As was expected, I saw a lot of monowater. In fact, I -only- saw monowater, and as a result I had 6/7 mirror matches. I tried building some liquid shadow decks like marsu had, only I did it with entropy and life instead of earth, but they all lost to monofire and monowater, which I expected would be basically the only decks used successfully.
These are the decks I had left in my list, after deleting the liquid shadow ones. I also tried a monoair rush deck and a death/darkness poison deck in testing, but they proved to be disastrously bad.
Spoiler for Hidden:
monofire bigguns
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monowater drydragonbolt
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round 2 game 1 vs washington loss in mirror match (lost toss and he got bolts/dragons, i got dry spells, he made play mistakes but had all the cards so it didn't matter)
round 2 game 2 vs washington win in mirror match (win, but desync resulted in my ai playing 4 dry spells)
round 2 game 3 vs washington loss in mirror match (i got 1 pillar start)
+1 pend
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crawlers instead of dry spells
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4sj 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4ve 4ve 4ve 4ve 4ve 4ve 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vk 4vk 4vk 8pjAgainst glennfoo, all 3 matches were basically decided by RNG. The first game, we both played a mirror match monowater and so we saw that the best strategy was to wait before playing dragons until we could icebolt them. This resulted in a pure RNG game that I was lucky enough to win. In the second game, I added one quanta card to make it a 32 card deck, because I thought glenn might do the same to prevent me threatening a deckout win. (I didn't win by deckout, but I would have had he not run out of useful cards) He did add one more card :p I never got an icebolt all game, though. He did change his dry spells into crawlers. Game 3 I switched to monofire, thinking he wouldn't play the same deck again. He did, but he played it without dry spells, so I won. In testing monofire beat everything except monowater with dry spells, and monowater did pretty good against everything and countered monofire. They were all pretty close games, and just came down to luck of the draw.
Against washington, the first game was another water mirror match, which he won. The second game, we had another mirror match. We desynced, and apparently my ai killed its own dragons with dry spells, and so he won an otherwise unwinnable game vs my ai. Oddly, in my version, the ai did NOT play any dry spells, even though it had 2 in hand, and I had 2 dragons and washington had 1. (which on his end, combined with my 4 dry spells, killed all my dragons) Vineroz ruled that we replay, and I got a 1 pillar draw and lost.
At this point, I'd like to apologize to both vineroz and washington. I pretty much accused vineroz of incompetence in ruling in washington's favour, but in truth there was no way vineroz could have seen the progression of the game, as all he had to go by were my two screenshots of the turn of the desync and the turn of my win, and washington's win. I am not certain how washington did not see that he won only because my ai killed its own, but I must apologize because I also pretty much accused him of lying to vineroz about the situation, as there was no possible way that washington could have won in my mind, as he did not draw any more ice dragons or ice bolts before I beat his ai, and I saw no possible way my ai could have screwed up. Unfortunately, it spamming dry spells screwed it up :p I still have no idea why his ai didn't do the same thing, when I had a better board position; it makes no sense. However, that's the way it went down, and there's nothing I can do about it except hope that my opponents have better connections in the future :p
