[6th Trials] Out-of-Element Battles - Cheesy111 3 - 2 Drake_XIV

[Cheesy111]

G1: Graboghost

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This was my failure. Not reading the rules carefully and putting in 1 Reverse Time and 1 Eternity severely limited my options later on.  On top of that, the deck was underquantaed to begin with and EQdevs just shut it down.

G2: Time/Light Stall

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I love big stalls.  Especially excellent against a Wings deck, this was an easily winnable matchup but it left me with only one sundial/procrastination/hourglass use left along with RT/Eternity unusable for the rest of the set.

G3: Poison Dials

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Finishing off my Hourglass/Procrastination/Sundial usages with Poison Dials.  It's not much different than UGdials in this matchup, but I went with this since Wings was gone and Arsenic is awesome.  No sweat against Drake's ugly CC deck.

G4: PUgons

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I was hoping to run out some of his options while still having a chance at winning with PUgons.  Alas, RTboids is pretty much a hard counter, even with my excellent draws in this game.   My second nymph usage was permissible, but when I panicked at the thought of not drawing any PUs and threw in a Fractal I messed up my ability to go Ghostal in the next game, which left me with...

G5: Stealmare

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I couldn't use Golden Nymph, Eternity, RT or Hourglass.  I was expecting an Immortal-like stall, and the only way to reliably beat it would be to take a giant deck that would be absolutely horrible against everything else, and might still lose if the Immortal stall had damage.  So, I decided to take a Stealmare instead, hoping I could Steal Sanctuaries and Titanium/Diamond shields to burst down Drake before he could build up quanta.

That plan did not go so well when I got a one-pendulum draw. 

Drake used Steal on some of my pillars as well as one pillar that I stole from him.  This mean that he could start putting out the Ghosts that I had been able to Nightmare him with (as he had mis-marked and was unable to play his Sanctuaries).  It came down to whether or not Drake drew another stone skin near the end, and he did not.  This is one of the derpiest matches I have had in a while - a one-pend Stealmare against a light quanta-less Immortal.

[Drake_XIV]

Because I don't plan on reusing any decks...

WIN

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Quanta locking him early saved my rear.  Kind of raised my hopes, later to be crushed.

LOSE

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Was expecting a Ghost rush or a Dune deck.  Predicted wrong.  Why does this keep on happening?

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I simply got outrushed.  I didn't really know what I was doing with this deck, to be honest.

WIN

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GO GO SHRIEKER RUSH!

LOSE

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Fail Stall is Fail Stall.  This was the one derp that may or may not have cost me the entire set.  Was screwing around with balance while waiting for Chees to move on, but forgot to change back.  I actually was close to decking him out, but Stone Skins didn't like me.  I really have no words for how stupid this last match was.

Nice to know I've garnered some respect.  Now, getting votes will be a trial within itself.