(Life) Lt. ak65ala 3 - 2 (Darkness) Gen. Theonlyrealbeef

[ak65ala]

My wife is going to kill me..... soo mad.... will edit later

by ak65ala

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Edit: Take me behind a barn and shoot me. I should have lost this.  I handed a game to Theonlyrealbeef due to my complete stupidity.  Somhow, RNG let me win.

Summary: Devtal vs. Monks.  I needed an early Sanctuary every game and no steals from Theonlyrealbeef.  I then either needed sufficient damage to kill him or to win the coin-toss and deck him.  Below are my "in the moment" thoughts.

Game 1: Won toss, 2 light, 2 life, sanctuary, crusader, flying weapon, see aether mark... glad I have santuary. Adrenacrusader. 2 Adrenacrusaders. Drew all 3 of my guys, no satves yet.  Drew a staff. Too strong. Win. 1-0

Game 2: Won toss, 1 light, 1 life, 1 pendulum, santuary, 2 flying, crusader.  Drew my one thorn carapace, will be useful! Another 3rd turn sanctuary. Stolen on turn 5.  No replacement, turn 8... think I am going to lose. Yea, turn 8 fractal devourers... no hope now. Loss. Now I know he has at least 2 steals... 1-1

Game 3: Won toss, HA! 2 light, 1 life, 2 sanctuary, 2 flying weapon. 2 sanctuaries on my side, one on his. Dusk mantle out. Thorn Shield out. Should be my game now. OPPS! he stole my thorn shield... No mitosis, troll card. He won with 1 card left in deck. Loss. 1-2

Game 4: Won toss, No Santuary, yep... that's how the rabbit falls. Clutch draw 3rd turn sanctuary... now for the steal.... No steal yet. I would LOVE another sanctuary.. or a staff, or something.... got second sanctuary. 3 sanctuaries now, and a mitsosader. Should be mine (NO MISTAKES NOW!) Win. 2-2

Game 5: Won toss, ugh... 1 life, 1 pendululm, 1st turn devourer from him. 5th turn sanctuary.... hoping his 1 card is not a steal, nor he draws one. good good good. Win. 3-2

Super plan my Theonlyrealbeef to fractal my crusaders and use them to kill me.  I was sitting there with my calculator going 23*4+6 = 98... nothing to worry about.  Most games he had a devourer or two out, so this was down at 90 max damage.  He would have needed to steal my light pillar before like turn 7 for it to work... I would have been shocked and awed if accomplished.


See, this is my problem with Sanctuary.  It looks like a counter card to quanta denial, but it still has the massive weakness of being 'easily' dispatch-able.  I mean, yea, sure, it needs counters too, like some way to attack it, but... I don't know.  I guess I should take my win and move on.

Clarification: So, my wife.  She wanted to leave by 8:30.  I started these at 7:00 and thought I had enough time to spare.  When your last two games are deck-outs and it is so close like this and when I needed to help get my daughter of one up and she's trying to rush me out the door and... Yea.  We concluded at 8:29, so... I call it a close win both in game and out of game.

[TheonlyrealBeef]

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If I say so myself, I had a fair chance of winning this matchup, with only 3 Sancts and 2 Steals to deal with them denying should be achievable at least 2 games, amiright? Should it come down to deckout equal decks should grant me at least 1 more game, amiright? Of course, I happen to lose all coin tosses and only manage to deny ak once. The other win was thanks to ak handing me a pretty thorn carapace to Steal :p

Game 1 Lost:
I embarrassingly got outrushed by adrenasaders with my low pend draw.
Game 2 Win:
I actually managed to deny ak thanks to 2 early Steals.
Game 3 Win:
After Stealing ak's shield ak couldn't get enough healing on the board to keep himself alive.
Game 4 Lost:
Not enough Steals for all those early Sancts, I thought up a plan to deal 100+ damage but ak never put down a Light Pillar to execute it. Coin toss deckout.
Game 5 Lost:
I failed to draw early everything but pends, Duck, Dagger and other useless non-quanta cards. ak got the worst quanta starting draw yet and I got a first turn dev thanks to 2 upped pends. But with a lack of more upcoming pends and no Fractals or Steals I failed to deny ak in time. When ak drew his Light Pillar I was ready to execute my plan: Steal the pillar and fractal crusaders near the end for 9 damage per crusader. 2 Crusaders endowing Vampire Dagger would've been enough with 2 devs on the field, a Dagger and rest Vampires. Of course my 2 Steals are cards number 25 and 30 of my 30 card deck and it abysmally fails. Coin toss deckout.

That first game was a good one from ak, outrushing me with a stallish deck, but losing by coin toss deckout doesn't impress me I'm afraid. So I'll have to blame RNG.

[willng3]

ak may have won the duel, but I'd say his wife won the match up.

[The_Mormegil]

Wow, we actually manage to get a 9 card salvage from Pestal? :O

<-- was totally expecting pestal BTW, and was totally expecting to discard 30 cards too.

[ak65ala]

Oh, I have to say this.  Alright everyone, get a pen and paper.  Here is Life's full proof strategy:

Give ak65ala this deck.  Every round.  Every round.  Every round.  EVERY ROUND.  They won't expect it!

[Jocko]

That deck just keeps coming back.

[The_Mormegil]

That deck just keeps coming back.

We just love it that much.

[Avenger]

Seems like cointoss swings both ways.
Darkness had an unexpected win and an unexpected lose. That's just fair.

[Onizuka]

Seems like cointoss swings both ways.
Darkness had an unexpected win and an unexpected lose. That's just fair.

More like earf messed up an easy win : P

[Sevs]

ak may have won the duel, but I'd say his wife won the match up.

Isnt that life though

And sanctuary is a pretty hard counter to pestal even with steals that turn delay of protection  after you steal it is vital

[Avenger]

Seems like cointoss swings both ways.
Darkness had an unexpected win and an unexpected lose. That's just fair.

More like earf messed up an easy win : P

That's true, but we could still win by cointoss

[Isei]

Awesome job, ak.  The deck lives to fight another day!