Phase 3 - Battles

[Scaredgirl]

Phase 3 - Battles

Please post Phase 3 results here. Thanks.

[RavingRabbid]

My time as of this post is 12:50, about an hour after noon.

I could play from 10.00 to 22.00, but I'd prefer to play after 18.00.
I have an exam next Monday, and I'm studying for it, that's why.

[RavingRabbid]

guolin, since I'm going away on Monday and coming back Friday due to an exam, I'd like you to come in chat tomorrow at about this time.

[guolin]

I should be around on Sunday, all day American time most likely.

[Essence]

Jumbalumba 2 - Essence 0

I continued my streak of horrible luck in important games today.  The first game should by all rights have been mine -- I had Mind Flayers to his Graviton Firemasters -- but I started with a whopping 1 pillar and took several turns to get up to speed, and he countered with Black Holes, mocking me in my quantalessness.  Top it off with a complete lack of Permafrost shields despite 2 in the deck, and I was surprised to get him below half health.

Game 2, he upgraded to Chargers and Flying Titans, which I still could have handled with my Mind Flayers and Permafrost, except the Permafrost never showed up, so he basically chewed through me faster than I could chew through him.


Same deck both games:

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If not for my bad luck with towers, I believe the first game would have been mine, the second his, and the third would just depend on whether or not I guessed correctly in taking a more speed poison kind of approach (basically, if he took Otys, I would lose, if not, I should win.)


Next up: Terroking.  I know Terroking's weakness, and he knows I know it.  This will be fun.

[Jumbalumba]

Good games essence. I was more afraid of poison stall really but lobo would generally have worked well against my graviton firemasters and phoenixes.

Also I do believe your next match is against the loser of B which is MrBlonde or Gl1tch. I think Xinef pulled out.

[MrBlonde]

Good games essence. I was more afraid of poison stall really but lobo would generally have worked well against my graviton firemasters and phoenixes.

Also I do believe your next match is against the loser of B which is MrBlonde or Gl1tch. I think Xinef pulled out.

And Gl1tch lost that matchup this morning so it's me and you Jumba. 

[Glitch]

Don't worry Essence, I'm sure you'll overcome your bad luck streak, mines far worse.

0 wins in a PVP event since the last trials.

[Essence]

...And Gl1tch was right.

Essence 3:Gl1tch 0

Yeah, we played 3 games because Game 2 'kind of' desynched, even though we were able to finish it (and I won).


Game 1:

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I was thinking, Life doesn't have much permanent control, so a little Shard+Shield action, with some Octopods to slow things even further, would give me plenty of time to build up a phat Steam Machine and crush him.

Instead, what happened was that I put down a single Steam Machine and built it up unitl it ate him, and the only thing he did all game was Aflatoxin it -- which took so long to kill it that it ate him first.  End of game.


Round 2:

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This was my take on Fire Stall, only with Water.  Same theory as before, but replace Steam Machines with Ice Bolts.

He played Adrenaline Staves+Frogs, but the Adrenaline came entirely from Green Nymphs, which I froze w/Permafrost and Squids before they could start Adrenalining anything.  Without Adrenaline, his damage couldn't even start to keep up with my healing, and he quit.


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Basic theory here: get in some quick Poison with Pufferfish, deny quanta with EQ+Poseidon, and sit back and wait for Poison to kill with Dragons as backup/finisher.  Gl1tch played a / poison deck (scorpions, Adrenaline, and blessing).  He never really got a lot of quanta what with my EQs, whereas I got plenty of quanta and ended the game with 3 Puffer Fish and 1 Dragon to his 1 double-blessed Adrenalined Scorpion, and 68 HP and 4 Poison to his 0 HP and 21 Poison.

[Glitch]

He played Adrenaline Staves+Frogs, but the Adrenaline came entirely from Green Nymphs, which I froze w/Permafrost and Squids before they could start Adrenalining anything.  Without Adrenaline, his damage couldn't even start to keep up with my healing, and he quit.

Not true.  4 adrenaline spells, and 2 nymphs.

[Zeru]

So we get to see a Fire vs Water match.
I wish you luck with that. I bet it will be a great thing to spectate.

[Glitch]

So we get to see a Fire vs Water match.
I wish you luck with that. I bet it will be a great thing to spectate.

Yea, I'm looking forward to it.  Water, with it's versatility, versus fire, with it's monotony.  Will Antagon's crafty Pew Pews win, or will Essence think of a way around the destruction of his permanents, creatures, and health?