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5c9 5c9 5cq 5cq 5cq 5cq 5cq 5cq 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rm 5rm 5ro 5ro 5se 5se 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 7ak 7ak 7ap 7ap 7q5 7q5 7q5 8pnThis is what Elements should be more like.
The games were an incredible mixture of decision making, deckbuilding and RNG.
It's been a huge pleasure to play this game, and coming out on top only adds to the satisfaction.
Every game, a different strategy, adaptation to each other's hand, multiple layers of swearing and RNG disservice.
Game 1: Early draws are no SoGs, no Hourglass, no shields, no eternity. Dragons, Mitosis and SoR. I think I ended up winning this by a "comfortable margin". Where comfortable margin means I broke through his bonewall fast enough for his poison stacks to not overwhelm me.
Game 2: Kind of a bad draw, 2quanta, didn't use EC because his hand also looked bad. Mine was worse. I tried popping eternity, sogs and things. He managed to get a lot of poison down, and even if I had Jade Shield, it wasn't worth enough.
Game 3:
->Here, I used EC. 2 quanta draws bad. His draw was better.
Another 2 quanta draw, but Hourglass thin out the deck enough, I manage to draw 5 SoGs and play the Jade Shield, which means I was comfortable with pendulums. He never draws dolls, so I can prepare the dragons combo well enough.
Game 4: Another 2 quanta draw, another need for hourglass to draw well. Sadly, I bottomdecked most of my quanta and I actually found myself discarding some cards that wouldn't have been useful at all. I tried to make a final dragon breakthrough, but his damage was too overwhelming.
Game 5: 5 quanta draw, no hourglass. Just 1 pends means I will have to play my life cards with extreme preplanning and precision. I have the combo in hand, and so I can manage to make dragons flow.
Overall, excellent games, and possibly what elements should be more like.
Ggs, dragons.
