Okay so I've been giving these match-ups a lot of thought today, and here's what I'm thinking at the moment:
- Helston's pretty much dead on with this one. The best I can see them doing is using their Darkness duo against us and packing a butt-load of Steals in case of Dims, but even with all of that our Dragons should just trample all over them. My one major concern is that they might have a store of Dims hiding somewhere in their vault, but I really don't see why they wouldn't have used them in their Aether duo last Round against Entropy (duh block Discord) if this were the case. Furthermore, they faced Death during Round 1, won, and suddenly just happen to have 4 Lightnings in Round 2 which also appeared in Death's deck during Round 1. So I'm going to assume that they salvaged 4 Lightnings from Death's deck and are either hiding 2 Dim Shields or used something else for conversion fodder; that match against Death was their only opportunity to salvage Dim Shields. Last round the only cards of notice that they managed to salvage were Basilisk Blood (PUgons laughed at Permafrost last round), Momentum, and Druidic Staves + Flying Weapons. Basilisk Blood would require them to field an Earth duo, meaning we could expect Tridents and BB, but as I demonstrated with AdrenaTitans versus Death last round, non-Earth elements using EQ in any form versus a fast deck like PUgons are going to find themselves at a huge disadvantage. Momentum and Druidic Staves are both negated by Lobo and Dim Shield, to strengthen Helston's thoughts. I feel PUgons is a very strong choice here.
- Ghostal lost last Round, but Time could easily discard Pends and Fractals and then replenish Fractals using their salvage from Aether. They have 2 Ghostmares which is my only hesitation against sending Frogtal against them. I strongly doubt they'd send any deck against us that can't find a way to deal with Dims our way, given that our duel against Earth last Round showed that losing that Frogtal was not an option for us. Therefore I'm anticipating either Ghostmare or some kind of Novabow, but I'll need to check their other match-ups before deciding on either of these. I'm wondering how our Crusaders deck would fare against these decks, although sending it against the Element with a monopoly on RT and Eternity seems crazy, I know.
- Alright, I'm sick of losing to these guys round after round. I say we hit them hard and shut them up once and for all. From the deck's they used last round I see AdrenaTitans having 0 issues whatsoever. Viewing the decks they've used so far this War I'd say we're likely to see VaderSaders, The Immortal or they might try another attempt to use our own cards against us like last Round. However, I should note that they won against Time last Round which means we might face a Crusader deck using Eternities and RT. I'm going to have to take a look at their current vault situation to decide on whether or not they can afford to use salvages for anything but conversion fodder this round.
- Well. These guys are just unpredictable. I thought about using AdrenaTitans in case of stalls, but realistically a rush with Deflags is just as, if not more, likely to be used against us. And their rushes outrush AdrenaTitans. This might have to be one of our more chancy match-ups unless someone comes up with a brilliant scheme to use against them. Although, I'm questioning how a Mono Life rush would do here (though that's a painful discard if it loses).
- Meh. They used a Shrieker Rush with RTs last round which makes me wonder if they won't expect us to use AdrenaTitans versus their Immortal and then counter with that. I'd feel pretty safe about using PUgons here, but that's more or less a sure win against Water...
Salvage/discard/conversion situation:
This will need to be focused on later, I feel, but I definitely do not want to deal with this at the last minute like last time.
Support team battle: I've touched base with swishy, waiting for a response. Haven't changed my opinion from several hours ago though.
