Round 1 - Salvaging, Discarding, Penalties and Converting

[nilsieboy]

SALVAGE:
2-1  6 cards

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5bt 5bt 5bt 5bt 5bu 5bu 5c5 5c7 5c7 5c7 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 621 621 621

How about one druidic staff, 1 dim shield, 3 adrenaline, 1 pendulum.

i'd really take more dim shields (a strong basic for bolt decks,nice in fractal decks and stuff like that)
for the rest some pendulums might be usefull if you look how we had to build this decks? (we had some problems with them)

[the dictator]

Yes, pillars pendulums can help, but I was thinking, if we take other near useless cards they might turn out usefull, and if they don't we can always turn them into pendulums anyway, so why not take those cards, they might be usefull.

For example, 9 adrenalines might look a bit much, but that means we can make two adrenacrawler decks, one with the scorpions and one with the forest spirits, which is also a nice surprise for our opponent, as we haven't used adrenacrawlers this round. And the next round we can turn 4 of the adrenalines into pillars/pendulums, to make them usefull again.

So, I'm thinking we should salvage:
0-1 druidic staff
3 adrenaline
2-3 dim shield

And from gocubbies deck:
5 dim shield
3 lighting
1 something

What did I say?  Denial was going to be our weak point.  Two brutal losses to the same damn denial deck, fielded by the same team.  Lesson learned, I hope.

Yes, lesson learned, but hard to do something about it.
Earthquakes + devourers are very hard to counter using a 50% water deck.
Maybe we should try the next time a deck with EA, that counters at least the earthquakes, and some ice bolts can clean the devourers.

[tyranim]

unless there are any objections, i will finalize the salvages in about 30 minutes.

[tyranim]

updated the OP, if there are any objections, please note them AT LEAST 2 hours prior to the end of round one. if i am not on at that time, im sorry.

[Essence]

Big lose from the Poison deck.  Like I predicted in chat, Lobo killed it dead.  BAD idea to bring Poison against . 

In fact, it's a bad idea to play predictable decks at all -- but at the same time, we have to play to our strengths...it's a paralyzing paradox. 


Discard 6:

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52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52q 52q 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i9 5i9 5ib 5ib 5ih 5ih 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm

[wavedash]

In fact, it's a bad idea to play predictable decks at all -- but at the same time, we have to play to our strengths...it's a paralyzing paradox.

The good thing is that all of the Elements are facing the same dilemma.

Discard Squids?

[nilsieboy]

Big lose from the Poison deck.  Like I predicted in chat, Lobo killed it dead.  BAD idea to bring Poison against . 

In fact, it's a bad idea to play predictable decks at all -- but at the same time, we have to play to our strengths...it's a paralyzing paradox. 


Discard 6:

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52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52q 52q 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i9 5i9 5ib 5ib 5ih 5ih 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm 5jm

i'd discard the floodings for sure

[the dictator]

Why the floodings, this round, Essences deck used 2 floodings, and bluesky's deck used 2 floodings, and we only had three so I had to take one out of Essences deck. However, we could discard one of them, that means we have 2 left, those can be used on two different decks, or when necessary in one deck.

Looking at our left over cards, I think we should discard the squid, a poison, two chrysoara's and two other things, maybe pendulums. (we can always convert some useless cards to pendulums, like some of the earthquakes, because 6 is way to much).

[RavingRabbid]

FYCK! FYCK! FYCK! FYCK!

[wavedash]

[13:20:37] wavedash: 3 Mindgates, none in 20 cards

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[the dictator]

the dictator [»] RavingRabbid: Shit, dim shield stall

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5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i7 5i7 5i7 5jm 5jm 5jm 5id 5id 5id 5id 5ie 5ie 5ie 5ie 5ie 5on 5on 5on

[tyranim]

1 match to go?
*sigh* lets hope its a win...
no one better even DARE lose their match next round.