My Battle League Story

[BunKeR]

It was a great experience , playing in my first Battle League ! I've got to say that the impending nerf's mean that most of the decks I used in the event are going into extinction . I did try to keep a solid record of games and matched played but I personally feel like I've lost some data ::shrug::

My final record in matches was [ 20 - 10 ] . I believe I played 68 games in total , not counting rematches due to desynchs . The decks listed below are in win rate order , and represent the top 5 deck codes I used in the event . Any stats to not reflect rematches .

Spoiler for SoG  Firestall:

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Yeah , Firestall . When I get to hell I'll be sure to tell the powers below that I used Firestall to get there .
My flexible spots on the list were the 3rd Defrag and the Rain of Fire . I would sometimes pull those out for a Rage Potion or two if I felt the match dictated for it .

I played SoG Firestall to an 83% win rate . I played it 17% of the time .

Spoiler for Gravitybow:

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I basically wanted to be able to beat the Earth Mark Grabbow list that ran SoFo's . I wanted to run play Nova into SoFo every turn 1 and I wanted have removal just as quickly . This was the list I put together to that end . I'm going to miss playing SoFo after the nerf , and this deck was killer if they hadn't seen it before winning its first game against the first 5 players I ran it against .

This deck was the reason I wanted to play BL anyway . I had a lot of faith in the list and true enough it performed well .

I played Gravitybow to a 69% win rate . I played it 42% of the time .

Spoiler for Mono Air:

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I built this mid season in response to the amount of fast Nova decks I kept running into . Nothing special but it was effective when used to counter .

I played Mono Air to a 66% win rate . I played it 04% of the time .

Spoiler for PvP1 Instosis:

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Devonian Dragon + Mitosis + Shard of Readiness + Shard of Readiness + Skyblitz = 100 damage . Chimera if needed .

When used as a counter to decks without PC it was pretty impressive . Of the 3 games it actually lost 1 was to a misplay , 1 was due to not hitting a Hourglass in the first 21 cards and the other was to Ghostmare . That game was very close but the fact fact that a Nightmare effectively stops me from drawing my 1st card of the turn was kinda devastating . This was easily my favorite deck of the season , but I knew it had a serious PC weakness so I used it only when I thought I could get away with it .

I'm going to miss the old SoR .

I played PvP1 Instosis to a 57% win rate . I played it 10% of the time .

I also played Ghostmare , SoFo Grabbow , Mono Aether SoW , Stompy and Flying Titan . I did very poorly with them and the lists were standard . Combined , the last 5 decks went 4 - 16 .

You play , you learn . Then you apply for War.

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[Vangelios]

These your first 2 decks were fantastic, I was amazed with you, you won 6 firsts duels (including me and Cheesy), I think if you enter in the BL one month earlier would be stronger than it was.