[6th Trials][Life] Helston 3 - 0 Annele [Darkness]

[Helston]

*chops down a door, holding a stopwatch*
I'm Mike Wallace, I'm Morley Safer, and I'm Ed Bradley. All this and Andy Rooney tonight on 60 Minutes!

Today I believe the RNG gods were truly smiling upon me. That and I seemed to pick just the right deck each time. This is not like me, I think I need to see a doctor.

Game 1: Win

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Upon seeing an entropy mark, I panicked. Last time I faced a discord deck with devtosis, I lost horribly. I won the toss, but Nel started with five pendulums in her opening hand. Things were getting worse. I got out my first Pest, played mitosis on it and then drew a couple more. She was beating me down pretty hard with a Gargoyle and two Lycans, and I was at about 50HP with the choice between playing a second mitosis or an early Emphatic Bonds. I went with the Mitosis, knowing things would probably only get worse with the Bonds. Two turns later this happens:

Spoiler for Hidden:

I had stolen the Darkness pillar one or two turns earlier.

Her damage adds up to 19, and she has enough quanta for one more Lycanthrope. Luckily for me she didn't play one. From there I had her quanta locked and enough healing with the second Bonds to secure the win.

Game 2: Win

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I was sort of happy to see the aether mark, as well as four or five pendulums to start with. Annele got out an early Devourer, which I promptly rage potted. I had a Phoenix and two Cocks before she played her next Devourers, with a Fractal. From there I slowly worked her down, playing another Phoenix and Deflagging her Dusk Shield. Her Vampires came out too late to prevent her loss, and I had a Rage Pot ready for one of them anyway. I was happy not to see any Dim Shields, I hadn't drawn that second Deflag yet.

Game 3: Win

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Earth mark. EQ/Devourers. Despite having five Life Pendulums in my opening hand, I started with just one and a Light Pillar. After the first EQ, I played one more pendulum, hoping to draw a second one out before playing the rest. I was really trying to feign a bad hand, discarding a card, but she didn't play another one when she next got to 3 . I played all my pendulums, two Crusaders and adrenalined one of them.

Next turn she EQs my nice big pendulum stack, but by this stage I'm devoted to turning my deck into a rush. I played the next Crusader when I have enough quanta, and brought her down without much more trouble. Only drew one Staff and one Heal the entire match, so I think I was a little lucky. I was also lucky to have switched Mitosis in this deck to Adrenalines, wanting to keep them so I could potentially use a Hope deck later.

GGs Annele.

[Annele]

*Is Darkness*

I now hate cheese.

Just jokes. I still loooves cheesey... :p

[Helston]

Updated with more descriptive game reports, and a screenshot of me on the brink of losing game 1.