Devil's Gate - Round 3

[RootRanger]

Round 3 Pairings
Play the opponent across from you. It is recommended that you send a private message to your opponent, in order to schedule a time to play. You may click their name to go to their profile. Rules can be found here, and the full brackets can be found here.
Round 3 has ended.

Physsion	Aves
Afdarenty	ji412jo
iancudorinmarian	Fippe94
Puff	worldwideweb3
Timdood3	inthisroom
kirbylover314	JonathanCrazyJ
trashduke	DANIEELA
Kuroaitou	chrispybacon84
mathman101	Basman-1453
Odii Odsen	rob77dp
theelkspeaks	ddevans96
Calindu	Manuel

Round 3 Lore
Lucifer cannot rise. He does and Hell rises with him.
The war is in full swing, and blood has begun to shed. In hushed whispers, there are talks of the return of Lucifer.
inthisroom: Something seems off. You’re not from around these parts, are you?
MeowMeowCat: I come from a few decades into the future.
inthisroom: Oh, you Angels always have such silly tricks. What are you here for this time?
MeowMeowCat: I am going to stop you from opening the Devil’s Gate.
inthisroom: Well, if you knew a thing or two about how time travel works...
MeowMeowCat: I know what you’re trying to do. It’s not just about the Demons. You want to break the 66 seals to release Lucifer.
inthisroom: Well, someone catches on quick. Can’t have your type going around trying to stop me - well, future me.
(inthisroom draws an Angel’s blade and laughs arrogantly.)
MeowMeowCat: You can’t have one of those. They belong to the Angels.
inthisroom: I’ve been around a while. Let’s just say I have...connections.
MeowMeowCat: Even if I die here, the other Angels, the ones higher up, they’ll stop you.
inthisroom: Oh, we’ll see about that.
(inthisroom stabs MeowMeowCat, and he is no more.)
DANIEELA: What do you know about the 66 seals?
mrpaper: Not much, just that if the Demons break them all, they release Lucifer.
DANIEELA: Have they made any progress?
mrpaper: Quite a bit, actually. But I’m sure a God of your caliber could kill Lucifer easily.
DANIEELA: Yeah...of course...are you really not worried about this at all?
mrpaper: Are you kidding me? We Shapeshifters, we love that everybody else is killing each other off.
DANIEELA: Very well then. If you won’t help, you’re of no use to me.
(DANIEELA reaches out her hand, and mrpaper is set ablaze.)
Timdood3: Looks like you’ve trapped me. Well, congratulations. Really, three pats on the back.
worldwideweb3: You know what they say. Third time’s a charm.
Timdood3: Now give me three good reasons why I shouldn’t kill you.
worldwideweb3: For one, I’m a bit out of your league here. Only the three Archangels are stronger than me. Well, four if you count...
Timdood3: Lucifer. I know. A third of the seals have already been broken.
worldwideweb3: Ah, yes, it’s truly tragic. We’re going to triple our efforts to...
Timdood3: Enough with the lies. How many Angels are even trying to stop the Demons? Three?
worldwideweb3: We all have our roles to play. And you still need to learn a thing or three. Goodbye.
(worldwideweb3 places his hand on Timdood3, who disappears.)

[Aves]

Aves 3-2 Physsion

G1 Loss
Expecting Drainbolt. EQs armed and ready. What I get is something different, with an infinitely better quanta split...

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G2 Win
Alright. SoV? Dragons > SoV. Let's see how it goes.

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G3 Win
Pandestall! If he goes for a creature heavy mono like I did last round, pandestall should do the trick. Let's hope it's not SoV!

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G4 Loss
CP Vamps! Same mark, different archetype! I get a good solid rush off... and then in the end he kills my heavy-vampire and dusk blocks enough damage (after a hefty steal war) so that he OTKs me first.

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G5 Win
SoV Drain.
Hey. If you can't beat them... Also was wondering where drainbolt went. Mono Drains > Duo Drains! Pure !

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Phew. I honestly wasn't expecting to win this set-- well played from Physs, awesome decks on both sides. It's a shame there could be only one winner here. Uh. I mean. REVOLUTION!!!

Post came late because the power went out literally two lines before I completed the message >.<

[worldwideweb3]

www3: 3
Puff: 1

GGs! tbh, cant believe this cause i expected 0-3. Some were close, and could have easily gone the other way.

G1 W

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G2 W, 3 L, 4 W

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[Sera]

Puff 1 - 3  worldwideweb3
RIP in peace.

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G1 LOSS vs Firestall. I got a good start, but made a terrible decision: I didn't deflag a dial, thinking I should save for fire shield, which wouldn't have mattered at that point anyway. He drew RoFs and just wiped everything.

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G2 LOSS vs Nightmare Angels: Not sure if this could have gone better had I played around Nightmare a little better, but I lost the damage race.
G3 WIN vs Nightmare Angels: Got lucky with an Earthquake, but we got disconnected early on. We played it out, I won on both sides. He gave me the win.

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G4 LOSS vs Nightmare Angels: Terrible matchup, but somehow I was still a turn away from winning by intentionally clogging my hand before fractal.

So close. GGs!

[MyNameIsJoey]

ji412jo 3 - 1 Afdarenty

decks not in order

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this last one lost.

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[Afdarenty]

Afdarenty 1-3 ji412jo

Good games. Outplayed here.

Game 1 (Win) vs Firestall

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Game 2 (Loss) vs Sanc Stall

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Horrible draw here, with no Queen in the top 10 cards, and only 1 SoFr. I never drew a second Wings, so his early Arsenic + Nymph made short work of me.

Game 3 (Loss) vs PUgons

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Knew I was pushing my luck playing this three times in a row - promptly punished for it. 2 pend draw wasn't nearly enough in this match up.

Game 4 (Loss) vs SoW/Reflect

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Very bad and very unexpected match up. Death by scary photon.

[Physsion]

Physsion 2 - 3 Aves

Well played, Aves. Good luck for the rest!

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Game 1, Game 4 vs. SoV Earthquakes, Chaos Power Vampires
Correctly predicted Earthquakes in G1.
Expected another stall in G4, thought it was Pandemoniums when I saw the Entropy mark, heart sunk a little when a huge Vampire appeared. Managed to get it into a range where I could kill it with two Drains, won with direct damage a few turns later.

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Game 2 vs. Mono Dragons/Drains
Unfortunately, my baby failed me here... all 5 Dolls drawn, but only one Squid. I lost by a turn, I think drawing a 2nd Squid to force another early Drain from Aves might've saved me here. Well played regardless.

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Game 3 vs. Pandestall
Ouch. Not the matchup you want to send Vampires into. I tried to control the Vagger to chip him into burst range, but he had too many Steals.

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Game 5 vs. Mono SoV
Took a risk here, unfortunately it didn't pay off. I knew Drainbolt was strong against almost all of his decks, and knew he'd be expecting it the entire match, but my own mono SoV was completely unexpected here.

[mathman101]

Basman 3 - 1 mathman

ggs Basman, thanks for the matches.

Spoiler for Hidden:

Game 1: LOSS

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Game 2: LOSS

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Game 3: WON

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Game 4: LOSS

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Kinda sad that 2 of the games were lost because either I couldn't find AWs or that my hand had only AWs.
But this helps aid me to become better at deckbuilding for the next event.

[Basman-1453]

Basman-1453 3 - 1 mathman101

GGWP, math. I couldn't believe it since I was expecting to have math wipe the floor with me XP

Decks used, in order:
(Disclaimer: Just like my other DG decks, I appropriated the decks' names out of spellcards from ido's Touhou fangame works )

Divine Fire "Keikou's Dragon Lantern"

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(WIN)
Between his Fog, two flown AdrenaStaves (honestly, I predicted FFQ/Fahren then upon seeing Mark of Life), and my lack of PC, I was in a little bit of problems ... until those Staves meet three consecutive Rains of Fire (which was meant to combat SoFree-induced headaches, honestly) and he was unable to procure another flown Staff XDD

"Infinite Light Reversal"

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(WIN)
His Voids failed to cripple me fast enough despite me failing to destroy the Fog until the third-to- or second-to-last turn (then again, the Fog didn't hinder me that much that game) and two last-turns Nightmares of Flown Vamp Dagger XP

Binomial "Binomial Name"

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(LOSE)
I was wondering why didn't he shot my Crimson Dragon, and lo! there comes the Sacrifice. He was worried of my Thunder Note "Thunder Bird" (third deck on the link) (or, rather, its Silences), apparently, that he stacked Sacrifices before the two-turns came up, but otherwise he mindgated me right there. And I almost won it if he didn't plop a last-minute Bone Wall (I had six Dragons that moment) to buy him a turn to grab that Sacrifice (which he grabbed). XD

Five Kingdoms "Whittaker and Margulis"

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(WIN)
This deck is a mod of Taxonomy "World of Two and Five" (first deck on the link) that I used during DG R1.
It was unfortunate for him that he couldn't find his FWs at all (which then strengthened my suspicions that he was going to FFQ/Fahren me). I mean, W&M has no CC (so I couldn't do anything against his creatures) and he correctly mindgated my Quakes XP

[Fippe94]

Fippe94 0-3 iancudorinmarian

Game 1 and 3, LOSS and LOSS

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Game 2, LOSS

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[iancudorinmarian]

iancudorinmarian: 3
Fippe94: 0

WIN (I managed to win in the end, he couldn't deal with all my stuff)

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WIN (I was a bit greedy and tried to get a 2nd SoW before realizing it's a mirror. Him getting "steam" and lower atk, and me getting "queen" and higher atk and me drawing a lot of novas to get all the quantum needed to outdamage him won me the game)

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WIN (I drew only PUs and silences until the 17th card. Then I got my dragon and from that point on it was pretty easy. Not even a topdeck miracle saved him.

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[chrispybacon84]

chrispybacon84 3-1 Kuroaitou

GGs! Very very fun to play, honestly was expecting to get smashed.

G1 (Loss)

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1 pend start failed me, got a bit of control, but quakes got the better of me

G2 (Win)

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Pretty straight forward, nice flowy game

G3(Win)

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Again, pretty straight forward, flowed quite well

G4(Win)

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He was expecting it, I knew I had to play it. Kuro didn't draw his wardens/vamps/dragons in time, which game me more than enough quanta to play with. A nice fractal dragons at the end, with help from his nightfall got me to a TTK.

Again, great games Kuro, and bad luck on the losses. Good luck to any future events you join in on, and hopefully I can see you there!