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Very nice matches, even though I lost 3-0.
The first game I went with my simple Graboid rush that was my main deck, but got horribly out-speeded by drawing only 2 out of my 16 Pillars in comparison to Arturus's first turn Flying Gavel, Fog Shield, 2 SoGs, and Chrysora.
The second time I figured to use the Pest deck as I would need some perm control, and Novas can be sucked up in a matter of turns, and got a very good draw when we started. Unfortunately he was not in the same game as I was, so I had to retry and got a significantly worse hand with no Pests and I think only 2 Towers once again. It might have ended differently had my sole Pest that I eventually got out decided to take his one
and prevent a Graboid from evolving (It was something like a 1/4 chance), but my luck was no better there than anywhere else in the match, so of course it didn't happen.
The third game I decided to change back to my Graboid rush, in the hopes that it would do better, but I enede up pulling not 2, but 6 Towers this time, and a 7th before I drew another Shrieker.
Regardless of that, Arturus said he did not have any Novas in-hand, and I had some hope to win, until he managed to draw one on the bonus from going second. Even with all that, I still would have won the game had he not drawn a fatal Nova on the last turn, which enabled him to play a Chrysora and Poison me, sending his 27 damage up to 30 and my HP from 28 to 0.
All in all, GGs Arturus, but I hope you know that this loss does not faze me; I'll simply come back from the loser's bracket to win it all!