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Trial Final Battle Results / Re: 5th Trials - [Death Finals]: MrBlonde vs. Ralouf1

« on: February 29, 2012, 06:38:57 am »

Ah. I see. It's quite ironic how Ralouf didn't get flesh recluse banned since it's almost his signature card. He didn't ban holy flash and bonewall, so are you going to use those as counters? I'll laugh pretty hard if a boneholylight deck gets made. *hopes I'm not spoiling any huge secrets or anything*

Holy Flash is a nasty card vs death but he still has poisons and he can still make quite a few decks around death cards that holy flash does not effect. Like all my other trials it just depends on me playing all my decks at the right time and having a little RNG love. Ralouf as most people know is a great PvPer and i certainly have my hands full. The card i find interesting that wasn't banned was fractal. But then again there are plenty of ways to deal with that (discord, silence, nightmare, etc) and Ralouf will be prepared. 

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Trial Final Battle Results / Re: 5th Trials - [Death Finals]: MrBlonde vs. Ralouf1

« on: February 29, 2012, 04:11:55 am »

Yeah i could see how that might be confusing. Anyhow the banned cards lists are for that particular player. So all the cards under my name are banned for me.

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Trial Final Battle Results / 5th Trials - [Death Finals]: MrBlonde 5 - 3 Ralouf1

« on: February 28, 2012, 09:21:33 pm »

MrBlonde's Banned Cards
Flesh Recluse
Dimensional Shield, Lightning
Wings, Eagle Eye
Vampire
Earthquake
Discord, Pandemonium
Fire Bolt
Titan
Miracle
Reverse Time
Purify

Shard of Sacrifice
Ralouf1's Banned Cards
Bonewall
Dimensional Shield , Fractal
Wings
Steal
Earthquake
Antimatter
Rain of Fire
Charger
Heal
Holy Flash , Sanctuary
Sundial
Purify

Shard of Sacrifice
Shard of Gratitude
Well Ralouf as expected you played a great final and really it came down to picking the right decks at the right time and some RNG luck. It was an honor playing such a great PvPer and i'd like to thanks my 36 upped cards for coming through. There was so much i had to think about and what decks you were going to try to counter me with. Some i figured you would have and others quite surprised me.


Game 1 (1-0)- lost toss, WIN

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This really was just a tester deck to see what Ralouf was bringing. He brought catatitans and i had a really poor 1 pillar draw, both dragons in my hand and bonewalls so i had a ton of dead cards. But alas Ralouf's was worse as he never pulled a flying weapon (Those trio combo decks can be tricky). i never had more then 2 pillars but ralouf just couldn't fly his titan to cata me and send out another Titan. I also was able to triple or quadruple flash myself to keep myself safe. So yeah i RNG'd this one although with a good pillar draw this deck shouldn't be a total underdog.   
Game 2 (2-0) - lost toss, WIN

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So with the first win in the books i thought it might be disco time and briefly thought about using my light stall but then decided my life rush should do alright vs discos as well. So when the mark came up entropy i felt alright. Fairly fast start for us both as i had an early arsenic and he had an early disco. Fortunately frogs are cheap and i was just able to get enough damage out and i almost lost with me getting him down to 1 hp and i was at 28. He had 21 damage out 2 death quanta and 5 entropy quanta so fortunately no topdecked card would save him. I was never able to use my heals as his disco annoyingly knocked my quanta out of range a few times.

Game 3 (2-1) - lost toss, LOSS

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Well not much to say here except he managed to get out a 2nd turn skull which all but spoiled my chances. I got him down to 15 hps so if he had a complete RNG fail and had none of his Miracles i would have won.
Game 4 (3-1) - lost toss, WIN

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So decided to go a little tit for tat here and unveiled my monsterous light stall. Those vampires did not like it at all.  Ralouf conceded after my sancs/SoGs/Skull and dead creatures started to pile up
Game 5 (3-2) - won  toss, LOSS

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I thought about using my light stall here but changed my mind at the last minute and probably would have done okay here. With that said he won by one turn and had all 3 of his cards early to seal the win in a fairly fast game.
Game 6 (3-3) - won toss, LOSS

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Last game i was kicking myself because i had my light stall in and decided to change it to the unstoppable stalkers. So of course i decide to play light stall now.... Doh.. Pretty much Ralouf countered me here and had a 32 poison counter on me with 8 turns left before he shockwaved my face into the ground. The critical card i needed here, bonewall, was not to be seen but when you play 42 card decks you really can't complain about not getting your card. Very nice Ralouf very nice definitely liked your deck.
Game 7 (4-3) - won toss, WIN

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Now i knew this was a critical game as i figured whoever won this would win it all. I decided to stay with the light stall hoping that Ralouf would think i would not use this deck 2 times in a row. And huzzah i was right. He picked the absolute worst deck to play mine as this is a virtual auto-win.
Game 8 (5-3) - won toss, WIN

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Well somewhere in my mind i thought Ralouf would make this deck (his SoSe deck). I tried to make one as well in honor of him but it turned out quite poopy. I decided to take a gamble and go FractaMummy here and was planning to run it again next game in case i lost. The deck i was scared of was a nightmare deck and a discord deck. I kind of thought he wouldn't go with darkness again as the light stall absolutely crushes it and his discord deck should fall to it as well. So when i saw his entropy mark i was like "DAMN!" But i ended up getting an epic anti-discord draw with 5 pillars and a bonewall in my hand to open... lol. Turned out though it was unnecessary as he brought a SoSe deck. Was pretty slow going for me at first though as i couldn't find a creature. Ralouf managed to get every shield under the rainbow and a mindgate out so this game turned out pretty entertaining. My bonewall never fell (also had 2 other bonewalls stuck in my hand since early in the game) and due to his double panda i had a 19 counter wall at one point. Unfortunately for Ralouf having fractals and an early bonewall really ruined the party for him.
Again great games Ralouf and it just seems that Death just likes me as Master as it certainly favors me.

Decks i did not use which makes me sad.. kinda. Raloufs decks pretty much forced me into a different path then i was expecting as i wasn't actually planning on using my life and my unstoppable stalker deck. I also assumed he would have counters up the wazoo for speed poison and my noizy dial  since i used them so much in this Masters Tourney. Also wasn't planning on using my light stall deck that much as mono-death rush's mess it up badly but i realized part way through that Ralouf wasn't likely to ever go mono. Another thing that was critical for my preparation was trying to figure out where Ralouf was trying to steer me with his bans. Because of this 3 decks i would normally use, fire control stall, speed poison, and noizy dial, never even got played. Meta game is sooo important and that's actually one area i feel i am competent in when it comes to PvP. So oddly because Ralouf is such a great opponent i ended up actually making less decks this trials.

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really wanted to use this deck as it's pretty fun but it needs 3 fractals to win and it's a risky deck. Pretty cool when it wins though. But with catatitans, nightmares, and discs in the mix i didn't even consider it.

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Another weakish deck that i considered but with Ralouf not really using death creatures again too slow to use.
Also fiddled with making a grabbow, a fire control deck with red nymphs, and the SoSe deck but they just weren't up to par.

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Trial Archive / Re: 5th Trials - Suggestions and Feedback

« on: February 28, 2012, 09:05:10 am »

I do like the direction we are going in though and hopefully i can keep my title one more time and reach the penultimate goal of Grandmaster.

Just curious: If Grandmaster is the penultimate goal, then what is the Ultimate goal???

Beating me.

QFT 

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Trial Archive / Re: 5th Trials - Suggestions and Feedback

« on: February 27, 2012, 09:26:53 pm »

Phase 3 is skewed towards Masters only because the community tends to vote for reelection.  Masters averaged 4.25 points in Phase 3; the Challengers they're ultimately facing averaged only 3.5.  During Phase 2 Masters averaged 4.75 points and the Challengers they're ultimately facing averaged 6 points.

Lesson learned from the above: Challengers earned half an up more than their Masters during Phases 2 and 3.  Let's not everyone go crazy complaining about injustice.

I guess that's really my argument. If anything the Masters should get an innate advantage  (having ousted a prior Master) rather then on average have less cards then their challenger (regardless of how big or small). I don't think they should be free points by no means (although i wouldn't say no  ) but something that would equalize it a bit better. I'm thinking if all work is equal a 2-3 card advantage on average per Master wouldn't be a terrible thing.

Anyhow just my thoughts and again my viewpoint is purely from a Masters bias who has never had a card disadvantage. I do like the direction we are going in though and hopefully i can keep my title one more time and reach the penultimate goal of Grandmaster.

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Harry Potter - Battle Results / Re: [HPPvP Day 5] Jen-i (Slytherin) 2 - 1 MrBlonde (Ravenclaw), Prefect

« on: February 27, 2012, 06:40:59 pm »

Well those quints pretty much counter decked our counter deck for adrenastaves... good games jen-i and pleasure as always.

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Trial Archive / Re: 5th Trials - Suggestions and Feedback

« on: February 21, 2012, 05:56:23 am »

I personally think there are too many bans with the current system. I always thought the 6 bans we had before was fine. BUT with that said i do like the diversity we are allowed in our choices. Being able to pick two in-element bans is quite tempting. Do i take 7 bans or a possible 17? I just think it's too many because IMO it gives someone with a large upped card advantage (like me) that much more of an advantage being able to ban more cards. Anyhow if anything i am adaptable and although i may think there should be a system with less possible bans it's more of a preference thing.

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Trial of Darkness / Re: 5th Trials - Phase 3 - Community Vote

« on: February 20, 2012, 11:51:33 pm »

Thats the spirit JiJo. All you can do is keep trying. Perseverance is a great quality to have.

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Trial Archive / Re: 5th Trials - Phase 4 - The Final Battle

« on: February 20, 2012, 08:21:38 pm »

oh wow.... good thing i looked at this again as i would have not banned enough cards.

I thought off element was going to be cumulative throughout all elements so four total off element bans from different elements would have a cost of 16 instead of 4. Wow... i have to agree with Naps, this seems like too many bans.

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Trial Archive / Re: 5th Trials - Suggestions and Feedback

« on: February 20, 2012, 08:15:50 pm »

The final standings further illustrate my point concerning how points are dispersed to Masters and Challengers. Only i personally have a considerable advantage over my opponent and all i had to do was win War AND the Masters Tourney. Every other Master who has an advantage has a very marginal one. But perhaps i am thinking about this the wrong way as maybe the goal is for Masters and Challengers to be as even as possible. I just think it's harder for Masters to actually receive a card advantage with how our current system is setup.

Nilse, TorB, Willng,and Napalm all had point disadvantages going into phase 3 despite scoring the same amount of points in Phase 2 as all their challengers (Higs was tied). Only myself and 10men could have actually gone into phase 3 with an advantage. I personally don't think that current Masters should have to win the popularity vote to catch up to our challengers or have a very modest advantage. I think modding the points for an even dispersment to Masters would be better. One master does not need to hog all the points as i did this trial.

I think giving Masters additional points for phase 1 would even things out. Perhaps give us a total of 15 points to earn and perhaps more work to do. I loathe to even suggest that but it would give the Masters who truly want to keep their title a point boost we need (or just give us some free points, that would be nice too ).

Anyhow i am speaking from purely a Masters viewpoint and i have never had a card disadvantage in any trial but i don't think it makes any of my points invalid.


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Trial of Death / Re: 5th Trials - Phase 3 - Community Vote

« on: February 20, 2012, 06:49:13 pm »

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who voted for me again. I know i didn't need the extra upped cards but it does help that ralouf didn't end up getting them. Also makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside that you all have faith in me. Thanks again and good luck Ralouf!

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Trial of Darkness / Re: 5th Trials - Phase 3 - Community Vote

« on: February 17, 2012, 09:23:42 pm »

Before answering that, I need a clarification on "possess". Do you mean just hanging around in someone elses body, or do you mean effectively killing them and controlling their body?

Hanging around in the body, with the capacity to take control of it whenever you wish. Taking control not implying killing their soul. (hence not implying permanence.

i actually like this question a lot. Is the person who is being possessed aware they are being possessed? Do they blank out or believe they are actually in control of their body?