Something happened to my text file that had the decks. I'll post the ones I still have, and ask Laxadarap to send me the rest back to me.
Game 1: LOSS
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4su 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61u 61u 622 622 622 63a 63a 63a 63a 808 808 80l 80l 80l 80l 80l 80l 81q 81q 8puKnowing Calindu's fondness for both entropy and fire, as well as unstable gas, I picked a deck that owned all of them in testing. He went with devtal, and had a perfect draw, as well as getting all his upped pendulums to start. I had a crappy quanta start and his devourers denied everything. I got a couple psions out before the lock, but there was nothing I could do against his draw. It wasn't a good matchup, anyway.
Game 2: LOSS
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4sj 4vc 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vl 4vl 4vl 4vl 4vl 50u 55v 55v 55v 55v 55v 55v 56i 56i 56i 6ts 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 6ve 8plIf I had drawn a dragon in the top half of the deck, I'd have won easily, despite his damselflies getting past the DBH lock. I had his quanta locked down for the first several turns or so, but eventually I ran out of black holes; I got them all quite early. (along with all the discords :p) He got an owl's eye before I ever saw a shard of focus. I got quanta flooded -really- bad. I'd have won this matchup most of the time, but RNG laughed in my face.
Game 3: WIN (calin had illegal deck)
(I'll need the deck code from laxadarap, but I played monotime with pharaohs, nymphs, eternity, and I think hourglasses and reverse times)
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4ss 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rj 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5ro 5ro 5s4 5s4 7q0 7q0 7q5 7q5 7qa 7qc 7qc 7qc 7qc 7qc 8plCalin ran an illegal disquake deck that stomped me pretty bad. He only had one black hole and no other gravity cards, so it was illegal.
Game 4: LOSS
(I'll need the deck code from laxadarap, but I played a monoearth stall deck with gravity mark and pulverizers, auburn nymphs, 6 stoneskins, basilisk bloods, and I forget what else now)
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4sm 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 593 593 593 593 593 593 594 594 594 594 594 594 595 595 595 595 595 595 59c 59c 778 778 778 778 778 778 77c 77f 77f 77f 8plI completely hard countered calin's deck here, but again I got quanta flooded. (and I mean FLOODED :p) I never saw a stoneskin all game, but I had 75 earth quanta very quickly :p All I could find were pillars and basilisk bloods and one nymph, and he ended up OTKing me anyway, so they were useless; he got 4 bolts quite early. I drew a pulvy on about turn 5-6, but it immediately got exploded. I'd have won this matchup almost every time, but not this time :p
At this point I thought I'd been eliminated, since neither of us realized the 3rd deck of Calin's was illegal. I was very disappointed with my performance; given average RNG on both sides, it would've been 2-2 at this point. I'd also been fairly confident I could beat Calin again; I'd done it in round 1 fairly easily, even when my dune scorp deck gave me 6 chaos powers and no scorpions one game for a loss, so I thought I had it in the bag before the match began. Silly me... :p
Game 5: LOSS
(I'll need the decklist from Laxadarap, but I ran monodark I think)
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5ia 5ia 5ia 5j2 5j2 5j2 5uk 5uk 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5uo 5up 5up 5up 5up 5us 5us 5us 5us 5us 5us 5ut 5ut 5ut 5ut 5ut 5ut 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7tb 7tb 8ppCalin got a nymph queen on about turn 3, before I could get enough quanta to drain it, and it bred queens until I died. I nearly punched my screen when he told me he only had one nymph in the entire deck, and that it was a last minute addition... I'd probably have won if he didn't get it. I had a fairly similar matchup vs 10 men in round 2 and won it quite handily. He'd had 6 bolts and one queen there, too, as well as sancs. I forget if 10 had shard of patience or not, but Calin did, though I had more steals than he had shards, so odds were I could've kept that under control, too. His only chance was a quick nymph like he got, or else a shard before I could steal it. I didn't have a (nearly) assured win by any means like I did in game 4, but I definitely had better than even odds here, and once more I couldn't make it happen.
For what it's worth, I think we'll see rootranger and 10 men in the finals (unless they play each other in semis) but it's too close for me to call. Before round 1 even began, I figured it would be rootranger, 10 men, jen-i, and someone else in the semifinals (I was hoping me :p) but I wasn't confident about naming a 4th person.
