Weekly Tournament - June 21st - Dilgo Wars IV: Dark Matter's Revenge - Unupped

[dragonsdemesne]

dragonsdemesne - 2
blacksmith - 1

GGs.  I'm rather proud of my finishing move in game 3   Lost the first game, won the next two.

[Fippe94]

Fippe94 2-1 deuce22

ggs! Especially that last game.

[theelkspeaks]

theelkspeaks: 2
Fippe94: 0

What a crazy pair of games! ggs

[dragonsdemesne]

dragonsdemesne - 2
DANIEELA - 1

GGs, some very close ones!  Also, the catapult table that I was relying on was wrong... :p  However, Danieela would have won that game even if I hadn't catapulted my stuff one turn early like that.

[theelkspeaks]

theelkspeaks: 2
dragonsdemesne: 0

Very very close games, won both by one turn.

First time I've even won a weekly tournament match, let alone the whole thing, I can hardly believe it!  Got some very lucky RNG throughout!

I'll be back in a bit to post decks.

[Fippe94]

Fippe94 2-1 DANIEELA  (3rd-place match)

ggs!

[Submachine]

Congratulations for theelkspeaks! It's his first win.



Here are the decks I made:

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This deck was quite effective against dragonsdemesne in a nearly-mirror match. I think this was my rushiest deck. 1-0.

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This deck faced dragons in a nearly-mirror match again, where my only luck was that i got an armagio faster. However, the deck was illegal, because I counted chimera as a spell, and didn't include 2 more armagios in the deck. Even that way, it worked, but i have to note that my opening hand was all pillars and pends.

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The mito-gios, which were absolutely weak against dragon's Pulverizer. Lost 0-1.

I never used these decks:

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I figured this would have a chance in a stallgame, but even dragons didn't use it, which was surprising.

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I came into this deck idea when i was testing in AI3 and he beat me relentlessly with pharaohs. I added extra drawpowers for this to work.

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[dragonsdemesne]

My decks:

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armagio cata/bb/pulvy/hematite 2-2

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-round 1 game 3 vs submachine WIN vs mitodilgo (pulvy wrecked all perms)
-round 2 game 1 vs blacksmith LOSS vs hg/pharaoh (late pulvy, quanta flood)
-round 3 game 3 vs DANIEELA WIN vs monogravity (pulvy turn 3 dominated)
-round 4 game 1 vs theelkspeaks LOSS vs mirror match (no pulvy for me, but he had one)

mitocatapult (not used; feared lobo would own this, but I never saw a lobo)

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rage pot/fireeater (maybe use momentum due to opposing armagio?) 2-1

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-round 2 game 2 vs blacksmith WIN vs pulvy/amber/BB (had deflags for first 2 pulvy)
-round 3 game 1 vs DANIEELA WIN vs monogravity (she was quanta flooded)
-round 4 game 2 vs theelkspeaks LOSS vs pulvy/BB (weak draw)

light stall (not used) (decided that this wouldn't work due to accelerated armagios likely being everywhere)

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the quanta thief (6x steal 3x amber) 1-1

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-round 1 game 1 vs submachine LOSS vs accelerated voodoo (bad draw, 1 steal only, which I had to use on a stiletto, and he had a very high quanta draw, like 5 or something)
-round 2 game 3 vs blacksmith WIN vs light stall (accelerated his armagio to prevent gpull and amber nymph denied miracle on the last turn ftw)

frozen catapult (not used) (figured it wasn't very good; I never saw anyone else use it, so it's probably true)

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ridiculous mindgate deck 1-0 (but only because it faced an illegal deck) (I just had to do this :p I love mindgate, and since I knew everyone was using gravity... it almost made sense.  I'd have used lobo, but with only 9 aether cards allowed, I decided to cut it for titan)

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-round 1 game 2 vs submachine WIN vs mirror match (bad draw and I lost, but his deck was illegal)

timelord (not used) (figured this would be a strong deck vs a stall, but I didn't expect many/any stalls)

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freeze/BB catapult 0-1

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-round 3 game 2 vs DANIEELA LOSS vs monogravity (the catapult table I was relying upon was incorrect, and I left her at 1hp, though I'd have lost the next turn anyway even if I'd waited, so the fact that the table was wrong was irrelevant in this match.  It had said that a 45hp creature would catapult for 32 damage, and I froze it, which is +50%, and then when I catapulted it, it did 47 damage instead of 48 and she survived at 1hp; I assume this was some kind of rounding behind the scenes that was not visible in the integer table)

The meta played out pretty much exactly as I expected, with a few exceptions:
-I was surprised by sub's voodoo acceleration deck, because I had forgotten that voodoo doll was legal (it was a later addition to the rules, which I'd seen, but forgot about)
-I was surprised when danieela used monogravity, as I expected all decks to be duos (and she used it all 3 games!)
-I was expecting more gravity/fire duos like the one I used
-I was expecting a lot of lobo/dimshield duos, but I didn't see any the entire time (I didn't build one, either, but I also expected to see fire duos that had deflag)

[Submachine]

light stall (not used) (decided that this wouldn't work due to accelerated armagios likely being everywhere)

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It actually would have worked against accelerated armagios with gravity pulls. I figured that gravity pull would have been the best offense in a light duo.

[theelkspeaks]

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I actually only prepared one deck for this tournament, though I made slight mods throughout.  This was the mod I played in both games of the final - before the final I'd been playing with 2 Titans and 1 Pulvy.  I'd made a previous modification after the very first game of the tournament after a low quanta start to add an extra pillar, I'm not sure exactly what I replaced.

I loved this deck because of the degree of options it gave me based on what I was facing.  I could BB my own Armagios for damage before pulting them or BB opponents damaging creatures (like Accelerated Armagios), or even BB a creature with a frustrating ability (I see you, Light Nymph).  I could deal quick spikes of damage with my catapults, long term damage by accelerating an Armagio, or a medium range burst with an Accelerated Charger.  Chargers' Momentum let me largely ignore enemy skill-using Armagios, and I could use my own Armagios as a shield (against accelerating), for long term damage (with accelerating, especially against healing decks with Miracle in them), and as pult fodder for the killing blow.  The biggest weakness of my deck was lack of healing - aside from using a skilled-Magio as a meatshield or a BB to stall, I had relatively little way to deal with an opponent who was able to drag a game out, but luckily for me, the only times this happened I was able to Accelerate one Armagio and BB-pult another for the win.

With the code from the tournament and my first mark code earned, I plan to take a Mark of Darkness, in honor of Odii Odsen (Master of Darkness, and the first player I remember having a conversation with as a newbie back when I first started playing, ji412jo (my first Brawl Boss, on team Whispers in the Dark and also a known Darkness lover), Obsidian Dragon, my favorite card in the game and my current avatar, and in honor of the monodark I farmed with for a significant chunk of my grind to 45K .  was such a significant part of my EtG career so far that I really want it to be my first mark!

Very good games to everyone I played against, RNG was positively far too kind to me today. 

For those who had 3 light nymphs, taking those with sancs and the rest was probably the strongest possible deck in this meta - or at least the one that matched up with mine most favorably.  The amount of healing such decks could do was positively brutal. 

[Afdarenty]

My few:

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Solid deck, earned me the only win anyone managed to take away from elk

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Because Lobo. Has some problems vs pults, but good vs most other things.

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Dolls seemed good here, and steal is always awesome. Well rounded deck.

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Only realised I'd forgotten about this halfway through my final game with elk. Mono looked as though it'd get going a turn or two quicker than other decks, so I expect I'd have used it a fair bit.

[dragonsdemesne]

For the aether duo, you mention problems against catapults... you can actually quint your opposing armagio to prevent it from being targeted by catapult :p