Budokan #3 - Proving of Self (Final Tournament)

[majofa]

Stage II: Proving of Self - Finals


2 remain.... 1 must fall...

Who will be the Budosei??

PLAYER		PLAYER
Afdarenty	vs	Laxadarap

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PLAYER		PLAYER
Afdarenty	vs	Calindu
Cheesy111	vs	Laxadarap

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PLAYER		PLAYER
Helston	vs	Cheesy111
Laxadarap	vs	Spielkind
Afdarenty	vs	Regyptic
Pella	vs	Calindu

- Matches are best-of-7.
- You may change decks between games.
- You may use 10 upgraded cards.
- Shards are banned.
- 'Other' cards are allowed.
- You may use any Mark, but you can not use the same Mark twice in a Match.
- You MUST have at least 6 cards in your deck (Pillars and Pendulums count for this) that belonged to your Element from Stage I. Any additional cards may be from any element, except the element of your opponent.

Time Remaining:
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Rules
Just in case you still haven't read them

[Spielkind]

- You may use any Mark, but you can not use the same Mark twice in a Match.
- You MUST have at least 6 cards in your deck (Pillars and Pendulums count for this) that belonged to your Element from Stage I. Any additional cards may be from any element, except the element of your opponent.

why no rule "you can only use your own mark?!" i dont get some of those rules...

for the any elements rule, so we can use all 12 elements except from opponent?

[Cheesy111]

- You may use any Mark, but you can not use the same Mark twice in a Match.
- You MUST have at least 6 cards in your deck (Pillars and Pendulums count for this) that belonged to your Element from Stage I. Any additional cards may be from any element, except the element of your opponent.

1. why no rule "you can only use your own mark?!" i dont get some of those rules...

2. for the any elements rule, so we can use all 12 elements except from opponent?

1. This would be really unfair for some elements.

2. Yes.

[Spielkind]

now its unfair for some too ^^ but ok, im not the one complaining, starting deckbuilding again! 

[Laxadarap]

Game 1: Loss

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Wanted to start strong and hopefully unexpected.  Would have worked pretty well I think, except I didn't draw a disco until 16 cards left.  I still had a chance to outdamage him, but only 2/7 creatures when I died, with 14 cards left.  Also, this apparently only had 9 ups.  Obviously why it lost.

Game 2: Loss

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55k 55k 55k 55k 55s 55s 55s 55s 55s 55s 561 561 561 561 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 744 744 744 744 744 744 74i 74i 74i 74i 8pr

Great prediction by spielkind.  I had a 2 quanta start, was one quanta short of overdriving his first nymph, and lost handily.  He just outrushed me and nothing I could do.

Game 3: Win

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Because I could no longer fling titans at him, I predicted freezes or dims, adrenachargers beats both.  Plus guards for super awesome adrenasynergy.  Despite an early adrenacharger, He still almost caught up, and would probably have won if he held his silence for one turn longer (when I was planning on playing my next adrenacharger combo).  Won by a turn.

Game 4: Win

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Was trying to stay effective incase RT, and this does a pretty damn good job at it.  He had a poison deck with 2 early soras and an arse, but I had drawn 4 guards, and was able to duck the turn after his arse hit the table.  With that, vagger just helped secure it.  He bolted me down, and got me to 11 hp (may not have been this game, but was one of them).  He had 10 hp left at the end, and I just used a nightmare on his empty hand.

Game 5: Win

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Started with a bad hand of 2 bone pillars for my only quanta.  Eventually drew a gravy pend, but I only had the quanta for 1 gpull (on his conveniently summoned dragon) and 1 guard on the final turn.  Didn't matter though, as pro mummies beat him down (had like 4 of em), and 2 timely bonewalls.

Game 6: Win

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Love this deck, cuz it's my idea, and not stolen from the forum .  He had toadfish and an eagles eye, but my sundial were able to hold out.  Of course, it helped that my starting hand had 1 pillar, 3 pends, and 2 HG XD.  Drew magios early, so just had to wait for quanta, which came.  Won with an extra sundial in hand.

[Helston]

Helston 3 - 4 Cheesy111

GGs Cheesy.

Win

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Loss

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Loss

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I was ~6 HP off finishing him off with a dragon and 4 bolts, but it wasn't to be.

Loss - illegal deck (forgot I couldn't use Time)

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Win - illegal deck (Cheesy used a second Earth mark)

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Win

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Won by a turn.

Loss

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Urgh, The Immortal.

[Cheesy111]

G1

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G2

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G3

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G4

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G5

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G6

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G7

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[Laxadarap]

Kinda suprised Cheesy lost game 1, late diamond shield?

[Helston]

I had an early steal for the first shield, and found most of my creatures in the top half of the deck. Adrenalined Psion helped a lot. We both made a play mistake or two, too.

[Calindu]

Calindu 4-3 Pella

Game 1: WIN

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QT grabbow is OP.

Game 2: LOSS

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Dunes lost against RoL/Hope, wat? Ok, it had 6 sanctuaries quite early, and discarded a unstoppable or 2, which lead me to be little damage short in the end.

Game 3: LOSS

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2 Dims were enough to stop me when I drew 1 poison and no deflag.

Game 4: LOSS

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His Devtal had a perfect draw, with early fractal, early eclipse, early steal, while I had no HG, but still came 1 dial short.


At this points I thought I was out, but Pella said me it's Bo7 and not Bo5, I was pretty happy, but I prepared only 5 decks so had to speedbuild at least twice. There comes my comeback.


Game 5: WIN

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First speedbuilt deck, modded after a deck we (team entropy) used last war, both Pandes came early, the second one PUing a scarab gave me the win.

Game 6: WIN

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Fractix had a slow initial draw, even after a deflagged Discord, I got another and quickly got his HP down while he couldn't do this.

Game 7: WIN

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First turn Arsenic, second turn Graboid+Lycan, then came a MP, even after 2 BBs I outrushed quite fast what looked like a stall.

Ggs Pella, a very good match!

[Pella]

Pella 3:4 Calindu

Duel #1 (LOSS):  robbow, built by rob77dp

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Typical Calindu Grabbow.  Outrushed me, bigtime.


Duel #2 (WIN):  RoL/Hope/Sanc

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This one went down to the wire.  His Dune Scorps + Momentum were the hard counter to my RoL/Hope.  My Sancs were the only thing keeping me alive.  Then he started a Sundial chain.  I started discarding.  It looked like I might deck him out until he hit me with another scorp.  When he had one card left, I was able to Fractal my Golden Dragon and OTK him.  Whew!


Duel #3 (WIN):  Phasebow Big, by PoLdeR

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Got him down to 9HP.  He BH'd me.  Got him down to 13HP.  Got him.


Duel #4 (WIN):  Devtal

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His PDials had me worried.  Then he ran out of Dials.

At this point my opponent thought the match was over.  I wish it had been.  I reminded him that it's a best-of-7, and suddenly he was extremely happy.  That was a clue. 


Duel #5 (LOSS):  Scarabtal

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Pandemonium got me.  He got me down to 2HP, and he had a lone 3atk Scarab on the board.  *sigh*


Duel #6 (LOSS):  Fractix, built by UTAlan

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(Me + Fractix) + (Calindu + Dischole) + Me making a mistake and not taking out his first Discord when I could have = no chance.

At this point, I felt everything slipping away.


Duel #7 (LOSS):  Earth/Aether Stall, with significant help from rob77dp

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Since I had established a pattern of rushing, I went for what I hoped would be unexpected--a stall.  It didn't work.  He Fire-rushed me, and that was that.  I had the Master of Entropy, playing Entropy, up against the ropes, and he beat me, anyway.  I always knew I was a failure at PvP, and this proves it.  Oh, well.

[Spielkind]

gratz calin. game 3 illegal, pella. only 5 aether cards.