Post by: Septima Rhay on January 14, 2024, 08:05:10 pm
Locomotion with three limbs is known as tripedalism. Parrots and Kangaroos exhibit this behavior. OpenEtG players are now the third documented tripedalists.
Inspired by original EtG's 3-man PvP (https://elementscommunity.org/forum/three-man-team-pvp/)
Hosted by asdw152 and Septima Rhay
(https://i.imgur.com/Xe7HFDom.png)
art credit: Niharia
Team and Element-use Rules:
Players unite as 2-player teams. Each team plays three best-of-5 matches each round; each match is a 'leg' that can be played by 1 of the 2 teammates. A player must play at least 1 leg/match per event round. Once per event may one team member play all 3 matches in the round (only due to scheduling/availability issues). Teams choose 1 element for each match/leg and 1 overall team element. For each match/leg, there will be a randomly assigned 'battle element' that apply to both players in the match/leg. So, for each match/leg, the player builds decks from 3 elements: (1) team element, (2) leg element, and (3) battle element. We are using a swiss-style, double elimination match format. Teammates should discuss how to manage deck building, scheduling matches, which leg(s) to play, etc.
| Team name: Lodes-of-fun vs Team element: :earth Leg 1 element: :entropy Leg 2 element: :air Leg 3 element: :aether | Team name: Stacked Team element: :gravity Leg 1 element: :death Leg 2 element: :water Leg 3 element: :time |
For each leg/match, the event hosts will randomly assign a 'battle' element. Example:
Round 1 battle element for Leg 1: :life
Lodes-of-fun Leg 1 builds decks with :earth :entropy :life
Stacked Leg 1 builds decks with :gravity :death :life
Round 1 battle element for Leg 2: :light
Lodes-of-fun Leg 2 builds decks with: :earth :air :light
Stacked Leg 2 builds decks with: :gravity :water :light
Deckbuilding Rules:
Players build decks for each leg/match that consist only of cards from their 3 available elements (as noted in the above Team/element rules section). Battle elements are randomly determined before each matchup is posted. Battle elements cannot be either of the two dueling players' 'leg' element or 'team' element and will always be something else.
- Each deck may use 10 upgraded cards
- No non-ppm chroma cards
- You may change decks between games
- You may use Pillars, Pendulums, and Mark cards (ppm) quanta cards) that don't match your 3 Elements
- You must use at least 2 of your 3 Elements in each deck (If you use an element, you must use at least 4 non-quanta cards)
- You may not use the same combination of elements more than twice in a match (This refers to your 3 Elements); the trio counts as a different combo - basically there's 8 possible combos per best-of-5 match.
We've *removed* the deck examples and the 'decksize' rules from Round 1. You can have a 26 water/4 gravity cards deck or 56 water/4 gravity cards deck. As long as the gravity cards are non-ppm.
Prizes each player on team:
1st Place: 36000 Gold + Shiny Nymph Code
2nd Place: 24000 Gold + Shiny Nymph Code
3rd Place: 18000 Gold + Shiny rare Code
Participant: 12000 Gold
Round 2 match-ups
Match period: Jan 15 - 21
Post decks AFTER the entire round is over
2nd loss = knockout
| BigPollo | vs | Lucky Seven | ||||
| Leg 1 | :fire :air :earth | vs | :entropy :aether :earth | |||
| Leg 2 | :fire :death :gravity | vs | :entropy :water :gravity | |||
| Leg 3 | :fire :life :light | vs | :entropy :darkness :light |
| TBA (1 loss) | vs | Ok with whatever (1 loss) | ||||
| Leg 1 | :death :aether :earth | vs | :fire :air :earth | |||
| Leg 2 | :death :time :light | vs | :fire :gravity :light | |||
| Leg 3 | :death :water :entropy | vs | :fire :water :entropy |
Post by: Septima Rhay on January 15, 2024, 12:36:52 am
Post by: BigDieck on January 18, 2024, 06:39:25 pm
BigDieck 3 - 0 Hitei
We played 2 extra games right after, and was 3 - 2 after that.
Edit: Decks
These are all the decks I used for BigPollo Round 2 (was leg 1 :fire :air :earth )
Wings Stall
Orochi Fenghuang
Air Nymph Spam
Post by: Hitei on January 18, 2024, 10:56:34 pm
BigDieck 3 - 0 Hitei
I lost fair and square against BigDieck decks, afterwards we played for fun the last two games to see what happens, and where I scored two victories that only counts for morale support. :3 . Hoping to see what their team field for the next two legs.
Got manhandled by earthquakes killing the quanta base making almost impossible to rush dragons.
On this game I had to mulligan and didn't drew the jelly again to put pressure on him.
hand was okay, but the serendipities gave me chaff, which is to be expected with random effects. GG
Since we saw fire and air, we prepared against blue nymphs specifically as we didn't had reflective shields to protect against.
0-3, Game 4 and 5 were 'bonus' for 'fun'.
Slime shield proved to be op against small creature rushes. and BB took care of those nasty orochis.
To end the fifth game, I picked again the Jelly deck, this time the "combo" did happen, he never expected that if you jelly a ghost it becomes psionic. We were worried that people
would prepare against jelly rush as we had been using it a few times now, but it's still very strong.
On this game I had to mulligan and didn't drew the jelly again to put pressure on him.
hand was okay, but the serendipities gave me chaff, which is to be expected with random effects. GG
Since we saw fire and air, we prepared against blue nymphs specifically as we didn't had reflective shields to protect against.
0-3, Game 4 and 5 were 'bonus' for 'fun'.
Slime shield proved to be op against small creature rushes. and BB took care of those nasty orochis.
To end the fifth game, I picked again the Jelly deck, this time the "combo" did happen, he never expected that if you jelly a ghost it becomes psionic. We were worried that people
would prepare against jelly rush as we had been using it a few times now, but it's still very strong.
Post by: Septima Rhay on January 20, 2024, 04:58:11 am
Leg2
L7 (3 - 2) Bigpollo
LWWLW
Good quanta start. Bottom half all of the meaty cards like goose/druid. Sose in top half gave little value. The only game for us with bad ‘luck’. 
Debris Salvager slugging it vs. Bonewall Salvager. Realized midgame I could jelly their salvagers to bypass bw hell. Once I figured that out, I made my family proud.
2 osmosis vs 2 rage potion, which would you take in a battle?
Slightly slow start for me, too many NQs actually, 4x in the top 11 cards. Got off an early osmosis on charger (8 damage swing). Pollo led the damage race, 2 chargers, titan early then drew into debris. Basically, osmosis won the game. It found a use. Rage pot on the other hand ended up being a dead card.
Good draws for both players. Close, 1 turn from win.
Good draw for me. It seems discord really messaged with pollo, mixing quanta to not fire/death and sh. of sacrifice burning that quanta. Later it was a tough call on when to use shard of sacrifice. Basically, guess if the card i was holding my hand was the 2nd discord or one of 3 jellies that would burst damage to negate sh.ofsac barrier? He guessed jellies but it was the discord.
Ggs and good leg.
Debris Salvager slugging it vs. Bonewall Salvager. Realized midgame I could jelly their salvagers to bypass bw hell. Once I figured that out, I made my family proud.
2 osmosis vs 2 rage potion, which would you take in a battle?
Slightly slow start for me, too many NQs actually, 4x in the top 11 cards. Got off an early osmosis on charger (8 damage swing). Pollo led the damage race, 2 chargers, titan early then drew into debris. Basically, osmosis won the game. It found a use. Rage pot on the other hand ended up being a dead card.
Good draws for both players. Close, 1 turn from win.
Good draw for me. It seems discord really messaged with pollo, mixing quanta to not fire/death and sh. of sacrifice burning that quanta. Later it was a tough call on when to use shard of sacrifice. Basically, guess if the card i was holding my hand was the 2nd discord or one of 3 jellies that would burst damage to negate sh.ofsac barrier? He guessed jellies but it was the discord.
Ggs and good leg.
Post by: pimpollo on January 20, 2024, 05:09:22 am
Post by: serprex on January 20, 2024, 02:18:50 pm
W rockbw vs flyingbrand
W giganoob vs golem defender skin
L immaterialrush vs material bnymph lavagolem
W orochiskele vs boomgolem
Post by: Turlututu on January 20, 2024, 02:20:14 pm
Fun fact the 2nd deck easily wins 300+ electrum per match vs champs
Post by: timpa on January 20, 2024, 07:48:40 pm
timpa 3 - asdw 0
Leg 3
timpa 1 - asdw 3
Leg 2
Good counter
BW mvp
Bad draw for him made it easy
Leg 3
(only needed 4 skeletons)
W appreciation stall vs immo rush
W reaper vs martyr/angel/rage pot/OD
W invictus vs oty/fire nymphs
Leg 3
W jellyskele vs immo
L AM nymph vs effective jank
L death/water rush
(only needed 4 skeletons)
L AM nymphs vs rainbow nymph rush
Post by: asdw152 on January 20, 2024, 07:50:25 pm
GG
hard countered, no damage for thermal, no options for speed or damage
pacify and bonewall slowed way too much
otys countered by RT, no red nymphs, which still would've been hard countered by RT regardless.
Post by: asdw152 on January 20, 2024, 08:02:55 pm
LWWW reverse sweep
jelly outpaced, couldn't produce quanta fast enough to pressure.
each freeze from that squid was met with a new creature to force timpa to freeze next, eventually just overwhelmed.
timpa only saw 2 pillars for the whole game. permafrost RNG immediately froze both his squids the turn they're played. damage was slow but timpa was slowed harder
that moment when playing a rngbow and hoping for the best actually turns out to be the best option.
Link to Replays (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1yCB3iOKKYJgTHtoOFN7wtl0BThZzNVpwf_QVHPKMWjU/edit#gid=1787940241)
Post by: Septima Rhay on January 21, 2024, 05:54:42 pm
Lucky 7 (3-2) BigPollo
He quickly had 2 Red nymphs and deflagged first vagger. 2nd Vagger chipped a bit. Yoinks basically won the game, taking away 2 bolts. Was able to flood board later with saders and a dragon for double rage bait. Close game.
Faced Ragebolt again. This time, good start, but light on entropy quanta. Actually snuck out the win by getting 4x photon and being able to jelly with light quanta. Close game again.
Dominated by give thermal.
My mindgate said he'd expect one of the first two decks I won with and try to stall me. Dominated by give thermal yet again -even worse.
Didn't want to play one of the first two winning decks, so went with something new. Good draws for both. Interestingly, he packed holy light, which I suspect is for black nymph, but ended up useful vs. a 12 damage adrena spider. Two alchs and a goose in the top 11 cards meant I could do something. Drew enough cc to slow him down, raged own emerald dragon and won a very close match. Definitely a lucky win here, but hey we're Lucky 7.
Faced Ragebolt again. This time, good start, but light on entropy quanta. Actually snuck out the win by getting 4x photon and being able to jelly with light quanta. Close game again.
Dominated by give thermal.
My mindgate said he'd expect one of the first two decks I won with and try to stall me. Dominated by give thermal yet again -even worse.
Didn't want to play one of the first two winning decks, so went with something new. Good draws for both. Interestingly, he packed holy light, which I suspect is for black nymph, but ended up useful vs. a 12 damage adrena spider. Two alchs and a goose in the top 11 cards meant I could do something. Drew enough cc to slow him down, raged own emerald dragon and won a very close match. Definitely a lucky win here, but hey we're Lucky 7.
Post by: pimpollo on January 21, 2024, 06:03:52 pm
Post by: Septima Rhay on January 21, 2024, 06:35:16 pm
Lucky 7 [0 loss] (2-1) Bigpollo [1 loss]
TBA [1 loss] (2-1) OKwwe [knocked out]