Gravebella 1.5 build

**Killtrend** · 06-09-2012, 08:04 AM

They put down Aldon

jasmine on turn 4. If you went first, you nova both, including any early drops you have, waste your turn and subtract 5 hp.This shortens the game and restarts giving them first drop. If you went second, you have no choice with nova because you won't have 5cc until its too late, you're getting hit before you can stop them.

Alternatively, you can play lightning strike and attack with a brute and or gargoyle. Or fireball the jasmine on t3 and drop a Bella on t4 to stall the Aldon

and draw cards. Maybe fireball on t3, portal on t4 soaking up Aldon

and then forcing Bella/knight through on 5. This gives you a T6 hasted ogloth and likely someone wounded for him to pick on.

Anyway, 4-0. Played a mediocre Serena

with an annoying amount of ways to kill my 3 early gargoyle drops. Luckily, by the time Oggy came out, her assassinations were used up and her black garb or whatever was the opposite of what she wanted to play. Brutalis

meat shields, gogogo.

The early game always looks ugly, but you have to STAY THE COURSE. Don't panic.

**Buqs** · 06-09-2012, 10:12 AM

Being a portal Gravebone

player myself i feel that you do not need to use Shadow Font

. I understand the reasoning for want to include but the alternative is adding more allies or even a 4th portal. I believe being able to summon allies with haste is more effective approach as they can attack now vs coming to play exhausted. Most of the allies you are using bella/SK both have on summon abilities and they are both fragile from the graveyard so bringing them back generally sends them right back. Shadow font would be good with a different deck and heavier allies.

-2 Shadow Font

-1 Sac Lamb
+3 DMT

/MD (2 different types of ping damage)

side note: shadow font is good for bringing allies back with sac lamb (expensive) but if you get the dual draw going with bella and SK you wont even need the ToK until you get your resources high.

**pyrogene** · 06-09-2012, 10:34 AM

The current deck just begs the question: why not use Majiya

instead? GB's ability is good for basically only two of your allies (Garg and Oggy). GB's ability doesn't work well with Portal

anymore. SK and GB seems counter intuitive when one needs allies in the GY while the other brings them out.

Also, since you dislike Nova, how about DoU instead? Allows you to gain board with GB's ability even if it gets destroyed without HP loss. May save you from having to play portal till later turns when it is more efficient.

**Buqs** · 06-09-2012, 11:02 AM

I disagree with dagger (weapons/armor in general) with this deck type as they mess with the timing of portal. As a mage you have access to fireball and LS which already typically take a backseat when portal is in play and best used when portal ends, for early board control or to help finish the game. Dagger doesn't kill just delays. In my opinion the main idea behind this type of Gravebone

build is to get the portal out and swarm with allies. This does 2 things, helps to clear the board and create desirable targets for your opponent by using fragile allies (meaning keep damage off hero). with the swarm method eventually there should be too many targets being summoned and recurred for your opponent to deal with, then it becomes a quick death as Bella/SK can deal loads of damage and can be coupled with spells.

**Preybird** · 06-09-2012, 11:15 AM

Not going to say anything about the deck, but will say this...

Welcome back Killtrend!

**Harakhte** · 06-09-2012, 06:13 PM

Welcome back my friend, hope you get GraveBella working again!

**Helio** · 06-09-2012, 06:14 PM

Some valid points have been made about Nova, but if you can't get portal out due to it being returned or destroyed, Nova is needed.

I use Nova when I lose board control for whatever reason and if they can hit me for more than 5, then it saves me dam.

And finally, I cant tell you the number of times that I Nova for the win.