Most sensational Arena matches

[dragonsdemesne]

It took me 29 turns to kill this farm, and I didn't even win anything!  It had SoSas, SoVs, SoSes, and at least one SoP that I mindgated.  At one point, the AI had a thirteen turn SoSa chain on its hp.  Not only that, but I only won 242 electrum from a platinum EM.  The weird thing is that this deck actually had some wins, if I recall.  Maybe people thought it was a ghostmare and quit?

[dragonsdemesne]

I missed the screenshot due to creatures attacking in an order I didn't expect, and killed him one turn earlier than anticipated, but I just beat the #5 ranked platinum deck (player=Parasite, monodeath spider/arsenic SoSas) when he had a chain of seven turns of Sosa up, by using my purple nymph to antimatter my huge steam machine.  I forgot that the machine attacked before everything else, and so it instakilled him; if it hadn't been first, I'd have needed 1 more turn as the nymph would have healed him first by just enough to keep him alive a turn. (not that it would've mattered, I had the game locked down, I just expected to have to wait out the SoSa first)

[dragonsdemesne]

Ho, hum.  Just another day taking names and kicking ass...





Early sanc made all the difference, as his card was black hole.  Apparently he didn't think PC was that important.  He got one explosion off, and I think one steal, and had one on the topdeck (the ones in hand I mindgated on the last turn)  Gravity shield kept most of his critters away, and since his tiny bit of PC went all to hourglasses, it survived even without PA.  Pulvy took out all his towers and hourglasses.  I lightning bolted anything that got past gravity shield.

[Elite arbiter]

This match gives a fun story, so lets lay out the groundwork.

by Elite Arbiter

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My opposing AI is playing a deja-vu mass buff rush deck. I get a bad hand at first insofar as I don't have Arsenic in my opening hand, so I only have 3 deadly poisons to chip 9 hp a turn away. My Beefy opponent has ~170 hp. This is gonna take a while.

The game plays very simply, and I believe that its going to be a clean sweep, although the arsenic issue is keeping me worried. It doesn't look like this deck will give me any curveballs though, how could it? Its a simple deck that depends on pure rush capacity. So it keeps playing its entropy and time quanta, and after a bit has 2 12 ATK Deja's, a unsplit momentum deja, and a regular unsplit deja. I'm at about 100-110 hp, so I figure that I'll take one more turn to get my hp lower, and then throw out SoSa.

Well as it turns out this deck has a surprise in store for me. Until now it had about 6-7 cards in its hand, which I wasn't paying any attention to, and the little attention I devoted to them was of the "oh its just focused on low quanta and not caring about burning all its cards instantly, weird for a rush deck but meh" variety. However on this turn it plays 3 Supernova, and 5 buff cards, I know at least 1 blessing, at least 1 Rage Pot, and at least 1 Chaos Power, and duplicates the deja's on the field, skyrocketing its damage output far up. I wasn't paying attention to the actual numbers since the buffs were coming on so quickly and it was part-randomized, but the yellow health indication was grim. Therefore...

I survive with 44 HP. After a moment to contemplate what just happened, I proceed to laugh and take SoSa to the bank.

... 4 turns later, it still has a huge buffer of hp, I'm running dry on SoSa, and still no Arsenic. Or Deadly Poisons for that matter. And its still got a huge balloon of hp, over 100. I'm getting worried now, but after a long battle of it getting me down, me keeping up SoSa's, and eventually getting my arsenic when the opponent had under 90 hp and I had 11-12 cards left in the deck, and good fortune in the last few turns, it ends in a crushing defeat.



Boy, 220 Hp EM's are tasty.
I also notice that this was the first match for the deck, and since there's a mark switch to light, I wonder what deck he has now...

[darkrobe]

Its always satisfying to overcome a (I believe it was at least) 14 turn chain of shard of sacrifice to beat one of these splat variants. He got unlucky that i pulled a mindgate and purify from my first shard of serendipity.

[Polari]

I rolled my sixth SoSa moments ago and loaded up SPlat for the first time. Immediately got two rings up on platinum. This is how the third game ended:

[zhangvict]

^ Same situation for me, but I won

Made a partially upped SPlat deck after getting my 6th SoSac. I used unupped Sosacs and SoDs because I couldn't bear to up my hard earn rare shards lol, would ages to farm some more unupped ones

I was against a damageless deckout deck with at least 4 miracles (AI used 4 in one game) I was thinking 'fuuuu, omg when is this gonna end'. Finally after the 100+ poison counters and 2 cards from decking out, I win.



Second Screenshot - I spin - a miracle. Ahh the irony!

[SnoWeb]

3 last actions of an epic battle:







Notice the EM victory with 1HP ...

[mwaetht]

No screenshots, but I was farming with a SoSe rainbow, and I meet yet another unoriginal mono-:death SoSac farmer. Fortunately, I pull Arctic Octopus and get a Guard mutant, so I manage to lock down a lot of my own damage down. The opponent keeps spamming SoSac, though, and it looks like I'm going to deck out. Just when I'm at 3 cards, one of my SoSe pull Eternity for me, and I had pulled a Time Tower a few turns before. I start rewinding Werewolf to wait out the SoSac spam.

As they keep spamming SoSac, though, my HP keeps getting chipped away to poison despite my enormous Bone Wall. I forgot that the Vampire Dagger I was using to keep myself alive is no longer there. I hit 14 HP with 13 poison counters, I have absolutely no healing, and the opponent still has 16 HP and two turns left on their SoSac (and three poison counters, due to my Deadly Poison earlier). Hoping for a miracle, I dump my hand of useless-against-SoSac cards and play the last SoSe I had saved up... and pull Antimatter and Sky Blitz. (And a Pendulum.) I improved-mutate my 8/17 Otyugh into a Dune Scorpion with 2 : Hatch, and hatch it for a 12-ATK Ice Dragon.

Trololol.

[Wizy]

not really a sensational match but a sensational payday
platinum + #1 + 1hp =  ding ding  JACKPOT   

[furballdn]

No screenies, but I remember going up against a ghostmare with instosis. I ended up discarding instosis combo cards and instead use my quanta to play down nightmare'd ghosts, and I even mitosisreadied a ghost.

[zhangvict]

No screenies, but I remember going up against a ghostmare with instosis. I ended up discarding instosis combo cards and instead use my quanta to play down nightmare'd ghosts, and I even mitosisreadied a ghost.

When I was up against a ghostmare with sosac neurotoxin, I simply discarded ghosts while on Sosa to heal myself when AI didn't have 20 dmg on the field.