Devil's Gate - Round 5

[RootRanger]

Round 5 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 5 has ended.

Aves	ji412jo
iancudorinmarian	worldwideweb3
Afdarenty	JonathanCrazyJ
Physsion	chrispybacon84
Puff	Odii Odsen
Fippe94	Calindu

Round 5 Lore
I am all monsters!
The apocalypse has begun, and the destruction of humanity is imminent. But Lucifer is nowhere to be found.
Basman-1453: Hey there, I haven’t seen you around these parts much.
Odii Odsen: That’s because I’ve spent the last fifty years trapped in Purgatory. It was hell.
Basman-1453: Well, not exactly “hell.”
Odii Odsen: You have no idea what I’ve been through.
Basman-1453: Sure, but it wasn’t hell. See, I’ve actually been to Hell. That was hell. Purgatory? Not so much.
Odii Odsen: Are you trying to one-up me, or something?
Basman-1453: No, but you shouldn’t say that Purgatory was hell, when you’re talking to someone who has literally been to Hell.
Odii Odsen: Fair enough. But I can’t have people like you trivializing my experiences.
(Odii Odsen lights the bones of Basman-1453 on fire, and the Demon is incinerated.)
inthisroom: I really have to thank you for releasing Lucifer.
JonathanCrazyJ: By killing that Demon earlier?
inthisroom: Yes, you see, it couldn’t have simply been one of us. Had to come from the outside. But you’ve done it!
JonathanCrazyJ: Look, pal, I think there’s some kind of misunderstanding here.
JonathanCrazyJ: I’m really not too big on this Lucifer guy. He had nothing to do with that Demon I killed.
inthisroom: Well then, you sure have some interesting motives.
JonathanCrazyJ: Not really. I just like killing!
(JonathanCrazyJ stabs inthisroom with RUBY’S KNIFE.)
ji412jo: Gentlemen, you know why I’ve gathered you all here. We need to stop the apocalypse.
worldwideweb3: Relax, the Angels have it under control. Michael will defeat Lucifer. It’s prophesized!
Aves: How sure are you that Michael is powerful enough? Your prophecies have been wrong before.
worldwideweb3: I know what I’m doing here!
iancudorinmarian: But if you’re wrong about this, we’re done for. All the Shapeshifters in the world still couldn’t defeat Lucifer.
worldwideweb3: I don’t think all the Shapeshifters in the world could defeat anyone.
iancudorinmarian: Excuse me?
worldwideweb3: Look, kid, I’m an Angel. I can teleport, time travel, and rescue lost souls from Hell. All you can do is disguise yourself.

[Zawadx]

ji412jo: Gentlemen, you know why I’ve gathered you all here. We need to stop the apocalypse.
worldwideweb3: Relax, the Angels have it under control. Michael will defeat Lucifer. It’s prophesized!
Aves: How sure are you that Michael is powerful enough? Your prophecies have been wrong before.
worldwideweb3: I know what I’m doing here!
iancudorinmarian: But if you’re wrong about this, we’re done for. All the Shapeshifters in the world still couldn’t defeat Lucifer.
worldwideweb3: I don’t think all the Shapeshifters in the world could defeat anyone.
iancudorinmarian: Excuse me?
worldwideweb3: Look, kid, I’m an Angel. I can teleport, time travel, and rescue lost souls from Hell. All you can do is disguise yourself.

Filleeer. We want real lore!

[Aves]

Aves 3-1 ji412jo

Game 1: Win! Expecting a stall, so scaling damage! Ji412jo brought a rush, though.

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Game 2: Loss! Needed BBs to deal with PUGons.

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Game 3: Win! Wasn't expecting the RoL/Hope, but this worked out well. Hehe.

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Game 4: Win! He drew arsenic late, and that cinched it for me, even with reflective shield out.

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Ggs ji412jo!

[Odii Odsen]

Odii Odsen 3-1 Puff

Good games, was a really fun and close match.

Game 1, Game 2 and Game 3

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Game 4

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[Sera]

Puff 1 - 3 Odii Odsen

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Game 1 LOSS vs Wise Immortals. Totally hard countered.

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Game 2 WIN vs Wise Immortals. I never thought I'd actually use this thing, but I did, and it actually worked!
Game 3 LOSS vs Wise Immortals. Now I noticed that playing stuff off mark with SoSac was not really a great idea. Still a very close game.

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Game 4 LOSS vs SoPa Dolls. Good god not this deck. I did get a lucky chain of silences then a series of braveries that let me mutate his squids away into some useless creatures. At some point I was sure I have enough damage for the win already, but he played SoPa again to stop arsenic just to keep me from lethal while one last squid froze my creatures.

Really fun games!

[worldwideweb3]

1 W,3 L

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2 W

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4 W

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Hurray! GGs!

[iancudorinmarian]

iancudorinmarian: 1
worldwideweb3: 3

I got really unlucky in this match. In all games except the one I won, which I would've won even with the worst hand ever.

Loss (Countered and too many early sundials)

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Loss (1 nova in 15 cards, couldn't keep the pressure)

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Win (6 pend hand when 1 would've been enough)

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Loss (2 pend hand when I needed at least 3 and also drawing upped antimatter instead of unupped one)

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This could've gone the other way around with some decent RNG. Oh well, there's still hope, I guess.

/salty

[JonathanCrazyJ]

JonathanCrazyJ: 3
Afdarenty: 1

#DeckSpam. Swapped the Reflective for a 6th SoFr for game 3 and 4.

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[Afdarenty]

Afdarenty 1-3 JonathanCrazyJ

Game 1 (Loss) vs Shard Golem

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Very late fog for me (which blocked nothing), and only one Wyrm in 16 cards meant my draw was slow. Lost by a turn or two.

Game 2 (Loss) vs Shard Golem

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Early fog, which blocked a total of 2 damage all game versus no SoFr until very late for him. Lost by a turn. 4th Shockwave (I started with 3) or an OE at any time was a win for me, too.

Game 3 (Win) vs Shard Golem

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Poor draw for me, with no Dagger or Nightmare, but his was even slower. Early fog blocked nothing.

Game 4 (Loss) vs Shard Golem

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1 Dragon and no Blitz in 17 cards. Early dagger, but JCJ plays a Dive Golem with a quick SoW buff on turn 3 or so. Fog blocks nothing (literally), again.

[Calindu]

Calindu 3-0 Fippe94

Game 1: Win

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Drew perfectly, got a 6 TTW.

Game 2: Win

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Took a while to get going, but once I drew my SoPa, I ramped up the damage and outrushed him by a turn or 2.

Game 3: Win

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Got a good starting hand with lots of quanta, so I could play my damage pretty fast. I did a crucial mistake by stealing a sanctuary and not a fire shield at some point and this prevented me from doing damage as I drew mostly lycans and quanta(all my quanta with 8 cards left). I managed to draw my steal in my time and won in the last turn, as Fippe drew no miracle.

Ggs Fippe!

[Fippe94]

Fippe94 0-3 Calindu

GGs!

Well, I'm out :/

Game 1, LOSS

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Game 2: LOSS

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Game 3, LOSS

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Never drew Miracle in half deck, drew Fahren and extra Sanc too late too. Thought I was gonna win, but Calindu stole my fireshield and threw out lots of damage near the end.

[Physsion]

Physsion 2 - 3 chrispybacon84

mathman101 subbed for chrispy after game 1.

Game 1, 2

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Game 3

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Game 4, Game 5

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