Beat the Highscore! #2

[Marsu]

Beat the Highscore! #2

In this challenge, challengers effectively don't compare their skills with me, but with the other challengers.

Beat the Highscore! #2 features the following prize pool:

First place:      6000 Electrum
Second place:  4000 Electrum
Third place:     2000 Electrum

In addition, every challenger who manages to beat all 10 decks wins an additional Electrum code regardless of his ranking.
Who will be able to follow in Kakerlakes footsteps, winner of BtH! #1?

4000 Electrum for the prize pool were by the way generously donated by Jen-i.


How does this work?

I created 10 decks, each around a certain theme. These decks are hopefully quite creative and should be great fun to play against.
Challengers pick one of those decks and play BO3 against it. If they win, they get to pick a second one, until they finally lose or actually manage to win against all 10.
There will be a "hall of fame" announcing the best challengers.

What is special about this challenge?

Each deck has a theme. Challengers will be able to see each decks name - which gives strong hints about the decks theme and thus the cards used. Challengers are allowed to create a deck that counters the cards they think the deck will contain! Thus this challenge is
a) an interpretative one - what cards could that name stand for?
b) a deckbuilding one - how can those cards be countered?
c) a PvP challenge - obviously.

Isn't it boring if quite a lot of challengers will be able to beat all 10 decks?

Yes. This is why there's an additional rule. Each game after the first one, 2 or 4 (see below) more cards of the challenged decks will be upgraded. The challenger isn't allowed to play a single upgraded card.

How strong will those decks be?

In their fully unupgraded form, the decks will be on about AI3 level, or slightly above.

More rules:

-Upgraded cards are banned (for challengers).
-Shards, Nymphs and Marks are allowed.
-The first deck the challenger faces is fully unupgraded.
-If a challenger wins 2-0, the next deck he faces will have 2 upgraded cards more than the previous one.
-If a challenger wins 2-1, the next deck he faces will have 4 upgraded cards more than the previous one.
-Of course, not all matches have to be played on one day.
-You can NOT change your deck in a BO3, only before facing the next (different) deck.

Now, good luck and much fun to all challengers!
Here are the decks you may challenge one by one in any order in alphabetic order:



-Discxrd
-Graviton Squad
-Golem
-Hazardous Industrialization
-Necromancer
-Sanctuary in Flames
-Poseidon
-Scorpion Pit
-Siege
-Vodoo Rituals



Additional notes to help challengers:

-Check out the decks from BtH #1 to make sure other challengers don't have an informational advantage over you.
-Only playing one BO3 and then pausing for hours or even days is perfectly fine.
-Building creative decks is this challenges hosts task. Please don't hesitate to use the lamest decks you can come up with.
-The average amount of beaten decks in BtH! #1 was 2.95.

Hall of Fame

#1 Calindu (10 decks beaten without a loss) - completed (0)
#2 RootRanger (10 decks beaten without a loss) - completed (1)
#3 Kakerlake (10 decks beaten without a loss) - completed (1)
#4 Pella (10 decks beaten without a loss) - completed (5)
#5 rogerluc (9 decks beaten without a loss) - completed
#6 Vangelios (7 decks beaten without a loss) - completed (3)
#7 Odii Odsen (6 decks beaten without a loss) - completed (-1)
#8 dragonsdemesne (6 decks beaten without a loss) - completed (0)
#9 g0dmatrix (6 decks beaten without a loss) - completed (1)
#10 Fippe94 (6 decks beaten without a loss) - completed (1)
#11 Atom_heart (6 decks beaten without a loss) - completed
#12 Paddoo (6 decks beaten without a loss) - canceled
#13 Fireleaf (6 decks beaten without a loss) - canceled
#14 mrpaper (5 decks beaten without a loss) - completed (0)
#15 mainstreet (5 decks beaten without a loss) - completed (0)
#16 Jen-i (4 decks beaten without a loss) - completed (-1)
#17 treebeard_xiii (4 decks beaten without a loss) - completed (0)
#18 rem4life (4 decks beaten without a loss) - completed (0)
#19 ARTHANASIOS (3 decks beaten without a loss) - completed (1)
#20 kaempfer13 (3 decks beaten without a loss) - completed (1)
#21 Spielkind (3 decks beaten without a loss) - canceled
#22 Chapuz (2 decks beaten without a loss) - canceled
#23 Dm1321 (1 deck beaten without a loss) - completed (-1)
#24 S2xaT5No (1 deck beaten without a loss) - completed (-1)
#25 chessboxing (0 decks beaten without a loss) - completed

[Kakerlake]

Neat! Finally BtH!#2 is there. Yay!

Challenge accepted.

Kakerlake 2 - 0 Vodoo Rituals
Kakerlake 2 - 0 Poseidon
Kakerlake 2 - 1 Sanctuary in Flames (funcounter = bad idea)
Kakerlake 2 - 0 Scorpion Pit
Kakerlake 2 - 0 Discxrd
Kakerlake 2 - 0 Necromancer
Kakerlake 2 - 0 Siege
Kakerlake 2 - 0 Hazardous Industrialization (sry it took so long)
Kakerlake 2 - 0 Golem
Kakerlake 2 - 0 Graviton Squad
yay, I winz0rt!

[Rutarete]

I want in!

[Dm]

I'm in. Expect me.

[dragonsdemesne]

So I can use any fully unupgraded deck to challenge?  This sounds like fun; I'll keep an eye out for you in chat to participate.

[treebeard xiii]

i am in Marsu and the first deck i desire to challenge is sanctuary in flames

we are wise 2-0 sanctuary in ruins
the holy crusade 2-0 discxrd
antivenom 2-0 poor scorps
merctal 2-1 graviton squad
poor mutant abuse 1-2 hazardous industrialisation
even with a misprediction i could have just as easily of won but rng wasn't smiling on me hope there is a bth 3 due

[rem4life]

2-0 Sanctuary in Flames
2-0 Graviton Squad
2-0 Discxrd   (proud to predict the exact purpose of the deck:))very nice idea!
2-0 Scorpion Pit
0-2 Poseidon   good prediction, but wrong counter

[Fireleaf]

Fireleaf 2 - 0 Discxrd
"        " 2 - 0 Graviton Squad
"        " 2 - 0 Scorpion Pit
"        " 2 - 0 Poseidon
"        " 2 - 1 Golem (my counter was a lot worse than I expected; this was a great match.)
"        " 2 - 0 Voodoo Rituals

[RootRanger]

2-0 vs Discxrd
2-0 vs Sanctuary in Flames
2-0 vs Necromancer
2-0 vs Graviton Squad
2-0 vs Siege
2-0 vs Scorpion Pit
2-0 vs Voodoo Rituals

it's nbd

[Paddoo]

Keep me a place warm for wednesday !

[ARTHANASIOS]

In! And posting for keeping track... 8)

Game1: Hazardous Industrialization (2-1)
Game2: Discxrd (2-1)
Game3: Scorpion Pit (2-0)
Game4: Sanctuary in Flames (1-2)

Ggs Marsu!

[Marsu]

Sanctuary in Flames 2 - 1 ARTHANASIOS

GGs Arthanasios and thanks for playing again!

Updated rankings.