(Earth) Lt. Mithcairion 3 - (Aether) markilleruk 1

[Mithcairion]

Final Blood

by Mithcairion

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Game 1:  I had a great quanta start, got a Pulvy out relatively early as well as a Grabby or two.  He had a somewhat slow start, although he seemed to draw into his quanta so it didn't hurt so much.  I was able to lightning a Graboid of his after he evolved it, and he returned the favor to me.  I was able to evolve my other two Grabbies and keep them both alive (not enough quanta for a Lightning) and then burrow them both in order to get a little more damage on him, knowing that he likely had some PUs lurking.  We desynced on the last turn, but there was quite literally nothing he could do to prevent me from winning this game, so he conceded to me.  1-0

Game 2:  1 pillar start for me, never saw anything soon enough to make a difference.  My Pulvy got two hits in, but that was about all the excitement that this game held.  1-1

Game 3:  Very good quanta start for me, with a mix of rainbow and Stone Pillars/Towers.  To be honest, I don't remember a ton about this game, but I do remember that it was a back and forth game and my Fog Shield and BBs did more than a little to stave off his army.  Also, there came a point where he PU-spammed for his Grabbies and I took action, Lightning-ing one of them, playing a Fog Shield, and BB-ing two others, but I forgot to evolve my Graboid (he was low on quanta) and as tense as this game was, I was all but certain it could come back to bite me.  Turns out that it didn't, as my Fog did enough to buy me the one extra turn I needed.  2-1

Game 4:  Two Stone Pillars and a Stone Tower start for me, so I was able to play my Pulvy second turn and my unevolved Grabbies soon after.  I chipped slowly away at his HP, while he evolved a Grabby and PU'd it.  I got my defenses out in the form of BB, and we just kind of stared at each other for a bit.  I smashed some stuff with Pulvy (Arsenic, a Pillar or two), but I just kept waiting for the chance to OTK him.  Finally got it and I evolved my Grabbies, gave him some Nightmares, and smashed his Dimensional Shield to bring home the match.  3-1

Looking at your deck now, mark, I'm even more impressed with your play than I already was.  You played the hell out of your deck and should hold your head high.  Team Aether has a very good duelist in you.

This is my Pulvy....

[markilleruk]

by markilleruk

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Mith brought the superior boid deck and there was little I could do. He played his deck flawlessly and the pulv was key to his success. Asside from a awful draw in the second game which I was able to dominate Miths deck flowed much better and thanks to keeping his shriekers burrowed I couldn't do very much to counter. None the less a couple of the games came pretty close. Congratulations Earth and thanks to Mithcairion for the matches.

[Avenger]

The games were closer than we expected, especially seeing the dead steal card in your deck.
You played extremely well, Mark, you brough the maximum out of this deck.
You gave us shivers, especially with your perfect rush draw at 1-1.

[markilleruk]

The games were closer than we expected, especially seeing the dead steal card in your deck.
You played extremely well, Mark, you brough the maximum out of this deck.
You gave us shivers, especially with your perfect rush draw at 1-1.

Yeah the steal was supposed to be upped but was not due to a mix up :/ Could have changed the result of a game or two assuming Mith didn't have another pulv in hand. Pulv was unexpected to be sure.

[kirchj33]

The games were closer than we expected, especially seeing the dead steal card in your deck.
You played extremely well, Mark, you brough the maximum out of this deck.
You gave us shivers, especially with your perfect rush draw at 1-1.

Yeah the steal was supposed to be upped but was not due to a mix up :/ Could have changed the result of a game or two assuming Mith didn't have another pulv in hand. Pulv was unexpected to be sure.

You may not have expected it, but it looks like Higs was prepared for the very deck we brought and RNG shined on us today.  Really pro playing by both players this game.  Good luck to Lady Aether and her crew moving forward.

[Jappert]

If I saw these decks before the match I would have put my on winning this.

Lightnings/PU vs BB/Pulvy.
Did the nightmare help win a match? Did fog dodge some damage?

I guess it's the upped towers and aether using their pends that resulted in getting out their Graboids more quickly?

[Avenger]

If I saw these decks before the match I would have put my on winning this.

Lightnings/PU vs BB/Pulvy.
Did the nightmare help win a match? Did fog dodge some damage?

I guess it's the upped towers and aether using their pends that resulted in getting out their Graboids more quickly?

PU takes a lot of quanta. His only shield was not too useful with pulvy out and took  away from PU. He could never play his steal, so he had no PC. He had only 2 lightnings vs. 3 BB. These duels are short, so 6 rounds of BB was enough to hold them back (shield surely helped us more). I've never seen him using more than one PU. Half of his deck is pillar/nova compared to our 13 quantum sources. And ours gave more useful quanta. He had no much use of his excess earth and misc quanta, he used only death/time. His winning was due to early arsenic (first round, iirc) and lack of pillars on side. PU isn't really working in a bow. Still, he was very close! A little shift in rng (and an upped steal) would have brought them victory.

[hainkarga]

You may not have expected it, but it looks like Higs was prepared for the very deck we brought and RNG shined on us today.  Really pro playing by both players this game.  Good luck to Lady Aether and her crew moving forward.

His deck choice credit goes to mark himself. Team has democracy! Just had to edit 1-2 cards of his original deck due to vault balancing issues.

[furballdn]

Graboids. Graboids Everywhere.

[Sevs]

This is your pulvy apparently i dont know how to use mine yet

[Acsabi44]

It's hard to fight a novagrabby with a novagrabby when your opponent is the native element of one of the core components (entropy or earth).

[GG]

Earth deck almost could be a UW deck <_<