Elements: Academy - Round 5

[iancudorinmarian]

vagman13 0-3 Vindilos
samallmighty 0-3 JonathanCrazyJ
worldwideweb3 3-1 Manuel
ji412jo 1-3 Afdarenty

Spielkind received a bye.

I'm bored, not all matches get played. Here are some boring creatures for you:

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4ve 55n 58q 5bu 5c0 5i6

(Each player may pick one of those cards to permanently add to their sideboard. PM the host, iancudorinmarian, with your choice. You may use the chosen card in this round as well as future rounds.)

Time left to complete your matches: Time's up!

[Afdarenty]

Afdarenty: 3
ji412jo: 1

Good games! Lots of fun match ups to play here. A couple of these definitely could have gone the other way with different draws.

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Game 1 vs Steam Machines:

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5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5us 5us 5us 5us 5us 5us 5uu 5uu 5vi 5vi 5vi 5vi 5vi 5vi 606 606 606 7t4 7t4 7t8 7t8 7tb 7tb 7tb 7um 7um 8pt

I had a Drain Life for every Steam Machine he played, plus two Liquid Shadow in hand as extra insurance. Very difficult match up for him.


Game 2 vs Trident Rush:

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5i4 5i4 5i4 5io 5io 5io 5io 5io 5jm 5jm 5jm 5up 5up 5v1 5v1 606 606 606 606 606 606 7h3 7h3 7h3 7i6 7tb 7um 7um 7um 7um 8pp

I had enough Quanta to Steal the first Trident. By the time the second one was played, I had enough Nymphs out to win the damage race fairly comfortably.


Game 3 vs SoP Wardens:

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5ut 5ut 5ut 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 61o 61o 622 622 622 63a 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7ta 7um 80i 8pu

A 4 quanta start for Joey meant my denial was on the back foot right from the start. He got a SoP and plenty of Gemfinders down early, which really put me on the clock. I think I misplayed by not using Fractal on one of his Gemfinders earlier - I was able to use a second on Wardens towards the end of the game, but needed one more turn to completely lock down his board and win the game.


Game 4 vs Nymph Rush /w Defl. Splash:

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5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5v1 5v1 606 606 606 606 606 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t8 7t8 7ta 7tb 7tb 7tb 8pt

I was a little worried with only one Pest in my opening hand - my deck would be relying heavily on permanents to win this match up, and one Pest wasn't enough to counteract the quanta from his Mark of Fire. Happily I soon drew into more, which kept my Dagger safe, and a fairly rushy draw of Dragons and a Nightmare was enough to win it for me.

[samallmighty]

I may say something utterly stupid but Vagman and Vindilos have already been paired together if I'm not mistaken in round 3... I'm pretty sure this is a very understandable mistake of your part iancudorinmarian ^^ ! I guess if Spiellkind is alerted soon enough, he'll be able to take either of these players' place instead since neither Vindilos nor Vagman played vs him or got a bye. Otherwise you can just re-do the pairings but I'm not sure you're mad enough for that :-) !

[iancudorinmarian]

I may say something utterly stupid but Vagman and Vindilos have already been paired together if I'm not mistaken in round 3... I'm pretty sure this is a very understandable mistake of your part iancudorinmarian ^^ ! I guess if Spiellkind is alerted soon enough, he'll be able to take either of these players' place instead since neither Vindilos nor Vagman played vs him or got a bye. Otherwise you can just re-do the pairings but I'm not sure you're mad enough for that :-) !

There is no restriction on the pairings that says two players can't ever play again. The only thing I did was make sure it doesn't happen two rounds in a row.

[samallmighty]

Ah, ok, my bad then, I thought you wanted to avoid these situations. I guess that's the charm of randomness, sometimes lightning strikes twice ^^!

[worldwideweb3]

worldwideweb3: 3
Manuel: 1

Good games! Lots of fun match ups to play here. A couple of these definitely could have gone the other way with different draws.

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Game 1 win:

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4so 4so 4so 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5gi 5gi 5v1 5v1 5v1 5v1 7dg 7dg 7dg 7f2 7t8 7t8 7tb 7tb 8pt

Game 2 Loss:

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4so 4so 4so 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f7 5f7 5f7 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5gi 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 7dg 7f2 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 8pq

This deck never performs outside of war for me.


Game 3 Win:

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4so 4so 4so 5f0 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f6 5f6 5f7 5f7 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5gi 5gi 7dg 7dg 7dg 7dg 7dg 7f2 7f2 7f2 8po

Game 4 Win

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4so 4so 4so 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f6 5f6 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5gi 5v1 5v1 7dg 7dg 7f2 7f2 7t8 7t8 7tb 7tb 8pt

[Manuel]

worldwideweb3: 3
Manuel: 1

i have no words for describing how much this game is trash and we are wasting our lives

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4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4ve 4ve 4ve 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vl 4vl 4vl 4vl 50u 50u 593 6u1 6u1 77g 77g 77g 77j 77j 7dm 7dm 8pm

g1 i can't draw a single fucking creature in 15 cards, g2 win with him chaining 6 fucking dials with a 42 cards deck with 20+ cards left

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he drew 3 early bolts then discord stopped shuffling

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4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4ve 4ve 4ve 4ve 4ve 4vf 4vl 4vl 4vl 4vl 4vl 50u 50u 50u 50u 6ts 6ve 747 747 747 74f 74f 74f 74f 8pl

no discord

[JonathanCrazyJ]

JonathanCrazyJ: 3
samallmighty: 0

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5i4 5i4 5i4 5ig 5ig 5ig 5ig 5ig 5ij 5ij 5jm 5jm 5jm 5up 5up 5v1 5v1 606 606 606 7gk 7gk 7i6 7i6 7tb 7tb 7um 7um 7um 7um 8pp

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5i4 5i4 5i4 5ig 5ig 5ig 5ig 5ig 5ij 5ij 5jm 5jm 5jm 5up 5up 5v1 5v1 606 606 606 7gk 7gk 7i6 7i6 7tb 7tb 7um 7um 7um 7um 8pp

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5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5ie 5ie 5ie 5ie 5io 5io 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 7gm 7gm 7gm 7gm 7gm 7gs 7gs 7gs 7h3 7h3 8pm

GGs, I was lucky in 3rd game.

[samallmighty]

JonathanCrazyJ: 3
samallmighty: 0

Well, I did expect to lose but not this way in the end... Good games to you JonathanCrazy!

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game 1 loss vs dark duo:

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61o 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61u 61u 61v 61v 61v 61v 62m 62m 62m 63a 63a 63a 63a 808 808 808 808 808 808 81q 81q 8pu

well, 2 early nightmares early game+2 well drawn steals meant my dim shield chain was useless though it was a lot closer than I expected on matchup 0-1, and well,

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52k 52k 52k 52k 52k 52k 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 622 622 622 622 622 63a 63a 63a 63a 71b 71b 71b 809 809 809 809 809 8pk

I hardly believed in two things: 1) that he used only 3 steals or less (I'm very very highly surprised that he used only 2 given his post, but ok, maybe he was awesomely lucky and got the 2 of them very early on), 2) that he'll repeat it again and be out of nightmares for the rest of the match (which was again counting that he had at leat 3 nightmares in deck 1, but ok, his post says he used only 2, and ok, he should have drawn them all early game). Well, my thinking was wrong and vultures got very easily outrushed by this darkness deck (0-2)

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well, at least I had an awesome matchup so I thought, but you know my legendary luck now... no fractal, no dim shield in the first 14 cards meant fractix got outrushed by abyss crawlers (yeah, it only happens to me I guess). 0-3 and out of tourney


I really enjoyed this tournament! Good luck to the survivors!

[samallmighty]

Well, at least now my posts respect the format rules, that's already one thing I did not waste in this tourney; bye folks!

[JonathanCrazyJ]

Um i only drew 1 steal in each game. Game 1 i stole a dim right at the end, game 2 I stole 1 stack of bonewall.

[MyNameIsJoey]

Do I need to post result again? Afda already did.

As I told iancu, those are approximates as I have lost the exact deck codes due to a comp crash.

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5f6 5f6 5f6 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5ii 5ii 5ii 5ii 5ii 5ii 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 7gk 7gp 7gp 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 7i6 8po

I told myself I should farm for some electrum and get upgraded steamies, then didn't really have the time for it. It cost me the game.

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5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5ic 5ic 5ie 5ie 5ie 5ie 5ie 5ie 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 77a 77a 77a 77a 77a 77a 7gm 7gm 7gm 7gs 8pm

no quanta

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596 596 596 596 596 596 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5ib 5ib 5ib 5ib 5ib 5ib 5j2 5j2 77e 77e 77e 77e 77e 77e 78q 7gp 7gp 8pp

SoP not OP, just strong This deck had an extra upgrade, probably either a pillar or an octopus.

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no quanta