Weekly Tournament - August 23rd - Inception - Unupgraded

[MegroN]

MegroN: 2
Submachine: 0

MadnesS, hate to win this way, but dont hate to win

[Blacksmith]

Blacksmith 2
Jen-i 0

I believe you didn't play your best, gg's anyway.

[dragonsdemesne]

dragonsdemesne:2
MegroN:0

Wow, what the heck was the RNG doing to us?  We kept getting crappy quanta draws... :p

[Vangelios]

Vangelios 2 - 0 Submachine

[Blacksmith]

Blacksmith 2
Dragondemense 0
That went quite smoothly. 2 good draws vs 2 half bad draws means 2 victories.

Decks used.

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I did not consieder this as a very serious deck but sicne it was funnier than stall I played it. Was lucky and got 3 good draws which lead to 3 wins.

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This deck went 2-1

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Lost in a more less mirror-game.

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Slow but good stall went 1-0

GG's everyone and better luck next time! This will also be my first award after mastership, it came right on time.

[Vangelios]

Vangelios 2 - 1 Danieela

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Dims OP and they lived up to their name.

Second deck I used:

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Because I knew that my opponent will go with Quantum Pillars, and I was right. xD Sadly he got a Steal in opening hand, so the SoPa was useless.

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This has an interesting story behind it. Before the last turn when I would have decked out, we lost connection and his AI rewinded one of my Psions, giving me 1 extra turn. The next card of him was a Reverse Time again, so I mindgated 7 copies and decked him out instead by rewinding my own Psions. xD Also, mindgating 12 deflagrations with enough quanta to use them feels gooooooooood!

[dragonsdemesne]

These are the decks I used.  My RNG was really strange... I had one pillar or pend draws almost every game, but somehow, through either my opponents getting poor draws as well or else my having decent counters, I somehow stumbled into the finals in what is quite probably my least deserved mark code ever.  I -really- wanted to win this one, though, because mindgate is my favourite card, but blacksmith stomped me pretty hard in the finals.

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weenie rush 3-1

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Chosen both because it looked strong in the meta, and because people don't expect heavy creature decks like this from me.  It was my top deck despite some extremely bad draws most of the time.  Vs justaburd, I think I had a 2 pillar start, and was not able to get any time quanta whatsoever for graboid evolve or hourglass for the first several turns.  Eventually I got lots of creatures and a shard of patience out, but justa sat behind a couple dimshields.  I waited out the first, he played the second.  I drew a steal, take it, say 'gg', and then... forget to deactivate shard of patience :p  He plays a 3rd dim and I have to wait it out, nearly dying in the meantime.  Against vangelios, I got stuck with 1 darkness and 1 gravity for a long time, so I couldn't activate my lycans or play a fire eater.  I mindgated a deflag, but vang feared I would play a wings or dimshield, so he didn't play it.  Had he taken out my hourglass, I'm almost positive he would have won, because I needed the drawn cards to get enough damage out.  Against blacksmith he also used a creatureless deck, and my draw was so bad he thought I was running a stall.  When you have 0/20 creatures out and one pillar, I guess it kinda looks like that... :p

round 1 game 1 vs justaburd WIN vs qp mindgate dimstall
round 2 game 3 vs vangelios WIN vs immorush (by 1 turn, he didn't deflag my hg or mindgate, he'd have won if he deflagged hg I think)
round 3 game 1 vs megron WIN vs mindgate/CC stall (I had two quanta this time, but both were the marks :p  still, it meant i could mindgate a lot early)
round 4 game 2 vs blacksmith LOSS vs mirror match (1 pillar draw again)

FFQ/hope/bond CC stall 1-2

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I thought this would do better, but justa's phoenixes were too hard to kill; I took two of them out with two spells each, but two more phoenixes made short work of me, even after a desync.  I think I simply tried to do too many things in the same deck at the same time here.  (and it was even more disorganized before I refined it somewhat; I had pharaohs and a couple other weird things too)

round 1 game 2 vs justaburd LOSS vs fire/aether phoenix (phoenix OP vs my CC)
round 3 game 2 vs megron WIN vs mindgate/CC stall (we both had poor quanta draws, but i got quinted queen)
round 4 game 1 vs blacksmith LOSS vs psiontal (he got perfect draw)

monoaether 50 cards psiontal (not used)

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Built mostly to see if psiontal was viable.  I didn't think it was so I didn't run it, and I didn't expect anyone else to, either, but blacksmith did anyway and fractaled a psion on about turn 4.

water/aether SoP/flayer/whatever cc stall 1-0

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round 1 game 3 vs justaburd WIN vs FFQ/hope (Flayers and squid kinda counter firefly queen.  Fun deck, but for some reason didn't use it again.)


creatureless rainbow fatass stall 0-1 (requires deckout or mindgate to win; deckout is why no HGs in deck)

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I ragequit on about turn 3 or 4 after vang had SoP, trident, two wardens, and a gnome, and I had one pillar that sucked a tsunami.  He was using 6 dead mindgates.   I'd even had an enchant artifact in hand.

round 2 game 1 vs vangelios LOSS (1 pillar draw vs turn 2 sop/trident/3 creatures)

time/aether ghostal type deck (probably way too slow vs rushes) (not used)

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gnometal (speedbuilt for vang) 1-0

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Speedbuilt this thinking he'd use the SoP/warden/trident deck again.  Instead, I get a 1 pend draw and his turn 1 is nova nova forest spirit lycanthrope.  I'm going WTF... holy crap RNG hax.  I stall a bit with CC, but it's clearly a losing battle.  I mindgate the third nova, and then on the turn before I lose, I mindgate, hoping to find some sort of miracle card.  I did, but not quite what I was expecting... I found a fourth nova in his deck :p  Win by illegal deck.

round 2 game 2 vs vangelios WIN vs novabow, because his deck had 4 novas, I lost otherwise due to 1 pend draw and no gnomes

[Vangelios]

Congrats Baron and Demesne

I HATE MINDGATE

Well I always say, if will ban EQs, then ban Trident, I should have used 2x against demesne also do not know why I was changing deck.



look what happened 5 - 1 and lost one because Dani wore wings

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Monofire 2 - 0

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Nice hand to Itachi

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[Submachine]

Welp, I got a Mindgate as an Oracle card today, so I'm gonna try one of these decks. ^^"

[serprex]

Welp, I got a Mindgate as an Oracle card today, so I'm gonna try one of these decks. ^^"

Vange's Earth/Water seems promising. To get 35 add 5 other dead cards (or 5 aether pends, but that's missing the point)