Gravebella 40 card Tourney Build

[Killtrend]

I mob them with creatures. Sack my fireballs. Shriek the weapons that have the biggest chance to kill my allies, send my 4 health creatures at the rest. Gwen cant draw, so it's easy to outplay her late.

Timely use of lightning strikes and excessive use of ALL brutes and gargoyles are key. Sacrifice medusil. Keep only 1 Bella for recursion.

[A1 Otto7]

u wanna kill gwen with gravebone?tough.even with majiya i have to play really smart and HAVE CARDS!!never suck the snow sapphire u WILL NEED IT to cast the behemoth once everything is frosen.shriek the first BDB and one SS u cant spare more resources.

killtrend i read your posts,u are a very good player.but is it possible that u curse the aldon blake combo and u dont carry all the 4 snakes u can???
i always do in my 30 card majiya deck and always get them inT1 orT2 at least!!in fact they are perfect to be combined at T4 with a card draw or a research and a shriek!snake and lightning blast is an unpriceless gift.if they chose to hit the snake then u rescued 2-3 energy from the hero with only 1 resource.1 or 2 of like that will give the extra HP to endure 1 or 2 novas if needed...

just my point of view...

[Killtrend]

Brute is my main man. My deck focuses around survivability. Even though I have recursion, I like making my opponents have no choice but to deal with the board. Brute saves me tons of dmg and has the survivability to take down aldons and jasmines with a strike.

I used to run snakes when I went heavy weenie+lust. They always got in the way of my recursion. Too easy to kill of something good and then bury it. Plus you see less snakes in a 40 card build early. And if you don't get them early, why bother?

I have a creature for every scenario. Gargoyle got burn. Medusil for Puwen. Brute for blakes and extra dmg. Bella for that ass whopping. and Bella tends to soak up dmg quite nicely.

To each his own, I say. But I have zero problem with Gwen. Masses of creatures, research/recursion and a shriek or two: game.

[Praka]

Yeah, i'm not a friend of snakes in this deck (gernerally in 40er decks, how you discribed) and i like your choice of creatures.
Your hint play more Gargoyles and sacrifice Medusil help me a little. With a good draw early Gwen is fine.

[superchao]

for Gwen case:
T2 Puwen
T2 Reserch
T3 Aldon. Swing 3.
T3 Fireball Aldon
T4 BD. Swing 2. 5 total
T4 Play Medusil or Gargoyle or lighting
T5 kill medsuil. rapid fire, ravan, or night prowel, it must HAVE one!

you will lost for 30 card deck

[Killtrend]

for Gwen case:
T2 Puwen
T2 Brute
T3 Aldon
T3 Gargoyle
T4 BDB
T4 LS+board clear
T5 Rapid fire, raven, or night prowel, it must HAVE one!
T5 Bella to stall and draw. Shriek if necessary.
T6 Creatures. Probably brute+medusil. Give Gwen targets.
T7 Portal to catch up. Gwen has no destruction. Take over.

First off. You let Gwen go first with a great opening hand. Secondly you played research over brute. That's wrong. Then you played medusil when you needed gargoyle. The point is to flood the board with creatures and only use shrieks when you need to clear a high durability item or to keep creatures alive.

Fixed

[Cryminysakes]

40 card vs 40 card I kill Gwen way more often than she kills me. She really needs a perfect storm of cards to win againt this deck. I can usually even make a 40 card vs 30 card gwen a close match - but then I have to have a perfect storm of cards. I only play 40 card now anyway, even on the live server - so I dont really sweat the losses to 30 card decks. Even still I am managing to keep a 230-245 rating.

Great showing of this deck in the tourney Killtrend! Wish I could have played.

[Killtrend]

I run 40 on the main server too. I gave up on rank. I'm still ranked at 260 anyway.

[Cryminysakes]

lol - yeah, when I started testing for 40 card decks I was around 255ish. Played Gwen and Jericho (badly) down to 230. Now I'm stuck. Switched back to GraveBella with much better W/L % but between sync errors, getting outplayed (am I the only one who admits this can happen?? lol), the occasional newb faceroll, and the asinine rating system I can't seem to gain any headway. Even still I win probably 70% of my games. But when you beat a 145 you get nothing for it, but lose to him and you lose 2 or 3....

bah - You know how it goes man...

[Killtrend]

No I admit I get outplayed. I am no master! Usually though it's more them drawing answers or playing a weird build I'm not ready for.