(Time) Lt. Dragonsdemesne 3 - 1 (Fire) Dogg

[dragonsdemesne]

Great games; game 1 especially had me nervous   Camstudio farted so I have no video this time, and I'm going by memory with the reports.

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Game 1: Had about an average draw.  Had graboids and a ghost out vs baby phoenixes and lava golems.  I'm a bit short on quanta, and so I try to save RTs for good moments.  I hit a golem with RT, he plays a dragon, and I RT that.  A few turns of rush vs rush later, he has 28hp and I have 27 damage on the field.  The only card that will prevent me from losing is a nova, which will let me play a graboid.  I draw nova, and praise the RNG.  1-0

Game 2: I have 1 pillar in hand and a lot of rainbow cards.  The pillar gets deflagged.  I get a couple unevolved graboids in play off the mark, but just sit there discarding on my other turns.  Easy win for Dogg.  1-1  (even had he saved the deflag, he'd almost certainly have won, just by less of a margin)

Game 3: Decent hand here.  Early Fate Egg hatches into Purple Dragon.  Paired with a couple graboids, it's a pretty easy win.  Dogg seemed to have a pretty bad hand here; he didn't play many creatures.  Last turn I topdeck nova to win 1 turn earlier with an evolve I couldn't have done otherwise (dogg deflagged my factory again) and I could've played nightmare and arse, but I save them in hand; I don't need them to win, and Dogg has not seen me use them yet, so I keep it that way.  2-1

Game 4: I couldn't have given myself a better hand if I'd picked it myself.  2x nova, graboid, egg, fog, arse, factory.  I topdeck nova and play my entire hand turn 1.  I evolve the graboid first, and once I get time quanta (forget if it was pillar or nova) the Egg evolves into an armagio.  Dogg deflagged my arsenic, but I had too many creatures for him.  I nightmared my armagio at the end to make sure he couldn't topdeck an answer.  3-1

[Dogg]

GGs, dragon guy

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That was epic. I have never seen something like that. Dragon played very good and his draws... it was like he was looking at his deck and drawing what he wanted, when he wanted. Then he decided that he can evolve fate eggs into whatever he wants also. After game one, i realized he was packing quite a bit of RTs, he was relying on time quanta very much and he didn't have many pillars/pends - so i started deflagging those as soon as i could. Usually just kept one deflag in hand if i felt threatened by a possible fog shield.

[deuce22]

*watches slowly die out*

not much you could have done here dogg

[RavingRabbid]

A mono loss. It must hurt.

[willng3]

No Ash showing here.

[Jocko]

[dragonsdemesne]

GGs.

Yeah, I definitely wished in retrospect that I'd had more pillars/pends.  The deck I'd designed for myself was a bit different and had a few more, but it got modded a bit while I was at work   I was actually expecting to go against bone wall/firebolt after seeing the other decks you guys used this round, so when I saw the mark of fire I was relieved, as I figured I could beat monofire.  I got a lucky topdeck game 1 and the most broken hand ever in game 5, and the worst possible hand in game 2, so it could definitely have gone either way here.

Some of what might have seemed like my topdecking novas was because I wasn't playing them until I needed the quanta, to keep Dogg in the dark, but at least one or two were simply lucky topdecks (the game 1 one in particular, and the one I ended game 3 with, were both topdecks)  Dogg definitely played things right; I groaned inside when he deflagged my factories in a couple games.

[Dogg]

If you just topdecked that nova in game one, it would be just a little easier to understand, but topdecking it after already playing at least 3, that was wow!
We also originally planned to pack some CC, but decided that I'm too hot to have CC.

[dragonsdemesne]

Had I played that many already?  I know I'd played at least 1 that game; I may have played more but I can't remember now.  Either way it was still extremely lucky.

[Dogg]

Oh yeah, you just kept playing them, was crazy. I wish that that desync in game 3 did something to screw up the game    It just showed 2 dragons but there was again just one before they attacked. Happens a lot in pvp with fate eggs. Well, luck follows the brave, you deserved the win 

[inthisroom]

Thanks for making this awful round a little better.