PvP World Championship 2016 - TOP 8

[Afdarenty]

Decks for me vs dragons:

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G1 (Loss) Air/Gravity vs Air

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This was a bizarre game where I drew 5 Titans and Flying Weapons before I drew a single Catapult - I had plenty of quanta, too, so my draw was still quite fast. Ended up losing by one turn, thanks to an early Nymph from dragons.


G2 (Win) Earth vs Earth

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Lost toss in the (more or less) mirror match, so I thought I was done for - dragons would get pulvy out before I could, and the denial would end up killing me. It didn't help that I had no BB in my starting hand, either. However, dragons doesn't have a Pulvy in his opening hand so I manage to play mine first. EQ comes down on my Gravity pends which stops me from ruining his quanta base, but I do have three Gravity quanta saved up to deal with a Pulvy if he plays one. One BB on his Golem put me ahead in the damage race, and though I didn't draw a second one to use on his Auburn Nymph I did get a lot of Golems instead. With three on the board and two more in hand his Auburn couldn't stop all the damage, and the constant use of the three cost skill left dragons unable to play Golems for too long. Ended up winning by a turn or two.


G3 (Win) Water/Life vs Water/Light

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There was no real way for dragons to win this without locking down the board with Squid - I think I had the advantage in the squid Wars, as my deck plays Water Pillars instead of Pendulums, it's slimmer, and it has the double freeze in it, but I'm not certain. As it happened, I won the coin toss and played the first Squid - after that dragons never really had enough quanta to compete.


G4 (Loss and ILLEGAL) Water/Life/Light vs Air/Gravity/Water

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I had no idea what to play in the trio game, so I made this thing up. Got countered by Catatitans - a couple too many upgrades in it anyway.


G5 (Win) Light/Earth vs Earth/Gravity

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Won the coin toss so played my Warden before he played his Otyugh. Warden + Blessing is outside of Otyugh range so I think I could have stabilised either way, though he did have double heavy armor... Could have gone either way. Once I had my Wardens on the board there wasn't much dragons could do.


G6 (Win but ILLEGAL) Gravty vs Life

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Playing Gravity Shield on turn 3 instantly won me the game here. However, the deck has 26 upgrades instead of 24, so a loss.


G7 (Win) Air vs Light

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I knew this probably wasn't my best choice, but I do love Mono Air. I ended up with a sub-par draw, but dragons had a truly awful one so it ended up being a comfortable win.

[JonathanCrazyJ]

Hmm 3/4 chance of the first double winner

[Aves]

The 2012 winner is hosting as the 2013 winner faces the 2015 winner and the 2014 winner faces... me.

Mercy pls

[Spielkind]

GOGOGO JCJ!!! 

[deuce22]

Spoiler for WWLWLLW:

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The only game truly worth commenting on is Game 7. We both kept flip flopping decks before the game. Both Torb and I actually ended up misplaying terribly. I'm expecting a monoaether rush because it's the most versatile. I get a great hand with at least 1 of each card, including 1 of my 2 dims. I play 2 early spiders to try and get an advantage to rush, then torb plays mindgates...huh? And as I wait to fractal, he zaps both and I am out of spiders... Then 2nd mindgate and now he's drawing multiple of everything I have. Gets multiple silences, but he plays them immediately for some reason. Luckily I draw another spider before I draw my 2nd dim, and since torb wasted his silences, I play dim + spidertal. He also wasted all his aether quanta on mindgates, so he couldn't fractal either.

I have no idea who had the advantage in game 7, but it was definitely a roller coaster as I very nearly conceded after he killed my spiders.

Overall, these were a lot fun and torb is a great opponent and we finished WC 6-6 against each other... It's unfortunate we both couldn't advance.

[dragonsdemesne]

The 2012 winner is hosting as the 2013 winner faces the 2015 winner and the 2014 winner faces... me.

Mercy pls

Hehe, I had been thinking how awesome it would be to beat all three of them on the way to the win, but someone else will have to have that fun... Aves :p

[JonathanCrazyJ]

All results are in, no? Do we have an ETA for Semifinals?

[majofa]

Today.