~Earth~ kirchj33 3 - 0 Terroking ~Phase 2 Trials 4~

[kirchj33]

Game 1 - Win: Rainbow vs. Dragons & Sancts

by kirchj33

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4sa 4sa 4sa 58o 58u 58u 58u 58u 590 590 590 590 590 590 595 595 595 595 59c 5aa 5c1 5f6 5f6 5og 6qq 6qq 6qq 71a 71a 77c 8pm

Early nymph was able to lock down any CC/Stall threats he had. 1 QP through the first 15 cards meant my arsenic I had in my opening hand didn’t come into play until about turn 7 or 8.  In the end though, the ghetto grabbow prevailed.

Game 2 - Win: Ghosts & Grabs vs. Pulvy/BB/Gravity Shield Lockdown

by kirchj33

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590 590 590 590 590 590 593 593 593 593 593 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5ro 5ro 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 78q 78q 78q 78q 78q 78q 8ps

Slow quanta start for both of us, but Terro was unable to draw PA’s until I had already established control of the quanta race.  He pinged down my quanta with an early pulvy, but it came down to my ability to push out damage and control with EQ until it was too late for Terro.

Game 3 Win: Dim Shields & Fractals vs. a fatter Dim Shield decker

by kirchj33

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 592 592 592 59c 59c 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 61t 61t 61t 622 77a 77a 77b 77b 80d 80i 8pu

I was able to fractal a golem fairly early on to push his health down to 32, where it sat for a long long time while he chained dims.  We had a fairly epic nymph battle where he started locking down all of my damage, then I played two about ten turns later and it was my turn to have some fun.  He countered with two more nymphs the turn before his chain ran out, but it was too little too late.  Mostly we just caught up on each other’s lives in chat through this really exciting match.  In the end, he ran out of dims about 2 turns before the finish.   

[Mithcairion]

Wow, and here I thought I didn't say much about MY matches, lol 

[Kakerlake]

Gz kirchj33 on beating Terroking 3-0! This is rather unexpected and I can't wait to see both of your deckchoices and match summarys.

[Higurashi]

Just as I bet. Keep it up, kirch :>

[kirchj33]

OP modded to include all decks and short summaries.

[Terroking]

by Terroking

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 594 594 594 596 596 596 596 59c 59c 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 77b 77b 77b 77b 77b 7k1 8pq

Saw early QP and knew he was a Graboidbow, though a pretty unorthodox one. My starting draw consisted of Pillars/Pends and 4 Dragons, and I top-decked a 5th Dragon soon after. With those useless card in hand I didn't stand much of a chance, barely drew any Sancs and he managed to seal away my only chance of victory by getting his one Nymph before I could draw either of mine.

by Terroking

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55p 55p 55q 55q 58v 58v 58v 592 592 592 595 595 595 595 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 74i 74i 77a 77a 77a 77a 8pl

Not a favorable matchup for me, being afraid of RTs shutting down my main damage (Looking at his deck that wasn't a threat at all) but EQs sealed my fate this game. I tried to save pends as best I could without being so slow as to auto-lose, but I simply couldn't draw enough of them, or any EAs until it was too late. I had enough BBs in hand that I could have halted his damage for quite a while with an EA, but didn't have the quanta to play even them. I drew an EA on my final turn, around card 15.

by Terroking

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58o 58o 58o 58o 592 592 592 592 592 592 59c 59c 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 77b 77b 77b 77b 77s 77s 8pu

I was confident in my ability to win this game, seeing as he didn't have any access to PC and I could likely just chain until he decked, but it proved to not be so. An extremely early Fractal on his part (Turn 3 or 4) forced me to start the chain earlier than I would have liked, and so it ended earlier than that too. I made a sort of mistake early on, for some stupid reason thinking he might have silence (For some reason, 95% of the forum believes it's a bad card, just like with Warden) and played a Dimshield a turn earlier than I needed to (When my current shield was at 1 counter. Had he any Silenced, he could have played them when it was at 0 counters and OHKO'd me) He played a Dimshield, and I knew he didn't have Silence. It ended up not mattering, since my final 2 Shields were both in the last 4 cards and he was allowed to get in enough free hits to end it.

[kirchj33]

Seeing your decks makes me realize that RNG played an even bigger part in these matches than I had originally thought.  You came well-prepared.  Thanks for the games Terro, any one of them or all of them could have gone in a different direction.