(Entropy Sld) serprex 3-2 Zso_Zso (Light Gen)

[serprex]

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1 Zso played angels fastest here, early nymphs. Only had a couple cards
2 First turn discord. Lose. Deck out, Zso dithered his dims and sanct healing quite well. Holding pandes may've been an option if his 33 card deck didn't meta my 32 card deck (We'll go 32 cards in case they go 31 cards in case we go 30 cards... no one wonders: what if they go 33 cards?)
3 Zso drew no sancts/dims. Pande PU'd a win. My reflexes aren't fast enough to screenshot after remembering to screenshot while waiting for Discord to land kill
4 First turn discord. Lose. I tried rushing, didn't play early nymph until too late (In Zso's recording: I had nymph by time I played first dragon. I planned to play Nymph on round I cast Pande as I calculated having 9 quanta. But then I Pande'd because 7+7+8+7-7+8 is >32). Zso's early morning glory and an angel rushed faster (Also Dim, but I forget if it was necessary)
5 First turn discord. Rest quanta. Meanwhile Zso drew 1 pend. Early dragon and discord poked him down while I drew all my quanta. Could've taken a 1/12 chance of PU on a single angel near end, but didn't. Dim shield chain broke, played 2 dragons + 2 abominations

All close, so my nerves got really bad screenshots. Don't know if Zso will share his recordings
http://imgur.com/Is5XlZB,6WPEngd,PSLdXIC

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Game 1: won toss, first I thought it was a straight rush, I figured that should be no problem to beat with fractal-angels and dims. But then a nymph appeared  Then another  At that point I knew it was going to be nearly impossible to win with damage, no matter how well I try to splash...
But I had the bigger deck, so I might be able to play for deckout... Unfortunately, my last dim-shield was hiding in the bottom 3 cards, so I couldn't win that way.
LOSS 0-1  -- unfortunately, I botched up my first recording, so I do not have the video for this...

Game 2: lost toss, then early discord made my start rather difficult, but managed to get a sanctuary out eventually, then things turned better and this time I managed to space out my dims (with in-between turns relying on sanc healing to make it through) to get a deckout.
WIN 1-1 Gameplay video:  http://youtu.be/AP3ec4DeUcE

Game 3: Didn't draw dims, got outrushed pretty fast
LOSS 1-2  Gameplay video: http://youtu.be/707w28Ml0rs

Game 4: Fast damage draw for me, no nymphs on the other side, managed to win by damage for once.
WIN 2-2   Gameplay video: http://youtu.be/If9t4peg-bI

Game 5: early discord again, but got a lucky hit which brought my light quanta from 4 to 5 allowing me to play a sanc. Then everything seemed to go fine similarly to game-2, I figured I can make it to deckout, but serprex figured out my dims-spacing tactic and held back some creatures and splashed them when I left a holw betwen dims, so beat me that way. I had another dim in hand, but if I play it I would run out too early, so I had to risk it...
LOSS 2-3   Gameplay video: http://youtu.be/rg5buMbL3TI

Very intense and close games!

GG!

[Submachine]

We were countered in many ways with that deck. Good job with the 2 wins tho! ^^

(there's always a shine of hope thru the dense randomness)

[serprex]

I wouldn't say we countered you. It's Dim's "No PC GG" vs Purple Nymph's "No CC GG". You could say the matchup isn't as close as 3-2 because I suck and misplayed in game 4, but I was (almost) forced to: I needed to rush Zso to force his dim chain to be too early. This is a reason early discord wasn't useful: I wanted fast damage, rather than to slow him down

Over 30 card decks are a good way to break a dim chain, but Fractal's a good way to overwhelm Purple Nymphs
If a counter can't be negated by changing little things like quanta balance, then this isn't a counter. Zso would've won if he'd packed a 6th dim