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I'm trying out a Flood Survivor deck that's... well, not really antediluvian, but Pale Green nonetheless.This list actually hits more of the advantages you list for animals than ADs, since A) it runs full FS unity, so no Adam/Eve, B) it's more generic pale green, so it doesn't recur and C) it runs Firefoxes and Two By Two in main deck with Serpent and Behemoth in reserve. I do think full ADs are viable this year - some of their new cards are incredible. That said, I think that if you're running flood survivors you can make an argument for Nimrod either way, with Nebby or Survivor being other targets. I went into this deck planning to run ADs with the Nimrod/AS/ASA package, but ended up trimming out most of the unique ADs. I agree with Isaac that the full recursion isn't really necessary. Flood Survivors set up so quickly you can often power through early, and ANB lets you just go back to that phase of the game once they do get set up. On that note, I think that between Flood, Faith of Noah (if you run it) and Shem it's often ideal to try not to play many evil cards down.I would like to point out that PG has a new negate in Did God Really Say?. I use it almost exclusively in battle, unless there's something I really need to negate before I attack. I haven't had much issue with evil negates (yet) while testing this - in fact, I think if anything my current list needs an extra evil battlewinner.On a bit of a different spectrum, my brother's been trying out animals. He hasn't gotten them refined, but he's got them to a point where they're annoying but not impassable.
Neither...the best defense with Flood Survivors is Magicians...just ask Bobbert Either way, Forbidden Fruit and Blame Shifting should be on the list of Pros for ADs.
While we were testing FoM I tried both animals and Antediluvians with the FS offense. I didn't take the time to fine tune either of them but had a build specifically meant for testing. My take on the two is that the Antediluvians are better.Last week at our local tournament we had a few people using strong Antediluvian defenses, including the guy who took 2nd place (had a nail bitting 4-5 loss vs the winner). The 2nd place defense seemed fine tuned and really strong!!