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Obliveron made it to finals? Interesting, any idea how it was built?

Like all obliveron rush...

 Yeap, I was the one who ran my main man-lizard Obliv.  Jax is right in that you don't find a whole lot of variation when it comes to Obliveron.  Here's the thread I posted during NACC:

http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/wow/community/forums/thread/1816302.aspx

 My decklist was modified after testing extensively on MWS, but the meat and potatoes are all there.  If you're going to try it out I'd say the best advice is to play it with the Kil'zin mindset (i.e: Me rush, me burn, me refill, me win! KEK!) .  Also, I'd recommend main-decking Crushing Shadows AND Arcing Smash if you can find room.  Those were MVPs all day.

 I also greatly missed having Tainted Earth for my match-up against Runetusk, so I'm going to try to fit it back into the sidedeck at least.  I lost to the solid Runetusk/Voidfire discard deck in the swiss rounds, and I pulled out the narrowest of victories against him in the Semi-Finals to make Top 2.  I have to mention how sweet my revenge was: Last ditch Crushing Shadows with him on 4 health remaining when all his cards in hand were Cost 4 and above.  In another game I even managed to make him discard down to zero cards in hand.  I think everyone who was in the room can attest to how epic a showdown that was!

 Props to everyone who showed for the great games all day, and especially to Phil for agreeing to get us home at a reasonable hour.  Not sure if I'll be able to set my sights on the Conquerer title, but regardless I look forward to seeing you all in Berkeley again soon!


P.S.  To any UDE rep who might be reading this: If you can hook me up with an Obliveron Avatar I WILL be your best friend.  If not, well that's too bad because I make a great friend. :P

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Massively delayed grats to Jaron and Phil.

My experience was a little less exciting. I decided my jank for the tourny would be the Arena Infinite loop and it performed about as well as expected.

Saw Krixel in, I want to say, less than half my games (and, shock, a combo deck does not like not seeing its core combo component). My ability to topdeck Presence of Mind made me massively regret choosing not to go Fire instead of Arcane. I couldn't ever seem to have interrupts available to me at the right time. A very long and fairly frustrating day all around. I didn't expect the deck to do well, but I would have at least liked to go down with it attempting to function, rather than repeatedly piling all of my Krixel's at the bottom of the deck!

On more positive notes, I gained a lot of respect for "Backstab" Bindo Gearbomb (whose name remains stupidly fun to announce), as he proved tremendously helpful by being a cheap, irritating PITA for most people. Also, I managed to get the loop off on Kil'zin, which I feel was an achievement all on its own. I may have lost the match, but I got the bloody combo off on a real deck.

So, again, congrats to Jaron and Phil. Now I ought start considering a real deck. Maybe something with Azaloth...

Thanks Andrew.

Yeah - play Rip and Flip, it might well work.

Also, what was I thinking. I should have dropped after Jaron won the roll for Equalize to preserve my rating. I went down at 15 points :)

Cheers.

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