@LockerK and I had our match tonight, and I won. The first game was only saved for me by the timely arrival of a key removal spell. I was playing a version of a Mono White Weenie deck that I saw online and modified to match my skimpiness in terms of the Rares and Mythics needed. It was enough to win in a mono-White mirror match, although our decks were quite dissimilar with the exception of Healers Hawk.
I also think that I take Arena a lot more seriously than LockerK, who was a good sport about the fact that I probably had at least 5 more rare/mythics cards in my deck (including a last minute second Benalish Marshal that I burned a rare wildcard on only minutes prior to our match).
Scheduling was a bit of a chore but @delirium and I got our round 1 games in tonight. He stomped me in the first game, having both a better deck and better draw. Second game was closer, but he pulled it out in large part due to a hexproof Nightveil Predator that I couldn’t quite kill. Good games, @delirium, fun to play someone besides ye olde random opponent!
Excellent! I hope everyone’s having fun so far. There’s clearly some disparity in deck quality, but hopefully the second round will see more balanced match ups.
There’s some real life stuff going on that’s delaying the match between myself and Vesper.
I’m still hoping to get my match in with Vesper, and since Delirium is on vacation next week, I might start round 2 a little late to try and get all the matches in.
I’m pretty much ready to go. I don’t really feel it’s fair to pick one of the decks, since I know which ones the deck I’m planning on playing matches up better against. So I’m happy to face whichever one you choose!