[10th Trial of Darkness] Physsion 5 - 0 Aves

[Physsion]

Good games, Aves! Well played.


Game 1 vs PUGons

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I built this as a general sweeper for this battle, banning Drain Life and Steal from Aves meant he only had a handful of answers to this deck.

6HP Obsidian Dragons gave me the advantage against Aves' Lightnings, but I was still behind in the damage race for quite some time. After trading Dragons for several turns, I managed to get a high-powered Siphon off to keep myself out of Dragon+TU+TU range, and took the win with 38HP remaining.

Game 2 vs Antimatter Stall

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With 35 upgrades at my disposal, I knew I had to field something like this. Even found use for the two Purple Nymphs I upgraded before joining the community.

Very uneventful stall vs. stall game, was simply a case of waiting to draw my Siphons - nothing Aves could do here.

Game 3 vs Antimatter SoV Stall

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Thought Aves would predict the same deck from me again, and I expected him to either bring Reflectives or an SoV stall - made the right call, nothing he could do here either.

Game 4 vs Gravity Duo

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One of my absolute favourite deck archetypes, and definitely my favourite Nymph's Tears duo out of all the Elements - a gorgeous combination of fast and heavy damage, bulky creatures, great general survivability, and some nice utility with Steals.

Even at 18 quanta in a 30 card deck, I still managed a 1-pendulum draw here - Aves playing Liquid Shadows to lobotomize my first two Queens drastically slowed down my damage, but ultimately ended up helping me more than harming me, and I took the win with 65HP remaining.

Game 5 vs Mono Rush

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Slight modification from my game 1 deck, swapping two Steals out for two Daggers for a little more aggression.

I'd intentionally built more quanta into this deck expecting heavy Devourer abuse - a poor quanta start against a turn 1 Pest in game 5 had me worried, even to the point where I stole a Tower in case more came out, but thankfully he didn't play any more against me. Once I reached 20 Darkness quanta, I took control of the board with Siphons and started playing my own Dragons for the win.


Thanks for the match, Aves - you're always a fantastic opponent to play against, and a great sportsman. You had some bad luck playing against counters here, but you played well, I certainly don't think this should have been a 5-0.

Hoping to see you keep representing Darkness - despite this loss, I hope you know that you most certainly do the element proud.

[Aves]

Ggs! Congratulations on defending! I'm a bit disappointed in my 0-5 performance, but I'll notch it up to not enough prep and not dealing well enough with the bans (LS is not a good replacement for SL!). Regardless, well earned, Physs!

Game 1 Loss to MonoDark

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Game 2 Loss to Pandestall

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Game 3 Loss to SoV Mono

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Game 4 Loss to Dark Tears

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Game 5 Loss to Mono

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[Higurashi]

Another classic example of a trend I started where bans will do the lion's share of your work in completely annihilating your opponent. With the best options gone for one side, the other side will almost always win by at least a turn, and that's all you need. In addition we're looking at very consistent decks, so the outlier games will be even more rare than in most situations. With these bans, that was definitely the best deckbuilding strategy for Physsion.

If you've got an unorthodox ban plan, you need to spend a lot of time building for it, and you'll have to be sure you're not painting yourself into a corner. That takes a lot of time to prepare, so I can see why it hurts even more if Aves didn't have enough time to prep.

GG's, participants. Physs' good year continues.

[Afdarenty]

All legal.

Congrats Physs. I hope you can use this to come back stronger next time, Aves.

And that 6 Mark Mono was pretty cool.

[Blacksmith]

Congrats Physsion!
Better flow next time Aves