Post by: majofa on June 22, 2013, 05:14:17 am
2 remain.... 1 must fall...
Who will be the Budosei??
PLAYER | PLAYER | |
:air Afdarenty :air | vs | :gravity Laxadarap :gravity |
PLAYER | PLAYER | |
:air Afdarenty :air | vs | :entropy |
:time | vs | :gravity Laxadarap :gravity |
PLAYER | PLAYER | |
:life | vs | :time Cheesy111 :time |
:gravity Laxadarap :gravity | vs | :water |
:air Afdarenty :air | vs | :fire |
:aether | vs | :entropy Calindu :entropy |
- 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.
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Rules
Just in case you still haven't read them (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,48188.0.html)
Just in case you still haven't read them (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,48188.0.html)
Post by: Spielkind on June 22, 2013, 07:23:25 am
- 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?
Post by: Cheesy111 on June 22, 2013, 09:18:02 am
- 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.
Post by: Spielkind on June 22, 2013, 09:31:51 am
Post by: Laxadarap on June 23, 2013, 09:02:55 pm
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
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
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
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
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
Love this deck, cuz it's my idea, and not stolen from the forum :P. 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.
Post by: Helston on June 25, 2013, 10:35:58 am
GGs Cheesy.
Win
Loss
Loss
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)
Win - illegal deck (Cheesy used a second Earth mark)
Win
Won by a turn.
Loss
Urgh, The Immortal.
Post by: Cheesy111 on June 25, 2013, 11:01:04 am
G2
G3
G4
G5
G6
G7
Post by: Laxadarap on June 26, 2013, 12:58:35 pm
Post by: Helston on June 26, 2013, 03:37:36 pm
Post by: Calindu on June 26, 2013, 07:16:51 pm
Game 1: WIN
QT grabbow is OP.
Game 2: LOSS
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
2 Dims were enough to stop me when I drew 1 poison and no deflag.
Game 4: LOSS
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
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
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
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!
Post by: Pella on June 26, 2013, 07:19:34 pm
Duel #1 (LOSS): robbow, built by rob77dp
Typical Calindu Grabbow. Outrushed me, bigtime.
Duel #2 (WIN): RoL/Hope/Sanc
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
Got him down to 9HP. He BH'd me. Got him down to 13HP. Got him.
Duel #4 (WIN): Devtal
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
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
(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
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.
Post by: Spielkind on June 26, 2013, 07:51:57 pm
Post by: Pella on June 26, 2013, 08:20:40 pm
gratz calin. game 3 illegal, pella. only 5 aether cards.I didn't build it, I didn't check it, I didn't win so it doesn't really matter, does it?
Post by: Spielkind on June 26, 2013, 09:07:56 pm
gratz calin. game 3 illegal, pella. only 5 aether cards.I didn't build it, I didn't check it, I didn't win so it doesn't really matter, does it?
hm, dont wanna spam that thread, but participating in an event all time has some experience for players. so you played an illegal deck, me would give you only some hint for your deckbuilding... not building deck self is ok, not checking is meh, but if you dont wanna get some experience for the next time, i dont wanna force you to. :P
Post by: majofa on June 26, 2013, 09:10:38 pm
Post by: treebeard xiii on June 26, 2013, 10:26:47 pm
I always knew I was a failure at PvP, and this proves it. Oh, well.
Pella just bcause you lost here doesn't make you a failure at pvp you just nearly knocked out Calindu in pvp that is decent, considering the fact you got this far with your least favourite element your constant belief you suck at pvp is wrong you became permachamp by winning four games when you couldn't afford to lose one yes me a mall helped you out a bit but in the end it came down to you and you came out on top for most of it. That is a well played event in my opinion so stop taking that away from yourself.
Post by: Pella on June 26, 2013, 11:10:44 pm
Post by: Regyptic on June 26, 2013, 11:16:28 pm
Regyptic 2 - 4 Afdarenty
LOSS. His draw was far too good for me to control despite a lot of trolling from Dusk.
WIN. Early Quake slowed him down. My lack of creatures and a few lucky CPs made this close and I won with only 2 overkill after a Nightmare.
WIN. Expected RTs to come in handy at some point. My Nymph helped me rush for a reasonable win.
LOSS. Very nearly chose Firestall instead which would have been a win but nevermind. It was still close with me being only a few quanta short of a bolt kill on my last turn.
LOSS. Bad deck choice again. Grabboids > CC. I didn't help that I only drew 1 Poison for most of the game and no Arsenic until it was already far too late.
LOSS. Mono vs Mono. I had a good draw but his was perfect. Nothing I could do.
Good games Afdarenty. You were definitely the better player today.
Post by: Afdarenty on June 26, 2013, 11:24:04 pm
Those were a lot of fun :) Very tense. Hurray for all the mass cc ever.
I got a very fast draw, and swarmed nymphs before Regyptic could kill the first one. Dusk + vagger kept me at bay for a while, but they weren't enough.
Early, unexpected quicksand left me unable to use what I had. A few awesome chaos power meant I was still within a turn of winning, but just not enough.
After how close the last game was, I couldn't help trying something similar. I started with 5 quanta, one wyrm, and one thunderstorm, which was enough to kill my already poor chances.
Face palmed when I saw light mark, already 2-1 down and knowing light stall would be a certain loss. Hurrah for no healing :) A ton of early poison and an early bonewall meant a very close win.
A slow start for both me and regyptic, but mine improved quickly. Very little damage the whole game for Regpytic meant I could chip away at bonewalls with arsenic and a couple graboid, and eventually got the job done.
Perfect draw for me, three damsels, two dragons, one pillar and one pend. I outrushed in six turns.
Edited for spelling
Post by: Calindu on July 01, 2013, 09:08:28 am
Game 1: WIN
Went nice, rushed him.
Game 2: WIN
Despite a bad start, I had enough dials to beat Ghostmare.
Game 3: WIN
Waited to steal his OE then played 2 dragons, he got no Bonewall and I stopped his last draw with a nightmare on an empty hand.
Game 4: LOSS
Got all my creatures killed, so got stalled to death.
Game 5: LOSS
Got a bad draw, no QP, only 2 novas for a long time, got destroyed. A 3rd nova before he got that 3rd Dragon would have meant Deflag+More damage+BH, a win, but nope.
Game 6: LOSS
My grabbow has failed, no deflag for his fog, while he got early EEs and staffs.
Game 7: LOSS
Early Dagger vs. my 1 poison in half a deck, couldn't outdamage him.
Oh well, ggs Afda, good luck in finals.
Post by: Afdarenty on July 01, 2013, 09:23:02 am
Oh my oh my oh my. Never actually thought I could manage that. GGs!
I got a decent draw, but would have needed a perfect one to win.
Gogo Ghostmair! Against time mark, boo! Awful quanta draw for Cal, yay! Only one ghost for damage 16 cards in, boo! Dial chained to oblivion.
With no early discord for Cal, I thought I could do this one. I might have managed it, too, if I drew a bonewall.
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[09:25] <Afdarenty> 0-3. Que comeback music :p
I was scared of a 60 card stall, for some strange reason, so decided to speedbuild this. Only just remembered to take out pandemonium before the game :) It was a good match up, and I had a decent draw. Simple as that.
Not a fantastic start for me, but I think Cal only started with one nova. This could have been much, much closer.
This is probably one of my favourite decks. No deflag for Cal all game meant a fairly safe win, even without me drawing any adrenaline.
Early vamp dagger and good damage, coupled with only one poison for damage in half a deck for Cal, meant a fairly comfortable win.
Post by: Helston on July 01, 2013, 10:52:34 am
I was scared of a 60 card stall, for some strange reason, so decided to speedbuild this. Only just remembered to take out pandemonium before the game :) It was a good match up, and I had a decent draw. Simple as that.
And thus the Boltbow makes a return! I wonder why you were afraid of Calindu, of all people, running a 60 card stall?
Also, I think one of you has mixed up games 4 and 5 in your description.
And thumbs up for the Adrenastaff/EE duo!
Post by: Afdarenty on July 01, 2013, 11:47:54 am
I was scared of a 60 card stall, for some strange reason, so decided to speedbuild this. Only just remembered to take out pandemonium before the game :) It was a good match up, and I had a decent draw. Simple as that.
And thus the Boltbow makes a return! I wonder why you were afraid of Calindu, of all people, running a 60 card stall?
Also, I think one of you has mixed up games 4 and 5 in your description.
And thumbs up for the Adrenastaff/EE duo!
I thought sanc stall seemed like an obvious choice, and thought Calindu might bring a fatter stall. So I went super fat :P Plus rainbow is better against discord. I'll swap my game 4 and 5 decks round.
Glad you liked the deck! Ten weapons so good
Post by: Laxadarap on July 05, 2013, 03:14:16 pm
Post by: Laxadarap on July 08, 2013, 01:19:15 am
Well, 2 budo finals, two losses. I'm so good at this game XD.
Predicted stall, got stall. Fantastic counter, literally no way he could beat me.
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.
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).
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).
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).
Post by: Afdarenty on July 08, 2013, 01:56:29 am
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.
Hardcounters don't come much harder than this. Early scorp meant I had no chance.
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.
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.
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.
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.