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One Eye, Two Threats - Worldeater 2015 3rd Place


  • Atrus, BayushiSezaru, AriceJ and 1 other like this


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Fall Back becomes more of a necessity if you are running SWP because more battles will be happening and it is far easier to have your synapse get damaged in that case.  Running 1 might not be a terrible idea in your deck, as saving a Genestealer can be a scary surprise for your opponent when he commits so much to dealing with them.

Yeah, I dropped an HVC for one in the end. It's situationally useful, but in the right situation it can be the game. There's also an amusing niche situation where the Polluter can be saved by Fall Back, which also resets him to readied, thus allowing him to trigger No Mercy.

How is HVC doing in this deck?

Excellent, we've been chatting about this a lot, and my friend's deck looks very similar and performs very well.

 

As said, I'd be inclined to get at least 2 Fall Backs in there in place of 2 No Mercies, and to switch back the Tyranid Warriors for another copy of each of the Elites. 

 

Let us know how your win ratio goes: knowing that you're a good enough player to meaningfully test a deck like this is useful, and it'd be good to see how this deck pans out.

 

Right now, my friend's deck looks to be decently strong against every warlord save Kith, and actually VERY strong against some warlords. Of coruse Kith-weakness is probably a dealbreaker in the current meta...

It's working well so far, but my meta is too small for that to prove much sadly.

 

HVC is like most 2-shield cards, i.e. it's usually shields, but occasionally it is very useful. It gives a bit more swarm defence (Spore Sacs and Harpy exhaust being the other options) and generally turns the Harpy into a) even more of a beast than it already is B) potentially pretty dangerous even on an uninfested planet. Because of the ease with which OOE/Polluter can usually trigger Y'Varn (and other economy planets, not to mention contest early-game command) it's possible to play HVC more often than you might imagine (obviously not on all planet flops).

 

I really like the No Mercies - especially as OOE is often upstream, and it makes that Ymgarl a serious WL threat. The other things is it can be used to exhaust OOE even on turns where he otherwise wouldn't. I think there may be some merit in playing around with the Tyranid Warrior slot to instead get the Elites in hand more consistently. That said, I have found the Warriors to be pretty impressive in this deck because of the command manipulation Polluter can pull, and because they do actually pack decent combat punch.

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NM. Asked question in the relevant forum thread.

How do you plant to include the Striking Raveners in the deck? Would you change one of your current elites for it, or the Tyranid Warriors will be the goners?

I'm going to try replacing Warriors at first, though we'll have to see if the economy struggles against some top tier decks as a result. Hopefully some other options for command weenies will also appear at some point e.g. a 1 drop that actually does something for OOE.
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chilligreen
Jan 01 2016 02:18 PM

I'm going to try replacing Warriors at first, though we'll have to see if the economy struggles against some top tier decks as a result. Hopefully some other options for command weenies will also appear at some point e.g. a 1 drop that actually does something for OOE.

 

How do you find this deck now? Made many tweaks since the list above? I've been playing around with a couple of options. I'm still a bit wary of having so many 5+ cost units tying up economy if Y'varn doesn't turn up.

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TwelvGaugeApostl
Jan 15 2016 01:01 PM

Now that Striking rav's are out, how would you rate between them, Warriors and Ymgarl's? How many would you squeeze in and instead of what?

How can the Deck be updated with the entire plantfall cycle? Is it a tier 1 deck now?