Colosseum II - Round 4

[Laxadarap]

BATTLES MAY COMMENCE!  Battles are concluded
You may post the results and decks in this thread.

Friendly Reminders:

• If you have talent thief or copycat, choose before your battle and inform your opponent.  There is no reason to pm me, just include it when you post your decks.  I encourage you to send early on, in your first scheduling pm.  This gives your opponent time to plan.
• If you win and you send in your strength, then make sure that you copy/paste the entire strength "Tough: You are defeated when you lose one additional duel."  Also, make sure the word "strength" is in the title or in the body of the message, or there is a chance I will miss it.
• If you have a question about a deck legality, please send me a pm, I will be glad to answer it.  Whether I am in chat and I see it, or if it is forum PM, asking me is a lot safer than fielding illegal decks.  I am here to help you guys

Spoiler for Kakerlake vs. Dragoon:

Name: Roach Style: Healer - Sanctuary, Purify, Heal, Holy Light Strengths: REPLACED - Self-Confident: If eight or less gladiators remain in the brackets, replace Self-Confident with two strengths. May only be taken as starting strength. + Tough: You are defeated when you lose one additional duel. + Adaptable: You may ignore one of each Arena's Environmental Effects. + Merciless: Elemental Mastery wins count as two wins. + Mighty: You may use up to three extra upgraded cards in your decks. + Intimidating: Your opponent must use six less upgraded cards.  Choose an extra weakness. Weaknesses: - Crybaby: You may use 6 copies of Nymph's Tears in every deck, but must not use Fire cards. - Slow: your deck must have at least 36 cards in it. - Lazy: Strengths gained from victories are postponed until only two gladiators remain.

--Barren Expanse--  Overview: The great city has closed it's gates, and is forcing you to battle to the death to gain entry.  If you don't, the desert will claim you.  Environmental Advantage: Pharoahs, Scarabs, Devonion Dragon, and Anubis may be upgraded  You may use shriekers (not graboids).  Environmental Disadvantage: Dehydration: If you lose two duels in a row, you lose the match (if not, it is still a best of 5).

Name: Dragoon Style: Assassin - Dune Scorpion, Poison, Basilisk Blood, Aflatoxin Strengths: REPLACED Self-Confident: If eight or less gladiators remain in the brackets, replace Self-Confident with two strengths. May only be taken as starting strength. + Tough: You are defeated when you lose one additional duel. + Brave: If your opponent has access to more upgrades than you, you win after one less victory. + Revenge: After a defeat, you may use 4 extra upgraded cards.  Resets after a win.  Does stack. + Talent Thief: At the start of the round, choose one of your opponent's Style Cards. You gain access to that card for the remainder of the round. + Intimidating: Your opponent must use six less upgraded cards.  Choose an extra weakness. Weaknesses: - Berserk: You may use up to six copies of Rage Potion but must not use shields or any card that causes your HP to increase (except where required by arena rules). - Skinny: All decks must be exactly 30 cards. You also must use two less upgrades than normal. - Lazy: Strengths gained from victories are postponed until only two gladiators remain.

Spoiler for Calindu vs. Zso_Zso:

Name: Calindu Style: Midnight Denizen - Steal, Skull Shield, Minor Vampire, Cloak Strengths: + Attuned: When you use only cards from one element in your deck, you may use 6 more upgraded cards. + Brutish: You may use an additional six upgraded cards in every deck.  Choose one extra Weakness. + First Blood: In the first two matches you may use 5 additional upgraded cards (refreshes against new opponents). + Intimidating: Your opponent must use six less upgraded cards.  Choose an extra weakness. Weaknesses: - Unfocused: You may only use 3 copies of any style card used in your deck. - Crybaby: You may use 6 copies of Nymph's Tears in every deck, but must not use Fire cards. - Coward: When facing an opponent, if he/she can use more upgrades than you (in the 1st game) you lose access to all non-starting strengths (for the duration of the round).  Ex.  Player A can use 3 upgrades in the first game.  Player B can use 6 upgrades in the first round.  Player A has coward.  Player A loses all strengths except for starting strength while playing Player B. - Stupid: Every other opponent bested doesn't earn you a strength.

--Strange Shrine--    Overview: A strange formation that seems to defy the laws of gravity.  There is a floating waterfall that randomly stops flowing, then reverses, flowing upwards.  You get a strange feeling as you approach it.  Environmental Advantage:  You may use shards.  You may choose one card that your opponent may not use in their deck.  Environmental Disadvantage: For every shard in your deck, you must use a relic.

Name: Zso_Zso Style: Golden Templar - Eternity, Crusader, Reflective Shield, Silence Strengths: + First Blood: In the first two matches you may use 5 additional upgraded cards (refreshes against new opponents). + Tough: You are defeated when you lose one additional duel. + Brutish: You may use an additional six upgraded cards in every deck.  Choose one extra Weakness. + Mighty: You may use up to three extra upgraded cards in your decks. Weaknesses: - Coward: When facing an opponent, if he/she can use more upgrades than you (in the 1st game) you lose access to all non-starting strengths (for the duration of the round).  Ex.  Player A can use 3 upgrades in the first game.  Player B can use 6 upgrades in the first round.  Player A has coward.  Player A loses all strengths except for starting strength while playing Player B.  - Mindless: You must not change your deck until you lose with it. - Pious: You may use up to six copies of Guardian Angel or archangel in any deck but must never use Darkness cards.

Spoiler for Yet another Inspirational Gif:

Even Sloths can fly

[Laxadarap]

Note: Zso_Zso's Coward was triggered (8 upgrades to 11).  This means Zso's only strength is First blood. 
This means Zso loses 9 additional ups from loss of Brutish and Mighty. 
Upgrades are now at 12 to 0 for the first 2 games.  This stays the same for all matches, as when Zso loses first blood, he gains -5 ups, which transfer over to Calindu, as he loses his 5 upgrades. 

[Zso_Zso]

Congrats Calindu, you outplayed me at the strength choice !
I was thinking too positively when trying to get the max ups instead of looking at the options how to reduce the opponent's....

OK, questions about the arena:

Environmental Advantage:  You may use shards.  You may choose one card that your opponent may not use in their deck.

Is that 1 card banned for all the decks of the match, or could it be a different card for each game within the match ?
Do we send the banned card to the organizer ASAP, so that we can design that decks with the knowledge of the ban ?

[Laxadarap]

Send banned card to opponent (probably when scheduling), or just do it right before your match, doesn't matter to me.  (I don't need to know it until I see the decks at end).  It is banned for all games in the match.

[MyNameIsJoey]

if zso loses brutish due to coward, should he also lose the weakness that came with it?
And what if that weakness is coward? Loophole?

[Laxadarap]

He keeps all of his weaknesses. 

[Dragoon]

Interesting that Kakerlake and I chose the same Strength and Weakness last round. Great minds think alike!

I have a question about Calindu. If he wins this round, does he get a Strength or not (since he chose Stupid last round)?

[Laxadarap]

The first win nets you one, the second doesn't.  So yes he would get one for this round, not for next.  Next round is final round, so it doesn't matter (kinda the same thing as lazy)

[Kakerlake]

Spoiler for 1st: Win:

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early Turtle was OP!
after that, Eternity sealed the deal.

Spoiler for 2nd: Loss:

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too much CC for my creatures. Fahren sealed the deal.

Spoiler for 3rd: Loss:

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too much CC for my creatures. Fahren sealed the deal.

Spoiler for 4th: Loss:

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Only got Quanta, 1 Pharaoh and 2 Heals.

ggs, thanks for the matches!

[Dragoon]

Dragoon 3 - 1 Kakerlake

Spoiler for Kakerlake vs. Dragoon:

Name: Roach Style: Healer - Sanctuary, Purify, Heal, Holy Light Strengths: REPLACED - Self-Confident: If eight or less gladiators remain in the brackets, replace Self-Confident with two strengths. May only be taken as starting strength. + Tough: You are defeated when you lose one additional duel. + Adaptable: You may ignore one of each Arena's Environmental Effects. + Merciless: Elemental Mastery wins count as two wins. + Mighty: You may use up to three extra upgraded cards in your decks. + Intimidating: Your opponent must use six less upgraded cards.  Choose an extra weakness. Weaknesses: - Crybaby: You may use 6 copies of Nymph's Tears in every deck, but must not use Fire cards. - Slow: your deck must have at least 36 cards in it. - Lazy: Strengths gained from victories are postponed until only two gladiators remain.

--Barren Expanse--  Overview: The great city has closed it's gates, and is forcing you to battle to the death to gain entry.  If you don't, the desert will claim you.  Environmental Advantage: Pharoahs, Scarabs, Devonion Dragon, and Anubis may be upgraded  You may use shriekers (not graboids).  Environmental Disadvantage: Dehydration: If you lose two duels in a row, you lose the match (if not, it is still a best of 5).

Name: Dragoon Style: Assassin - Dune Scorpion, Poison, Basilisk Blood, Aflatoxin Strengths: REPLACED Self-Confident: If eight or less gladiators remain in the brackets, replace Self-Confident with two strengths. May only be taken as starting strength. + Tough: You are defeated when you lose one additional duel. + Brave: If your opponent has access to more upgrades than you, you win after one less victory. + Revenge: After a defeat, you may use 4 extra upgraded cards.  Resets after a win.  Does stack. + Talent Thief: At the start of the round, choose one of your opponent's Style Cards. You gain access to that card for the remainder of the round. + Intimidating: Your opponent must use six less upgraded cards.  Choose an extra weakness. Weaknesses: - Berserk: You may use up to six copies of Rage Potion but must not use shields or any card that causes your HP to increase (except where required by arena rules). - Skinny: All decks must be exactly 30 cards. You also must use two less upgrades than normal. - Lazy: Strengths gained from victories are postponed until only two gladiators remain.

Kakerlake had an uphill battle since he couldn't use Fire at all. That's why I never picked that weakness. It's practically an auto-loss in the Fire arenas. Otherwise, it's one of the better Weaknesses, in my opinion.

Game 1 - LOSS

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Thought he might bring an NT deck. Was wrong. RTs, Turtle, and Eternity made me cry.

Game 2 & 3 - WIN

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I almost felt like I was cheating with this deck. I'd be willing to bet that this deck could win against almost all his decks, if not all of them, with a pretty good win rate. Fire is OP.

Game 4 - WIN

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I thought he might try a rush with lots of high-hp creatures and/or cheap creatures to push past all my CC. So I went with my anti-rush deck. It worked.

I gotta give Kakerlake kudos for some creative decks. I don't think I came close to replicating any decks he actually used during my practice sessions.

[Laxadarap]

If you win your match, send me the element you want for the final arena with your strength PM.  (You choose 1 of the 2 elements that you played in during your first arena).  You and your opponent can both use this. 

[Calindu]

Calindu 3-2 Zso_Zso

Game 1: WIN

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This one was the easiest one, got a fast Titan on the table then damaged him like that until I killed him with Chargers in 1 turn.

Game 2: WIN

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Got a comeback in this game, once I had 1 Charger and 2 Guards AMed on the table then came back to damage him and kill him.

Game 3: LOSS

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Too many AMs to counter, had to try to kill him faster as he got 2 dragons on the table.

Game 4: LOSS

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Too little quanta, Eternity+Nymphs ate me, seeds did nothing good.

Game 5: WIN

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This one was a good and close one, came back from me having 0 pillars, him with Eternity+BEed Salvager on the table and 19 hp to kill him with 2 dragons when I had 3 hp left.

Ggs Zso!