As a preamble, since I didn't know how the tourney would go, I decided to prepare my decks from ones which I made when I very first started prepping for pvping, many years ago, before I had a full selection of certain types of cards (I had played a 60 card rainbow deck as my sole deck for years prior to that). I did go through the decks and made adjustments via this tourney's rules and also to things which I noticed needed adjusting, but the idea of the decks were most certainly from back then. I did prepare a couple others, just in case, which I never used.
Now mind you, I would have preferred to not restrict any card, right before the tourney, which is part of the reason that I chose the Shard of Sacrifice, as it wasn't integral to most nonpdials decks. I also thought that with Miracle banned, that Pdials wasn't as likely to be played, so wouldn't be missed much. That, and in addition, while I did have some Death decks which I had originally done, I hadn't prepared those and was trying to pick something that wouldn't cancel out more of my prepared decks.
My order of round robin battles was against Doctor C, then Zyardran, then Wyand. I probably need to do some pvp testing duels with someone(s) to see if I was the cause of all the desyncs which happened, or not. That was quite frustrating. I believe that my games with Doctor C went well, but all the others desync'd. Oh, fun little tidbit, I think that I lost the coin toss for each game, lol.
Not knowing anything about Doctor C, I had already decided to do the deck which was the very first one I made for pvp. I went for Fractaling Life creatures, particularly upgraded Scorpions. I must have mostly had Life Pendulums for my quanta, as about all I could ever play was one (or a rare 2) Scorpions a turn. Yes, I had plenty of Aether quanta so I did Fractal Scorpions early, which caused a lot of Poisoning. However, I don't believe that I ever drew my Shield, I never drew my Electrocutor, and I never had the quanta later to play my three Empathic Bonds or the one Green Nymph which I finally drew. If I had had more quanta, I believe that the results would have differed. So instead of not playing a creature on some turns so that I could play my Empathic Bonds, I opted for getting creatures out early and then hopefully would be better able to heal later with more creatures out, but I was just too late. When he killed me, I wasn't sure if it would be the end or not (it was close). If I had survived that attack, he might have died my next turn, as the poisoning was quite large, but I don't remember precisely. Initially his attacks were mild as he simply flew multiple Druidic Staffs. It was when he finally got a Green Nymph out which turned the tide. This was my favorite match as it was quite the duel, poisoning against healing.
Fractaling Life
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Lava Destroyer
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Chaos Power'd Wyrms
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Fractal Devourers and Vampires
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This is the game which I definitely won. Yes, it desynch'd, but she only drew one Quantum Pillar. So she couldn't play much, while I had a field of cards such as Phoenixes out. She hated the bad RNG, so temporarily left the game, until Wyand got her back. Unless I misunderstood some prior text of her saying that she won against the AI, I actually only won 1 – 0, which was that last game. But I'm not complaining. I would have played another game had she wanted to, but those desynchs were horrible, so I can't blame her at all.
Fire
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Fractal Devourers and Vampires
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We played the same deck again and this time his Discord did a number on me because my hand was filled with high cost quanta cards such as all my Green Nymphs and my shields. I don't think that I ever even had the quanta to play an Empathic Bond, so if I guess correctly, all I got out was a Scorpions or two(?), because I don't remember having drawn a single staff.
Adrenalize'd Flying Druidic Staffs
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