Game 1 - Win: Rainbow vs. Entropy duo
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4sa 4sa 4sa 58u 58u 58u 58u 58u 590 590 590 590 590 590 595 595 595 595 59c 5c1 5f6 5f6 5f6 5og 6qq 6qq 6qq 6rl 71a 77c 8pmFairly scary match here because he played something I was totally not expecting. I saw the entropy mark and guessed that I had a pretty sizeable advantage here. His EQs kept my rainbow quantum generation at bay for the most part, but the discord he played ended up being his biggest enemy as it only continued to give me
to open up my grabbies with. A scary purple nymph was immobilized by a BB, then my earth nymph did the heavy lifting from there out. He was able to play an AM part way through, but instead of petrifying my own grabby, I burrowed it and saved my earth quanta (seemed like the right decision with the game in control). I had a chance fairly early on to deflag the discord, but left it alone because I figured it was doing me more good than not and I was worried a dis shield would show up.
Game 2 - Win: Aether stall vs. Aether stall
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58o 58o 58o 592 592 592 59c 59c 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 61t 61t 61t 61t 622 622 77a 77a 77b 77b 77e 77e 8puHis stoneskins meant he had a deck advantage in terms of survival so I focused my attention entirely on doing the most damage I could in case his dim shield dropped. No early golem meant I needed to improvise by fractalling gnome riders in order to try and push out my two dragons more quickly. If he had two more dim shields he would have won, as his chain ran out with 4 cards left in my hand. Unfortunately for Mith, he did, but misclicked and played another pendy instead
This may have ended up being the mistake that cost him the final result.
Game 3 - Loss: Ghosts & Grabbies vs. Aether Stall
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58u 58u 58u 592 592 592 59c 59c 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 61t 61t 61t 61t 622 622 77a 77a 77b 77b 77e 77e 8puI wanted to change decks, but expected Ghosts and Grabs with EQ, since he hadn't played it yet so I stuck with this. In the end I got eternity locked early on before I could really do much so adding in the extra gnomes backfired. I was expecting RTs & EQs and got eternities and BBs. I keep replaying this game in my mind trying to figure out where I made a mistake, but I think I just made a poor counter.
Game 4 - Loss: Ghosts & Grabbies vs. Ghosts & Grabbies
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590 590 590 590 590 590 593 593 593 593 593 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5ro 5ro 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 78q 78q 78q 78q 78q 78q 8psI was again expecting Ghosts & Grabbies, but figured I would counter with my own because I figured a mirror match would be, at worst, a coin toss & I wanted a strong deck in case he came with something else. I lost the coin toss. I pushed out a bunch of early quanta since he had used BB's the game before and I wanted to win the race. He blew it all up. The threat of my turn 2 eternity kept his grabs burrowed, although I didn't have much intention of sending them home with little quanta now to power the stick. The one thing that saved me was that I kept drawing grabs. I had a huge lead and kept them burrowed until the turn before last. I felt like I was making a mistake by going for the gusto by unfurling my little army + playing a ghost, but looking at my own health, I knew he would win in two turns as well. To my dismay, he RT'd all 3 and I didn't have the quanta to play anything. I only had enough left in the tank to get him to one health. Had I RT'd one of his grabs and held my ghost back or kept one grab burrowed I would have won by preventing him from topdecking his 4th RT. I couldn't have known this, but I think I could have mathematically guaranteed myself victory by playing it differently. I guess I gave game 2 back here. Definitely the most epic loss I had ever suffered.
Game 5: Rainbow vs. Death stall
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4sa 4sa 4sa 58o 58u 58u 58u 58u 590 590 590 590 590 590 595 595 595 595 59c 5aa 5f6 5f6 5og 5og 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6rl 71a 8pmHe told me this was an untested deck for him, and I knew my rainbow was about 50/50 vs. ghosts and grabbies and probably 90% vs. everything else so I played it. He probably wasn't too surprised to see it, but I went with it anyways. Turn 1 gavel helped me a lot. He played an early arsenic, which I had a deflag waiting for quanta to blow it up. The turn after I got it, he PA'd it. He had a fairly large stall mechanism trying to break free from my defense on the board, but I kept it at bay with BB. I replaced the gavel with an arsenic midway through, in fear of a bonewall. In the end, even with only 2 grabs drawn, I had more than enough damage to win on the turn before the last.
Epic games altogether Mith. I know you were pretty disappointed and I can honestly say your preparedness and intellect made you one of my most feared opponents ever.
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. Let's regroup here Essy! My bet needs you.
trials and then seems thrown off by people trying to push out early discords without countering. Its one of the most dangerous cards in the game and should be treated as such.
