[6th Trials - Life Final] Helston 2 - 5 willng3

[Helston]

23GMT Monday 19th November

willu, you may have far more experience, seven more upgrades, and an overwhelming and deep respect from the wider community.

But I have late 70's disco.

[Elbirn]

But I have late 70's disco.

+ Rep.

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On a more serious note, gg gaiz. I look forward to this one.

[deuce22]

This is how I envision will

[Laxadarap]

This is how I envision will

You even captured the pantlessness

[Rutarete]

This is how I envision will

Brilliant

[willng3]

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This is how I envision will

This seems strangely similar to the struggle over the remote control I was involved in just a few minutes ago.

[Onizuka]

How do remote controls taste?

[deuce22]

How do remote controls taste?

I think he meant the remote control kept biting him

[willng3]

Boy oh boy was I nervous about these matches and for good reason.  Great games, Helston.
Game 1:  WIN

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Decided to start things off with something nice and speedy.  Got a Frog out pretty quickly, followed by a +3 attack from Chaos Power and Adrenaline soon after.  Discord came in at some point though it didn't seem to be needed. 1-0

Game 2:  WIN

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This game was interesting to say the least.  Got out 2 Frogs but no Nova so my deck probably just looked like your standard Earth duo.  Before I get a chance to play my first Nova Helston chains Silences 5 turns in a row causing me to WTF all over the place.  Barely managed to out-damage here.  Frogtal is scary as crap. 2-0

Game 3:  WIN

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Weirdest draw ever.  0 quanta producers in my starting hand, but a good amount of producers.  Got up and danced a good luck dance in the hopes of drawing a Life Pend and I actually did!  AdrenaStaff followed a bit after as I gradually built up quanta to play Thorn Carapace and try to get rid of his healing.  In the end my healing was just enough to stall his creatures into oblivion.  I didn't think that I'd actually end up ever needing to use the Carapace + AdrenaStaff combo like this, to be honest. 3-0

Game 4:  WIN

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Grr Wings.  Got out 9 Poison damage on him before he started the relentless Wings chaining.  Apparently if Helston hadn't delayed Wings by a turn he probably would've won here. 4-0

Game 5:  LOSS

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Expected an Aether duo with Dims.  Got an Aether duo, but a horrible quanta draw.  Frogtal pretty much ran me over. 4-1

Game 6:  LOSS

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Figured that I may as well try the same thing again since having this deck win in more than 7 turns isn't very common.  Drew ALL the Adrenaline in my starting hand with a Scorp while Helston proceeded to Rage Elixir everything I put out.  Got him down to 5HP, but it wasn't enough. 4-2

Game 7:  WIN

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Angered by my last deck's failure to perform optimally, I channeled all of my frustration into this monster.  Had an Epi'd Damsel by turn 2, Epi'd Queen by turn 3, and then pure annihilation afterwards.  Even drew both of my Nymphs, to my surprise. 6TTW. 5-2

I'm very curious to see what decks Helston was using now, as I was second guessing if Dims had been used or not pretty much all throughout the duel.

[Helston]

Game 1: Loss

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So will's banned Bonewall? Guess I might start out with it. Before long will's first frog was CP'd to 8/5 and adrenalined, with a discord and a second frog quickly finishing me off. One adrenalined scorpion wasn't anywhere near enough to take him down. 0-1

Game 2: Loss

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Slow start from me, but I had silences from fear of anything at all (Earthquake, Tit shield).

Five of them, chained in a row.

I kept will to about 10 damage for most of the match and slowly built up my own, but had him down to 10 hp before I ran out of silences. He then burst me down for the win.

Game 3: Loss

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An early Jade shield was looking good for me. A couple of Saders, an adrenastaff and I'm still going strong, outhealing his nymph/adrenastaff deck.

Suddenly Thorn Carapace.

I eventually lost all my creatures to that blasted thing, which meant no more healing barring one Druidic Staff. Will's field full of various flavours of Nymph completely overwhelmed me, about five turns before he decked out.

Game 4: Loss

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If I'd played my first wings one turn earlier instead of holding it back (like I always seem to do), I might have won this. That lone Scorpion, his Arse and a couple of Poisons were too much damage for me to get through his two or three Bone Walls he managed to scrape out.

At 0-4, things are not looking good.

Game 5: Win

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What always works when you need something to fall back on? FROGTAL.

I specifically avoided Dims for this match, trying to stay one step ahead of will. Luckily the quanta started out that way too, me drawing two pendulums and him only one. I was happy to win one and begin my epic comeback from 0-4 down.

Game 6: Win

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First Scorpion, Rage Potted. I get a Cockatrice out. Second Scorpion, Rage Potted. Second Cockatrice out and the damage race is on. A third Cockatrice and a third Scorpion, which I leave. Adrenacharger, Rage Potted. Fourth Cockatrice. Will does 24 damage (Scorpion, Adrenacharger, Poison) to bring me down to 5HP, and I finish him off with exact damage from my Cocks.

Game 7: Loss

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One pendulum start for me, and completely outrushed by that fantastic thing will sent at me. Wow that was a fast and complete annihilation by him. Seriously, will probably earned the mastership with that deck alone.

2-5, ggs willu.

[deuce22]

congrats will!

[Dragoon]

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Purdy deck. Me likey.