4th Trials - [Death Finals] MrBlonde 5 - 1 xn0ize

[MrBlonde]

 Good games Noizy, you know i love you. Sorry it ended like it did. Just managed to pull the right decks everytime and last game i got a bit lucky.

Game 1 - Won (lost toss)

by MrBlonde

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52g 52g 52q 52q 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 710 710 713 713 713 713 713 713 71b 71b 71b 72i 72i 7dm 7dm 7do 7do 7do 8po

After much thought i decided that Xn would use a mono-rush deck. The majority of the decks i made were based on the premise of me being able to beat mono-death. This deck certainly does that. Didn't start with a RoF but was able to find one in time to create a 15 stack of bonewalls and pretty much ended it there.

Game 2 - Loss (won toss)

by MrBlonde

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542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 55q 55q 55q 576 719 719 71a 71a 71b 71b 71b 71b 744 744 746 746 746 74b 74b 74b 74b 75m 8pl

For the life of me i couldn't remember what deck i wanted to use next. I decided to go with my control gravity deck. We both ended up with terribly crappy draws but regardless this matchup wouldn't have mattered if i had a great draw. Xn had me countered to the T here with his sundial/blessed scorp deck.

Game 3 - Win (lost toss)

by MrBlonde

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52q 52q 542 542 710 710 713 713 713 713 713 713 719 719 71b 71b 72i 7t8 7t8 7t9 7t9 7t9 8pt

This honestly is one of my weakest decks because steals don't help in the majority of matches and only went with it because for some reason i felt i should. I changed back and forth and boy good thing i listened to my hunch. Noizy went for the UG/wall/plague stall deck. Basically all i had to do to win this matchup was find 2 of 3 steals in my first 28 cards or so. Also i have a penchant for 31 card decks which certainly helped because otherwise i would have likely decked.

Game 4 - Win (lost toss)

by MrBlonde

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52g 52g 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 5rk 71b 71b 71d 71d 71d 71d 71d 71d 72i 7q0 7q0 7q0 7q3 7q3 7q8 7q8 7ri 7ri 8ps

Figured on Xn to go with a discord deck here which this does well vs it since quanta is pretty good with this deck and i can use the gravity quanta (i used this to good effectiveness vs Coinich's discord deck in a previous trials). He ended up using an aether/lightning deck. Fortunately for me he didn't use dim shields. I got out a pharoah fairly quick and started making little scarabs. Once i got 2 pharoahs running his plagues couldn't keep up with them growing and not finding a bonewall doomed xn. If he could have found 1 of his bonewalls this game likely is a different story.

Game 5 - Win (lost toss, see a pattern here?)

by MrBlonde

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52g 52g 52g 52q 52q 542 542 542 542 5ib 5ib 5ib 5ib 5ib 5ib 710 713 713 713 713 713 713 71b 71b 71b 71b 72i 72i 72i 7gk 7gk 7i6 7i6 8pp

Xn's deck had me confused. He played an earth mark so i figured EQ's since nothing else really works well with earth. But it in fact was a chrysora/trident/plague/wall stall deck. Very tricky.. Unfortunately unless xn pulls an early trident my deck likely locks his down.

Game 6 - Win (win toss)

by MrBlonde

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52q 52q 542 542 542 542 5c2 5c2 5c2 710 710 710 713 713 713 713 713 713 71b 72i 72i 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 7ae 8pn

Here is the one game that i feel the RNG really did help me. If noizy pulls a bonewall no way i would have won. I took a chance and played my creatures fast and furious (bad idea) hoping i could win before he pulled his RoF. Didn't happen but it forced xn to play his RoF before he wanted to since he didn't have the quanta to play his bonewall. Just too much damage to fast and my 2nd turn arsenic was huge since he couldn't blow it up either.

Actually after second thought a bonewall wouldn't have mattered a turn or two earlier. My early arsenics poison would have eventually killed XN regardless of bonewalls. My creatures had already done enough damage early enough (50 or so) and the 4 or 5 poison counters would have won it for me regardless.

GG's xn, you are a great player and the outcome has nothing to do with your skill. Today i just managed to get lucky and pull the right decks out of a hat.

Here are the other decks i made to face XN that didn't get used.

Mono-Death

by MrBlonde

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Nasty little bugger this is. Actually disappointed i didn't use it
Holy death

by MrBlonde

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 710 710 713 713 713 713 713 713 71a 71a 71b 71b 7js 7js 7js 7js 7js 7js 8pk

Another deck i'm really disappointed i didn't use. Didn't want to use this til later though when i could isolate decks and he would likely go mono-death again
Thanks for the Healing

by MrBlonde

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4vc 4vd 50u 52g 52g 52q 52q 542 542 542 542 542 542 6ts 6u7 6u7 6u7 6u7 6u7 6u7 6ve 710 710 713 713 713 713 713 713 71b 71b 8pj

Not a super great deck but knowing Xn would use bonewalls i didn't feel many other decks would be decent. And pandabonium hates me so no way i was using that
Dim stall standard

by MrBlonde

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52g 52g 52q 52q 61q 61q 61q 61q 61q 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 710 710 710 710 713 713 713 713 713 713 72i 72i 72i 72i 808 808 81q 81q 8pu

Shockwave

by MrBlonde

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52g 52g 52h 52h 542 5og 5og 5on 5on 5on 5on 5on 5on 710 710 710 710 710 710 713 713 713 713 713 713 71a 71a 71b 71b 72i 72i 8pr

I typically love my air decks but i really wasn't feeling this deck. Really did not want to use this deck unless i had to
Death Immortal

by MrBlonde

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52l 52p 52p 52p 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 58o 594 594 594 594 594 594 5aa 712 712 712 712 719 719 719 71a 71a 71b 71b 71b 71b 71b 71b 77c 77c 77c 8pm

I made this deck but in all honesty highly doubted i was ever going to use this. I tried to make other earth decks (wardens, grabbies, etc) but as a duo immortal works the best vs the variety of decks xn was going to bring and i felt this was a fail deck vs most of them

[xn0ize]

I suppose it didn't meant to be , congrats.


Game 1 - Lose :

by xn0ize

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52q 52r 52r 52t 52t 542 542 542 710 710 710 713 713 713 713 713 713 71a 71a 71d 71d 71d 71d 72i 8pk

Mono death vs firestall , nuff' said...


Game 2 - Win :

by xn0ize

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52r 52r 52r 52u 52u 52u 52u 52u 542 542 542 710 710 71a 71a 71a 7jv 7jv 7jv 7jv 7jv 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 7q9 8pq

I had horrible draw of 1 pendulm , but blonde had even worse, he  didn't get any death quanta , i got early arsenic , blonde had no chance of winning.

Game 3 - Lose :

by xn0ize

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52p 52p 52r 52r 52r 52r 52r 52r 5om 5om 5om 5om 5om 5om 710 710 710 710 710 710 710 710 719 719 719 7ms 7ms 7ms 7ms 7ms 8po

Steals.

Game 4 - Lose :

by xn0ize

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yay for not drawing any bonewalls , would've won if i have.

Game 5 - lose :

by xn0ize

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52p 52p 52p 52p 52r 52r 52r 5i4 5ia 5ia 5ic 5ic 5jm 5jm 5jm 710 710 710 710 71b 71b 7gl 7gl 7gl 7gl 7gl 7gl 7gs 7i6 7i6 7i6 8pm

My best creation , i'm insane about this deck , but not drawing any pendulms smashed my hopes of winning this match, got outrushed too fast.

Game 6 - Lose :

by xn0ize

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52p 52p 52p 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 5f8 5f8 5f8 5f8 5f8 5f8 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 5fb 71b 71b 71b 71b 71b 71b 7dg 7dg 7dg 7dg 7dg 7dg 7dg 8po

i drew 3 fire towers and 1 death pendulm , rush > super counter.

[SnoWeb]

Congrats again, Mr Death Blonde!

[Jappert]

Congrats Blonde!
Less lucky then in the 3rd Trials I guess! Great matches and thanks for the reports, it's fun to read.

Well deserved! You did great as both a master and a general!

[RavingRabbid]

Sadly, I couldn't watch this. Congrats Blonde for being the first master holding 4 terms. I look forward having  a pc.and see the decks.

[Bhlewos]

Congrats on defending your title MrBlonde! Missed this match as well...

[Sevs]

Congratulations MrBlonde. And Xn0ize it was a long journey to make it to the finals and you shouldn't be down about that.

[Onizuka]

Ack, fell asleep before this happened.

Congrats Blonde.

[Shantu]

Congratulations Blonde!

[PlayerOa]

Gratz beeing the first 4 time Master, MrBlonde! :]

[ralouf]

Gratz blonde good try kitteh

[kirchj33]

Congrats Blonde!  Very impressive indeed.


Kitteh will live to fight another day!