PvP World Championship 2013 - 2nd Round - Group B

[Vangelios]

nah, really had a problem here at home, and I got to play on cyber coffe without concentration, finally my RNG was horrible, good luck, would like to see you win the this WC

[rob77dp]

Hmm, not quite the way I wanted this group to end, but unless Vangelios beat me 3-0, this is how it would have turned out, anyway.  (with me having a small chance of making it higher than 4th if Vangelios had beat his other unplayed opponents by large margins)  I only needed 1 point to clinch 4th (had treebeard had legal elements left for his last match, I would still only need 1 point) and assuming we were equally matched, then 7/8 of the time I would get at least one point vs him.

nah, really had a problem here at home, and I got to play on cyber coffe without concentration, finally my RNG was horrible, good luck, would like to see you win the this WC

  I am currently tied with dragons for 4th place (final advancement position).  I won head-to-head 3-2 against dragons but since Vange and dragons are not working out the playing of their match I will lose my points vs Vange.  This will "fix" the 4th place tie but without it being decided on the 'battlefield' (as I see it).  Well, if it goes that way I certainly think it a less-than-stellar way for an event's round to play out - especially one like WC.

[majofa]

The alternative was giving a free win to dragonsdemesne, in his match vs Vangelios...which would have resulted in 3 points.

[rob77dp]

The alternative was giving a free win to dragonsdemesne, in his match vs Vangelios...which would have resulted in 3 points.

Ah, but this is only one of the alternatives.  Another is having the match played (yes yes, that isn't ALWAYS possible, but in this case it almost seems like it _could_ happen but both sides are not wanting it to happen so it won't).  I can always blame the other alternative of winning 4 matches (1 being discounted now) and only pulling 1 point from my losses.

Yeah, that's better - to blame myself for shortcomings instead of getting gripe-y about others.

*waves hand
/carryon

[Vangelios]

so hurry is over?,  if I knew that take more seven days  I don't make improvisations outside my house

[TheonlyrealBeef]

Hmm, in case anyone's interested in decks used and stuff... here's the pms I sent with the information on what I used vs whom when from this round. First spoilered per opponent and then another spoiler for each deck.

Spoiler for vs treebeard xiii:

Elements used: Water, Death (, Air, Life)
Decks used:

Spoiler for Game 1: Mono Water VS Mono Water, WIN:

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Spoiler for Game 2: Mono Death VS Aether/Life, WIN:

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52h 52q 52r 52r 52r 52r 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 718 718 718 718 718 718 71a 71a 8pk

Spoiler for Game 3: Water/Death VS Aether/Fire, WIN:

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52r 52r 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 718 718 718 718 718 718 71a 71a 71a 71b 7h3 7h3 8pp

Spoiler for vs Jen-i:

Elements used: Aether, Fire, Death and Light

Spoiler for Game 1: Mono Light VS Light/Air, LOSS:

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Fog blocked just enough at the right time.

Spoiler for Game 2: Mono Death VS "Mono" Water, LOSS:

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52h 52q 52r 52r 52r 52r 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 718 718 718 718 718 718 71a 71a 8pk

purify + no arse until last turn.

Spoiler for Game 3: Fire/Aether/Light trio VS Mono Aether, LOSS:

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horrible quanta start vs turn 2 psion + fractal.

Spoiler for vs rob77dp:

I used Fire, Air, Death and Life

Spoiler for Game 1: Mono Life VS Mono Water, LOSS:

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Spoiler for Game 2: Fire/Death VS Mono Air, WIN:

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Spoiler for Game 3: Mono Air VS Mono Light, WIN:

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Spoiler for Game 4: Air/Fire VS Light/Air, WIN:

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Spoiler for vs dragonsdemesne:

Elements used: Aether, Death, Fire, Water

Spoiler for Game 1: Mono Water VS Aether/Death, WIN:

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Spoiler for Game 2: Mono Death VS Light/Death, LOSS:

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52l 52l 52l 52q 52t 52t 534 534 542 542 542 542 542 542 718 718 718 718 718 718 71a 71a 8pk

Spoiler for Game 3: Death/Fire VS Mono Life, WIN:

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52r 52r 52r 52t 52t 52t 52t 542 542 542 542 542 5f9 5f9 713 718 718 718 718 718 718 71a 71a 71a 7do 7do 8pk

Spoiler for Game 4: Mono Aether VS Mono Aether, WIN:

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Spoiler for vs Vangelios:

Spoiler for Game 1: Mono Water VS "Mono" Water, WIN:

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Spoiler for Game 2: Mono Light VS Mono Fire, WIN:

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Spoiler for Game 3: Mono Air VS Fire/Aether, WIN:

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Spoiler for vs Blacksmith:

Used Aether, Water, Life and Light

Spoiler for Game 1: Life/Light VS Mono Air, LOSS:

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Spoiler for Game 2: Aether/Light VS "Mono" Water, WIN:

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Spoiler for Game 3: Mono Water VS Aether/Water, WIN:

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Spoiler for Game 4: Mono Aether VS Air/Life, WIN:

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Spoiler for vs mrpaper:

Elements used: Aether, Fire, Air, Light

Spoiler for Game 1: Mono Air VS Fire/Light, WIN:

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Spoiler for Game 2: Mono Fire VS Aether/Light, LOSS:

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Spoiler for Game 3: Fire/Aether VS Air, WIN:

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Spoiler for Game 4: Mono Light VS Mono Aether, LOSS:

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Spoiler for Game 5: Air/Aether VS Air/Fire, WIN:

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[dragonsdemesne]

TREEBEARD: 3-1 AIR DEATH FIRE WATER vs AIR LIGHT LIFE FIRE (I chose my elements by RNG)

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game 1: LOSS.  WATER vs AIR (unstable gas/wings)

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Wings owned me; had him down to 29hp, then wings came up as expected, and I couldn't get any icebolts, though I'd have needed at least 2 of them.  I was pretty much hard countered in this game.  If tree had bottomdecked most of his wings, and if I'd gotten some icebolts (I never drew any of them) I might've had a chance, but it was a brutal matchup, and he'd win this as he did the vast majority of the time.

game 2: WIN.  FIRE vs AIR/FIRE/LIFE (adrenastaves + CC)

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Once I got 20 fire quanta, i could bolt his adrenastaffs.  jade shield slowed me down some, but I got 5 phoenixes and 1 fahren in first 18 cards, so I won that way instead.  It's been awhile, but I think the fire in his deck was for rain of fire/firestorm, which did slow the phoenixes down.  I think I had a pretty good advantage in this one; I think his best chance would be if I'd been quanta screwed and taken too long to bolt staffs.

game 3: WIN.  DEATH/WATER vs LIGHT (RoL/hope with heavy hitters)

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I got a turn 2 arsenic, and he got none of his heavy hitters besides a morning glory, and he didn't anticipate my OTK with bolts.  Desiccation is also extremely mean against RoLs :p  If he'd gotten a huge quanta draw and lots of heavy attackers, and I had no bonewall he might've had a chance, but I think I had a strong advantage here, much as he did in game 1.

game 4: AIR vs LIFE (frog/dragon/jade)

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2nd turn EE pretty much hard countered his deck.  I think I won fairly quickly with a couple dragons and a blitz, with him playing very little due to the early EE, but it's been awhile since this match.

rob77dp 2-3 AETHER FIRE LIFE LIGHT vs AETHER AIR LIGHT DEATH (I chose the three elements I didn't RNG vs treebeard, and then RNGed a 4th)

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game 1: LOSS.  AETHER vs AETHER

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Dimshield psiontal vs lightning psiontal.  I get quanta and 5/6 useless dims in the top half of deck; he gets perfect draw.  I was hoping he was doing dragons when i see MA, as that would've been instawin,  but after he plays the first psion and fractals it, I play my lone psion and it gets bolted.  When i finally get my fractal, I spam 4 dims and fractal 8 of his psions, but it's WAY too late to come back from.

game 2a: fire vs... fire?

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I see mark and am thinking UG air, which means I probably win with my 3 deflags, then he plays all fire cards... because he looked at MY elements.  I tell him he gets one mistake for free... :p  (As it turned out, I made the exact same mistake against theonlyrealbeef later, and he forgave it; I lost that game, and the match, anyway)

game 2b: LOSS.  FIRE vs DEATH/AETHER

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I get 2 quanta 3 phoenix 2 deflag draw, 3rd deflag topdeck, he's using fractal spider/bonebolt and gets perfect draw.  I had a terrible matchup and a terrible draw.  I needed him to get a bad draw in some way to have any chance.

game 3: WIN.  FIRE/LIFE vs AIR/LIGHT
12 ups - 3x4 shards = 0 ups

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Deflagged his fog after he put it down, had 5 bolts early so I got an OTK even when he had one SoD played.  had an emerald in hand in case he had reflective shield.  More SoDs might've been a problem for me; I can't remember how many he had, or whether he had miracles, but he probably did.

game 4: WIN.  AETHER/LIGHT vs DEATH/AIR

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he has to play death/air, death/light, air, light, death or trio+
I have aether/life, aether/light, life, light, life/light or trio+    16 ups

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The possibility of dragon/blitz OTK or arsenic had me tense all game, but with his early owl's eye showing, I figured he probably didn't have arsenic to build up poison on me, which could've been rather bad.  I don't think he had a deck that could reliably beat what I used here, other than something with OTK capability.  I remember that both my nymphs and the fractal were in the bottom 4-5 cards or so; I'm not sure if I won by damage or deckout anymore.

game 5: LOSS.  LIFE/LIGHT vs LIGHT

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I predict huge light stall, he goes with pegasus/angel/blessing rush, and I get 1 sanc out of all my healing and a lot of quanta.  I cast 2 cards all game, sanc and a thorn carapace the turn i die.  This game basically comes down to guessing whether rob will rush or stall; I can hard counter either one if i guess right, but I probably lose if I guess wrong, and I guess wrong.  I'd probably have gone with the stall in his shoes, so that's what I assumed he'd do, and it cost me.

Blacksmith 3-1 AETHER AIR LIFE WATER vs AETHER LIGHT AIR LIFE (RNGed elements, except that I rerolled fire because it was the only element I'd used twice so far)

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game 1: WIN.  LIFE/AIR vs AIR

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A one pillar draw has me worried, but i see him playing UG, so I know if i get a shield I win.  I get a shield in time, and he's doomed.  I don't remember why I thought he'd use a UG deck, but I remember thinking he would, hence the jade shields, and it was a good choice, as it turned out.

game 2: WIN.  AIR vs LIFE/AIR

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I never got any UGs all game, but I had a turn 2 EE and turn 3 dragon due to a 6 pillar start.  The EE seemed to deter him from doing anything except a late azure dragon, the only other card he played was a wings that did nothing.  Due to fog blocking the sole dragon he played twice before EE killed it, I got an EM this game.

game 3: LOSS.  AETHER/LIFE vs AETHER/LIGHT

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I got all 4 dragons and the staff early, but couldn't outdamage his healing/dims.  This game was literally decided by coin toss; we both had 40 card decks, but I lost the toss.  I had pretty much the best possible draw I could have asked for, but I still couldn't outdamage him.  This matchup was about a 51/49 chance; it was cointoss 99% of the time, with the other 1% being Blacksmith getting an extremely bad draw and me getting one much like I had here, as he had no damage sources.

game 4: WIN.  WATER vs AETHER

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16 ups, 3 shards (-9 ups) = 7 ups (3x permafrost, 4x octopus)

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He used psiontal, but apparently without dims or lightning, and so his psions never get to hit me more than once, plus i never draw the dead permafrosts, which was a definite boon.  This was a pretty close game, if memory serves.  I can't remember how RNG treated us, other than not getting my useless shields, but I'm pretty sure I only won by about 1-2 turns.

theonlyrealbeef 1-3 AETHER DEATH LIGHT LIFE vs AETHER DEATH FIRE WATER (picked my two least used elements to date and RNGed the other two)

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game 1: LOSS.  DEATH/AETHER vs WATER

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I had almost a perfect draw, but I no chance in this matchup.  Beef had kindly let me replay after accidentally screwing up my elements.  All I could think of to do that was even remotely fair to him was to load the deck I had almost used to begin with (even though I was pretty sure it had no chance) but then for some inexplicable reason changed to an illegal deck.

game 2: WIN.  DEATH/LIGHT vs DEATH

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I have no idea how this one was so close; with this matchup, I thought I'd win by a landslide, but I had just enough of my needed cards to pull off a win.

game 3: LOSS.  LIFE vs DEATH/FIRE
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I lost by 1 turn to exact damage due to coin toss and his excellent draw and my bad one. (no nymph, and mitosis very late, and he got everything)  Looking at his deck, I am surprised to see only two immo and firestorm, because he had all of them :p  I think I'd have won this matchup most of the time, but not this day.

game 4: LOSS.  AETHER vs AETHER

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Ordinarily he'd have had a very bad draw because he got no psions, but I had one for him :p  He also had an early lobo and lots of dims.  I had a severe quanta shortage :p  The electrocutors gave him the advantage in this one.

Jen-i 1-3 AIR FIRE LIGHT WATER vs AIR DEATH FIRE LIGHT (RNGed 4 of the 5 elements I'd used the least so far)

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I got 0 bolts all game; I would have won with even 1 for one of his golems.  He was running an immorush, and even a single fire bolt would have slowed him down by way more than enough for me to win.  Unfortunately, in the absence of my CC, his deck was faster.  I think I had the definite advantage in this one, but it didn't work out that way in practice.

Game 2: WIN.  FIRE/LIGHT vs AIR

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I got all the shields of both types in the opening hand, but no bolts/sancs forever, so even with reflective vs UGs, I was literally 1 turn from a loss.  I topdecked a sanc, a bolt, and a 2nd sanc, just barely in time.  Way closer than it should have been, but that was the kind of day I was having.  (I'd just lost to beef earlier that day as well)   

Game 3: LOSS.  WATER vs FIRE/LIGHT

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I didn't draw very many creatures, and Jen-I got everything except fahren right away.  I had a sucky draw, but a sucky matchup as well; this game was Jen-i's most of the time.

Game 4: LOSS.  AIR vs DEATH/AIR

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I had 2 quanta start vs perfect draw, got stuck with all the non creature/quanta cards.  It wasn't a very good matchup for me, anyway. 

mrpaper 3-1 AIR DEATH FIRE LIFE vs AIR DEATH LIFE WATER (the only legal choice I have left)

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game 1: WIN.  AIR vs WATER

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This was quite literally one of the most retarded games of Elements I have EVER played.  (no offense to mrpaper, it had nothing to do with him)  Coming on the backs of two match losses that I felt had been below average RNG for me, I was extremely pissed off to see that my opening hand had one quanta out of 15 sources.  I was even more pissed off when I saw mrpaper play trident on his second turn.  However, because of mrpaper's elemental choices, I had used wings instead of fog shield in my UG deck, which is slightly unusual for me.  It proved to be extremely effective in this case.  I saw that mrpaper had lost the coin toss, so I immediately abandon any chance of killing him with damage (because I'll never get enough quanta for 5 UGs, or 4 + OE, or whatever) and decide I'll try to chain wings forever, and pray that he has no way around it.

I draw a second pillar 2 turns later, but I wait to play it until paper tridents the lone pillar I had to start.  I do the same with every pillar I get.  When I get the mark, I save it in hand until I get a pillar to play with it, and I do the same for the tower.  (although as it turned out, I could've won had I had 15 unupped pillars)  I discard every card that isn't either quanta or wings.  When my hp got low, I play the first wings.  I then sit on my ass for 5 turns, and play the second wings.  Repeat until deckout...  Like I said, absolutely retarded game :p

game 2: LOSS.  FIRE vs DEATH

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Paper was using a monodeath rush with bonewalls, which limited my damage too much; they countered me pretty good.  I couldn't kill his creatures without giving him even more bones; I think I screwed that part up, but it didn't matter, as his margin of winning was huge.  He would win this matchup the vast majority of the time.

game 3: WIN.  FIRE/LIFE vs AIR

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He brings UG as I predicted with his remaining choices, and I have one of the emerald shields in my opening hand.  I CC/heal enough and let fahren do all the work.

game 4: WIN.  DEATH/AIR vs DEATH/WATER

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4sr 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oh 5oh 5oh 5oh 5oh 5oh 5on 5on 5on 5on 5on 5on 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 718 718 718 718 718 718 71b 71b 71b 71b 71b 71b 7n5 7n5 7n5 7oe 8pk

I get 4 deadly poison in top half of deck, he gets only 1, and two hits with arsenic before I get bone wall out.  I take 5/turn poison, but my poison is bigger and he has/gets no purify.  Assuming he had no purify in his deck (and I think he told me after he didn't) I'd have won this one most of the time.  I did definitely have favourable RNG this game, though.