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Whew.
Video!Game 1: rob77dERp! My brain: "I opened with Psion in hand! and good quanta! I'm going to rip past Hope with Psi-tal activities!"
tree: "Hey, thanks for something to bypass your Dims. My deck makes aether faster too!"
Rob taking over for brain: "Yes... but {whisper unintelligibly}I drew Silence x1 so Miracle is going to wait for Game 2+ {/whisper}"
Get enough Psions down that I can TTK and dump Silence... I win barely. 1-0
I make note to myself -- Psion is a dead card. Either quit drawing (no control here) or QUIT PLAYING IT (total control here)!!
Game 2: rob77dERp! My brain: "I opened with Psion again?!? What luck! Let's get him down on the table and start hammering at tre.... ... .. .."
Rob taking over: "WOBNI@$*)JH)$@JB)$*(@JB)*#$BJH - I did it
AGAIN! I am an idiot! Stupid stupid stupid stupid!" On the outside: "Ooops, did it again..." <insert Britney link/song/thing here>
Psions + SoP overrun me and tree miracles to negate my speed/early-game damage dump advantage. I lose. 1-1 now.
Game 3: Yay no opening hand evil-Psion. I think I drew it and even managed not to play it. I calculate in my head how many cards in tree's deck I can start Dim-chain and still hit deckout. From this, I plan to wait until that many cards in his deck no matter what. If his damage race kills me so be it I will not win ANY damage race. I calculate it to be at 17 cards on tree's deck on my turn to start chain for exact count deckout.
What does this mean? It means tree's rush-y start and maneuvers (well pressed tree!) get me to EIGHT health before I Dim. I dim and dim and dim... and ... ... and ... WAIT! tree may have some Lightnings in there - just two will kill me from 8 HP (I now begin recalc of chain/deckout/cards/etc for g4) ah ha there's one dim and --- ----- -- --- -- - DIM whew -- then with one more turn extra of protection I draw final dim and deckout win.
rob77dERp-alert: I could start at 18 cards in-deck if needed, says my recalc. Whew - good thing I got away with hit last game when he had a VERY rush-y start. up 2-1, now if I can only avoid that blasted Psion!
Game 4: I press early. I do not play Psion. I open with THREE Dims. Draw #4 right when I start chaining - which I could wait a long time to due as tree's trio tanked totally this time (alliteration ftw?). I chain-out with final turns against AI (still in video in case anyone wants to see AI play it
) after tree concedes and win 3-1.