MrBlonde (death) 2 vs Demagog (earth) 1

[MrBlonde]

Phew..... by the skin of our teeth again. We expected to assume we were going to use a big deck again or aether based. I decided to make our darkness deck and hoped that we could outrush them with poisons and a little stall.

game 1 - lost the toss and was still in the chat screen when i heard the sound of an immolation and immediately thought...crap. This round was pretty much a wipeout and didn't even come close. My draw wasn't particularly good and didn't get any shields at all. I did steal his fog shield but that really didn't help seeing that i had 13 hp left and he had probably 30+ worth of dmg on the field and i still needed two more turns to finish him.

game 2 - lost the toss again and dema got 2 immolations out by the 2nd round. Fortunately for me i had 2 bonewalls in my hand.After he ate through my first bonewall with his creatures (he had 3 gnome riders + his lava golem and a graboid) i decided to hold on to the last bonewall until i had to use it. This worked to my favor and was able to damage him enough with my spider, mummy, and arsenic + poison to just finish him off.

game 3 - won the toss this time and dema managed to get 2 immolations out by the 2nd round again. This time though what probably killed him was him playing a jade staff. I stole it (got a dark pillar 1st round) and was able to stave him off with 1 bonewall a dusk shield and poison. Only got 1 mummy out but it was just enough to beat him. Dema didn't have a great draw and wasn't able to get enough creatures out early enough. He also didn't draw his fog shield or momentums in game's 2 and 3 when he needed them.

Good game Dema, got a bit lucky here but will take it.

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[Demagog]

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First game I got a great draw and outrushed.

Second and third games were close. I'd probably have won at least one of them if I had drawn a momentum. I didn't draw one in any of the games. Those bone walls sucked :-p

GG's MrBlonde

[RavingRabbid]

Another perfect round for Death.

[MrBlonde]

And to answer your question from the chat (i missed it posting here and you already left) of "what did we expect from ?

To be completely honest i had no idea really. You guys have so many different options and so many cards we weren't sure. We just decided to make a solid "overall" deck and hoped that it would work out. I really was hoping you wouldn't use quicksands though. I knew for sure that if we decided to go with our big deck it was an auto loss vs you guys and we didn't want to do that.

[Dragoon]

Way to go MrBlonde!  Congratz on the win.

[Malduk]

Hell yeah!  8)

[Terroking]

Noooo....

This is very, very bad.

Again we lost, this deck looks like it should have easily beaten Blonde's...

Nice try anyways Dema.

[MrBlonde]

Noooo....

This is very, very bad.

Again we lost, this deck looks like it should have easily beaten Blonde's...

Nice try anyways Dema.

The key to this matchup really were the momentums. If you had packed 2 more i'm sure i would have had no chance. Also round 3 i probably would have lost as well if Dema never played the Jade Staff (dusk shield would have had to play a large role, i only had it out for one turn before i won) . I stole it on turn 5 and i'm pretty positive the match went 4-6 more rounds after since i only had an 8 poison counter a mummy and the staff for dmg. My biggest decision here was when i stole the staff i also drew my arsenic. Had to decide between more poison or +5 healing per turn. Figured i would need the healing more and never played my arsenic.

Beyond the no momentums Dema had pretty good draws each round with at least 1 immolation used and a lava golem out by round 2.  I had very decent draws as well in rounds 2 and 3 drawing the cards i needed to win early both times (2 bonewalls round 2 and steal+bonewall+dark pillar round 3).

[TheoCT]

Go team !!!! great job MrBlonde!

[Demagog]

Beyond the no momentums Dema had pretty good draws each round with at least 1 immolation used and a lava golem out by round 2.  I had very decent draws as well in rounds 2 and 3 drawing the cards i needed to win early both times (2 bonewalls round 2 and steal+bonewall+dark pillar round 3).

Actually my second round draw was just ok, and my third was horrible. Also, I was actually hoping you'd steal my staff when I played it. That way you might not play your arsenic and if I drew my fog shield I'd have a good chance to win. My gamble just didn't pay off.

[MrBlonde]

Well i guess what i meant by good draws is that you never had to discard cards and you were able to immolate every time at turn 2 and get at least 1 lava golem out. Wanting me to steal the jade staff is interesting as well. hmmm.. well it did work because i didn't play my arsenic. I really did wonder what would have been better but i guess if you wanted your fog to come out having less poison on you makes sense.

[TheoCT]

Well i guess what i meant by good draws is that you never had to discard cards and you were able to immolate every time at turn 2 and get at least 1 lava golem out. Wanting me to steal the jade staff is interesting as well. hmmm.. well it did work because i didn't play my arsenic. I really did wonder what would have been better but i guess if you wanted your fog to come out having less poison on you makes sense.

The staff is better. The staff deals 2dmg and heals for 5 so if you take it thats a 7point swing in damage instead of arsenic which is 2dmg+1poison which is only 3 a turn.