Team The Retirement Home vs. Team Rubba-Duck-Duck

[TStar]

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	Team The Retirement Home	Versus	Team Rubba-Duck-Duck
	Jen-i		Nilsieboy
	jmizzle7		RavingRabbid
	TStar		Higurashi

[TStar]

With jmdt's unexpected departure from the Elements community, Jeni-i has agreed to replace him on Team Retirement Home (which ironically has had 2 members retire since the start of the event).

[Higurashi]

Higurashi 2 - 0 TStar

First game was a nailbiter, second was over before it began.

by Higurashi

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5uk 5up 5up 5uq 5uq 5ur 5ut 5ut 5ut 5ut 61q 61q 61q 622 622 622 622 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pt

No real point in bringing Devourers against his elements, so I just went for Vamps. When I saw his deck, I figured it'd be Pandes, Miracles and Sancs, and I was very happy I had Fractal. It didn't let me down this time either, but only because he didn't draw more Miracles. Purple Nymph was a surprise, and he AM'd some Vamps before I drew another Lightning.

by Higurashi

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5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5la 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61u 61u 622 8pu

His stall was at 35 cards, and my stall beat a lot of offensive decks, so it felt like a good pick. He intended to change to a Vader Sader variant, but hadn't. Decked him out eventually, giving us much time to chat.
Still undefeated. I feel like I have the ultimate elements. <3

[TStar]

GGs Higs.  I hope this isn't the last time we have a chance to duel.  A true pleasure playing such a skilled opponent.

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4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vl 4vl 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vp 4vp 4vp 500 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 5l8 5l8 5l8 5li 5li 5li 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 8pq

I was expecting fractal vampires at some point and I was it right off the bat.  Set up well with the Purple Nymph and a Miracle in the opening hand.  Stalled it out for quite some time even with her stealing 2 Sanctuaries before burning the Miracle.  Every time she got a fractal out I used Pandemonium to kill most of it.  Around the middle of the game she emptied her hand so I played the Purple Nymph and got a good half dozen vampires turned before she got a Lightning.  In the end she overtook me when I only had 6 cards left, 2 of them Miracles that would have sealed the deal for me.
Same deck.
I figured off a Fractal deck she'd come back with a Parallel Universe deck so I doubled up.  Or at least I'd like to pretend I planned it.  In reality I meant to use a Vader Sader type deck but I didn't click Import.  I don't think it would have made much of a difference in the end because her deck was far too large for me to kill off with all the permanents she had in Lobotomizer, Dimensional Shield, and Sanctuary.

[RavingRabbid]

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590 590 590 590 590 590 593 593 593 593 593 5ro 5ro 5ru 5ru 5ru 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 8pm

by RavingRabbid

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5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 5uo 5uo 5uo 5up 5up 5up 5ur 5ur 5uv 5uv 5uv 5v1 5v2 5v2 5v2 5v2 8pt

Heh.

[RavingRabbid]

(Jmizzle won 2-0)

[jmizzle7]

jmizzle7 2 - RavingRabbid 0

Deck for both games

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4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vd 4vd 4vd 4vd 4vd 4vd 4vl 4vl 4vl 50u 5oc 5on 5on 5on 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5op
I looked over RR's elemental combinations, and the most obviously strong deck that came to mind was Graboids, especially when paired with Ghost and cards like Earthquake and Eternity. So naturally, I played the hardest counter I could - Maxwell's Demon, Wings, and Discord. I got really scared when RR blew up all of my pillars and used Eternity to rewind my only Maxwell's Demon. But I waited it out and thought about a way I could prolong the game and try to find a way to win. I figured that if I was able to conjure up enough quanta and if I whittled RR's health down with Discord, I could drop all of my Demons and use my single Sky Blitz to win. It was really close, but it worked.

For game two, I knew that he wouldn't play the same deck twice, due to the fact that I had such a hard counter. I did know that there were very few creatures that could survive the combination of my Demons and Shockwaves, so I figured I'd roll the dice and try my luck with the same deck. It turns out I was facing Ghosts and Gargoyles (cheap spin-off game from the NES title?). Probably the only cards I was afraid of were a lot of Steals, Minor Vampires, and Dusk Mantle. Only one Steal showed up to snatch up my second turn Discord, which I promptly replaced. He didn't play out his creatures because I had three Maxwell's Demons out, so I was able to sit back and attack him down to 24 health. He used Nightmare to heal to 28, but I was able to play a fourth Demon, aim three Shockwaves at his face, and let Discord deal the final blow.

This was a very good match, especially the first game. Game one was literally the most epic battle of which I have been a part. Well played, and good decks, RR. I'm glad we got to play.

[nilsieboy]

nilsieboy 0 - 2 jen-1
first round:

by nilsieboy

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4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vl 4vl 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vp 4vp 4vp 500 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 5l8 5l8 5l8 5li 5li 5li 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 8pq

thaught he'd take a stall, his draw was absurd with 2 phoenixes and lycantrhope in the first turn. 0-1
second round:
same deck, he took the same evil rush with a brilliant draw...

[Jen-i]

Jen-i 2 - 0 nilsieboy

Both Rounds this was the deck:

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4vh 4vh 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vi 4vj 4vj 5f6 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5fa 5fa 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5l9 5l9 5l9 5l9 5l9 5l9

I figured Firestall was my best option - and I figured nils knew it - so I ran a rush deck.

Game #1:
I got a perfect draw, 2 photon, 2 immo, 2 phoenix and a lycan - too fast for him to stop

Game #2:
An excellent draw, 1 photon, 2 immo, 1 phoenix & a golem - the lycan was drawn early too

[TStar]

Nice job guys.  Thanks for picking me up like that.

Love your deck nilsieboy, great minds think alike.  It's just too bad we went a combined 0-4 with it

[nilsieboy]

Nice job guys.  Thanks for picking me up like that.

Love your deck nilsieboy, great minds think alike.  It's just too bad we went a combined 0-4 with it

yea, when i saw yours i had to try it and i loved it. worked really great until i had to battle jen with it xD!