[9th Trial of Aether] deuce22 5 - 2 Zawadx

[deuce22]

Most games one of us hard-countered the other, but Zawadx had bad RNG in the 2 games that were competitive.

Game 1 - WIN
I had good quanta, early dragon and PU, couple of AMs in hand. Zawadx never played anything until we desync'd, said his quanta distribution was off.

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Game 2 - WIN
Decided to play a high risk catatitan because it can win in 5 turns, but RNG easily trolls. Saw entropy mark, smiled, then no pends and assumed CP psions/spiders, which can be very fast. Suddenly supernova and EQ, then discord next turn. Thankfully, I drew LOTS of quanta, but was waiting for AW. He played a couple spiders. Once i drew AW and could OTK he started silence chaining. He knocked me down to 2 HP before silence ran out.

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Game 3 - LOSS
Zawadx mindgated well. He had perfect draw and my quanta was terrible, I had no chance.

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Game 4 - WIN
My turn to mindgate. Wings > grabbow.

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Game 5 - LOSS
Decided to play a risky stall I made. Tested well against almost all rushes in this meta, except catatitan and blitzing PUgon...

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Game 6 - WIN
Another mindgate here. Wings > spiders.

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Game 7 - WIN
RNG trolled zawadx here. His deck is quicker than mine, but RNG likes to troll catatitan. Zawadx drew LOTS of quanta, while I drew very little early on. Fortunately for me, he never drew a titan. 8ttw with my PUgon.

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GGs zawa, could easily be 3-4 right now and still playing. You've improved much compared to last trials.

[Zawadx]

Spoiler for Blitzkrieg vs NurPUgons=LOSS:

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My nice little pet. Sky dragons have that 13 attack sweet spot, which makes this the best aggressive PUgons. But my inner Timmy got to me in this one; Damsels can be fast, but it doesn't provide any support and is bad vs AM, the very deck I expected G1. Wind towers would've given me the win pretty easily, as this deck stomp PUGons easily.

Spoiler for Neutron Star vs Catatitans=LOSS:

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This deck was for my inner Johnny. It's a great concept and if it works it works very nicely. But it needs a near perfect draw to win, which I really should've considered. It did surprise deuce well, but lost by 3 HP in the end. Drew 2 silences and all non-damage cards just as needed, so it's not as unlucky as deuce thought.

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Yes I'm being a bit desperate with names~

Bonebolt is risky but I expected him to not play a stall. I actually thought he'd bring a rush to beat my domin designed to beat his stall, so I busted out my best domin. It worked, somewhat. One of the best Domins in the game > any other domin.

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Wings were pretty strong for him, though sadly I wouldn't realize this till game 6. Went down as normal, I had ok draw and was hardcountered as expected.

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Yay, changes! Smooth sailing for the most part, as this deck is geared vs this archetype very well. Fog was scary and it haxxed a bit early, but the turn I blitzed it let 3/4 in for win (I had second blitz in hand too, so decided to risk it)

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IMO the one big mistake I made was playing MA here, despite wings showing obvious prevalence. Thought this would take down a break, but imo that was a bit misguided. Had I chosen to go to sleep at this point, there would've been a much fairer shot.

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He had bad quanta, but in the end me not drawing Titan (6.64% chance, grr) was worse.

Congrats on 5th mastership in a row deuce, well deserved to say the least. May your scumbaggy sack of luck never run out

If there's interest in videos, I'll post them. Missed games 3-5 tho, sadly.

Unused decks (most of them have minimal testing, I focused on the decks I felt had best chances and consequently used above):

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Vdagger PUGons

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Wing Rush

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Disco Party (exact list prepared only today morning as it seemed like a good counter to deuce's strong picks. Played this in extra fun games, lost vs PU chargers for slightly bad RNG and beat MA for great RNG)

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[Ginyu]

Congratulations of your 5th Mastership, deuce. Well deserved.

Still, good shot Zawad, I hope to see you again next Aether Trial.

[hainkarga]

GREAT JOB DEUCE. OH WOW THIS IS SO EXCITING.

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Good try Zawadx, thanks for challenging him. Yes i am interested in the videos if it is convenient. Thank you.

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[Physsion]

TrO approved. Congratulations on defending, deuce! Tough luck Zawa, looks like some of these games were very close.