Post by: EvaRia on April 12, 2012, 02:03:38 am
Post your battle results here! No standard format, just share however you want!
Although, it would make sense to include decks, who won, the score, and possibly some summaries ;).
Post by: MyNameIsJoey on April 12, 2012, 02:35:08 am
Shrink 2 - 1 ji412jo -- Monodeath with 6 off element allowed. No shard. Unupped.
game 1: i used a kind of pandebonium with a very fail draw. i left the game before i could see what he had, his lone arsenic was winning. LOSS
game 2: speedpoison vs a silence/dimshield poisonstall. WON
game 3: Stalkers in the night vs bonewalls + chargers. Was a pretty darn close one, he won by 2 HP and/or 1 bonewall.
Pretty good games :)
Post by: Shrink on April 12, 2012, 02:40:22 am
Game 1 (win): He bailed after his terrible draw and my lots of poisons.
Game 2 (loss): I accidentally failed with too many off-element (Can't read). Didn't matter though cause speedpoison was deadly.
Game 3 (win): His nightfall was nice to my mummies, but it came really close at the end. My last bone wall saved me.
gg's ji! It was really nice to play you and get some new competition!
Post by: Calindu on April 12, 2012, 09:59:13 am
Decks must contain 6 Phase Shields, no PC allowed.
Game 1:
Drew my Eternity fast enough for a deckout win.
Game 2:
When I saw he played his first shield, I though I will loss, but in the end, 4 recluses helped by 4 silences won the game.
Ggs Sevs!
Post by: Calindu on April 12, 2012, 11:19:05 am
Duos with RNGed elements.
Game 1: :light/ :time
Eternity troll.
Game 2: :entropy/ :aether
No fast discord on his side kinda spelled him the doom, but this was a perfect match-up.
Post by: Shrink on April 12, 2012, 11:30:17 am
Challenge: Duo Decks with RNG'd elements
Game 1 (loss): :light | :time
Messy stall is messy. Would've been better to use eternity's :X
Game 2(loss): :entropy | :aether
Cal said creative and he brought a bolt/diss shield stall. Very creative Cal ;)
Post by: Calindu on April 12, 2012, 03:00:22 pm
Only creatures and quanta generators allowed
Game 1: LOSS
Needed a deck that wins against mono darkness, decided this is my best bet.
Out of my 18 pillars I drew only 1, not that I needed those, because his Nymphs outnumber my creatures pretty fast.
Game 2: WIN
Even if I was down on earth quanta most of the game, his water quanta for steam came slow and I managed to get enough creatures to allow some of my graboids to burrow.
Game 3: WIN
Good start, fast creatures, some unlucky devourers made this match pretty easy.
Post by: Calindu on April 13, 2012, 08:30:37 am
Decks with at least 8 Alchemy cards.
Game 1: WIN
Not even a bad draw that forced me to play a fast sundial stopped me, boomed 5 UGs in the end.
Game 2: WIN
A perfect counter from me, since I had ways to counter afla.
Game 3: LOSS
Fail draw, had to discard a graboid and a BB, Discord spelled my doom in the end.
Game 4 and 5: LOSS and WIN
Game 4: No discord, Eva rushed me with nymphs.
Game 5: Almost derped this game by not blocking wings, but some timed BHs kept my dragons alive and blocked the wings.
Post by: EvaRia on April 13, 2012, 08:36:04 am
Bo5 Unupgraded
Decks had to contain 8 or more alchemy cards.
vs. Unstable Gas speed OTK
I had obvious quanta issues (didn't really think this deck through) and he used UGs anyways.
Vs. Entropy stall + Rage pots.
He played creatureless stall so aflatoxins couldn't do anything. Conceded when it was basically decided that we were just mashing space.
Vs. Graboids/GotP
Took a more competitive deck this time. He got a bad hand, some control stalled him long enough and Discord/Black Hole sealed the deal.
Vs. DisHole
I like this deck. He couldn't draw discord so I rushed him.
Post by: EvaRia on April 13, 2012, 07:51:57 pm
Bo3 Upgraded/Half-Upgraded
Your Mileage will vary.
Both of us came up with a rule!
1. You can only use a card which has an odd number of letters in the name if it's in an even lettered elements, and vice versa.
2. You can only play cards which are at the top or bottom of your hand.
Game 1: LOSS
Vs. MitoPuffers
He got a ridiculous hand with 6 quanta sources and I was forced to discard. My lightnings and things all got caught between bone dragons and I couldn't get started.
I was also not exactly prepared to face a gigantic amount of upgrades, so... yeah.
Games 2 + 3: WIN
Vs. Water/Momentum rush.
He kindly cut down on his nuber of upgrades this time. This time I got a hand where I could put up lots of quanta early. His only momentum he discarded to free his quanta, so once I got hope and a light nymph out he wasn't able to touch me.
Vs. Blitzing Vamp Daggers.
He couldn't get his combo out without shuffling his hand. I got hope out fairly quickly again, so it was only a matter of time.
Post by: RavingRabbid on April 13, 2012, 08:00:07 pm
2nd deck
3rd deck
He summed it up pretty well.
Y_Y
Post by: Shrink on April 14, 2012, 01:54:25 am
Challenge: Duo Decks with RNG'd elements
Game 1 (loss): :light | :fire
Didn't draw enough quanta sources for light in time. Immorush plowed through this.
Game 2 (loss): :water | :gravity
Had all of his freezes which was awkward when my chargers were accelerating and frozen and dying and such. Threw his Armedilgos at meh.
GGs
Post by: Laxadarap on April 14, 2012, 02:02:54 am
I believe this was the deck code, but didn't save it. Numbers of angels/pheonixes might be off. Didn't draw any fire pends until about 5 turns in, so I wasn't able to
get out a raging angel until turn before I won. Drew all 5 cremations in that time, played 4 of them, immolating a pheonix twice.
Drew 4 armedilgos and 1 gravy pillar first draw, next draw was another armedilgo. Then, I drew gravy pillars/freezes for next 10 draws, until I got my catapult. Just froze his accelerated chargers while my Titan beat him down.
Post by: Shantu on April 14, 2012, 08:22:26 am
Aether-Air-Gravity trios
1st game:
Not really a chance here (forgot in-hand Titan when building the deck), but no Lobos sealed the game.
2nd game:
He had catapults, I didn't. Despite having 4 titans out, you just can't cope with catapulted titans.
Good games.
Post by: Laxadarap on April 14, 2012, 08:23:34 am
Trio game with 6 ups. Elements were decided by chat: Aether, air gravy. Bo3
When I made had too many ups, modified it right before game. I think that this was the deck code. Might have chargers switched for pilllars though.
He was using an anti-cc stall, titans are basically impervious to cc. Silenced when I got out a charger, and was able to pull out another one next turn for ko, they were never in danger. (extra silence as well)
This was titans as well against his Titans+lightnings. I had a pretty good quanta rate, started with 2 pillars to his 4, but I had first turn, and promptly drew another one, 1st turn titan, played others as well as catapult. He ended up with 4 (maybe 3?) Titans, but the extra damage from catapult was too much.
EDIT: why so fail on deck images?
http://helltgivre.free.fr/elements/?deck=z955kz255l55mz355sz161oz3624z1745z37n28pu
http://helltgivre.free.fr/elements/?deck=z755kz555sz2561z2576z3624z57n28pu
Post by: DevilLoss on April 16, 2012, 08:35:56 am
intresting fight but I got my butt kicked hard except that last duel was pretty close :D.
Rules were mono decks only no shards best of five.
first game went with a mono light lost to entropy be+nymph+dragons only chance to win is if i had cards that i needed liek either lucifren or more miracles.
2nd game he used a lamo firestallfaster deck :-\ I used mono gravity chargers+overdrive.
3rd game was pretty close but he used his lamo firestall deck again agiasnt my mono death. Probably would have won if i played bonewall earlier but oh well.
Post by: Calindu on April 16, 2012, 08:37:10 am
Mono, no Shards.
Game 1: vs. mono Light
Well, it was a contest till I would draw Nymph+BE combo, after that, I had a free road to the win.
Game 2, 3:
Game 2: vs. mono Gravity
He killed me 2 Seraphs, but in the end, a bolt on charger followed by 2 bolts on his HP sealed the win.
Game 3: vs. mono Death
Started a fast rush, fast fahren, brimstones, Seraph, while he got a lot of poisons. He played a bone wall but I had a bolt+ a topdecked Seraph just to make sure I win.
Ggs DL!
Post by: Shrink on April 17, 2012, 10:56:12 am
RNG'd 5 elements for each one
Max of 12 QP's
Must use 6 of each element
Game 1 (Win)
:light :life :darkness :fire :aether
Game 2 (Loss)
:death :earth :fire :life :air
Game 3 (Loss)
:gravity :earth :light :time :darkness
Post by: DevilLoss on April 17, 2012, 10:56:58 am
DevilLoss-2 Shrink-1
game-1 i got my butt kicked didnt get anything out due to lack of qaunta.
game-2 i won pretty fast was stalled by some bb and wings but I had my own to use agiasnt him helps that I had more creatures too.
game-3 had more creautres again and adding houglasses to my deck helped speed things up didnt help that I had a card I thought we didnt ban but we did only had one though so it didnt make the biggest diffrence shrink game me the win anyways GG's shrink cant wait to challenge you again sometime.
first two deck codes were lost due to my laptop dieing after the 2nd match sorry folks. but the rules were must use 5 diffrent elements 6 cards from each element, only 12 qauntam pillars allowed, no other cards besides qauntam pillars, unupgraded best of 3.
Post by: Shrink on April 20, 2012, 07:39:06 pm
Challenge:
Bo5 -- One main element -- 3 RNG'd elements for both
Duel 1 (win)
Duel 2 (loss)
Duel 3 (loss)
Duel 4 (loss)
Post by: Shrink on April 21, 2012, 02:05:44 pm
Challenge:
Bo5 -- One main element -- 3 RNG'd elements for both
Duel 1 & 3 (win then loss)
Duel 2 (win)
Duel 4 (win)
GGs there Shantu :)
Post by: Shantu on April 21, 2012, 02:07:55 pm
:air | :darkness :earth :gravity vs :death | :darkness :fire :water
Unupped - No Shards - Bo5
Decide which element you will be basing your decks off of [and tell other player]
50% of deck must be in element
Two different sets of 3 RNG'd elements will be used to finish the rest of these decks
You do not need to use any or all of your 3 RNG'd elements
Apart from feeling myself being bit at a disadvantage here with my elements, luck didn't help me any either. Should have chosen another element I think. :)
Game 1: Loss
Before choosing the deck I had a feeling I should use my unstable gas or catatitan deck, but I went with this one anyway. Bonewall/Squid deck, duh.
Game 2: Loss
Wanted to play this in the first, so I played it in the second. I feared steals from him so I waited for flying weapons to show up in my hand. Turned out he had no steals so my wait was useless - and those 2 turns would have won me the game.
Game 3: Win
Same deck just because I liked it very much. Pretty bad pillardraw, but a catapult saved the day for me.
Game 4: Loss
I liked this one also. I might have stood a chance with flying weapons, but without them, facing 10 steals and bonewalls, I had little chance.
Good draw with good matchup..
GGs.
Post by: PhaseOase on April 21, 2012, 02:56:53 pm
Post by: Tichan on May 11, 2012, 02:04:14 am
Dm1321-2
2/3 deck light 10 upps max
1st game Blessed Dunes vs :light :entropy built up posion counters he antimatered my dunes droped dials at then end to get it over faster. WIN
2ed game I went with a fire stall he ran mono light decker. I did 120dmg on the last turn with bolts and 1 giant sword on fire but he had 220hp.. damn SoD's LOSE
3rd game Went with an Eternity Lockdown deck.. I though blessed peggies were coming next i was wrong.Dm ran a water light controll didn't play many critters for me to lock him down with and his healing plus morning star beat me down before I could get out enough damage.LOSE
Was fun building some decks for this and getting to play my old mentor after coming back so great games DM. Had a blast.
Post by: nensuru on July 15, 2012, 08:50:16 pm
rules:
a deck may have creature cards from another element, but only if the numbers of creatures of each elements is the same
6 ups
games 1, 2, 3
game 1 vs discord+black hole: 0 - 1
game 2 vs cats+death: 1-1
game 3 vs bonewall+firestorm: 2-1
game 4
game 4 vs bonewall+firestorm: 3-1
Got lucky on game 3, ended the game with 1hp and he got a bad draw on game 4
ggs
Post by: Vineroz on July 16, 2012, 11:21:33 am
Mindgate is always an underused card in competitive PvP. However in a more restricted meta, they can be very brutal. Now, when you think you have the mindgating skill, your opponent has it too. How are you going to deal with it?
| Special rule | Each deck must contain 3 Mindgates. No more, no less. |
| Banned cards | All weapons and shields. All shards except SoR. Deflag, Steal, Butterfly Effect and Earthquake. |
| Upgrades | 0/6/12/ALL. We will be using the same amount of upped cards. |
| Format | Best of 3. Can change deck and mark between games. |
Game 1: He got a 1 pend start while I get an early mindgate. His silence kinda helped but my damage > his anyway.
Game 2: Forgot to put upgrades while speedbuild this. He has a weird 1-of-each-pend deck. 1 early fractal is not enough to lock down his aether quanta, but nightfall'd devourers + dragons killed him fast enough.
Post by: nensuru on July 16, 2012, 11:22:21 am
rules: poor mindgate (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,42035.msg522206.html#msg522206)
Vineroz's decks (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,38498.msg522482.html#msg522482)
game 1
vs the same deck
game 2
vs pestal
ggs
Post by: PlayerOa on July 16, 2012, 12:12:47 pm
nensuru - 0
Perfect Quartet:
- All decks has to be exactly 40 cards
- All decks has to use four elements - no more, no less. No other cards.
- Every element need to be represented in the deck with exactly ten cards (ten cards of each of the four elements)
- Unupped, best of three
- You cannot use the same elements twice (if you use , , , and in your first deck, you cannot use those elements in match two. If it is 1-1 after two matches, you have to use the four remaining elements)
- Banned cards: Discord, Earthquake, Immolation, Nova, Black Hole
[no decks, as I will probably use these decks more]
In game one a lone Fahrenheit won me the game.
In game two I got a Water Nymph horde quite fast, and antimatters sealed me the win.
Post by: PlayerOa on July 16, 2012, 04:02:05 pm
Dm1321 - 0
Perfect Quartet:
- All decks has to be exactly 40 cards
- All decks has to use four elements - no more, no less. No other cards.
- Every element need to be represented in the deck with exactly ten cards (ten cards of each of the four elements)
- Unupped, best of three
- You cannot use the same elements twice (if you use , , , and in your first deck, you cannot use those elements in match two. If it is 1-1 after two matches, you have to use the four remaining elements)
- Banned cards: Discord, Earthquake, Immolation, Nova, Black Hole
[no deck codes, as I will probably use these decks more]
RT so vertisatile - vs. Wings+Fracluse (G1)
Won with EM - vs. Disstall :P (G2)
Post by: Shrink on July 16, 2012, 07:41:57 pm
Shrink 3 - 0 Zblader
Duel 1: :fire / :water - :light / :darkness
Got a steamer out early, and then rage pots errwhere. Got both my nymph tears and everything ended up having a lot of attack powah.
His blessed dragon scared me. Glad I packed freezes. (1-0)
Duel 2: :time / :air - :entropy / :gravity
Dunno how I beat dischole.
Thank you RNG. You have been so very kind. (2-0)
Duel 3: :gravity / :light - :aether / :air
These duels were so tight; especially this one. Armagios for the win! (3-0)
GGs Z! :D
Post by: ZephyrPhantom on July 16, 2012, 07:43:31 pm
- You may only use duos
- Matches will be unupped Bo5
- Shards are banned
- The card limit is 4 instead of 6
- Elements for both players will be chosen at random by RNG
Z vs Shrink
1. :darkness :light vs :water :fire
2. :entropy :gravity vs :air :time
3. :aether :air vs :gravity :light
Match 1 - Loss
Just a matter of who could get their damage out quicker. He did with a Red Nymph and Steam Machine and I had no Freezes.
Match 2 - Loss
Pretty close, I was one turn away from winning and then he brought out a last minute Silurian Dragon AND a Skyblitz. Jep, tight game this was.
Match 3 - Loss
I wonder why I used Fractal instead of Lighting. XP
Lesson learnt - In future duels, cheaper cards > expensive cards for most cases.
GG Shrink. :)
Post by: Absol on July 17, 2012, 01:06:41 am
Game 1: he killed me, therefore my win. 0-1, 8/12 objectives cleared.
Game 2: he Tsunami'd my only pend, i can't complete the goal. 1-1, 11/12 objectives cleared.
Game 3: *noslotgrumblegrumblenoslot* 2-1, 11/12 objectives cleared.
ggs.
Post by: Shantu on July 20, 2012, 12:28:12 am
Prisoner's Dilemma (the event) style!
- Trio speedbuilding (15-20 minutes), elements chosen by random chat people. (this means we have to meet in chat beforehand)
- All decks must contain at least 5 cards that cost at least 1 quanta to play from each element. (example: 6 :air pillars, 5 shockwaves, 2 :aether pendulums, 5 lightnings, 10 :death pendulums, 6 bonewalls)
- Any mark
- No upgrades.
- No Other cards.
- Best of 5.
- Trio speedbuilding (15-20 minutes), elements chosen by random chat people. (this means we have to meet in chat beforehand)
- All decks must contain at least 5 cards that cost at least 1 quanta to play from each element. (example: 6 :air pillars, 5 shockwaves, 2 :aether pendulums, 5 lightnings, 10 :death pendulums, 6 bonewalls)
- Any mark
- No upgrades.
- No Other cards.
- Best of 5.
Elements: :darkness :life :time
Game 1: Win
Barely won this one.
Game 2: Loss
Pretty bad draw and nensuru rushed me with an epic pillardraw, so I couldn't really deny him.
Game 3: Win
This deck was a full ghostmare originally then I figured it wouldn't be a good idea against a time deck.. so I reduced the number of nightmares and added stilettos instead. Despite that, I did ghostmare him because he didn't have enough time quanta.
Game 4: Win
Threw this together quickly since I noticed he didn't use reverse times at all. While I didn't have a very good initial hand - no vamps and adrenalines - I did draw them soon enough. The single ghost he played couldn't compete with two drugged vamps, especially since I kept rewinding it.
Good games!
[edit: nensuru's decks can be found here (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,38523.msg523405.html#msg523405).]
Post by: Laxadarap on July 20, 2012, 03:06:28 am
Rules were alteast 50% gravy and only 50% ups. Bo5
First game was my purgers vs his gravy-ghostmare.
He got out an overdriven ghost, I played a charger, Pu'd his ghost, Next turn I overdrived my charger and PU'd it. I used a lightning on an early Oty.
Second game was catatitans vs adrenaguards.
I got a decent draw, ended up catapulting a Titan to have 4 heals pushed in my face (3 the turn before I would have won). Didn't draw a nova until 15 cards left, but I ended up with 2 sundials. Chain dropped (no novas), so I took a turn of damage, bringing me down to 10 hp. Flew and gpulled a titan. Next turn drew another titan, pulted the full HP one for the win.
Third game was Ragamagios vs something with chargers + RT.
Don't have deck code, but chargers troll magios. I was actually using the deck to hopefully counter catatitans, or guardtal. Used a couple rage potions on chargers, but he drew 5 in the first half of the game. I was underquanta'd gravy wise, and couldn't catapult. He won pretty easily.
4th game was a poisonstall vs. a DBH.
Not my finest hour choosing a magios and bonewall vs. a gravy deck, but I only lost by about 2 turns He drew a whole bunch of quanta, and I drew hardly any. However, he didn't get out a discord until the turn after I Bonewalled. He did however draw 2/3 chargers very early, which was too much for me to outpace.
5th game was earth duo vs. skyblitzed massive drags?
Saw air mark and expected catatitans, but that didn't happen. He played a Dragon which I promptly BB"d, and my pulvy just sat there staring at him having no perms. Luckily, I drew 3 chargers and was able to kill him about a turn after he got his second dragon.
Post by: rosutosefi on July 24, 2012, 02:04:04 am
Rule: Semi M:TG (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,42200.0.html)
1st game Vaders vs Ghostmare. Lost. 9001 RT's
I should have brought my good friend Cloak.
2nd game Skull Shield Grey Nymphs vs Vaders. Won. Did not place skull shield because of stealphobia.
3rd game SoR Mito Adrenaghost vs a Pestal. Omnomnomnomnom'ed my quanta.
Yes, it IS quantum-hungry.
Post by: Shrink on July 24, 2012, 05:42:07 pm
Duel #1 :earth | :time - :light | :darkness
Outrushed. Win (1-0)
Duel #2 :fire | :life - :air | :death
Forgot to switch out life pends >.> (tons of fire quanta) Loss (1-1)
Duel #3 :water| :time - :earth| :gravity
Not enough death quanta. Forgot to switch out cards again. Loss (1-2)
Duel #4 :entropy | :earth - :aether | :darkness
Disco'd and rushed. Win (2-2)
Duel #5 :fire | :gravity - :life | :time
Drew my shield way too late. I put three in for a reason .________. Loss (2-3)
GGs
Post by: inthisroom on July 24, 2012, 11:51:07 pm
Match 1 Loss
Slow start, he played a controlbow, I managed to kill most of his creatures with wardens but Vamp Dagger OP, so I lost closely
Match 2 Win
He played Immo Déjà Vus with Phoenixes and deflags but didn't draw enough Deflags, while I drew a lot of Poison and Plagues early.
Match 3 Win
Our decks were made with the same idea, only he chose flying Vampire Daggers and Devourers, I managed to outdamage him with good draw.
Happy to have won my very first duel, thank you Bloom, all matches were very close and interesting.
Post by: Vineroz on July 25, 2012, 12:40:25 pm
| Deck-build restrictions |
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| Card restrictions |
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| Upgrades | 0/6/12/ALL. We will be using the same amount of upped cards. |
| Format | We will play all 3 games. |
Me: :life :air :time. Banned cards: Adrenaline, Sky Dragon, Ghost of the Past
Shantu: :death :earth :aether. Banned cards: Arsenic, Graboid, Lightning
Got my squids in time to block the pesky spiders.
Totally expecting Immortal but totally forgot about sancs. Could have won on the turn where I had a Flying OE, dragon, 4 UGs ,OE in slot and a skyblitz, against Diamond with 105 HP.
Quanta issues as explained by Shantu. I now declare Phase Recluse as my biggest enemy as they defeat me once again since Trials.
Post by: Shantu on July 25, 2012, 12:50:09 pm
:water The Eternal Enemy :fire
Everything in the universe comes in pairs. Whether it is immaterial or not, there exists an opposite form. It is the same in terms of elements, where opposite elementals repels each other viciously. Rules inspired by Trials #5.
Everything in the universe comes in pairs. Whether it is immaterial or not, there exists an opposite form. It is the same in terms of elements, where opposite elementals repels each other viciously. Rules inspired by Trials #5.
| Deck-build restrictions |
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| Card restrictions |
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| Upgrades | 0/6/12/ALL. We will be using the same amount of upped cards. |
| Format | We will play all 3 games. |
Me: :death :earth :aether. Banned cards: Arsenic, Graboid, Lightning
Vineroz: :life :air :time. Banned cards: Adrenaline, Sky Dragon, Ghost of the Past
Game 1: Loss
Vineroz used a water duo (we didn't get very creative) with purifies, spirits, nymphs, squids and other cards. If he didn't have squids I could have won this one. Me drawing all my pillars after his first squid didn't help my situation either. I should have used some control, in retrospect.
Game 2: Win
My ban, as it seems, kind of told Vineroz what I was planning to do and he brought an air/darkness stallbreaker. He miscalculated however and missed his opportunity to kill me, so I decked him out eventually. I was terrified the whole game, but I was lucky because he took his steals out, leaving my diamond shield in place. Using wardens against Air was kinda stupid though, should have gone with BBs. Sanctuaries could have helped too against his devourers.
Game 3: Win
A simple mono aether rush. Vineroz brought a SoR/Pharaoh/Eternity deck. He played an early eternity but keeping my two recluses rewound kept his quanta low, making him unable to play his pharaoh until it was too late. I had a nifty 3 pillar draw, which with my mark, allowed me to play my recluses again and again, dealing 14 damage every round.
Good games!
Post by: Shantu on July 25, 2012, 09:31:54 pm
Maidens' Tears
Nymphs can be the only creatures that can attack.
If a creature other than a Nymph deals damage to the opposing player, it counts as a forfeit.
No Rare Weapons
No Shards
Nymphs can be the only creatures that can attack.
If a creature other than a Nymph deals damage to the opposing player, it counts as a forfeit.
No Rare Weapons
No Shards
Decks not posted upon request.
Good games.
Post by: inthisroom on July 25, 2012, 10:34:58 pm
Match 1 Win
Vs'd Phoenixes and Seraphs, but Hope OP
Match 2 Win
Very close match, he played Shriekers and Ice Shield, which spared me more than usual, and I managed to RT him enough to have a slight advantage at the end
Ggs nensuru.
Post by: Drake_XIV on July 26, 2012, 10:49:00 pm
Challenge: Throw All Caution To The Wind
Game1: Won [Challenge Complete]
Both decided to do Voodoo Pults. My choice of adding Stilletto helped me stay ahead.
Game2: Won [Default (Challenge Incomplete)]
Was actually won by default as the killing blow was not dealt by a catapult.
Post by: ARTHANASIOS on July 27, 2012, 07:35:50 am
Post by: Vineroz on July 27, 2012, 12:07:36 pm
| Deck-build restrictions | Each deck must contain 3 Mindgates. No more, no less. |
| Card restrictions | All weapons and shields are banned. All shards except SoR are banned. Deflag, Steal, Butterfly Effect and Earthquake are banned. |
| Upgrades | 0/6/12/ALL. We will be using the same amount of upped cards. |
| Format | Best of 3/5/7. Can change deck and mark between games. |
Me: :death :aether :entropy. Banned cards: Mummy, Immortal, Discord
nensuru: :life :time :gravity. Banned cards: Adrenaline, Reverse Time, Sapphire Charger
He played a creature every turn while I got 10 pillar/pend out of 17 cards. Can't stop the rush even I have early deflag for his staff and early bonewall and OE.
I had 2 fast recluse dealing damage, while he was struggling with a BE'd deja vu. Fractal 'vus ftw.
He played a weird catamargio with Fire Eaters. As he has no control while his bond keeping him healthy, it ends up in deck out of course.
Post by: Drake_XIV on July 27, 2012, 05:52:22 pm
Challenge: Maidens' Tears
Game1: Lost [Challenge Complete]
I may have stole this from my past loss. I was expecting bulkier Nymphs...
Game2: Lost [Challenge Complete]
The reason I banned Enchant Artifact. Especially as :earth is already a popular choice in this Challenge and almost all will be relying on Tears.
Post by: rosutosefi on July 27, 2012, 05:55:16 pm
Maidens' Tears Challenge
Game 1 Aether Nymphs VS Gravy Nymphs
Outrushed him. Meant to be an earth nymph counter, but it did its job well.
Game 2 Earth Nymphs VS Fire Nymphs
EA FTW! Meant to counter... stuff. And random purify in case he tries to kill me with chrysas.
Post by: ARTHANASIOS on July 27, 2012, 06:37:52 pm
Opponents & results: ARTHANASIOS 2 - rosutosefi 1
Game 1: Winner= ARTHANASIOS
ARTHAN's Deck:
Great RNG for me (getting Elite Cockatrice and Fractal in the starting hand, along with Emerald Bond and enough mana to perform the cokcatral soon) and bad RNG for Rosutosefi, easy win.
Game 2: Winner= Rosutosefi
Pharaoh came late, and using Eternity against Overriden Crusader and Flying Titan wasn't enough for Rosutosefi's unstoppable force, quite easy and fast win for him.
Game 3: Winner= ARTHANASIOS (but Desync occured)
After losing with my Pharaoh deck, I decided to try my first deck again, but I replaced Dim Shields with Lobotomisers. I started well, having again an Elite Cockatrice, a Fractal and two Lobotomisers in my starting hand, along with Heal, Empathic Bond and pendulums. However, a desync occured, but Rosutosefi said that AI's Lobos defeated his Crusaders, so I overall won the challenge. GGs rosutosefi! :D
Post by: rosutosefi on July 27, 2012, 06:40:12 pm
Semi M:TG v.2 Challenge
Game 1 Angry Angry Titsaders vs Cocktal
1 pend start. Outrushed.
Game 2 Angrier Angrier Titsaders vs Time Gravy
Rawr! More quanta because flock RNG. Won.
Game 3 Overpillared Vader Sader vs Cocktal
Overpillared to the roof. I can't do anything against his lobotomizer.
Post by: Vineroz on July 31, 2012, 12:07:43 am
:aether Poor Mindgate :aether
| Deck-build restrictions | Each deck must contain 3 Mindgates. No more, no less. |
| Card restrictions | All weapons and shields are banned. All shards except SoR are banned. Deflag, Steal, Butterfly Effect and Earthquake are banned. |
| Upgrades | 0/6/12/ALL. We will be using the same amount of upped cards. |
| Format | Best of 3/5/7. Can change deck and mark between games. |
I mindgated his pend for a few turns while keep building up damage, his devourers can't do much.
Antimatter is useless as he can immediately immo his phoenix. 1 maxwell was not enough to stop his damage.
A really hard counter. Managed to PU an accelerated doll before endless RT.
Post by: Vineroz on July 31, 2012, 10:37:27 am
:underworld False Trio :underworld
| Deck-build restrictions |
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| Card restrictions |
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| Upgrades | 0/6/12/ALL. We will be using the same amount of upped cards. |
| Format | Best of 3/5/7. Can change deck and mark between games. |
He has some bad draws. Dim shield was played as soon as he gathered enough quanta, but his Eternity is too late to stop my damage building. Didn't even use the TU and Explosion in hand for the killing blow.
A very close game. We played Steamies on the same turn. While he was playing 2 UGs, I had 2 PUs for the Steamies. Won by 1 turn.
Post by: ARTHANASIOS on July 31, 2012, 11:00:00 am
Vineroz 2 - 0 ARTHANASIOS (challenger):underworld False Trio :underworld
Deck-build restrictions
- Each deck must contain cards from 2 elements only.
- You must use a mark that doesn't belong to those 2 elements.
- Each deck must contain at least 10 cards from 1 element.
- Each deck must contain at least 2 non-zero cost card for each of the elements.
Card restrictions
- "Other" cards are not allowed (including any shards).
Upgrades 0/6/12/ALL. We will be using the same amount of upped cards. Format Best of 3/5/7. Can change deck and mark between games.
He has some bad draws. Dim shield was played as soon as he gathered enough quanta, but his Eternity is too late to stop my damage building. Didn't even use the TU and Explosion in hand for the killing blow.
A very close game. We played Steamies on the same turn. While he was playing 2 UGs, I had 2 PUs for the Steamies. Won by 1 turn.
My deck in first game (ARTHANASIOS 0 - Vineroz 1):
It seems I didn't made a good quanta balancing and RNG was against me, since I didn't drew a Time Factory in the first 5 turns of the game. I stack with a hand full of Fractals and Pharaohs (useless at that point) and only a single Dim Shield. Both of my Eternities came, but I had neither any time quanta to respond nor a pack of Dim Shields to perform a Dim chain. However, I had the pleasure to rewind a Lava Golem of his with more than 20 atk. Though I lost badly, it was a good game. :D
My deck in second game (ARTHANASIOS 0 - Vineroz 2):
A close match! I got a lot of quanta early and played both Steam Machines and Unstable Gases, however my Fog Shield never came and its presence could help me win. However, it was a preatty awesome game! :D
Post by: ARTHANASIOS on August 01, 2012, 08:29:49 pm
Rules:
- Trio speedbuilding (15-20 minutes), elements chosen by random chat people. (this means we have to meet in chat beforehand) We both use the same elements.
- All decks must contain at least 5 cards that cost at least 1 quanta to play from each element. (example: 6 pillars, 5 shockwaves, 2 pendulums, 5 lightnings, 10 pendulums, 6 bonewalls)
- Any mark
- No upgrades.
- No Other cards.
- Best of 5.
Outcome:
ARTHANASIOS 0 - Shantu 2
First deck:
It seemed quite strong against Shantu's flying Titans deck, however RNG screwed things greatly, despite the fact I drew an Eternity early. gg
Second deck:
I tried Accelerated Blitzed Azures, but Shantu didn't change his deck, so it wasn't anything I could do versus RT and Fog. gg
Post by: Shantu on August 01, 2012, 08:34:51 pm
Prisoner's Dilemma (the event) style!
- Trio speedbuilding (15-20 minutes), elements chosen by random chat people. (this means we have to meet in chat beforehand) We both use the same elements.
- All decks must contain at least 5 cards that cost at least 1 quanta to play from each element. (example: 6 :air pillars, 5 shockwaves, 2 :aether pendulums, 5 lightnings, 10 :death pendulums, 6 bonewalls)
- Any mark
- No upgrades.
- No Other cards.
- Best of 5. (though we played only a bo3)
Credits for the event & deckbuilding rules go to DrunkDestroyer
- Trio speedbuilding (15-20 minutes), elements chosen by random chat people. (this means we have to meet in chat beforehand) We both use the same elements.
- All decks must contain at least 5 cards that cost at least 1 quanta to play from each element. (example: 6 :air pillars, 5 shockwaves, 2 :aether pendulums, 5 lightnings, 10 :death pendulums, 6 bonewalls)
- Any mark
- No upgrades.
- No Other cards.
- Best of 5. (though we played only a bo3)
Credits for the event & deckbuilding rules go to DrunkDestroyer
Elements chosen by chat: :air :gravity :time
Game 1: Win
Nothing special, just a flying titan deck. Artha played eternity, pharaoh and a wyrm. My early fog shield and all 5 RTs drawn meant he couldn't damage me much. Eventually my titans killed him, despite getting rewound quite a few times.
Game 2: Win
I was struck by inspiration in the previous game, but I couldn't make what I wanted. I imagined some kind of big fat stally deck with dials, catatitans, fog shields and hourglasses. Then I realized I have the most important stuff in my previous deck already, so I just added two catapults to prevent Eternity from slowing me down. Artha played some kind of a rush, but he had a bad quanta draw. Again, fog + RT combo was too much for his deck.
GGs!
Post by: Tichan on August 01, 2012, 10:44:39 pm
Vineroz:2
:aether Poor Mindgate :aether
| Deck-build restrictions | Each deck must contain 3 Mindgates. No more, no less. |
| Card restrictions | All weapons and shields are banned. All shards except SoR are banned. Deflag, Steal, Butterfly Effect and Earthquake are banned. |
| Upgrades | 0/6/12/ALL. We will be using the same amount of upped cards. |
| Format | Best of 3/5/7. Can change deck and mark between games. |
Didn't have qunta lockdown at any point he killed my only vamp soon after i played it thus stoping me from drawing out the game any more with healing.
Pretty sure this was the deck.. kinda just threw something together got a lucky match up.
Wanted to play a fun deck and hope for the best; what I got was... Really hard countered didn't stand a chance with rt on his side.
Post by: ARTHANASIOS on August 02, 2012, 10:52:41 am
Rules:
-Any mark
-Any amount of upgrades
-Minimum 30 cards, maximum 60.
-Honor Rule: You can only play the first and the last card in your hand. These can be first and last in any moment.
-My Rule: YOU CAN ONLY TALK IN CAPS DURING THE MATCHES.
-Rabbit's Rule: You can't use cards which have more than one word to their names (pillars/pendulums excluded).
-When we meet to duel, we will give each other a rule we will BOTH follow. No matter how crazy. No rule contradicting the above. The winner's rule will be added to the rules for the next Mao game.
Outcome:
ARTHANASIOS 2 - RavingRabbit 0
First Deck:
RavingRabbit had a nice :entropy/ :gravity deck, however Sanctuaries and Hope in combination with Mitosis on my Fireflies gave me my victory.
Second Deck:
I made a deck similar to the previous one, but with Blessings instead of Hopes and without any Fireflies. Raving Rabbit had an interesting :aether/ :gravity deck based on bypassing shields, but I hadn't any shields in the second game, so I won (bless RNG here, that was a very close one, phew!).
Anyway, THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT MY CAPS RULE HAS ESTABLISHED IN MAO'S GAME FOREVER, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Post by: Shantu on August 04, 2012, 08:40:46 pm
Shantu 7 - 5 ARTHANASIOS
"Victory belongs to the most persevering"
- Best of 13 - we do not necessarily have to play it in one sit
- 6 upgrades (negotiable)
- All decks must contain at least 40 cards
- All cards must start with letters from the name of the person who created the introduction topic that was last posted in at the time of accepting the challenge. (upped/unupped are different)
- All pillars/pendulums/mark cards are allowed. No shards.
The name used was Seinka (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,38523.msg527910.html#msg527910)
- Best of 13 - we do not necessarily have to play it in one sit
- 6 upgrades (negotiable)
- All decks must contain at least 40 cards
- All cards must start with letters from the name of the person who created the introduction topic that was last posted in at the time of accepting the challenge. (upped/unupped are different)
- All pillars/pendulums/mark cards are allowed. No shards.
The name used was Seinka (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,38523.msg527910.html#msg527910)
I honestly don't remember all the details - and didn't note them down - so brief descriptions will have to suffice.
Game 1: WIN
Played against a graboid rush with Eternity and Adrenalines powered via life pendulums. Squids froze shriekers, bolts froze Eternity (and killed an adrena-shrieker) while Crawlers whittled him down.
Game 2: WIN
I think I played against the same graboid rush. He had a very bad pillar draw and I could almost completely deny him with an Earthquake or two. Eternity came too late to turn the game around.
Game 3: WIN
One of my favorites. I think Artha played a(n illegal) mono life rush. It was close but I won the damage race. My skull shield shut his unupped scorpion down, so he could damage me only with upped adrena-cockatrices and skeletons.
Game 4: LOSS
My first loss, with the deck I am proudest of. It was quite underwhelming. Artha used the same mono life deck (now legal) but I had a terribad pillar draw. Still it was kind of close. I made a mistake here, playing my first tears on a mark of death (receiving a fire nymph with no quantum pillars down) instead of a water pillar.
Game 5: WIN
I was hoping he would bring the same adrena-scorp deck again, and he brought something similar. All he played was a sanctuary and an adrena-scorp combo that was taken care of quickly and swiftly with an ice bolt.
Game 6: WIN
<3. This time I faced a fire/light duo with Seraphs, Sanctuaries, Miracles and Archangels. I was quite afraid I'd lose the damage race, but my nymph spam broke through his miracle with ease and won the damage race thanks to my Ice Shield.
Game 7: LOSS
vs a mono air. Dragons, blitzes, shockwaves and Eagle's Eyes. He had only one pillar while I had an epic hand with lots of grabbies and shriekers. Problem is I screwed up big time and evolved my graboids, even though I knew he had shockwaves.. turned out he had all six shockwaves in his hand (which I didn't expect, though feared..). After that I started a pillar-drawing marathon and he won with about 20 hp left.
Game 8: LOSS
Same mono air. I was hoping I could destroy his weapon, but of course I draw no explosions.
Game 9: LOSS
vs the FFQ deck in the post below. 50 > 43, autoquit.
Game 10: WIN
Faced the same FFQ deck, barely won. Using golems was a wise choice.
Game 11: LOSS
I expected a similar dragon deck so I speedbuilt this. Crappy hand and he also played a perfect counter, the second deck in the post below. Not much I could do.
Game 12: WIN
Artha played the same fire/water duo; despite a bad pillar draw (very slow :life quanta) I could outdamage him thanks to the lovely Skull Shield and overall my deck was somewhat resistant to his control.
Also, I didn't expect to remember all the games, so cheers for me!
Played against a graboid rush with Eternity and Adrenalines powered via life pendulums. Squids froze shriekers, bolts froze Eternity (and killed an adrena-shrieker) while Crawlers whittled him down.
Game 2: WIN
I think I played against the same graboid rush. He had a very bad pillar draw and I could almost completely deny him with an Earthquake or two. Eternity came too late to turn the game around.
Game 3: WIN
One of my favorites. I think Artha played a(n illegal) mono life rush. It was close but I won the damage race. My skull shield shut his unupped scorpion down, so he could damage me only with upped adrena-cockatrices and skeletons.
Game 4: LOSS
My first loss, with the deck I am proudest of. It was quite underwhelming. Artha used the same mono life deck (now legal) but I had a terribad pillar draw. Still it was kind of close. I made a mistake here, playing my first tears on a mark of death (receiving a fire nymph with no quantum pillars down) instead of a water pillar.
Game 5: WIN
I was hoping he would bring the same adrena-scorp deck again, and he brought something similar. All he played was a sanctuary and an adrena-scorp combo that was taken care of quickly and swiftly with an ice bolt.
Game 6: WIN
<3. This time I faced a fire/light duo with Seraphs, Sanctuaries, Miracles and Archangels. I was quite afraid I'd lose the damage race, but my nymph spam broke through his miracle with ease and won the damage race thanks to my Ice Shield.
Game 7: LOSS
vs a mono air. Dragons, blitzes, shockwaves and Eagle's Eyes. He had only one pillar while I had an epic hand with lots of grabbies and shriekers. Problem is I screwed up big time and evolved my graboids, even though I knew he had shockwaves.. turned out he had all six shockwaves in his hand (which I didn't expect, though feared..). After that I started a pillar-drawing marathon and he won with about 20 hp left.
Game 8: LOSS
Same mono air. I was hoping I could destroy his weapon, but of course I draw no explosions.
Game 9: LOSS
vs the FFQ deck in the post below. 50 > 43, autoquit.
Game 10: WIN
Faced the same FFQ deck, barely won. Using golems was a wise choice.
Game 11: LOSS
I expected a similar dragon deck so I speedbuilt this. Crappy hand and he also played a perfect counter, the second deck in the post below. Not much I could do.
Game 12: WIN
Artha played the same fire/water duo; despite a bad pillar draw (very slow :life quanta) I could outdamage him thanks to the lovely Skull Shield and overall my deck was somewhat resistant to his control.
Also, I didn't expect to remember all the games, so cheers for me!
Good games!
Post by: ARTHANASIOS on August 04, 2012, 08:52:22 pm
Outcome: ARTHANASIOS 5 - Shantu 7
I don't kept all of my decks, so I will just post the two most successful (with variations of these I played most of my games and won most of them):
Deck1:
Deck2:
EPIC GAMES!!! :D
Post by: PlayerOa on August 05, 2012, 08:30:19 pm
inthisroom - 0 (1)
Perfect Quartet:
- All decks has to be exactly 40 cards
- All decks has to use four elements - no more, no less. No other cards.
- Every element need to be represented in the deck with exactly ten cards (ten cards of each of the four elements)
- Unupped, best of three
- You cannot use the same elements twice
- Banned cards: Discord, Earthquake, Immolation, Nova, Black Hole
For the record, used Nymphs and Firestall against Dm and nensuru.
Game 1:
Firestall: win
Game 2:
Nymphomania Quartet: win
Game 3:
Accel Gargoyles with random pulverizers and bonewalls because death was unused: loss
Played 3rd game for fun.
Post by: inthisroom on August 05, 2012, 08:38:39 pm
Challenge: Perfect Quartett
0-1 Very close, he managed to Firebolt me to 0 hp the turn I was hoping to win, I was one Miracle short.
0-2 Not close at all, I got gravity quanta too late and didn't get to draw the Gravity Shield that would have saved the day.
As the first two matches had been quite interesting, we decided to play the last one for fun.
Interesting challenge and very fun matches, thank you POa.
Post by: ARTHANASIOS on August 08, 2012, 08:03:28 pm
Challenger: Teffy
Outcome: ARTHANASIOS 0 - Teffy 2 (ggs!)
Deck1:
Tried a pure mono :life rush. In the beginning, it worked very well, however repeated RTs & Eternity held me back long enough to be finished via his GotPs.
I had bad draws and lack of quanta. But even with better balancing, this deck wouldn't work against Teffy's :water/ :air duo with plenty of CC.
Post by: teffy on August 08, 2012, 08:28:26 pm
Deck 1 (if I remember correctly)
Post by: Shantu on August 09, 2012, 09:58:24 am
Mao
-Any mark
-Any amount of upgrades
-Minimum 30 cards, maximum 60.
-Honor Rule: You can only play the first and the last card in your hand. These can be first and last in any moment.
-YOU CAN ONLY TALK IN CAPS DURING THE MATCHES
-When we meet to duel, we will give each other a rule we will BOTH follow. No matter how crazy. No rule contradicting the above. The winner's rule will be added to the rules for the next Mao game.
-If rules get too messy, I'll clear the oldest.
-Any mark
-Any amount of upgrades
-Minimum 30 cards, maximum 60.
-Honor Rule: You can only play the first and the last card in your hand. These can be first and last in any moment.
-YOU CAN ONLY TALK IN CAPS DURING THE MATCHES
-When we meet to duel, we will give each other a rule we will BOTH follow. No matter how crazy. No rule contradicting the above. The winner's rule will be added to the rules for the next Mao game.
-If rules get too messy, I'll clear the oldest.
[15:20:20] RavingRabbid [»] Shantu: My rule is: On even turns, you can only play cards that cost even quanta (which makes you able to play pillar on the first turn. 0 cost ftw). This also goes for abilities.
[15:21:32] Shantu [»] RavingRabbid: My rule: Cards that cost 3 or more quanta to play can only be played if you also play a singularity in the same turn.
[15:21:47] RavingRabbid [»] Shantu: This will be fun.
[15:22:06] Shantu [»] RavingRabbid: I can imagine. :P on odd turns you can play anything, right?
[15:22:18] RavingRabbid [»] Shantu: No.
[15:22:25] RavingRabbid [»] Shantu: On odd turns, odd costing cards.
[15:22:33] RavingRabbid [»] Shantu: >:D
[15:21:32] Shantu [»] RavingRabbid: My rule: Cards that cost 3 or more quanta to play can only be played if you also play a singularity in the same turn.
[15:21:47] RavingRabbid [»] Shantu: This will be fun.
[15:22:06] Shantu [»] RavingRabbid: I can imagine. :P on odd turns you can play anything, right?
[15:22:18] RavingRabbid [»] Shantu: No.
[15:22:25] RavingRabbid [»] Shantu: On odd turns, odd costing cards.
[15:22:33] RavingRabbid [»] Shantu: >:D
Game 1: Win
Raving played a speed poison kind of thing, but he had a crappy hand and couldn't catch up with my poisons and arsenics.
Game 2: Win
I faced a darkness/death duo. Raving's computer broke down in the end (causing a timeout) but I won with a big advantage.
Good games! May Mao challengers forever be haunted by Singularities!
Post by: Calindu on August 22, 2012, 05:31:15 pm
My Challenge as rules
Game 1: Loss
I banned: Dim Shield, Deflag, Black Hole
Vagman banned: Discord, Dim Shield, Wings
Had a better start but vag took advantage with BB+2 Wardens, then it deployed creatures while I was stook here with only a Elite Shrieker attacking, got another graboid while he got some Gargoyles. If I were to draw a 3rd PU instead of a 2nd Lightning I had the win.
Vagman banned: Discord, Dim Shield, Wings
Had a better start but vag took advantage with BB+2 Wardens, then it deployed creatures while I was stook here with only a Elite Shrieker attacking, got another graboid while he got some Gargoyles. If I were to draw a 3rd PU instead of a 2nd Lightning I had the win.
Game 2: Loss
I banned: Dim Shield, Discord, Titan
Vagman banned: Discord, Dim Shield, Deflag
5 Wings in his deck, and won the toss, no way I could win this unless fail draw, but he had a pretty much perfect draw and I drew only 2 Lightnings with 11 cards left(IIRC).
Vagman banned: Discord, Dim Shield, Deflag
5 Wings in his deck, and won the toss, no way I could win this unless fail draw, but he had a pretty much perfect draw and I drew only 2 Lightnings with 11 cards left(IIRC).
Post by: Dragoon on September 27, 2012, 02:20:36 pm
We played Potluck: 6 Ups, Trios only, 1 copy per 10 cards, No creatures
Game 1
His early Discord and EQs really messed me up. I think I only got to play 1 Flying Titan and PU despite a decently long game (16 or 17 turns I think?).
Game 2
He used the same nice Diss Shield stall with SS and EQs. Totally killed me. This was the game that we had the weird desyncs. But I gave him the win as I don't think I could've won in a redo unless he had a horrible draw.
His early Discord and EQs really messed me up. I think I only got to play 1 Flying Titan and PU despite a decently long game (16 or 17 turns I think?).
Game 2
He used the same nice Diss Shield stall with SS and EQs. Totally killed me. This was the game that we had the weird desyncs. But I gave him the win as I don't think I could've won in a redo unless he had a horrible draw.
Post by: blueberrymania on September 27, 2012, 02:39:41 pm
The deck I used both times. I call it Ultimate Stall:
The only reason I used it both times was that I never got to play any dis. shields the first time (leaving Dragoon with the assumption that they were AMs) and I only got to play one Stone Skin the first time. Also, I only played one poison and I never played my Arsenic. This left my deck full of mystery for the second game.
The only reason I used it both times was that I never got to play any dis. shields the first time (leaving Dragoon with the assumption that they were AMs) and I only got to play one Stone Skin the first time. Also, I only played one poison and I never played my Arsenic. This left my deck full of mystery for the second game.
Post by: Shantu on October 09, 2012, 07:05:47 pm
Potluck!
Best of 5
Escalating
Ban 5 cards [1 from each element]
Half & Half
Pendulums only
Drag's elements: :entropy :fire :water :gravity :earth :life
Shantu's elements: :death :aether :darkness :time :light :air
Drag's bans: Steal, Phase Shield, Ghost of the Past, Wings, Poison
Shantu's bans: Discord, Deflag, Trident, Earthquake, Adrenaline
Best of 5
Escalating
Ban 5 cards [1 from each element]
Half & Half
Pendulums only
Drag's elements: :entropy :fire :water :gravity :earth :life
Shantu's elements: :death :aether :darkness :time :light :air
Drag's bans: Steal, Phase Shield, Ghost of the Past, Wings, Poison
Shantu's bans: Discord, Deflag, Trident, Earthquake, Adrenaline
Game 1: Loss
Dragoon played a mono entropy deck, with AMs and Dragons. If I had lightnings, it would have been an easy win. This way, however, I had little chance with the draw I had.
Game 2: Win
I went with a cheap deck, but it worked well. Dragoon used a steam machine deck. I locked him down fast enough (despite the Rain of Fire he managed to play on some devourers), then he gave up and we moved on to the next game.
Game 3: Win
If I recall correctly, Drag played a steam deck once again, but I don't remember much else. I had a great draw and my swords chopped him down.
Game 4: Loss
I went for a stall here, which was a very bold move and I knew it. Drag played a nymph's tear deck and I had no chance against that. Bad draw didn't help either.
Game 5: Loss
Well I was hoping for luck here, but didn't quite get it. I had a slowish draw, and he outrushed me with a wave of nymphs. He had all kinds of nymphs (entropy, life, water, earth, gravity) and there was little I could do.
Making a working quintet with pendulums only is kind of impossible. When chosing bans I was torn between Trident and Nymph's Tears, but went with Trident. Not sure if I decided right - both cards were dangerous.
GGs Dragoon!
Post by: Dragoon on October 10, 2012, 12:44:16 am
I thought Shantu would go for that infamous Speed Death deck, but I was wrong. So glad he didn't pack any Lightnings in his deck.
Game 2- Loss
This was my anti-Devtal. Originally I also had some Immos but it seemed like I produced enough quanta with Pends so I took them out. I was wrong. I also should've gone with Water Pends and a Fire mark. Oh well.
I used a banned card here. For some reason, during my deck-making/play-testing, my brain checked out and I started using banned cards. :o Sorry about that Shantu.
Game 3- Loss
I don't remember this game too well. I think I got steamrolled so badly my brain refused to make a memory of the event.
Game 4- Win
Quartets are hard to make, especially with Pendulums only and without Novas and Immolations. Balancing creatures and pendulums requires an advanced math degree. So I avoided all that by making my Pendulums the creatures.
Game 5- Win
Quintets with Pends only are basically like AI1 decks. So yeah, I went with my Nymph deck again. (I don't think this was the exact deck, but it's really close.)
Thanks for playing Shantu. We'll have to do it again sometime!
Post by: Shantu on December 27, 2012, 03:48:42 pm
Changing
- Best of 5.
- No rares and upgrades allowed.
- The challenger chooses a number between 1 and 12. Both of us have to use a number of elements equal to this number in our first game.
- If the challenger wins, this number is lowered by 3.
- If the challenged (me) wins, this number is increased by 2.
- In the next game, we have to use a number of elements equal to the new number.
- If the number goes over 12, restart the counting at 1. If it goes below 1, restart at 12. Imagine it as a wheel.
(A quick example: You initially choose 3, we both start playing with trios. You win, so the next game we have to play with rainbows containing all 12 elements.)
- Best of 5.
- No rares and upgrades allowed.
- The challenger chooses a number between 1 and 12. Both of us have to use a number of elements equal to this number in our first game.
- If the challenger wins, this number is lowered by 3.
- If the challenged (me) wins, this number is increased by 2.
- In the next game, we have to use a number of elements equal to the new number.
- If the number goes over 12, restart the counting at 1. If it goes below 1, restart at 12. Imagine it as a wheel.
(A quick example: You initially choose 3, we both start playing with trios. You win, so the next game we have to play with rainbows containing all 12 elements.)
Fippe chose 5.
5 elements - grabbow/lightning
Fippe played a voodoo trap deck. He made an error and couldn't play the combo when it was needed. Not even that would have saved him though thanks to my momentums.
Fippe played a voodoo trap deck. He made an error and couldn't play the combo when it was needed. Not even that would have saved him though thanks to my momentums.
7 elements - QP grabbow
This was kind of a mirror game. I didn't have enough quanta while my opponent didn't have enough creatures. I won in the end.
This was kind of a mirror game. I didn't have enough quanta while my opponent didn't have enough creatures. I won in the end.
9 elements - QP grabbow v2
Tried the same deck again. Faced a stallish rainbow. Despite that I was quite close to winning.
Tried the same deck again. Faced a stallish rainbow. Despite that I was quite close to winning.
6 elements - UG dials
Wanted to do something more creative than a grabbow this time. Failed hard because Fippe had too many deflags and I couldn't stall long enough.
Wanted to do something more creative than a grabbow this time. Failed hard because Fippe had too many deflags and I couldn't stall long enough.
3 elements - Dim nymphs
Should have just immorushed my way to victory. Could have maybe won against his adrenastalkers and steals if I had one early nymph's tear. Obviously I did not.
Should have just immorushed my way to victory. Could have maybe won against his adrenastalkers and steals if I had one early nymph's tear. Obviously I did not.
Good games Fippe. Maybe I will have better luck next time.