Cheesy111 3 - 2 inthisroom
...Wow. I am shocked. Incredible games, ITR. One of the best series I have ever played, and it kept me on the edge of my seat the entire time (except for that silence ghostal deck, that just blindsided me). Really amazing games.
Game 1: Time + EQ vs Dim/Dial stall LOSS
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5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5s4 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 77g 77j 77j 77j 77j 77j 8pmI got 0 EQs until around round 17. I got a few from there on out, but he easily had enough dims and aether quanta to kill me by whacking me over the head with Eternity as well as a lategame devonian. What I thought was an easy matchup to win was a clear loss. 0 - 1 ITR
Game 2: Poisondial vs Dragontal WIN
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5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rj 5rj 5rj 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5t2 5t2 5t2 718 718 718 718 71a 71a 8pkI had high hopes for poisondial in this matchup with no Purify and no healing for ITR, but my starting hand let me down. No poisons, no arsenics. I had a procrastination, some dials and RTs, but that wouldn't be enough to win. A few draws down the road I get a deadly poison and start doing some small amount of damage, and then my Arsenic comes and I practically leap for joy. The poison piles up, and with 4 damage from Arsenic every turn I bring ITR fairly low. He fractals a devonian to bring out four, but they encounter my Procrastination and then some RTs as well as a Dial. I still had two dials left in my hand when I claimed victory. 1-1
Game 3: Poisondial vs Silent Ghosts LOSS
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5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rj 5rj 5rj 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5t2 5t2 5t2 718 718 718 718 71a 71a 8pkThis was actually the deck Oni used when he practiced against me, but without precogs I couldn't tell it from Dragontal. I had a decent draw with an opening Arsenic and Deadly but no pendulums, and managed to get the poison on fairly quickly. Expecting Dragontal, I lay back, relaxed and waiting for the win when suddenly I was silenced and in a few turns I was overkilled by 3-4 with one turn left for the win. 1-2 ITR
Game 4: Time + More EQ vs Dim/Dial Stall
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5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5s4 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 77j 77j 77j 77j 77j 77j 8pmOn the advice of Ralouf, I had replaced one EQ for a Graboid in the earlier deck. Seeing a ton of stalls and high-quanta games without many upped pends or factories to split the quanta distribution, I took out the Graboid and put in another Quicksand. I was rewarded in the opening hand with two Quicksands, although I lacked pendulums. ITR put out two pends and two factories, so I assumed he was going to only put out a few of each to bait my EQs. I planned to wait to bait more pillars, and then he put down another pillar the turn before I had enough quanta to EQ. I assumed that since he had put down that last pillar he wasn't baiting EQs and those were all the pillars/pends he had, and blew my first quicksand on the pends and my second on the pillars. I played a Golden Nymph and a GotP and prepared for a long, drawn-out game. I used my remaining Quicksands at every new pillar or pendulum, waiting for the dim/dial chain to end. At the end I had three cards left in my deck after rewinding a few of my own cards and ITR had eight. He was about to kill me by bashing me with an Eternity, when his dim/dial stall ran out and I pushed all of my ghosts along with my nymph out onto the field for a win. Probably the most stressful game of the series. 2-2
Game 5: Dragonbow vs Dim/Dial Stall
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4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4vf 58v 58v 5id 5oo 5oo 5oo 5op 5rm 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rr 5rr 5rr 5rr 5ul 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 711 8psI was stressed and wasn't sure which deck to pick, switching from one to another to another. I just didn't have a real answer for silence-ghostal that could counter it easily, unless I got very lucky with poisondial or EQ. I eventually settled on altering the dragonbow I had made for countering monotime, adding three Wings to defeat ghostal while keeping all six dials and doing some other fiddling to make it legal (11 time cards / 33 total cards). Unfortunately for a final game, this was fairly anticlimactic. Mainly because I got out an early pulvy and had more than enough quanta to keep playing my Devonian after smashing whatever shield or dial to put up. Although I had expected monotime or silence-ghostal, this deck was an extremely hard counter to his dim/dial stall. The game ended when I smashed a dim and put down not only the expected devonian but an ice dragon that I had just drawn as well. 3-2 Cheesy111.
Again, great games ITR. I'm honored to have played with you and surprised at how I was always on the back foot in this match even though I had more upgrades and more aides than you.
