I was farming some Platinum again with my 500HP EM deck and saw another Mono Darkness, first impression was "oh, let me guess, 9001 Steals, this is gonna be a quick exit" but when the game started the arena deck only started with a single Pendulum. My start was decent, although it had a bit too many Granite Skins (3 in starting hand D:
) but I figured my early Hourglass could take care of it...
Surprise, surprise, it instantly got stolen. Luckily, that and Eclipse were the only things the deck could even pay for up to now so I went ahead and went to bide away some time, soon I got my first Sanct up for some reliable healing and to prevent those Pests from eating all of my quanta. Vamps were soon tearing a hole through my defenses though, but I drew Inundation and Dragons and Vampires were dying all over the place (that's right, Inundation saved my life!
). Of course, that one Sanctuary wasn't going to cut it, I regularly drew Sundials to stall a bit, got a Quinted Otyugh, Pa-ed Eternity early and got a second Sanct, but I had to use my Stone Skins to keep myself alive while the Otyugh had to nom Pests and Vampires one by one before it got to the size at which it could eat that Obsidian Dragon. In the end, I finally drew my second Bone Wall and another Hourglass. Albeit the Hourglass instantly got stolen that Bone Wall sealed the opponents' fate. Getting a Quinted Mitosis Gnome and a BE made things that much easier. Unfortunately, that big fat Otyugh and my Eternity easily beat the opponent afterwards, before I could even draw all my Stone Skins or heal to full health