(Aether Upgrades) TheonlyrealBeef 3 - 2 (Light General) ji412jo

[TheonlyrealBeef]

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5lk 5lk 5lk 5lk 5ls 5ls 61o 61o 61o 61u 61u 622 622 622 622 622 625 63a 63a 63a 63a 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 7jp 808 808 81q 81q 8pu

I drew pretty much everything I needed on time in each of the games I won, no rng complaints here. In fact I probably drew 3 Fractals in top 10 cards each game I won. jijo was less lucky, though Vader Sader does have a tendency of getting bad draws sometimes.

g1 WIN:
jijo had a full hand but few cards out most of the game. I cautiously kept my hand rather filled until victory seemed secure. No NMs played, saved Lobo in hand for a long time in fear of Stealing both that and a Tower.

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g2 LOSS:
I wanted to know whether jijo had Nightmares instead of clogging my hand full of RoLs and Pillars for nothing the entire match. He did and my recklessness cost me the game. No pics because NM damage burst.

g3 WIN:
Just be patient, start with a RoL and 2 pillars, then only empty hand once it is ready to be filled by RoLs.

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g4 LOSS:
jijo had some big-ass blessed Vader Sader out real quick while I failed to draw another Fractal until it was too late. Lost by a turn/sudden Nightmare.

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g5 WIN:
Played slow and steady again, without Blessings, this became easy enough to EM.

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Good games and well played, close call on this one.

[MyNameIsJoey]

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5l8 5l8 5lf 5lf 5lf 5lf 5mq 5uo 5uo 5up 5up 5v1 5v1 5v1 7jo 7jo 7jo 7jo 7k5 7k5 7k5 7k5 7k5 7k5 7la 7la 7n2 7n2 7tb 7tb 7tb 8pt

The original deck has 2 less upgrades on pillars, this is the version I used all games with EC.

More of a dark domin than a vader sader in my opinion, this deck was meant to counter fractal with nightmare.
Sadly, it wasn't good enough of a counter to win a 3rd game.

game 1 : He had a slow hand. So nightmare never would have been effective, and I also had a slow hand with vagger never showing up, but that's to be expected to happen with how little the deck is packing. He slowly but surely built up and won. I hid my nightmare.

game 2 : he played his full hand at start. I cast nightmare.

game 3 : I had a seriously horrid starting hand with no quanta. I got crushed.

game 4 : This was perhaps the closest game of the set, where my 12 attack crusaders dealt 2 damage each against his 10 stack hope and 2 hp remaining.

game 5 : got a somewhat slow hand, but he played great around nightmare too.

In the end, the match got decided by torb's great play. This definitely would have been my win against a lesser skilled player. Kudos to torb and aether for this win.