I promise I am including a long story in this one.. and I think people are more interested in my decks and the descriptions first, and here I would like to explain my bans, and it is not a risky one,furballdn.. after I have explained this, it is not a gambit at all after you know my thought process.
First I will discuss on my bans first, how I got to them. I had a casual conversation with a few members in the community just to see their view on the bans this time, and i have to say * wow, this ban/halve/limit is way difficult... * some even pointed out they are lucky they are not in the trial this time 
Ravingrabbid, you make us think too much !!
First I have a long look at furbs decks, and I have to say this.. he played monofire with splashes most of the time, no offence furbs, but you use explosions a lot. I narrowly loss to you in phase 2 due to my lack of pc. unlike certain players, permanent control does not affect them much, but in your case I know it is different. And the loss of explosion in round 10 is the reason why my team lost war last time. Bearing that in mind, I fix my ban on explosion. It is a good card to ban, though some may said not as good as phoenix and bolt. But I think I choose right. Having furbs to play 2 matches of explosions( had i choose to limit instead of banning it), furbs has 2 games of explosions which may cause me 2 games. reason here is I am thinking of going the shield route against him this time. one more note though, just saying furbs, you do not play cc often. If you are rushing, you have no cc only pc, and if you are stalling, then only you pack cc. so shield to slow you down is the best way.
Then comes the bolt issue, I at first limit both phoenix and bolts. so now I am using 17 points already. now I only have 15 points left, and this is when I realise limit has almost no power here, reason being the limited cards can be used once, and you have so many cards to limit. with my shield route plus no enemy pc, bolts for 2 rounds could cost me 2 games. with extra 5 points in halving it, I can assure myself furbs can no longer use firebolt to otk me, and can use the bolts more for cc usage. but then, with furbs style of lacking cc, and having rage potions to replace bolts for cc is better. so with extra 5 points in halving bolt, I cripple furbs otk firestall. i would have ban bolts, but it is too expensive (13 points). but if I do this way, (halve and limit) i only use 10 points, with extra 3 points to spare. and in a way, I have already banned bolts. i definitely do something about phoenix no doubt about that, especially since I decided to go the shield route, and fire creatures are killable, except phoenix. well at least all i can do is limit him to 2 rounds.
with that 22 points gone, I have a heavy discussion whether it is better to have 5 limits, or 2 bans, i cannot decide, but in the end I went with 5 limit, and this is the one time I am very unsure of about my decision. and i am still torn between removing my halve for bolts to have 10 limits, or stand firm in my plan.I choose the latter. for the last 2 days, my username goes from glenncracked, to glennrecovering, to glenncrackedagain, to glennfoorecovered. i think chat notice this as well. anyway I have a big list to limit, and I have calindu help me to narrow it down. thanks cal.
In other words, i actually expected you to limit dims, or banning them. same goes to bonewall which you did. well, for now I cannot tell you anymore because I have my own secret to keep for my own future trials. and I do not want opponent predicting me lol. You do not do something about dims, and this is your mistake I think.
I manage to limit your decks to this for the 9 games. 1 bw deck, 1 discord deck, 1 dims deck, immogolem deck, I voodoo/dusk mantle deck, and the rest I have to leave it to RNG. 
is balanced enough to play with any element, and I cannot cover earth duo, time duo, aether duo,water duo.
so here, I think my bans are not a risky gambit at all. it is actually one of the best I can think off already, furbs. and I know this cross your mind too.
so game 1
yup, I predicted bonewall. playing it any later will make me counter you late game, since we do not do anything about water. And you mention * glenn going to dims stall me?* before we start our first game, and that confirms it better. you plan to use this op cards to get the first few wins first, then solve the dims problem later. well, nothing much i can say here, waited for him to play 4 poisons then I just purify.
game 2[/color][/b]
I do not know why, but I know i am going to see discord.. i must play my minor phoenix this time, and with my 19 upgrades, I should not have problem getting it out. yup saw the discord, and I already got 3 minor phoenix out. it is a race of damage, but of course late turns discord will troll its master, since without blackhole, it have to stop trolling its enemy somewhere. gave me 5 quanta for dims, which i play it and later fractal. even Rain of Fire cannot stop me. Lucky mindgate here.
game 3[/color][/b]
going for a surprise here with fractal dragons. I expected dims also, so i have defrags ready. saw the light mark, and he put up reflective on the second turn. i am still smiling when I realise the fatal flaw in my deck, I could not otk him.. max quanta is 75, means i can get out only 7 dragons, totalling 84 damage, the best i can do is 2tk. and only 3 rof, 3 miracle, and he drew both copies of them!! went for first attempt to 2tk, he rain of fire and miracled. went for second attempt, he rain of fire and miracled again, ok ok you win already. bolt and rage potion would give me a chance, but well my luck cannot go on forever.
and to think I am smiling when I see the light mark 
game 4I mindgated him correctly again. he is going to come to me with a bigger firestall than just now. I just need to make sure I have bigger firestall then him. well the rest of my cards are useless. only ss and explosion. draw 2 of them to destroy 2 of his farenheit. even without ss i think i can win, but after i cast the 2nd ss, furbs quit to save us time. my golems is there in case I need to break a stall. well they got killed though
game 5[/color][/b]
i expected dims, but i am not sure what he will field anymore. since I won 3 games already, i am pretty confident to go 1 game with this. turns out it is an immogolem deck which I have forgotten he could field 
lost before i can do anything. But then i now notice the one card which I don like furbs playing. momentum. i have been considering to limit this over steal, but anyway nevermind, I know he is coming with immogolem next for sure.
game 6yup a big firestall is the answer. stall breaks rush right?? had i put bb instead of ss, I think I could have win. but i also considered he may play light stall, so i end up going with ss .it is a mistake though. but still i pack all the cc i can find, make it smaller so that i can draw all cc i want. I thought he had use his phoenix twice, but nah, he use it again here, and this is where I mention phoenix may be a problem for my shield route. sud have gone with fireshield as well. but anyway, this deck stand a chance, so i thought. men, i cc everything he has, but the only creatures he play is elite graboid, lave destroyer, minor phoenix, unstoppable, cremation, what the .... he definitely field 6 photons, that leaves him with 3 unupped. i am very suspicious here already. but well have to see his ss for that. before I can ss, he pop up a minor phoenix, unstoppable it, and I loss before I click fn+print screen. I still regretted I play ss instead of basilisk blood. would have won thoughwell we hold off our game and decided to finish the rest the next day. and I spent the last 18 hours making my final 3 decks. well, the next morning, furbs told me he used extra 1 upgrade... I have spent a month for this, and though I am not that happy to win like this, I still take the win, or else I will blaim myself if I end up losing. sorry furbs, but if there is one thing I want to say, you are a very sportsmanship person, you could have kept quiet about it, and just take the win, and I will have nothing to prove. thank you furbs for that though. It took a great deal of courage to admit mistake like this, and I appreciate it.
and the most important, my thanks goes to calindu. seriously, i do not know how to repay him. during the last 18 hours, he took 9 hours of the time to help me. he is my greatest help during budokan, and he still help me in this trial. I may have cracked my head open if he cannot tell me this sentence, * glenn, you cannot counter everything, just go with your guts *. I do not know how to appreciate the hours you spent with me, and I also do not know how to repay them. But if you wish to be in Fire Team, I will make sure u are in, even if I have to spent 24 points for you. unless of course, you want to be in other team. i wish you all the best in this trial, really all the best calindu. i hope you will be the entrophy master. no offence kev, I just hope you understand. he supported me too much and I am indebted. he had his own matches to cover, but he spent 9 hours with me when he could use the time for himself. I am just speechless. well this deck would have been my most valuable player here, and i plan to have this as my 7th deck.
change faren to electocutor, and put in ruby dragon. with his lack of cc in immorush, this dragon is a beauty. tested and went 6-0 against his immorush. i even fractal his golem for my attack
my eight deck may be this
and my last deck is likely to be this. it all depends though
well I have a detailed report here already
just to make it like a report, this is my ss when i stop farming for gold for my trials
i sign up with 210096 electrum, then earned until 300000+ electrum, but only spent 50000 + electrum. i thought with 19 upgrades i need to spent a lot of money. looks like early fire upgrades help with the cost
And now, this is my official post as the 500th post in the forum. I am now the senior member in the community. Have been planning to make this my 500th one instead of the epic post thread. I am going to refrain from posting anything for a while lol. well, if you like my report, I don't mind some rep spent 4 hours on this lol
time to get back to my real life a lot to catch up to do[/color][/b]
