SteppingStone81: 3
Kakerlake: 1
Enjoyed the matches, Kakerlake! Great event, Gyrodiot!
Picks:A6, B7, C2, D10, E4, F3, G9, H8, I5, J11, K12, L1
(black hole, discord, abomination, dissipation shield, sapphire charger, earthquake, pulverizer, hope, short sword, flying weapon, pandemonium, mutation)
Targets:J11, F3, B7
flying weapon, earthquake, discord
yay! killed off some of my least favorite cards!!!
Relics spent: zero
Decks:Game 1 (Win)
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I figured discord-BH would have some surprise value for the first game. Decent early quanta production got me a turn 2 discord plus a few abominations / chargers. The discord did its work, but he was able to reverse time / eternity my critters and slow me down until he could start playing out his graboids. I never saw a black hole, so I got within one turn of death, but 2 abom and a charger were enough to finish it.
Game 2 (Win)
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Looking at Kakerlake's remaining available grid choices, I immediately expected sanctuaries and - knowing the Master of Earth - likely the Immortal. I brought an extra fat diss shield stall, and Kaker quit when he saw my deck size.
Game 3 (Loss)
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I expected sanctuaries again, so I tried to finish him off with an earth/grav duo with pulverizers to handle the sanctuaries. I got very little quanta production though (particularly lacking on earth), and Kaker got 5 pendula on turn 1 plus a few more in the early going and was able to get out his creatures. For a while, I managed to hold him to one shrieker on the board, but he kept rewinding my critters and playing sanctuaries and slowed me just enough so that he could flood the board with graboids.
Game 4 (Win)
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This game was painfully slow. I knew his grid choices could not include protect artifact, so I brought EQs with a fat diss shield stall. Discord worked for two turns, then accidentally gave him 4
to play a sanctuary. He quickly realized he was not going to kill me and started trying to save up quanta to rewind his graboids and deck me out. I EQ'd earth pillars and pendula as fast as I could and won with 3 turns to spare. Amusingly, I drew my 6th EQ on the last turn ... would have made me sweat a lot less had I drawn it sooner.