[Darkness] Vangelios (sub CCC) 3 - 0 dragtom [Earth Sld]

[CCCombobreaker]

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Game 1 (WIN):  Saw it was water mark mark, and sensed some kind of trident EQ pillar smashing, but opened up with a 2/2 split of pillar and pends so I ran it all out there.  Also had 3 gargs and wings in hand.  He prioritized playing grabboids over saving to tsunami my quanta so I was able to play everything in good time.  The nova to flip grabboids and use infect was neat, and I lost a gargoyle to the poison.  Played the wings when I was a turn away from death and was so thankful no explosion came.  Eventually the gargs got him.  He only played 1 nova all game and died with 5 cards in hand, so I was still very concerned entering game 2.

Game 2 (WIN):  Got a 6 pillar/pend garg and dagger hand.  Ran the dagger out right away to try and bait any explosion or at least offset the damage of his turn 2 shrieker.  He played trident when he was on 1 earth quanta and the pend showed water, so I knew I had 2 turns before I started getting strangled.  He also got a forest spirit out, but I had 3 gargs.  I topdecked a wings and two turns later played a dragon to get him from 30 to -1.

Game 3 (WIN):  Got a hand with 2 pillar/pend and was worried that a turn two trident would just shut me down.  I did have 2 wings in hand though, so as soon as I got 1 garg out I felt pretty good.  He then dropped fish and infected garg the next turn.  I had steal in hand, and considered (on team advice) stealing an earth pillar to stoneform my gargoyles, but I was pretty sure trident was a bigger threat as I had several big finishers that I would not be able to afford without making more quanta.  So I put down the first wings to play for the long game.  He still hadn't seen the sky dragons so he tsunamied my dark pillars the turn before I could steal the trident.  He infected my second gargoyle and had a couple shriekers a couple fish, and a lycan out, but I played a dragon and didn't even have to use the second wings. 

I felt like every game the story was "if he has explosion in hand and draws a nova I lose" but now I can see there is no explosion.  Very rough matchup for earth.  Well played dragtom, and I will admit RNG smiled upon me with wings each game.

[dragtom]

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game 1:
as soon as I saw an air mark, I knew it was coming.
He drew a wings with 30 hp left (with the proper draw, which i actually got, i could've killed him the turn after)
0-1

game 2:
I managed to get that lone spirit out...
it even go up to +7|+7...
which is not enough to outdamage that dagger he got out, along with another time wings...
0-2

game 3:
Got an extremely fast start,
but then again, he drew wings.
He only had a total of 4 pillars/pendulums,
and I got trident out...
since he got already quite some quanta, i first destroyed his pillars.
next turn, I... did nothing with it, cuz it got stolen. Didn't see that coming.
0-3,
game, set, match.

short said: this deck didn't counter wings.
That was very tactical.
People would bring wings vs earth.
however, we know they would, so we would counter it.
but, if they are clever, they know we would know, and counter, and not bring it.
But, clever as we are, we know they know we would know, and counter,  and not bring it, and thus don't bother countering it.
But they knew we were clever enough to know we knew they know we would know, ad counter, and not bring it, and thus don't bother countering it.
...

it's like
lim_x->inf sin(x)
and we chose the wrong end.

[Afdarenty]

Either that or we had no idea dark could play wings.

[Vangelios]

dammit! so wanted to play it today and had to stay later at work, thanks CCC and sorry team.

[Regyptic]

Lets make that 6/6 for 'rainbow-decks-including-grabboids' against Darkness this round then.

Well done again CCC and good call from bogtro suggesting wings. Not the deck we were predicting but it worked .

[andretimpa]

Lets make that 6/6 for 'rainbow-decks-including-grabboids' against Darkness this round then.

originality is overrated ...

[DANIEELA]

Not the deck we were predicting but it didnt worked  .
Originality is overrated ...
Dont worry,Dragtom,you are still cool.

[Odii Odsen]

Great job CCC. Good game, earth.
This is our second sub this round. Don't know if earth should post the amount of salvages they will give us in OP (Or second post in this case).

Great job, team! I just can repeat that I am proud of you. 4-2 vs 'rainbow-decks-including-grabboids' (thanks Regyptic ) is pretty good imo.
The "other" deck we have prepared for earth (actually 1342svdsvs3432 versions of it) would win here, too (I think).

@Vang: I'd be happy to see you in teamchat

[CCCombobreaker]

not sure I should share this top secret (but easily deduce-able information), but in the spirit of wanting to see more diversity in our matches:

Against  this war:
Nova based decks are: 2-6
Decks with no nova are: 2-2

BRING ON THE DUOS!

[Odii Odsen]

not sure I should share this top secret (but easily deduce-able information), but in the spirit of wanting to see more diversity in our matches:

Against  this war:
Nova based decks are: 2-6
Decks with no nova are: 2-2

BRING ON THE DUOS!

New war record: Most wins against bows: Darkness - 6 (already after round 2) 

[eljoemo]

short said: this deck didn't counter wings.
That was very tactical.
People would bring wings vs earth.
however, we know they would, so we would counter it.
but, if they are clever, they know we would know, and counter, and not bring it.
But, clever as we are, we know they know we would know, and counter,  and not bring it, and thus don't bother countering it.
But they knew we were clever enough to know we knew they know we would know, ad counter, and not bring it, and thus don't bother countering it.
...

it's like
lim_x->inf sin(x)
and we chose the wrong end.

Just me who thought this?

[Blacksmith]

Great job CCC. Good game, earth.
This is our second sub this round. Don't know if earth should post the amount of salvages they will give us in OP (Or second post in this case).

Great job, team! I just can repeat that I am proud of you. 4-2 vs 'rainbow-decks-including-grabboids' (thanks Regyptic ) is pretty good imo.
The "other" deck we have prepared for earth (actually 1342svdsvs3432 versions of it) would win here, too (I think).

@Vang: I'd be happy to see you in teamchat

Hm salvage 12 is fair enough i think.