Pika's Tournament Deck Thread

[pikachufan2164]

Because all the cool kids are doing it

Apr. 16, 2011 -- Buff Up (Western) (3^rd Place)
Deck limitations:

• Upgraded cards are allowed, but not required.
• All decks must contain at least 6 buff spells.
• Bans (both upped and unupped): Shard of Gratitude, Pandemonium, Rewind, Eternity, Mutation, Fallen Elf, Parallel Universe, Purple Nymph, Antimatter, Nymph's Tears, Nymph Queen, Fire Bolt, Ice Bolt, Drain Life

Players faced: triangular (2-1), Trykster (2-1), SpikeSpiegel (2-0), RootRanger (0-2), xn0ize (0-0, win by forfeit)
Bracket: http://challonge.com/buffuptourney

Stoned Arsenics

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710 710 710 710 710 710 710 710 710 71a 71a 71a 71a 71a 71a 71b 71b 71b 71b 77l 77l 77l 77l 77l 77l 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 8pm

Pretty much the deck I used the most. Counters the numerous Immorushes I've seen. Full credit goes to jmdt for making this awesome deck.

Spirit of Gryffindor

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5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 77e 77e 77e 77e 77e 77e 77l 77l 77l 77l 77l 77l 7dg 7dg 7dg 7dm 7dm 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dq 7dq 7ds 8po

An Immorush of my own, inspired by Napalm's Lava Rush.

Scrambled Shriekers

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4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u5 6u5 6u5 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 77g 77g 77g 77g 77g 77g 77l 77l 77l 7gs 7n2 7n2 7n2 8pm

A variation on an old classic. I used it after winning with Stoned Arsenics to scare off the Immobows that could potentially ruin this deck.
Apr. 9, 2011 -- 2 Powerful (Western) (3^rd Place)
Deck limitations:

• Unupped cards only
• Only cards with an even casting cost (0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, etc.) allowed

Players faced: TStar (2-1), Theonlyrealbeef (2-1), Zeru (2-0), Kakerlake (0-2), Onizuka (2-1)

Bracket: http://imageplay.net/img/m7Gbd170476/elementstourney.png

Sancbow

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 52q 592 592 595 595 5f6 5f6 5ii 5ii 5lm 5lm 5lm 5oo 5oo 5oo 5rl 5rl 5rl 5up 5up 61t 61t 621 621 8ps

Here's what I planned on taking into the tournament after chatting to Kuro, who won the Eastern Tournament. He said that he saw a lot of GotP/Nightmare, Life rushes, and Pestal. I designed this to counter all three fairly well. I only used it twice in the tournament, though.

GotP/Nightmare

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5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5up 5up 5v1 5v1 5v1 5v1 5v1 5v1 8pt

Pretty standard deck. It managed to win against Torb's Sancbow, which surprised me a little. It also won against TStar's surprise Immobow (Rewinds FTW). Played two mirror matches against Oni in the bronze match, and it pretty much came down to pillar counts each game.

Adrenaline Rush

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5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bt 5bt 5bt 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5c5 5c5 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 8pn

Only brought it out once, and Torb had an Antimatter deck ready for it

UG Rush

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4tb 4tb 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5of 5of 5of 5om 5om 5om 5om 5om 5om 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 8po

TStar played his version (with Blue Nymph, no less) of this against me in the first round and completely caught me by surprise with this deck. After winning against him, I Mindgated his deck, and it served me quite well as a surprise first strike against Torb and Zeru.

Sanctuary Stall

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5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5la 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 61q 61q 61q 61q 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 622 622 8pu

Zeru was awesome and gave me this deck after I won against him in the quarterfinals. Kaker just had to take a Stone Skin stall against it, and I decked out against him (of course I end up winning the coin toss when we both have 40 card decks ) and ended up losing the semifinals match. Seeing PC on a stick was also bad news.

I also used this deck in the bronze match against Oni, and after many timeouts, we could agree on the fact that mine had very reliable chances of decking out or winning against his deck (mainly because he forgot to pack Steals and the only way for him to win was to get a Steal mutant).

[TheIdioticIdiot]

oh cmon...
your decks will be too awesome that mine won't be able to match up...

[Onizuka]

Yeah, I could have gotten the win if I only packed steals over mutations versus the Light/Aether stall.

I even had a 15 pillar deck when we faced in the 3rd match. I was scared of you nightmaring me again.

[pikachufan2164]

3rd place finish in this week's tourney added