[Darkness Trials, Final Battle] TheonlyrealBeef 5 - 3 Kael Hate

[TheonlyrealBeef]

Overall analysis:
Games were pretty close and luck didn't seem to like either of us. Kael's bans were probably what made him lose, Pestal countered too many of his decks.

Game 1 WIN:
Mono Darkness vs Phoenix Darkness

I found it ironic to beat Kael with Nymphs, Liquid Shadow is such a good counter to Phoenixes.

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Game 2 LOSS:
Unstable Control vs Quinted Nympho Liquid Antimatter

My control was useless, and coin toss made it impossible for me to win, since I would deck out first.

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4st 5uk 5uk 606 71b 71b 71b 71b 7do 7do 7do 7do 7do 7dp 7dp 7dp 7dp 7t4 7t4 7t5 7t5 7t5 7t5 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7to 7um 7umGame 3 WIN:
Pestal vs EQ Pests

I had an awful start, and barely managed to recover: it was was an extremely close match, where Eclipse was the risky decision that sealed the deal. Had I played it one turn later I would've lost.

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606 606 606 606 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t9 7t9 7ta 7ta 7td 7td 7td 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 80i 80i 80i 80i 80i (http://imageplay.net/)
Game 4 LOSS:
Entropy Control vs Voodoo Stall

I made some stupid mistakes here, after I comfortly stalled while we both had our dolls out I began to realize just how many Kael was building up, and realized he would Siphon for the kill. At that moment I panicked and Pandemoniumed his dolls, one was rewound and I could no longer deck Kael out.

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5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 6u7 6u7 6u7 6u7 6u7 6u7 6u8 6u8 6u9 6u9 6u9 7tg 7tg 7tg 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7umGame 5 WIN:
Vader Sader vs Darkness + control

I seemed to be winning quite easily from my perspective, I had a huge blessed animated Dagger out while Kael had a lot of Pests slowing me down. Near the end Kael put up a Dusk Mantle which put me to a halt. When I could finally play my first crusader and Endow the Dagger, I won. No screenshot since Dusk Mantle makes it impossible to tell when you'll win.

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Pestal vs Quinted Nympho Liquid Antimatter(?)

Kael never stood a chance with my early denial.

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Game 7 LOSS:
Entropy Control vs Mono Darkness

Kael thought it'd be funny to steal all of my pends, as a result, I never got enough Entropy to do something against his Dragon burst at the end.

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5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 6u7 6u7 6u7 6u7 6u7 6u7 6u8 6u8 6u9 6u9 6u9 7tg 7tg 7tg 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7umGAME 8 WIN:
Pestal vs Voodoo Stall

Pestal was doing great so I figured I'd end this by using it again. Denial vs Stall is pretty much auto win.

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606 606 606 606 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t9 7t9 7ta 7ta 7td 7td 7td 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 7um 80i 80i 80i 80i 80i (http://imageplay.net/)

[Kael Hate]

Game 1
Phoenix Ha

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Game 2
Nympho

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500 500 5uo 5v8 5v8 61q 61q 6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t5 7t5 7t5 7t5 7t9 7t9 7tb 7um 7um 7um 80h 80h 80hWin 1-1

Game 3
Quaker

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Game 4
Voodoo

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Game 5
Fire Rage

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Had 5 Rain of Fire in hand most of the Game and no Cremates

Game 6
Nympho

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500 500 5uo 5v8 5v8 61q 61q 6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 6ts 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t5 7t5 7t5 7t5 7t9 7t9 7tb 7um 7um 7um 80h 80h 80hLoss 2-4
MEGA BAD DRAW - 1 Pillar in 15 cards.

Game 7
Just Black

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Mega Bad Draw again 1 pillar in 16 cards, but decided to waste consecutive steals in a denial and it paid off.

Game 8
Voodoo Pull

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55t 55t 55t 55t 55t 55t 5up 6rl 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7tc 7tc 7tc 7tc 7tc 7tc 7tg 7tg 7tg 7tg 7tg 7tgLoss 3-5
Fail Matchup, expected Anything but Pestal *sigh* bad read by me.



Congrats TorB

[gavsword]

Congratz TorB!

[TheCrazyMango]

Congrats torb.

[Hyroen]

Congratulations to TheonlyrealBeef the new Master of Darkness.

May your reign bring a renaissance to Darkness.

EDIT: Epic 1200th post! ^_^

[RavingRabbid]

It might be me, but Kael's 7th decks has one upgraded card too much.

[Ryli]

It might be me, but Kael's 7th decks has one upgraded card too much.

Well spotted. I don't think it matters too much now.

[nilsieboy]

gratz beef, looked like some great fights,
all hail the (dutch) master of darkness!

[Mithcairion]

The first of the masters has been crowned.  Congratulations Theonlyrealbeef, and well fought, Kael Hate.

[TheonlyrealBeef]

Kael would've won that duel whether he had 24, 23 or 18 upgrades, and since the end result is the same, I don't really care. I had some urges myself to think of it as a number of unupgraded cards rather then a number of upgraded cards that should go into the deck (luckily, all those I used had 30 cards).

In case someone becomes curious about my unused decks, here goes:
Chaos Vamps

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4st 5uk 5ul 5ul 5um 606 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t4 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t6 7t8 7t9 7t9 7t9 7tb 7tc 7tc 7tc 7td 7td 7td 7td 7td 7um 7um 7um 7umThanks everyone btw ^_^

[wizelsnarf]

Congratulations to The Only Real Beef!

Condolences to Kael Hate.

Seems like it was a good final though and I appreciate the screen shots and recap TORB.

[SnoWeb]

I have been watching the entire final and it was really a great showdown. In the first battle, the beef had the incredible intuition to play dark nymph and it was just the best defence possible against phoenixes. Maybe the Beef just wanted to show his two nymphs and his darkness mark of. If it's the case, it paid of.
Followed an alternate win/loss that the Beef broke with his second pestal. Those that played him in CL could have tell that it's his favourite deck. Final game was won once again by pestal. For those who want to take his tittle to the new Master of Darkness, remember to ban fractal ...

Congratulations Beef.