Weekly Tournament - July 27th - Limited Resources - Unupgraded

[BeefSupreme]

BeefSupreme 2 - 1 dawn_to_dusk

[Theboss1248]

Theboss1248 2 - 0 Chessboxing

[RootRanger]

RootRanger 2 - 1 Dragoon

I would like to request that my reward code not be sent to me, and instead placed on hold. I plan on donating it to an event and would rather not have it ever be in my possession to assure its validity. Thanks.

[BeefSupreme]

6th place isn't that bad.
Decks:

Spoiler for Ghostmare OP:

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5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rk 5rk 5rk 5ro 5ro 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5v1 5v1 5v1 5v1 5v1 5v1 8pt

Spoiler for Mono-Death:

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52q 52q 52r 52r 52r 52t 52t 52t 52t 52t 52t 542 542 542 542 542 542 8pk

Spoiler for Psion OP:

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61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 625 625 625 625 625 625 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pu

[Theboss1248]

Theboss 2 - 1 Beefsupreme

Really fun matches.

[DANIEELA]

FOR 3-RD PLACE:
DANIEELA 2
Dragoon 1

[Shantu]

Shantu 2 - 1 RootRanger

[Dragoon]

I think most of the go-to OP decks were still (mostly) usable in this format. For rushes, there were Mono-Death and AdrenaFrogs. For stalls, there were the Immortal and Fire Stall. For quanta/hand manipulation there were Devtal and Ghostmare. For alternative damage there was Catatitan. Plus there were a few other common decks like 6-Dims stalls and NT spam.

[rob77dp]

My (short-lived) decks:

Used:

Spoiler for Quaking Lava:

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593 593 593 593 593 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5f6 5f6 5fa 5fa 5fa 5fa 5fa 5fa 5fb 5fb 5fb 8po

Win vs Ghost-mare with some decent playing and OK draw.  Loss vs Mono-death by half-turn after losing coin toss.

Spoiler for Pandebonium 31:

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4vp 4vp 4vp 4vp 4vp 4vp 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52q 52q 52q 52r 52r 52r 52r 8pk

Loss vs Mono-death by half-turn (2 HP!) after losing coin toss.

[Theboss1248]

The decks I used:

Lockdown (used this one a lot):

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593 593 593 593 593 596 596 5uk 5uk 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5up 5up 5up 5uq 5uq 5ur 5ut 5ut 5ut 5ut 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 8pm

Poison Rush:

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52o 52o 52o 52o 52q 52q 52t 52t 52t 52t 52t 52t 542 542 542 542 542 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5ia 5ia 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 8pk

Psion/Spark Spam:

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61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61p 61p 61p 61p 61p 61q 61q 61q 61t 61t 61u 61u 622 622 625 625 625 625 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pu

I used this deck for 3 matches before I saw that Sanctuaries cancel out the dissipation shield. xD:

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4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vg 4vg 4vg 4vg 4vg 4vg 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 50u 5li 5lm 5lm 5lm 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5on 5on 5on 5pu 5pu 5pu 5pu 61q 61q 61q 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pj

[Vineroz]

I think most of the go-to OP decks were still (mostly) usable in this format. For rushes, there were Mono-Death and AdrenaFrogs. For stalls, there were the Immortal and Fire Stall. For quanta/hand manipulation there were Devtal and Ghostmare. For alternative damage there was Catatitan. Plus there were a few other common decks like 6-Dims stalls and NT spam.

Yes there are still a wide range of powerful decks available. The skill is to identify all of them, analyze the best in the meta, and of course predict what your opponent knows and what would they use.

[Submachine]

I don't know which saddens me the most: that I thought that the tournament starts 1 day later, or the fact that I had counters for nearly all the decks people posted here.

*sigh*

Well, anyway, here is the deck that I wanted to tweak today morning to the tournament: (it's 10:00 here)

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5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5lc 5lg 5lh 5lh 5lh 5lh 5lh 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5og 5og 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5ol 8pr

Sanctuaries heal and fog shields defend until the Morningstars can do enough damage. Put in a reflective shield in case of psions.

The Cryothorn:

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5c1 5c1 5c1 5c1 5c1 5c1 5c3 5c3 5c5 5c5 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5ia 5ia 5ib 5ib 5ib 5ib 5ib 5ib 8pp

There was also an option to stall, in the form of Adrenastaves, combined with a mitosising azure dragon.

Counter to Immortal creatures:

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4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vq 4vq 4vq 4vq 4vq 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52p 52p 52q 52r 52r 52r 52t 52v 52v 52v 52v 52v 52v 542 61p 61p 8pj

And plenty other ideas that are now thrown out the window... Arrh, why didn't I watch the countdown?! *inappropriate anger*