Post by: TheonlyrealBeef on February 22, 2012, 08:53:36 am
Game 1 Win:
Now this deck's why I banned Sanctuary + SoD. (yes zomg it even has Dials in there I never got to use or draw xD)When I woke up today I knew I'd play this deck first, it has the best chances vs most decks but while thinking about it I was worried about one thing: Deathstalkers. Bogtro brought me just these. Fortunately, bogtro had no Steals and the Duck didn't fancy these Deathstalkers: they barely hit and I never even needed the Miracle I had from the start. Bogtro got early Parasite/Bloodsuckers + Voodoo to start Poisoning me, but the Doll quickly died.
Also, yay for trolling SoSac :P
(http://imageplay.net/img/tya22254582/bogtro1.png)
Yeah, so few Poison counters :D
Game 2 Loss:
3 CC cards and 9 Creatures, just your usual Grabow.I figured I'd go with something entirely different this time: your everyday lame Grabow. Drawing all the Steals and Pends early wasn't what i needed against this deck, though.
No screenshot. Wishful thinking had me win with Duck blocking 9001 damage.
Game 3 Win:
SoSe wasn't banned and is fun and fast, figured I'd make a speedbow out of it.bogtro's draw was dissappointing. 16 cards left and vader still didn't have any Daggers.
My 1 unupped pend draw made me sad, too, but SNs made up for that.
(http://imageplay.net/img/tya22254583/bogtro2.png)
Yeah, I'm a naughty little Beef, creating banned cards with SoSe just like that 8)
Game 4 Win:
RoL Hope ish gut. It also makes the best use of Dark Nymph of any deck I can think of, but, uhm, well... you need to draw them, first!4 RoL starting hand with a Hope, some pends and a Fractal topdecking right when I need it: in other words the perfect draw. At first I figured I'd just keep Fractaling Rols until all damage is blocked, but meh, that's boring. Then I figured: I could just Fractal his Crusaders and Endow his super-buffed Dagger => win. So that's what I did, bogtro got damage amazingly fast, but as my Crusaders started endowing while his were sadly looking at my Hope victory slowly became certain. Right before I could seal it with another Fractal bogtro gave in.
(http://imageplay.net/img/tya22254584/bogtro3.png)
Plenty of Fractals left to block what little damage came through in hand, too!
Game 5 Loss:
Inspired by Onizuka beating me in a Darkness vs Darkness mono matchup last trials because of SoDs. That's right, that sole win :PAs soon as I saw the deck it reminded me of a deck I built earlier: Animated SoR Eternities with Nightmares for draw locking (discovered just in time I couldn't use Animate Weapon, though, herpaderpderp). It happened to be just that, although it had more offensive strength, and less draw locking power, my deck was a terrible matchup and needed a Cloak and a Miracle (no, not the card) to win. I managed to stay alive ridiculously long by topdecking all the SoDs, but the result was the same.
(http://imageplay.net/img/tya22254585/bogtro4.png)
Yeah, no secret stuff in hand, just plain countered :(
Game 6 Win:
Yeah, again. bogtro still didn't really show off any deck that seemed like a good matchup vs this, so let's go with the obvious.I drew way too many Pillars/Pends, but those few Sancts were enough to keep what little offense bogtro had at bay. When it looked like bogtro's sole offense were Daggers I figured I'd Siphon them and go for deckout.
(http://imageplay.net/img/tya22254586/bogtro5.png)
Didn't feel like giving him that Dagger given he had of Steals.
Game 7 Win:
Figured I'd Nymph my Rage Potions since they were banned for good reasons (I suppose).Bogtro Using Stone Form from Gargoyle before I got to Rage it made this pretty close, since shortly after that I got mah dolls out, Raging them one by one, but then bogtro spoiled the fun with Voodoo + GP + BB, delaying my Fahren in the process :(
Bogtro needed a Supernova to do moar stuff, so a lack thereof allowed me to happily chip away health onto 0.
(http://imageplay.net/img/tya22254587/bogtro6.png)
No SN for you (http://imageplay.net/img/m7Gbd226200/troll.png)
Oh, here's the one deck I didn't get to use:
PU LS Dragons
Not the most original/fun/consistent deck, but it's nice to have a risky deck up your sleeve should things get desperate.
Post by: bogtro on February 26, 2012, 05:00:24 am
Game 1 [LOSS]: Decided to start with stalkers deck, which I figured might do better in upped setting. SoSacs were completely useless against a no-creature deck, duck was a haxxor again, and I had no way of smashing through his healing anyway.
[Had 4 parasites and 4 pends upped]
Game 2 [WIN]: Went with a simple deck. Mostly mono-darkness with some splashed BB. BB did its job, holding off a gargy and a couple of evolved shriekers to outrush him.
Game 3 [LOSS]: Epically faildrawed this game. Went like 14 cards without a dagger drawn. Had 3 saders on the field, eclipse, and 2 blessings in hand, enough to have a field of 65-atk vampires in total. Darn.
Game 4 [LOSS]: Same deck as last time. Was a little confused seeing an aether mark, wondering what he was planning on fractal. Then, suddenly, RoL/Hope? Still wtfing about that. He even fractaled my crusaders for what had to have been as close to a hard counter as I've ever seen.
Game 5 [WIN]: Decided I needed something a bit more unorthodox. This succeeded, even though he drew about 5 SoDs in a row to keep me on edge.
Game 6 [LOSS]: Went with blitzing daggahs for the lolz, but this fails against his stall. Miserably.
Game 7 [LOSS]: Tried to trap him. Would have worked against nymph Fire...stallish had I managed to draw an SN, giving me enough quanta for pull. In hindsight, my saying to myself "don't need to upgrade pulls" was not smart. Got an early garg that I was forced to burn an earf quanta on after nymph came out.
Overall, he played a lot of odd strategies that I didn't even consider would work at all with 50% Darkness. Particularly RoL/Hope. Shows why he's so difficult to beat - you can't predict anything he's going to do.
Post by: xdude on February 26, 2012, 08:36:16 pm
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Torb, you're one crazy darkness guy, you. Congratulations.
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