Light Trials - Dm1321 3 - 1 Johannhowitzer

[Dm]

(Is your name right?)

1st match : I don't remember the deck, probably the antimatter one. Win.
Same deck as Fourth match, but without a BE and +1 antimatter.

2nd Match : Win, EQ deck if I remember.

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593 593 593 593 593 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5la 5la 5la 5la 5la 5la 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mqPossibly with a miracle or something else. The deck is not exact.

3rd Match : Loss, I used a sky blitz + Dragons for a One turn Kill and he had antimatters. Hax shield didn't do it's job. 2-1.

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4th Match : As he tried to GP and Momentum everything I antimatter'd it while trying to BE his grav. shield. My BE dragon got killed in the middle of the mayhem and the fight moved towards a crazy run with healing, as my Nymph did damage and his Archangel did healing. In the last round he GP'd his own angel for no reason and spammed his whole hand to the table. I won by a deck-out in a very wonderful game.

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4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vo 500 5la 5la 5la 5la 5la 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq
Good Games, johann!

Edit : Added a few decks, and also saying right now that the fourth match could of gone either way. If I had lost the coin toss, he would have won by deckout. Gladly the coin was mine, so he drew a card first. RNG was by my side.

[Ryan666]

Good job DM, second place buddy!

[johannhowitzer]

Name's right, though both of you capitalized the J, hehe.

Game 1:

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5f4 5f4 5f4 5f6 5f6 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5lc 5lc 5li 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 7dr 7dr 7dr 7dr 7dr 7ju 7ju 7ju 7ju 7juYes, you used your Antimatter.  I saw it coming and saved up fire quanta, managing to get out two Fire Bolts and two raged Angels just before I died - dealing 44 damage.  I didn't have any way to combat Antimatter.

Game 2:

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5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5lf 5lf 5lf 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5rp 5rp 5rt 5rt 5rt 5rt 5s4 7jt 7jt 7jv 7jv 7jv 7k2 7k2 7q0 7q0 7q0Horrible draw on my end, I don't think I ever saw a Scorpion and he wasted me with dragons.  Earthquake was unlikely to matter anyway, thanks to 3 different pillar stacks on my end and low-quanta cards all round - Golden Nymph and Miracles were the only expensive things I took along.

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4vc 4vc 500 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5lf 5lf 5lf 5lf 5lf 5lf 6ts 6ts 6ts 6u7 6u7 6u7 6u7 7jq 7jq 7k2"I sense antimatter."  "Gonna sky-blitz pegasi?"  "Nah, dragons."  I'd say hax shield did do its job, though - with two of my dragons out, he hovered around 80 HP for several turns.  With nothing to Antimatter, my two dragons were the only thing on the field for most of the game, and kept missing.

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55q 55q 55q 55t 55t 55t 560 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5li 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 5mq 749 749 749 7jo 7jo 7jq 7ju 7ju 7ju 7juSome really interesting stuff in this game.  It kept swinging back and forth, and he was saved near the end by a lucky Antimatter draw.

After my first two angels fell to Antimatter, I cast Chimera to kill them via his dragons, then played a third against his empty hand.  It whittled him down for a while, then he played BE on a -10|10 dragon and killed my shield.  My response was another shield, Pull on the BE'd dragon, and my own Light Dragon to stop it cold.  With one turn to go, he drew an Antimatter and tagged my dragon, which I promptly killed with Pull... only to see his Nymph come out a few turns later, again just before I could finish the job.  Epic game, decided by the coin-toss - we both had 30-card decks, and I went first and decked out.

That last game was epic, a great way to go out!  In our matches, I can't say either of us made any obvious mistakes, good deckbuilding too.  Rock-paper-scissors got us each a couple times, then the RNG had the last word.  Well fought!

[xdude]

Matchup 1 - Light/Fire vs Light/Entropy.

The Light Fire deck, while good, was not good against Light. The Entropy duo was. Johann gave his best in the end though, and I appreciate his good tactic play.

Matchup 2 - Light/Time vs Light/Earth.

Interesting decks, as both seem good general counters to Light. Apparently Dm was a little lucky, but I think he had the upper hand anyways. He could rush faster, and johann was unlikely to be able to play a Miracle.

Matchup 3 - Light/Entropy - Light/Air.

Good decks, again. The Light/Air concept was a good one against Entropy, but you can't honestly expect to survive so long with only 1 Fog Shield in the deck. Miracles/OE's are a must.

Matchup 4 - Light/Gravity vs Light/Entropy.

Yet again, good decks. I wouldn't call this exactly a lucky win (except winning the coin toss), as 5 AM's and 1 Nymph will most of the time beat 4 creatures.

[Dm]

No, fourth game was close. Had you spectated, you'd understand. I had wasted 3 antimatters and was around 8 cards on my deck. After he had made that master move of pulling off the dragon with the gravity pull on my BE dragon, if I didn't get that antimatter the next turn, I'd have been toast.

Edit : I'd like to add miracle is a impossible addition, as I need 5 dragons + 1 sky blitz against entropy to even have a chance of a one hit KO. Owl's Eye won't help as light has angels that cancel out the damage.

[xdude]

No, fourth game was close. Had you spectated, you'd understand. I had wasted 3 antimatters and was around 8 cards on my deck. After he had made that master move of pulling off the dragon with the gravity pull on my BE dragon, if I didn't get that antimatter the next turn, I'd have been toast.

Edit : I'd like to add miracle is a impossible addition, as I need 5 dragons + 1 sky blitz against entropy to even have a chance of a one hit KO. Owl's Eye won't help as light has angels that cancel out the damage.

Yes, it was close. But normally, it shouldn't have been. Simply, 5 AM's AND 1 Nymph > 4 creatures. Yes, I though about the Miracle problem as well, but... - how many persons use Angels in a mainly unupped environment? Anyways, at least 3 Shields and some minor CC is a must if you go with such a deck.

[Dm]

Shockwaves would be a much better choice, since they don't suck your quanta so much and you can kind of chain them together to kill things like dragons.

Well, whatever. =P

Oh, and also, Angels are useful un-upped, I'd pack them in any deck if I was afraid of CC. Plus, they're awesome with Rage Pot.

And about AM, I had used 3 Of them and was on around 10 cards when his dragon was layed down on the table. 1 nymph and 2 antimatter on the deck. RNG likes me, though.

[xdude]

Well, the first 4 AM cards SHOULD generally be in your first 20 cards.

[johannhowitzer]

Yes, it was close. But normally, it shouldn't have been. Simply, 5 AM's AND 1 Nymph > 4 creatures.

(I had 5 creatures, not 4. )
That depends a lot on how I anticipated things - with Gravity Shield in the mix, I could easily force deckout, and with one Antimatter dedicated to getting out his Butterfly Effect, and Gravity Pull to kill his Nymph and my own AM'd creatures (with Chimera to help with that), I could have ended up with one positive-attack creature.  The only really crucial thing for me to do would have been to kill his Nymph before it got to use the ability.