Death Trials: Thenewguy 3 - 1 DrunkDestroyer

[thatnewguy]

Good games overall Drunk, it was a pleasure.
Game 1:

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52m 52m 52m 52t 52t 52t 52t 5f8 5f8 5f8 5f9 5f9 5f9 713 713 713 713 713 71a 71a 71b 71b 71bWent Rain of fire control, against chaos power death stalker, I took the win.

Game 2 :

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4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52t 52t 52t 52t 5ia 5ia 713 713 713 713 71a 71a 7dm 7dm 7n0 7n0Anti-arsenic deck, turns out he ran OE instead, 2 early OEs sealed the game for him.

Game 3:

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52r 52r 52r 71a 71a 71b 71b 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9Poison stall vs stone skin + EQ + dragons, I plowed it over.

Game 4:

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542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 624 624 624 713 713 713 713 71b 71b 72i 72i 80i 80iFractal recluse (thanks blonde for the basic deck build from last trials) Silence stopped that damned miracle

[DrunkDestroyer]

Good Games TNG. I can blame the RNG as much as I want, but in the end you beat me fair and square.

Game 1

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4vl 4vl 4vl 4vo 4vo 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52h 52u 52u 52u 52u 52u 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 6u2 6u2 6u2 71b 71b 7n2I made this deck thinking TNG wouldn't expect it (he knew I had no chaos powers, however 2 games with Destiny happened to give me 3). A first turn discord was also very appealing to me being on the recieving end of them a lot. I got my animate quite early, but the turn I got my discord was the only turn I didn't want it. (Otherwise draw was very good). RoFs managed to take out my Scorps, BEs were never used.

TNG 1 - 0 DD

Game 2

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52g 52g 52q 52q 52r 52r 52r 52r 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5ol 5ol 5ol 71b 71b 7n5 7n5Got an Owls Eye animated quite early (first one got deflagged) and managed to slowly pick of his creatures, while slowly applying poison with an animated Arsenic, despite his Fog Shield. Eventually another Owls Eye joined the party, and the Bonewall started pumping, and the game was decided. Based on Air's War deck, I knew this would come as a surprise (who plays Flying OEs in a death trial?)

TNG 1 - 1 DD

Game 3

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52h 52h 52h 52h 52r 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 593 593 593 593 594 594 595 595 595 595 71b 71bBad deck choice on my side. BBs were useless, sundials and bonewalls neutralised my dragons, Earthquakes were the only useful card here. In part I have to blame my deckbuilding style here, this deck wasn't very well designed. Poison, the obvious death deck walked all over this.

TNG 2 - DD 1

Game 4

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52h 52h 52h 52s 52s 52s 52s 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 5la 5la 5ld 5ld 5ld 5ls 5ls 7k2 7k2 7k2My favourite deck out of all the ones I made. Gets quite heavy on light quanta (I took some cards out to meet the restrictions). As much as I could say a solar shield would have enabled me to miracle, this wasn't designed to play a fractal deck. All the recluses came at once, and the silence was the last straw. (Before this game, I may have 'slipped' something in chat/game to make TNG think I would play Purify. No idea if it worked). I love this deck, it worked great in testing, but good playing of fractal recluses beat me here. (May be worth noting I managed to upgrade an Aflatoxin before this duel)

TNG 3 - DD 1

Good games TNG, you know how much I love my stalls, and you used it to your advantage. You beat me fairly, and you gave a lucky entrant into the death trials a taste of the real thing. Good games, and good luck in the rest of the trials.

[MrBlonde]

Very creative decks TNG. IMO, skeleton? Silence? I think i need to go back to the drawing board for preparation for these Finals.

[xdude]

Very creative decks TNG. IMO, skeleton? Silence? I think i need to go back to the drawing board for preparation for these Finals.

About the Skeletons... why not Photons? o.O

[thatnewguy]

I didn't want to risk muligain more than I already did. So I went for a 1 cost creature.

[DrunkDestroyer]

Very creative decks TNG. IMO, skeleton? Silence? I think i need to go back to the drawing board for preparation for these Finals.

Yeah, If I were TNG I would have chosen to 'misplace the code' of that last deck. Seems too good to just...'give away' just yet.

And damn...looking back I see 3 decks with Bonewalls and 3 decks with Dragons (Didn't use mummy/recluse spam because I figured noone would expect dragons- and I have no upped recluses). If I want to do better, I have to get myself some new decks.

[MrBlonde]

Definitely DD. Any Master of Death needs to have upped recluses. Best card to upgrade in Death's stable. Also it's nice to see the decks you guys made especially since you guys have plenty of intel on my successful style of play (throw a deck together and pray to the RNG).

[Memorystick]

Definitely DD. Any Master of Death needs to have upped recluses. Best card to upgrade in Death's stable. Also it's nice to see the decks you guys made especially since you guys have plenty of intel on my successful style of play (throw a deck together and pray to the RNG).

Why does that sound familiar?

[DrunkDestroyer]

Definitely DD. Any Master of Death needs to have upped recluses. Best card to upgrade in Death's stable. Also it's nice to see the decks you guys made especially since you guys have plenty of intel on my successful style of play (throw a deck together and pray to the RNG).

To be fair here, I had no idea I was going to be in the trials at all, till I was pretty much in Phase 2. It was as much of a surprise to me as it may have been to anyone else reading the forums at that time.
And while I tried grinding for a bit... it's never been my strong point. I figured it would be better to have prepared decks than a couple more upped cards (not that it helped me much)

[kitty45]

were these games in a row?

[TheForbiddenOracle]

Might wanna change the first post, makes it sound like you won 4-0, can't really tell where DD won...