(Darkness Gen.) Physsion 3 - 0 MeowMeowCat (Gravity Discard)

[Physsion]

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Good games, MMC - thanks for being such a good sport.

+rep for giving me the win in game 3 instead of having to play it out again - we both won vs. AI after the desync due to AI fault with my deck. Great sportsmanship shown here from MMC.


Game 1: When I saw the Aether mark and deck size, I thought I'd perfectly mindgated Guardtal here - the extra Nightmares were designed to counter any Fractal decks we went up against. My confidence fell considerably when I saw the first turn Nova, and figured this must have been some kind of Overdrive/Parallel Universe rainbow deck. We hadn't brought any creature control! An Oty came out, followed shortly by a SoFo, and I figured I was in big trouble for this matchup - luckily, I had an early Vagger on the field, which slowly chipped away at MMC's health. MMC used the last charge on his SoFo to kill one of my pendulums, to which I followed up with a second Vagger. When he was down to 36HP, I played 3 Dragons from my hand and Eclipsed them.

Game 2: Game started in a similar way to the first - strategy was to get an early Vagger out, and then burst with Dragons. Realizing MMC had no damage, I knew I could just wait to draw my Dragons, and then OTK once Vagger had brought him low enough. I played my big burst a couple of turns early, bringing him down to 14HP - expected some of my Dragons to survive, but MMC played a Lightning on each and ate them all. Just had to wait to draw my Vagger and last Dragon from my last three cards - with two cards left in my deck, MMC played a Sundial, and my heart sank. Was I about to lose this? Thankfully, he didn't draw his second, and my damage got through for a VERY close win.

Game 3: Figured I'd better be smarter here, and not make risky plays with early bursts against Sundials - had a favourable draw, but a topdecked Deflag destroyed my Vagger earlier than expected. The second wasn't too far behind, but we eventually desynced. MMC was close, but not quite within burst range when a SoFo took care of my second Vagger. The dreaded desync happened, and I knew my AI would play Devourers from my hand, buffing his Otyughs enough to eat my Dragons the turn after they were played. I managed the win against the AI by holding Dragons and Eclipse until I could 2TK - MMC also won on his end due to my AI playing Devourers, but honourably conceded the game instead of having us play it out again.

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Game 1 Loss: Not much to do here, once he saw that I had Oty's, he held Vagger out long enough without PC interruption from SoFo or the undrawn Explosion.
Game 2 Loss: Heartattack for Physs! Played one SoFo, killed a Vagger. Played some Oty's, and ate a freshly played SoFo so that I could eat a Dragon if it came down to it. He blasted me with numerous dragons and devourers, but I left nothing, save for a Frozen Devourer, and 2 unfrozen, which were swiftly nommed next turn. It came down to the wire, and I threw out a Sundial. Physsion died internally Luckily for him, I didn't draw the second, or he'd be decked out.
Game 3 Loss: Not much here, either. Dc'd a bit in, and won against AI, but that's because, well, it was AI. Granted win to Physs.

GGs Physsion!

[Zso_Zso]

That's an interesting bow from gravity!

+1 for creativity  8)

[JonathanCrazyJ]

32 Card Dechout lol, ballsy!

[Solaris]

That's an interesting bow from gravity!

+1 for creativity  8)

It worked fairly well, too. I liked playing it 

[Avenger]

I don't understand, lightning + oty are greater than dragons. Sofo beats the shields+vagger combo. What could possibly go wrong here?

[Vangelios]

really pretty interesting duel here

[Zawadx]

I don't understand, lightning + oty are greater than dragons. Sofo beats the shields+vagger combo. What could possibly go wrong here?

The main issue with gravy's deck was a lack of healing. So if a couple of dragons hit more than once or vagger could go unanswered for a few turns, then gravity could do nothing at all to stop it. Gravity's deck is also slightly low quanta, so devs could easily gobble your non-gravity quanta unless you draw into 2 novae early (and if you choose to save novae, they target down aether and gravy quanta to nothing instead). I expect Physsi held dragons until he could get in multiple hits from them, and once MMC emptied his hand to deal with dragon wave NM would come in to deal decent damage. It's amazing how good Darkness is at mustering up 100 damage points somehow.

Great deck choice from gravy, but I believe it was slightly misplaced. It is interesting, considering these two teams look like the strongest candidate for final two. I'm looking forward to what those two muster up if that happens.