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Round 1: Decks, fights and salvages for Team Air.7-2Round 1 fights scheduled: - 3 decent fights and a couple tricky ones
chum3 - dragoon
*** vs time lieutenant
istari - guy_fawkes
tomatoman - majofa
pervepic - kurohami
dogg - vagman13
quantumT - memorystick
gyrodiot - tinkady
truddy02 - brion
klaymore - yeliyayue
WIN truddy02 (Air) 2-1 vs time (brion):WIN: truddy02 (air) deck:
5la 5lh 5lh 5lh 5lh 5lh 5li 5of 5og 5og 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5ol 5ol 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu
LOSE: brion (time) deck:
4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vl 4vl 4vl 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rm 5rm 5rm 5rm 5rs 5rs 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2
Tactic - early fog shield, flying morningstars
Salvage 6:any two of:
-3 discord
-3 chaos seed
-3 antimatter
Reasoning: air beat a lot of opponents with entropy this round, enough to maybe build 1-2 deck ideas around. Time dragons are too expensive, pharoahs worse than firefly queens for air. Overall, they'll be salavating over the entropy decks they can make.
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WIN klaymore (air) 2-1 vs life (yeliyayue)WIN: klaymore (air) deck:
5ok 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 61o 61o 61o 61o 61u 620 620 620 620 620 622 622 622 622 622
LOSE: yeliyayue (life) deck:
5bs 5bs 5c1 5c1 5c1 5c1 5c1 5c1 5c2 5c2 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i9 5i9 5ig 5ig 5ig 5ig
Tactic - wings shields, with phase spiders to down airborne opponents
Salvage 6:-2 heal, 1 forest spirit, 3 ice bolt
Reasoning: pendulums aren't helpful, tears and shields are too expensive unless they have a water based deck already, ice bolts, heal, forest spirits are cheap enough to be potentially usable in rainbows.
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WIN Dogg (air) 2-0 vs entropy (vagman13)WIN: Dogg (air) deck:
52r 52r 52r 52r 52r 52r 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5ol 5ol 5ol 5ol 5ol 5ol 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu
LOSE: vagman13 (entropy) deck:
4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vf 4vf 4vh 4vh 4vh 4vl 4vl 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vo 4vo 50u 50u 50u 50u 5um 5um 5um 5um 5up 5up 5up 5v0 5v0
Tactic - flying owl's eye deck with bonewall cc, looks hardfought
Salvage 9:everything except the purple dragons
-2 voodoo dolls, 2 steal, 1 butterfly effects, 2 discord, 2 lycanthrope
Reasoning: vagman is santa claus. They couldn't have asked for a better deck to choose from. Everything in here is solid win. voodoo might even combine with the grav pulls from the other match (although there are only 2 here)
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WIN pervepic (air master) 2-1 entropy (kurohami) WIN: pervepic (air master) deck:
5of 5of 5og 5ol 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5ul 5ul 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5up 5up 5up 7ta 7td 7td 7td 7td 7td
LOSE: kurohami (entropy) deck:
4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vd 4vd 4vd 4vd 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vh 4vh 4vh 4vh 4vh 4vh 4vo 4vo 4vo 4vo 4vo
Tactic - devourer and steal to deny quanta, rush with vamps, hardfought
Salvage 6:-2 maxwell demon, 2 lycanthrope, 2 butterfly effect
Reasoning: pervepic loves his butterfly, and lycanthrope and maxwell demon give him good options for rush or cc
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WIN quantumT (air lieutenant) 2-0 gravity (memorystick) WIN: quantumT (air lieutenant) deck:
4ve 4ve 4ve 4ve 4vl 4vl 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vo 5od 5od 5of 5og 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 7mu 7mu 7mu
LOSE: memorystick (gravity) deck:
55m 55m 55t 55t 55t 55t 55u 55u 55u 55u 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 5f6 5f6 5f6 5f9 5f9 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc
Tactic - discord, antimatter big fire eaters, go for the kill with creatures with fog shield support
Salvage 9:-2 fire eaters, 2 immolation, 2 deflag, 3 gravity pu\
Reasoning: immolations, deflags are awesome support cards, grav pull could combine with creatures like voodoo from their other win, fire eaters are immolation or nova supportable - a frequently overlooked rainbow card
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WIN gyrodiot (air) 2-0 aether (tinkady) WIN: gyrodiot (air) deck:
5of 5of 5og 5og 5ol 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5ul 5ul 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5up 5up 5up 5uq 5ur 5uu 5uu 5uu
LOSE: tinkady (aether) deck:
5f3 5f3 5f3 5f3 5f3 5f3 5f6 5f6 5f6 61o 61o 61q 61q 61q 61t 61t 61u 621 621 621 621 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a
Tactic - steal shields, vampire dragons
Salvage 9:-1 lobotomizer, 2 dim shields, 2 fire spirits, 2 lightning, 2 quintessence
Reasoning: they've made an investment in aether to combine with their wings anyway, all aether cards strengthen that, the fire spirits are rainbow supportable, and they can get deflags from other battles
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WIN Tomatoman (subbed by Istari.)(air) 2-0 fire (majofa) WIN: Tomatoman (air) deck:
55k 55k 55k 55k 55s 55s 55s 55s 55s 55s 55t 55t 55t 55t 55t 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5ol 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu
LOSE: majofa (fire) deck:
5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f3 5f3 5f3 5f3 5f3 5f3 5f6 5f6 61o 61o 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61u 621 621 621 63a 63a 63a
Tactic - flying titan with grav pull deck (interesting to see air use it)
Salvage 9:-1 lobotomizer, 4 dim shield, 4 fire spirit
-3 quint, 2 deflag, 4 fire spirit
Reasoning: they have a huge vault, I'm sure they have a surprise deck from fire waiting in the wings. Quints and dim shields give them choices, fire spirits give them cheap immolation fuelable growth creatures. A pile of deflags and lobotomizers never hurt anyone. I'd bet on pervepic taking the lobo, he likes special abilities like that.
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LOSS Istari. (air) 1-2 darkness (guy_fawkes) LOSS: Istari. (air) deck:
5c2 5c6 5c6 5c6 5c6 5c6 5lc 5lc 5lc 5lk 5lk 5oj 5oj 5oj 5oj 5oj 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu
WIN: guy_fawkes (darkness) deck:
4vh 4vh 4vh 4vh 4vh 5up 4vi 4vi 4vl 4vl 4vn 4vn 4vn 500 5uo 5us 5us 5us 5us 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606
Tactic - firefly/hope deck with empathic bonds
Discard 6:-6 pendulums
Reasoning: air has lots and this is their only loss in 8 rounds, they don't need to give anything up this round
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LOSS chum3 (air) 0-2 time (dragoon) LOSS: chum3 (air) deck:
591 591 591 593 593 593 593 593 593 595 595 595 5oe 5oe 5of 5of 5ol 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu
WIN: dragoon (earth) deck:
593 593 593 593 593 593 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rm 5rm 5rm 5rm 5rm 5rm 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 7q0 7q0 7q0
Tactic - EQ denial, owl eye and bb for cc, shriekers, wyrm and azure dragon for damage
Discard 6:-6 pendulums
Reasoning: air has lots and this is their 2nd loss so they can cover it with converts or propaganda bonuses