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Title: Dragoon 4 - 1 [Not Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Dragoon on September 16, 2012, 02:26:05 am
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IGN: Dragoon
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Current Challenges:

POTLUCK
By default, games are unupgraded and without shards. We play with either 2 or 4 deck-building rules. If we play with 2, then you pick 1 rule when you challenge me, then I'll pick one. If we play with 4 rules, then you pick 1 rule when you challenge me, then I'll pick two, and then you pick the last one. We both must abide by all the rules.

These are the rules you can pick from:

  • Duos only.
  • Trios only.
  • Quartets only.
  • No rares.
  • 6 upgrades allowed.
  • 12 upgrades allowed.
  • All upgrades allowed.
  • Ban 3 cards from each other.
  • Ban 5 cards from each other.
  • Ban 7 cards from each other.
  • No rainbows: no quantum Pillars, novas, immolations and no more than 4 elements used
  • Pendulums only: no pillars, marks, novas, immolations. Cards like rustler, solar shield, dragonfly, soul catcher, etc. are okay.
  • Slow and steady: no immolations or novas.
  • Downsizing: Only 1 copy of a card per 10 cards used except Pillars & Pends (i.e. 3 copies max in a 30 card deck, 4 copies max in a 40 card deck, etc.)
  • Downsizing+: Only 1 copy of a card per 15 cards used except Pillars & Pends (i.e. 2 copies max in a 30 card deck, 3 copies max in a 45 card deck, etc.)
  • Upsizing: 40 card minimum deck size.
  • Upsizing+: 50 card minimum deck size.
  • Upsizing++: 60 card minimum deck size.
  • Sideboard: Only 1 deck with 12 cards in a sideboard.
  • Half & Half: Divide the elements by randomization or choice. You can only use cards from those elements.
  • Berserker duel: No spells.
  • Wizard duel: No creatures.
  • Fist fight: No permanents.
  • Escalation: first game mono; second game duo; third game trio; fourth game quartet; fifth game quintet, sixth game sextet, seventh game septet, etc.
  • Divide & Conquer: Divide up the elements by randomization or choice. For each match you choose 1 element and make a deck with at least 2/3 of the cards being from that element. If you lose, you lose that element (you can still use cards from that element in your other decks, but you can't use it as your main element in a deck anymore).

If you don't have upgrades or would prefer not playing with any upgrades, that's fine. Just let me know when you challenge me and we'll not play with any of the upgrade rules. If you have your own rule you'd like to use, I'm open to adding new rules. I prefer they not make the game more random though, i.e. "close your eyes and randomly click in your deck library, that is now your deck". After we choose the rules we'll play by, we can decide a time and whether to play best of 3, 5 or 7.

TOURNEY
Use the most recently finished or upcoming tournament rules. Best of 3, 5, or 7. I'll only play with the rules for the upcoming tournament if one of us is not planning on being in the tournament.

ALL CARDS
No card restrictions in this challenge. You can use your shards, your nymphs, your marks, even your relics if you want! However, there are combo restrictions and number-of-copy restrictions.
  • No more than 2 copies of any Shard type in a 30-card deck, 3 copies in a 60-card deck (i.e., in a 30-card deck, you can have 2 SoG, 2 SoD, and 2 SoFo, but not 3 SoFo)
  • No Discord and Black Hole together (No DBH)
  • No Ghost of the Past and Nightmare together (No Ghostmare)
  • No Fire Bolt and Stone Skin/Sanctuary/Miracle together (No healing Firestall)
  • No Quantum Pillar and Nova together (No Speedbow)
  • No Immolation and Phoenix/Golem together (No Immo rush)
  • No Devourer and Fractal together (No Devtal)
  • No Dimensional Shield and Protect Artifact together (No protected Dim Shield stall)
You can use any of the cards listed above. You just can’t use any of the above combination of cards. So for example, you can use Discord in your deck. But if you use it, you can’t also use Black Holes in your deck.

We can play this unupped, partially upped (6, 12), or fully upped.



1. thispersonisagenius
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3.
Dragoon 2 - 1 Cheesy111 (Tourney)
Dragoon 2 - 0 teffy (Tourney)
Dragoon 0 - 2 blueberrymania (Potluck: 6 Ups, Trios Only, Downsizing, Wizard's Duel)
Dragoon 3 - 2 Shantu (Potluck: Escalating, Ban 5 cards, Half & Half, Pendulums only)
Dragoon 3 - 1 trebeard_xiii (Potluck: Half & Half, Ban 3 cards, Minimum deck size of 40, 12 Upgrades allowed)



Not Accepting Challenges
Title: Re: Dragoon 0 - 0 [Accepting Challenges] {2 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Cheesy111 on September 16, 2012, 02:50:29 am
I accept your most recent tourney challenge.
Title: Re: Dragoon 0 - 0 [Accepting Challenges] {2 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Dragoon on September 16, 2012, 02:54:13 am
I accept your most recent tourney challenge.
Sure. How many games? Are you online now? Let's meet in chat if you are!
Title: Re: Dragoon 0 - 0 [Accepting Challenges] {2 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Cheesy111 on September 16, 2012, 02:54:58 am
I accept your most recent tourney challenge.
Sure. How many games? Are you online now? Let's meet in chat if you are!
3.  Yes.  Yes.
Title: Re: Dragoon 1 - 0 [Accepting Challenges] {2 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Dragoon on September 16, 2012, 03:47:08 am
I accept your most recent tourney challenge.
Sure. How many games? Are you online now? Let's meet in chat if you are!
3.  Yes.  Yes.

GGs cheesy111. We'll have to play again sometime. If I'm not going to be in a tourney, maybe we can do a duel again as a kind of practice run leading up to the tourney.
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 0 [Accepting Challenges] {2 Challenges Posted}
Post by: teffy on September 21, 2012, 02:52:45 pm
gg
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 0 [Accepting Challenges] {2 Challenges Posted}
Post by: blueberrymania on September 22, 2012, 05:21:26 pm
I challenge you with Potluck! I choose the rule "6 Upgrades Allowed"
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 0 [Accepting Challenges] {2 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Dragoon on September 23, 2012, 01:19:10 pm
I challenge you with Potluck! I choose the rule "6 Upgrades Allowed"

Fun! Let's add Downsizing and Trios Only.
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 0 [Accepting Challenges] {2 Challenges Posted}
Post by: blueberrymania on September 23, 2012, 01:44:11 pm
Okay, in that case let's go Wizards Duel as well.
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 0 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Dragoon on September 25, 2012, 04:14:31 am
I've added a third challenge.

ALL CARDS
No card restrictions in this challenge. You can use your shards, your nymphs, your marks, even your relics if you want! However, there are combo restrictions and number-of-copy restrictions.
  • No more than 2 copies of any Shard type in a 30-card deck, 3 copies in a 60-card deck (i.e., in a 30-card deck, you can have 2 SoGs, 2 SoDs, and 2 SoFo, but not 3 SoFo)
  • No Discord and Black Hole together (No DBH)
  • No Ghost of the Past and Nightmare together (No Ghostmare)
  • No Fire Bolt and Stone Skin/Sanctuary/Miracle together (No healing Firestall)
  • No Quantum Pillar and Nova together (No Speedbow)
  • No Immolation and Phoenix/Golem together (No Immo rush)
  • No Devourer and Fractal together (No Devtal)
  • No Dimensional Shield and Protect Artifact together (No protected Dim Shield stall)
You can use any of the cards listed above. You just can’t use any of the above combination of cards. So for example, you can use Discord in your deck. But if you use it, you can’t also use Black Holes in your deck.

We can play this unupped, partially upped (6, 12), or fully upped.

Any other suggestions of over-powered decks that should be banned? I also thought about Catatitans, Poison Dials, and those Upped Entropy Pendulum+Supernova rushes,  but I'm not sure if they're considered too powerful or not.
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Dragoon on September 27, 2012, 02:24:56 pm
GGs blueberrymania. You need to post that Diss Shield Stall deck. I want to see it. It totally killed my 2 decks.
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: blueberrymania on September 27, 2012, 02:31:30 pm
Fine. I'll post it.
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Shantu on September 27, 2012, 02:37:16 pm
I challenge you to a game of Potluck, and I choose the Escalating rule.
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Dragoon on September 27, 2012, 02:42:04 pm
Ooo, this should be interesting. Let's go with Ban 5 cards and Half & Half by choice.
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: blueberrymania on September 27, 2012, 02:43:04 pm
BTW, i posted my deck in battle results, in case you wanted to see it.
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Shantu on September 27, 2012, 02:44:48 pm
Pendulums only!
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Dragoon on September 27, 2012, 02:49:03 pm
BTW, i posted my deck in battle results, in case you wanted to see it.

Thanks. :)
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Dragoon on September 27, 2012, 03:20:39 pm
So here are the rules for Shantu and me.

Best of 5
Escalating
Ban 5 cards
Half & Half
Pendulums only

Shantu's elements: :death :aether :darkness :time :light :air
Drag's elements: :entropy :fire :water :gravity :earth :life

Shantu's bans: Discord, Deflag, Trident, Earthquake, Adrenaline
Drag's bans: Steal, Phase Shield, Ghost of the Past, Wings, Poison

Now for the fun. 
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Dragoon on October 05, 2012, 02:45:13 pm
Shantu and I have had some epic games. We're 2-2 now, though Shantu deserves to win because I played a banned card the last game. But Shantu—being awesome like he is—gave me the chance to replace my Tridents with Pends. Just wanted to thank Shantu publicly for being an awesome player and gracious opponent.

Game 5 is gonna be crazy, what with decks being quintets and only using Pendulums. : /
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: treebeard xiii on October 07, 2012, 10:45:30 pm
I challenge you to a game of pot luck with half and half
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Dragoon on October 08, 2012, 02:18:07 pm
I challenge you to a game of pot luck with half and half

Going on a dueling streak are we? Okay, let's add Ban 3 cards and Upsizing. Did you want for us to choose elements or for us to do it randomly? Unless we meet in chat and do it, I think it would be faster to do it by randomization.
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: treebeard xiii on October 08, 2012, 03:55:50 pm
I challenge you to a game of pot luck with half and half

Going on a dueling streak are we? Okay, let's add Ban 3 cards and Upsizing. Did you want for us to choose elements or for us to do it randomly? Unless we meet in chat and do it, I think it would be faster to do it by randomization.
randomly for fairer odds and add 12 upped
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Dragoon on October 09, 2012, 12:38:08 am
(http://i.imgur.com/9eura.png)
So you got  :fire :gravity :darkness :air :earth :life
I get  :water :time :aether :death :light :entropy

As for bans, we'll need to find someone to PM our bans to. I'll see if I can find someone who wouldn't mind doing that for us.
Title: Re: Dragoon 2 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Dragoon on October 09, 2012, 02:51:38 pm
Great games Shantu! The quartet and quintet games were crazy. And you know, I had 2 extra bans that I didn't think about when I chose my elements—Nova and Immolation. Oh well.
Title: Re: Dragoon 3 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: treebeard xiii on October 11, 2012, 07:30:27 am
my bans for our duel are deflag, earthquake and black hole
Title: Re: Dragoon 3 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Dragoon on October 11, 2012, 03:38:37 pm
my bans for our duel are deflag, earthquake and black hole

We got a problem here. You banned cards from your own element. The elements you will play with are  :fire :gravity :darkness :air :earth :life

My elements are  :water :time :aether :death :light :entropy. You need to ban 3 cards from these elements.
Title: Re: Dragoon 3 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: treebeard xiii on October 11, 2012, 06:34:26 pm
my bans for our duel are deflag, earthquake and black hole

We got a problem here. You banned cards from your own element. The elements you will play with are  :fire :gravity :darkness :air :earth :life

My elements are  :water :time :aether :death :light :entropy. You need to ban 3 cards from these elements.
sorry then i ban discord, dim shield and reverse time
Title: Re: Dragoon 3 - 1 [Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Dragoon on October 11, 2012, 11:55:34 pm
sorry then i ban discord, dim shield and reverse time
Ok, well I had banned Deflag, Steal, and EQ. Kev can attest to that. So our duel will be:

Half & Half
Ban 3 cards
Minimum deck size of 40
12 Upgrades allowed

The elements you can play with are:  :fire :gravity :darkness :air :earth :life
The elements I can play with are:  :water :time :aether :death :light :entropy

You cannot play with these cards: Deflagration, Steal, and Earthquake (and their upgraded versions)
I cannot play with these cards: Discord, Dimensional Shield, and Reverse Time (and their upgraded versions)

So now we just need to set up a time!
Title: Re: Dragoon 3 - 1 [Not Accepting Challenges] {3 Challenges Posted}
Post by: Dragoon on October 14, 2012, 03:39:35 pm
I won't be taking any more new challenges while I run my event. I'll just be finishing what I already have lined up.
blarg: