Kakerlake vs Shantu

[The_Mormegil]

Kakerlake

VERSUS

Shantu

[PlayerOa]

--Arctic Arena--

    * Overview: frozen stairs and ice over collapsing buildings.  Portals connect the different places and extradimensionals beings have established themselves here.
    * Environmental Advantage: Every deck with at least three Floodings may use up to six copies of one card from another element, even if it is not a Style card.
    * Environmental Disadvantage: You must not use more than 4 shields and / or weapons TOTAL in any of your decks (i.e. 1 weapon and 3 shields is okay, 4 weapons and 4 shields is not).

[Jappert]

Hey! I wanted that arena vs Shantu...

Good luck both!

[Shantu]

Shantu 3 - 1 Kakerlake

Game 1: LOSS

by Shantu

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He started off with like 7 pendulums. I drew no pendulums and he gathered too much quanta before I could start EQing his pends - squids stopped my dragons then and toads beat me down.

Game 2: WIN

by Shantu

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I don't think Kaker expected this. I played a discord on turn 3. Despite my 1 grav pend draw (I always drew at least 2 in testing -_-) I could gather 3 and black hole him via my nymph then kill him with toads. Luckily, he drew no squids and his trident was late.

Game 3: WIN

by Shantu

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After all the denial I thought a rush with some control would be nice. I bolted all his squids and waited patiently with 3 dragons, a toad and 2 ice bolts in my hand while he was protected. After his dim shield(s? can't remember) ended (4 dim shields in 36 cards cannot really be chained) I played all my creatures and defeated him.

Game 4: WIN

by Shantu

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This match was really close. I played my trident early and started destroying his pillars/pends as soon as possible, but he played two squids in like turn 3, which meant I had to keep my dragons in my hand. I played a squid as a freeze-bait (to sink his quanta) but it wasn't really enough. When I got enough quanta (and the freeze-counter of my squid was 1) I played all 3 dragons I had accumulated in my hand, but he froze them all. I then drew another. Luckily, he didn't have enough to freeze both attacking dragons - I won with 8 hp left.

Good games.

[Jappert]

Game 2: WIN

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I don't think Kaker expected this. I played a discord on turn 3. Despite my 1 grav pend draw (I always drew at least 2 in testing -_-) I could gather 3 and black hole him via my nymph then kill him with toads. Luckily, he drew no squids and his trident was late.

Imba matches, what gave you this deck idea?

[Kakerlake]

Kakerlake: "Ohai, come closer, I won't hurt you. I promise!"
Shantu: "All right."
*charges minigun* fwiiiiii
Kakerlake: "What a pleasant sound your music box is making. Mind if I..."
ftrtrtrtrtrtr *splash&splatter*
Kakerlake: "wrargh! y u no like me? "
*dies*

1st: Win

by Kakerlake

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Heck of a game!
His relatively late trident started mashing my loads of Pillars when I already had plenty quanta. My even later Trident did the same, but luckily I got a squid out very early, which saved my day.
When his health started dropping, he spammed 3 Dragon, all of them got frozen eventually, leaving me at a dangerously low HP level, while his health didn't look much better.
In the end, I won with only 14 Health left.

2nd: Loss
Same deck again... I asked RNG, she said to use it again *rolleye* well, so be it.
Early discord hit just before I was able to play my trident. After a while of pretty much nothing happening, I finally gathered some quanta to play Trident and start rolling, just then Shantu Nymphed a Gravity Pend, letting him have his 3 and slurpy all my stuff dry. The one and only slurping he was able to do, but it was enough to stall me long enough to win.

3rd: Loss

by Kakerlake

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This is more of an expermiental deck, didn't work out though, as I started with only 1 Pillar and one Pend for some turns. Additionally my Squids got instantly bolted.
Even my few shields couldn't help much anymore and it was soon game over.

4th: Loss

by Kakerlake

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I lovingly called this deck "Miracle Stall", though this time it played totally different.
I had like 6 starting pillars and got a few squids out with my single luckydraw Morning Star :O
Shantu countered with a Trident which slowly killed all my Quanta. My squids held an army of dragons off quite well, but it was no use, as I never reached 15 to miracle, giving him <10 HP win.

Awesome games, thanks for the matches Shantu!