{Fire Final Battle} Napalm 5 - kevkev 4

[jmdt]

Gratz Napalm.  Well fought by you both.

[icecoldbro]

I missed it...
Well anyways Congratulations Napalm, Now we have a kirby riding phoenix who is also a mistress...
Well Blue Phoenix, out
I am sure these were great fights, and am dying to see deck's as fire is really flexible, and can be used in more than one way.

[plastiqe]

The torch has been passed from one superb Fire devotee to another.  It was fun watching the matches and doing my own little play by play, even with the limitations of spectate.  Congratulations to Napalm for winning the title in the 9th game, and thanks to kevkev for being a great master during his term.  Here's the winning moment from the stands:

[~Napalm]

Come the final battle, I put my trust in my signature deck, Fractix, even though it had failed me earlier. I didn't even draw a Fractal unfortunately, but spamming MP's was still enough though. Congratulations to kevkev for games well played and decks well made. You've been a great contribution to the Element of Fire and I surely hope you will continue to do so.

I'll be back to post my decks in the morning... it's past midnight and I'm tired after this rather stressful ordeal. No tourneys for me

[kev]

Congratulations to Napalm, the new Master (or Mistress, or whatever she desires to be called) of Fire!

Disclaimer: In the following spoilers you'll find the decks I used and videos for all the matches.  Not a lot of people do this and here's why: putting vids up is a painstaking process and the thanks you usually get is people pointing out your lack of creativity and terrible play.  I didn't spend the time I'd hoped to in selecting decks and I didn't play them perfectly for reasons I don't want to get into because I don't want to take the credit from Napalm that she absolutely deserves.  So feel free to point out things you might've done differently.  Just be aware that your tone may impact future players' decisions to share in the same way.

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Superweird draw.

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As TheIdioticIdiot pointed out repeatedly in chat, credit for deck design goes to Flash Fire here (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,20637.0.html).  I'd created this deck before seeing Flash's and before we banned cards.  I don't remember the original version perfectly, but it had something like 1 phoenix, 4 precogs, and 5 silence.  Anyway I happened upon Flash's deck after Napalm didn't ban immo and tested his.  His was better than mine.  By a lot.  But I ended up taking some hybrid.  Excellent deck, Flash!  I wish I'd had an opportunity to learn it better before using it...

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As you might be able to see we desync'd when I was pretty clearly gonna win due to Napalm's awful draw.  We replayed for kicks and she conceded when the outcome was clear.

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Edit: Rest of the vids will come in the morning.  It takes a while to load these things...

Some of these may be unrefined, use the wrong number of upped cards, etc.  There were more than this but some of them are in an even messier state.

Modded Dema, 30, earth
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Ams, phoenix, and dragons, 30, entropy
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RT, 30, Time
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Grabby and control, 30, earth
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Flying titan, 30, gravity
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Flying staff, 30, life
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oty, 31, gravity
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Voodoo, w/o gravpull, 31, darkness
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Dragon Powa, 30, aether
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Grabby/Destroyer, 30, earth
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Immophoenix, 30, fire
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*updated by TrO to include deck tags instead of old code tags, as this post is used as an example in the Phase 4 rules*

[TheonlyrealBeef]

Awesome work on the videos kev, looks like I can still watch the battles in a way not even spectate would allow ^_^

And of course, gratz Napalm!

[TheIdioticIdiot]

"As TheIdioticIdiot pointed out repeatedly in chat, credit for deck design goes to Flash Fire"
- kevkev60614

I didn't say it that many times... I think...

[Jappert]

Thanks alot for putting up the vids Kev! It is much much appreciated!
So much better quality then actually spectating, thanks again.

And gz Napalm! 

[MrBlonde]

First off thanks for the vids KevKev. You put a lot of time and effort into this and i watched the ones you posted. Anyhow just some critique but i'm sure you know the mistakes you made.

Games 1 through 4 - played pretty optimally.
Game 5 - You not using your precog before placing your first LG. I'm sure you would have held the LG back if you had. Unfortunately that one mistake looks like it caused that loss.
Game 6 - looks good there except for the fact you failed at getting a better draw  . 3 creatures, 1 immo, in your first 15 cards pretty much sealed your fate here.

Can't wait to see the rest of the vids KevKev.

[PlayerOa]

Congrats Napalm

And kev, epic videos

[GG]

Another female master (or mistress or whatever you ppl wanna call us) in our midst! XD

GG to both of you, and gratz napalm!

[TheIdioticIdiot]

Another female master (or mistress or whatever you ppl wanna call us) in our midst! XD

GG to both of you, and gratz napalm!

i call napalm nap, and you GG, or empress, depends