Weekly Tournament - July 13th - Law of the Excluded Middle - Unupgraded

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09113664593c - 2
TheonlyrealBeef - 0


Sorry man... got hardcountered both games pretty much

[Calindu]

Calindu 2-1 Marsu

[dragonsdemesne]

dragonsdemesne - 2
Meruan4Nemesis - 0

GGs!

[Calindu]

Calindu 2-1 BeefSupreme

[TheonlyrealBeef]

TheonlyrealBeef 9001 - 0 rest

Win by walkover for fifth place, everyone else legal for it already left.

[dragonsdemesne]

dragonsdemesne - 2
09113664593c - 0

GGs!  Sorry about your terrible draw in game 2... the card you were unlucky enough to bottomdeck might've been enough had you gotten it right away.

[BeefSupreme]

BeefSupreme 2 - 0 09113664593c

And the decks that won me Bronze are:

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5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 61q 61q 61q 61q 622 622 622 622 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pt

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4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vk 4vk 4vk 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 500 8pj

I also had this 3rd deck that I think I only used once:

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4t5 4t5 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58r 58r 58r 58r 594 594 594 594 596 596 596 596 596 596 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 8pm

[Calindu]

Calindu 2-0 dragonsdemesne

Nymphs OP, too damn strong in this tourney.

[BeefSupreme]

Calindu 2-0 dragonsdemesne

Nymphs OP, too damn strong in this tourney.

Would've been REALLY difficult to beat Calin's Nymph rush w/o, like..the same deck xD
I no has adequate Nymphs!

[Vangelios]

Calindu 2-0 dragonsdemesne

Nymphs OP, too damn strong in this tourney.

Oh!, at least the shards are more accessible for all, therefore a duel fairer
but some people prefer ban that of the is less relevant certainly by convenience.

[dragonsdemesne]

Well, looking at the legal cards today, devtal was certainly the first thing that stood out to me, so I built that first, and then based all my deckbuilding decisions today based on the fact that I expected devtal to be everywhere.  As it turned out, I didn't face devtal a single time :p  Stalls also looked very strong to me, so I made sure I had those.  Due to devtal, I figured that novabows and immorushes would be good, too, so I prepared those as well.  The other card that stood out to me as being strong today, but not nearly as much as devourer, was antimatter.  Dragons seemed a fairly viable choice as hard hitters, and antimatter is fantastic against those, but the problem was that entropy was very weak otherwise.  Having said that, the first four decks I played against had antimatter in them, so at least people agreed with me that antimatter was strong; it's just not strong against 'the deck' or devtal :p

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lightning devtal 1-0

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4st 4su 5uk 5ul 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 61o 61o 61q 61q 61q 61q 622 622 622 622 63a 63a 8pu

-round 1 game 2 vs submachine WIN vs monoentropy (mutations?)

Everything went exactly as planned for devtal in this matchup.  I'm not sure what submachine was playing, because the only things he ever got out were photons and a whole mess of entropy pillars, so I was assuming it was mutations with a terrible draw.  I think his hand was clogged with either dragons or antimatters, but I couldn't tell.  I also had pretty much an ideal game on my side.

monoair dragon rush

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4sr 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5od 5od 5od 5od 5od 5od 5of 5of 5of 5of 5of 5of 5og 5on 5on 5on 5on 5on 5on 5op 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 8pr

This was a favourite of mine to use in tourneys awhile back (only usually with owl's eye, but that was banned today) so I built it, but I didn't feel that it would be strong enough, so I didn't use it.

the graboidless grabbow

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gotcha! (it's a trap)

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 52q 52q 55t 55t 55t 595 595 595 595 595 595 5c1 5c1 5c1 5lc 5lc 5og 5og 5v0 5v0 5v0 8pm

-round 4 game 2 LOSS vs blue nymph/dragon rush (I had bad draw and was outmatched anyway)

This is just plain silly :p  I didn't think it would do very well, and I only used it in the finals one game just to be silly :p  I dropped a basilisk blood on calin's first nymph, but the other 5 were in the bottom 13 cards, and I had to waste a gpull, because I'd played it on a dragon and attacked it for 3 with a spirit, and then he played a nymph, so I played a second gpull on the nymph to kill it next turn.  It didn't matter, anyway... the matchup was terrible for me, and so was this deck :p  But it's such a hilarious deck I had to use it that once.

earth rush (maybe use more dragons less shriekers in case of CC?)

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4sm 4t5 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58r 58u 58u 58u 58u 58u 58u 591 591 591 591 591 591 59c 59c 59c 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 8pm

I like this deck, and have used it many times in various events, though normally with earthquakes.  I felt that it would be owned by devtal, so I never used it.

"the deck" 5-1

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4vn 4vn 4vn 5c5 5i8 5i8 5ij 5ij 5ij 5ij 5ij 5ij 5li 5li 5ls 5ls 5og 5og 5og 5on 5on 5on 5on 5on 5on 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 622 8pq

-round 1 game 1 WIN vs submachine vs monoentropy dragon/AM
-round 2 game 1 WIN vs meruan4Nemesis vs rainbow momentum deathstalker
-round 2 game 2 WIN vs meruan4Nemesis vs rainbow momentum deathstalker (he changed it a bit 2nd time?)
-round 3 game 1 WIN vs 09113664593c vs monofire dragon/spirit
-round 3 game 2 WIN vs 09113664593c vs chrsayora/dial (he had terrible draw, 1st arsenic in bottom 3)
-round 4 game 1 LOSS vs calindu nymph queen rush (I had slow draw)

http://wiki.mtgsalvation.com/article/Brian_Weissman

Weissman would be so proud of me... :p  "The deck" was really OP today.  I designed it to counter devtal (why I used the last minute 6 dry spells instead of 6 icebolts) but it did great against everything else it faced.  Calin used a four nymph queen rush against me when I lost.  I might've been able to win, with slightly better RNG.  I killed his first nymph immediately, but he played a second one next turn, and I was stuck with 2 lightning 1 shockwave and 2 aether 1 air quanta, so the breeding started...  I put up a valiant sundial chain, but couldn't find a miracle to save my life... literally.

immorush

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Designed to counter devtal.  I tested it one game in pvp1 and it lost to a guy with 9 total games played... 'nuff said.  (mind you, it was a hard counter; bone walls, viruses, soulcatchers, and bone dragons :p)

monolight miracle dragons

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Another personal favourite, the monolight, which won me my first mark back in the day...  However, I felt it would bend over to devtal, and it's way more difficult to play monolight without solar shield or upgrades.  (when I won a tourney with it, it was an upgraded one)

the immortal w/nymphs

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Again, bends over to devtal... otherwise, I'd probably have given this a fair shot.

poison dials

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This was probably too fragile to actually work, but it looked like fun.

If I'd had more water or air nymphs (I have 2 and 1, respectively) I'd definitely have built the two decks Calin used against me in the finals, but I was unable to do so.  (nymph queen rush and blue nymph rush, respectively)  I did recognize that those decks would be very strong if anyone could build them, but I couldn't, and I didn't expect too many others to be able to, either, so I didn't worry much about them.  The air one would also have struggled with devtal, at least one with lightnings.

The one deck I didn't think of earlier on was the deathstalker/momentum deck.  meruan4Nemesis ran that both games against me, but he did it as a rainbow, rather than as a duo, with entropy mark for antimatter.

edit: Oh, right, and the mark chosen will be mark of water.  The reasoning behind this is that I got to icebolt and shockwave a weapon TWICE today.  I have done that 3 times ever in 17k+ games, and all 3 were in tourneys, and two were today :p  I already have mark of air, but not a mark of water.