Weekly Tournament - March 15th - Speedbuilding - Unupgraded

[Fippe94]

Fippe94 2-1 Odii Odsen

[the dictator]

The dictator 2 - Afdarenty 0

GGs

[rem4life]

rem4life 2-1 dark ripper

rippy brought illegal phoenix to game 1, otherwise good match

[Afdarenty]

Because I forgot to post earlier:

Afdarenty 2 - 0 inthisroom

One win from a counter and one from luck. GGs.

[Terran 3]

For 5th and 6th placing:

Terran 3: 2
Odii Odsen: 0

[the dictator]

The dictator 2 - Fippe94 0

Woohoo, my first mark, here I come.

GGs Fippe, first was a counter and luck, second was a very close damage race.

[rem4life]

rem4life 2-1 Vangelios

tough one here

Woohoo, my first final

[Fippe94]

Fippe94 2-0 Vangelios
Third place game, Vangelios left, so I win by walkover.

[the dictator]

The dictator 2 - rem4life 0

Good games, second was close.

First tourney final, first mark and first award icon for me (I missed the second birthday cake because it was the one day in that month that I wasn't online)

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Spoiler for Unstable Gas 0-1:

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5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oe 5oe 5oe 5oe 5oe 5oe 5oh 5oh 5oh 5oh 5om 5om 5om 5om 5om 5om 8po

I opened the game against Regyptic with this, and it turned out to be much worse than I had imagined, though the fact that he was using earthquakes wasn't helping. On top of that, I didn't draw any of the thunderstorms that could have been so effective against the lava golems he was using. (Also, in my imagination this was a much better deck , with a nice pillar/pendulum split and mark of air to deal with earthquakes, until I realized that fireflies, despite being called that, don't produce when unupped  )

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4vp 4vp 4vp 4vp 4vp 4vp 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58s 58s 593 593 593 593 593 593 594 594 594 594 594 594 8pj

I had made two versions of this deck, one with pandemonium and one with thunderstorm, and while in hindsight thunderstorm would have been better against most decks (more consistent effects, no RT option), what is the fun in that?

I opened every round (except the first) with this, it thus gave me my first win every game. Against Regyptic it beat Golems + Earthquakes (+ deflag/rage pot, I think) against Afda and rem4life it hardcountered a FFQ deck. (Against Afda I got him down to 1 hp with PandePU'd Queens/Fireflies, I still wonder why he never played hope, though it didn't matter, I won by deckout). Against Fippe94 it beat a Pharaoh deck, which had me worried, since I had exactly 6 cards on him, and I didn't see anything beside pharaohs and pillars. The worry being, reverse time. Luckily I only rewound 1 of his critters, and he later revealed to have packed only 5 reverse time, aka, bless the RNG.

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This deck was used after the above one each game (second except for first round), and the luck with this was crazy. Against Regyptic I beat Pharaohs, by drawing all my rage pots in the first 15 cards (and he never got more than 3 pharaohs). Afdarenty played a mono earth with dragons, earthquakes and pulvy (and maybe a shield or 2, but he didn't play any). He only drew one dragon, but because of lack of quanta (darn earthquakes), that one dragon did some serious damage, especially since I first played a dragon, and then had to deflag some pulvies to stop the damage there, and keep him from using those to blow up my single pillar/pendulums. In the end it came down to a damage race with 1 crimson vs 1 stone dragon, which worked out in favor for me.
Against Fippe I beat another FFQ deck, though that one turned into a very close damage race after he caught my first 2 dragons in a double thunderstorm, and then got a single queen going (not enough rage pots to keep all of them at bay). Queen + Hope meant he was both growing his damage and decreasing mine at the same time, but I pitched out a win when I managed to draw a second dragon in the nick of time (and he failed to topdeck a thunderstorm, or he would still have won).
Against rem4life I faced a crimson/reverse time with this, and I proved that ragepot is better than reverse time, at least this time. Reverse time still was a pain, because it prevented me from drawing new cards, but luckily I topdecked a bunch of rage pots so I could keep his offence locked while picking at him with a single dragon (replayed 3 times).

[dragonsdemesne]

Damn, I thought this started in another 4 hours.  What an ugly time :p

[rem4life]

First tourney final, 2nd mark. Grats dictator and me

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FFQ 3-2

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Crimson Times 3-1

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Lava Quake 0-1

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[Terran 3]

Here are the decks I built:

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Volatile

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Was nervous about using it, in the end only brought it out in my last match against Odii. Got a lucky draw there.

Mono-Dirt

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Stable deck, did quite well with it.

Lava Rush

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Generic rushy deck, netted a win with it.