PvP World Championship - Group Round (2nd)

[10 men]

Against deuce22:

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He played an Otyugh-Bone Wall stall. I got two early Shriekers and BB'd his first Oty to maybe get some more damage in with a burrowed Shrieker rather than a Graboid. In the following turns deuce spammed more Otyughs and Bone Wall while I drew Pillars and Shriekers mostly. We were both struggling to get any real damage on the board, with deuce having only one Colossal Dragon that got BB'd immediately and me having 3 Graboids and the Pulvy in the bottom 6 cards. In the end though I was able to one-shot him with all my Shriekers.

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He had a Pharaoh farm with Eternity and quickly put out Pharaoh + Eternity. So I did what mono Darkness does in such a situation: Hide behind the Dagger-Dusk bulwark and one-shot him again with Drain Lifes and Dragons.

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He had a weird one with Arctic Squid, Ice Shield, Mitosis and lots of SoPas. Looking at my deck it is not difficult to see why he had no chance there. (Not because of the Graviton Mercenary )


Against majofa:

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He had a mono Gravity rush with a pretty sweet draw, and I had two useless Steals and a duplicate Dusk Mantle and a lot of Pillars, so I lost despite having Dagger-Dusk.

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He was playing some Time-Light stall, but his draw was really awful with all Sanctuaries and no Time action cards such as Hourglass or Eternity. So I just spammed my creatures and drew some cards with Nymph and eventually broke through his healing.

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He had a mono-Life rush with Giant Frog spam, Mitosis and Green Nymphs. The whole game was basically me freezing one creature after another with my squids hoping to draw out of my underquanta'd draw. Eventually I did while managing to not die and when I started Ice Bolting some of his Mitosis Frogs, he conceeded the game.

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He had a Darkness deck with Death Mark, though I did not see any Death cards. Right at the beginning he accidentally clicked on an Eclipse without having any creatures in play which probably cost him a good 10-20 HP as his next plays were Vamp Dagger and Dusk Mantle. Meanwhile I was rushing as fast as I could with my Graboids and BB'ing a Vampire of his. I beat him by one turn, with him on a few more extra HP I would have needed some really good Dusk luck to win.


Against dragonsdemesne:

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He had a mono Water deck that was basically all expensive creatures, which Eternity preys on hard. Since I managed to get it out really quickly this time, this was an easy match.

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He had a Graboid rush with EQs and some BBs & Auburn Nymphs. I led with a very nice pillar split and a Dusk Mantle, but never drew a Dagger. That almost cost me the game as he was happily picking away my HP with his burrowed creatures while my own offense was pretty slow through his BBs. Thankfully when he decided to unburrow his stuff (after drawing a Nymph), his creatures nearly all missed and I could kill almost all of them. It still got pretty close in the end, Shriekers are that scary.

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He played a fat mono Darkness deck which was a good counter to my deck as he had more than enough CC to handle all my creatures and more cards to not deck out. When he drained my one Nymph, I knew that I had lost.

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He had a mono Time deck. I got booted from the game on turn three which was very annoying, as my connections up to that point had been literally perfect, I was connected to chat the entire time and an immediate server check also showed no problems. But as it was I got kicked out of the game and couldn't even play it out. On the other hand dd's deck was a pretty good counter to mine and after looking over our screenshots and doing some calculations I agreed that he was going to win the game no matter what and gave him the win.

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This deck was a bit of a brew and I actually forgot that dd still had Light as an Element left, I might not have played this if I had been aware of that. When I saw a fat deck with Light in there I thought I had been hardcountered. However in reality he had only two Miracles and otherwise was playing an RoL-Skellie-Mummy-Luci-Hope sort of deck, and was not enthusiastic at all about seeing Plagues. In the end I had to wait out one Miracle, and his Light Dragons that would have helped tear down that Bone Wall came too late.

Good games all.

[RootRanger]

I only used 3 different decks in this round. It wasn't out of laziness; I did some very rigorous testing and could not find anything better. Also note that I do indeed have a Time Mark, I just never remembered to add it in to my Ghostmare at any point, lol.

Dragwing

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This was by far my strongest deck, going 4-0 this round. It was extremely fast for a deck of such defensive caliber, tearing through the opposition with efficient attackers. Wings were fairly useful, cutting off damage entirely from Toadfish, Ghosts, and Steel Golems.

Ghostmare

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Standard Ghostmare, tested against various opponents to be as quanta balanced as I could make it. It went 3-1.

Arctic Basilisk

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This was basically my "leftover" deck, but it certainly held its own, finishing 2-1. It rushed at an acceptable speed and packed a solid defense.

vs Kuroaitou
W - Dragwing vs Time
L - Arctic Basilisk vs Water
W - Ghostmare vs Air/Darkness
W - Ghostmare vs Darkness/Time

vs RavingRabbid
W - Dragwing vs Water (/Air?)
W - Arctic Basilisk vs Time
L - Ghostmare vs Darkness/Earth
W - Dragwing vs Earth

vs Jen-i
W - Dragwing vs Earth/Time
W - Ghostmare vs Earth
W - Arctic Basilisk vs Air

[RavingRabbid]

Hate to burst bubbles, but 10's last deck in game 1 vs deuce is illegal because 3rd mono. And many more.

[Calindu]

Hate to burst bubbles, but 10's last deck in game 1 vs deuce is illegal because 3rd mono. And many more.

I see a dead Graviton Mercenary here, under those rules, it's legal.

[RavingRabbid]

Hate to burst bubbles, but 10's last deck in game 1 vs deuce is illegal because 3rd mono. And many more.

I see a dead Graviton Mercenary here, under those rules, it's legal.

'Legally' using 2 or more of the allowed elements, otherwise it's a mono.

[majofa]

Hate to burst bubbles, but 10's last deck in game 1 vs deuce is illegal because 3rd mono. And many more.

I see a dead Graviton Mercenary here, under those rules, it's legal.

'Legally' using 2 or more of the allowed elements, otherwise it's a mono.

He legally used Gravity, and he legally used Life.. so the deck is a mono.

[RavingRabbid]

Hate to burst bubbles, but 10's last deck in game 1 vs deuce is illegal because 3rd mono. And many more.

I see a dead Graviton Mercenary here, under those rules, it's legal.

'Legally' using 2 or more of the allowed elements, otherwise it's a mono.

He legally used Gravity, and he legally used Life.. so the deck is a mono.

I am a derp. I read that as 2 cards or more on the allowed elements. The period looked strange. I now realize why.