Guest posts by mrblonde

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Harry Potter: House Cup Competition / Re: HPPvP House Colors **Updated**

« on: August 30, 2011, 02:28:22 am »

I completely feel like a total nerd since i soooo want to participate in this event. Can't wait. Other events... hurry up and end!

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The Colosseum / Re: The Colosseum

« on: August 30, 2011, 01:15:41 am »

This event looks like pure awesome... Is there any timeframe for when this will start? I definitely don't want to miss it. Also if someone can PM me when signups do start i would appreciate it.

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Trial Final Battle Results / Re: 4th Trials - [Darkness Finals] Onizuka (1) vs TheonlyrealBeef (5)

« on: August 29, 2011, 06:38:38 pm »

Congrats TorB! You definitely had a quality opponent in Oni and i'll cya in War 4...  or Tyrant room 23

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Trial Final Battle Results / Re: 4th Trials~{Fire Finals}~Napalm {5} vs TheForbiddenOracle {1}

« on: August 29, 2011, 04:44:42 pm »

Congrats Nap! And finally gets a 2 time master.

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Trial Final Battle Results / Re: 4th Trials ~Entropy Finals~ Zeru 1 - MatrimKK 5

« on: August 28, 2011, 11:09:34 pm »

Congrats Matrim, well deserved win and look forward to seeing you lead Entropy in War!  Zeru you've always been a great competitior and i have much respect for you.  I still remember you taking down Jmizz to my great surprise and ever since you have not disappointed.

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Trial Final Battle Results / Re: 4th Trials - [Life Finals] willng3 5-4 ak65ala - Saturday 1400ish GMT

« on: August 28, 2011, 11:06:07 pm »

Congrats Willng, great to have you as life master. May you have a long lasting reign. =)

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Trial Final Battle Results / Re: 4th Trials - [Life Finals] willng3 vs. ak65ala - Saturday 1400ish GMT

« on: August 27, 2011, 05:30:37 pm »

Also i don't think a game that an opponent doesn't play a single move (invisible hand) should ever be counted as a win or loss unless under DIRE circumstances (like 20 desyncs or something). IMO that's just a waste of time and actually on the flip side i feel that this is not fair play by the other player* since they get to see exactly what the other player is playing giving them undue advantage. Especially since this is the first duel played.

In the end this is irrelevant BUT because of things like this i would like some type of "fair play" rule where upon desyncs or invisible hands unless instructed otherwise immediately exit.

*In no way do i think Willng is an unscrupulous player by any means, i think he's quite honorable.

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Trial Final Battle Results / Re: 4th Trials - [Life Finals] willng3 vs. ak65ala - Saturday 1400ish GMT

« on: August 27, 2011, 04:35:21 pm »

Unforutunately that likely means games 4 is a win instead of a loss for Willng and you will end up losing 3-5. Same thing happened to TNG last trials vs me causing him to lose to me after he won 5-4 because of an illegal deck. Sucky, sucky, way to win or lose because of all the hard work put into this. Can't stress enough to double check and double check your decks.

Even reminded Xnoize a few times to make sure his decks were correct and checked my decks before i even started my PvP battle each match. Sorry Ak65ala but i highly doubt a favorable verdict will be coming down here because of precedents in prior events.

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Trial Final Battle Results / Re: 4th Trials - [Gravity Finals] Nilsieboy 5 - 4 Bhlewos

« on: August 27, 2011, 01:33:30 am »

With him running a Gravity/Water deck, I expected there to be no healing, so assumed it didn't make a difference when I threw them. In retrospect I should've done what MrBlonde said.

yeah hindsight is always 20/20. Hated to bring it up but it's helpful to learn from mistakes. Also it would have likely been better not to play your 2nd catapult until you knew you could use it.

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Trial Final Battle Results / Re: 4th Trials - [Gravity Finals] Nilsieboy 5 - 4 Bhlewos

« on: August 27, 2011, 12:14:22 am »

No, no reason at all. Actually after watching the video, sad to say i believe bhlewos would have won if he had not blown them up immediately. The extra 8 damage or so would have made the difference. He would have been able to play his 2nd armagio a turn earlier  and his final armagio would have killed him.

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Trial Final Battle Results / Re: 4th Trials - [Gravity Finals] Nilsieboy 5 - 4 Bhlewos

« on: August 26, 2011, 04:38:36 pm »

Congrats Nils! It's been a long road to your mastership but you're now here. 

And great showing Bhlewos! Even with an upped disadvantage you managed to be on the cusp of victory with a 3-0 lead and a 4-3 lead. Nothing to be ashamed about here.

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Trial Final Battle Results / 4th Trials - [Death Finals] MrBlonde 5 - 1 xn0ize

« on: August 26, 2011, 07:28:07 am »

 Good games Noizy, you know i love you. Sorry it ended like it did. Just managed to pull the right decks everytime and last game i got a bit lucky.

Game 1 - Won (lost toss)

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After much thought i decided that Xn would use a mono-rush deck. The majority of the decks i made were based on the premise of me being able to beat mono-death. This deck certainly does that. Didn't start with a RoF but was able to find one in time to create a 15 stack of bonewalls and pretty much ended it there.

Game 2 - Loss (won toss)

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For the life of me i couldn't remember what deck i wanted to use next. I decided to go with my control gravity deck. We both ended up with terribly crappy draws but regardless this matchup wouldn't have mattered if i had a great draw. Xn had me countered to the T here with his sundial/blessed scorp deck.

Game 3 - Win (lost toss)

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This honestly is one of my weakest decks because steals don't help in the majority of matches and only went with it because for some reason i felt i should. I changed back and forth and boy good thing i listened to my hunch. Noizy went for the UG/wall/plague stall deck. Basically all i had to do to win this matchup was find 2 of 3 steals in my first 28 cards or so. Also i have a penchant for 31 card decks which certainly helped because otherwise i would have likely decked.

Game 4 - Win (lost toss)

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Figured on Xn to go with a discord deck here which this does well vs it since quanta is pretty good with this deck and i can use the gravity quanta (i used this to good effectiveness vs Coinich's discord deck in a previous trials). He ended up using an aether/lightning deck. Fortunately for me he didn't use dim shields. I got out a pharoah fairly quick and started making little scarabs. Once i got 2 pharoahs running his plagues couldn't keep up with them growing and not finding a bonewall doomed xn. If he could have found 1 of his bonewalls this game likely is a different story.

Game 5 - Win (lost toss, see a pattern here?)

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Xn's deck had me confused. He played an earth mark so i figured EQ's since nothing else really works well with earth. But it in fact was a chrysora/trident/plague/wall stall deck. Very tricky.. Unfortunately unless xn pulls an early trident my deck likely locks his down.

Game 6 - Win (win toss)

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Here is the one game that i feel the RNG really did help me. If noizy pulls a bonewall no way i would have won. I took a chance and played my creatures fast and furious (bad idea) hoping i could win before he pulled his RoF. Didn't happen but it forced xn to play his RoF before he wanted to since he didn't have the quanta to play his bonewall. Just too much damage to fast and my 2nd turn arsenic was huge since he couldn't blow it up either.

Actually after second thought a bonewall wouldn't have mattered a turn or two earlier. My early arsenics poison would have eventually killed XN regardless of bonewalls. My creatures had already done enough damage early enough (50 or so) and the 4 or 5 poison counters would have won it for me regardless.

GG's xn, you are a great player and the outcome has nothing to do with your skill. Today i just managed to get lucky and pull the right decks out of a hat.

Here are the other decks i made to face XN that didn't get used.

Mono-Death

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Nasty little bugger this is. Actually disappointed i didn't use it
Holy death

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Another deck i'm really disappointed i didn't use. Didn't want to use this til later though when i could isolate decks and he would likely go mono-death again
Thanks for the Healing

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Not a super great deck but knowing Xn would use bonewalls i didn't feel many other decks would be decent. And pandabonium hates me so no way i was using that
Dim stall standard

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Shockwave

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I typically love my air decks but i really wasn't feeling this deck. Really did not want to use this deck unless i had to
Death Immortal

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I made this deck but in all honesty highly doubted i was ever going to use this. I tried to make other earth decks (wardens, grabbies, etc) but as a duo immortal works the best vs the variety of decks xn was going to bring and i felt this was a fail deck vs most of them