Budokan #3 - Proving of Self (Final Tournament)

[Laxadarap]

Laxa 1-4 Afda
Well, 2 budo finals, two losses.  I'm so good at this game XD.

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Predicted stall, got stall.  Fantastic counter, literally no way he could beat me.

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Predicted another stall, kinda got one.  Unfortunately, had 1 gravy pend and 2 aether pillar start, so I had no gravy quanta to actually burst him down.  Plus, poisons still work against dims.

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Predicted monorush, this should beat monorush.  It did, until I only drew 1 sanc in top 3/4 of deck or so, and he topdecked a second skyblitz so he could do it twice in a row.  Beat me with perfect hp, when I had 2 miracles in hand (and 2 oty's to decimate his offense).

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Predicted another stall.  Got another stall.  Unfortunately, I derped, and forgot I couldn't use an air mark, so this game was illegal.  We replayed and he won by a turn (granted, I made a couple play mistakes, and if I was concentrating, I'm 85% sure I could have won this matchup).

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The only deck I didn't predict.  I was expecting gases, and lo and behold, grabbyrush.  Early fog shut me down, and my jade shield wasn't enough offense, even when he had a slow start.

All hail the new Budosei!  (I'll be back next year, so don't go anywhere).

[Afdarenty]

Well, I didn't expect this when makku bullied me into signing up (thanks for that, by the way )

Afdarenty 4 - 1 Laxadarap

Good games, Laxa, you're definitely a fun person to play against Wouldn't surprise me at all if you end up winning the next Budokan. A big helping of RNG helped me through this.

Spoiler for Game1 (LOSS) vs MomoDunes:

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Hardcounters don't come much harder than this. Early scorp meant I had no chance.

Spoiler for Game2 (WIN) vs Dims:

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I guess I was up against fractal, but only one gravity pend to start with (along with two aether pillars) meant I never saw it. Three poison reasonably early meant I could hit past the dims pretty well, and Laxa never really got any damage out.

Spoiler for Game3 (WIN) vs OtySancStall:

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Stupidly close game. An early blitz would have made this easy, but two otys appeared before it did and ate a wyrm and a dragon. Sniped them, eventually drew three big hitters, and played them. Laxa miracles and plays double oty. Blitzing two turns in a row meant I got an exact-damage win a turn before Laxa would have taken control of the game, largely thanks to Laxa only drawing one sanctuary all game.

Spoiler for Game4 (WIN) vs Catatitans:

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Illegal deck from Laxa (not allowed to use air cards). We played at the end for fun, and I ended up winning anyway with three miracle in hand.

Spoiler for Game5 (WIN) vs MitoStuff:

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Even with a poor draw (one nova in half a deck) grabbow is OP. First turn fog was sweet, bolted the lone charger I saw, and swarmed creatures till I eventually got the quanta to use them.