[Trials 7 - Challengers] [Gravity] Laxadarap 3 - 2 Furballdn [Fire]

[Laxadarap]

Win (illegal deck)
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First game I lost by 1 hp :F, and I feel bad for taking the win, but I think it was worth it (why I feel bad is because he didn't even draw the illegal cards).

[furballdn]

First game won by 1hp but it was an illegal deck, noticed only after it was over. Didn't even draw or use any of the illegal cards :/
RNG trolled me
Countered his deck and won
Another counter. This deck had no ups and I still won
Was countered by his deck and epic topdecks as well as my 1 pend draw

[Dm]

Dm is surprised.

Dm is (un?)pleasantly surprised.

[furballdn]

Explaining my bans: Seeing as how entropy is so close to gravy, I knew he was planning dischole. Since I have no reliable counter to dischole without sanct and I knew he'd ban sanct, I'd have to ban discord. I also really hate catatitans. Catatitans is deadly and can wreck me, so I banned flying weapon. That's where I really made my mistake. I should have been better off banning titan. As for my third ban, I originally said Oty, but since I can't ban creatures, I just blurted out acceleration. I really should have banned titan.

Seeing his bans: Deflag-meh. Less PC for me. I can still outrush him. Sanctuary-A bit annoying since I can't use firestall, but not too bad. Can't remember his third ban. Wasn't that important. Oh wait no, I remember, it was UG. I wasn't going to use UG anyway!

Matches: I knew he'd go entropy first, but with me banning discord, he might go for mono gravy. I chose bloody birds because it was a decent enough deck to counter entropy/gravy as well as mono. Using earth also lets me get better elements. When I saw the entropy mark, I was a bit cautious since I was wary of antimatter, so I always had a BB to freeze my own phoenixes if need be. I eventually saw his abomination duo, and banked on the chance that his deck was a pure rush. It was, and I was able to win with 1 hp.

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The problem with bloody birds was that it was designed for last trial's meta. He said he banned deflag and I didn't pay attention when I loaded up the code. It's a shame too, since no deflags were even used or contributed to the game. I only noticed after the match and notified laxadarap about this.

For the second match, I knew he was going to bring out something horrible, so I wanted to "throw" the match and use water so I could get some better elements as well as hoping my salad tossed rush could win. I'll name it symphony in blue and red, improvisation 56 performance art cacophonous crimson and azure: synthesis tribute to art because it uses phoenix and toadfish. I can't remember what laxa used, but apparently the notes said that I lost due to RNG. I think he used mono gravy. Oh wait, no. He used dark/gravy. He had a 1 pend draw, but duck shield is too OP

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I didn't ban bonerwall for a reason; I knew laxadarap would use it, and I knew I hated it, and I knew he knew I hated it. I was counting on him to use death so he would use bonerwall, and for that, I prepared the perfect counter to it and otys.

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I've always really liked Napalm's sundial fire deck so I used that. Light mark can be used to freak laxa out for the first turn, and this deck just counters his (although it was a mistake to play a fahren when he had a boner up). Conclusion: I drew enough to bolt through his boner and he DIEALED. Dial fire for death or some bad pun like that.

During the past games I saw laxa using gravitons a lot. This is surprising since honey charger is OP, although gravitons are by no means bad. Knowing he'd use gravitons a lot, I decided to pack my least favorite card against him hoping it'd work. It did.

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Here's psionic flamestorm, or some silly name like that. Rage pots killed his creatures and even his GPulls couldn't do enough CC since phoenixes can resurrect. The biggest game changer here was dim shield. Just blocked all his attacks.

I thought I'd do the above again, using wings to troll his gravitons. I even packed rage pots to kill otys that might want to eat my phoenixes.

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I saw his light mark and was a bit relieved because it might be a stall, but NOPE NOPE NOPE. OTYS. SADERS. TITANS. Every single combo that could counter me did, and he got some spectacular topdecks. It was really my fault to think that by banning AW I wouldn't see titan. In conclusion, screw your tits laxa. Screw your tits and boners.

Blah. Gravy was bad. Gravy is probably the worst element for fire to go up against in that it is really resilient (creatures can shrug off fire bolts easily), has decent CC (GP and oty basically kill everything), and it can stallbreak too. Maybe I could have done better just by going mono fire every game >___>

[CuCN]

Blah. Gravy was bad. Gravy is probably the worst element for fire to go up against

this wasn't really showing mastery of element imo, it was showing how Fire>Gravity.  There was pretty much nothing I could do, which bugs me quite a lot.

[furballdn]

Blah. Gravy was bad. Gravy is probably the worst element for fire to go up against

this wasn't really showing mastery of element imo, it was showing how Fire>Gravity.  There was pretty much nothing I could do, which bugs me quite a lot.

Might've been because I never made a true mono fire. I don't know why I didn't. I think I was too focused on the graph and tried making interesting duos to counter potential decks he might put up. I realize now that a good mono fire would have probably burned all his decks.

Mono fire outrushes entropy/gravy rush. Mono fire can probably outrush his dark/gravy. Mono fire would probably lose to bonerwalls. Mono fire beats mono gravy. Mono fire may or may not beat otys, that depends on the draw.

[Higurashi]

Mono fire can probably outrush his dark/gravy.

Every time.

Mono fire would probably lose to bonerwalls.

Bolts.

Mono fire may or may not beat otys, that depends on the draw.

Bolts, Fahren, even Phoenixes help.

I can see you went into this with control in mind (tons of CC and shields). Controlling Gravity... you played the opposite role of what you had, and you still won 2. Gravy is one of the easiest for Fire, to be completely honest.

[Dm]

And with that, it is time for me to face furball while he rushes his face out. I suppose I'm going to have a hard time.

Should be interesting.

[Shrink]

I don't know why I didn't. I think I was too focused on the graph and tried making interesting duos to counter potential decks he might put up.

This so much.

It's really easy to forget about your element's power alone with that sheet in front of your face begging you to make -all- the duos.

[Laxadarap]

Bans: Discord, Accel, FW, deflag, sanctuary, UG

Game 1: Win via illegal deck.

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1 hp loss.  Gpulled the first abom he hit me with, gpulled his crimson dragon when it came on the field.  Would have won if I had drawn a gpull,  guard, or abom in last 3 turns.  Drew 2 turns of quanta and a dragon I was 3 quanta off playing (pends instead of pillars at start).  :F

Game 2: Win

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2 duck shields and vagger in opening hand, and 1 pend.  Duck shield got discarded (he has no PC), went ahead and got him with a nightmare when he had an empty hand, won by a couple turns.

Game 3: Loss

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  He bolted me down from full hp and 9 cards left.  Furbz drawing OP.  Would have won in 2 turns (sundials permitting).

Game 4: Loss

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10 quanta sources in top 18 cards.  Drew 1 charger.  Drew a bunch of guards, but unupped and dims=EFFF.  Ended with 50+ quanta :F.

Game 5: Win

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He had access to darkness, death, air, and life.  This beats probably all of them (I was honestly expecting bonebolt).  Ended up vs. a wings deck.  Started with perfect quanta for an oty + sader on like 2/3rd turn, with 6 leftover for titan + devour.  He RP’d first sader.  Oty sat their.  Topdecked another sader next turn, played it.  He then RP’d oty, (guessing because he had a phoenix), and I topdecked another.  He RP’d that as well, but I was doing 17 damage a turn, and his wings were useless.  GG’s.