I'd love to say I got the better deck, but rushes can be quite fast and ralouf made it close with all those heavy pillar draws and I owe my duck luck some credit, too
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5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 622 622 622 622 622 7t8 7tb 7td 7td 7td 7um 7um 7um 7um 8puTime for some game analysis!
LOST:
I start of with 1 pendulum and 4 Devourers, 4! Every Devourer I play quickly gets bounced back with reverse time when I finally do draw them and ralouf started with 2 Flesh Recluses. Dusk Mantle made it slightly close when it got out but I was in a too unfavorable position to still win. Denial after the creatures are already out isn't much good :
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Game 2
WON:
Excellent draws, clean win, there was little ralouf could do.
Game 3
LOST:
I started with only one Devourer which didn't like the taste of Time quanta.
Lost by 2 quanta/hp. Drawing a Vampire/Vampire Dagger/Dusk Mantle would've given me the win, of course, I drew a Pendulum.
Notice the +4 Aether quanta (making it 12
) and the 21 damage output from ralouf versus 20 hp on my side as my turn passes.Game 4
WON:
Another straightforward win. Dusk Mantle and Vampire Dagger gave me all the breathing room I needed before I could Fractal stuff.
Game 5
WON:
Lowest pillar draw ralouf had thus far: only 2 pillars to start with. My draws looked heavenly as always, but eh... where are my Fractals?! When I did finally get them I skipped Fractalling Devourers and went straight for the Vampires with all that quanta I had built up by then. That combined with the duck soon rendered any offense ralouf had in the entire deck useless.
EM win <3[/list]Good clean games overall with no desynchs, was fun and exciting
