Tears rolling down my face, appropriate for Water, I think.
Synopses to come shortly.
For reference: We mutually agreed not to ban SoP, and also made it exempt from the shard rules, treating it like a normal Water card.
1) Argyroneta vs SoP Devs (W, 1-0)Alright, go time. I started with a fast rush with potentially high control to help set pace. After a desync where I had the advantage, his Squid didn't show up at all in the face of a decent rush start, and I outsped him by a turn or two.
2) Flight 909 vs SoP Wardens/Oty (L, 1-1)Another attempt at manipulating pace early. Welcome to Flight 909, my heaviest control stall, but I didn't have enough of it to contend with a swarm of growing CC creatures. I wavebolted a couple Pulvies, but without a Wings to protect me from serious damage, there was no realistic chance for me.
3) Misted Down vs IceSanc (L, 1-2)[censored] [censored]4) Clouded Prism vs SoP Fractal Balls (W, 2-2)Okay then, this is getting messy, let's revert to an old favorite. I saw Aether mark and was pretty hopeful, but he got a really good rush start. Luckily, I matched it with a strong stall start - despite not drawing pendulums to fuel Bone Wall I drew multiple Sundials and enough Novas to chain them, and held out long enough for Poison to kill him.
5) Camazotz vs Water DBH (W, 3-2)With no Serpentine, I viewed this as my overall best deck, and given that I had yet to use SoP, now was the time. Discord trolled for a while, but I maintained a Squid to stop any Dragons that came out, eventually got some damage, and slowly whittled his health away.
6) Lostlorn vs Air Domin (L, 3-3)I was expecting another stall, so I brought this as a change-of-pace stallbreak. He got an early Fog and sent out damage, while I gradually built up a collection of Crawlers and Spectres. Eventually I played a DS and got out a Dragon with it, and I could have won on the next turn with decent luck, but TStorm wiped that away and he killed me next turn.
7) Sapphire Aegis vs IceSanc (W, 4-3)I saw Light mark and deck size and flashed back to that horrendous Game 3. Luckily, everything went as it should have this game, and there was no way I was going to lose.
8) Gravybomb vs SoP Wardens/Oty (L, 4-4)This was a mistake, I've never been happy with this and it definitely didn't work here. A Gravy Shield would have helped if he didn't draw Pulvies, and I didn't draw Titans, but this was still a disavantageous matchup against a powerful deck.
9) Camazotz vs Auburn/EQ Splash (W, 5-4)At this point I was replaying Games 8 and 9 against Raving in my head, and after the previous game I was really worried I was going to lose again. That only got worse as the match went on, as I failed to play against EQ and he tore down my quanta, but a couple topdecked Pillars meant my Squid could hold down enough creatures for a large Vampire and Dagger to keep me alive, and once I realized I was a turn away from winning time stood still.
