[6th Trials] Master's Tournament - willng3 3 - 2 RavingRabbid

[willng3]

I thought this was going to be a repeat of me vs. deuce after the first two games, but things turned around in my favor for a nice little comeback there at the end.

Game 1:  LOSS - Elements claimed:  +

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

5bt 5bt 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 6rn 778 77k 77k 77k 77k 77k 77k 78q 7ai 7ai 7ai 7ai 7ai 7ai 7aj 7aj 7aj 7aj 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 8pm

As you can see from the deck size, I decided to use a stall.  I probably would have actually stood a chance had I drawn a single shield early in the game.  This seems to happen a lot to me when I use decks like this...hmm.  0-1

Game 2:  LOSS - Elements claimed:  +

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

7ai 7ai 7ai 7ai 7ai 7ai 7aj 7aj 7aj 7al 7al 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7dg 7dg 7dk 7dk 7dk 7dk 7dk 7dk 7f2 8po

Here's what my draws amounted to throughout this game:  1 Heal, 2 Fire Lances, 1 Staff on the turn before I was killed.  Yep. 0-2

Game 3:  WIN - Elements claimed:  +

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 80i 80i 80i 80i 80k 80k 80k 80k 8pu

I managed to channel my RNG rage into my hungry Frog friends for this game.  Completely forgot about Nightmare until after I had played just about every card from my hand.  Was kinda mad about not drawing a Fractal in my starting hand, but fortunately I was able to pull one on the turn he stopped chaining Nightmares, allowing me to play Silence + 2 Frogs in the same turn.  Barely managed to out damage here. 1-2

Game 4:  WIN - Elements claimed:  +

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

5bt 5bt 5bt 5bt 5bt 5bt 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7an 7an 7an 7an 7an 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 8pn

Bad draws from RR (no Octopus especially) made this a quick, easy kill.  Early Frogs were especially nice for Poseidon. 2-2

Game 5:  WIN - Elements claimed: 

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

5bt 5bt 5bt 5bt 5bt 5bt 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ac 7ap 7ap 7ap 7ap 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7n5 7n5 7n5 7n7 7n7 7n8 7n8 7n8 7n8 8pr

Really thought-provoking game here.  Entropy meant that he could go with anything ranging from Antimatter, Discord, BE or Pandemonium which were all huge threats to most of what I could have used here.  Sniped Physalia early on out of fear of BE, killed a Toadfish with a Shockwave early as well.  Then 2 SoFo appear and I yell out "NOOOOO!!" before Sniping one and Shockwave'ing  the other.  Threat averted, Wings was there to stay.  Dragons got AM'd eventually, but I sniped those.  However, mid-game I realized that there was no way I'd be able to keep up with his Water Nymph spam which basically meant that he could spam all the Purple Nymphs that he wanted and I would lose.  So I made a somewhat risky play by using Mitosis on his Nymphs.  In theory this would have prevented him from spawning more than 1 Purple Nymph at a time because of the ridiculous cost of the Water Nymphs, and I could easily Snipe those anyways.  I stopped playing Dragons in order to stop myself from doing more harm than help with Antimatter running around, and I managed to finish him off with exact damage thanks to the Life Nymph he spawned on my side on his final turn. 3-2

Good games, RR.

[RavingRabbid]

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gm 7gm 7gm 7gm 7gn 7gn 7gn 7h0 7h0 7h0 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7q0 7q0 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q4 7q4 7ri 8ps

Time/Death
Pretty standard game.
On the last turn, to prevent him from playing SSkins / Heals, I gave him a nymph and rewound it in his hand.

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7go 7go 7go 7go 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 8pp

Air/Life
Roflstomped him.

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gm 7gm 7gm 7gm 7gm 7gm 7go 7go 7go 7i6 7i6 7t9 7t9 7tb 7tb 7th 7th 7th 7th 7th 8pt

Darkness/Aether

Nightmares were good against his Frogtal, but I drew only one crawler. And no dagger until too late, when he drew (yes, drew) at least 4 frogs.

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

6rv 6rv 6rv 77c 77c 77c 77i 77i 77i 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7go 7go 7go 7go 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gr 7gs 7gs 7gs 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 7i6 8pm

No squid.
Earth / Fire

Hover over cards for details, click for permalink

Deck import code : [Select]

5ie 5ie 5ie 5ie 5ie 6s2 6s2 6s2 6ts 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u3 6u7 6u7 6u7 6ve 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gk 7gl 7gl 7gp 7gp 7gv 7gv 7h0 7h0 7i6 7i6 8pj

Entropy
Went with something subpar.