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Bucky · May 14, 2018, 2:55am

Sign me up, for now.

Bryce_The_Rice · May 14, 2018, 5:50pm

Oh boy, it just got real.

vengefulpickle · May 16, 2018, 4:43pm

Week 6 standings

SuperBronze League (5+ )

Player	Points	Active
Bomber678
Skiff

Bronze League (0+ )

Player	Points	Active
Proven
Bucky
Hobusu
ZenDog
variable
Feebs

Week 6 matches

Bucky/ZenDog

Bucky ──┐
        ├─
ZenDog ─┘

Skiff/Bomber678

Skiff ─────┐
           ├─
Bomber678 ─┘

Hobusu/variable

Hobusu ───┐
          ├─
variable ─┘

Bryce_The_Rice · May 19, 2018, 3:10pm

I got beat.
Bomber678 0-3 Skiff

I don’t think Troq is a good character (sadly). I also don’t think I’m a very good player.

Skiff · May 19, 2018, 7:17pm

I missed the discussion earlier on wether to blind pick characters first and then randomize the bank or randomize the bank and then blind pick characters (before the first game, after first game standard rules apply enforced by the game itself).

@Bryce_The_Rice I now read the discussion you had before and I agree it brings more character variety to randomize the bank first and then blind pick characters.

Skiff · May 19, 2018, 7:20pm

I think I got quite lucky in game 1 to draw a , HFF, Ouch and the three cost chip that makes you trash a gem to get one of each color actions. I had one copy of each in my deck and my deck reshuffled completely and I drew them.

Hobusu · May 19, 2018, 8:17pm

Have you ever played the Gloria-Arg matchup? @variable and I just found out how long that can take…

Edit: Almost TWO HOURS

variable · May 19, 2018, 8:38pm

Hobusu ain’t kiddin’! :o

Ranked, R6: variable vs. @Hobusu:

: I don’t put up a Protective Ward on an turn when it may have helped & I am rightfully punished.

: Does it make sense to say that one got bodied in this matchup? No, huh? Well, I got bodied in this one!

: idk why people think that Combos are Hard…! It just takes a Hammer and about two Crashes to make things quite scary!

: Gloria applies patch 5.5.6 to Arg’s ridic combo bank, but Arg can access some combos without 15 black arrows helping him out!

: I took heck of risk that was probably unwise, but then I noticed that Hobusu’s Gloria had heck of Crash Gems in her discard! So I sent a -gem I wouldn’t have sent otherwise - which turned out to be lethal! :o

Thanks for playing this Strike-ise Hobusu! It was a drawn-out, back-and-fourth match! Good luck in ye other matches!

Bucky · May 20, 2018, 4:14am

Game 1 had a major decision point the turn before Skiff lucky draw when Bomber678 declined to Giant Growth a 2 so he could crash 4; this would have won the game on the spot (5/11 probability from Bomber’s PoV).

Bryce_The_Rice · May 20, 2018, 4:50am

Aha, I see. I wasn’t in rush mindset, I was in “get a washer” mindset. A clear mistake for sure.

Bucky · May 20, 2018, 5:06am

You could have bought Gem Essence as a cheaper washer. This’d let you play both games at once, but giving up some economy for the long game.

Skiff · May 20, 2018, 8:20am

Are the games recorded somehow, is it possible to review afterwards?

Bucky · May 21, 2018, 2:51am

Your in-game profile has the replays of your last few games.

Bucky · May 21, 2018, 11:13pm

ZenDog vs Bucky could not be scheduled. I’ll need to see what my protégé has learned on another occasion.

vengefulpickle · May 23, 2018, 2:29pm

Week 7 standings

SuperBronze League (5+ )

Player	Points	Active
Skiff
Bomber678

Bronze League (0+ )

Player	Points	Active
Proven
variable
Bucky
ZenDog
Feebs
Hobusu

Week 7 matches

Bucky/Bomber678

Bucky ─────┐
           ├─
Bomber678 ─┘

Proven/Skiff

Proven ──────────────┐
                     ├─
Skiff ━━━━━┓         │
           ┡━ Skiff ─┘
Bomber678 ─┘

ZenDog/variable

ZenDog ────────────────┐
                       ├─
Hobusu ───┐            │
          ┢━ variable ─┘
variable ━┛

I’m not sure why the algo didn’t match Skiff/variable in order to keep the tournament brackets matched…

EDIT: Ah, now I understand. It was trying to greedily match Proven, and at that point, matching w/ Skiff or w/ variable would have been the same.

Skiff · May 27, 2018, 6:39am

Unable to get any signs of life out of Proven

vengefulpickle · May 27, 2018, 2:18pm

Yeah, I’ll mark them as inactive.

Bucky · May 28, 2018, 4:04am

Bomber678 (result) Bucky

:
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0 - 3

Ebb and Flow
Money for Nothing -> Really Annoying
Sale Prices
Training Day
Mix Master
One-Two Punch
One of Each
Combos are Hard
Degenerate Trasher
The Hammer

Game 1, I miss my Combos are Hard draw but Bomber678 gets his, so I do a combine rush. It almost worked, and then Bomber678 decided to gamble on The Hammer drawing his second DCG and lost.

Counterpick, ->

Game 2, Bomber678 doesn’t Double Take on turn 2 so I hit the Combos are Hard first, for Degenerate Trasher and DCG. Bomber followed suit, grabbing DCG and and buying the Trasher. We both thindecked aggressively, but I won because I switched to combines first.

Money for Nothing -> Really Annoying

Game 3, I abandon any pretensions of economy and do a max combine rush. Bomber678 Double takes some Really Annoyings. I bottom-bagged my crash on the critical cycle due to wounds, but still won before Bomber678 cycled around to his second combine.

vengefulpickle · May 30, 2018, 2:28pm

Week 8 standings

SuperBronze League (5+ )

Player	Points	Active
Skiff

Bronze League (0+ )

Player	Points	Active
Bomber678
Bucky
variable
ZenDog
Feebs
Hobusu
Proven

Week 8 matches

Bucky/variable

Bucky ━━━━━┓
           ┡━ Bucky ─┐
Bomber678 ─┘         │
                     ├─
variable ────────────┘

ZenDog/Bomber678

ZenDog ────┐
           ├─
Bomber678 ─┘

variable · June 2, 2018, 2:58am

PS Ranked, R8: variable vs. @Bucky!

Starting Bank:

Bang then Fizzle
Knockdown -> Combos are Hard
Button Mashing
One True Style
Improvisation
Ouch!
One of Each
Degenerate Trasher
It’s Combo Time
The Hammer

: I change out Knockdown for Combos are Hard.
: I switch to Midori.

Bucky wins, 3-1!

I’ll expand on this later, but Bucky outplayed me in most of the situations/games in general. I was lucky to take game three! :o I need to work on being comfortable with a wider variety of banks! I’m good when I have everything I could possibly want and then also a Hammer, but when I don’t have those things the existing solidity of my play cannot carry me to the victory zone! I shall work on this, Strike-isers~

Explaining counter-pick decisions?!:

Swapping out KD for Combos are Hard was probably a mistake. My reasoning was that ye are a better player than me, but maybe I could use Combos are Hard to rally a little. The first mistake of this was that a more experienced player like ye is probably going to use Combos are Hard better than me. The second mistake was not having a second 2-cost chip so that I could Wartime Tactics my Bang then Fizzles so that they don’t clog my deck later on!

As for switching to Midori, I have much less experience with Strike-ises than ye have, but I wanted to try a different approach, and I thought that Midori’s Dragon Form & Rigorous Training could help me win the game against ye quick combines while putting on economic pressure as well! I want to to get more Midori practice in, because I don’t understand how to use Dragon Form to its utmost potential. I kept trying to send 4-gems, which can’t be counter-crashed anyway… The goal is to send smaller gems to the opponent as well while in Dragon Form, right? Basically as many as ye can?