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Title: New staples
Post by: xCaLeBx on August 08, 2009, 07:44:40 PM: so after the set what do you think will become some fairly common staples In my tourney deck my staples because of the new set are:
Mayhem
Grapes of Wrath
Three Nail
A Child is Born

what are yours?
Title: Re: New staples
Post by: Red Dragon Thorn on August 08, 2009, 07:49:19 PM: Nails Makes sense, But ACiB doens't, you'd be much better off with AoCP, it does everything ACiB does and more. Other than that I agree, Mayhem may see more play in multi-player than 2 player.
Title: Re: New staples
Post by: xCaLeBx on August 08, 2009, 07:51:47 PM: AoCP would kill your human EC's ACiB kills only demons leaving you with a defense
Title: Re: New staples
Post by: Red Dragon Thorn on August 08, 2009, 08:17:09 PM: Protection Fortress for the win, (Unless you're playing Romans or something.)
Title: Re: New staples
Post by: adamfincher on August 08, 2009, 09:50:22 PM: Quote from: Red Dragon Thorn on August 08, 2009, 08:17:09 PM
Protection Fortress for the win, (Unless you're playing Romans or something.)
romans need protection :/
Title: Re: New staples
Post by: redemption99 on August 08, 2009, 10:22:28 PM: Quote from: adamfincher on August 08, 2009, 09:50:22 PM
Quote from: Red Dragon Thorn on August 08, 2009, 08:17:09 PM
Protection Fortress for the win, (Unless you're playing Romans or something.)
romans need protection :/

yes they do.
Title: Re: New staples
Post by: Alex_Olijar on August 09, 2009, 02:26:40 AM: They only won Nationals without it.
Title: Re: New staples
Post by: The Guardian on August 09, 2009, 05:02:21 AM: Although Grapes comes close, I'm not sure any card in TexP is truly a staple. While I could see it becoming closer and closer to being a staple as more people use demons, I don't think 3 Nails is a staple either simply because the threat of it makes people wary of playing all demons and consequently they aren't dominant. Kind of similar to how banding defenses never became dominant in the days when AoCP was the only way to beat them--the threat of AoC kept people from using banding defense exclusively.

Although there's many cards that find their way into most of my decks, the only ones I can safely say have been in every serious deck are Son of God, New Jerusalem, Angel of the Lord and Christian Martyr;, beyond those I believe every slot in the deck to be open.
Title: Re: New staples
Post by: redemption99 on August 09, 2009, 07:45:37 AM: Quote from: Alex_Olijar on August 09, 2009, 02:26:40 AM
They only won Nationals without it.

I know they won type 1 last year without it but i don't remember facing a type 2 using them. 5 times aoc promo can get annoying if they have ET. =/
Title: Re: New staples
Post by: sk on August 09, 2009, 07:58:00 AM: I tried Romans for T2 at Nats (the numerous end the battle options seemed like a good idea at the time), and only lost Emperors in territory to AoCp twice -- the color guard lost soul is very useful and often forgotten about. Had I not tried the dual-color defense, it might have actually won a few battles :)
Title: Re: New staples
Post by: redemption99 on August 09, 2009, 08:43:09 AM: yea i decided to bump my emperor deck up to 105 so i could add perganum/color guard just because if AoC does happen then it wipes ya out for a while.