Hooray! Everyone thought our clearly non-suicide deck was suicidal!
I mean, why the hell would we suicide with pillars?
Anyway, time to inform you all of why we chose our deck, instead of blindly assuming Baily had a "perfect counter" to our "suicide deck" and that we just "couldn't compete with the powers of earth." "But it's okay, you're sure we'll win our other fights, just not the ones against you".
My obnoxious hatred for your cliche backhanded complements aside, back to filling you instead of allowing you to remain ignorant.
Life was posed with a serious problem. How the hell do we beat earth+gravity? As Terroking so kindly pointed out, there are no good counters. The closest being fractal cockatrice, but fractal was lost by yours truly (again, I apologize). But even if we had had fractal, it wouldn't have mattered, as yet against we were facing two earth+gravity decks.
Last round we were facing three, so things are getting better. And I say we were facing three because we had no way of knowing which earth deck would be the unbeatable earth+gravity, and which would be some other shenanigans. (As a result, we decided to take fractal against neither, and got our asses whooped in all three matches.)
Why is it I say fractal cockatrice was the only deck that stood a chance? Because to beat Earth+gravity, one must do two things. One must have creatures that are below five health, but preferably above three, and one must play a lot of them. Said creatures must have above two attack power, and they've got to be fast. Otherwise your boned.
So looking at our vault, we had a decision to make. Life has five creatures. Two of them are 1|1, and as we saw last round, growth loses against gravity, so it was out. One of them has over 6 HP, and it is too slow to do any damage, so we were left with two choices. Frogs, and cockatrice. Against Otyugh?! Not much of a choice.
So we knew we wanted to take cockatrice, as even with momentum Otyugh wouldn't be able to eat them. With that decision out of the way, we had to think how we were going to out-speed the potential charger risk. Adrenaline seemed like a great way to pack extra damage, and it would do great in case they didn't take an earth shield.
Okay, we had our deck, we thought it had a chance, it was time to go.
Pewp we don't have enough pillars.
Uhh...... take out some pillars and throw in what we have left.
And that's largely how this deck came to be.
"But Gl1tch!" Mr. Hypothetical man points out in that obnoxious voice of his, determined to find a flaw in my days of logic. "how could you POSSIBLY win with only 5 pillars! Clearly that's a sign this deck was a suicide deck and life sucks and these elements are awesome
" (By the way, I HATE people who do that. Write out the actual words instead of abusing the elements emots).
"Ah, Mr. Hypothetical man, you fail to notice one of the things life is good at."
"Which is?"
"Stalling for cheap"
To be honest, our plan was to heal for long enough to get some pillars, and then HOPE we could squirt our way by. Not bad, considering we had to make all of these decks with 24 cards to spare, and one of them was a goddamn deck out deck.
So instead of pitying us like the mentally impaired boy chewing on a rubix cube, why don't you stop and think for a moment how difficult it would be for YOU to have to go up against your element's counter five times in two rounds. Let's be honest here, I didn't expect life to go 6-0, not after that first round, and at this point it's pretty boned until the next war. At best we would go 3-3 last round, and going 2-4 was the most probably result. The only upset was the match versus death. And then this round, when we got to smile and wave at two deck out decks, two earth gravity decks, the same element that pummeled our master last round, and darkness, we got to smile and wave and prepare to go 1-5 with our measly little vault. And as someone from team darkness is surely prepared to post without any realization of how rude that is, darkness is awesome and life sucks and darkness all the way wooo! So to come up with an equivalent, let's pretend you knew for a fact that half of your first round matches were against perfect counter decks, then two more second round would be those same counters, with an additional two fights you can only win if you have lots of cards left. If this were the case, then maybe you might be pulling some of the weirder ideas out of your ass like we did. Hell, at least it was a deck. That's better than the other elements can say.
