Round 1 Strategy

[Kakerlake]

Terroking hasn't been online in a couple of days. I think his Internet got cut off again, so it is not certain when he'll be back.
Guess we have to use a substitute for this round, if he doesn't show up until saturday.

Well, I'll put up the thread with the decks, everything can (and should) be discussed.

As for the choices:

Kakerlake vs UTAlan
The idea is to outrush Aether by denying a quanta and mashing shields with deflags or Pulvy.
CC is mostly useless in this matchup, but aether is usually low on quanta. EQ will be salt in the wound.
My idea would be a nova/grabby:
(no additional upps)

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An idea was to have 4 deflags upped in there but I came to the conclusion that'd be too much.

$$$man vs jippy99
The Immortal sounds like a good deck.
Here it is useless to put in a failsave-star since if they go for a stall, the star won't be able to kill the opponent at all and adding FW's won't do much good.
Denying quanta with EQ's might be a way to go there (countering Sky Blitz) but the question would be: what to remove? I'd rather stick with the normal immortal, which counters many decks that can succesfully use against .
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Acsabi44 vs SteppingStone81
I have a hard time choosing between GotP/Grab and something with Purify. The problem here is that they might predict the RT's which could hurt quite bad when facing Mummys (though cluttering their hand with Pharaoh is fun!). Also, a bonewall can slow you down pretty much, even though rewinding and burrowing can help. Skullshield is also a pain in the butt, though skellis can be mutat =)
So in the end, I chose GotP for this matchup.
(6 ups for grabos, the 1 health more can make the difference. Please get them if you don't have them already. Upped grabs are awesome anyway )

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TimerClock14 vs mrpaper
Our opponent features Steal, Dusk Shield and Devourers. So we have to pack deflag, no permaments and... a bunch of creatures. EQ is rather useless since they will probably pack Devs against us anyway.
The answer would be: Immo Rush without weapons, they would be used against us anyway. Adding another deflag is possible.
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Terroking vs Svenningen
Going with an Immortal agains fire is somewhat risky. You might get outstalled when they use a deck (or just bolted to death), or clobbered down with Lava Golems.
The best shot vs. Stall would be a EQ/Dev deck, against a rush we could use a heavy GotP/Grabs. This is more of a mind game, so I'll let RNG decide: GotP it is.
(IMO fire is scary enough to invest 9 ups here)

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ji412jo vs 10 men
Poison Stall is a good idea here. EA are probably not reqired, so I'd go with this version:
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Kamietsu vs Devilloss
Again, poison stall has a certain ring to it, though it might be wise to keep an eye on possible darkness Quanta -> GotP/Nightmare, so keeping a filled hand might help there. It might be an idea to have 6 upped poison and replace 4 pillars with pendulums, or just have 3 upped for arsenics and and a shield.
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Spielkind vs The dictator
I'd go for a mono earth stall, but immobow sounds good as well, sadly I used the Immos already vs. Darkness. As long as there isn't a genuine idea on what to use vs. darkness, mono earth it is.
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1 Nova/Grab
2 Immortal
3 GotP Grabs (+6 ups)
4 Immo Rush
5 GotP Grabs (+6 ups)
6 Poison Stall
7 Poison Stall (3 or 6 ups)
8 Mono Earth Stall

All used cards are legal for our Vault.
the 5 or 6 removed cards can be a mix between pillars/pends, since we have a few spares anyway.

Random Notes:
only 1 stack of novas used.
no devs used -> surprise in round 2 :3 ...?
no pulvys used changing the first deck would help there.
no discords used o.O
4 stalls, 4 rushes -> who said earth was only good for stalling?