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I played against a deck that used High Places and cards with the word place. It was thrown into a discard defense and worked very well. I was not expecting it.

Quote from: Ironisaac on May 23, 2016, 05:53:17 PM

I don't really know what i'm looking for here, but really just any themes that you have heard, seen, or thought of, that are really strange, or not commonly used. Anything goes, i just want crazy weird deck concept suggestions!

Job with hand control.

I've made a deck with this exact strategy. It actually worked decently well.

I'd not really a theme, more of a combo, but I made a deck based on protection of the opponent's hand to make different "do X. Opponent may discard a card from hand instead" cards much more powerful.

When I first started I threw all my cards together into a 70+ card splash deck. I don't think I won a single game, but I won a Soldier of God from Gabe for being the only kid in the playgroup to be using red, blue, and yellow.

I had a T2 deck that included a bunch of angels and Chamber of  Angels, and was designed so that after things were set up you would never ever draw a lost soul.

Ahhhh, good times.

How did you manage to get the angels discarded regularly?

I had a T2 deck that included a bunch of angels and Chamber of  Angels, and was designed so that after things were set up you would never ever draw a lost soul.

Ahhhh, good times.

I always wanted to build a T2 deck that (ab)used Chamber so that you'd eventually stop drawing your deck, preferably after dropping SSS or DoU in a battle.  My idea included using many copies of Hammer of Heaven as well.

I had a T2 deck that included a bunch of angels and Chamber of  Angels, and was designed so that after things were set up you would never ever draw a lost soul.

Ahhhh, good times.

I had a BTN deck played at Nats that was so good it blew up my partner......

Quote from: EmJayBee83 on May 26, 2016, 12:29:28 AM

I had a T2 deck that included a bunch of angels and Chamber of  Angels, and was designed so that after things were set up you would never ever draw a lost soul.

How did you manage to get the angels discarded regularly?

Discard from hand. Once you got to three per turn, you never drew a non-angel again.

The problem was scoring after your opponent discarded their entire deck.

Yesterday I thought about creating an all-women deck:  heroes, ECs, lost souls.  I'd love to be able to tell my opponents that they just got whooped by a bunch of girls lol; unless, of course, it's a girl/woman who I'm playing, then that jab won't have quite the intended effect.

Quote from: EmJayBee83 on May 26, 2016, 12:29:28 AM

I had a T2 deck that included a bunch of angels and Chamber of  Angels, and was designed so that after things were set up you would never ever draw a lost soul.

Did it work? I mean, was the deck a good deck?

It depends on how you define "work."

I could very consistently get the cap on, and--had I ever wanted to--get a timed loss in a game. So to the extent that I could prevent players who were way better than myself from winning, it was good. On the other hand, it had no real win condition other than blind luck.

From my point of view, only a real jerkface* would set out to play for a timed loss, so I always tried to win at the end. In this I succeeded once or twice out in the 8 or so games I used the deck.

*In the technical sense.