Booster Draft 1 - Battles - Round 3

[Scaredgirl]

Booster Draft 1 - Battles - Round 3
Round has ended.
Round 2 is over and round 3 has started.

Find your opponent from brackets below and make the fight happen! If you are unable to, please PM me as soon as possible. Thanks.


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As a reminder, here are deckbuilding and battle rules:

DECKBUILDING
After card drafting, teams will have up to 24 different cards depending on how many Relics they aquired. Teams can use any number of these cards in their decks, while other teams cannot use those cards at all. Marks, Pillars and Pendulums (from any element) are free to use without any limitations. For each Relic your team has, all your team members can use one upgraded card during duels.

BATTLES
- Each round of battles lasts for 4 days.
- If the fight doesn't happen, we flip a coin, unless one player is clearly more active in trying to find a suitable time
- Battles are best-of-5. Player who first wins 3 duels, wins the battle
- You are allowed to switch decks and mark between rounds.

AFTER BATTLES
- Both winner and loser must provide their decklist in the battle result section (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/board,417.0.html). A short matchup review / play-by-play is recommended but not necessary.
- If you lose a battle, you are eliminated from the event, but are encouraged to help your team to win (remember, winning team gets added to the hall-of-fame)
- When all 4 players have lost, the whole team is eliminated from the event.

Good luck and have fun!

[~Napalm]

I was feeling pretty unimaginative, so I played the same deck all 3 rounds. Feeling confident that it could stand up against whatever they threw at me helped.

by ~Napalm

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Basically I wanted a deck that had a decent capacity for speed and had a few tricks up its sleeve. Namely PU, which turned Flying Titans own benefits against him, bypassing Fog and Gravity Pull if he ever decided to fly one. As well as Rewind, which was cheap enough to splash in without changing the deck much, which would give me an edge in certain situations.

Game 1 - Flying Titans
I was pretty sure I'd see this deck. I started with 3 Photons and drew a 4th turn 2. After that the Phoenixes started showing up and Immo's made themselves useful. I started PUing his Titans because I knew he had Gravity Pull and Fog in there somewhere. Pull never showed up, but Fog came out the last turn, just enough time to give him 1 turn to catch up and win. I used the only Rewind I would draw in all 3 games to send a Titan back to his hand to allow ME to have 1 extra turn, but Fog didn't haxx hard enough so in the end, it didn't matter.

Game 2 - Solar AflaLock
This deck surprised me. I waited for him to try to lock me down by Aflaing a Photon, then proceded to double immolate it, thereby killing the cell, and play 2 Phoenixes and a PU. A 4th and 5th Phoenix proved too much for the 2nd Afla he drew and it didn't take too long before they'd finished him off, despite the Morning Glory I couldn't touch.

Game 3 - Flying Titans
This time I started with 4 Photons, and drew the 5th. I swear Oni is a Photon Magnet or something. I once again had Immo's, but my Phoenixes were still on shock over facing down Aflatoxin, so they stayed hidden for a while. An early Fog slowed me down a lot, but the instant he flew a Titan to try and catch up with me I PU'd it, next turn Immolating FOUR Photons to PU another Titan, allowing me to match his damage with the chance of doing extra. His final turn he pulled out GPull, but it was too late, he only had 13 hp and my 2 borrowed Titans finished the job

gg's Oni! I must admit that I'm relived Black Dragon/Nymphs Tears didn't make an appearance. That would have thoroughly ruined my day. Better luck next time to Oni and the rest of Team E!

[Onizuka]

Something about me not lovin mah own elements dragon enough

Game 1:

by Onizuka

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55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55o 55o 55o 55s 55s 55s 55s 55s 5og 5og 5og 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 748 748 748 8pr

I hate PU+RT fear. Oh yeah, Fog shield hates me still.

Game 2:

by Onizuka

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I hate Immos killing mah malignant cells. But I did manage to kill a phoenix 

Game 3

by Onizuka

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I dislike fog shield hate. I dislike drawing all of them in one game. I dislike low pillar starts when I have 3/3 dragons in my hand. I hate not drawing Grav pull till it was too late.

Good games Napalm, the last one was the only real time I had a chance.
Also, I hate having my own Titans PU'd.

Another also, Photon army definitely was the MVP of this match.

Team E ish dead.

[willng3]

Alas, two brothers in war forced to aim their blades at one another.  But it was all in good fun

by willng3

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Pretty good hand.  Had lots of Pillars, a fair amount of Pends, creatures kept coming in steadily.  Precognition alerted me to a Rage Potion, a Pulvy and a FFQ early on, so I knew the deck I was facing.  RNG wasn't on his side this match and I ran over him. 1-0
Pretty much the same as Round 1, but his draw was definitely more favorable this time.  He fell a bit short of defeating me this time, but that Turquoise Nymph with Mitosis definitely gave me a shock regardless. 2-0
Started off well, but I just couldn't seem to draw my creatures this time.  I ended with a ridiculous amount of and don't think I had drawn more than 4 creatures the entire duel until the very end. 2-1
2 Pend draw, which is usually bad.  But giving me all those creatures in my hand from the start meant my speed could not be denied as in Round 3.  I used a Precog again, same results.  Another turn in his favor and he probably would have won. 3-1
Good games, Alan.  If Higurashi asks, we were just sparring for a bit of fun

[UTAlan]

by UTAlan

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Good games, will. It was good practice if nothing else, right? A little more RNG love and a couple of these games could have gone in my favor, but such is the way of these things.

Good luck, TStar. You're Team A's last hope!

[kirchj33]

Pretty solid deck advantage for us again here.  Funny story is how TStar took sleeping pills before playing the first three and we had to continue the end today.

Looking at Team A's vault, we decided TStar would try to counter by bringing CC so it would be best to go creature heavy to counter.

Same deck used all 4 matches:

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1st Match: WIN

I got a good rush going and he only pulled 2 UG's before dying.  Never saw a farenheit (which I'm assuming was there) or Rage Pots (which I'm assuming now weren't).  His 30+ fire quanta went to waste.

2nd Match: LOSS

Nice deck change, pulvy kept me from preventing any reversal of two FFQs that got out of control quick.  A turn 2 shield, 2 rage pots, and 2 sancs kept my damage from out racing him.

3rd Match:  WIN

2 Tower draw for TStar meant he never got the quanta for rage pots.  A shield came turn 4 or 5, which was much too late in this case.  Amusingly, he also fell asleep mid-match and we had to finish today.

4th Match:  WIN

I didn't think it was possible, but he had another 2 tower draw.  He did play a 2nd turn shield, but just didn't have the quanta to get his deck going early.  I quickly had 4 creatures on the field.  He Rage potted, played pulvy, sanc, an FFQ, and an elf.  I was pretty concerned that he was gonna get on top of things with his elf now rolling.  Fortunately, on the last turn his elf gave me some 11 ATK creature and I drew another ghost for the win.

[TStar]

I have no idea what decks I used for the first three games.  I can't even say I really remember anything about them.  Apparently I won a game though so I must have done something right lol.

Here's the two decks I was planning to try and use so chances are they were these.

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4vm 4vm 4vm 4vm 58v 58v 58v 5fb 5fb 5lm 5lm 5oj 5oj 5oj 5oj 6rs 6rsOnly deck that seemed to test out as having any success at all against Ghosts/Grabs, but you needed a decent pillar draw and some RNG love from the quanta gain.  The only game I remember (4th) was a terrible pillar draw and it look 8 turns to finally get an elf out.  That's pretty much a guaranteed loss if you can't get the early CC out or the FFQ to keep some damage going to mutate larger.

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5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f7 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5om 5om 5om 5om 5om 5om 7dn 7dnNot sure if I used this.  This deck was pretty much a guaranteed win against the Dune Scorpions and at least had a ~25% success rate at outracing the Ghosts/Grabs.  Extensively tested the Rage Pot version and it was just too slow and never beat the AI.  The key to this deck is a 2nd turn (or at most 3rd turn) Fahrenheit to keep you in the damage race as it generally took 3 UG (on rare occasions 2) to win the race.  I had a 31 card version with a lone Blue Nymph so I can't remember if I was planning to use that one or not.

[kirchj33]

Yeah you used the second deck for the 1st game and first deck for the last 3.