[Aether Final Battle] Higurashi 5 - 4 pikachufan2164

[TheonlyrealBeef]

Gratz Higs! And great work pika! Almost everyone expected Higs to win, but you didn't make it easy for her

[Hyroen]

Congratulations Marisa. A rightful Master deserving of the throne.

And by the way, I'm glad I inspired you pika. ^_^

[Higurashi]

Thanks, everyone. I will lead my divine element as far as I can, for its aspirations never end. I am honoured to have pika as opponent, and now as part of Aether connoisseurs. No matter who would've won, Aether has received its long needed icon.

It has always been one of the most popular elements, and I now look forward to leading War efforts together with excellent players like pika.

I'll put up the decks soon. Got a bit preoccupied.

(changed as the old one was taken down)
For the uninitiated, Yukari Yakumo is the Youkai (spirit) of boundaries, in the world of Touhou. She can phase in and out of existence at any time, and has almost absolute power. When she's not sleeping, she uses this power to watch over the denizens of Touhou as a mother would oversee her children. No one knows how old she is. Most likely, she is eternal. She is one with the building bricks of the universe. She is my Aether sister, and she would like to dazzle you with this tune. There are hundreds of thousands more remixes of Touhou songs. Go explore!

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5f7 5f7 63a 63a 7dh 7dh 7dh 7dh 7dh 7dh 7dk 7dk 7dk 7dk 7dk 7dk 7do 80a 80a 80a 80a 80a 80a 80d 80d 81q 81q 81q 81q 81qBrimstone Thunder, hilarious deck. I upped 6 Ash Eaters just for this one. Thunderbolted his first Steamie, but he had no way to get past Phase Shield anyway. Finished with Thunderbolts on his HP after Lances, just like I wanted to. After the duel, I realised it was his Half-Blood Challenge deck, and made a mental note to use mine at some point.

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55k 576 61o 63a 6rl 744 745 745 745 745 745 745 75m 808 80a 80a 80a 80a 80a 80a 80i 80i 80i 81q 81q 81q 81q 81q 81q 81qCharging Thunder. Since I had banned almost all damage that could go through Phase Shield, the scenarios I trained for were ones where pika had invested in ways to circumvent the shield. He didn't do that a lot. Nevertheless, this is Fracharge with focus on CC instead of defense.

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5f7 5f7 63a 63a 7dh 7dh 7dh 7dh 7dh 7dh 7dk 7dk 7dk 7dk 7dk 7dk 7do 80a 80a 80a 80a 80a 80a 80d 80d 81q 81q 81q 81q 81qI absolutely wanted to play this fun deck more, but I got a horrid hand and could do nothing against his UG's.

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5c5 5c5 5c5 5c5 5c5 63a 6rm 7an 7an 7an 7an 7an 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 7n2 808 808 808 80b 80b 80b 80b 81q 81q 81q 81q 81q 81q 81q 81qStaffs of the Divine. I had a couple versions of this with more SoD's and less of the combo, but I decided to go for maximum consistency. That didn't help me squat. I smiled when I saw pika's Death mark, but combos are fickle.. with no Animate, I was rushed relatively quickly.

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55k 576 61o 63a 744 745 745 745 745 75m 808 808 808 808 808 80a 80a 80d 80d 80d 80d 80d 80i 80i 80i 81q 81q 81q 81q 81qSeeing as I won with Fracharge, and pika seemed scared of it, I went back to a winning concept. A more consistent Fracharge netted me another win. And, of course, my Phoenix friends weren't all that willing to hurt meh.

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55k 576 61o 63a 6rl 744 745 745 745 745 745 745 75m 808 80a 80a 80a 80a 80a 80a 80i 80i 80i 81q 81q 81q 81q 81q 81q 81qBack to the winning concept, then. Didn't disappoint this time either.

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55k 576 61o 63a 6rl 744 745 745 745 745 75m 808 808 808 808 808 80a 80a 80a 80a 80d 80d 80i 80i 80i 81q 81q 81q 81q 81qDecided to balance the Fracharge out a bit. When I saw Air mark, I expected UG again, which felt good. Both got terrible, terrible hands, but quanta came with subsequent draws. Then I realised he could go for a Blitz surprise and had to play Phase Shield earlier than I wanted. Damage wasn't enough to take him down, and a turn before his demise I saw 10 Ball Lightnings roll up to crush me. I counted them one by one, pointing at the screen. It was so beautiful. <3

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61t 61t 61t 61t 713 713 713 713 713 713 718 718 718 718 718 718 71a 71a 80d 80d 81q 81q 81q 81q 81q 81q 81q 81q 81q 81qDo or die. It was time for my brethren, the Recluses. I had yet to actually focus on Phase Shield as it would've made the matches too stale and boring, much like using only Fracharge would've, but this is the original deck. Seeing his Time mark, I figured it was Scarabtal, and I was right. There was no way for him to win this, I thought, even with a Chimera. Nonetheless, he spammed Silences early, and I counted them. With 3 gone, I felt safer in playing shields, but I still made sure to replace a shield with a counter of 1 with one of 3, in case of more Silences.

[icecoldbro]

Congratulations Higurashi, kinda surprised it was so close, Pika You are truly worthy of the title, more than I will ever be, Just Higurashi had You this time.
Higurashi, you know already.

[TheIdioticIdiot]

pika should have gone for shakars...

[Jappert]

I love how silences can affect strategies. Hard to use but so effective when used right.

Anyway great matches both! Duel 8 was the best by far

Congratulations Higs!

[Boingo]

Good to see some deck creativity on both sides.  And glad to know Team Aether will have a trial-tested leader at the helm for the next War.  Congratulations, Mistress Higurashi!