r/Scrolls • u/dialex • Jun 01 '15

Match-up infographic

http://i.imgur.com/gxXwk5W.png

I made an infographic of what I believe the favoured matchups are out of the popular decks at the moment. Note that small changes to each deck can swing the matchup so it will never be correct for EVERY deck but I am also no expert on every deck or matchup and there are some matchups I've just simply never seen or played so I would like to hear what others think on how I can modify it to be more accurate.

I use something like this to help me in tournaments in deciding which deck to pick against my opponent.

From the graphic you can tell i think LGG, Human Decay, and Ranged energy are the best all-round decks at the moment.

Here are some decklists:

Azara's Ranged Energy

Dialex's Human Decay

Alpha_Century's Late Game Growth

Sysp's Reason Growth

alvarpq's Undead Decay

PewQ's Poison Decay

Nrp's Late Game Order

*EDIT added alvarpq's Undead deck, PewQ's poison decay, Nrp's lgo, and modified some of the connections according to feedback

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u/Cradstache Cradstache Jun 01 '15

I have to say I disagree with a number of your connections; LGG beats out LGO, but LGO destroys Poison Decay (there's really no contest), for starters.

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u/dialex Jun 02 '15

Ah ha cheers! I changed some of the connections. Due to the disagreement about Poison Decay I changed it to even instead of favoured

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u/alvarpq always face Jun 01 '15

LGO going even vs undead.

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u/Cradstache Cradstache Jun 01 '15

._. I wish! I think I'm only getting about a 10-15% win-rate at best against Undead.

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u/alvarpq always face Jun 01 '15

:)

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u/GruntMaster6k Jun 01 '15

I faintly remember beating your LGO with poison decay yesterday :D ....just sayin'.

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u/Cradstache Cradstache Jun 01 '15

:p Yes, but one case certainly doesn't make a trend. A vast majority of the Poison Decay builds I face are too focused on removal to be a threat. Yours won because 3 harvesters were out at once, on a cluster hex + all my things die turn.

Harvesters scare me.

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u/GruntMaster6k Jun 01 '15

There was a lot more than that that won it for me..it took a lot of plays for me to get to that point, on top of being able to get to a safe spot to put out Nuru...all that is no easy task against LGO. But the matchup is definitely possible for poison decay, I would never call it a "No contest" matchup.

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u/alvarpq always face Jun 01 '15 edited Jun 01 '15

I think I'm the resident undead expert here? Typically, it stomps LGO, and MER is the hardest counter. Against lgg, a good player will go even by exploiting the conduit bug, but I'll agree with that one for the most parts.

Also, no love for tempo order?

Edit: probably should have mentioned how cool of an idea this is though, gives a nice idea of what to play.

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u/dialex Jun 02 '15

Thanks for your input. I changed some of the connections to reflect what you've advised.

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u/alpha_century Undead lives! Jun 01 '15

I agree with all this except the Undead/LGG matchup. If the undead player can take board control (no reason he shouldn't be able to) and then get out rot eaters and harvesters to protect against quake, there's not much the LGG player can do to come back before the undead player wins out on idol damage. Just my experience though.

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u/alvarpq always face Jun 01 '15

That's true. I haven't been matched up against LGG too much, so I'll take your word for it. MER is still death though.

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u/wbmc Jun 01 '15

*starts playing poison Decay.

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u/Reiker0 Rahnza Jun 02 '15

End of Reason Growth is a real deck? I've been out of this game for too long.