(Life Tinkerer) willng3 3 - 0 (Aether Gen) Zawadx

[willng3]

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Game 1: Good starting draw. Had two upgraded Pends nice and early, which allowed me to get out an early Dev despite losing the coin toss. I made what I believe was a very bad misplay during this game by stealing a Pend early on to try and deny more quanta instead of holding the Steal for a Lobo. This ended up turning the match into a stallfest since my second Steal was way down at the bottom of my deck. Managed to draw enough Bonds to outheal his damage, with some Dragons putting pressure on his HP in the late game. 1-0

Game 2: Average starting draw, which was alleviated by me winning the coin toss. Had a very early Dragon this game which allowed me to win by damage output despite not drawing Steals to prevent Mitosis from being Lobo'd. 2-0

Game 3: Ungodly starting draw of 2 upgraded Pends, a Steal, Devs and a Mitosis. I managed to lock down the field very quickly with early Dragon support again to seal the game even more. 3-0

Good games, Zawa!

[Zawadx]

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G1: Misplayed by not playing a lobo vvhen I could, led to a loss
G2 and 3: vvillu stomp!

Good games will, and good luck going forward life!

[Higurashi]

Normally RoL/Hope is one of the best decks to run against QC, but less upped quanta means less advantage. Still, a 3-0 is very surprising with 12 quanta sources in there. Most likely the first win would have led to more good chances at victory.
Strange to see a RoL/Hope with 2 Psions and 4 Fractals, but I surmise there's a tactical reason.

[Vangelios]

Actually are 19 quanta sources, yes also I don't understand why psions there...
  can do this deck with 50% in element but like a tinkerer devoures enter more faster in the game then fast denial as well.

[Higurashi]

Twelve plus six is eighteen, not nineteen, if you were trying to be cheeky. RoL's are mandatory and aren't relevant for determining your advantage over QC, in case you need the obvious spelled out for you. One Psion is always good to include in case Life packed Thorns or any other good Shield. Two normally means you're really expecting it. And aye, I've played countless matches against optimized Mitodevs and Devtal alike. RoL/Hope is pretty strongly favored against both, but again how much depends on yer amount of upped pillars and pends.

[Odii Odsen]

I guess Vang was counting mark as quanta source, too.
Nice win, Life.

[Vangelios]

Twelve plus six is eighteen, not nineteen, if you were trying to be cheeky. RoL's are mandatory and aren't relevant for determining your advantage over QC, in case you need the obvious spelled out for you. One Psion is always good to include in case Life packed Thorns or any other good Shield. Two normally means you're really expecting it. And aye, I've played countless matches against optimized Mitodevs and Devtal alike. RoL/Hope is pretty strongly favored against both, but again how much depends on yer amount of upped pillars and pends.

I'm don't trying be cheeky just I did one observation, after all quanta source is all that provides quanta including the mark deck as well...
Rol is relevant here because be one resistence vs denial of devourer, in my opinion even with 6 ups pends aether can't do nothing, because be hard to do the second fractal, and if does will lose by deckcout because empathic bound, the unique chance is to use lobo before steal.

[Higurashi]

Context was RoL/Hope vs denial, so the Rays -have to be there-. Again. That leaves upped quanta to give you an edge. Again.

And yes, no Light creature to Fractal was the wakizashi in the belly. Again. I trust we're done echoing now.

[Zawadx]

ftr, I'd say that what Vange said is right. Devtosis + a single bond can't be outraced by RoLs, and it also doesn't leave enough quanta for any other options. Especially fractalling a light creature using second fractal. Lobo can help, but it is quite likely to get stolen. Our only way to win here is to be aggressive, but RoL/Hope isn't suited for that style even with 2 psions.

Of course, will's deck is slightly more inconsistent than ours as a base so we'd need to defeat his bad draws to win. But will always had decent draws, and his misplay in game 1 was countered by my own horrid one. So yeah, good deck life. I'm happy that this propelled you to first place

[Higurashi]

2 more upped quanta lets you Fractal twice in most games.

While I don't need to test since I've played this matchup hundreds of times when including testing, a bout in Trainer with Dragons over Psions and 2 more upped quanta had me go 1-9 as the Devtosis, and that's with AI Lobotomizing Burrow needlessly. Several games were lost to just one Fractal on Rays then Golden Dragon+Lobo beatdown. Even if I draw Steal to slow the bleeding, the chance to draw a second Bond that will heal a lot before death from Dragons and the early damage is slim at best. Had there been a Dusk and a 4th Bond (which is pretty common in Devtosis), the few 1 Fractal games could be won, but since most games had 2 go off, it's mostly moot.

It's really just the Psions and missed quanta ups. 12 quanta is more than I've ever needed to win most games against QC. 10 quanta used to be more common in the past, and that was enough to beat most QC decks too.

Obviously you weren't expecting QC though.

[Zawadx]

2 more upped quanta lets you Fractal twice in most games.

While I don't need to test since I've played this matchup hundreds of times when including testing, a bout in Trainer with Dragons over Psions and 2 more upped quanta had me go 1-9 as the Devtosis, and that's with AI Lobotomizing Burrow needlessly. Several games were lost to just one Fractal on Rays then Golden Dragon+Lobo beatdown. Even if I draw Steal to slow the bleeding, the chance to draw a second Bond that will heal a lot before death from Dragons and the early damage is slim at best. Had there been a Dusk and a 4th Bond (which is pretty common in Devtosis), the few 1 Fractal games could be won, but since most games had 2 go off, it's mostly moot.

It's really just the Psions and missed quanta ups. 12 quanta is more than I've ever needed to win most games against QC. 10 quanta used to be more common in the past, and that was enough to beat most QC decks too.

Obviously you weren't expecting QC though.

3-2 using devtosis on my end, after giving RoL/Hope the tweaks you suggested. ofco last game was won after AI not loboing even at 4 quanta, so I get what your saying. In that case, I'll admit that some pretty bad RNG was involved in my losses here. I mean many of my draws were lacklustre with multiple fractals and hopes to start, but I hadn't thought it'd make this much of a difference.

[Higurashi]

Much like the Golemtal match; quanta is the most important part of all Fractal decks. One turn faster on average is all you need to be to win. War is especially unforgiving.