[12th Trial of Air] Manuel 5 - 1 Aves

[Manuel]

both bans: i banned shard of wisdom and shard of freedom, aves banned blue nymph and shard of freedom
banned for aves: all game bans: steal, deflag, sundial, bone wall, nova, dimensional shield, odd games: adrenaline
banned for me: all game bans: steal, deflag, shard of patience adrenaline, unstable gas, even games: nova

quick explanation on my bans:

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sofree: i was afraid of turning trials into a cointoss war
sow: i was hoping for being able to play at least one from air tears, air nymph, sopa control sort of deck, in all cases sowyrms is a pain, from your opponent thinking u will bring sowyrm or ug, giving to your opponent an overall faster stallbreaker than catatitan etc
this wasn't a 100% calculation, it was also a gut feeling

pc : by banning steal u ban almost is dark domin, other than put a lot of terrible ideas in the head of your opponent on use or not weak pc cards
dims : u simply can't play around dims if u are 100% your opponent will ban your 2 best pc cards
sundial : it stop several decks, from ugokho to voidials to stalls to everything
bone wall : it's ridiculous strong against air
nova : air graboid is one of the best in the entire game
adrenaline : in phase 2 i was able to use a 6ttw deck with only 10 ups, 0/10 scary of adrenastaves

very fast explanation of deck choices:

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even with sofree banned with 21 ups vs 22 this was still a cointoss war
i was really happy to see dims not banned and for being able to use nt rather than sopa, aves was probably going or for stalling most of the times or at least, i was able to make him paranoid about this
i tried to build the fastest stallbreakers possible while still keeping an eye against fat/bulky rush decks

g1 pugons vs lightstall win
g2 pugons vs catatitan win

g1 & g2 deck

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g1 & g2: i used pugons because they have a really good matchup against stalls, dims was going to stop any potential rush deck, i was sure to be faster than a bad/medium draw catatitan or a normal monoair with ug, i go twice with it just to show how cool my dims are and demolish his idea of only stalling me

g1 : he really can't do nothing without dials other than 100% fog
g2 : i was really really lucky, he has probably the fastest start possible with that build, i draw an early lobo for stopping is titan and my 4 dragons able to hit 2 times over is fog in last turn before dying with only 2 hp


g3 cp vs entrostall loss

g3 deck:

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g3: just to check if he was going for another cata, i played a "normal" rush deck with still decent chances to win against some stalls
i end up by losing for not risking, discord and a wyrm chopped his health to 22 hp, i decide to play safe and save my wyrm and 4 cp for the next turn being sure to win, he shockwave me twice and rip


g4 fractadamse vs cata win

g4 deck

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g4 : i was 90% sure to see catatitans here, i choosed the fastest deck while still being able to smash a stall; i used the wrong version, i had another deck ready without the fogs and without the 3 cc with +1 fractal +4 air pends


g5 nymphs vs death air win
g6 nymphs vs sov win

g5 & g6 deck

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g5 & g6 : this was my panic button in any situation, upped queens are hard as hell to kill and still decently fast; i decided to go for it one game before the last one, i know if i was going 4-1 the match was sealed with this bans and same upgrades

g5 : he doesn't have enough cc or time to gather tstorms
g6 : mad game: the first thing i think when i see sov is "holy lol TrOs fuked up the ban list again, aves think he is able to play dials in even games" , then i realize he has no room for them in that deck, he kills my first 3 nymphs, then he luckily run out of cc for my queen, at that point it was gg, i won with 37 max hp against 3 sov


random things in decks that makes no sense:

i have wyrms in some decks because i was afraid of gravity shield
in some decks i have "only" 14 off element cards rather than 15 for having more margin of error

more memes than molecules in air

ggs

final shoutouts

thx to dani for indirectly inspiring me to play pugons during is phase 3
thx to spiel muffin and vang for war
thx to phoenix and afda for beating me with that fuking air bow several times in war inspiring to trial for air
thx to that air bow because is the most broken deck in the entire game i never see a deck able to do EVERYTHING cc pc breaker rush EVERYTHING can't wait to use it
thx to aves for overall motivating me to play
thx to cccombo for showing me how much ug can be a pain during trials
thx to linkcat for beating my sofo air duo during three man and showing me how much that deck is trash
thx to hyroen for initially put in my head the idea to ban sow
thx to anyone that voted me in phase 3 (i hope people that didn't can still sleep at night with me winning)
thx to ian for checking the decks
thx to Tros for such a low number of ban points and making me able to play broken cards
thx for all the memes during phase 3, even this time i have the thread with more drama

final stat: i played 25 games during trials, using animate weapon only 1 time (and losing), don't play aw decks they sucks

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[Aves]

Game 1 Sancstall vs PUGons LOSS

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Not enough quanta to get EE out, didn't draw shockwaves early.

Game 2 CataTitans vs PUGons LOSS

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Low quanta start, lost by a single turn.

Game 3 PandeMatter vs CP Wyrms WIN

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CC comes through!

Game 4 CataTitans vs Damseltal LOSS

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Outrushed by damsels, kudos to Manuel-- predicted me switching decks.

Game 5 PoisonCC vs Air Tears LOSS

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Ran out of CC, only drew 2 poisons.

Game 6 Void vs Air Tears LOSS

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Ran out of CC after the 4th? nymph, no vagger.

Good games, congratulations Manuel!

[andretimpa]

All matches going 5-1. Gratz Manuel.

[CactusKing]

Congratulations Manuel! And Aves, nice voidstall! Surprised not to see you running adrenastaves.

[iancudorinmarian]

TrO approved! Congratulations, Manuel!

[Manuel]

thx all, i checked decks 30 times being afraid of an illegal deck lol

added some lines/omnipotence delirium under decks with explanations + super sick cool awesome shoutout list

[ARTHANASIOS]

gratz manuel & better luck next time aves

[Spielkind]

Wow Manu! Really good, Gratz!!!