Sacrifice - Round 3 Matches and Battle Results

[RootRanger]

MATCHES
Kuroaitou (18) vs dawn to dusk (0)
andretimpa (12) vs mrpaper (0)
treebeard xiii (12) vs Naesala (0)
DANIEELA (12) vs ddevans96 (0)
CCCombobreaker (12) vs CrockettRocket (0)
ARTHANASIOS (10) vs dragonsdemesne (0)
dark ripper (10) vs Jen-i (0)
theelkspeaks (8) vs Zawadx (2)
Fippe94 (8) vs Odii Odsen (2)
mathman101 (8) vs ji412jo (2)
qwerter (8) vs Blacksmith (2)
Kakerlake (6) vs Afdarenty (2)
justaburd (6) vs Dm1321 (2)
Submachine (6) vs Spielkind (6)
SpikeSpiegel (6) vs Rutarete (6)

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.

Spoiler for Sacrifices:

Note that the Number 1 seed and Number 30 seed already played each other in Round 2.

Click here for the vaults.

Click here for the standings.

Click here for the full rules.

Round 3 has ended.

[RootRanger]

The first 9-card Sacrifice of the event has been made by Kuroaitou. Previously, the highest sacrifice was 8 cards, made by qwerter in Round 1. The largest vault is 55 cards, held by Jen-i, who is in 10th place with a 5-3 record. The smallest vault is 34 cards, held by CCCombobreaker. His sacrifices seem to have paid off, however, since he is currently at the very top, with a perfect 6-0 record.

There are two matches between players who have 6 wins. Kakerlake, who is 6-1, is playing Afdarenty, who is 6-2. Submachine, who is 6-0, is playing Spielkind, who is 6-3. It's very exciting to see some of the top players in the event facing off against each other.

With only 20 spots for Round 4, these are going to be the final matches for 10 players. While the highest ranking players are certain to make it, most players are in danger of being eliminated. Who will triumph, and who will have to head home? Let's see what happens!

[dragonsdemesne]

Oops... I thought round 2 was still ongoing; I thought there was still one pairing we were waiting on.  I didn't know the deadline had even started, much less ended :p  Fortunately, I lucked out by getting the lowest possible upgraded opponent this time.  Given the standings, I would have likely made a fairly small sacrifice anyway; my plan was to go big if I lost in round 2 to try and stave off elimination, and go small if I won in round 2.

[RootRanger]

Rounds always start at Wednesday night (in the US) or early Thursday morning (in Europe). Preparation begins at least 24 hours in advance.

If you're worried about missing the deadline, you can send in your sacrifices as early as you wish. In fact, if you really wanted to, you could actually send me all your sacrifices from Round 4 through Round 8 right now.

[dragonsdemesne]

Alright, good to know; I won't have any excuse next round :p  (if I'm still here!)

[CCCombobreaker]

you could actually send me all your sacrifices from Round 4 through Round 8 right now.

That would be pretty ambitious 

[theelkspeaks]

Game 1

Spoiler for Hidden:

Chargetal vs. Monolight Rush

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55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55s 576 576 576 576 576 576 61q 61q 61q 622 622 622 622 622 745 745 745 745 745 745 81q 81q 8pu

I got zerged into oblivion by not having enough gravity quanta to play my chargers fast enough.  Zawad's 2nd-last turn miracle ensured the final outcome.

Game 2

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Overdriven Dragons vs. Phoenixbolt

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55k 55k 55k 55k 55m 55m 55m 55m 55m 55o 55o 55o 55o 55o 55o 55p 55p 55p 576 576 576 576 744 744 744 74i 74i 74i 74i 74i 8pl

This got kinda scary, but luckily my Armagios held his damage off long enough to win.  My quanta was a little low, so I decided to play the deck again but with an extra pillar.

Game 3

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Overdriven Dragons vs. Monolight Rush

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55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55m 55m 55m 55m 55m 55o 55o 55o 55o 55o 55p 55p 55p 576 576 576 576 744 744 744 74i 74i 74i 74i 74i 8pl

Early gravity shield effectively ended the game.  With three overdriven creatures on the field for me, even Miracles weren't enough to deck me out, and gravy shield blocked all his creatures.

Game 4

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Overdriven Dragons vs. Firestall

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55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55m 55m 55m 55m 55m 55o 55o 55o 55o 55o 55p 55p 55p 576 576 576 576 744 744 744 74i 74i 74i 74i 74i 8pl

The deck I'd built this one to deal with - My creatures were too big to kill with pots/bolts, so I got to build up more and more damage until even after his miracle, I was able to TTK before he got the quanta for a second.

Final score

Spoiler for Hidden:

theelkspeaks 3-1 Zawadx

Very good games Zawadx!  This almost makes up for that last day of BL loss to you!

[Zawadx]

Zawadx 1-3 theelkspeaks

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Perfect draw; Miracle sealed the game.

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Decent draw for a general matchup, but both deflags were dead. Close enough though, a topdeck earlier would've sealed it.

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Was expecting gravy again, but being a noob I forgot the shield. 3 miracles and 1 nymph in hand, but 1 pillar draw. He ended up TTKing before I could miracle a second time.

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Was expecting a deck change. Gawd, I gotta stop doing that >.< Blown away...

Still, ggs elk! Always a pleasure facing you

EDIT: whoops, wrong deck

[Blacksmith]

Qwerter 8: 3
Blacksmith 2:  2

Strange matchup. I started with healing but got countered buy lobo. After that I tried to rush the best I could. It worked twice and in the third I lost by a turn.

Spoiler for decks:

Match 1

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Match 2 and 3

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Match 4

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Match 5

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Congrats for winning Zawasx I hope you will go far in this event.

[DoubleCapitals]

qwerter 3-2 Blacksmith

Game 1 (WIN):

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61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61q 61q 61u 61u 62m 62m 62m 62m 62m 808 808 80c 80c 80c 80f 80f 816 8pu

SoWs vs Water/Light Nymphs

Early Lobo forced him to hold up his first nymph until he could play two, Pretty much I Loboed all his Light Nymphs though

Game 2 (LOSS):

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Immorush vs Mono Water Rush
A tad too slow there, got him down to 4hp, which if I remember correctly, also happened in two of my games against Spielkind :/

Game 3 (LOSS):

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Steamy CC deck vs Mono Water Rush

Too little quanta on my part, never pulled out the Red Nymphs fast enough

Game 4 (WIN):

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Fractcluse (I think that's what it's called? Idk) vs Mono Water Rush

More or less I went to try to outrush him. And I did

Game 5 (WIN):

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Fractcluse vs Mono Water Rush

He added in some Permafrost, he had good luck with my Recluses being frosted down to 2/6 unfrozen at one point. It was a tad too late for him though; barely managed to win this one.

Good games

[Naesala]

0-3

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[treebeard xiii]

treebeard xiii 3-0 Naesala

well considering my opponent was expecting to have been eliminated by now I can kinda see why the result is as it is.

Spoiler for decks used:

game 1

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game 2

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game 3

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