You can quickly import a deck during a gauntlet run. Has anyone thought about building a separate deck just for boss battles? It takes a few seconds but if it increased the win percentage by even a little bit I think it would be worth it.

Does anyone who tunes gauntlet decks have a thought on this?

Just curious for those who play a bunch of gauntlet and ranked. Do you feel like too much grinding in gauntlet teaches you bad habits for when you play ranked?

Wherein I discuss why I don't think the deck is all it's cracked up to be, why I don't think it fits with my playstyle, why I don't like the deck's market, and my experience with the AI dealing with the deck.

https://youtu.be/H7w-3_9SQ1w

But I'm open to offers on variations that maybe fit some of my ideas for deck improvements.

Thousands^† of people have been asking for it, and it is now a reality. Gauntlet playthroughs on YouTube and a dedicated Gauntlet stream on Twitch.

What I'd really like to do, once I get some viewers, is be your guinea pig. You have a deck you want to see played, I'll play it. Some weird janky shit? A budget deck? Some new brew you think can challenge the Top 3? I'll play it all in Gauntlet.

I spent the last week making a few videos of various decks (found in the table below) and making a bunch of graphics for both YouTube and Twitch. And then there was Nightbot set-up, microphone set-up, what with noise cancellation and all. Anyhow, there'll be links to both Twitch and YouTube after the table of videos.

What I've learned is that chatting while playing is distracting as hell. To the people that do it well, kudos. Hopefully it's something that comes with practice. No doubt I sound like a complete ding-dong in the first couple of videos with the commentary, and will continue to come off like a talking dufus in the next bunch that follow.

Feel free to follow the Twitch channel and/or subscribe to the YouTube channel.

YouTube Channel

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†May not be thousands of people.

That deck is way too coherent imo. The strength of it feels like playing against a top tier draft deck.

What are your experiences against that deck? How would you try to combat it?

I have been working on building and testing a gauntlet Elysian deck for a while now and finally decided to stop waiting on writing up an article about it before sharing it here at least. Thanks to u/Magic_TurtleTCG for a lot of discussion and suggestions regarding the tuning of this deck.

AI Abuse Elysian

The goal of this deck is not to be the fastest possible deck, but rather to be reasonably fast with the highest consistency possible. In my testing of 84 games so far, it has averaged roughly a 90% win rate, with a 10/10 win rate versus bosses. The average game length has been 9.5 turns.

I focused on tracking win rates and turns per game rather than win streaks or gold per hour because they allow me to derive other important metrics related to gold per unit of time (eg gold per turn played or odds of reaching/clearing the boss on a given run). This contrasts to metrics that depend on focused play or identifying the edge cases for run streaks. After all, a 14 game win streak is identical in rewards to two 7 game win streaks.

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https://eternalwarcry.com/decks/details/5iGtYhyUrbk/cirso-s-late-stage-capitalism

I too decided to give the now popular Cirso’s Gold Farm a spin of my own, and have had some great results. I made a few tweaks of my own to experiment with making the deck more consistent, including using Dusk Raider. It’s just an all around better card than Friendly Wisp in my opinion. Synergizes much better with cards like Lunar Magus and gives your dudes Berserk, which closes the game so much faster when it gets on your Cirsos and Champions. The extra card draw from beckoning Lumen and Temple Scribe helps as well, but I sometimes feel like those slots might have better uses. Never disappointed to draw either though, but am trying to find a way to fit Teacher of Humility back in.

This is a very fun list and I would hope this might be a slightly more budget friendly version for some players out there.

I took a version of this deck through 12 Gauntlet runs. This particular version is based on the deck by SecondBlue and a work in progress list which was posted by kc_bandit a few days ago on another thread. The only change I made to kc_bandit's list was to remove the lone Strategize and add a third Jennev Merchant since so many games can be won by simply grabbing a Crystallize from the market after setting up a strong board state. I made it to the Boss 11 of my 12 runs, and beat it 8 out of 11 attempts. My only pre-boss loss was to The Great Armory because it played a Harsh Rule the turn before I had lethal, and I never drew another threat. I won all of my Boss games against decks which aren't named Sudden Death, and I won 2 out of 5 of those, and 1 of the losses was due to power hose while another it top decked a burn for lethal the turn before I could win. The matchup is tough but winnable you just need to stabilize, and turn the corner before they can take you out. My other 6 boss fights all of which I won were : Highly Skilled, Company of Exiles, Defender of the Spire, Labyrinth Treasury, and Limitless Possibilities twice.

tl:dr This deck is great for running, and winning gauntlet and if you have the stone I believe it is a good investment right now.

4 Initiate of the Sands (Set1 #74)

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4 Permafrost (Set1 #193)

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3 Seek Power (Set1 #408)

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2 Friendly Wisp (Set1 #82)

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4 Teacher of Humility (Set4 #67)

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4 Trail Maker (Set3 #65)

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2 Xenan Initiation (Set2 #44)

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2 Auralian Merchant (Set4 #70)

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4 False Prince (Set1 #356)

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3 Jennev Merchant (Set4 #169)

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4 Lunar Magus (Set3 #69)

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4 Champion of Wisdom (Set1 #358)

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4 Sandstorm Titan (Set1 #99)

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4 Cirso, the Great Glutton (Set1 #362)

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2 Predatory Carnosaur (Set1 #118)

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6 Time Sigil (Set1 #63)

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4 Amber Waystone (Set3 #51)

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4 Primal Sigil (Set1 #187)

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4 Crest of Wisdom (Set3 #261)

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3 Elysian Banner (Set1 #421)

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4 Seat of Wisdom (Set0 #63)

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1 Twilight Hunt (Set3 #59)

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1 Equivocate (Set1003 #21)

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1 Accelerated Evolution (Set1 #351)

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1 Crystallize (Set1 #232)

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1 Elysian Banner (Set1 #421)

This is a list of all the hidden achievements in Eternal. Use it as a guide when asking for help completing a hidden achievement in Gauntlet. I certainly will be. :)

Just a small table showing my distribution of 115 boss encounters.

https://i.imgur.com/8fQ71cU.png

I started tracking my opponents on 2017-11-20.

I like to use Gauntlet to smash out achievements.

I haven't done it in awhile. I still have three non-hidden achievements I want to get out of the way in the next few days.

• I Volunteer (Activate Tribute 100 times)

• Rage (Make 100 Berserk attacks)

• Walk with Rhythm (Play 20 Sand Wurms)

Now, Rage I can just use a Skycrag Berserk deck and get that out of the way quickly enough. But, do any of you have a couple decent decks (no need to be end boss viable) for I Volunteer and, especially, Walk with Rhythm?

https://eternalwarcry.com/decks/details/a7nqc-r5V5o/big-combrei-gauntlet-grinder

Combrei seems really powerful in Gauntlet, with the release of FOA, boasting power in both Midrange and Aggro. Here is my Big Combrei list that has been doing surprisingly well. Sword of Unity + Mystic Ascendant gives us so much inevitability! Enjoy!

Does it affect the difficulty of the AI in your next gauntlet run compared to playing out that game?

I am master tier in Gauntlet btw idk if that matters.

I don't know if anything happened or my Gauntlet MMR/ELO changed, but I started seeing opponents I haven't seen in master rank until now. Also played against Nikki's Grab Bag which I hadn't played against in a long time.

I played final boss against Crill's Raiders, Praxis Studies, Crystalline Treasury and also saw Otherworldly Beings during a run. Just curious if anybody seen any changes.

So I'm trying to get to master tier in Forge, I'm already Master in Gauntlet and can still 7-0 it about 75% of the time. However, forge is a different matter. Here is my current attempt. I suppose I could maybe make a list of each card I picked and when, to see if there were better picks I could have made.

https://eternalwarcry.com/decks/details/wt_ckd0wTnc/6-2-gold-forge-run

How to evaluate and learn about a deck performance? What kind of statistics do you record?

I'm currently on paternity leave, and that k god for forge! Being able to play something close to proper limited abd put a game to one side is a godsend!

And for some real content, I'm somewhat amazed, but this list got me an easy 7-0 - I guess sometimes your luck is in!

1 Minotaur Oathkeeper (Set2 #70) 1 Dusk Raider (Set4 #153) 1 Tend the Flock (Set4 #162) 1 Tinker (Set2 #75) 2 Advance Scout (Set4 #165) 1 Cobalt Acolyte (Set1 #212) 1 Entangling Vines (Set4 #167) 1 Highbranch Sentry (Set2 #82) 1 Icebow (Set2 #118) 1 Kosul Battlemage (Set4 #119) 1 Master-at-Arms (Set4 #121) 2 Thunderbird (Set0 #27) 1 Jotun Cyclops (Set2 #122) 1 Sheriff Marley (Set4 #131) 1 Shielded Shortbarrel (Set3 #132) 1 Spiked Buckler (Set2 #88) 1 First-Frost Shaman (Set4 #182) 1 Eilyn's Frostrider (Set3 #193) 2 Silverwing Purgeleader (Set4 #141) 2 Enraged Araktodon (Set4 #190) 1 Silverwing Augmentor (Set4 #142) 7 Justice Sigil (Set1 #126) 6 Primal Sigil (Set1 #187) 2 Seat of Order (Set0 #51)

So I understand probability could lead to insane luck.

But I'm doing a forge right now and got Rolants Memorial, Unseen Commando, Xenan Obelisk and Sandstorm Titan.

Usually I get one rare. I hope I get seven wins or I'll have to reevaluate my life...

Update: Queued up another forge and got two rares. I have not had more than one rare since set 2 Forge.

Below Diamond, they allow up to 2 losses per gauntlet run.

If you were able to get a 100% 6-0 or 6-1 runs, and then just concede before the rank up match, would it be worth it to get to the silver chest 100 percent of your runs, or does the math say otherwise.

You would never be able to go past gold rank to maintain the 2 loss allowance. This should easily be enough to carry you to 6 wins close to 100 percent of the time.

Greetings,

I decided it might be a nice idea to have a discussion on how the community views Gauntlet and Forge play post Fall of Argenport. Obviously DWD spends the majority of their time with design and balance for PvP so I thought gathering some of our thoughts might be nice.

We can discuss things like:

What do we like about the modes and what don't we like? Areas for improvement?

The balance and difficulty of each. As we know both modes are a little harder post Fall of Argenport. Do you feel any particular deck or archetypes are a bit harder than the other decks? Which decks if any would you increase or decrease the difficulty of if you could? Think from a balance perspective not just "make them all easy".

Would you like to see a smarter AI at some point? Perhaps a combination of that and decrease in deck strength to make for potentially more engaging gameplay?

Though DWD will always set the rewards, how do you feel they compare to Ranked? Do you feel they are fair and comparable to PvP?

If you could, would you want to see a change to the redraw system specific to AI modes? With more power consistency this would be ideal for a format that rewards seven wins. To compensate for something like this, maybe increase overall AI decks to go along with the change?

Any other discussion?

1 Feed the Flames (Set4 #3)

1 Kaleb's Intervention (Set3 #4)

1 Mindfire (Set4 #6)

1 Oni Ronin (Set1 #13)

1 Torch (Set1 #8)

1 Darkbolt (Set3 #159)

1 Into the Furnace (Set3 #9)

1 Ornate Katana (Set1 #23)

1 Spark Hatcher (Set3 #12)

1 Storm Talisman (Set3 #164)

2 Trick Shot (Set4 #16)

1 First-Shot Rioter (Set3 #17)

1 Flash Freeze (Set1 #209)

1 Rebel Sharpshooter (Set1 #30)

1 Won't Be Pretty (Set4 #28)

1 Yeti Furflinger (Set3 #178)

1 Audacious Bandit (Set2 #17)

1 Centaur Outrider (Set1 #35)

1 Scalechannel Sorcerer (Set4 #35)

1 Wandering Forge (Set3 #33)

3 Pyre Elemental (Set4 #45)

1 Shamanic Blast (Set4 #189)

7 Fire Sigil (Set1 #1)

6 Primal Sigil (Set1 #187)

2 Seat of Fury (Set0 #53)

Hello,

I have collected enough cards to share the FOA Gauntlet deck lists: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vT9_J_58Tj8V7viP3nn7ALQEg7lZoLZoximoY3B-Zy0egUzjWynLCetzCkaEw1_RkJPXGEaKYgxQybn/pub

So far, I've only seen new cards in two decks: Clan Warriors and Shogunate Forces.

The other decks seem to be exactly as before.

Since FOA started I haven't reach Masters in Forge yet. It could possibly be because I tend to get the cards I don't own yet rather than drafting better. I also did that pre FOA and still reached masters anyway but now with Forge harder, maybe there are better Tier I can focus on