(Water)(Point)The Dictator 2 - (Time) SnoWeb 1

[the dictator]

Pffff, War Matches are bad for my nerves, especially when the rest decides I have to be their Point, and my overly tested deck losses it's first match.

by The dictator

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SnoWeb (ingame, at the start of the first match): "May the light be with ... us"

First match - SnoWeb
I didn't know what to expect, but my testing had shown scorps were beaten best by just decking them out or bolting them for the win. For some reason my draws haxed me: seriously low on pendulums (had a third miracle in hand, but couldn't play it), and no purifies at all. I lost with SnoWeb having 3 cards left. If I would have had some earlier bolts, game might have went the other way.

Second match - The dictator
This time SnoWeb got a really slow draw, with only one pendulum, so the first scorp appeared at turn 6. Now I new (or highly suspected) the deck to have only 6 creatures I decided I could bolt the scorps and use one of the other two bolt to freeze the eternity for a deckout. Not really what SnoWeb expected, so I froze the eternity at 3 cards left, and made sure the crusaders couldn't get reverse time.


[17:49:40] SnoWeb [»] the dictator: what are the odds of having the weapon frozen?
[17:50:12] the dictator [»] SnoWeb: 30%, +5% for each extra damage
[17:50:21] the dictator [»] SnoWeb: so 100% with 60 water quanta

Third match - The dictator
As expected after that question, SnoWeb started rewinding his deck at 15!!! cards left, so I couldn't win by freezing the weapon. Luckily I hadn't wasted any bolts so I could just build quanta and wait until I had enough for a one turn kill.
This went smootely as I got enough miracles and purifies to keep my hp's high and the poison counts low, while SnoWeb kept rewinding his scorps. I the meantime we (Team Water) created a special damage chart in our private chat, on how much quanta with how much bolts, and with a morning star up. Most interesting were 92 quanta for 5 bolts + star and 114 quanta for 4 bolts + star.
And I just kept waiting and building quanta, and wondering what would appear first, the fifth bolt, or th 114 quanta. I the end it was the fifth bolt, but I was screening, so the computer ended the turn for me
Then, one turn later, I finally could bolt him.


[18:19:05] the dictator: finally
[18:19:32] SnoWeb: after an eternity

SnoWeb, you were an awesome opponent, and made it seriously hard on me, but my deck was too much of a counter.

[SnoWeb]

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A stall fight is slow ... Sanctuaries were cancelling each other.

First game, he had no purifies the whole game and I started the poisoning very early so no chance (see first screenshot). Win!

Second game, we both had bad draws but I had worse. Few pendulum and late dune. I even had to rewind one of my crusaders. So much that when he bolted me and froze my weapon I could not rewind my dune and decked out. Loss.

Last battle was a bad hand again (but only for me this time) I had only pillars and sanctuary which would be good in any other case but bad in this one. He also had a lot of pillars. I started around turn 15 to rewind my second dune every other turn (4 or 5 pendulum at this point) in order to avoid deck out. After a while (and monitoring with this (http://jumpoffduck.co.cc/elements/bolt.htm)) I realised he would bolt me to death before I could deck him out. He finally did 3 cards from deck out (see second screenshot). Loss = Good that I didn't take the point.

You are a very skilled player Ze Dictator. Félicitations. It is really enjoyable to battle against such tacticians (and fair-play with that - see chat quotes in The dictator post). Sadly it was a bit to slow for my liking ... Nothing is perfect.

[Higurashi]

Quite the enervating match indeed, for all War members. Naturally a point loss would've been nice to see; it looked as if Sno had the superior deck when I was watching the first duel, but then Purify showed up later on. Winning after hard work is extra rewarding, and it's well deserved. Good work, both teams. :>

[Jappert]

I think everyone understands the rest of team water was dead on the ground after these matches.
This match was tough, I didn't expect time would go for poison but they almost won the game.

Very well played Sno and Dic, these were some war matches I won't forget any time soon! Exceptionally tense.

[nilsieboy]

brilliant match, one of the best this war .
great matchup to and this means 2-0 for team water this round!

[Bootsza]

Dic: you are my hero this round.  Thanks for saving us all

gg's SnoWeb - gl going forward.