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Took Apex to Melbourne regionals. Did poorly (won 2 of 5), but the deck shows promise.
I was inspired by that Exclusive Party Apex deck that did the rounds on Reddit, but found the startup too slow for my liking. I'm not a fan of the Chop-Bot engine because you're cycling cards, at best, so that's out. The deck seemed to live or die based on how quickly you could get Safety First up and running. So I added a third one of those instead.
Let me reiterate: Get Safety First and a Brain Cage on the table. Safety First alone is really hard to play around, but it's not worth waiting for Heartbeat to play the Brain Cage. Tank the damage if you have to.
Try to play Day Job when you've got a card you want to install facedown and/or when you have Safety First out. It hurts a lot less.
Express Delivery seems to work better than Quality Time, because it's cheaper and you don't miss Safety First triggers.
Crypsis is there to deal with things like Architect, Crick-on-archives and other awkward things.
Cards I'm not thrilled by:
(Aside: why don't I like Wasteland? Mainly because it takes a while to pay off, and is an incentive against triggering the Apocalypse. Money doesn't feel that tight in this deck.)
So that's 11 cards and 10 influence that's still flexible. Cards I'm considering:
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22 May 2016
pandaman64
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22 May 2016
#endgame
It doesn't feel that much worse to me to be playing around a 5-card hand and get your triggers, as opposed to waiting for Heartbeat to show up before installing the cage. Are you playing a the longer game more than I am? |
22 May 2016
#endgame
It doesn't feel that much worse to me to be playing around a 5-card hand and get your triggers, as opposed to waiting for Heartbeat to show up before installing the cage. Are you playing the longer game more than I am? |
22 May 2016
mawa
Fun reccomendation from my own testing: 1x CBI Raid. It allows you to Apocalypse against kill decks, and against everything else needing to both redraw up and ice up is a huge hit. |
that's funny, because I found the opposite was true for me. The brain cage/ safety first only seemed to have value IF I prevented the damage first. Otherwise it didn't work out so well for me