Weekly Tournament - December 8th - Trials II: In With the New - Unupgraded

[Laxadarap]

Laxadarap 2-0 Glennfoo (5th Place)

Game 1: Despite not drawing a gpull, 5 catapulted bb'd dolls sealed victory.

Game 2: Desynch, we played through, we both beat Ai, but because he only had 2 deflags (couldn't handle all 3 eternities), I decked him out on my side and he gave me the win (he also had to go )

[dragonsdemesne]

dragonsdemesne - 2
deuce22 - 0

GGs.  RNG really favoured me, because I picked two silly decks, as I didn't care at this point.  Deuce had bad quanta draw in game 1, and no early creatures in game 2, plus flying glory > eternity.

I'll post decks I used in a min.

[Blacksmith]

I won.

0-0 walkover

[dragonsdemesne]

I built a ton of decks yesterday due to the varied meta, and then I built a bunch more because I had a round 1 bye that took awhile to finish, so I ended up with 20 decks.  However, pre-finals, I only used three of them, and then I used two more I hadn't used yet in the finals.  Other than 'thief of time', which I built while I had the bye, and was my worst deck, I made all the ones I used before the tourney.

adrenastaves with squid (2-0)

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round 1 game 2 vs coffee win vs a rainbow deck of some sort; he had a poor draw
round 2 game 3 vs glenn win due to deckout vs fire/light/gravity stall trio, he bottomdecks fahren

thief of time (0-1)

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round 2 game 1 loss vs glenn to raging colossals due to quanta screw/no eternity.  If he'd had deflag for eternity (no idea if he did or not) this would've been a terrible matchup and a near-certain loss even if I'd drawn better

And the best deck I used today...

pharaohquake (4-0)

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round 1 game 1 win vs coffee's rainbow
round 2 game 2 vs glennfoo win vs rage/sanc with qps
round 3 game 1 vs blacksmith win vs toadfish/gpull deck
round 3 game 2 vs blacksmith win vs dragon/pharaoh/eternity deck
A quick earthquake was the deciding factor in every single game with this deck.

As is my custom, my prize will be from the winning deck.  I have a time mark already, so that's an earth mark.  Earthquake was really strong in this tourney, since a lot of the best cards were really expensive, so losing pillars hurt really bad.  Nearly every good deck I could think of needed a boatload of quanta to function, so denying that quanta was definitely a good strategy.  Another factor that shaped the meta fairly strongly was that most of the CC was not in spell form, which gave people time to react.  Things like squids, carapace, purple nymph, parasite, all require a turn to do anything.  Other than fire and entropy and gravity pull, there wasn't anything in this category.

In the finals, I didn't really care about the trophy, and used these two decks:

voodoo roflbow (1-0)

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round 4 game 1 win vs deuce using what looked basically like my pharaohquake, he had fail quanta draw though, and no early quake

flying stars (1-0) (oops, guess this one is illegal... sorry, i think i took out a 6th flying weapon trying to optimize it and didn't notice it was needed to meet the rules)

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round 2 game 2 win vs eternity/steal deck with pharaohs and gold nymph.  He doesn't draw creatures until it's way too late, and flying glory is unrewindable

[treebeard xiii]

here are the three decks i used which i feel with slightly better draws may of taken me further than first rnd bt instead i got to enjoy two vey close games and one troll game due to double gravy nymphs

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earth/gravy duo this was more of a troll deck but it worked and got me my only win in the tourney

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dragon blitz countered by a gp bb doll

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mummy pharoah early maxwells made this duel go to the wire in the end lost by three health

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[dragonsdemesne]

Pretty sure something's wrong with that first deck, treebeard; there's no source of earth quanta! :p

[mathman101]

These are the decks I used in the tournament

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had one close win with this one, and a bad loss

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took the win with a grav-pull/basilisk/voodoo combo

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eternity destroyed my healing stall deck

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I really enjoyed this, as it was my first tournament, and i hope to be back next week.

congrats dragonsdemesne on the overall win!

[Vineroz]

Pure Voodoos get a win at tournament finals! Chapuz will be pleased. (and me too)

[Jen-i]

Pretty sure dragondemesne's second deck from the finals is illegal - not that adding the 6th flying weapon would have made much of a difference - counterdecked is counterdecked.

Congrats dragondemesne on win number 3!

[dragonsdemesne]

Pretty sure dragondemesne's second deck from the finals is illegal - not that adding the 6th flying weapon would have made much of a difference - counterdecked is counterdecked.

Yeah, unfortunately you are correct about that.  I'm not sure if I actually used it that way or if it was an error when I was moving the decks here, but I probably did play it with only five.  Some of the decks I tweaked by a card or two sometimes, like in the pharaohquake one I used -1 pharaoh +1 eternity in one game, I think vs blacksmith, since in game 1 the eternity had been decisive, I felt having a 2nd copy in game 2 against him might be a good thing.

[deuce22]

Pretty sure dragondemesne's second deck from the finals is illegal - not that adding the 6th flying weapon would have made much of a difference - counterdecked is counterdecked.

Yeah, unfortunately you are correct about that.  I'm not sure if I actually used it that way or if it was an error when I was moving the decks here, but I probably did play it with only five.  Some of the decks I tweaked by a card or two sometimes, like in the pharaohquake one I used -1 pharaoh +1 eternity in one game, I think vs blacksmith, since in game 1 the eternity had been decisive, I felt having a 2nd copy in game 2 against him might be a good thing.

does this mean there will be a game 3 for the forum icon?

[bogtro]

YESSSSSSSS

Dragond used my deck =D I forever sing your praises.