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[Marsu]

Forum/Chat: Marsu
IGN: Marsu
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I only play limited. I love speedbuilding, booster draft, and stuff like that. And: Life.
By the way, details about played matches and the exact decks I used can be found below!


Current Challenge: Speedbuilding

-6 random cards respectively from 6 random elements for a total of 36 cards (I will create these from a random number generator; if it's important for you, we can also do it 50/50)
-BOx, decks can be changed after each duel
-Other cards, nymphs and marks are excluded from the pool of possible cards
-The same deck is not to be used more than once

Spoiler for Current Line-up (0):

Spoiler for Match History:

Marsu 3 - 2 Fippe94
Marsu 3 - 0 treebeard xiii

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Spoiler for Match against Fippe94 in detail:

The match was BO5.

Spoiler for This was the cardpool.:

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4vd 4ve 4vh 4vi 4vk 4vp 58p 58t 58v 590 591 596 5l9 5la 5li 5lj 5ll 5lm 5oe 5of 5og 5oi 5ok 5oo 5up 5uq 5ut 5uu 5uv 5v1 61s 61u 620 622 624 625 8pj

(???=Psion)

Spoiler for Match 1:

He played a standard Grab/Shrieker deck. I actually anticipated that and wanted to semi-counter him with

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4vc 4vc 4vc 4vd 4vd 4vd 4vh 4vh 4vh 4vh 4vh 4vh 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 5up 5up 5up 5v1 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 8pj

, but the 2 Chaos Seeds I was able to play were crap (Lobotomize and a frost bolt that didn't freeze), and I didn't draw Maxwells Demon until I was almost dead and he had 4 or 5 shriekers out. But then again, it was my own fault, if I was sure that he'd play Grab/Shrieker, I should have used more than 3 MD's and no or less steals.

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He played a ~45 card mono light deck with only dragons, sanctuarys, miracles and a looot of pillars. I played

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5uk 5uk 5uk 5up 5up 5up 5uq 5uq 5ut 5ut 5ut 5ut 5ut 5v1 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 622 622 622 622 8pu

The huge amount of nightfalled vampires in combination with a few stolen sanctuarys made it possibly to kill him when I was 8 cards before deckout.

Spoiler for Match 3:

In the third match, Fippe played a light/air deck that might have consisted only out of dragons, at least that's all I saw from this deck. It was a very close match in which I used

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5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5up 5up 5up 5uq 5uq 5ut 5ut 5uu 5uu 5uu 5uv 5uv 5uv 5uv 5uv 5uv 5v1 606 606 606 606 606 606 8pt

Liquid Shadow is often rather weak, but its main advantage is that you can use ot both offensively an defensively. I ended up LS'ing my own Gargoyles which probably saved my life and this win. If I hadn't drawn another Gargoyle in my very last turn, I would have lost the game. Too close!

Spoiler for Match 4:

Now it was Fippe's turn to play Gargoyles + Liquid Shadow, but he used an earth mark. I chose

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61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61u 61u 61u 622 622 622 622 622 625 625 625 625 625 625 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pu

(???=Psion)
- and that was a mistake. I HATE Aether, it's by far my least favorite colour, and it looks like Aether hates me just as much. After drawing 16 cards, I hadn't drawn a single Psion and ragequitted one turn before I would have died anyway. Being a bit enraged, I made the mistake of convincing Fippe to play the final match (This loss made it 2-2) with the exact same decks. This time, I got my first psion after 13 cards. FUCK you, Aether! Luckily, Fippe "Ghandi" 94 didn't want to count that loss of mine. Only because in the very first match (That's not listed here, so technically before "Match 1"), he played not one, but two banned cards and we obviously didn't count that as a default loss either, I was able to accept his offer without feeling too guilty.

Spoiler for Match 5:

The final match. I was still an emotional wreck due to the RNG in my try to play an Aether deck (Why would anyone???) and couldn't think of anything creative anymore, so I chose the most obvious deck in this card pool:

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 590 590 590 590 590 590 591 591 591 591 591 591 596 596 8ps

This is actually the only deck & comment I write after I have read Fippe's comment down below, and I have to slightly disagree with him here: The warden that I drew did help, but his deck simply lacked damage. I could keep my graboids burrowed and my shriekers in my hand for quite some turns and would have been able to kill him in 2 turns even with his 2 Mawells Demons out after that. Fippe also realized his lack of damage and actually tried mutating one of his two maxwells demons (who couldnt target anything anyway at that point) into something more dangerous, but out came a 3/5 with dive for a water quantum that he didn't have. :p

So, the official score is a 3-2 win for me and the "score of hearts" is a draw. Great games and an even better sportsman, this Fippe94. Thanks for the games!

Spoiler for My decks in the match against treebeard xiii:

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4vh 4vj 4vk 4vl 4vp 4vq 52i 52l 52m 52p 52t 52v 5bv 5c0 5c2 5c3 5c5 5c7 5lc 5le 5lh 5lk 5ll 5lm 5ul 5um 5un 5uq 5ut 5v0 61p 61q 61u 620 621 624 8pt

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5c3 5c3 5c3 5c3 5c5 5c5 5c5 5c5 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5ll 5ll 5ll 5ll 5ll 5ll 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 8pn

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5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 61u 61u 61u 620 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pt

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5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5uq 5uq 5ut 5ut 5ut 5ut 606 606 606 606 606 606 8pt

Good games!

[Fippe94]

6 cards from 6 random elements. Is that 1 card from each element or 6 cards from each or random amount of cards from each element for a total of 6 cards?

[Marsu]

Oops, you're right! Edited in OP.

[Marsu]

Marsu 3 - 2 Fippe94

All in all, it was so close and our decisions about which match to replay and what mistakes not to count as a default loss so random, that a draw would really fit this match better.
Well played Fippe! You're an especially great sportsman.

[Fippe94]

Good games and very fun


Here are the decks I used

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 590 590 590 590 590 590 591 591 591 591 591 591 8ps

 A normal shrieker rush. I wanted to start out strong, and since it was easy to build I got more time to build the other decks.

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5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5la 5la 5la 5la 5la 5la 5li 5li 5li 5li 5li 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 8pq

 Light stall. If he didn't use steal on my sanctuaries I would probably have decked him out. Good game.


 

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5la 5la 5la 5la 5la 5la 5of 5of 5of 5of 5of 5of 5og 5og 5og 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 8pq

 Quite simple deck. I didn't get damage out fast enough and I had not enough defense in the deck..


 

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5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5up 5up 5up 5uq 5uq 5uq 5uu 5uu 5uu 5uu 5uu 5uv 5uv 5uv 5uv 5uv 5uv 8pm

 Similar to his last deck ,but I actually built this one before he played it. He had a lobo out, so I only played1 LS. He was unlucky with draws though, so I managed to win anyway.


 

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 Very random deck lol. He played shrieker rush, so I could have won but he stopped me with wardens.

EDIT: You're probably right about my last deck, but I had hoped to get some good mutations. In a quick test match against AI3 before our match I managed to get 2 dragons, but I definitely wasn't that lucky in our match :p

Once again, really good games

[treebeard xiii]

I'll take the challenge pm me which time is best for you and lets make it BO5

[Marsu]

Marsu 3 - 0 treebeard xiii

His second deck was funny, perhaps I tryharded too much. Third one was close. Good games!

[Cardplayer]

I accept your challenge! PM me in chat whenever you want to duel since I'm available when I'm in chat.

[Marsu]

I'm in a bit of stress atm, my girlfriend finally comes back from China in 3 days. I might need about a week to find time to duel again!
Cardplayer is the next one then, if he still wants.

[Cardplayer]

I'm sure we can make it work at some point, so don't worry. I still want to duel when you get the chance.

[kimham8a]

I'd like to duel you as well. I'll try to find you in chat sometime.

Also, you say no 'other' cards, now that shards are elementalized can they be in the cardpool?

[Marsu]

Mh, good question. My main goal was to ban shards obviously, but why not... There should seldom be rolled more than one, and that's counterable enough to not let them be OP.