(Aether Lt) Avenger - 3 - 2 - Mesaprotector (Entropy St)

[Avenger]

I saw time mark, and though, whoa, they got something from time... It was just rt spam, but it made me sweat due to misplays.
I can't complain about rng, 3 of my games gave early arsenic. (and i lost one of them).

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game 1: i won barely, i think it was exact damage by poison over diss shield
game 2: she won, entropy shield surprised me (iirc) Nah, actually it was as she wrote, damn discord made me one short. I had the shrieker in my hand she just rewound it earlier. So, this was my win if rng wanted.
game 3: another early arsenic, i think this was easy, finished with poison and a spare lightning
game 4: another surprise: AM, this really set me back
game 5: a daring early jump with dual grabbows. Just to get both of them rewound. And with 1 pendulum. Luckily i cleared her hand earlier, and she drew pillars...


So all in all, what rng gives rng takes. (Plus i need practice vs rt spam).

[mesaprotector]

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Really close games, but I seriously hate RNG for that last one.

Game 1: Slow start for both of us, I only drew 1 RT the entire game, wasn't enough. Still very close:

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Game 2: Never underestimate the power of Discord, even against a rainbow deck. Helped me a ton here, keeping Avenger 1 short of being able to kill me:

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Game 3: Decent start, but Avenger seemed to play lightning after lightning, including a double lightning on my dragon, which was basically gg. No screenie here because it wasn't close - I played a late diss to stall a few turns, but it wasn't enough.

Game 4: Finally drew the Antimatter that had been MIA the first three games. Avenger burrowed it instead of killing, which told be he didn't have any Lightnings. Somewhat close, but not so much as the other games:

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Game 5: Started by winning the coin toss with a good draw, after a couple of my Abominations were killed I played a Maxwell's, hoping to lure Avenger into killing it and then evolving both of his burrowed Graboids. It worked, and I RT'd both of them. Now I was well in the lead with control of the board and an extra RT still in hand, when RNG did something I will never forgive - giving me 5 straight pillars. Even a Maxwell's would have given me enough damage to win, and forget about seeing a dragon. Not to mention Diss or Anti, either of which, had I drawn them at any time, would have been enough. (Discord could have been a bit better at scrambling, too.) And as if that weren't enough, guess what I drew on the final turn:

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[dragonsdemesne]

Well, that really stinks.  RNG must have been a huge factor in the draws, because entropy's deck definitely has the advantage here.  2 lightnings to kill 1 dragon and we have 4, and discord/RT should've helped keep shriekers at bay, or at least burrowed.  Demons will either draw lightning away from dragons or hold the shriekers away, too.  After seeing what aether sent against us, I'm simply flabbergasted that we didn't win.  Heck, if we'd won 3-2, I'd still be asking how aether even managed to win two games with that deck :p

[The_Mormegil]

Well, that really stinks.  RNG must have been a huge factor in the draws, because entropy's deck definitely has the advantage here.  2 lightnings to kill 1 dragon and we have 4, and discord/RT should've helped keep shriekers at bay, or at least burrowed.  Demons will either draw lightning away from dragons or hold the shriekers away, too.  After seeing what aether sent against us, I'm simply flabbergasted that we didn't win.  Heck, if we'd won 3-2, I'd still be asking how aether even managed to win two games with that deck :p

This is the reason grabbows are used so much though. Even decks that should have an advantage can be overwhelmed by the sheer power of a 4 cost 10 attack graboid.

[deuce22]

Yeah, I think we had some RNG help with the early arses, but 33-card decks can troll. I agree, I think this might be the first match where entropy had a deck advantage over us, but probably still close to 50/50 :-/

I kind of feel bad, but I don't

[Avenger]

Yeah, i admit rng helped me, especially 2 novas+arse, i think i did that feat 3 times. But imagine if in the second duel, discord doesn't take that 1 earth... Would have been 3-0

[Boingo]

After seeing what aether sent against us, I'm simply flabbergasted that we didn't win.  Heck, if we'd won 3-2, I'd still be asking how aether even managed to win two games with that deck :p

And that's exactly why we play the matches instead of simply posting decks and taking a vote. It's more fun this way.  Every War (sometimes it seems like every round) has matches that really makes you scratch your head and ponder the improbability.  RNG giveth and RNG taketh away.

[Jaymanfu]

blah blah something about rng blah blah something about 50/50 blah blah

[Avenger]

I replayed this vs Hain. Won 3-1, and it was actually easier than vs Mesa. My only loss was when i drew all 6 novas, and some pends. No grabos at all.
So, anyone telling grabbow isn't good vs discord. Well, their problem.

[hainkarga]

Exaggerations. Entropy's deck is nowhere near "surewin". Discord is hardly a problem. 4 / 33 dragons vs 6 / 30 lightnings are not really competing. RTs help vs shriekers for sure, but it doesn't really stop them.

So;

[Jaymanfu]

Ya well I played against Onizuka and I won 1000 games and he won 0 because he never played a single card!!!!!!!!!

[Onizuka]

True Story.