[10th Trial of Aether] deuce22 5 - 3 Regyptic

[deuce22]

Insane games, great opponent, RNG rules all

Game 1 - Win 1-0
I had good quanta and 3 early spiders and a TU. Regy only drew quanta and a pulvy...

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Game 2 - Win 2-0
About as close to a hard counter as you can get against Regy's bonebolt, but regy drew all 6 zaps in top half of deck, so I barely won with exact damage

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Game 3 - Loss 2-1
Regy had lots of quanta, and I had near perfect draw for catatitan. I had 2 titans flying then dropped 2 pults to be able to OTK next turn. But then Regy topdecked an air tower to give him the 1 air he needed to blitz his dragons to barely win...sigh

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Game 4 - Loss 2-2
Grabbow vs monoaether, pretty much a cointoss, which I won, but I had no quanta in opening hand...

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Game 5 - Loss 2-3
If I used spiders instead of psions, I may have had a chance, but I was paranoid of wings and boners. Regy had another great draw so I may have lost anyway

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Game 6 - Win 3-3
This was pretty much a hard counter since I just PU'd his adrenastaves and waited til I could OTK.

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Game 7 - Win 4-3
This was basically a reverse of game 5, except I only drew 1 aether pend, which significantly slowed down my PU. All regy needed to do was draw a non-quanta card his last turn and he would have won.

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Game 8 - Win 5-3
Had a feeling he would play AM PUgon, and I almost played a straight up bonebolt with plagues and zaps, but I decided to take a chance on my poison dial stall, which tested well against most rushes, but not ideal against dragons. In retrospect, I should have used a different modification of this deck, but too late now. I never drew my light pends, but I had an early arse and topdecked a 3rd dial to keep the chain going the turn I needed it to seal the win.

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Regy, you were a very tough opponent, and you made very smart bans (yes, I know they are same as mine, but I've done this a lot before and I know how important it is to make good bans. God knows the bans I made in my first 2 trials weren't perfect), which made this final battle extremely difficult to prep for. I hope to see you in aether trials next year!

[Regyptic]

ggs. That was a really strange game of bad draws, top decks and a coin that hated me but I really enjoyed it. It was always going to be close with matching bans and similar Ups and was really tough to build decks for. I'm so glad I was able to get to the final and challenge you. I hope I gave you a good fight.

Game 1 - Pulvy Dragons vs Spider Wings (LOSS)

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This deck performed quite well against Spider/Wings in testing and I wanted to use it early to make deuce think a bit. Unfortunately, I lost the toss, deuce had a pretty rushy start with a turn 1 Spider and I didn't draw Bolts... or damage.

Game 2 - BoneBolt vs PUPsions (LOSS)

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Second lost toss. I should have been fairly well countered but I was lucky enough to draw an early Arsenic and ALL of my Bolts. However that meant I wasn't drawing as much damage and was a turn behind deuce when he won with exact damage from Psions and Bolts.

Game 3 - AirPUGons vs CataTitans (WIN)

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I didn't write down the coin toss for this one so have to assume I won it. Incredibly close game. I was one quanta off being able to use both Silence and TU at one point which I think would have won it. As compensation I was lucky enough to draw Air quanta the next turn allowing me to use Sky Blitz to finish him off just in time.

Game 4 - PUPsions vs Grabbow (WIN)

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Third lost toss. He had a terrible draw. I easily rushed him down.

Game 5 - EntPUGons vs PUPsions (WIN)

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Fourth lost toss. I used Antimatter on a Dragon when he PU'd mine. He had to Bolt it. I ended up winning by a turn thanks to drawing Lobo.

Game 6 - PUAdrenastaves vs Grabbow (LOSS)

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Not that it mattered at all but I lost the toss. Another deck that I wanted to try but I knew it was a risk. I took a Jade shield out of this at the last minute which was a big mistake. A Lobo would have done it too. He copied my Staves to keep himself alive until he drew enough Grabbys/PUs for the one turn kill.

Game 7 - PUPsions vs EntPUGons (LOSS)

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I won the coin toss! Huge quanta draw with a first turn Psion and not much else. It took him a while to draw an Antimatter which gave me hope. Unfortunately, I just kept drawing quanta. 4/10 Psions/TUs and 1/6 Bolts was not enough and left me 5 damage short of the win after his second last turn Antimatter.

Game 8 - EntPUGons vs PoisonDials (LOSS)

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I had a last minute switch to this from BoneBolt. I got close thanks to Lobo but he kept playing Dials and the Poison wore me down.

Congratulations to deuce on yet another Mastership.

[Solaris]

deuce's still got it  8)

Good fight, mates. I certainly wouldn't be disappointed with the result, Regy, you put on a great show. I look forward to (hopefully!) seeing you guys next Trials.

[Blacksmith]

You make me speechless, your sixth aether mastership taken in a row. You now got more titels than all the other aether masters together, very impressive. I guess I'll have to challenge you next trials, to break this streak before you go megalomanic.... Jokes aside, well played Regyptic, you actually managed to challenge this dude.

[UTAlan]

Grats, deuce!