as a start, your deck is all over the place, you need to have multiple core things and you run all fortunes, spells and creatures

6-4-3

furthermore, you are playing a stall game without a late game option, thus causing you to lose when you drag out the game

sanctuary usually don't stall either unless playing otk

my yukiko deck that i had was running 5-4-2 (but no fortunes card i was using)

put more kappa and spring spirit, take away sea elf archer, mountain turtle, yukiko doesn't really benefit from hypnotize, so if possible, replace it with just outmaneuver/honor creatures, use more wanizame and if possible take out naga warrior, you need sayama spy and raya too, but its from forgotten wars

as for spells, use more lit strike, geysers, no grounded, no ice wall

the fortunes, can remove all or run gold piles i guess

main problem with playing sanctuary at low elo is that you gotta suffer losses unless you spend real money, their packs are expensive now 18.5k / seals vs buying 12.5k packs

if you got 21 wild cards and committed to sanctuary, get raya, it's OP, lul

usually common cards are not worth to trade with wildcards

i am playing ishuma now, "top" tier hero now, besides cassandra, sandal, dhamira and crag hack

its free to play, steam dlcs are just to give you an advantage / head start

only if you want to play other heroes and have enough cards for them

for example, if you get an inferno hero but you don't have cards for them, what do you want to do with that hero?

there are a few variety of playstyles, strongest hero now is said to be ishuma

if you see an ishuma, board control is what you need, if he gets more creatures on the board than you, you need to board wipe

but if you have more creatures than him, most likely you won the game, especially late game

as for other heroes like yukiko, that uses magic, so its more likely to not clump up creatures for geyser i guess

shalan plays throne and stone shields, a late game hero

i caught your msg last minute, but you were offline XD

anyway, hit 1498 elo and lost my game to a god hand haven lock (13XX elo, and that fella was a mean person)

the last thing i want to see during that elo was a haven deck actually, i know that it's the most imba deck now, and i feel that the game is trolling me since it's so hard to up till there as i was fighting 1.1k elo players mostly and suddenly a 13XX player came up at that crucial elo point, lul

and lost another game after that to a low elo garant gate deck

drop back to 1462 elo now after winning 2 games back, lul

This post has been edited by LostWanderer: Nov 24 2013, 05:08 PM

hit 1500 elo finally, got a nice person just gave me my final needed 4 elo, lul (he just lost 5, at 1.2k elo)

http://i.imgur.com/GcQ5CrF.jpg?1

anyway:

for new people, try to build this deck if you would like to have short matches below 1k elo
http://www.mmdoc.net/show_deck/16082/

inferno garant rush deck

This post has been edited by LostWanderer: Nov 25 2013, 11:20 AM

new info for new expansion coming up today:

http://www.reddit.com/r/duelofchampions/co..._from_the_five/

http://www.reddit.com/r/duelofchampions/co...he_five_towers/

http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/81277...-Stream-Dec-4th

spoiler stream on dec 4th (twitch)

whose library got destroyed?

you mean a mill deck? usually played with hakeem

its either just me or cracksys nick is not found? lul

ya, silly me, haha, i just checked and noticed, XD

pure hotv ach i didn't do yet, but anyway, regarding ishuma, lotsa people now complaining about how OP ishuma is

frankly, i think haven is more OP, but ishuma is OP with perfect hand (same with haven too, lul)

@ deimos

i had 155 just now, =D

anyway, at low elo, best faction is inferno, it kills everything faster, even yourself too

every game with inferno is like around 5 min or add another 2 minutes max and how fast you play your cards, lul

i use malik, but there are other good heroes out there:

1) ishuma
2) cassandra
3) crag hack
4) kelthor
5) dhamira
6) zardoc
7) hakeem
8) sandal

malik main weakness is otk, 85% chance to lose, depending on whether you get your cosmic balance at the right time or not, lul

seems like new expansion is on 5th:
http://www.reddit.com/r/duelofchampions/co...and_ability_to/

This post has been edited by LostWanderer: Dec 4 2013, 08:06 AM

nergal is better than ariana, but nergal = otk

ariana can do otk too, but nergal seems to be the better choice cos can poison if really needed

ariana 18hp only as well i think

new cards for view:

http://mmdocking.com/overview-all-cards-of...nsion/#more-605

Mana Storm: Instead of paying 1 extra resource when you play a spell, you pay 1 more resource after playing a spell, and if you cannot then your Hero will receive 1 damage.

Week of Taxes: Instead of paying 1 extra resource when you play a fortune, you pay 1 more resource after playing a fortune, and if you cannot then your Hero will receive 1 damage.

That means, this both events are working now like the Week of Austerity

Crusader Treasurer: Need 4 Might (up from 3) to be played now!

Another real good change. That will make the Haven Rushdecks way slower.

Might of Nature: Only Melees in the front row are getting reduced damage.

other patchnotes

also, putting 2x price of the void into my malik deck to deal with earth grasp, stone shields, monsoon, ongoing unique and certain fortune spells, lul

This post has been edited by LostWanderer: Dec 5 2013, 10:00 AM

if people run that neutral, most likely they are playing at a disadvantage vs non necro, furthermore, already got an event card to do that, so, yea most likely not gonna see much play

my malik currently is a 6 / 6/ 1

6 magic is only for 2 armageddon, kinda screwed if got both as starting hand though, XD

This post has been edited by LostWanderer: Dec 5 2013, 12:38 PM

if you are using malik, and are fighting a complete otk deck with an incomplete malik deck, 100% lose, a complete malik deck may only have at most 85% chance of winning (bad hand on opponent, awesome hand on your side as well as having cosmic balance on that turn you really need it)

i got bitten by the auto surrender bug like 2 or 3 times, hang at loading screen like 4 times and met a random otk asalah deck for the first time, lul

jackpot win 6, lost 7 for the first time, haha

don't play normal duels now, doubt it can load, hanging at loading screen...

necro interesting stuff would be that necro tower and depending on which hero you running, most of the stuffs in the new set isn't as awesome as hotv sets though, but some could be playable

This post has been edited by LostWanderer: Dec 6 2013, 10:49 AM