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

[kirchj33]

Ok so now for the deck reveal.  Word on the street is that it's no surprise that my go-to deck was a rainbow...

1st Game - Win: Grabbyghost vs. Death Stall

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

This is just such a strong deck that requires a hard counter so I used it first.  Turn 2 arsenic + warden for him vs. turn 2 eternity for me enabled us both to get going here.  I took a chance and shoved out all my quanta after he didn't EQ on the 2nd turn.  I was able to RT my way to victory but he had still pinged me down enough with arsenic to lose with 1 turn before his win conditions set in.

2nd Game - Win: Rainbow vs. Light/Stoneskin stall

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 5f6 5f6 5og 5og 6qq 6qq 6qq 6qq 6rl 71a 8pm

I was able to keep his wardens at bay by playing my earth quanta/petrify-heavy version of my rainbow (which looking back at, is probably not optimized).  I tried to modify it to each opponent's tendencies, but left a little out there on this one.  Pretty easy win before any lockdown by him occured.  Strange desync happened at the end (screenshot provided), but seeing as I won on both ends on the next turn, Z did the honorable thing and gave me the win.



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3rd Game - Win: Fractal Dimshields vs. Golemrush

by kirchj33

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58u 58u 58u 592 592 592 59c 59c 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 61t 61t 61t 61t 622 622 77a 77a 77b 77b 77e 77e 8pu

I expected a rush of some sort since he had played stalls the first two games.  Predicted correctly, but I needed some huge RNG love to win this one.  This deck definitely evolved for me over the course of playing my 3 opponents.  I still think mith's dim stall was a little better but mine was perhaps a little more versatile because of its size and damage potential.

Zblader played an early golem.  After drawing 2 PA's I took a big chance that he didn't have EQs after seeing the fire mark and left my pendies unprotected.  This ended up being the difference in the match (still not sure if he was rocking deflags or not).  I saved up for and played a nymph to counter his golem, which he quickly countered with a BB.  I then absorbed damage while I gathered quanta, fractalling 4 more gnome riders and playing a stone dragon in the meantime.  He countered the dragon with another BB.  I was sure I would take control when I was able to play my other nymph the turn my first came off petrify, but he countered with 2 more BBs.  At this point I had already begun chaining PA'd Dim shields.  I was starting to worry now with the 3rd PA in hand but no dim shield to go with.  I top decked a dim on the turn before it expired and golem + fractal in hand meant I had more than enough damage to finish him off with 3 large, mean golems staring me in the face.

Great games Z!  You really made me sweat, particularly the last game, regardless of what the scoresheet shows.  I feel any of the 4 contenders could have easily won the battle phase.

[ZephyrPhantom]

Decks:
Round 1

by Zblader

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52o 52o 52o 52o 52q 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58q 58q 58r 58r 58r 58r 594 594 594 596 596 596 596 71a 778 778 778 77a 77a 8pk

Round 2

by Zblader

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58r 58r 58r 593 593 593 594 594 594 594 594 596 596 596 596 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 5lm 778 778 778 778 77a 7k2 8pq

Round 3

by Zblader

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58u 58u 58u 58u 58u 594 594 595 595 595 595 596 596 596 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5fa 5fa 5fa 7dm 7dm 7dq 8po

Kirch gave a pretty detailed summary here, so I can't really add much.

In round 3, I did have Deflags - I drew one at the beginning but couldn't use it because Kirch had PA's handy.

Good games.

[Onizuka]

Quartet deck for the win.

[Higurashi]

That's not a r-
Yeah, what Oni said. Hehe, I thought kirch would pwn this phase. :>

[Jappert]

Yeah, what Oni said. Hehe, I thought kirch would pwn this phase. :>

He sure did! I'm not particularly fond of any of the decks though, they're pretty straight forward, simple but effective. PA'ing dim shields was a nice touch however, and how can I not agree with Steeltal! (Fractal Steel Golems!)