(Life Sld) willng3 3 - 1 (Water Sld) JonathanCrazyJ

[willng3]

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Lawd, these were some really intense games.

Game 1 (Win): Horrible quanta start for both of us; 1 Pillar on my side, 1 Pend on his. I managed to squeeze out enough damage this game before he started racking up boosts with SoP and made a really risky play on the last turn by playing a Dusk without knowing if he had Steals in his deck. It ended up paying off when jcj didn't get rid of it, meaning he couldn't heal enough HP to prevent me from winning. 1-0

Game 2 (Loss): Quanta was pretty normal this game. This time I made the mistake of playing Dusk early on, to which jcj responded by stealing it three times throughout the course of the duel. I couldn't get enough damage on him before the lockdown started this time. 1-1

Game 3 (Win): Managed to get a plentiful supply of creatures this game which his Squid couldn't keep up with. Banked on him not being able to steal Dusk this game after he stole my Vaggers twice (had another in hand just in case this time too). 2-1

Game 4 (Win): Very nice start for me with both of my Nightmares in my opening hand. Also once again was supplied readily with creatures, which was too much work for his lone Squid to shut down. Managed to get enough quanta by the last turn to finally play my dragon, which ended up providing me with the 17 HP I needed to win (had the foresight not to play Dusk this time!). 3-1

GGs jcj! Was a pleasure dueling you :)

[JonathanCrazyJ]

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G1: 1 pend start. Too slow. His Dusk took any chance away. Lost, GG.

Didn't see any CC or PC. -2 Cloak.

G2: My only really decent draw, enough steals to keep his dusk at bay, locked his field down, built patience. Win.

G3: 2 pend start. Lost too much health early on, and had to burn 2 steals on his Vamp Daggers. Water quanta starved, spend quanta locking down his field, by the time patience went down, it was too late.

Decided that despite his PC, slow games wouldn't really be affected by Cloak. Being quanta starved for squids made me want to slim further, so -1 Minor Vampire

G4: 3 PEND start. Pillars at the start please . Early patience, but no vamps early. And still not enough Water quanta.

Excellent games willng3 as expected. I think this should have been a decent enough match-up for us, just wasn't to be with draws on the day. Nightmares dotted around probably made the difference in some games tbh, especially final game depriving me of 2 draws early on. Good luck for the rest of War.

Sorry team . Wasn't to be on the day.

EDIT: Certainly felt like way more than 10 creatures in the deck haha

[rob77dp]

At first glance, one would expect (5) Squid/Octo to easily keep up with (10) opposing creatures, deck-wise...

From the recaps I get a sense that will's deck including Dusk was a major factor in the outcomes... will/jcj - did any games come close to ending with deckout (healing for jcj and Dusk blocking for will)?

[JonathanCrazyJ]

No, I was somehow always left with not enough water quanta to bring out 2nd squid or patience, if I wanted to use squid abilities. Wins were all ~T13 irrc.

[willng3]

At first glance, one would expect (5) Squid/Octo to easily keep up with (10) opposing creatures, deck-wise...

From the recaps I get a sense that will's deck including Dusk was a major factor in the outcomes... will/jcj - did any games come close to ending with deckout (healing for jcj and Dusk blocking for will)?

I was wondering if game 2 would come to that but with jcj Stealing Dusk for the third time, I didn't have that thought again.