Good games overall dawn. I really hope that you feel better after this and I appreciate the fact that you were honest enough that we could reschedule our battle considering what you've been going through.
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Game 1: Relatively good start on both our ends; I was starting to worry if he had a bunch of lightnings in his his, so I played cautiously and tried to retain my opening Steal. Once the game got going though, he starting to rack up a lot of poison damage through a few of his scorpions and I wasn't drawing much besides pillars and ghosts, so I went through with it anyway. He held a lot of cards in his hand to avoid nightmare issues, and eventually, after a last minute attempt to stop his damage (by stealing a 1-turn Dimensional Shield, doh), he just pushed on through to seal a 0-1.
Game 2a: Desync game at the very beginning of the match, so, retry!
Game 2b: I remember drawing a lot of my upped Time Towers or Time Pendulums in my starting hand this match, because I was able to bust out a Golden Nymph early and see what cards he was holding in his deck - Scorpions and Fractal + Dims. dawn played relatively cautious once more, but I was a little bit smarter and did my best to whittle him down with my early Vampire Dagger and Nymph to get him to use Dims early. I sped through my deck, eventually gaining a lot of my quanta cards and ghosts in play, only to seal the deal with a Steal on his shield. 1-1
{Lack of image here because I erased my old one by accident. Poo.}
Game 3: Decent start, but dawn managed to pull off the Fractal during this game given a more bold playstyle - which was only partially countered by my Nightmare. I pulled an early vampire dagger to help avoid some of the poison and one of my golden nymphs to sort of view his deck to see what was going on there, and by the time the game ended, his hand was clogged with my ghosts. 2-1
insert temporary battle pause to continue the following day
Game 4: He draws 2 pillars, I only draw 1 time tower but had both my steals. Despite our starts, I get the nervous feeling I would have to discard a lot of cards, and, awkwardly enough, I bit the 10-damage penalty and also forced myself to discard a nightmare after dawn silenced me on the third turn. My quanta cards eventually came, slowly but surely, with a Vampire Dagger fending off a lone Scorpion, but I was getting really anxious at this point.
Two reverse times came though, and with my Golden Nymph viewing how little Aether quanta he had given his lack of pendulums (and the abundance of shields in his deck), I eventually spotted my own opportunity to gain a card advantage on the field, and was almost able to pull off the double-steal trick and get 26+7 damage for the final screenshot. 3-1
Battle summaries coming soon, and again, thank you dawn. I'm still rooting for you guys! (We all are, especially against all these other pesky elements...)
