Round 1

[andretimpa]

Our Lt. will face Water's Lt.
Someone will face Fire's Lt.
Oa will face someone from team light.
The rest of our opponents are Earth, Entropy and Life.

[PlayerOa]

I'll just assign the battles, so it's done. Please rant and complain if you disagree

Oa vs Light
timpa vs Water
Dm vs Fire
S2 vs Life
PoLdeR vs Entropy
TorB vs Earth


Note: We'll assign the Lt role to the player using a deck that uses 6 ups, but TorB is still the 'administrative' Lt.

[TheonlyrealBeef]

Lieutenant part has been removed, we can send Lt against whomever we want to.

Other than the fact I hate facing Entropy idc whom I face :p
Might want to keep in mind to base whom faces whom partially on decks, for fielding nymphs/marks.
I dunno if new section in pad for round 1 is meant for final decks or thoughts, but I'll put my suggestions here regardless, using a combination of suggested decks from pad wherever possible.

UGbow (upgraded hourglasses and longbow \o/)
Slimstall
Pharaohbow
Graboquake (Long Sword is not in vault)
Ghostmare
Ghostal (could send me to make up for less-than-optimal matchup, using upgraded pillar/pends and my Mark of Time for additional stack splitting)

In case one of the suggestions does not make sense, there are few other combinations of decks possible, using Grabow is not possible due to eliminating both Graboquake and Pharaohbow in one go, unless, we use less than 6 dials in at least one of the dial decks and field all 3 afaik. Though yeah, just my suggestion :p I can work out details if so desired, but wasted time for a mere suggestion atm.

[PlayerOa]

I completely agree with UGdials to , slimstall to and graboquake to .

will probably expect Pharaohbow, especially with itr and 10 men, but are there any other decks which could do better? I'm unsure.

What do you guys think about sending a mono to , using Lt role and TorB there (upped pillar/pend split and mark)? It could be an alternative to Ghostal if we want to use it in another match.

is impossible to predict as always. I expect them to bring Pandebonium, monoentro or maybe a DBH.

[Dm]

For some reason I'm feeling DBH from Entropy. I dunno why.

Assuming you'll be giving Mono Time to Torb, then how well would Ghostal fare against ?

[PlayerOa]

Assuming you'll be giving Mono Time to Torb, then how well would Ghostal fare against ?

Depends on Deflag usage. Fire Bolts might also give us problems.

[andretimpa]

If we send Ghostal against , we should play expecting bolts, at least on the first match, that is, play Ghost, cast Fractal, spam ghosts keeping at least one in hand for a possible second fractal.

I like the idea of sending mono-time against with a huge split in quanta sources, it weakens both EQ and BH.

[TheonlyrealBeef]

Oh, yeah, mono was one deck I forgot about xD
Could even put nymphs in it, omnomnom.

Thing with Fire is, that you can expect 2-3 Deflags in whatever deck they bring, so 5 Phase Shields won't be a lot of help. Still, fractal ghost will help tons vs cc if played right and our Hourglasses will be left completely unharmed most of the time, since they will want to save Deflags for shields.

[andretimpa]

What tweaks if any will we do to the decks? Do we need to send the Lt. against water or can we choose?

[PlayerOa]

faces gravy, earth, aether, light and darkness in addition to us.

My predictions about what they'll send where:

Grabbow
DBH/DBHbow
Darkness domin
Mono
Stall

I guess the chance of they playing Pandebonium is quite high. Ghostmare has a ~50% chance in that matchup, while Pharaohbow should win.

[Dm]

If pharaohbow goes vs Entropy, we need something to send vs Fire (I don't think ghostmare is a good option here, so we'll have to swap on other elements as well.)

[andretimpa]

What can send as a counter to Pharaohbow? Can we counter that?