[14th Trial of Light] dawn to dusk 5 - 2 STANDIN

[dawn to dusk]

WWLLWWW
Game 7 was the most intense game I've ever had the chance of playing

Spoiler for Hidden:

Spoiler for W:

Gravy > Light. Late Titan but it didn't matter too much.

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Spoiler for W:

Quanta from upgrades really made the difference in this matchup

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Spoiler for L:

2 Fractal + RoL + SoPa before eternity lock. I had no chance.

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Spoiler for L:

Antimatter had a 100% hit rate, though it probably didn't matter as much

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Spoiler for W:

SoPa vs slow deck, clean win

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Spoiler for W:

As long as no CC comes out, Rustlers are good. No CC came out, Rustlers were good.

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Spoiler for W:

Bad Amazing hand for this impossible extremely easy matchup

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[DoubleCapitals]

Actually, I remember one time, I was playing against d2d in Light Trials, it was 2-4, and my past self told me, "DC, if you think you're good, let's prove it now." 2-4.

Did you win?

Of course not. 2-5.

In case I forget, and I'll post decks later:

Spoiler for Hidden:

G1 L: Mono
G2 L: Novabow
G3 W: RoL/Hope w/ SoPa
G4: AM Stall
G5: Deja/Hope
G6: LS Angels
G7: SoW/Reflect

EDIT: So my dumb ass forgot to record the matches on Twitch, because I was using a different acc from the one I'm used to, since I'm locked out because I 2FAed with a temporary number (screw you, 2FA). My bad. Didn't make the same mistakes during Earth trials.

Please pretend I named the decks after constellations. I'm lazy to do that right now at 5 in the morning. Or after I go to sleep

Spoiler for Bans:

Mutual Bans:
SoV - I think it's more of a personal flair, I didn't see it being used much, but healing for peanuts because your max hp is going down is not feelsgood.
Vagger - I thought d2d could pump a significantly better version of this deck than I did, it's the most dangerous and unpleasant of the sader decks too.

dawn banned the following:
RT - which made me cry internally, but understandable why, RT sucks to deal with really
Fire Bolt - dawn doesn't really need to stall with his upped advantage so this is pretty much just trying to gut firestall options for me

Individual Bans:
Dims - Light doesn't have natural PC or evasion so... as for Wings it's not a problem at least. and most other shields can at least be dealt with in some capacity
Fractal - RoL/Hope and variants, really. Didn't think d2d would completely play rushes so I wanted to gut some viable options for stalls
Steal (Evens) - Many of Light's permas can't be touched but still a reasonable problem that can mess up your day. Steal the bigger problem, since he could take your weapon
Discord - I'm already down on quanta I don't need to be messed up
Nova - SNBows have always been scary, and I'll die before I can stall, really
Archangel - The in-element ban. It was between this or Crusader, and I thought at least Crusader I could deal with/counter better, for example it does nothing for 1 turn, and dies to more things. dawn also played many Angel-based decks in the past and I don't wanna see them. Alternatively I coulda banned Miracle... but I don't think I'm going to lose Trials because dawn stalled me to death here.

Dawn split some bans against me to try to deter me from doing either combo at once, namely SoSac/Poison and OE/AW. I'd say they largely worked, though I don't think I'd have used SoSac regardless, and OE I wanted to put in a OE-Sader deck or similar. AW wasn't all that critical. Unsurprised but really sad about Sundial/Miracle bans, but I won at least half my games in Time with Dials so... yeah I deserve that Dial ban.

Spoiler for Games:

G1 vs TitanSaders (Loss)

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So I began with a mono to test the waters really on how fast I can go vs him. Could have went with a rainbow G1 too, which was what I thought other trialists would do. I thought he'd straight rush me too, and the Light Nymph choice was because they don't suck unupped vs Archangels. Obviously this folds as soon as the Gravy Shield hits. Also I played 6 ups only, because i swapped things around and forgot. Oops.

G2 vs NT Duo (Loss)

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It occurred to me that upgraded Light Nymphs only needed 4 quanta to luciferin. A bit too threat-light but I couldn't out damage the constant 10hp heals. Dawn's right, ups mattered here

G3 vs Eternal Saders (Win)

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Game messed up and gave me a loss as I was talking to dawn as we DCed, but dawn said he lost AI and wanted to give me the win, which I honoured. Had the pieces (Nymph, Fractals, RoL, SoPa) before lock could happen.

G4 vs SoFr Duo (Win)

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With no Miracles I opted to go Sancs. Was afraid he packed Shockwaves plus I drew my Purples before AM so if he did I'd be screwed, but honestly wouldn't work against most light creatures so why bother. Also afraid of more SoFr, and got lucky with the AM hits but with the decks as-is it's winnable. Maybe should have split AM and Purples to give me two AM decks to play with

G5 vs SoPa Wardens (Loss)

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Time for dumb surprises, hoping dawn won't expect me to actually go play Hope again. This really should have been 31 cards just in case too. A bit light on damage, but it would probably work against most creature rushes if they don't have evasion or whatever. Or CC.  Unfortunately SoPa Wardens is none of these things.

G6 vs Rushtler (Loss)

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And of course dawn now busts out a deck that the G5 Hope deck could beat. 1 pillar start but I think I was too greedy on quanta regardless

G7 vs SoW Glories (Loss)

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So as a person who appreciates fun, I busted out a crowd 'favourite' because imagine the entertainment value if I could win. Plus I thought that dawn may also want to close out the game in a way I can't touch. Turns out the correct mindgate does nothing for me when your opponent is 'unlucky', and I get chipped to death by his Glory in weapon slot because he couldn't draw his AW. By the time he did, I was at 22 quanta and the jig is up anyway... You could say it was a Blessing in disguise

Boooooooo!

All in all I had Crusader decks lined up and didn't use them. On hindsight probably should have, it's the easier route than to try to outrace his damage but I thought that I should at least try to outrace so that he doesn't think I'm going to stall in all my games. Eternity in particular I feel like I should have used earlier. Deck was stacked against me but at least I didn't fall on my face and go 0-5.

Well done again dawn, it's been great to fight you, and thanks for the encouragement you've given me during Trials too, never expected I'll face you after that xD

[shockcannon]

I hate light nymph tears. Truly cancerous.