4th Trials [Light Finals] - majofa 5 - 4 RootRanger

[majofa]

Game 1: (vs Flying Titans)T  LOSS
I got off to a quick start with a first turn Creamation -> Lava Destroyer. Somehow I managed to grow my Lava Destroyer past 5 health. Ooops. I could've still won had I drawn a second Cremation, but that came on my last turn. Not a good way to start an important match... I trying to think after 10 hours of work after 4 hours of sleep is a bad idea.

by majofa

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Game 2: (vs RoL/Hope)T  LOSS
Early Lobotomizer ended the game. I stopped putting down cards to speed it up.

by majofa

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Game 3: (vs Fire Stall)H  WIN
He drew one Pendulum. I also got off to a slow start, but he couldn't recover fast enough and my Titan + Crusaders + Chargers finished him off.

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Game 4: (vs AA/RT)T  WIN
He kept randomly Reverse Timing his Ray of Lights. I'm not sure why, since I never found my second Sanctuary until my last turn. Probably should have been as close as it was. Ice Bolts could finish off the AAs and Sanctuaries would heal more than the weapon.

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Game 5: (vs Photo/Mitosis/Dragons)H  WIN
I held my Dim shield until I knew he could kill me on the next turn. Had another shield in hand, but finished him off before that.

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Game 6: (vs Blessing/Pegasus)T  LOSS
I drew one unupped Pendulum. He had just about a perfect draw. I could have made it close, but not with that draw.

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Game 7: (vs Nova/Graboid/Blessing)T  LOSS
Started with 4 Damselflies, 3 Light Towers, and a Pegasus. Then I proceeded to draw Towers for the next 4 turns. Any of the 3 shields or the Sky blitz and I would have won. Or any of the Blessings could have made it close. I only ended up losing by one turn, so I guess had I won the coinflip, I would have won the duel.

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Game 8: (vs LightDragon/LiquidShadow)H  WIN
Since he couldn't play Vader Sader, I knew it had to be Liquid Shadow Dragons. It was. I held off playing my Vamp Dagger for one turn. Then I played it, endowed it, had it stolen, stole it back and cloaked. ..(Absorb power: johannhowitzer).. I won before the Cloak came off.

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Game 9: (vs Ice Bolt Stall)H  WIN
I got an early Angel + BE and destroyed what I could before he Ice Bolt'd it. He couldn't draw his Weapon, so he was forced to Bolt more than he probably would have liked. After 5 Ice Bolts, I got another Angel +BE going and wiped out the rest of his Sanctuaries. I drew an AA and he never got that last Ice Bolt.

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[RootRanger]

I lose, 4-5.

Game 1: Win. Gravity Shield stopped his huge golems.

by RootRanger

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Game 2: Win. Early Lobo shut down his whole strategy.

by RootRanger

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Game 3: Loss. I didn't have enough CC for his deck.

by RootRanger

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Game 4: Loss. I had a 1 pillar start, and most of my other pillars were clumped in the back of my deck.

by RootRanger

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Game 5: Loss. Dimshields.

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Game 6: Win. I had a nice draw and a fast deck.

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Game 7: Win. Well of course I won. I was using novagrabby!

by RootRanger

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Game 8: Loss. My strategy when using NovaGrabby was to have a good idea on what he'll use in the last two rounds. But this hardly helped, since he still had Darkness, Entropy, Earth, and Time duos remaining.

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Game 9: Loss. If I hadn't made this 42 cards at the last second, I might have won. I was afraid of a 40-card Miracle/SS or an Eternity deck, but he had a 30-card Entropy duo.

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[MatrimKK]

5-4 a matches of EPIC proportions!
Congratulations to both competitors
Hail Master majofa!

[kirchj33]

Awesome matches to obs.  If obs wasn't so fail, I might have said I was on the edge of my seat.

Root you gave it everything you had, extremely solid effort and try not to be too disappointed.  I'm sure you will still be of great value to majofa in war.

Congrats to majofa!  You deserve to come out on top with all of your other successes!

[Jappert]

Seems like great matches, a pleasure to read at least.
And that novagrabby-deck is great, I love Pegasus/Wyrm based novabows.

Grats on your title Majo! You deserved something big like this for a long time (apart from winning war and all that... )

[~Napalm]

Congratulations majofa! As much as it saddens me that we must now face off for War, you deserve this for all your hard work! Good luck to you!

Awesome Job Root. I'm sad I wasn't there to watch, but it looks like you put up more than just a good fight!

[MrBlonde]

Wow very nice close battle. Congrats Majofa and great showing Root!

[parasite99]

Congrats majofa and also great (and close) run RootRanger

[TheForbiddenOracle]

Congratulations majofa for obtaining the formerly vacant seat of .

[Zeru]

The notorious tournament winner - Majofa. It's good to see that you became a Master. Great work.