Sacrifice - Round 2 Matches and Battle Results

[RootRanger]

MATCHES
dark ripper (12) vs ARTHANASIOS (0)
DANIEELA (12) vs andretimpa (0)
CCCombobreaker (12) vs Dm1321 (0)
mrpaper (10) vs Kuroaitou (0)
ddevans96 (8) vs Kakerlake (0)
Zawadx (8) vs Jen-i (0)
theelkspeaks (6) vs Afdarenty (2)
Fippe94 (6) vs dragonsdemesne (2)
Blacksmith (6) vs dawn to dusk (4)
Submachine (6) vs ji412jo (4)
SpikeSpiegel (6) vs treebeard xiii (4)
Rutarete (6) vs justaburd (4)
Spielkind (6) vs qwerter (6)
Odii Odsen (6) vs mathman101 (6)
CrockettRocket and Naesala have forfeited.
propheon and deathreign3 have been permanently removed.

Matches are best-of-five. The first player who wins 3 individual duels, wins the match.
- Players have (almost) 6 days to make the fight happen. They must contact their opponent using a PM, and try to find a time that suits both.
- If the fight doesn't happen, both players lose by default, unless one player is clearly more active in trying to find a suitable time.
- You may only use cards from your Vault, in addition to Pillars, Pendulums, and Mark Cards. You may use any mark.
- The number after your name represents the number of upgrades you may use. These upgrades apply to every deck you play this round.
- You may change your deck during the match. If the match lasts 5 games, you are allowed to use up to 5 different decks, as long as they are all legal.

After duels, all players must submit their results and decks to this thread.

If you see anything that you think may be a mistake, send me a private message immediately.

SACRIFICES
The image below shows the sacrifices of every player, in addition to the seeds used for determining opponents.

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Round 2 has ended.

[andretimpa]

Yay for forgetting about preparation and not sending any sacrifices.

[dark ripper]

dark ripper 3-1 ARTHANASIOS

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Game 1: LOSS

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Swallow vs life/fire stall. Drew 11 out of 12 pillar/towers in the first 15 cards. That was enough to deckout.

Game 2: WIN

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Nymph Rush against the same stall. ARTH got hardly outrush. 7ttw iirc.

Game 3: WIN

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ARTH got hardcounter here. I dont know if he had any CC in the deck, but 3 quick squids determined the outcome.

Game 4: WIN

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Was pretty sure he would bring a stall again, so I played this deck again. Low quanta draw by ARTH and again got outrushed.

Good games ARTH, nice try considering I had the upper hand with 12 uppes.

[ARTHANASIOS]

ALLCAPS (0 upgrades) 1-3 Rippy (12 upgrades)

Well, I am happy I managed to earn 1 victory against +12 upgrades.

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Game 1 (WON versus Shallow):

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I waited either for Shallow or rush and I answered with this stall which has a good chance of beating both, even with -12 upgrades.
Deflags burned SoPas, RoFs burned SoFos, I had a fair starting hand, Rippy had an awful hand, it was easy to outstall him. gg

Game 2 (LOST versus UG-NT deck):

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I waited for a rush of some sort, after all mono can be awesome when upped. But my slow quanta start and a good start for Rippy prevented me from performing the only combo that could possibly save me; RoFiring twice at the same turn. gg

Game 3 (LOST versus SoPa duo)

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I decided to surprise Rippy with a rush deck instead this round. But very few quanta came and Rippy had a very Early Squid. If I had the quanta start to play a Seraph and quinting it or my Fire Nymph and burn any squids, this game could be different. Still, it was a good game.

Game 4 (LOST versus UG-NT deck)

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Here was a very good mindgaming from Rippy and a bad one from mine. I waited for another SoPa deck, more likely of Shallow style or Squid style, but he smelled a stall, so he used his UG/NT with a great success. Once again, a good fast start for him and the slow quanta income of mine determined the result. Anyway, I should had tried my stall instead which had Emerald Shields. Ggs..

[SpikeSpiegel]

SpikeSpiegel (6 ups) - treebeard_xiii (4 ups): 3 - 1

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Early wardens and EQ had reason of his nymphs trio. Ice shield made the game a little bit longer.

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I was expecting something with sanctuary and i've found it. But Miracles and Morning Glory killed me, while i couldn't use unburrowed Shrieker because i was scared by his pandemonium.

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A copy of round 1. Wardens + EQ > Nymphs tears.

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Tried this mono and luckily found a mono . I had almost perfect draws for all the round = GG.

[treebeard xiii]

treebeard xiii 1-3 SpikeSpiegel

Wardens op nerf plz ok more seriously I got pretty badly countered in all but 1 game ggs nonetheless

Spoiler for game 1:

liquid matter water edition

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lost 3 early wardens locked out my first nymphs and by the time i finally outnumbered them BBs made an appearence locking out the rest.

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Here a bought a soft counter to wardens and it paid of with me top decking miracles as and when they were needed and an early dragon and puple chipped a bit of health of and an early glory finished the battle the stall rush wins again

Spoiler for game 3:

ug nymphs water edition

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again the early wardens locked me and slower nymphs with eqs made it worse never managed to outnumber wardens.

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mono water dessi edition

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first time i play a warden counter first time they never show it came down to a rush off however spike drew better with 4 of his fire bolts to 1 of my dessis and my shield got deflagged the turn i played them. could've gone either its just the draw was in spikes favour on this occasion.

[Rutarete]

Rutarete 0 - 3 Justaburd

Built my decks to be anti-CC, looking at his cardpool/vault, but all he used was the same Immorush

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[justaburd]

justaburd 3 - rutarete 0

We desync'd every game. But poor ruta also lost to the ai every game. I'd have liked to actually play ruta

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I saw aether on ruta's list, so that meant, for me, the reliable immorush.

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I saw the reliable immo had trouble with ducks. I added 2 deflags. never drew em.

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I felt ruta would surely play something cc heavy, so I used the unupped version of the monofire I always use.

GGs ruta. It was a pleasure playing you/the ai cause servers don't like cooperating. Good luck in the later rounds.

[dragonsdemesne]

dragonsdemesne - 3
fippe94 - 0

GGs.  Sorry about using the same deck all three times, but when planning my strategy I couldn't think of any way for you to beat it reliably, so I decided to use it every time unless you found a counter I hadn't considered.  Your third deck (fractal) was the only archetype I could think of that came even close, and as predicted, that game was extremely close.  I made a video recording of the match, but the sound didn't record for some reason, and it was going to take 45 minutes to upload, so I didn't bother.

Games 1, 2, and 3

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Game 1:

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Fippe uses a monodeath rush, something I had expected in testing and felt confident I could beat.  However, when we desync on about turn 5-6, his ai plays bone wall, which is banned for this event.  It was really too bad for him, because fippe would have won the game had the bone wall been any other legal card, including a dead card.  I had no miracles and only one shard of sacrifice drawn, so I couldn't stem his assault long enough for my damage to do the job.

Game 2:

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Fippe uses a death rush with shard of bravery off the mark.  I'm very worried when I have a sole death pend as my quanta source, but I have three shard of sacrifice, and that ends up being key.  We desync again, and I beat his ai easily.  He loses to my ai, decking out when I had 2hp left... 

Game 3:

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Fippe uses fractal recluse.  I had predicted in testing that fractal dragon would be his best option against this deck, and while I did think of fractal minor phoenix, I didn't actually consider fractal recluse at all, though fortunately the concept is identical.  I end up winning by exact damage.  Had fippe had 1 more hp, I had topdecked a miracle to survive; had he 1 more hp and had I topdecked something worthless, he would have won.

[Fippe94]

Fippe94 0-3 dragonsdemesne

Illegal deck game 1

Game 2:

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Game 3:

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Good games, as usual! Feels a bit bad for failing game 1, though, but that's what happens when you always speedbuild.
And I didn't actually deckout on game 2, your ai killed me, while I had 0 cards left and you had 2 hp It was pretty intense.

[Jen-i]

Zawadx 3 - 2 Jen-i
Congrats on the win Zawadx

Spoiler for Game #1 - Mono Light vs Stall Faster?=Loss:

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10 pillars in my first 14 cards - more damage or a Miracle would have likely given me the game, but my third card was reflective shield and my 4th was my 2nd Morning Star, so pretty much as bad a draw as I could have in this one.

Spoiler for Game #2 - Mono Light vs Fire Stall = Win:

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High HP creatures - Check. Healing Ability - Check. Mirror Shield - Check. Pretty much hard countered him here.

Spoiler for Game #3 - Mono Light vs Psiontal = Win:

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Crap draw for him - its the first time I played my mirror shield and its highly likely I didn't need to do so

Spoiler for Game #4 - Pulvy Smash vs RoL/Hope = Loss:

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For some reason I thought Dims were legal. So I brought a counter to a non-existent Dim Deck. My deck list had me playing the deck I played in game #5, which would have been a perfect counter - unfortunately I'm an idiot - and he played a solid counter to me. I still had a chance, but only drew a single dragon in the first 19 cards, no where near enough damage to kill him thru Hope.

Spoiler for Game #5 - Mono Water Rush vs Stall Faster = Loss:

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I included 8 Nymphs because it significantly improved my odds of having 2 in my opening hand, unfortunately that was not to be. He bolted each nymph as I played it, his deck gave him what he needed to win, my deck did not

[Zawadx]

Zawadx 3-2 Jen-i. Whew, that was close. Epic RNG is epic

Spoiler for Game 1: Mono Fire vs. Mono Light WIN:

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Jen had good hand, but sucky topdecks No miracle for him gave me an unexpected win.

Spoiler for Game 2: Firestall vs. Mono Light LOSS:

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Expected Jen to change from Mono Light to... other stuff. But nope.
Jen rushed hard. Also, Golden Dragon OP xD

Spoiler for Game 3: Psiontal vs. Mono Light LOSS:

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Still expected a deck change from Jen. Wasn't coming...
Reflective + OP Dragon rush = gg

Spoiler for RoL/Hope vs. Pulvy Smash WIN:

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Not expecting a deck change... whoops, there it is!
At first I was up against quanta lock, but RoL/Hope is too awesome for that. RNG also didn't give Jen any creatures :c. Ended up beating him down with RoLs

Spoiler for Mono Fire vs. Mono Water Rush WIN:

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Fire bolt too stronk, so not one of Jen's nymphs survived its first turn. Really awesome RNG here, as 8 Nymphs from Jen vs. 6 bolts from me wasn't a good matchup.

Best of luck later Jen. And woo! I think this saves me from elimination Round 3 ^^