(Darkness Salvage)(Sub) trashduke 3-2 Avenger (Earth Mercenary)

[Calindu]

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Game 1: Wtf SoPa, wtf Nymphs. Risked at some point and didn't played a Sundial, I would have lost anyway as I had no vagger.
Game 2: Ok, had to change my strategy, I can't deck him out and I had vagger early. Managed to somehow stall him enough to get in kill range with my drains.
Game 3: 1 pend draw, even with early vagger I got rushed down early and even if dusk haxed hard, I still didn't came close enough.
Game 4: Pretty much same thing as game 2, although closer.
Game 5: No early vagger this time. Eventually drew one in 2-3 turns and played it, but on his turn, he plays a Permafrost. Crap, will need way more time. Stalled him down and got him down to 46 hp and with 4 drains in hand, I played 2 to survive that turn and the other 2 to secure lethal.

I got pretty luck in this matchup, had early dusk shield in hand every game and had dagger in the games I won.
Ggs Avenger, one of my best matches so far!

[Avenger]

Sopa nymphs

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When i saw his light mark, i thought this will be a somewhat easy match up, but i failed.
I think i misplayed sometimes (like not playing shield as fast as i can, giving up sopa too early, etc), but early vagger + duck are OP.

We also burned 3 relics.

[Aves]

Well done calin! We definitely weren't expecting SoP, and I'm surprised we still won; it certainly looks like it was close!

We also used two relics here.

[Avenger]

Well done calin! We definitely weren't expecting SoP, and I'm surprised we still won; it certainly looks like it was close!

We also used two relics here.

Couldn't win against the 3 purify version (it would have made the vagger useless). But this setup constrained me to start rushing earlier, and with only 2 sopa, i couldn't regain strength while in the dials phase.
Calin always had a duck shield. Though in one game, he started with 1 pend, and got rushed mercilessly.

[trashduke]

Wow, RNG is so funny - we probably "should" have won last round and you guys "should" have won this one....

ggs Earth!