BattleCON G8 - Cybele (Kajia) vs. Zorblag (Rexan)

[Zorblag]

Beat 8

Start of Beat Summary

R

K

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Kajia

:

5 life
Force Gauge: 2
Discard 1: Parasitic Burst
Discard 2: Biting Mandibles
Finisher: Imago Emergence
Curse Tokens: 1

Rexan

:

8 life
Force Gauge: 3
Discard 1: Devastating Strike, 1 Insect Counter
Discard 2: Unyielding Burst
Finisher: Zero Hour

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Kajia

:

Swarming Drive

Range: 1 ~ 2
Power: 3 - 2
Priority: 3
An opponent with Insect Counters in one discard pile cannot hit you at Range 1. An opponent with Insect Counters in two discard piles cannot hit you at Range 1 or 2.

Before Activating:

Advance 1 or 2 spaces.

End of Beat:

Place 1 Insect Counter on each adjacent opponent's attack pair.

Rexan

:

Vainglorious Shot

Range: 1 ~ 4
Power: 4
Priority: 2

Stun Guard 2

Opponents at Range 1 have -2 Power.

Before Activating:

Pull the opponent up to 1 space.

Ante:

None

Reveal:

None

Start of Beat:

None

Active Player (

Kajia

):

Kajia hits Rexan.
Kajia gains 1 Curse Token.
Rexan takes 1 damage and is not stunned.

Reactive Player (

Rexan

):

Rexan does not hit.

End of Beat:

Rexan gains 1 Insect Counter.

Recycle:

Kajia gains 2 Force.
Rexan gains 1 Force.
On to Beat 9.

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Current State

R

K

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Kajia

:

5 life
Force Gauge: 4
Discard 1: Swarming Drive
Discard 2: Parasitic Burst
Finisher: Imago Emergence
Curse Tokens: 1

Rexan

:

7 life
Force Gauge: 4
Discard 1: Vainglorious Shot, 1 Insect Counter
Discard 2: Devastating Strike, 1 Insect Counter
Finisher: Zero Hour

[Cybele]

curse token

[Zorblag]

Beat 9

Start of Beat Summary

R

K

ooooo

Kajia

:

5 life
Force Gauge: 2
Discard 1: Swarming Drive
Discard 2: Parasitic Burst
Finisher: Imago Emergence
Curse Tokens: 1

Rexan

:

7 life
Force Gauge: 3
Discard 1: Vainglorious Shot, 1 Insect Counter
Discard 2: Devastating Strike, 1 Insect Counter
Finisher: Zero Hour

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Kajia

:

Stinging

Grasp

Strike

Range: 1
Power: 4 - 1
Priority: 4 - 1

Stun Guard 5

Reveal:

This attack ignores Soak if the opponent has Insect Counters in one discard. If he has counters in both discards, it ignores both Stun Guard and Soak.

On Hit:

Add 1 Insect Counter to the opponent's attack pair.

Rexan

:

Overlord's

Grasp

Malediction

Range: 1 ~ 6
Power: 3
Priority: 4

Reveal:

Each opponent has -1 Priority for each Curse Token he possesses.

Before Activating:

Pull an opponent a number of spaces equal to or less than your power. You have -1 Power for each space pulled this way.

On Hit:

Give the opponent a Curse Token. For the rest of this beat, Rexan cannot take more than 2 damage from an attack by the opponent.

End of Beat:

Pull the opponent up to 1 space for each Curse Token he possesses.

Ante:

Kajia antes 1 Curse Token.

Reveal:

None

Start of Beat:

None

Active Player (

Rexan

):

Rexan hits Kajia.
Kajia gains 1 Curse Token.
Kajia takes 3 damage and is not stunned.

Reactive Player (

Kajia

):

Kajia hits Rexan.
Rexan gains 1 Insect Token.
Rexan takes 2 damage and is stunned.

End of Beat:

None

Recycle:

Rexan loses 1 life.
Kajia gains 2 Force.
Rexan gains 2 Force.
On to Beat 10.

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Current State

R

K

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Kajia

:

2 life
Force Gauge: 6
Discard 1: Stinging Strike
Discard 2: Swarming Drive
Finisher: Imago Emergence
Curse Tokens: 1

Rexan

:

4 life
Force Gauge: 6
Discard 1: Overlord's Malediction, 1 Insect Counter
Discard 2: Vainglorious Shot, 1 Insect Counter
Finisher: Zero Hour

[Zorblag]

Pass.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[Cybele]

save my last 2 force in case you dashed me (which btw is my worst case scenario, which had me spending SO long debating my antes, and such).
pass

[Cybele]

um wow. well youre right i didnt expect that. what does that counter? i must have been on an entirely different wavelength because of the 4 or so scenarios i was worried about, i didnt consider that.
ok i have priority, and your SoBs do nothing. we leapfrog across the arena: pull, advance, pull (2 bugs), 5 damage, death and auto-stun even so, and advance again.
ooooRKo
i think thats everything. a stunning last beat after a tumultuous, swingy, match.
thank you for the match

[Cybele]

if im not mistaken, i think i just dealt you your first loss on MS. grats on your winning streak. we discussed a rematch earlier, are you still interested?

[Zorblag]

It countered either a burst (which had a couple ways to kill me when I countered the options of yours I looked at first) or a dodge (which let me get lower on life with Insect Counters before making another attack after I in theory wasted something.)

I had counters for your grasp and Mandibles, even without the anted curse token, but then I noticed the burst and got all paranoid about that. It's been a string of bad predictions for me over the two games I'm playing, but so it goes sometimes!

Good beat and good game!

I'm all for a rematch, but probably starting in a day or two. Sound good?

P-edit: It's my second loss here. KingdomAces beat me in our very first game together (Hikaru vs. Kallistar.) I came back to win the match, but he crushed that first game. Outside of here I'm about 50-50 in the 6 or so live games I've played over the past 2 or 3 years.

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[Cybele]

ah fair enough. i think i dismissed my own burst or dash options because of unyielding drive. also for that matter i think unyieldong drive killed my first plan: parasitic burst or shot, which were my first anti-devastating plans. it was a tough beat to plan out. a lot of these were. im good to start later. i have a busy weekwnd so ill probs be ready sunday evening?
would you like to try out an arena? if so, i think we could like both suggest 2 wed like to try and then decide from those.
or if you want to do a duplicate of this match's set up for a cleaner rematch, or just arent interedted in arenas, im cool with that too.

[Zorblag]

The arenas might be fun, but I'm at most ambivalent about them. For now I've got plenty to think about with just the normal game (and so many interesting characters to try.) Let's finish out this best of three as is, but then if you'd like to go with an arena I'm willing to give one a try.

Sunday night is probably a good time for me to start. Let's tentatively plan on that! Have a lovely weekend!

-Zorblag R`Lyeh

[Cybele]

sounds good. gnight