Ascension (iOS) Gaming League (New Tourney starting Jan 14, 2013!)

Natus wrote:

I would banish a card I thought Chumpy would find useful, only to reveal a real prize behind it.

That's like the last 20 games or so that I've played against dixie flatline. I think I'm a decent player, but s/he wrecks me like 80% of the time. I'm hoping that I at least use up dixie's luck for whoever's in the tourney.

Chumpy_McChump wrote:
Natus wrote:

I would banish a card I thought Chumpy would find useful, only to reveal a real prize behind it.

That's like the last 20 games or so that I've played against dixie flatline. I think I'm a decent player, but s/he wrecks me like 80% of the time. I'm hoping that I at least use up dixie's luck for whoever's in the tourney. :grin:

I've been having a surprisingly good run lately, but I've got to say that the games I've been playing against you since the last tournament have done wonders to hone my skills and improve my instincts for the game. If I do better in this tournament than the last, I'll have Chumpy to thank for it.

Cyrax took me out twice. Well played, sir. I will report your victory once all other scores are reported.

Can I get a status update on the remaining matches?

Trachalio vs. Ranger Rick
oilypenguin vs. LeapingGnome
TheWalt vs. farktopia (invitation pending)
sirjoekcb vs. il_dottore

bigred wrote:

Cyrax took me out twice. Well played, sir. I will report your victory once all other scores are reported.

GGs

It's annoying not getting any banishers in a game. Clogs up your play and slows the game down. The last game was close, but I lucked out on you having a last bad hand without any great center deck cards since my last two hands were bad.

cyrax wrote:
bigred wrote:

Cyrax took me out twice. Well played, sir. I will report your victory once all other scores are reported.

GGs

It's annoying not getting any banishers in a game. Clogs up your play and slows the game down. The last game was close, but I lucked out on you having a last bad hand without any great center deck cards since my last two hands were bad.

It's taken me a while, but I've gotten to the point where deck-thinners (which is what I assume you mean by banishers) are an option but not a necessity. If you can get a draw-heavy deck (i.e., lots of "draw-X-cards" cards, mostly Enlightened), then you reach a point where you can cycle your deck as fast or faster than if you'd used deck-thinners, and you sometimes have more control over the composition of your hand when you're ready to start playing cards instead of drawing them.

I will say it's a good way to get in trouble when you're playing 10-minute games, since I've had a few where I spent so much time drawing cards (and deciding what to discard to draw more, etc.) that I completely ran out the timer.

I took game 1 69-65 and we're in the middle of game 2 now.

I've been crazy busy with a side project, I was worried I was holding everything up.

Looks like I'm not the only one...

Ranger Rick and I finished our 3rd game late last night. While he completely destroyed me in our first game, I managed to squeak out a victory over the next two.

Trachalio wrote:

Ranger Rick and I finished our 3rd game late last night. While he completely destroyed me in our first game, I managed to squeak out a victory over the next two.

Translation: I got lucky in the first, and still suck at this game for the 2nd 2.

Good games! I really got stuck on #2 with too much red, not enough white. All I could do at the end is kill cultists over and over again.

bigred wrote:

Cyrax took me out twice. Well played, sir. I will report your victory once all other scores are reported.

Can I get a status update on the remaining matches?

Trachalio vs. Ranger Rick
oilypenguin vs. LeapingGnome
TheWalt vs. farktopia (invitation pending)
sirjoekcb vs. il_dottore

farktopia and I are in game 2... I took game 1 69-62.

Two more matches remaining. Can everyone double check their match reporting for errors in the mean time?

Time zone differences slowed us down, but il_dottore and I just finished our games. I went 2-0 with the first game being a 78-77 nailbiter where we only had a one-point difference in honor tokens scored at the end. The second game ended up 75-61 in a more standard honor token vs deck strength race.

Final match is oily penguin vs leaping gnome, historically very fast players. Que pasa dudes?

bigred wrote:

Final match is oily penguin vs leaping gnome, historically very fast players. Que pasa dudes?

LG won game 2. We're working on game 3 now. I promise neither one of us is ignoring it, I think we're just both really busy right now =)

So while we wait for the last match to complete, I would advise everyone to brush up on their CoTG + RoTF skills. Watch out for that Sammael, he's a real stickler.

So's the one-two punch of Tarik the Trickster and Adayu the Chosen. I love that (until it happens to me, anyway.)

You know what's really scary? The 1-2-3-4 combo of Trickster, copy Adayu, Avatar, Adayu

You also get some real weirdness, like using Raj to banish Emri, Soulslayer (honor 4) to acquire Adayu (honor 6). I pulled that once in a game with Chumpy (and won the game), but banishing Emri just seems wrong.

Good games fark. seems like first one to grab P.R.I.M.E. is set up for the win, and I happened to get there first.

@Dixie, never thought of that! Whew!

Dixie_Flatline wrote:

You also get some real weirdness, like using Raj to banish Emri, Soulslayer (honor 4) to acquire Adayu (honor 6). I pulled that once in a game with Chumpy (and won the game), but banishing Emri just seems wrong.

I thought Raj was SoS?

TheWalt wrote:

Good games fark. seems like first one to grab P.R.I.M.E. is set up for the win, and I happened to get there first.

PRIME is ridiculously overpowered. No constructs in play? Oh fine, have 3 runes.

Also, I think the Void event is bugged in the iOS version. You're supposed to get an extra VP for the first kill in the center each turn but it never seems to register for me.

shoptroll wrote:
Dixie_Flatline wrote:

You also get some real weirdness, like using Raj to banish Emri, Soulslayer (honor 4) to acquire Adayu (honor 6). I pulled that once in a game with Chumpy (and won the game), but banishing Emri just seems wrong.

I thought Raj was SoS?
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Also, I think the Void event is bugged in the iOS version. You're supposed to get an extra VP for the first kill in the center each turn but it never seems to register for me.

D'oh! For some reason (lack of sleep, probably) I was thinking that the next round was SoS + RotF and was going off on a tangent about that. <litella>Never mind...</litella>

And you're right -- I don't recall getting that extra honor for the kills during the Void event, but I was never paying enough attention to catch it as a problem.

Oily and I finished our games, he won 2-1. Nice close games, a total of 13 point difference for the three.

LeapingGnome wrote:

Oily and I finished our games, he won 2-1. Nice close games, a total of 13 point difference for the three.

GGs, LG. Wow, you had a pretty solid final turn.

Round 3: CoTG + RoTF

mudbunny vs. m0nk3yboy
ChumpyGWJ vs. ironcub14
cyrax (invitation pending) vs. WolverineJon
il_dottore vs. LeapingGnome
Cronox vs. Ranger Rick
farktopia (invitation pending) vs. robthomasson
NatusM vs. TorqGWJ
bigred07 vs. oilypenguin
pacman1477 vs. TheWalt
shoptroll vs. Apollo0507
GWJ_DixieFlatline vs. sirjoekcb
Trachalio vs. zelos79

Players on left please send out GC invites and challenges. Utilize the signup sheet for GC IDs.

Signup Sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...

Reminder: CoTG + RoTF

challenge sent to oilypenguin

FYI, tie breakers begin to appear after round 3 so players in the middle of the standings will have a better idea of where they stand.

Looking forward to your invite pacman1477!

Good luck!

Challenge sent to m0nk3yboy.

Challenge sent to LeapingGnome.

Why me, o cruel life? I already lost both rounds, do I have to get steamrolled again?

GC invite to sirjoekcb.