Chaotic Deck: March of the liuetenants

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Battle Plans : Attack Balancing

Well... I know I said I'd try to post more, but my senior year hit me like a brick wall :S



Moving back to todays topic! Attack balancing.



Now what is it exactly?



Attack Balancing is simply being able to carefully ballance your attacks between high damage or long duration battles. What I mean by those is for high damage, of course, means dealling as much damage as possible in one foul swoop. On the flip-side there are those long drawn out battles too that you need to last in.



First we will cover the high damage aspect of attack balancing.



I personally love this playing style. It's how I am. And everyone plays differently. Coming back to the topic, high damage doesn't sound to hard does it? Stick two Super-cooled rain in there and BLAMO! That's actually not entirely true. Sure that does work, but the you have 10 more Build Points for 18 more cards, not to good is it? So a better idea is to look at your deck and play on those stregths obviously, so if say you have my personal favorite Blazvatan =D he has Air and earth 5, so that makes a 3BP attack called Whirling winds do as much damage as the 5BP Super-cooled rain. Conserving BP? I think so. *insert lame British Petrolium joke here* Not you can't always use an awesome creature like Blazvatan. But the main Idea is to balance your weak and strong attacks. My hard hitting deck is balanced like so -> 2 3BP cards, 4 2BP cards, 6 1BP cards 8 0BP cards. Balancing one similarilly is probably agood idea. Not I'm not discouraging you from trying a deck with Super-cooled rain. Another good thing to do is pack attacks like Twister of elements or Squeeze play in order to sort through your deck and pluck out all of the weak little 0BP cards. Then packing a Vial of liquid thought to recycle a weak attack in your hand for that super strong attack you just played. There are many ways to work with the 0BP cards! Find 'em and please be creative =D

That was long-winded... Though nothing compaired to Kirean2 >_>

Now the long term balancing.

The long term balancing is more directed at Danians and Overworlders, since they tend to stay alive the longest xD. A long term battle deck usually consists of LOTS of 1 BP attack cards and are usually balanced like so -> 2-4 2BP cards, 2-4 0BP cards, the rest are 1BP. I sadly can't say too much for long-term decks, becasue I play Mipedians. Now the attacks of a long term deck should actually try to deal as much consistant damage as possible. Why? Everybody has had their one REALLY powerful attack that would win the battle countered by a Meldoy of Mirage and then they draw nothing for the rest of the battle, so the plus side to long-term decks is that they aren't really effected by this. Why? Well if everyone of your attacks deals 15-20 damage and they are at 15 and use melody of mirage your attack, it doesn't really matter since you have another 15-20 damage attack waiting in you hand and deck! =D

So I hope enjoyed or even understood the point I was trying to get across. I also do not say one style is better over the other, they are both equally effective.

Questions, leave a comment below.

*out breath, my fingers and fore-arms hurt and I've re-typed every word at least once due to exhaustion D=*

-Kerb

Battle Plans : Tactical Positioning

So I'm back for a bit! And I'm starting a new series of articles that I hope catches on!



So What I plan to achieve with this series of articles is to cover topics about the Chaotic battlefield from specifics like today's topic, Tactical positioning, to much more vague things like plain ol' movement. The idea is give players, new and old, more things to think bout when playing.



So tactical positioning (I'm going to shoten it to TPing, for now xD) is basically my strongest virtue when playing chaotic. Basiclly the idea behind TPing is to line up your creatures to force you opponent to move somewhere they don't want to, or to attack with a creature they'd rather not attack with. It is also used defensively. A huge example is warbeasts an conjourors. You have be able to move your warbeasts so they can defend your conjourors AND attack your opponents at the same time. This is a bit of a challenge, but trust me after losing a dozen or so matches in a row, you begin to learn tricks that help not only with a Wabeast deck, but every other deck too. If you have ever played against one of my warbeast decks, you may notice how I move all of my creatures nearly every single turn. This is because I am trying to keep my Conjourors (or Mugicians in some cases) Whilst keeping the pressure on you to defend your own



So lets put a scenario up (This is something that I may do with each article as well)



Keep this map, per-say, in mind

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_B_C_
D_E_F
1_2_3
_4_5_
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You are playing a powerful Warbest army and your just won the first battle descisively, defending your spot as it was their turn. The creature in one of the D,E or F spots is coded. So now it is your turn and you move one of the Warbeasts in Spot 1,2 or 3 to attack one of the two creatures left in your opponents front row, you win leaving one more of their front row creatures left. Now you have a choice you can take another warbeast from your front row and and put on the pressure by having 2 warbeast on the offense and 1 on the defense, or you can leave it as is with 2 defending and 1 attacking. Which do you think is smarter? Answer in the comments below please.



So I hope you enjoyed this article and I plan to cover many topics about playing Chaotic with new and different ideas. If you have any suggestions on topics you want me to cover, once again leave a comment below.


-Kerb.

Slowing to a crawl

Sadly no new set has been released in while and Chaotic is slowing to a crawl. I'm not quitting by no means. I love playing Chaotic. But lately there isn't a whole lot of fun to be had. There a no new cards and there are a lot of bugs still out there. If the could clear 50% of the bugs I would be a happy guy and I would be able to build some new decks to show you guys. But sadly I can't build new decks without new cards. So until either they fix eough bugs or a new set comes out I probably won't be posting any new blog entries.

LIKE I SAID BEFORE

I am not quiting And in fact I will still be around. I hope to also be more active in the community, particularily in the army creations sub-forum.

-Kerb.

Feeling EVIL! *With a small Kerb History leason*

I feel a little Underworldish lately...

*WARNING KERBEROS HISTORY LESSON*

*YOU DO NOT HAVE TO READ! YOU MAY CHOOSE TO GO STRAIGHT TO THE DECK!*

Maybe it's that oldfeeling that I had when I used to play hardcore Underworld =D. Just as a cool fact Before the game game actually came out they lent us these printable demo decks one OW and one UW that you could use to try the game (since the game wasn't set up online yet) So me and a friend printed them off stuck them in some sleeves with Magic cards as support xD. I played OW and he play UW. Yes that is right I started off playing Overworlders. but the day that the game came out was the day a girl I liked asked me to goto a dance (This was back in like grade 9 xD) So I couldn't get the cards so my friend offered to pick them up and I told him to get me a deck and 3 packs. I thought he would give me the OW deck since he knew I liked Overworlders.... Nope he gave the Underworld deck! *sigh* W/e I was still better than him xD. My friend sadly no longer plays (NOT DUE TO F&S IF I MAY ADD).

*END OF KERBEROS HISTORY LESSON* xD

So anywho! Today's Deck!!!!

Title : Insert Creative name here.

1_2_3
_4_5_
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1. Kiru w/ The Doomhammer or Whep crack (If Chaor TF doesn't have one)
2. Chaor TF w/ Whep crack or Scarab of Khilai
3. Cerbie w/ Whep crack
4. Kopond (original) w/ Mipedian Balladeer's Flute
5. Magmon Engulfed w/ Bronzeflight
6. Nivenna UW Lt. w/ Mipedian Balladeer's flute

Mugic
- 2x Cannon of casulty
- 2x Cadence Clash
- Strain of Ash
- Consuming Cacophony

Location
-2x Lavapond
-2x Stone Pillar
-2x The pitts
-2x Underworld Collusseum
-Underworld City
-Wooden Pillar (Only have one UW City T-T)

Attacks
-2x Magma Might
-2x Flame Orb
-2x Force Strike
-2x Gladiator's Fire
-2x Consuming Flame
-2x Fire Ring
-2x Combustion Carnage
-2x Smokesurge
-2x Flame Bloom
-2x Flying advantage

So I'm REALLY tired right now I don't feel up to typing all of reason for including certain cards in this deck, so if you have any questions or advice (since I'm not all that good at UW..) Feel free to leave a comment below, no loggin is required to post comments, just be sure to leave your name in the post somewhere so I know who I'm talking to xD


-Kerb

Featured Sodier -May 17th-

These are becoming Monthly -_-

Well Track and field is ending soon so I'll soon get some more time... Hopefully x_x

Anyway this times featured soldier is...

Vunhra!

So This guy is actually quite fun to use in nearly any mixed deck that has all, or most of the main Combatants that are non-danian. Place Vunhra in there and pack an Ode to Obscurity mugic and BLAM-O! Four creatures infected! Chances are though that they only have four or less creatures to be used as combatants, so this makes cleaning up the mess of your oppoents deck, just that much easier! ;D

-Kerb.

Featured Soldier -Apr. 20th-

Sorry it's been a while. Life is still really busy for me, plus injuries to my wrist don't make it easy to type >_<. AnyWho I want to generate a heated discussion, so here is my pitch to you guys. I'm going to through up a creature! This week...

Kalt?! Yes Kalt. I think that this guy is EXTREMLY tactical in ANY deck that has an elementist that needs an element and with things like Inner Flood and Na-inna (for Mixed deck users like me) He makes it easy for you to gain elements, just be sure to check that your creature types are elementists. Then if you want to get reall fancy you can go 3v3 and have two Kalts boost each other! Hows that for spiffy! Be creative with this guy! Keep an eye out for this guy in an upcoming deck video ;) ... Yup I just need to get my Video editing software working and it'll be good! You guys will hear so much from me you'll be sick of me before you know it!

Kerb.

Quelling Rumors

THE CHAOTIC SHOW IS NOT CANCELLED... YET!
THE CHAOTIC CARD GAME WILL CONTINUE!

There. Happy? No? How do I know this?

Yes it is entirely true that 4KidsTV is dropping Chaotic (the TV series) But that doesn't mean the Show, nor the game will be disappearing anytime soon.

How many different cartoon studios do you know of? I can't list them all thats for sure. THERE ARE A LOT OF THEM!. And one of them I am sure is willing to buy/take Chaotic from 4KidsTV to continue the show.

Now for the game. The only conection to the game that 4KidsTV actually had was simply influencing it to be a childrens card game, The story (Not Tom, Kaz and ect.) Is driven by TC Digital Entertainment. This means that they have full control over the game. THEY WILL NOT DROP THE GAME.

Oh and BTW sorry for recent inactivities.

-Kerb.

Kerberos... Now on DeviantArt!

Yup I'ma now on Deviant art with an account so I can actually post pictures that I draw up so you guys can see 'em, My user name on DeviantArt is Kerberos-Chaotic

It won't embed so here is a linnk instead ( Lol a rhyme)

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Featured Soldier -March 3-

So I have been once again really busy, that and My computer is in the shop so I have been using my mom's laptop... Anyway!

Well I feel this really needs to be brought to attention. I played about 3 or 4 Warbeast decks yesterday... And they ALL SUCKED. I mean they had Blaz Kileron and Glost, One even had Khorror instead of Glost! It was just too easy to slip by them. Warbeast players, believe it or not. Actually NEED to play defensively. Yes use those huge Warbeast as defensive creatures. Don't ever move all of your Warbeasts so that they can't defend! Especially if you are playing any form of a revival deck!!!! Now the reason I chose Gaffat-ra Because he is a prime example of the warbest that should stay behind with the conjours, even if he loses he still saved the conjouror and now you have time to react and save most if not all of your conjourors.

Kerb.

Featured Soldier -Feb. 19th-

Sorry I went inactive again. Life decided to play rough on me. Any way This weeks Soldier is...!

Blaaxa! Now Why Blaaxa? Well I don't see a very good use for him if he isn't brainwashed. So lets brainwash him *makes weird noises* There we go! So look at that ability... What is a Generic Mugic you ALL hate being played on you and that 95% of decks use? Cadence Clash? Thought so. Has it clicked yet? No? Well Brainwashed creatures can only play Generic mugic so if any of your creatures have mugic counters they could play it AFTER you negate your opponents Cadence Clash, with one of you copies by simply revealing it to them. I think that is a pretty sweet idea, eh?

Featured Soldier -Jan 29-

Well... I havn't done one in a WHILE... But Finals are now over for me, so you'll be seeing a bit more of me around. My life has finally begun to slow down thankfully. Moving on! This Featured Soldier is one of my Personal Favorite Mipedians, scratch that, Favorite Creatures, Ever.

CRG50

PWR50

WIS65

SPD85

NRG55

Yup, Grantkae! I love this guy, Awesome in every way! Good Mipedian stats, High Speed and Good energy, he comes with Air and a Mugic counter! But that is not my reason for this guy winning the title of my personal favourite. He gives Massive boosts to your other creatures, not like the other generals, which first requires something or only boost them-self. Gorram, yes he does give the other creatures a boost, but only if a creature of the right tribe is in your discard pile. Barrath, requires a sacrifice and then boosts himself. Tangath is like Grantkae in that he just needs them to be there, but he only boosts himself. THAT is why I have always Liked Grantkae better than the other generals. Not Because he is a Mipedian. Though that is a nice touch. :P

Hey remember that Contest?

Well I have Finally Decided to end it!

... Wait you forgot to hand it in...

Well, If you want to you can submit an article to me ANYTIME! Yup If it is good enough I may let you become an author on this blog along side myself and Rooster5man... Oh I didn't tell you who won yet did I? Well It's our Very Own Rooster5man! He did one of his very clever and explanatory reveiws on on of my decks that I did on CTV, he even went far enough to create a deck list of it!

Rooster5man, PM on Chaotic with your Email that you use to make an account here on Blog spot and I'll add you to the Author list!

Here is the Article that he submitted.

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Heat of the Desert(by Kerberos)

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1) Owayki/Phoenix Belt
2) Iflar/Warriors of Owayki
3) Owayki/Phoenix Belt
4) Xelfe/Mipedian Balladeers' Flute
5) Xelfe/Mipedian Balladeers' Flute
6) Headmaster Ankhyja, Seeker of the Arts(OR Prince Mudeenu Champion of the Guard)/Bi-Mowercycle

After hearing Kerb's (LONG) explanation on BattleGear and Creatures, I'd have to say he made very good choices of having Phoenix Belt on Owayki, and since he's Sacrificing Gear, even if he doesn't have a Bodal's Arsenal, Owayki's Power will go to Iflar anyway. And besides that, Kerb mentioned something I didn't even know till now: It's "Mipedians you Control," not just the Equipped Creature! Makes it great for any kind of extra-Mugic Counters Army. And besides that, it's flipped facedown at the end of Combat, but there's still the possibility of an Ozlai's Wreck since Headmaster's "Untargetable" doesn't cover your Creature's BattleGear(unless I'm mistaken). Still, a very rare occurance.

Then you have 8 counters as Hybrid, and then Range on Headmaster for Defending the Xelfe's(even though he has low Energy). It's still pretty awesome. Great choices of Creatures and BattleGear.

Song of Shelter x2
Melody of Mirage x2
Strain of Expensive Delusions
Fanfare of the Vanishing

Again, even listening to Kerb's long speech, I liked these Mugic before he explained them. Why, you ask? Well, it's Mugic from BEFORE the Invasion, you don't see that anymore, Melody of Mirage is always a great one(even though the OverWorld now has Symphony of Shielding), Strain of Expensive Delusions can always get rid of a pesky Mirage(AKA Mipedim Mirage) and Fanfare of the Vanishing gives you Strike 15 for ONE Counter! Very good Mugic, you don't even need to double-check them!

Turbulence Funnel x2
Velocitrap x2
Poison Steam x2
Meditative Leap x2
Obscuring Winds x2
Synaptic Acceleration x2
Airsault x2
Academy Strike x2
Atmosfear x2
Poison Sphere x2

Great attacks. I like the idea of recycling through your Attack Deck for better attacks, really good choice, AND you get to do 10 base damage while you're at it! You can always skip the 100 Speed boost with Obscuring Winds if you've already used it once, which is also a great choice. The only Attack I don't really like is Poison Steam, but you can always skip it with the 4 Attack Recyclers.

Broken Edge x2
Mipedim Lounge x2
Mipedim Mirage x2
Mipedim Oasis x2
Mipedim Valley x2

I also like the Valley(and nice choice of all Mipedim Locations, haha). There could be a downside with Lounge, but there's always the risk that you could get 10 additional damage too, so why not? You could always play Strain to get rid of it(with the risk of destroying your own BattleGear). Very good Locations.

As always, Kerb has a lot of Originality to what kind of Army to make, he always finds great Combos to use(that Warriors of Owayki might be tough to beat, unless there's a Discord of Disarming. Even so, he's got a lot of Strike to watch out for).

I give it a 10/10. There's nothing he hasn't thought of that could make this Army beat, even with the downside of the Lounge (which might not even be drawn at all!).

--Rooster5man

I'm not going to be very active soon...

Why... Welll I'm in High school right... and semester 1 is ending friday.... That's right... finals.... FINALS! ARGH I know, I don't like it either, it's one week of H***, but I'll truck through and once (since we can get recommended not to write a final, but we have to write two no matter what) I finish my exams I will be able to have some free time in there somewhere, so I'll make a deck FOR SURE!

Just one quick question.

NAME A CREATURE!

What is the Metagame... Exactly?

Well? ...

What is it? Hmm?

No answer? Not Easy to Define is it?

I said the same thing, but then I found this statement by somebody somewhere.

“The metagame refers to the game universe outside of the game itself.”

Now what does that mean? Gawd All of these questions! Well what the above quote means is that the metagame is anything that affects the game, that shouldn’t. So for example, Hikeda and I are having a match, and In the terms of the game, I should have no preconception of to what kind of deck Hikeda will use, but since I know the guy fairly well ( as well as you can through skype and an internet card game :P) I know that he will probably use Underworlders. And from my knowledge of underworlders I know that they are usually high damage dealing decks, so therefore I have a small understanding of what style Hikdea might play.

QUICK, Think of what Deck Hikeda will play, Creatures, EVERYTHING!

...

You thought of a typical Burn Deck Right? Don’t lie. You probably did, Don’t worry EVERYONE did. So I just thought of what deck Hikeda will play. So I can already assume a way to counter-act it, like for example, With massive healing, or a mugic negation deck.

Now this is ALL happening before I even started the Match! I could be completely and utterly wrong and he could use one of Keekers’ overworld decks.

My point here... Try to avoid the metagame ENTIRELY! In otherwords, try your absolute hardest, everytime you go into a match to have no preconceptions of what deck the opposition will be useing. Now that is not saying Don’t go in expecting nothing. Just expect anything!

Just try this next time you play your best friend and you’ll be surprised at how different you’ll play.

Kerb.

REMINDER!

Remember that contest I put out a month ago, This one --> THIS ONE

Yeah that's still on. I'll give it about a week and right now I only about three entries, so... Yeah...