Round 8 - Duels

[PlayerOa]

Time 1 (10 men) vs Aether
Time 2 vs Air (Jenkar)
Time 3 vs Aether

[Anthraxx]

- deck is going to be hard to predict. +3 cards will provide some space for Jenkar to improvise, but nothing serious. Expecting 1-2 Dragons + wings + some aether splash (bolts/frac).

- the usual:

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Our options:
- Ghostmare
- grabs
- sanc stall
- BW poison stall

I'd try to shift our decks a bit, again. Psn will be hard to counter for aether, pretty sure they're out of purify and their CC will be counter productive vs BW power. Nymph + HG + perhaps a Ghost or 2, bunch of upped psn + bws. Gonna test it now.

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[10 men]

Our options:
- Ghostmare
- grabs
- sanc stall
- BW poison stall

This sums it up pretty well, with the last two being exclusive to each other, i.e. we can play either Sancstall or Poisonstall. The other deck we have to convert to provide pillars for the one we use this round. A few thoughts about those two decks:

Sancstall:
- Usually uses 2-3 Pharaohs because they are CC resistant and have the best damage potential, but we only have 1 (from the Event Card)
- Might be less expected? Last time we used it was round 4, so pretty far back.

Poisonstall:
- We don't have Novas + Dials left to make Poisondials which is annoying as I usually prefer that one - Bone Walls are a little feeble without any actual kill triggers.
- On the other hand Hourglasses are amazing in this deck, they are the advantage Time-Poison has over other elements' Poison decks
- This is what I could imagine us playing:

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lots of quanta to get quick Hourglass, + a couple upgrades depending on who plays

[PlayerOa]

I'd definitely take Poison/BW over Sancstall with just one Pharaoh.

[10 men]

OK here's our stuff:
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The allround deck for me, I like it and it should have a chance against most of Aethers decks, screw them for having such a big vault. I took the Nymph to have better CC resistance, the Ghostmare will have to make due with Hourglasses, hopefully won't hurt it too much.
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Nova Grabs with double Explosion and an Hourglass, hopefully that's enough to push through Dims or whatever.
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Risky move vs Aether with so few upgrades, the Golden Hourglass is a little embarrassing but it should still counter what they can make. Just need to hope that the lack of upgrades doesn't hurt too much.

Good luck everyone, this is the first round we can be eliminated from the event so we better fucking win this! (no pressure)
      

[bripod]

Best of luck, men!

Play smart and lets bring this thing home!

   Go Time! 

[Anthraxx]

Crossing fingers:)

[Zso_Zso]

Playing Jenkar in 10 minutes!

[10 men]

Well played Zso! I'll play tomorrow evening (for the europeans), probably around 17 GMT.

[Scaramanga]

Yeah!

Good work guys!

[Anthraxx]

Soon. Everything will be decided. It's a do or die time. Max focus and lets do it guys! The glory is near!

[PlayerOa]

Playing Avenger in one hour from now (19 GMT).