[10th Trial of Death] rob77dp 5 - 2 Sera

[rob77dp]

There is no justice for Sera's performance by this scoreline. This match was closer than any 5-4 or 4-5 despite ending up a little lop-sided at 5-2.

I won by a combined 32 HP across all 5 of my duel wins. Game 2 I had an illegal deck due to rob77dERp. Game 1 was also quite close. I will let the video speak for themselves once I get to editing and uploading.

Game 1 video (sorry about the odd commercial sound in background of this at the start)

Game 1: FArse!

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4sk 52g 52g 52h 542 542 710 710 710 710 718 718 718 718 718 718 71a 71a 71a 71a 71a 71a 72i 72i 72i 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 8pk

Loss 0-1
Loss - WAY too slow on getting poison in ahead of a shield...

Game 2 video

Game 2: FArse! (illegal)

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4sk 52g 52g 52h 542 542 710 710 710 710 718 718 718 718 718 718 71a 71a 71a 71a 71a 71a 72i 72i 72i 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 8pk

Illegal 0-2
Yeah... I copied a new deck code from my spreadsheet and pasted in but was out of my mind not clicking or misclicking the "Import" button. Also, I managed not to keep my eye on the deck in the background which stayed the same. Immediately realize it by opening hand and quite out.

Game 3 video

Game 3: FArse!

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4sk 52g 52g 52h 542 542 710 710 710 710 718 718 718 718 718 718 71a 71a 71a 71a 71a 71a 72i 72i 72i 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 8pk

WIN 1-2

Game 4 video

Game 4: NoVoids

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4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 710 710 710 710 710 710 710 710 711 718 718 718 718 718 718 7gq 7u2 7u2 7u2 7u2 7u2 7u2 8pt

WIN 2-2

Game 5 video

Game 5: Chargin' In!

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542 542 542 542 542 542 713 713 713 713 713 713 71a 71a 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 745 745 745 745 745 745 74a 74a 74a 74a 8pl

WIN 3-2
I expected something with shields at its core. Chargers and Momentum on Recluses and such bypasses shields. Indeed as mentioned in the Twitch chat commentary I played Unstoppable on a Charger intentionally - Sera's deck looked a whole lot like Bonebolt (it was!) so this meant my strongest threat was at 6 HP. Two-zap zone. I had a couple Unstoppable in-hand so I was hoping to bait the double zap or such so I could then add momentum to my remaining creatures to bypass the enlarged BW stack. It worked mostly.

Game 6 video

Game 6: Chargin' In!

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542 542 542 542 542 542 6rk 6rl 713 713 713 713 713 713 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 745 745 745 745 745 745 74a 74a 74a 74a 8pl

WIN 4-2
Out with the illegal-in-even-games Arsenics and in with an equally potent without the residual damage weapon - Long Sword (such a good weapon, really).

Game 7 video

Game 7: Souls on Fire

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52i 52i 52i 534 534 534 713 713 713 71a 71f 71f 71f 71f 71f 77e 77e 77e 77e 77e 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dq 7dq 7dq 7dq 7dq 8pk

WIN 5-2
I had decided before the match that if I was at 4 wins before it is tied 4-4 that I was playing this deck. The opportunity came and I followed through and it won.

Final score 5-2.

Spoiler for Unused decks...:

Spoiler for Enter at your own risk:

Spoiler for Seriously, no idea if these were good, bad, or ugly...:

Spoiler for OK, if you're here and clicking you really want to see the decks:

TU Nymphs

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Bloodwall Skies

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Mono-death

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Grabbow

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4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 5lc 6u1 710 710 710 713 713 713 713 713 713 71d 71d 71d 72i 72i 72i 77g 77g 77g 77g 7ae 7dm 7n0 8pm

Warden-stall

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52g 52g 534 534 534 534 542 542 542 542 594 594 594 594 594 594 6rl 6rl 710 710 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 77c 77c 77c 77m 77m 77m 77m 77m 77m 8pm

Venenum Daemonium

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52l 52u 52u 52u 52u 52u 6tt 6tt 6tt 6tt 6tt 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u2 6u2 715 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 8pj

Toxic Tears

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Blood Runs Grey - even

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534 534 534 534 542 542 542 5v0 5v0 5v0 5v0 5v0 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 7t7 7t7 7t7 7t7 7t7 7t7 7t8 7t8 7t8 7tb 7tb 7th 7th 8pt

Deadly Voids - even

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Mono-death BW - even

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Souls on Fire - even

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52i 52i 52i 534 534 534 6rk 71b 71b 71b 71f 71f 71f 71f 71f 77e 77e 77e 77e 77e 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dq 7dq 7dq 7dq 8pk

Grabbow - even

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Blood Runs Grey - odd

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Mono-death Arse - odd

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Grabbow - odd

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CP Stalkers - odd

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Death Power - odd

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Frog Splash - odd

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White Plague - odd

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Ghostbow Momo - odd

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4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 713 713 713 713 713 71a 71a 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 72i 74a 74a 74a 74a 74a 8ps

Nightmares Heavy - odd

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Nightmares Mashup - odd

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Nightmares Nimble - odd

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Can you find the illegal deck?
I will consider addressing questions or comments that relate to the unused deck.
I will surely address questions or comments related to the match.

EDIT1: Added decks used.
EDIT2: Added video links.
EDIT3: Added unused decks that I prepared.

[Sera]

It's like every game went down to last turn topdecks. This was a great experience. GGs, rob! I'll be back next year :p

Game 1 Win: Mono vs Flying Arsenics

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I got a good draw here, and early bonewall blocked most damage from him.

Game 2 Win?: Dagger Dusk vs Flying Arsenics

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He forgot to import, resulting in an illegal deck.

Game 3 Loss: Switch vs Flying Arsenics

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I had a fairly rushy start, but I drew no discords. That was bad. I lost by 6 damage.
Also, this is actually illegal.

Game 4 Loss: Poisoned Mind vs Void Dials

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One death pend draw all game meant that I was unable to keep up with the damage race, even against only 4 voids! Lost by 7 damage.

Game 5 Loss: Bonebolt vs Chargers

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I think I made a bad play by bolting recluses after he played momentum on a charger. It turns out that he also had a momentum to stick on a recluse, and I didn't draw any more lightnings.

Game 6 Loss: Stinger vs Chargers

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I brought a wings deck that could rush, but my rush was slower. Lost by 3 damage.

Game 7 Loss: Speed Poison vs Immorush

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I didn't draw any freezes. He got a Grey. That was bad. Really bad. Lost by 4 damage.

[andretimpa]

Crazy close games. Good job you two.

For the record, rob's HP on his wins: 6, 7, 25, 3, 4

[dark ripper]

Very close games. it all came down to topdecks and coin tosses, no hard counters iirc.

Gratz rob for defending!

[inthisroom]

One of the most exciting finals I think, good job Robert, congratulations on defending your title.

Also, with every term, you smell a little worse.

[rob77dp]

Videos are up now in my OP.

(Note: Please leave me a note here if the quality is not good enough to watch -- I could if needed try the twitch recordings instead of these from OBS.)

[Physsion]

Aside from rob's game 2 (Arsenic banned in Even games) and Sera's game 3 (not 50% in-element) decks being illegal, the rest are all good.

Awesome decks from both players, it's easy to see why these games were so close. Congratulations to rob on your third mastership, and to Sera for putting up a very strong fight.

[Higurashi]

Aye, I was expecting this one to be the closest. Actually gave a small edge to Serapuff's experience, but Trials experience is also a thing. gg's

[rob77dp]

Alright, a few more edits to my OP which now include minor comments about games, video links, and unused decks.

[Blacksmith]

Can you find the illegal deck?

Yeah. Souls on fire
To few death cards. Also thank you for game description!

[rob77dp]

Can you find the illegal deck?

Yeah. Souls on fire
To few death cards. Also thank you for game description!

* rob77dp presents a cookie to Blacksmith

The unused Souls on Fire but yeah, that unused deck is illegal.