Weekly Tournament - November 3rd - Balanced Duos - Upgraded

[Zso_Zso]

PlayerOa  ,    , 
Submachine  ,    , 
mathman101  ,  , 
Wyand  ,  ,   

[PlayerOa]

Oa 2 - 1 mathman

ggs!

[Submachine]

Submachine: 2
Wyand: 0

Sorry for the RNG. GG

[Wyand]

Wyand 2
mathman101 0

ggs!

[PlayerOa]

Oa 2 - 0 Sub

ggs! Still amazed how I managed to clinch the first one

[Wyand]

Wyand 2
PlayerOa 0

ggs!

[Submachine]

Submachine: 2
mathman101: 1

All games were very close! GG~

[Zso_Zso]

Congratulations to the winners!

https://challonge.com/jhrt8866

1st: Wyand
2nd: PlayerOa
3rd: Submachine
4th: mathman101

Decks can now be posted.~

Just to clarify:
Tie-breaker for the 3-way tie was:
1. Wyand won due to lowest number of lost games
2. Oa vs Sub was decided based on their match against each other

[mathman101]

Thanks for the fun tourney everyone.

These are the decks I managed to lose with:

Spoiler for Hidden:

G1 of each match
http://dek.im/d/z5713z271dz57aez27agzB7bu8pk
won vs oa and sub, lost vs wyand

G2 for all 3 matches
http://dek.im/d/z26tvz56u2z2745z374bz174czB75m8pj
lost vs all 3
swapped 2 CP for BE vs wyand and sub.

G3 of both matches
http://dek.im/d/z57qcz37quzB7riz480az180bz180e8pu
lost vs both oa and sub


Played a fun non-competitive game after the tourney was over with the unpicked earth/air pair against both wyand and Sub
http://dek.im/d/z56rlz177az177cz377lz57n2z17n9zB7oe8pm
beat wyand, and lost to sub.

[Submachine]

Deck time!

Spoiler for Vader Sader:

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7jv 7jv 7jv 7k5 7k5 7k5 7k5 7k5 7la 7la 7la 7la 7la 7la 7la 7la 7la 7la 7la 7la 7la 7la 7t8 7t8 7t9 7t9 7t9 7tb 7tb 7tb 8pt

The first deck I built. I wanted to get this out of the way as early as possible, because I assumed this was the least versatile deck in my arsenal.
It turns out, Dusks are still OP.

I changed 3 Steals to 3 Cloaks against math's deck.

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6rk 7dl 7dm 7dm 7dr 7dr 7dr 7dr 7dr 7gq 7gq 7gr 7h2 7h2 7h2 7h2 7h2 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 8po

In hindsight, this was my best deck. It only lost once, because I used a Rage Elixir on a Steam Machine instead of a Flesh Recluse, giving PlayerOa the chance to deal +12 damage to me, just enough to rob me of 1 more turn.

Spoiler for Screenshot of an insanely close game:

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5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q5 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 80a 80a 80a 80a 80a 80a 80i 80i 80i 8pu

This deck starves for quanta. It also didn't do well against Dusk.

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6rl 77l 77l 77l 77l 77l 77m 77m 77m 7mu 7mu 7mu 7mu 7mu 7nq 7nq 7nq 7oe 7oe 7oe 7oe 7oe 7oe 7oe 7oe 7oe 7oe 7oe 7oe 7oe 8pm

Played an extra game with math, just for fun. Dodged a BB with a single SoFree on the field once.

2. Oa vs Sub was decided based on their match against each other

We should not do this for first place tiebreakers in the future. For any other tiebreakers, it's fine.

[PlayerOa]

These decks were modified prior to every single game and may not be 100% accurate. Anyhow, there are the final versions of my three decks:

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6rk 6rk 713 713 713 718 718 718 718 718 718 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 7ae 7ae 7ak 7ba 7ba 7ba 7ba 7ba 7ba 8pn

Lost a pretty close game vs mathman
Won an incredibly close game vs Sub

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7k5 7k5 7k6 7k6 7k6 7k6 7k6 7k6 7km 7km 7km 7km 7t8 7t8 7t9 7tb 7tb 7tb 7tc 7tc 7tc 7tc 7tc 7tc 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 8pq

This one I know for sure I played three different variants of, depending on matchup. This was the one I used vs Wyand.

Won comfortably vs mathman
Won somewhat comfortably vs Sub
Lost to Wyand, think I could have won it had I drawn Crusaders. Still a bad matchup for me.

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7q1 7q1 7q1 7q1 7q1 7q1 7q5 7q5 7q5 7q5 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 7ri 80h 80h 80h 80h 816 816 816 816 816 816 8pu

Won pretty easily vs mathman
Lost to Wyand after an incredible faildraw. This deck is severely overquanta'd, but I couldn't really get to play my cards before Wyand's creatures were all over my face.

[Wyand]

Pretty hectic tourney, had some ups and downs as well.
Bad start with a flawless ending.

0-2 vs Submachine

0-1 CP Charger SoFo MD vs. Vader Saders

Spoiler for Hidden:

Had 5 SoFos in the deck, none came when it could have mattered (15th card - Sub's win sure about that time).
1 early SoFo would have turned this loss into a win.

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6tt 6tt 6tt 6tt 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u2 745 745 745 745 745 752 752 752 752 752 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 75m 8pj

0-2 NT Explo vs. Steam Machine RP

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Slow quanta start (only 3 pends from a 20 pend deck). Not that unusual but quite itching due to the nature of rules
(only pends makes this deck noticeably slower). He had 5 pends in hand (from 13), so outlook wasn't so good.
On top of that he exploded one of my pends. I could have done the same to him, too, but considering he had tons
of quanta it wouldn't have meant anything, so I kept it in case of smth nasty pops up (like a perma). Endgame was
close, but not that close...

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7di 7dm 7dm 7dm 7dm 7dm 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 8po

2-0 vs mathman

1-0 FrogWall vs. Rush

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2 BWs, a frog and a mito in hand was really promising. Super close final, as he survived the penultimate turn with 1 hp, and
played another creature to have just enough dmg to finish me off, but one turn earlier I grabbed my 3rd BW. Lucky game.

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718 718 718 718 718 718 71b 71b 71b 71b 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ap 7ap 7ba 7ba 7ba 7ba 8pn

2-0 NT RP Explo vs. CP Charger Otyi

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Slightly changed the NT deck to have some CC (or boost). I really needed it, because math planned to
boost an Oty sky high to eat my poor Nymphs. So he haven't played his CPs on the Charger/Dragon,
and I was able to RP them down. Comfortable win, though that 23/20 Charger was scary in math's last round.

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7dm 7dm 7dm 7dr 7dr 7dr 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 8po

2-0 vs PlayerOa

Arrived to the last match with knowing that a 2-0 win have to mean a tourney win for me.
(Had less losses, that's the usual last tiebreaker in a 3-way tie.)

1-0 NT Explo Dragon vs. Siphonary Sancstall

Spoiler for Hidden:

Used a 3rd variant of the NT deck. Oa wasn't happy with the elements he had to face. Siphons aren't enough
against Nymph Queens. Though he was able to stall for a while with op vagger and sancts. Needed 2 explos
to get rid of the former. Poor Dragon and a Queen got siphoned, but they did their part of the job.

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7di 7di 7dm 7dm 7dm 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 8po

2-0 CP Chargers vs. SoW Dejas

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Oa had a tragic 1 pend hand, which decided everything. A 10/2 Deja made things a bit exciting, but no RTs came,
the win stayed comfortable.

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Thanks everyone for the games!