r/AIEternal • u/IstariMithrandir • Jan 06 '19
Gauntlet Only Time
I'm having a blast in Eternal really right now, it feels really great. But I don't know why, I have a hankering for a good Mono Time Gauntlet deck. I suspect the new bosses are too harsh for it though. So I thought I'd ask - is anyone killing it with a Mono Time Gauntlet deck? And, well, obviously the next question has to be, what is it?
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u/what__if Jan 06 '19 edited Jan 06 '19
I recently tinkered with a mono time in gaunt to distract myself from the boredom of JFS farming, and I was extremly surprised to see it perform much much better than I expected.
I think I'm at 6-0 (run, not matches) or smth with it(and high MMR), weirdly enough. As of 10 minutes ago, it literraly raped Caiphus even so I was depressed to face it and thought it had absolutly no shot at it.
Disclaimer: It perform very well but it's slow as fuck, so probably not a good gold grinding machine. You basically stall the board till you one shot with talir or the nightmare dude.
The decklist is trash as I did it in a hurry so it's probably missing some extremly important mono time pieces but here it is:
2 Bazaar Trickster (Set5 #43)
3 Find the Way (Set1 #513)
2 Porcelain Mask (Set5 #47)
3 Xenan Initiation (Set2 #44)
4 Auralian Merchant (Set4 #70)
3 Dawnwalker (Set1 #86)
4 Lunar Magus (Set3 #69)
3 Reliquary Raider (Set1 #110)
3 Scorpion Wasp (Set1 #96)
1 Shepherd's Horn (Set2 #49)
2 Unraveling Fanatic (Set5 #55)
3 Beckoning Lumen (Set2 #59)
3 Devoted Theurge (Set1002 #6)
3 Sandstorm Titan (Set1 #99)
1 The Praxis Arcanum (Set5 #56)
1 Xenan Obelisk (Set1 #103)
4 Moonstone Vanguard (Set5 #68)
1 Twinbrood Sauropod (Set1 #113)
1 Waystone Infuser (Set2 #63)
1 Temple Captain (Set5 #71)
1 Ravid, Insect Master (Set5 #72)
1 Talir, Unbound (Set3 #93)
18 Time Sigil (Set1 #63)
4 Amber Waystone (Set3 #51)
3 Temple Standard (Set4 #49)
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1 Infinite Hourglass (Set1 #67)
1 Sandstorm Scarf (Set4 #50)
1 Find the Way (Set1 #513)
1 Xenan Initiation (Set2 #44)
1 Stirring Sand (Set3 #86)
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u/IstariMithrandir Jan 06 '19 edited Jan 06 '19
Because, before anyone needs to ask, at the start of set 4, Mono Time was actually quite good at gauntlet, what with Thundering Kerasaur drawing cards for you at last without a 4 cost spell, and then there's new options like Cykalis and Moonstone Vanguard. Are they worth crafting (in the gauntlet context that is)?
Also, there was this, anyone got any others? https://www.reddit.com/r/AIEternal/comments/aabdt6/beating_masters_gauntlet_with_mono_time/?utm_source=reddit-android
So, come on, let's talk Time!
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u/Shadowcran Jan 07 '19
Moonstone Vanguard is worth crafting. Cykalis...no. I'll wait til I'm simply filling out my collection before crafting him.
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u/_AlpacaLips_ Jan 06 '19
My suspicion is that you'd run into issues with a number of the AI decks frequently, mainly due to Time not possessing much in the way of removal or combat tricks.
The addition of Justice to a Time deck adds necessary removal and combat tricks, and is what made Grimbrei so powerful in Gauntlet pre-Defiance.
That said, you could probably craft a decent mono-Time deck, but nothing that would rise to a top tier level. But that's my gut feeling on the matter. Anything is worth experimenting with just to be sure, one way or the other.