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Round 9 / Re: (Aether) willng3 2 - (Time) Gen. Jen-i 1

« on: June 06, 2011, 04:22:21 pm »

This deck is like a nasty combination of everything we were trying to beat. Great job fighting it out, will. I'm surprised that an early fog and explosion is enough to seal it, I definitely thought that two explosions and early fog were needed for any chance of winning.

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Round 9 / Re: (Aether) deuce22 2 - (Darkness) Gen. Theonlyrealbeef 1

« on: June 06, 2011, 04:16:55 pm »

Sneaky deck from torb. That lone fractal makes games a little too close for comfort.
Great job deuce, and really sorry the way the byes worked out, torb. Darkness has always been a perpetual dagger-up-the-butt to prepare for. Very enjoyable matches across the entire war.

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Aether / Re: Round 9 - Duels

« on: June 06, 2011, 04:03:29 pm »

xn0ize says he'll be on from 8gmt to 19gmt, so I'm going to try to catch him today.
EDIT: Playing in an hour.

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Aether / Re: Round 9 - Main Topic

« on: June 05, 2011, 07:52:39 pm »

Breaking news?

We have a severe lack of fractals 0.o

3 left after twin bonebolts.

It's being discussed in chat, you should join.

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Aether / Re: Round 9 - Main Topic

« on: June 05, 2011, 02:48:28 pm »

Pika, maybe you could help me build a devtal to beat death. Since 4 deflags are essential to winning with the PU-nix deck, maybe 3 Steals are the way to go here? I'll be back in about 5 hours, unfortunately.

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Aether / Re: Round 9 - Main Topic

« on: June 05, 2011, 01:46:26 am »

There are 15 total pus and dims for them going into round 8. 12 from the 6/6 deck and 3 salvages from water (they HAVE to take 3 adrenas to field the deck they did against us)
They can save FIVE from this deck:

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5ul 5ul 5up 5up 5uu 5uu 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 61r 61r 61r 61r 61r 61r 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 7t5 7t5 7tb 7um 7um 7um 8pu

So if they want to keep 4 black dragons around, they can only save 1 pu/dim. This means that they lose 11 pu/dim cards. They can't go 4/4, it's going to be anywhere from 0/5 to 5/0 which really isn't very effective. They have to hang onto 2 adrena 2 cloak 2 vamp from round seven to account for the decks in round 8. If there was a vamp hiding in vault then I could be off, but I think #pu + #dim = 5 at absolute worst. And at that point they can't really use an effective pu/dim deck.

EDIT: Yes, deuce is right. If there are black 4 dragons lurking in vault then maybe they can go 4/4.

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Aether / Re: Round 9 - Main Topic

« on: June 05, 2011, 12:41:16 am »

Does anyone have any other insights against death? I posted a PU Phoenix a couple pages back that seemed pretty effective, and has an okay chance against EQ/SS. If we can get some decks done today, it leaves us enough time to talk about salvages and conversions. As deuce said, monoaether is looking very strong against time as well.

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Aether / Re: Secret Deck Testing Accounts

« on: June 04, 2011, 11:08:15 pm »

LOL thanks I guess.
I actually outfitted the two decks rather fast, but I guess we'll keep that account in mind

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Aether / Re: Secret Deck Testing Accounts

« on: June 04, 2011, 09:29:06 pm »

Nothing to see here

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Aether / Re: Round 9 - Main Topic

« on: June 04, 2011, 07:00:27 pm »

Cliffs notes: Time shouldn't have a novagrabby. If they do, it will have only 3 grabs and no CC. Scarabtal is likely since we've shown affinity for Bonebolt in the past, and they wouldn't want to send the same deck twice. Mono-aether looks pretty good.
http://pastie.org/2019359

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Aether / Re: Round 9 - Main Topic

« on: June 04, 2011, 05:47:49 pm »

To recap:

Bonebolt x2, though FSS is still giving some trouble. Final build has not been decided on.


PU Phoenix x2? Haven't heard many comments about my build, please take a look at let me know what you think. Going to test against Reclusetal without Dims soon.


BH deck? Needs testing against pretty much everything, especially an immoMPtal


Grabbow or firestall


mono-aether? I'll go test some stuff I guess. Not much else has been mentioned.


Darkness is down to some sort of Dim Dragon, grabbow (with purify), or PU Dragon. They cannot have all three of PU, Dim, and Dragons. I don't recall too many ideas here. I mentioned sancstall, but now think it's not a good option. Early arsenic or PU obsidians or drain life would not be fun to deal with. That purify really scares me away from any of our death duos except perhaps mummytal bonebolt. PU Azures falls to obsidians, and steals are pretty killer to anything Dim-based. Kind of lost here.

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Aether / Re: Round 9 - Main Topic

« on: June 04, 2011, 03:02:35 am »

Caught deuce in chat.
http://pastie.org/2016609

Random thought against UW:

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55v 55v 55v 55v 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 61v 61v 61v 620 620 620 620 620 622 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pl

Obviously not finalized, but I can't seem to beat it with any UW decks. Either my leftover quanta from immo/nova is sucked dry and I'm screwed, or each BH gives around 20 healing and I can't outdamage it. Phase Dragon gets by wings which is super annoying too. Thoughts?

Alright, after more testing I've managed to take it down with an immonova deck with gnome riders and burning pillars. The AI definitely misplayed though, and I think if you can lightning the golem (the only lethal source of damage), then it's not a problem.