I've noticed a lot of Brainstorm decks have little to no environments so for kicks I decided to make an all healing deck and it works pretty good.Main strategy is to play in only one or two lanes at a time and rush the healing loop. Thankfully their deck usually consists of four Regifting Zombies so you should be able to get multiple copies of the same cards to replace any lost. Their constant aggro should supply you with the health resupply needed for max healing damage and you won't be killing many zombies due to your focus on passive damage, rather than direct damage, so you shouldn't have to worry too much about a Valk since your opponent theoretically will have less and less zombie deaths to stack up on.Good luck!

Good advice. I will check this.I suggest to add mechanic ketchup...seems pretty effectiva

Valk is OP, Heartichoke is OP, Valk goes out of fashion, Heartichoke goes out of fashion. M Monument is released! Valk is back! Heartichoke is back!I think what the dev team should do is nerf Valk, and then nerf Heartichoke, and then un-nerf Valk, and then un-nerf Heartichoke. Then we truly will have come full circle.

Have you tried using Rescue Raddish w/Buddies? This is the 🌹 deck I run... now of course I’m a Zombies first guy, but like I said in another post I won my first 2/5 stars on my way to UL this season with plant decks most of the way there... and even though I thought this deck was silly when I made it, it was tops 1-2 in win percentage.(I went small with 🌹, saving her superpowers for big stuff, and made sure I had a water presence... freezing threat zombies and taking small damage to the face to trigger block also worked for me... I’m not sure I reccomend the deck overall but Rescue Raddish in particular shines here.)

@jj48car yeah... I feel like you either have to make sure you win the environment game or refuse to play it. I have one Rustbolt deck for instance that plays 4x Terrify mostly to drag Heatichokes off of Venus Flytrapplanets and Soul Patches off of Force Fields.@thecakeisalie I have yet to craft a plant Legendary, but I have to say that Birds is easily in my top five favorite cards (either side), and most of my smarty plant decks now aim to play and protect it as soon/as long as possible.

Been running Ketchup Mechanic for a while now. Great card all around. Usually guarantees me a zombie kill in the process.

The Return of Heartichoke Healing Loop

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Anonymous
7 years ago
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Good advice. I will check this.

I suggest to add mechanic ketchup...seems pretty effectiva
ThCakeIsALie
7 years ago
Been running Ketchup Mechanic for a while now. Great card all around. Usually guarantees me a zombie kill in the process.
ThCakeIsALie
7 years ago
Here's a snapshot of me about to play the game winning card.

Pretty much what I did was waited until he got me low enough. I had 10 sun to use and 5 valuable cards. Pepper MD, 2 Lil Buds, Heartichoke, and the Venus Flytraplanet healing environment. I was down to ONE health (extremely risky). With 2 Lil Buds I managed to power my way back up to 15 health and my Heartichoke's attacks kept powering him up even more. Once he played the Nurse I was like, "Forget you man! Take that!"

In another game I didn't get any healing cards dispite half my deck being healing. Weird. I died to a PBS valk deck as usual.
puntwothree
7 years ago
Valk is OP, Heartichoke is OP, Valk goes out of fashion, Heartichoke goes out of fashion. M Monument is released! Valk is back! Heartichoke is back!

I think what the dev team should do is nerf Valk, and then nerf Heartichoke, and then un-nerf Valk, and then un-nerf Heartichoke. Then we truly will have come full circle.
ThCakeIsALie
7 years ago
I would love to play my other fun decks more, but the atmosphere on ranked gives me little wiggle room. Its taken me twice as long to move up through the ranks than the prior seasons.
puntwothree
7 years ago
Have you tried using Rescue Raddish w/Buddies? This is the 🌹 deck I run... now of course I’m a Zombies first guy, but like I said in another post I won my first 2/5 stars on my way to UL this season with plant decks most of the way there... and even though I thought this deck was silly when I made it, it was tops 1-2 in win percentage.

(I went small with 🌹, saving her superpowers for big stuff, and made sure I had a water presence... freezing threat zombies and taking small damage to the face to trigger block also worked for me... I’m not sure I reccomend the deck overall but Rescue Raddish in particular shines here.)
ThCakeIsALie
7 years ago
I haven't gotten a Bird of Paradise yet so when I do I may come back and revisit your deck. I'll test out Rescue Radish and see how it goes!
jj48car
7 years ago
Ugh. Stuff like this is why every single Zombie deck I build has four cheap Environments, whether the deck needs them or not.
ThCakeIsALie
7 years ago
If they patch Valk, I'll be more inclined to play my more fun decks.
puntwothree
7 years ago
@jj48car yeah... I feel like you either have to make sure you win the environment game or refuse to play it. I have one Rustbolt deck for instance that plays 4x Terrify mostly to drag Heatichokes off of Venus Flytrapplanets and Soul Patches off of Force Fields.

@thecakeisalie I have yet to craft a plant Legendary, but I have to say that Birds is easily in my top five favorite cards (either side), and most of my smarty plant decks now aim to play and protect it as soon/as long as possible.