3-leg Team PVP - Round 4

[Septima Rhay]

3-leg Team PVP Event - Round 4

Leg spelled backwards is Gel.

Inspired by original EtG's 3-man PvP
Hosted by asdw152 and Septima Rhay


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.

Spoiler for Team/element example:

Team name: Lodes-of-fun   vs Team element:  Leg 1 element:  Leg 2 element:  Leg 3 element:

Team name: Stacked      Team element:       Leg 1 element:       Leg 2 element:       Leg 3 element:

For each leg/match, the event hosts will randomly assign a 'battle' element. Example:

Round 1 battle element for Leg 1: 
Lodes-of-fun Leg 1 builds decks with 
Stacked Leg 1 builds decks with 

Round 1 battle element for Leg 2: 
Lodes-of-fun Leg 2 builds decks with: 
Stacked Leg 2 builds decks with: 

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 4 match-ups
Match period: Jan 28 - February 4
Post decks AFTER the entire round is over
2nd loss = knockout

	BigPollo (1 loss)	vs	Lucky 7 (1 loss)
Leg 1		vs
Leg 2		vs
Leg 3		vs

[pimpollo]

Leg 3: BigPollo 3-1 Lucky 7

Spoiler for Hidden:

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Scarabs with shard only meant easy fbolt decisions. Firewall could have been funny here but oh well. Mono fire go brrrrr

Spoiler for Hidden:

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Good thing for swave. Sundials and Void Shells get bumped

Spoiler for Hidden:

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"Once I draw midas touch, I can vend that pesky dusk mantle and break through! Hey, why am I out of cards?"

Spoiler for Hidden:

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Screw it, random premade deck, go. If I don't know my next move, neither can my opponent.

[Septima Rhay]

Leg 3

Lucky 7 (1-3) Bigpollo

[pimpollo]

Leg 2: BigPollo 1-3 Lucky 7

Spoiler for Hidden:

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Turns out we mindgated what Septima would play here: Qnymph rush, sopa warden, pb&j. Even with that foresight, we couldn't find much in our elements that could stand up to water. Thermaltox was our best bet against jelly/queen but this barely won.

Spoiler for Hidden:

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Tried to avoid our bad death matchup against water. This deck struggles anyway.

Spoiler for Hidden:

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I got wormed.

Spoiler for Hidden:

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Tried to outrush/control with bblood. Instead, I got bblooded. It was this or thermaltox.

[Septima Rhay]

Leg 2
Lucky 7 (3-1) BigPollo
LWWW

[BigDieck]

BigPollo vs Lucky7 : Leg1 (     vs      )
BigDieck 3 - 2 Septima

Spoiler for :fire :air :

Air Nymph Spam L

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Spoiler for :fire :light   :

Give Recoil W

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Spoiler for :air :light :

Give Storm W

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Spoiler for :air :light :

Give Storm L

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Spoiler for :fire :air :

Mid Lava Golem W

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Only replay I saved.
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[Septima Rhay]

Leg 1
Lucky 7 (2-3) BigPollo
Congrats to pimpollo and BigDieck.  Well deserved event win.

We played the legs in reverse order.

Leg3: LLWL

Spoiler for Leg 3:

Very close, 1 turn off win. Phoenix 0|4 was too resilient to slow scarab army.

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Also close.  With Swave early and 3-4 damagers, felt the need to stall quicker with dials. No drawpower. May have been better to save dials for a larger board later.

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Wow, the stall I built in 5 minutes was the only win.

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Expecting a stall.  Lost quickly.

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Game 5 was for fun.  Its too bad there was no reason to play pande 3.0.  Goose dominated. Bwuk bwuk bwuk.

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Leg2: LWWW

Spoiler for Leg 2:

1 purify there to flip SoSac but didn't draw in time.

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Good draw for me.  Slower draw for him, but dryspell in opening hand would have slowed him down nonetheless.

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Interesting game.  No Sopa drawn.  He had Diamond up midway.  Bobbit burrowed everything on site and in sight and chipped away. You don't see many games like that.

Spoiler for replay:

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Perfect draw for us.  early BB on lava sealed it.

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Leg 1: WLLWL

Spoiler for Leg 1:

Lightning dominated B.nymph

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Didn't draw the 'counter' cards enough - shields. Plus he had 2 give-thermal combos in the top 11 cards.

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Again, didn't draw enough 'counters' despite packing 5 shields.

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This time the 'counter' worked and outpaced the give-storm 'combo'.

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Great use of whim.  That's why we lost this one.  He was able to find enough lavas to eek out the win.

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[Septima Rhay]

Congratulations to BigPollo for winning 3-leg Team PVP!

1st  - BigPollo
2nd - Lucky 7
3rd - TBA
4th - Ok with whatever

[serprex]

gz bigpollo

Time to go over all the decks matching ^tba in my decks

Spoiler for Hidden:

aflamage missing 10 ups

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Upped static & less mage more lightning might be better

waterentro alch theorycraft

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Expected Septima would want to pull out Alchemist, but couldn't find anything good

antint

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Maybe water/entro can have good decks without any specific combo

skele cheese

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sopaskele didn't get to show off too much this event

auburn mirror

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I don't know why I have the urge to splash nymphs into unrelated decks when this would be better splashing a few BB. Also I think this deck is illegal

ballcatcher

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wasn't finding a ballcatcher in semiupped where the speed was worth the variance. Was looking at different quanta bases after testing a lot vs dbh in R1

bonebolt

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Looks like I modified deck code itself when I added in 3 plagues in R3

bwrock

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Great deck in weenie meta. Would've been less effective in R3 vs whim

salvagebone

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So in R1 I expected DBH with dragons, making charge shields pretty effective. death/time/gravity all have charge shields & salvager, so figured they'd be bringing deployerjelly to counter. Couldn't figure out a deck that did well vs both dbh & deployjelly

brokenjelly

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Whereas in another leg in R1 our main focus was how to do well vs both chaosbyt & brokenjelly. Psionic jellies pretty good. Chaos Byt is actually busted btw, unfortunately when I decided to show that even blessbyt is busted it ran into the real busted

chaosbyt

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it's wide, it's tall, it's faster than a locomotive, it's chaosbyt. Missing from these decks is the blessbyt we ran, it was basically this but using blessing & about as fast

sopachrys

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this deck is not as good as I would think

chrysfast

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Chrys don't belong in fast decks

chrysrush

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Chrys don't belong in fast decks

commandjelly

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Fresh idea with a great name made a new thread. This deck is bad vs stalls but this isn't a stall meta we're dealing with. vs creatureless it works to jelly skeles & then command vs jellies too. Glad this won when we fielded it

immaterialrush

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This is the initial start to what eventually was tuned to be the same deck but a turn faster. One of those "hope you're faster than me cause you ain't slowing me down" but unfortunately it lost by 1 turn as expected because it did get slowed down by Titanium Shield vs unupped arse (also for some reason this is wrong list, see correct list in R2 where I go upped phase golems & 3 arse)

dbh

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Lucky7 ended up bringing a less refined dbh

tombbomb

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Time Bomb is not good. Was looking for low quanta decks vs dbh

deployoty

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Like the DG counter. Deployer is pretty good

tidaldolphin

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deadend theorycrafting about water/gravity decks

dune

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Too slow. Maybe only 2 dunes & then fill in hognose

pinkstone

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Guessing at some stallier decks Lucky7 might bring. I think timpa & I rate stonewall higher than most others

infectedtal

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I was trying to make an epidemic deck

dejademic

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I made an epidemic deck, it was bad

fatcow

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More entro/water theorycrafting. Spidercow pretty good. Got mitocow often enough in testing

giganoob

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Love this deck, had a great time optimizing it

tombgio

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I really wanted to use Tomb it just wasn't happening

givestorm

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fuck this deck, maybe I should've spent more time trying to counter this in R3 & less time feeling hopeless. Stupid of me not to bring some upped null mantis in R3. Good to see Septima give it an honest try without access to mass CC. This deck has to go

rtrepulsor

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rtsplash so the fun police are never off duty

hushstall

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This deck is alright, was struggling with card minimums R1

invictus

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Not sure why I like this deck, but it seems to've survived from original. I like decks that can play different ways

deployjelly

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This deck was performing better than dbh, could only find a couple half decent decks vs it, like innoouija could go either way while having enough pillar spam + time barrier vs dbh

jellyskelly

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Jelly is a good card

lightnoob

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Unfortunately not good vs rolhope

guilelycan

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theorycrafting vs lucky7

lycanrush

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That's more like it

mistnymph

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This deck is good in the right meta

neurodials

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Too slow

orochicat

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Orochi solid, but as seen in this event, not so good if opponent brings wardens or bb/freeze..

ouijacat

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DG farmers in my pvp event? It's more likely than you think

ouijarush

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timpa had to adjust last minute because I only put 5 ouija in for death cards which was illegal. This deck is fast

timpapharaoh

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Was fun having timpa's 2 favorite elements in R1

appreciationstall

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stalls aren't entirely dead

precog cheese

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meh

reaper

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Good deck. Reaper/BW always does better than I expect

rolhope31

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should've brought this instead of dims..

rtsalvage

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Some more rtsplash gravity duos. This was really good vs dbh

sopatrio

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Being able to play sopawarden 4x in a Bo5 is pretty nice

deathspam

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Too slow, too inconsistent

swallow

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More DG farmers..

swallowmist

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now with new cards, too many copies of mist

tidalhogmom

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Not enough creatures, combo a bit too slow

vindicatbless

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I thought this seemed like a stupid deck Lucky7 would field, but in testing it was too bad to even make Septima's random junk curveballs list

vindicatpower

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no I will not eat pink eggs and ham, not even with chaos power in the shower

vindispite

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1 copy of BE in a low PC meta..

waterskele

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I don't know why timpa liked this deck