Anti-Birb Burn

This page is the original "Guide to Beating the Matriarch."
:The following deck is a legacy deck. It has lost its potency, either due to nerfs or power creep, but was still significant enough to warrant posting.
Matriarch is by far the most powerful AI in BLOX Cards. Unlike the other AI in the game, she is nigh-impossible to beat with any conventional meta deck and entirely impossible to beat with something randomly slapped-together - you must instead create a specialized deck to fight her.
This guide contains one of many possible such decks and explains how to use it.
__TOC__
== Stats ==
Name: Anti-Birb Burn 	The name of the deck, pretty self-explanatory.
Creator: ProjectSlayer 	The creator of the deck.
Deck Colors: Red/Green/White (Rainbow)	Most of your fighters are red/green/white, yet seven of your cards are yellow, and you can expect to summon a share of yellow/blue fighters through RNG.
Deck Type: Burn, Control 	You deal all of your damage directly to enemy life, but you also do a lot of controlling.
Goldfish: 10-20 	This is a pretty fast deck.
Consistency: 5/5 	Your first hand will generally be good, and you'll be fine even if it's not. Even if you get five actions, you'll be fine. You got this!
Complexity: 2/5 	You need to know how to play BLOX Cards, and a bit beyond that, but this deck is extremely forgiving. It's designed such that you can always comeback. You can lose with it, but you basically have to be doing that on purpose.
Accessibility: 3.5/5 	This deck has some rares and one epic, but no legendaries whatsoever.
Versatility: -5/5 	Only good against AI (and not even good against ones with different AI scripts like Trash Can). Against other players, it's a literal joke deck.
Popularity: 0.01/5 	Burn is not that good imo. It's expensive and easily falls short of actually killing your opponent. That said, it's very good against Matriarch because you can icon gen freely for the whole game. Also it's fast.
== Decklist ==
 
FIGHTERS
Lunar Acolyte x3
Recruiter of the Titans x2
Creptiqal x3
Calamity Box x1
Titan of the Holy Chamber x1
Dead Tree x2
Tomspick x1
PassTheToiletPaper x2
Saiier x3
Classy Bear x1
Meeboid Cultist x1
Meebling x2
ACTIONS
Epic Sauce x1
Sorry! x4
Sands of Purgatory x2
Dragon's Charm x2
Tom's Beans x2
Bowl of Greed x3
Trick or Treat x4
== How to Play ==
This deck relied entirely on two key ideas:
1) Matriarch has to sacrifice eight birds to summon Bird Colossus. That meant if you put a non-bird card into play on her side of the field, she'd be unable to summon her trump card for the entire game.
Therefore, the first thing you want to do is block Colossus by using Bowl of Greed, Trick or Treat, or (old) Saiier before she can summon it. She can usually do this first or second turn, but rarely takes longer. You will usually be able to beat her to the punch, as those actions together are represented by ten cards. (25% of your deck.)
2) Matriarch's AI doesn't attack fighters with zero power for whatever reason, EXCEPT COLOSSUS. Sometimes her other birds will attack powerless fighters in case of random fluke, but not often.

Because of this, almost every fighter in this deck has no power. The exceptions are Saiier (who has 50 power), The Forgotten One through your Titans, and most random fighters summoned through Calamity Box or Trick or Treat.
If you fail to block Bird Colossus, you still have ways to win. You won't be able to outpace the Colossus's lifeburn while it's also tearing through one of your fighters every turn. However! You can use Tom's Beans to return Colossus to Matriarch's hand and immediately block its return by summoning a fighter in its place.
Also, as an alternative to that, Titan of the Holy Chamber is included in this deck, as well as sufficient icon gen of every color, allowing you to summon The Forgotten One, immediately turning everything on Matriarch's side of the field into a smear.
Your PassTheToiletPapers combined with cards like Sorry!, Dragon's Charm, Sands of Purgatory, and Epic Sauce will deal a lot of damage, especially if you have both your PTTPs out. You have 18 action/terrain cards in total, almost half your deck. Go wild.
A brief note: Titan of the Holy Chamber's effect works on all birds except Colossus, including Bird of Eternal Paradise which is immune to power reduction. This is cause Holy Chamber sets power, not lowers. Classy Bear on the other hand, does not work on green birbs.
Classy Bear is mostly included to make the deck more fun! <3
However, the Matriarch has recently chosen to be merciful, and not cast her Colossus or use Blacken the Skies to avoid fatigue.
In addition, the AI has also been updated in order to allow it to attack 0 Power fighters.
== How to Beat ==
If someone played this against you for some reason... just destroy their fighters, they have zero power. Unless you're playing the same deck they are, in which case you've got to... sort of hack away at their fighters with Saiier. Best of luck.
== Other Anti-Bird Decks ==
There's a surprising amount of ways to beat Matriarch once you start thinking about the problem and surfing through cards that everyone knows are garbage-tier.
The most obvious ways to beat her are fatigue and the three victory cards (Permafrost Storm, InceptionTime, and Eye of Heaven), but there are other, weirder, possibilities running cards like Megalodon the Dragon-Shark, Priestess Zanzel, the Promised One, and Giftsplosion.
There's also abusing the fact that the Matriarch will rarely get fighters with more than 300 Power with TheJazzCat22. You can use the Scion of the Price Floor and the new Roblox Titanic to make it difficult for the Matriarch to spam.
This is the best deck I've come up with so far, but maybe give the challenge a try yourself, see if you can come up with something cooler or more efficient. Matriarch is a puzzle to solve more than a one-and-done AI like the others.
Other Decks
Anti-Matriarch Mill. This deck mills the Matriarch to induce Fatigue.
<poll>
Would you recommend this deck (Anti-Birb Burn)?
Yes
No
</poll>
Category:Legacy Decks