Weekly Tournament - July 14th - Multicolturalism - Upgraded

[CactusKing]

still no idea on why phoenix was banned, with fractix useless without immolation and every kind of cc unbanned

I was going to ask about this before the tourney but it might have been considered meta talk. Only explanation I can think of is to make splashing off element CC spells more viable, unless phoenix was banned just for being a good card in general?

[kaempfer13]

upped phoenix was easily splashable and has both ccresistance and high efficiency and i felt the overall powerlvl of was high, but i didnt want to ban explosion (restricting pc just a little more means that permanents can likely run rampant) or ragepot. It wasnt an absolutely necessary ban, especially unupped, but if its in the rules you can't just ignore it. I could have considered voiding the game rather than taking the win for illegal, so long as I cant beat him (if i would have won id obv take the win), that's not the official procedure though.

[CCCombobreaker]

I used several variations of a water/earth stall.

Against shockcannon, I used a version with too many tech cards and not enough quanta, so the healing was not enough to sustain me when I didn't draw a shield. 

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Against kaempfer I cut all the water cards except 4 purifies, switched to all stone pillars, and added 2 auburn nymphs, which was just enough CC to survive the bone dragons from his cat-tal (he also had a very slow draw).

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Against ToRB, I cut the 4 icebolts for an extra EA, 2 auburn nymphs, and switched the quanta to stone pillars.  The quanta was a little lean, and he used the explosions against my pillars since I got EA on both poseidon and shield.  I locked him off aether after 2 fractals (1 of photon, 1 of archangel), but 7 archangels did enough damage with no nymph to slow them down and not enough quanta to get any big SS healing.

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I liked CCC's unstable gas deck he used against me. Completely countered me game 2, surprised it wasn't used again in game 3.

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This was also the only trio I played in the tournament.  I think I overestimated the risks to the deck from flying eternity or other defensive tools, so I did not use it as much as I probably should have...

I also played a couple weirder decks...  One was a deathstalker/eclipse duo dusk/vagger (with epic dusk RNG against shockcannon  but then completely fell apart against kaempfer's elite FFQ explosion deck), another was a spider-tal (which beat down kaempfer's deja-hope deck before he assembled all his defensive pieces  ), and I also ran a deadly poison SoSac firebolt deck (which ToRB's UG deck wrecked in the final game  ).