The Mono-Race Challenge

If the game is balanced, then every obstacle should, presumably, be something that can be tackled by any race in their own way, without needing other race’s cards. Personally I think that only Imperials and Xenos have anything like this capability, but I’m happy to get proved wrong.

So! The basis of this challenge is to make a deck for each raid (if you also put out workable mono-offensive/defensive decks that work for everyday missions/faction wars, bonus, but it’s not mandatory) that would work.

Rules

The standard limitations to deck-building apply – any number of non-uniques/legends you might conceivably get your hands on are fair game, regardless of expense. Action cards may be included without race-restriction.
If you can actually check the deck in action and verify its effectiveness, more power to you.

Easy Mode: Your free choice of Commander-race, Structures may be of any faction, your assault must all be mono-race.

Standard Mode: Commander must be of the same faction. Structures may be of any faction.

Hard Mode: No cards outside of your chosen race.

Nightmare Mode: No action cards, only Structures and Assault of your chosen race are allowed.

In all instances, a 50% minimum win-rate is recommended, I’d accept “chance in hell” for BT right now.

Mono-race decks provided for (Italics denotes absence, Bold indicates the challenge was met):
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Arctis Vanguard: Imp/Raid/Xeno/BT Done!
Xeno Walker: Imp/Raid/Xeno/BT *Done!
Siege on Kor: Imp/Raid/Xeno/BT Done!

Imperial Purger: Imp / Raid / Xeno / (BT)
Enclave Flagship: Imp / Raid / Xeno / BT
Oluth: Imp / Raid / Xeno / BT
Tartarus Swarm: Imp / Raid / Xeno / BT

Some good decks so far, hoping for some non-repeats now for the uncovered races/factions.

Imperials have a mono-deck for every raid, good work everyone!
Good work for getting the BT a mono-deck guys, they were seriously under-represented.

Four raids with gaps, can they be done mono-colour?

Nightmare Tartarus Swarm:

Thadius/Freddie/Eva:
5 Irradiated Infantry
Tiamat
Titan
3 Sabre

Nightmare Enclave FLagship:

Vyander
9 Daemon
Xeno Mothership

Originally posted by Deminish:

Nightmare Tartarus Swarm:

Thadius/Freddie/Eva:
5 Irradiated Infantry
Tiamat
Titan
3 Sabre

I think you’d quickly be overrun by Spawns; II without Atlas support can’t do the crucial 3 damage.

Edit: Oh, yeah; didn’t see you mentioned Thadius.

Oluth Raid Deck

Vyander
Daemon 2x
Stealthy Niaq
Enclave Champion 2x
Dominated Hatchlings 2x
Ragnarok
Rifter
Xeno Mothership

Nightmare Arctis Vanguard:

Freddie:
10 II

Duncan:
10 Impulse walker

Vyander:
10 Dominated Hatchlings

Malort:
10 Vampire

Originally posted by Tafkam:

Originally posted by Deminish:

Nightmare Tartarus Swarm:

Thadius/Freddie/Eva:
5 Irradiated Infantry
Tiamat
Titan
3 Sabre

I think you’d quickly be overrun by Spawns; II without Atlas support can’t do the crucial 3 damage.

Can if you use Thadius

Originally posted by Tafkam:

Originally posted by Deminish:

Nightmare Tartarus Swarm:

Thadius/Freddie/Eva:
5 Irradiated Infantry
Tiamat
Titan
3 Sabre

I think you’d quickly be overrun by Spawns; II without Atlas support can’t do the crucial 3 damage.

II deals 3 damage per turn, 2+1 poison with Thadius. I agree that with Freddie/Eva this would be questionable however.

Nightmare Siege on Kor:

Yurich:
3 Bolide Walker
Cannon Walker
Omega
2 Chronos
Havoc
Hydra
Bulldozer

hard mode: siege on kor

duncan

2 cannon walkers
1 hydra
1 omega
1 pelican
2 EMP
1 death from above
1 multi strike
1 destruction

as for mission and arena decks,

lord of tartarus

3 hatchets
1 festerich
1 mawcor
1 blight crusher
1 draconian queen
1 blight golem/1 bloodsprout
1 blood pool
1 blood wall/raging prowler

Nightmare Oluth

Yurich
5x Toxic Cannon
5x Hydra

(or mostly any combo with Goliath, Anvil, Mech Walker, Hydras, Toxic Cannons.)
Nearly 100% win rate. (a Nightmare stuck in front of a Hydra can cause problems)

Other raids are a bit difficult with mono-Raider :p

Nightmare Defense Deck:

Atlas/Yurich:
2 Command Center
7 Colossus
Dozer Tank

Eva/Freddie:

5 Trident
3 Sharpshooter
2 Arc Trooper

Dracorex:
6 Hatchet
1 Vampire
3 Asylum

Fear Rush:
Lord Of Tartarus:
4 Intruder
2 Asylum

Nightmare O-Deck:

Vyander
World Quaker
Daemon x2
Stealthy Niaq
Vaporwing
Enclave Champion
Ragnarok
Rifter
Predator
Mothership

Originally posted by Oraij:

Nightmare O-Deck:

Vyander
World Quaker
Daemon x2
Stealthy Niaq
Vaporwing
Enclave Champion
Ragnarok
Rifter
Predator
Mothership

Is this “O for offensive”, or for Oluth?

Updated first post with outstanding mono-decks unmade.

Nightmare Oluth:

Yurich:
2 Bolide walker
Hydra
Pelican
Dozer Tank
Pyro Rig
Mech Walker
Anvil
Chronos
Havoc

challenge again? reward?

Nightmare Xeno Walker:

Thadius:
10 Irradiated Infantry

Originally posted by Mastertek:

challenge again? reward?

E-peen, fun, exercise of your deck-building knowledge, and a way to kill your last day of a three day weekend. Take your pick really.

Nightmare Imperial Purger:

Yurich:
Omega
Pyro Rig
Havoc
3 Chronos
3 Bolide Walker
Anvil

I guess my decks aren’t going to be as effective as ones utilising all 4 races but I think I’ve taken a good pop at the challenge

Hard Xeno Walker

Yurich
6x Colossus
2x CC
2x EMP

This is the actual deck I use for XW. For the Nightmare challenge, subbing in more colossi for EMPs could still give you a good deck.

Nightmare mission/ Offensive deck (not tested on raids.)

Vyander

play in this order:
Mothership
Rifter
Hatchling
Predator

If no mothership first hand, save till end.

Works~ 90-95% in faction wars, even higher w/ missions.

Imperial Purger: Nightmare Imperial (Hard Imperial in parentheses)

Eva
Titan
Poseidon
Aegis
Fortifier
Sabre
Nimbus
Exodrone
Tiamat
Aquabat x2 (Full Power x2)

Win rate should be 70-75%, not bad considering the challenge I think.

Deminish: You’ve been great, covered a good number of decent mono-builds. It’s not about being the most effective, it’s about proving that mono-race decks are possible, I’d be pretty happy with a 50%+ win rate.

Well done to everybody so far!

Still no Imperials on:

SoK, EF or Oluth.

Still no Raiders on:

EF or Tartarus Swarm.

Still no Xeno on:

Xeno Walker, SoK, Imperial Purger or Tartarus Swarm.

Still no Bloodthirsty.

Any takers for these gaps? Can Bloodthirsty manage even one raid?

Nightmare Oluth, Xeno Walker 85-90% win rate in Oluth on auto, 90% Xeno Walker on Auto

Imperial deck
Freddie
-4x Trident
-3x Sharpshooter
-Titan
-Poseidon
-Helios
-Fighter Jet

mono BT off deck

Dementia/Dracorex
Malgoth
Drac Queen
3x Pummeller
Asylum
2x Blood Pool
2x EMP

mono Raider Off deck

Yurich
Bulldozer
Omega
Havok
Pyro Rig
NightStalker/Chronos x4
Missile Silo
EQG