(Darkness) suxerz 2 - (Aether) deuce22 1

[suxerz]

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When I saw earth mark, "ooh! better watch mah pillar!". Of course I was wrong.

Game 1:
Playing 1 pillar and 1 pend was not a tactic against EQ. Basically a terrible hand. At this point. I thought it was the dreaded Twin Graboid deck, which is bad... Subsequent bad draw kinda hides my weird and awful playing style which leads to my defeat.

Game 2:
Much better starting hands. Got an early stilt and able to draw sanctuary one after another. Despite having lots of quanta, I can't kill the burrowed graboids which was actually beneficial to me later on. During mid game I have a feeling that deuce do not have lots of PU in his deck, but not really sure what else is in his deck. Played a miracle when the pends are in light mark just to be safe. When duece unburrowed/evolved his graboids, I was in deep shit because I only have 2 DLs in my hand. Thankfully, RNG like me time and gave me the third DL for the killing blow. IIRC and if my bolt spreadsheet is correct, I have the exact quanta needed for the win - 44 damage needed and I have 71 quanta at that time.

Game 3:
1 pillar in starting hand... >_> IIRC, duece had zero pillar/pend but he played 2 novas. No stilt but gradually gaining quanta. Early lightning from duece triggered my brain that his deck may pack lots of lightnings instead of PUs. Played my sanc only when it's on light to save quanta (not sure if it's really helpful, though). Played the lone reflective shield. Had 2 hax shields in hand but no miracle for the longest time. Didn't played the shield because I was afraid of more lightning, hax shield cost too much and also due to the fact that duece can just deflag it. Kill his creatures one by one with LS and DL. duece deflag one of my sanc so I played the hax shield. Got a miracle and kill the rest of his creatures. Then, I just need to wait for deuce to deck out.


Thanks for the exciting games, duece. Better luck next time; unless you face darkness again. 

[deuce22]

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Game 1
Suxerz had poor quanta draw, so I decided to outrush him. Early arse helped a lot. Pretty much perfect hand for me and suxerz drew only sancs with very little CC. Also, suxerz was 1 light quanta from being able to use miracle on his last turn...

Round 2
Suxerz had a much better quanta draw with an early vamp stilletto, which is practically gg in and of itself. I tried a late 2TK, but he had enough drains to finish me off 1 turn before I finished him.

Round 3
Suxerz had an even worse quanta draw than round 1, so i decided to try to outrush him again. Unlike game 1, his hand was filled with CC instead of sancs... I played lots of grabbies, which he gradually killed, but I was still inflicting damage. Unfortunately, he drew a reflective shield 1 turn too early, preventing me from using lightnings to finish him, then he proceeded to kill my remaining couple of grabbies and play miracle. I probably would have won had kept my grabbies buried, but maybe not.

GGs suxerz, and gl to you and team

[TheonlyrealBeef]

You bad tester you, you said PU Graboids was basically a counter to this deck
I don't know how you did this, but I think the - PUs + Lightnings helped you, gratz sux and nice try Aether. Original PU Graboids might actually have won :p Though I bet you just gave me those pretty cards to cheer me up after my loss ^_^

[UTAlan]

Good try, Deuce. You represented well.

[Higurashi]

If suxerz said that, he certainly wasn't wrong.
Reflective Shield > Lightnings, that's just about how. Yep, we thought you might bring this again. Losing despite that is always annoying. Something we all know by now. >_>

[Wizardcat]

Watching this in Spectate was not fun, to say the least. My poor teammates, having to deal with my paranoia-induced ramblings.

Nicely played, Zeus.

[deuce22]

The funny thing is, 10 min before the deadline I wanted to change decks, but the forums failed. The other deck should have won fairly easily. Oh well, that's what I get for last second testing.

Forum Fail FTL...

[YoungSot]

Good try Deuce, too bad the forum failed when it did.
GG to Darkness.

[suxerz]

Yeah, I'm a terrible tester. I won't test decks again. Let me just play with with my spreadsheet and stuff....

I have to admit I was really lucky with my draws in those 2 matches. duece played really well nevertheless. It was an exciting match! Enough to keep me distracted from my hunger for a while.

[Onizuka]

It was an exciting match! Enough to keep me distracted from my hunger for a while.

This is a victory for team Aether nonetheless

[EvaRia]

It's painful losing to a deck you knew was coming ><

Good effort nonetheless, you managed to win one.