Weekly Tournament - October 20th - DECAHEXATRIS - Semi-Upgraded

[Submachine]

Congratulations for the winners!

https://challonge.com/2fpdxro

1st: shockcannon
2nd: Submachine
3rd: immortal_feud
4th: Wyand

[immortal feud]

Very nice first tourney win with a score of 8-0
I too can attest to playing HEAPS of league matches making you a better pvper

[Submachine]

I played each deck only once.

Spoiler for Decks:

I list my decks in order of being played instead of order of effectiveness.

Earth wincon

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Won R1G1 against Raging Angels. I started with only 1 Tower, but the matchup was more favorable to me on the long run. Won by damage.

Steam + Momentum

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Won R1G2 against Shard Golems. Played a Steam with 16 HP on Turn 3, another on Turn 4. He only drew 1 BB, so I won by wincon on Turn 5.

Pharaohs

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Won R2G1 against Crema Golems. I had a 1-pillar start, he didn't draw his combo in time. This resulted in a significantly slow game. Planned to get the wincon, but won by damage.

CP Wardens

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Lost R2G2 against a wincon deck. I had only 1 Pendulum for very long, so I was starved for Entropy. When he had his second dragon with 16 HP, I needed only 1 to stop it with a Chaos Power, but I had 0. Would have loved a Tower.

Entropy Domin

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Won R2G3 against Earth-Gravity wincon. Decided to ignore the wincon for the first time. Started with 2 Aboms in opening hand, but they got plated against a Gravity Shield, so my damage was slow. He didn't play any 16 HP creatures though, so I had time to recover. Won by damage against AI.

Light wincon

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Lost R3G1 against Burrowing wincon. Decided to try this, but didn't matter, because I lost by Turn 3.

Stall

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Lost R3G2 against Chaos Vu. Decided to bring something that can spam Shockwaves, in case he plays the Pest deck again. He had 2 Deja Vus with 16 HP by Turn 2. I only needed 1 more to play a Thunderstorm instead of the single Shockwave I could afford. Lost by Turn 3 again, but would have lost by damage anyway.

And now we reach decks I did not use.

Golem Rush

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Fast deck, and golems usually have amazing abilities (Neurotoxin, Scarab, Queen, Snipe, Ablaze). I considered using this deck once, but changed my mind, because this deck cannot disrupt wincons.

Mono Earth wincon

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A mono wincon rush. Didn't use, because the duo variant enjoyed having PC.

CP Condors

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This deck can get beefy fast, but it requires a 3-card combo to even start doing anything (or a 4-card combo if you also want survivability). I could have switched the Soul Catchers to Death Pendulums, but I didn't, so I didn't use this deck.

Light Rush

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And a Light rush with nymphs instead of angels. Decided to stick with angels.

[Wyand]

Sure, it was worth being awake this late. RNG didn't troll me at all. Why would sweet Lady RNG do something like that?


2-0 against Aves

1-0 OP Pests

Spoiler for Hidden:

Aves played an Otyugh/Armor/Pulvy deck which can be real good, but my Liquid Shadows ruined his fun.
With a faster deck he would have won, because I had to wait until card #19 to get my 2nd Heavy Armor...

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2-0 Armagio/Lightning/PU

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He played the same deck, while I tried to have 16 hp on one of my Armas by using GP/Lightning on them. He ruined my tries
with Heavy Armors, while I patiently waited for my PUs. Needless to say I had to wait a lot: card #21 was my 1st PU... #22 is my 2nd.
All the while my hp got reduced to 18 by his Pulvy, so I had to pull off the combo (a bit early, wanted to wait for my 3rd PU). So I had
3 Armagios with 16 hp, and another with 18 (he had 2 dmgs on table). He wasn't able to counter all of this - however with a bit more trickery
(using Otyugh against his Gnome Rider) he would be able to ruin my combo. (I also forgot to Lightning his Otyugh, so mistakes happened on both sides.)

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0-2 against shockcannon

0-1 CP/AM/Warden

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Expected Deja Nova deck. Got pwned by the op Pest deck which I used against Aves.
Shockcannon was extra safe: used Cloak, too. When I started deckbuilding I kinda felt that Darkness
is too powerful in this meta, asked TOs about,  but it seems they were confident about it. Oh, yeah: 12 cards
and I haven't got a single Warden.....

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0-2 Flawed Deja Nova

Spoiler for Hidden:

What a stupid mistake. I was thinking "what if he uses that pest deck again?" So I switched 3 blessed to 3 holy flashes.
That totally screwed my hand, didn't get any Nova - only one Holy Flash... We had a mirror match, but he started with Nova,
so he had a headstart. We had a dc, we both won on our side (miraculously I was able to win through SoFree
- forgot make a sshot, kudos to him for believing me. Had a video, but would have taken a long time to upload/convert.)
Replay: same things. Having one Flash in hand, no Novas. Even worse, the 1st Nova came around turn 3.

Kinda infuriating if I play these decks reversed chances are high that I win 2-0.

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1-2 against Immortal Feud

At this point it was around 5:30AM here, I was thinking about forfeiting this match. I should have chosen sleep.

0-1 Back to Pests

Spoiler for Hidden:

"Luck I won't have - only my opponent" - episode 3356.
Turn 2: shard golem with 16 hp. Really. I was testing Shard Golem decks, and they were pretty unreliable - no matter what.
At the same time he and Submachine also claim that these decks produce 16 hp golems quite frequently. Cool, maybe I'm just
excluded from the "Having constantly very good hands for Shard Golem decks"-club. I ruined the fun with Drain Life, then started
collecting quanta for the Pest+2 Armors combo. Needless to say he also ruined my fun: draw his only Thunderstorm from his deck.......

1-1 Corrected Deja Nova

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I quickly duplicated a 9/16 Deja Vu. Guess what happened? Yes, he drew his only Thunderstorm...
He also stated that he had a lucky draw, but the Deja deck is just too quick, so I've won by dmg.
(Also had a 16 hp Deja Vu at the end of the game.)

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1-2 Armagio/Lightning/PU

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He just won by turn 3. Let's break down this cherry topping  on the rng-trolling cake at near dawn. 1) He won cointoss,
and played a Pest and 2 Novas. (=already 3 earth quanta.) 2) While I had Thunderbolts in hand I couldn't do anything since
this deck doesn't allow upped pillars/pends. 3) Next turn he draws another Nova and plays 2 Armors + burrow. Thanks.
Tested Pest decks a lot - this thing rarely happened. I instantly remembered my 1st game where I had to wait about
12 turns to get 2 Armors for my Pest.