:33 PM: I still love my philistine/demon defense. If anyone can beat that defense with that small of a scale. It is so small and so effective. The best really small this year is probably standalone or magicians. I find egyptians good for speed and soul generation but don't pull of enough blocks for me.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: BubbleBoy on October 10, 2011, 09:17:09 PM: Romans/Pharisees.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: Red Dragon Thorn on October 10, 2011, 10:04:11 PM: Gomer
Uzzah
TAS
KoT
Sabbath Breaker
Haman's Plot
King Manny
Damsel W/ Divination
Magic Charms
Unholy Writ.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: Nameless on October 11, 2011, 08:22:35 AM: Quote from: Neil Da BOMB J on October 10, 2011, 09:11:46 PM
Definitely Samuel and Genesis for more balanced speed.
That's offense i am talking about defense.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: SomeKittens on October 11, 2011, 06:32:49 PM: Quote from: Red Dragon Thorn on October 10, 2011, 10:04:11 PM
Gomer
Uzzah
TAS
KoT
Sabbath Breaker
Haman's Plot
King Manny
Damsel W/ Divination
Magic Charms
Unholy Writ.
Not a single card from 2011. When will this change?
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: Chronic Apathy on October 11, 2011, 06:35:13 PM: Israelite Royalty is an extremely potent anti-meta, and it has a bit of everything: Sitelock, decrease, the best EE in the game, etc.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: CJSports on October 11, 2011, 06:36:41 PM: That defense is still probably to big for a small defense.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: SomeKittens on October 11, 2011, 06:37:39 PM: I agree that it's incredibly powerful, but it doesn't have much speed, and it doesn't work when small.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: Chronic Apathy on October 11, 2011, 06:38:41 PM: Oops, I missed "small". My vote is Egyptians for speediest and smallest, Babylonians for most effective at actual blocking, and Assyrians for most effective at other abilities (soul generation, territory discard, etc).
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: Red Dragon Thorn on October 11, 2011, 07:23:36 PM: Quote from: SomeKittens on October 11, 2011, 06:32:49 PM
Quote from: Red Dragon Thorn on October 10, 2011, 10:04:11 PM
Gomer
Uzzah
TAS
KoT
Sabbath Breaker
Haman's Plot
King Manny
Damsel W/ Divination
Magic Charms
Unholy Writ.
Not a single card from 2011. When will this change?

When it stops working. I've used a variation on that defense since 2009. I think it lost all of 10 games over two years.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: Chronic Apathy on October 11, 2011, 07:28:00 PM: I don't think that's going to be as viable this year. Too much CBN banding and enhancements, artifact/character discard, and prevention of evil abilities.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: lightningninja on October 11, 2011, 09:12:28 PM: I agree. I think it could work, and you'd win a good amount of games, but there are still more viable options.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: Red Wing on October 12, 2011, 03:41:32 PM: Quote from: Nameless on October 10, 2011, 06:23:16 PM
What do you think and what would be in it?

Grey still has a large amount of draw abilities, but I think that an Egyptian defense would smaller and maybe faster.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: SomeKittens on October 12, 2011, 04:01:25 PM: Egyptians can draw more off of one block than any other defense. Even more so in T2.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: Rawrlolsauce! on October 12, 2011, 04:03:03 PM: The defense Olijar posted right after I convinced him Belshazzar's Banquet was top %. With like 1 change.
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: SomeKittens on October 12, 2011, 04:15:56 PM: Belshazzar?
Title: Re: What do you think will be the smallest,speediest and best D this year
Post by: Rawrlolsauce! on October 12, 2011, 04:20:12 PM: I don't know what needs to be changed. But he built it, so I'm sure I could improve it :-*.