Pretty close duels all in all; chain Dimensional Shields saved the day. That
mark had me scared for a second when I saw it, but quickly realized this wasn't some form of Dimensional Shield stall (shields would have killed me here for obvious reasons).
5c6 5c6 5c8 5c8 5c8 5c8 5c8 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 622 622Game 1: Really good starting hand: Pendulums, a Shield or two, and a couple of Forest Scorpions. I reserved playing all my scorpions just to check out what he was packing, saw one get Lightning'd and then realized: "This ain't no stall." Discord dropped, screwed up my quanta for a few turns until my quanta production countered the confounded contraption and then dropped the first Dim Shield. After this it was pretty much elementary: Plague of scorps ran him over, 1-0.
Game 2: It was going okay for a while until my classic fail moment came into play. I had two options: play a Dim Shield or Fractal a Scorp. My ornery lab partner in the background continued to whine about not understanding how to properly recreate the molecular structure for cyanide as I attempted to calculate the amount of quanta I would have on the turn before my Dim Shield expired...which was all good and well except I miscalculated how many more turns my Dim Shield had before expiring. The end result caused the Shield to fall, Discord screwed over my remaining quanta and I never could recover myself. To be fair though, even if I had played my shield instead of Fractal that turn, I doubt I would have had enough damage on the board to counter him before he could kill me. I lost with 3 Shields and a Bond in my hand, 1-1.
Game 3: Disappointed in myself for making such a careless mistake last time, I excused myself for a moment to complete the duel in solitude so as not to become distracted again. This was pretty similar to the first duel, my plague of Scorpions brought him down as I sat safe behind my chain of shields. I believe he died with 26 poison on him.
Great games vagman, I'm glad we could find the time to complete our match without subbing needing to be done
