AIR EARTH GRAVITY LIFE LIGHT WATER
game 1: WIN. LIFE/AIR vs EARTH/WATER
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4sn 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5c4 5c4 5c5 5c5 5c5 5c5 5c5 5c5 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5og 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 8prJen-i used NT/trident/BB, and my low quanta requirements and relative immunity to BBs, plus my lucky early fog was enough, despite the fact that 4 of the flying weapons were in the bottom 7 cards and never drawn. I predicted either UG monoair, monoearth graboid/EQ, or nymph's tears, and built this to counter all of those, while still having a decent chance against other decks.
game 2: LOSS. EARTH vs EARTH
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4sm 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 593 593 593 593 593 593 595 59c 59c 77a 77a 77a 77a 77a 77f 77f 77f 8plHe won cointoss and got a perfect hand. I got my pillars earthquaked and lost bad. Jen-I had the advantage in this matchup, plus good RNG. I absolutely failed at predicting Jen-i's deck; in fact, I was expecting literally anything EXCEPT this. I did not think Jen-i would spend his 2nd and last use of earth in game 2.
game 3: LOSS. LIGHT vs GRAVITY/LIFE
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4sq 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5lh 5lm 5lm 5lm 5ls 5ls 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 7jo 7jo 7ju 7ju 7ju 7ju 7ju 7ju 7k0 7k0 7k0 7la 8pqHe won cointoss and had good start; I had a low quanta draw. I think I ended up losing by 1 turn. I remember thinking I had a better chance when I actually played this game, because I'd had a subpar draw, but looking at Jen-i's deck now, I think he'd have won more often than not. I was heavily predicting an air deck, which is why I had both mirror shields (to counter UG) and Archangels. (to counter owl's eye sniping my stuff; they'd just heal themselves) I think jen-i's deck is wrong, though; I am almost positive he was using unupped graviton mercenary. I remember being baffled at it when the first one was played, until I realized it was in the 3 attack sweet spot for adrenaline. In any event, that or something very like it is what Jen-i used for sure; I'm just not convinced those were the upgrades he actually used against me.
game 4: WIN. EARTH/GRAVITY vs WATER/LIGHT
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4sm 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 593 593 593 593 593 59c 59c 749 749 778 778 778 77a 77a 77a 77a 77a 77a 77f 77f 77f 78q 78q 8plI completely nailed this prediction, expecting some sort of light/X stall, probably water. About time, considering how badly I mispredicted games 2 and 3. Early EQ/pulvy sealed it. Jen-i had to spend bolts on freezing my pulvy, and with <10 quanta, only 2/4 bolts used froze it. 1 miracle was played, but with nothing in play, it was over in another 4 turns. I'd included the gravity shields mostly as a way to use an almost-monoearth again, but looking at Jen-i's elements left, gravity shield was good against a large number of deck choices, as well. I'd been expecting either a water/light stall much like this, or else a UG monoair in game 2 when I used an almost identical deck to this one. If memory serves, Jen-i had zero cards in play when I won.
game 5: LOSS. WATER/LIGHT vs GRAVITY/AIR
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4sp 4sq 5i4 5i4 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i8 5io 5io 5j2 5j2 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5l8 5l8 5l8 5lh 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5mq 5mq 5mq 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 7jo 7k0 7k0 7k0 7k2 7k2 7k2 7k2 7la 8pqCrap quanta draw, got 1 water pend 2 light pend to start, and all the water cards. The only light cards I drew all game were 2 mirrors and 1 miracle, and I didn't have the quanta to miracle. Looking at the deck afterwards, I think I designed the quanta base rather poorly. If I'd gotten more (any...) sancs and enough quanta for miracles, I definitely had a chance here, but it was still definitely in Jen-i's favour.
jen-i has air, life, light left -> air, life, light, air/life, air/light, life/light
i have air, gravity, life, water -> air, gravity, life, water, air/gravity, air/water, gravity/life, gravity/water, life/water
game 6: LOSS. GRAVITY/AIR vs AIR
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Btw, I still have no idea why Jen-i gave up six upgrades on animate weapon just to have a mark of gravity instead of mark of air. My choice of air mark and flying weapons seemed way better in my mind, but as it turned out, in both cases it made no difference at all which way it was done.
