Weekly Tournament - December 15th - Trios With a Twist - Unupgraded

[willng3]

willng3 2 - 0 Cheesy111

Last game was a hilarious case of draw RNG fail for the both of us.

[treebeard xiii]

as all the results are in time to post my decks as usual feedback welcome.

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this was my favourite but unfortunately rob seemed to have read my mind and hard countered it

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another fun deck another hard counter

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52k 52k 52k 52k 52k 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 5c3 5c3 5c3 5c3 5c5 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5f8 5f8 5f8 5f8 5f8 8po

this was my third deck which i never got to use

[willng3]

Decks I used:

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5f7 5f7 5f7 5f7 5f7 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5ig 5ig 5ig 5ig 5ig 5od 5od 5od 5od 5od 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 8po

Weird little thing.  Slight counter to Tridents, but a huge counter to Dims.  Didn't think the Fahrenheits would be all that useful, but I'd like to think they were largely responsible for me winning the second game versus Cheesy since the Tears decided to go and hide!  3-0 record.

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 590 590 590 590 590 5ic 5ic 5ic 5ic 5ic 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 8ps

Built this deck right before my match with Cheesy, after being inspired to make it while facing Jen (random bit of inspiration; Jen didn't use anything like this).  This is probably my favorite of the bunch just because of how nicely everything synergizes together.  1-0 record.

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58o 58o 58o 58o 595 595 595 595 595 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5fa 5fa 5fa 5fa 5fa 5ic 5ic 5ic 5ic 5ic 8pp

One of the first decks I built for this tourney.  The synergy is nice and it works decently as a counter to Antimatter, but I personally think the previous deck outclasses it a bit in some ways. 2-1 record.

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 8pp

Built this in the event that I was expecting Dims/Wings to be used on me.  Served as a hard, hard counter during the one game it was used in.  1-0 record.

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55m 55m 55m 55m 55m 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 576 58v 58v 58v 58v 58v 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5ig 5ig 5ig 5ig 5ig 5jm 5jm 5jm 8pp

Despite being one of the decks I felt the least comfortable with mainly because the chance of fail drawing is higher, this one served me quite well. 2-0 record.

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5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 625 625 625 625 625 8pr

Didn't feel too good about this one either, but I still ended up using it.  The one time it did get used I just so happened to face a deck with Dragons as the only attacker, and had some trouble finding a second Psion.  Ironically, Lax also ended up using Fog here which was equally as useless. 0-1 record.

GGs all.  Only took me nearly 2 years to win one of these!

[rob77dp]

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Very proud of this one, though not so unique.  Expecting lots of combo decks that build over time (due to limit of 5 creatures - 10 if you fly a weapon which this counters even better) so went with Graboid to avoid hard CC and Eternity's for locking opponent (no shards = no SoB drawing and HG's would use up quite valuable permanent space so didn't expect much draw power in this tourney).  It worked perfectly in its debut hard-countering treebeard's Lycanthropes (W) and losing due to my stupidity in-game against Cheesy (incorrectly and wrongly was expecting CC that couldn't come by illegal or lack of quanta) by not popping the Graboids until WAY too late against a Bonewall and hard hitting Air creatures (x3) (L) for a 1-1 overall record.

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Only used once - in 1st round match clinching win - but did what I wanted which was get out a creature-creator (Pharaoh) that is hard to kill and Deflag x5 opposing permanents (didn't get up to 5 in the match) with some healing (EB) to help stall until the Scarab army could over-take.  Overall record of 1-0.  Yeah!  :-P

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Also only used once - in final game-losing loss in 2nd round match - and in that one moment of glory had a pretty poor draw against Cheesy's magical Dev-tal draw.  Opening hand?  Titan x4, Grav pend, Fire pend, Deflag x1.  Hence, Cheesy's Devourer spam prevented nary a card from leaving my hand except pendulums.  Overall record of 0-1.

Fun tournament despite (in my opinion) a fairly early exit compared to my expectations.  I had built those up way too high it seems - based on superb testing results by the first two decks listed.  I had 12 other decks constructed and tested ready to go but c'est la vie!  Thanks guys and girls - it was fun!

[mesaprotector]

I missed the tourney due to a combination of bad luck and stupidity, but here are the decks I built for it:

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590 590 590 590 590 5oi 5oi 5oi 5on 5on 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5ro 5ro 5ro 5ro 5ro 5t2 5t2 5t2 5t2 8pm

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5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 622 622 622 622 622 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pn

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52q 52q 52r 52r 52r 55q 55q 55q 55q 55q 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rt 5rt 5rt 5rt 5rt 8pl

Honestly surprised there weren't more AW decks.

[yee]

I didn't take part, but here is the deck I would have used

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[justaburd]

by the way, chessy... your name's spelled wrong

[Laxadarap]

Decks I used:
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5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 5oo 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 625 625 625 625 625 8pr

Didn't feel too good about this one either, but I still ended up using it.  The one time it did get used I just so happened to face a deck with Dragons as the only attacker, and had some trouble finding a second Psion.  Ironically, Lax also ended up using Fog here which was equally as useless. 0-1 record.

For the record, I was using wings as well, damn dead cards

[RootRanger]

by the way, chessy... your name's spelled wrong

Protip: Copypaste names from chat before putting them into challonge. It's saved me lots of time and potential mistakes.

[Vineroz]

by the way, chessy... your name's spelled wrong

Protip: Copypaste names from chat before putting them into challonge. It's saved me lots of time and potential mistakes.

[ARTHANASIOS]

I am positively amazed by the variety of the posted decks. I really though that everyone was going for 5 Crusaders ( Creatures), 5 Flying Weapons ( Spells) and 5 Druidic Staves, Vampire Stilletos, Fahrenheits, Titans, Arsenics, Eternities, Lobotomizers and even Pulverizers or Tridents ( permanents), especially Stilletos and Arsenics. Glad there was variety.

[Odii Odsen]

I wanted to participate, but I didn't hear my alarm. One of my decks I built for this tourney for fun.

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