bogtro [Squad 1] 3 - 0 TheonlyrealBeef [Squad 3] (Darkness)
Game 1 [WIN]:
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I figured that with an Aether aide, he had very limited choices. Devtal, Lightnings, Silence, PU, and Mono were the only 5 competitive decks I could think of for him. This deck performs well against all of them: Nightmare trolls devtal, Angels say tl;dr to Lightnings, Silence doesn't really have a big effect on this, and mono and PU I hoped to drawlock with nightmares.
I guessed he'd lead with lightnings, and he did. He killed a bunch of gargs and made this way closer than I expected from a lightning deck, but he never really had a huge chance.
Game 2 [WIN]:
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Mono has a lot of the same trumps as Angelmare, since early Gargys rofltrololstomp lightnings. Got a turn 2 gargy out, able to use ability and LS it (although i didn't really have to ls it
). He played dagger, I topdecked a steal and took it from him. Couple turns later he stole it back, at which point I promptly topdecked another steal and stole it back for the win. Not really sure what he was playing, but he mentioned he had to stall for 2 more turns. Really have no idea.
Game 3 [WIN]:
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Didn't see any reason to not stick with this, so I did. He played PU-LSdrags, which was a decent counter to this deck that has no CC. Of course, not drawing PU kinda ruins the point. He played a drag+cloak+dagger+ls combo to keep himself alive, but I had 2 steals ready to take ALL the perms.
Moral of THIS match: Train your steals well.