(Water sld) Espithel [JonathanCrazyJ Sub] 3-2 Iorveil [Regyptic Sub] (Earth sld)

[JonathanCrazyJ]

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Very Tough / Even match-up. Regi played a great game, and I really enjoyed it.

Round 1: Gravy mark made me fear Black Holes, but i decided to aim for a rush start anyway with 3 novas in hand. Went well, no BH. However, turn 2 Diamond Shield and Pulvy not long after made things REALLY slow, demolishing water quanta. Froze enough golems for long enough for BBs to wear off, and played Silence at a point where if he played a Golem, he'd beat me in 2 turns, which meant that when he WAS able to play one the following turn, it wasn't quite enough. won by about 4 hp.

Round 2: T2 pulvy, water crushed again. I thought I had a chance, but he just had too many BBs, and too early a Pulvy.

Round 3: 1 pillar start from both of us. We both drew more pillars, but I drew zero novas. We DC, and play AI. Here is my board late on in this game:

Spoiler for Wut:

Round 4: Feel desperate now. Won flip, and T1 Arsenic feels great, but his T2 Pulvy left him with only 2 poison counters. However, him having to pay attention to Arsenic, and later Fog, left me with enough quanta to freeze his golems for JUST long enough. Tense.

Round 5: Suddenly I remember why Grabbow is good. Best draw ever. 2 novas, range of cards, explosion in hand for the eventual Diamond Shield. Stark contrast to the tight previous games, I won with 100hp.

Great fun, ggs!

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Spoiler for Match Summary:

Game 1 (Loss) - Lost toss. Not a great draw. Far too much quanta and no damage. Thankfully he only gets 1 pend and I drew my Diamond Shield and a Pulvy early. This let me keep his damage low and I eventually got a couple of Golems. I kept drawing more and more quanta and was a turn away from a win. I ended the game with about 4 pillars and a couple of Pulvys in my hand which there was no point in playing. I drew a Nymph on the last turn but decided to keep it hidden from him in case I could surprise him with it later. 0-1

Game 2 (Win) - Won toss. This was another game with too much quanta for me. About 9 of the first 13 cards drawn. This time I was able to slow him enough with Pulvy destroying quanta and BBs to win. 1-1

Game 3 (Win) - Won toss. I had a 1 pillar start but he was Nova-less all game. We disconnected quite quickly but even the AI couldn't mess up winning against the draw he had. 2-1

Game 4 (Loss) - Won toss. Ok start for me but he had a first turn Arsenic/Fog which took the attention of my Pulvy away from his quanta. He was able to get more damage going than me and a couple of Freezes meant he won the race with only a few HP left. 2-2

Game 5 (Loss) - Lost toss. Another terrible 1 pillar draw for me and an almost perfect draw for him meant this wasn't much of a final game. I had to use all my quanta on BBs and Shields in a desperate attempt to slow him down meaning there were 4 Golems sitting in my hand not getting played. Lost in about 6 turns. 2-3

Great games but I'm really disappointed to have lost these. I had two 1 pillar draws and two quanta flooded draws. Despite this several games came down to who won the toss.

ggs. Thanks for the games JCJ and thanks for subbing.

[Avenger]

That damn 4 hp. This could have been a clean 3-0 in another universe.

[JonathanCrazyJ]

That damn 4 hp. This could have been a clean 3-0 in another universe.

That damn *silence

[Regyptic]

It wasn't 4HP it was 12HP (although it would have been 8HP if I hadn't kept my Nymph hidden). My problem wasn't the Silence; I don't think that stopped me doing anything. It was the fact I drew far too much quanta and not enough damage.

By the end of the game I was holding a about 3 or 4 pillars. If those held pillars were one of the other 4 Golems, or if I'd won the coin toss, this game would have been mine a turn or 2 earlier and this would have been 3-0.

Either way it was a close game and a 3-0 wouldn't have been fair to Water. Close games like this are much better than the 3-0 counters, but that doesn't stop it being painful to lose by such small margins.

[JonathanCrazyJ]

ah ok, didn't take a screenie, hence the 'about'. At the time, if you had been able to play a golem on the turn I silenced AND another the turn after, it would have been enough, I remember, that's why the silence mattered, hypothetically though not in actuality