Trinity - Round 7

[TheonlyrealBeef]

News:

The final round before top 4, best of luck everyone: may the rng be with you!
Those with 5 matches won are almost guaranteed to qualify for top 4, those with 3 matches won will rely on specific match outcomes from other matches to have a (remote) shot at qualifying.
Participants, wins/losses and upgrades:

Participants, elements and upgrades will be shown, as well as a table summarizing usage of the elements. Matches and games won will be shown now as well: for top placing the number of matches won is the most important, with number of games won as the tiebreaker.

Spoiler for participant list:

Participant	Main element	Support element 1	Support element 2	Upgrades	Matches Won	Games Won
worldwideweb3				13	5	16
Afdarenty				13	5	15
iancudorinmarian				11	4	16
Aves				9	4	15
blrawen				10	4	13
kaempfer13				13	4	13
Timdood3				12	3	13
DANIEELA				9	3	12
mathman101				10	3	12
ji412jo				15	3	10
vagman13				13	2	9
treebeard xiii				13	1	8
kirbylover314				9	1	5
fabian771				17	0	1
theelkspeaks				7	0	0
Ryli				7	0	0

Spoiler for elements usage summary:

Element	Main	Support
	1	4
	1	4
	1	2
	2	4
	0	2
	2	4
	1	2
	0	4
	2	2
	2	0
	1	4
	3	0

Spoiler for elements popularity ranking:

Ranking	Element	Points
1.5		8
1.5		8
5		6
5		6
5		6
5		6
5		6
9.5		4
9.5		4
9.5		4
9.5		4
12		2

Bracket:
Matches (added pretty colors to indicate whom has a shot at top4. Yellow: win match = qualify; Orange: win match = chance to qualify; Red = no chance to qualify):
Afdarenty vs iancudorinmarian
worldwideweb3 vs Timdood3
Aves vs DANIEELA
blrawen vs kaempfer13
mathman101 vs fabian771
kirbylover314 vs vagman13
theelkspeaks vs ji412jo
Ryli vs treebeard xiii

Spoiler for entire bracket:

Reminders:

Rules. Post match results here along with decks and element change if you want them. Since I'm not participating you can always contact me through forums/chat if you are unsure if a deck is legal.

You have no time left to get the tiebreaker match done!

[MyNameIsJoey]

theelkspeaks 3 - 0 ji412jo

I am forfeiting.

[iancudorinmarian]

iancudorinmarian: 3
Afdarenty: 1

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Win: Thought he wouldn't expect this, so I went with it. We both misplayed in this game, but I ended up stabilizing at some point. Needed quite a lot of SS for that though.

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Loss: DC, but with 2 wings vs no pulvy I had no chance anyway.

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Win: DC in this game as well. We both won, but Master of Sportsmanship gave me the win. Apparently, my AI does not know how to play chimera.

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Win: Got a really rushy hand and I went first, got 6ttw. Still pretty close in the end, I think I would've lost if I went second.


Good games Afda

WOOOO, I AM IN THE SEMI-FINALS.

EXCHANGE: ->

[Afdarenty]

Afdarenty 1-3 iancudorinmarian

Game 1 (Loss) vs Entropy/Earth Stall

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Pretty bad match up for me. I drew both my Nymphs early, which was nice. We both misplayed pretty hard - iancu using Antimatter on Golems instead of Nymphs early game, and me not using BB on iancu's PU'd Auburn because I didn't think he had the quanta for the skill, for some reason. I ended up with a 1/3 chance to topdeck enough damage to win at one point, but it didn't happen.

I actually only just realised I was running this with 16 Pillars/Pends - definitely too many. Oops.


Game 2 (Win) vs PulvyBow

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I played Wings, he didn't play Pulvy. Pretty much an instant win.


Game 3 (Loss) vs Mono Gravity

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This was a pretty good match up for me, I think, but only 2 pillars in the top 9 cards left me about 20 health behind where I needed to be. Ending up losing in the late game vs a Chimera.


Game 4 (Loss) vs Grabbow

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Needed Shockwave to win this, or some combination of my permanents - I didn't draw any. We both had draws that would win in 6 turns but iancu won the coin toss, so I lost by a turn.

[blrawen]

Blrawen 2 - 3 Kaempfer13. GGs, close games, insane RNG

L W L W L
CPpsions, got them too late
pandestall, PU'd his creatures with the first, the second killed and froza, antimatter and dragons came after that
PUGons, stopped by a wall of bones
Devtal, quanta locked into perfect fractal topdecks
gargoyle+ightning, gifted him a dusk, missed a crap ton of attacks while he healed with vagger

[kaempfer13]

kaempfer13 3-2 blrawen

G1 WIN

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outrushed, also no psion forced him to PU spider instead; he still got near perfect rng on discord and 2 out of 3 cps

G2 LOSS

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first pande PUd my entire board for 3 , very fair drew almost no creatures afterwards, vagger alone cant fix that

G3 WIN

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he had an unusually high amount of CC early game, enough for me to prepare for drainbolt rather than PUgons, I won by a turn in the end thanks to bonerblockwall

G4 LOSS

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vs devtal, while not really favoured this was still infuriating, early arsenic +mummy almost single handedly take him pretty low, had the 4 devs he fractaled stolen a single  quanta grey nymph would have won me the game. He topdecks vampire a turn (or maybe 2) before I had lethal which was as soon as he had quanta for the second fractal.

G5 WIN

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vs lightning gargoyle splash, didnt see any steals from him, early vagger and more creatures than he had lightnings slowly won the game, he didnt steal dusk back. Eventually I nightmared mummy 3 times in a row, preventing gamechanging topdecks.

Despite winning in the end every game but the last felt superunlucky to me (first one was ok too) (and ofc I got lucky to draw bonewall g3). Anyway, i suppose this will be just enough, maybe...

[Aves]

Aves 3 - 2 DANIEELA

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Win vs Immo

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Loss vs Light

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Win vs Entro/Fire Stall Illegal Deck

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Win vs Sancstall

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Good games! That game 4 draw was rough for you.

[DANIEELA]

DANIEELA 1
Aves 3

DECKS

Spoiler for Hidden:

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W-vs illegal deck

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[Timdood3]

Timdood 1-3 www

Adrenaline vs Mono Light

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"This is lethal, right?  Aww....Miracle."

Phoenix MonoFire vs Devtal

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Fire Buckler.  Still close.

Explosion Drake Blitz vs Something Darknessy

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A pretty interesting game.  Would've been closer if I'd started with more than 2 quanta.

Heal Drake Blitz vs PUgons

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Dragon roleplay was involved.  Very close.

All good games.

[worldwideweb3]

www(3): 3-1 Timdood(3)

GGs! They were some fun games! All close and pretty interesting.

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darkness to death

[TheonlyrealBeef]

So there's a top 4 with the current match results!
...actually, there's a top 5, since both games and matches won are equal for #4 and #5, and there is no record of a head to head match.

Spoiler for top 5:

Participant	Main element	Support element 1	Support element 2	Upgrades	Matches Won	Games Won
worldwideweb3				13	6	19
iancudorinmarian				11	5	19
Aves				9	5	18
kaempfer13				13	5	16
Afdarenty				13	5	16

Hence we will need a tiebreaker match of Afdarenty vs kaempfer13.
The elements and upgrades used will be the same as for this round.

For the entire top 4: you have until the end of the tiebreaker to submit element changes (in match result this round or as a separate post, whatever floats your boat). Although I'm giving the tiebreaker a full week, I intend to put up the semi-finals as soon as the tiebreaker is done. You'll still have at least the original time left to submit element changes regardless, namely: no time left

The timer for the tiebreaker match (also in OP now): no time left Tiebreaker is a Bo5 according to the same rules as all other matches.

[Afdarenty]

Afdarenty 3-1 Kaempfer13

Quite possibly outplayed here. I was lucky to win two out of the first three games, I think. Hard to know without the deck codes. Game 4 was pretty cool, though.

Game 1 (Win) vs Gravy/Dark Domin

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I have a pretty good chance in this match up if I draw more Catapults/Wings than Kaemp draws Steals. Possibly GPull can win it for me too, if I draw enough Titans. Unfortunately for me, I only draw one Catapult, no Wings and no GPull until the final turn. Unfortunately for Kaemp, he draws no Steals, or Dagger/Nightmare, for that matter. Without the healing/PC I was a couple of turns faster in the end.


Game 2 (Loss) vs Death/Dark Domin

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Things started out well - I played three quick Golems, and drew into a Pulvy/PA combo the following turn. Then I drew Pillars for the rest of the match. Grey Nymph + Bonewall was enough for Kaemp to stabilise. Possibly misplayed this one by playing GPull on his Mummy early instead of saving it for something more scary (e.g. the Nymph), but I think the Mummy would have dealt enough damage to kill me by the end of the game anyway. Would have been close.


Game 3 (Win) vs Parawalls Domin

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One Pillar start was less than ideal for me. Kaemp had a very strong draw, with lots of early Suckers and Recluse and a Steal to back it up. I baited out the Steal with my Fog, then played OE + Wings which, over time, cleared his board and kept my health out of the danger zone. Firefly + Blue Nymph meant I had an answer to his Bonewall, too. Without drawing a second Steal there wasn't much he could do.


Game 4 (Win) vs Darkness /w Gravity Mark

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I won the coin toss, which is always important with denial decks. Kaemp played three Darkness Pillars, which I promptly EQ'd and BH'd, then nothing for the rest of the game. Just a strong denial draw against a deck vulnerable to EQ, even though my damage was very slow I drew into creatures eventually.