PvP World Championship 2016 - Group C

[dragonsdemesne]

Vangelios 3 - 1 dragonsdemesne

 

Only won the first game.  Pretty sure I was robbed in game 2; game 3 was basically a 50/50.  Game 4 we both misplayed pretty bad, but my misplay turned out to be worse :p

[Aves]

If I'm looking at this right, this means Vangelios and I are tied in W|L|PTS. What's the tiebreaking mechanism?

[majofa]

If I'm looking at this right, this means Vangelios and I are tied in W|L|PTS. What's the tiebreaking mechanism?

The next tiebreaker is head-to-head record.

[dragonsdemesne]

edits in progress with rest of the matchups, in case anyone ninjas my posting

dragonsdemesne (home) 3 - 0 Vangelios (away)   

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I had very good RNG, particularly in games 2 and 3.  Game 1 I probably had the advantage in the matchup, but even there I got lucky drawing both my steals.

game 1: WIN darkness vs earth

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4st 4st 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5uo 5uo 5up 5up 5us 5us 5us 5us 606 606 606 606 7t5 7t5 7t5 7tb 7tb 8pt

devs+mark helped vs EQ/pulvy, drained first nymph, dragon got shut down a couple turns later but it was too late by then for vangelios to recover. 
got both steals for pulvyx2

game 2: WIN earth vs air

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4sm 4sm 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 595 595 595 595 59c 59c 59c 5aa 5aa 5aa 77a 77a 77a 77a 77a 77a 77f 77f 77f 78q 8pl

-vang gets an awful 1 damsel hand, i get 4 golems rush; no nymph/pulvy, but I didn't need them, since his draw was so bad

game 3: WIN air/darkness vs darkness/air

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4sr 4sr 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5og 5og 5pa 5pa 5pa 5v1 5v1 7ms 7mt 7mt 7mt 7mt 7mt 7mt 7mv 7mv 7mv 7mv 7mv 7mv 7tb 7tb 8pt

-I had good start, and topdecked the lone tower to play a dragon for exact quanta, which possibly made the difference between a win and a loss, though that would depend on how the stolen fog worked (or didn't, as the case may be)

Vangelios (home) 3 - 1 dragonsdemesne  (away)

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game 1: WIN air vs water squid/freeze/abyss crawler

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4sr 4sr 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5om 5om 5om 5om 5om 5om 5oo 5oo 5oo 5p0 5p0 5p0 7ms 7ms 7n5 7n5 7n5 8po

-one wings for me basically won the game on its own; hard countered

game 2: LOSS air/time vs earth/water with pulvy/gravmark

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4sr 4sr 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5of 5of 5of 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5op 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 6rk 7mt 7mt 7mt 7mt 7mt 7mt 7mv 7mv 7mv 8ps

-he played the deck i predicted and was trying to counter via wings and reverse times...  EXCEPT he used pulvy and gravity mark splash, and I got 0 dragons in 17 cards, and had a slow hand.  He had 34hp when I lost.  Clever choice by vangelios, plus some very poor RNG for me.  Fortunately, I had no stress at this point, as I'd already advanced.

game 3: LOSS earth/water vs time

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596 596 596 596 596 596 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5j2 5j2 5j2 5j2 77e 77e 77e 77e 77e 77e 77f 77f 77f 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gr 7gr 7gr 8pl

First player to get a weapon out first won.  I tried to copy Vang's last deck; it seemed pretty good.  I think Vangelios got eternity on turn 2, and I never drew pulvy, both due to my spamming gnomes turn 1 and not finding it in the next couple cards after redrawing all the rewound stuff.  I forgot to use my marks of water for some reason, but against monotime that was irrelevant, anyway.  I think it was because I had speedbuilt this trying to copy Vangelios from game 2.

game 4: LOSS water/time vs earth/time

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4sp 4sp 5i4 5i4 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i8 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gt 7gt 7gt 7gt 7gt 7gt 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 8pq

Since I had no need to win this game, I picked something rather unorthodox, and tried to do a deck with OTK potential, since I was expecting a lot of CC.  I held dragons for an OTK against what I thought was a hand full of RTs, but was actually one RT and a bunch of steel golems/quanta.  I have no idea why Vangelios was sitting on golems, since I couldn't have done anything about them, and he could have won a lot sooner.  However, since he only had one RT, I could have won a lot sooner, too.  If Vang played the same as he did, but I'd played smarter, I'd have won.  If we'd both played smarter... I'm not sure who would have outraced who at that point.  If Vang had kept the quanta in hand but played the golems, I'd probably have kept the dragons in hand, but if he'd played the quanta, I'd have played the dragons and probably won.  Basically, we both played poorly this game, but I played worse, so I lost.

dragonsdemesne (away) 3 - 0 Odii Odsen(home)

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game 1: WIN fire/life fireSoG vs fire/life sog

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4so 4so 5c4 5c4 5cq 5cq 5cq 5cq 5cq 5cq 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f8 5f8 5gi 5gi 7dn 7dn 7dn 7do 7f2 8pn

-pure RNG, I got to OTK first.  Pretty much a 50/50.  I think my deck was a bit smaller, but I can't recall for sure, now.

game 2; WIN darkness vs death

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4st 4st 5uk 5uk 5uk 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5us 5us 5us 5us 5v8 5v8 606 606 606 7t4 7t5 7t5 7t5 7t8 7t8 7ta 7tb 7tb 7um 8pt

-lots of early devs, vamp dagger, he gets no early spiders; play eclipse to kill bone wall with my devs horde, drain his nymph, he gets 2nd bone wall, topdeck 2nd drain for exact lethal.  You know it's a bad draw for the guy playing monodeath when the guy playing monodark actually casts Eclipse and it's not the last turn.

game 3: WIN firebonebolt vs fire (minor phoenix/lava destroyers)

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4so 4so 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f8 5f8 5f8 5gi 5gi 71b 71b 71b 71b 7dg 7dg 7dn 7dn 7dn 7e4 7e4 7f2 7f2 7f2 7f2 8pk

I didn't write any notes for this one (I guess I forgot to save them) but if memory serves, I again had a good draw and Odii's was bad.  The matchup was pretty good for me, too.

dragonsdemesne (home) 3 - 1 Odii Odsen(away)

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game 1: LOSS:  entropy vs entropy

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4sj 4sj 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vd 4vd 4ve 4ve 4ve 4ve 4vf 4vl 4vl 4vl 4vl 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 6tv 6tv 6tv 6u7 6u7 8pj

I had a bad hand; Odii did as well initially, but odii topdecks his discord t3, -almost- come back, 1 turn loss.  Probably a 50/50, but I got the 50/50 firestall mirror, so whatever.

game 2: WIN: death/life poisonheal vs life/light (adrenafrog+holylight)

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4sk 4sk 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52r 52r 542 542 542 542 5cq 5cq 5cq 5cq 5cq 5cq 718 718 718 718 718 718 71a 71a 71b 71b 8pn

Odii had a 1 pillar draw plus he was hard countered.  He was obviously expecting something like monodeath rush with those holy lights.

game 3: WIN life/light healstall + mitodragon vs death/life poisonheal

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4sq 4sq 5c9 5c9 5cq 5cq 5cq 5cq 5cq 5cq 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5la 5la 5lh 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5m6 5m6 5m6 5m6 5m6 5m6 7aj 7aj 7jo 7k2 7k2 7k2 7k2 7k2 7k2 7la 7la 7la 7la 7la 7la 8pn

I think I'd pretty much countered Odii here as well.  I think Odii conceded before I ever drew a dragon.

At this point, both of us used up life, have 1 mono, have each other element 1x.  We each have to use either monodeath or monolight in one, and then entropy/x in the other

And then... Odii used a death/light duo. 

game 4: WIN monodeath vs death/light poison/lightstall

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4sk 4sk 52g 52g 52h 52h 52h 534 534 542 710 710 710 713 713 713 713 713 713 71a 71d 71d 71d 71d 71d 71d 72i 72i 72i 72i 8pk

He had a TERRIBLE draw, no sosacs at all, but he had no legal deck for game 5 anyway even if he'd won this one.  (we played this match before the other one, but this is the order I had it in my notes)

dragonsdemesne (home) 3 - 1 Aves(away)

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game 1: LOSS fire/time vs fire

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4so 4so 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f7 5f7 5f7 5fc 5fc 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 8pq

Bad hand, lost toss, no chance.  In retrospect, I'm not sure what I was doing with the phoenixes.  I don't think I ever drew them, anyway, but it's been awhile.

game 2: WIN aether vs aether/water

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4su 4su 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 622 622 622 63a 63a 63a 63a 808 808 808 80e 80l 80l 80l 80l 81q 81q 8pu

Literally perfect hand, won toss, no chance for aves.  Couldn't have planned it better if I'd stacked my deck.

game 3: WIN water vs fire/aether

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5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5ig 5ig 5io 5io 5io 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 78q 78q 78q 78q 78q 78q 7gk 7gk 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gs 7gs 7i6 7i6 8pp

Very close game, no dims seen from Aves (not sure if he had them and was unlucky, or wasn't running them at all); won by 1 turn

game 4: WIN fire/aether vs water/time quantumSoRnymphs

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4su 4su 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 622 622 622 7ds 7ds 7ds 7ds 7ds 7f2 7f2 7f2 7f2 7f2 7f2 7f2 7f2 7f2 7f2 7f2 7f2 7f2 80d 80i 8pu

No notes for this one, but if memory serves, this was basically a counter to his deck, as he had no way to deal with fractal or dims or phoenixes, at least not without a great draw and lucky nymphs.  Aves' deck looked like something I'd have dreamt up myself, and I have to give credit for that :p

Aves (home) 3 - 1 dragonsdemesne  (away)

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game 1: LOSS darkness vs fire

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4st 4st 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5up 5up 5us 5us 5us 5us 606 606 606 606 7t8 7t8 7ta 7tb 7tb 8pt

I got quanta flooded + firestormed on 3 devs, and no dragons/drains drawn all game.

game 2: LOSS entropy vs fire/darkness phoenix/nightmare/dagger

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4sj 4sj 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vd 4vd 4ve 4ve 4ve 4ve 4vl 4vl 4vl 4vl 50u 50u 50u 50u 6ts 6ts 6tv 6tv 6tv 6tv 6u7 6u7 6ve 6ve 8pj

quanta flood, no dragons/antimatters drawn all game

game 3: WIN fire/death vs entropy/death

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4so 4so 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f8 5f8 5f8 5gi 5gi 71b 71b 71b 71b 7dg 7dg 7dn 7dn 7dn 7e4 7e4 7f2 7f2 7f2 7f2 8pk

good draw & pretty much countered him or else his hand was absolutely dreadful; he played almost nothing all game; he was probably running pandebonium

game 4: LOSS death/entropy vs monodeath

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4sk 4sk 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 534 534 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u2 710 710 710 710 710 710 713 713 713 713 713 713 71a 71a 71u 71u 8pj

Aves had the perfect draw, I had no chance with mine.

Good games to all.  I'd love to claim I played better or designed better decks or something, but I can't do so; I definitely had well above average RNG in almost all of my matches, and with these four players in our group, I think it was pretty close to even who advanced and who didn't.

As for choosing elements, the only things I kept in mind were 1) don't give anybody their favourite elements and 2) Try not to give out any annoying duos like entropy/gravity DBH that aren't fun.  I also totally forgot to say in my PM to majofa whether i wanted shards/other banned, so it defaulted to 'yes' for me, but that's probably what I would have done, anyway.

Feel free to point out any mistakes I've made (if I used an illegal deck or something; I believe my notes to be correct and my decks to be legal, but stuff happens sometimes)