Good games MrBlonde, and congrats on winning. I've just a few notes on my end of the battle.
Thanks for the notes. Reading them certainly gives me a better understanding of what happened.
Match 3: I figured you'd find a way to get around the basic rush, so I decided to switch to my Oty/Death control deck. I didn't expect EE, and while I might've been able to counter one if I had included my Gravity Pulls, it wouldn't have been in time. Your Fog Shield did more than you gave it credit for; it would've been much closer had you not played it.
You know what i think you are right about the fog shield. I was only thinking about the Condor doing damage but you did have an arsenic out round 2 or 3. What i remember from the chat was most people thought i was done this round.
Match 5: You got this one wrong; I didn't even consider Fractal/Pest, rather I figured Darkness would splash better than Fire and that I should return to my original effective deck, the Recluse Rush. It worked rather well I thought; the Nightfall never came into play but the Steals worked well.
That's right you never played a pest. I knew i would get a deck wrong. This matchup was meh for me. Your steals were irrelevant as well since you basically only stole 1 arsenic near the end when the game was in hand. I just couldn't do enough damage quick enough.
Match 6: Same deck, if I recall correctly. I got a bad hand, flooded with my five Darkness cards and never drew enough Aether quanta and a Fractal in time to out deal you in damage. Poor hand, poor luck, good game.
I knew something was wrong this game since you only had 2 recluses out the whole game.
Match 7: Match 7 was interesting, as both I and I think everyone else in the Chat thought I had that one in the bag. I used the same Darkness Aether Death trio, thinking it worked well once and I only had a spout of bad luck last match. I had a good hand, and if I recall you didn't play almost any Death creatures. I figured you'd use them as your main damage dealers, so when I finally saw a Bone pillar/tower come down, I Stole it, thinking I had locked you out of this one. What I didn't count on was my other two Steals not being drawn. I wasn't afraid until the last turn or so; if I had drawn that one card I'dve won that match. As it was, my mistake cost me the game.
I didn't get to play any creatures at all til my last move when i had already won. I was only able to PU your recluse. I PU'd your first recluse then lightninged it. This was a really long match. I had no death quanta so i couldn't play any creatures or poison you. I think i had 6 poison on you and my lone recluse damaging you all game. I had to use my 5th phase shield i believe to finish you. Knowing that you had 2 more steals lets me know really how lucky i got since we drew through most of our hands.
Well deserved, I might add. In almost every match you managed to provide interesting and better decks than I had.
Thanks i appreciate it.
I stuck to the Fractal/Recluse combo almost all the time simply because outside of my fickle Gravity/Death deck it was all I had thought up of. I never even thought of a basic Chryasoara rush.
I wanted to add a Chryasoara rush but it really is kinda slow if your cards aren't fully upped so i nixed it for my flying epi deck. Which failed miserably as well.
After about Match 3 or 4, it was all deck improvisation from there. You put much more effort and time into this, and it showed. Congrats, and I look forward to challenging you in two months. 
I definitely put time into this and since i've never been one to make decks this whole challenge has certainly improved my game. The Phase 2 challenge in making a duo-deck had me go through the entire gamut of elements to see what worked and didn't work. This in turn made creating decks for this match-up infinitely easier. Like i mentioned to you earlier i spent close to 80K upping my decks and ran all those decks through the trainer.
Anyhow great matchup Coinich and i look forward to you challenging me to regain your title.
