Round 2

[andretimpa]

From the rules:

In Rounds 2 and 4, teams are intentionally seeded against teams they did not play in the previous round.

So our opponents will be darkness, air, aether, death, gravity and a sixth mistery element (matches still to be seeded)

[TheonlyrealBeef]

Matches seeded now, I get to troll earth again \/
And from Air we get gen... lts yet undecided ._.

[andretimpa]

Matches:

Oa vs xn0ize
torb vs DANIEELA
andre vs Rrgyptic
Dm vs (Gen) Jenkar
S2 vs Jen-i
PoLdeR vs Legit

Now, to decide salvages, discards, spoils and decks.

We get 6 cards from these decks:

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4vp 4vp 4vp 4vp 4vp 4vp 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 52g 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52r 52r 52r 52r 542 71a 71a 71a 8pk

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and we must discard 6 from this one

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We can keep the vault without losses if we discard the earthquakes and 2 pillars and salvage earthquakes from the discake and 2 time cards from the limitless speed (to convert back into the lost pillars)

Then spoils

[TheonlyrealBeef]

And event card has us pick our opponents' mark, hmm.
Mindgating is not my strong point so I'd like to wait for Oa for salvage + decks (Grabow/Pharaohbow with a single Purify could be nice vs Darkness: I can toootally see them use that Parasite deck against us to mock me (since Odii specifically stated they'd love to see me contribute to deck choice xD) as well as a denial deck), but I imagine we'd like to first recover the cards we converted and are about to discard, and then salvage some stuff depending on our needs. 4 Dims would be yummy.

For Spoils one thing that crosses my mind is:
4 Dims;
3 Deflags OR 6 Poison/5 Poison 1 Arsenic (because spoils will become public we have to at least show them we will not be mocked by dims);
3 Discord;
6 Ghosts;
Rest Factories/Pends

[TheonlyrealBeef]

Oh well, since I was up all night thinking about it: might as well post some thoughts here...
My main concern is that Earth, Aether and Darkess might all try to take a denial vs us. Where Earth would splash in cc this time to make it harder for us to win with one of our many ghost based decks.

Time/Light Stall with both reflectives upgraded, a random rewind, 3 Eternities and some extra pends somehow crossed my mind (lieutenant here ofc, down with Aether, main competitor)... Sancts can with a bit of rng and tons of quanta shut down Devtal good (aether one is especially slow, but has support cards that are dead in this matchup), Psiontal is trolled too badly by the Procrast + Mirror Combo if played right (lobo-ed they lack offense vs procrast, un-lobo-ed they're suicidal vs Mirror, add Eternity to rewind unlobo-ed ones until drawing more healing -> win).
Guess on Aether Mark, cause that's most of their decks.
Their Vamptal appeared to have Dims and could easily be turned into a devtal (lame) so sheer rushing will do us no good. If we want to use permanents we have to either spam them or not use them at all. One thing that crossed my mind was UGDials with Novas and, 2 Longbows and 1 upgraded Fire Pend. Vamp Dagger + 2 Steals is enough to ruin it so should really put something else, maybe Pharaohbow or Grabow (Purify and/or Eternity/bunch of RTs in it either way).
Guess on Death Mark (cause of that parasite deck).
Poison Dials maybe. Unless they go stalling it could do decent/good vs their rushes + denials.
Guess on Fire Mark (idk).
Ghostmare?
Guess on Aether Mark (Frachargers all the way).
Tempted to say Ghostal with 1 Dragon fit into it in case of Wings (if we see UGs... bleh. Eternity could help troll Jenky's precious Nymphs, though).
Guess Earth Mark (how well does Ghostal fare vs their Grabow, anyway).
Expecting Mummytal. Possibly use a Dim splash (the new lewt) with Ghosts/Pharaoh(!) (not thing they first expect with their poisonous arsenal)?
Guess Aether Mark.

Just my thoughts... since there's a lack of any other thoughts so far xD

[PlayerOa]

My thoughts regarding the NORMAL salvage:

Light - 4 dims, 1 sanc, 1 momentum (possible to do double ghostal, going to 6 sancs is nice and momentum is good in bows)
Earth - 6 EQ (so we can discard EQs in the loss, while upping the count so we can use grabboquake with more EQs)
Water - 3 wings, 3 owl's eye (wings are nice to have, OE is good and we can convert it)
Entropy - 3 BW, 1 arse, 2 conversion fodder
Fire - 4 phoenix, 2 deflag (fire domin is tasty)

And then we have the SPOILS salvage ideas:

Light - 4 dims, 2 ghosts
Earth - 3 disco, 2 EQ, 1 time pend
Water - 4 ghosts, 2 time factories
Entropy - 6 poison
Fire - 2 time factories, 4 time pends

Spoiler for Hidden:

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[PlayerOa]

Some random deck proposing:

: Stall
Reflectives to take down psions, generally agreeing with what TorB said.

: Ghostal
Good idea, TorB. Don't see them playing nymphs in case of RT. UGs beats it, but we cannot counter everything.

: Grabbow
Not playing grabbow last round (or just a few times last war) might mean they're not expecting it from us. A high-paced grabbow should do the job.

: PDials
Anticipating CC-spam, we can go with the PDials.

: Ghostmare
Gut-feeling. Should do good.

: UGDials
Should outdraw poison, blocks burst damage (mummytal/reclusetal/PUGons).

Note: Another possibility would be to change aether and earth decks.


Any thoughts, suggestions or forms for input is highly appreciated. Deadline is approaching.

[andretimpa]

Was talking to Oa about what to send against and and the following crazy ideas appeared.

Running 2 ghostals each with 5 dims, 1 fractal and 4 HG.

Our alternatives seem to be running a dim shield deck with some of our spare creatures against and send a dial deck against or trying to rush

Thoughts?

[PlayerOa]

By the way, if you've scheduled a match time, post it here. That way we'll be m

I'm facing xn0ize on Thursday, 13:00 GMT.

[Dm]

If my match with Jenkar is not done by wednesday, 1000 GMT - Please sub me.

We've scheduled to do it evening of tuesday.

I have some problems wednesday afternoon, and as I said in the absent thread, Thursday is an impossible day for me.

[andretimpa]

andre vs Regyptic
Wednesday, 16 GMT.
Bring your popcorn and get match updates through the team chat.