Weekly Tournament - December 2nd - The More Popular Speedbuilding - Upgraded

[Wyand]

3rd place match

Wyand 2
jdcksimple2005 0

ggs

[Submachine]

Submachine - 2
Timdood3 - 1

GGs! Amazing games. More details soon.

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Tournament ended at 1:44:50 in the video.

[Submachine]

Congratulations for the winners!

https://challonge.com/XSpeed1202

1st: Submachine
2nd: Timdood3
3rd: Wyand
4th: jdcksimple2005

Time to post decks. Or rather, deck, because I only built and used one.

Trident Rush w/ 2 Bolts

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The name of the game was Ice Lances. Out of all the Ice Lances and Ice Bolts, only 3 didn't freeze instantly. Only one of those Lances were mine in the final game with Tim.

I am not sure if anyone else brought the lances to shut down opposing Tridents, but it worked out for me. There was no other PC, so I had to make them count.

I also thought of a PUgon deck with Lightnings and Lobo, but quickly dismissed any ideas that Poseidons counter.

[Timdood3]

I'm relatively happy with second place, though nowhere near recoups what I spent for upgrades in this tourney :c

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I used slight variations of these two decks for the first 5 games:

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Mono-Darkness

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Dark/Light Stall

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Then I decided I'd break down and upgrade a bunch of quanta pillars to play the diss field stall, hastily put together, but it did the job.

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Dissipation Field

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And the only deck I used in the finals (with slight modifications) was:

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Mono water

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Hell, to be honest I totally overlooked this deck.  Luckily, so did my opponents up to this point.  Got off to a fast start in game 1, didn't even need Poseidon.  Game 2 Sub did the same to me.  Game three I could've had a chance if my bolt had frozen him.  But it's my fault for not upgrading them to get another chance at it, so I'm not too fussed over it.

Out of all the Ice Lances and Ice Bolts, only 3 didn't freeze instantly. Only one of those Lances were mine in the final game with Tim.

But two of them were mine!

Overall, they were all good games and I had a great time.

[Wyand]

with two friggin' lances. incredible.

teach me how to achieve such luck.

posting decks and story later.

[Wyand]

Another mixed-feel tourney, with one overpowered card hard to counter.


2-1 against Moehrpi

0-1 Voodoo/Bloodsuckers vs. WW/Drag Rush

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My deck was just too slow for his one. Failed to draw a Dusk. (Should switch 1-2 Liquids to Dusks in hindsight.)

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1-1 Dis Shield stall vs. Water Rush

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No PC, so I thought Dis Shield will be good. And it shone. He mentioned that his crawlers crawled to the bottom of his deck,
but I don't think that would have changed too much, since I had enough CC in hand. I suspected he tries to cut down my hp
with maxed out Ice Lances but I forced him to use 2 of them on my Amethyst Dragon and its TU'd friend.

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2-1 Water Rush vs. Pharaoh

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Prepared this deck just for this game. Steam Machines are good against CC plus they can hit hard after a while against a Dis Shield stall,
Crawlers are just pure dmg, while Puffer Fish can add some annoying poison dmg.

He had some horribly bad luck. Hand full of pillars and pends! After that he drew a Silurian which kinda made me worry,
but he just drew pillars and pillars... until a Pharaoh, but that was very late. (Ultimately I think on average
my deck had more chance to win, without SoR Pharaohs are slow, and my critters were just too big to swallow quickly.)

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1-2 against Submachine

1-0 Mirror Match

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I correctly anticipated that he'll just play Tridents. While he was able to freeze my Trident with a simple (under 10 quanta) Ice Lance,
I won with a narrow margin (4hps, I think). Obviously was an rng battle.

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1-1 Dis Shield stall vs. Trident

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The game started, and I saw the earth mark. I'm doomed. He is playing that damned Trident again! Game over.

1-2 Trident Ice Lances vs. Trident

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I switched to a Trident variation - in case of he seems Trident-addicted. And it happened. Almost mirror match again.
My draw was better, I gained a small lead (enough to win), then we dc'd. I easily dispatched the AI, and hoped that the
AI will lead my deck to win, but... he has frozen my weapon again with a 30% chance Ice Lance. Aggravating, but rematch.

The rematch was catastrophic. My Trident got frozen again. Imagine that: through our entire match he has frozen my weapon
the 5th time with minimal chances (30%). Let's do the math: 0,3*0,3*0,3*0,3*0,3=0,00243. Which means, he had 0,243% chance to do that.
Funky. And he had only 2 Ice Lances in the entire deck! It doesn't really mattered that I was able to mimic his luck to a lesser extent
(freezing 3 crawlers in the same round with Lances), because that caused only some delay. Iirc I started only with 1 pillar + 1 pend,
that made things even worse.

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2-0 against jdcksimple2005

1-0 Trident Ice Lances vs. Stallish Dark/Aether

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I don't know what was the exact purpose of the deck since I just destroyed all PPMs, so he had a hard time playing anything.

2-0 Trident Ice Lances vs. Dis Field stall

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Trident OPness again. It made him quit early, which I truly understand.

[Wyand]

I'm relatively happy with second place, though nowhere near recoups what I spent for upgrades in this tourney :c

Bronze arena recoups and happy hours every day for 24 straight hours!