Playing cards, I am your ancestor!-Chapter 339: Selection Match Against Guiqing 1
The barrage was lively, and Zero Egg was still fanning the flames inside.
Truly enjoying it to the fullest.
Zero Egg: [Great, all points, all points, hahaha.]
As long as any scolding involves Wen Jiang, points will be earned, so pretending to be a CP fan to stir up hatred on both sides is simply a wise move in this situation.
In essence, this is the same as Zero Egg’s previous pursuits.
Jealousy and hatred do indeed grow the fastest as they can happen in an instant.
Wen Jiang let Zero Egg carry on, after all, it wouldn’t hurt her at all.
Both teams were preparing to go on stage, and Guo Shu was already arranging today’s card battle strategy.
"If everything goes as expected, they might let us play the new cards. Should we use them today?"
The three new cards Wen Jiang made had yet to be used.
Anyone who couldn’t defeat Mount Flower would let out Mount Flower’s new cards, aiming to make them use and reveal their cards early.
However, there’s no need for the new cards to defeat those associations.
Du Zhaiyue, the support and commander in the team, hesitated but eventually said, "No need, we don’t need to use new cards against Guiqing."
At least before the official matches start, with no great pressure from the associations, the later the new cards are used, the better.
Song Yi was eager to try, but deflated upon hearing they wouldn’t be used.
Since the commander said not to use them, the other team members naturally wouldn’t refute in the middle of the match.
But the most exciting thing today was still this issue with Second Brother.
Guo Shu didn’t feel much pressure from the Guiqing Association and said, "In that case, ban their ’Iron Tree Silver Flower’ as a courtesy, let the other cards through. I have no major arrangements tactically; Cloud River of Stars, Map of Mountains and Rivers, Soul Severing the Other Shore, whichever of these cards you can use, just use them. Song Yi and Song Jue, decide for yourselves."
No matter how much attention this match receives from the outside world, the strength gap is obvious. It can be taken seriously, but there’s no need to be tense.
’Iron Tree Silver Flower’ is a signature SSR output card of the Guiqing Association; banning it is extending a courtesy.
Moreover, this card is out of the system library.
Its strength is indeed high and usually not released.
The discussion was between Du Zhaiyue and Guo Shu; Wen Jiang had no opinions to express.
Compared to the relaxed atmosphere on Mount Flower’s side, the Guiqing Association was under much more pressure.
Due to the matters between Song Yingchen and Wen Jiang, today’s match received substantial attention, and losing it would likely result in harsh criticism.
Yet the iron-like fact remains undeniable, not to mention Wen Jiang, Sheng Hongying is not an easy opponent either.
Despite all this, they must still give it their best. The coach of Guiqing Association thought for a moment: "We probably can’t get ’Iron Tree Silver Flower’, take Sand for output."
The team members were stunned: "We’re playing the late game with them?"
’Sand’ is a late-game card, weak in early performance, essentially representing the abandonment of early output.
The coach spread his hands: "Can you guarantee surviving the early stages?"
"..."
Although dampening spirits at a critical moment is rather unfair.
But what the coach said was true.
Mount Flower taking output cards means they aren’t very confident about surviving the early stages.
Mount Flower’s early burst card capabilities are terrifying.
Mount Flower’s SSR core card set goes in two directions, besides the three underworld cards not appearing for now, Mount Flower itself features a powerful output flow system centered around ’Soul Severing the Other Shore’ and ’Cloud River of Stars Mountain River Map’, the other is the poison card system.
Whether banning those three cards first or the subsequent poison cards, the poison cards only need two cards to reach the mutual toxin buildup purpose, which would affect the battle.
The Guiqing coach was still a bit concerned: "At least Sand has high defense to drag it to the late game..."
Before he could finish, Song Yingchen suddenly said, "What if we can’t drag it out?"
The coach looked deeply at him: "Let’s give it our all, shall we?"
Song Yingchen: "..."
This is the only way to say it now.
They’ve also reviewed Mount Flower’s recent system; it’s basically either a poison card core or a continuous burst card flow through ’Cloud River of Stars’.
The major issue is that no other opponent has forced more out of Mount Flower.
Being able to use one move to overpower all opponents actually demonstrates their terrifying strength.
After arranging the tactical cards, the Guiqing coach still said: "Everyone doesn’t need to feel too pressured, just like fighting other associations like Broken Heart, after the match, we can roughly estimate the opponent’s strength. This is our first encounter with Mount Flower in the qualifiers, just show our style and it’s enough."
Such words of encouragement still need to be said.
The pressure today is mainly due to the previous relationship between Song Yingchen and Wen Jiang.
The Guiqing coach isn’t worried about losing.
He’s only concerned about the potential truth of the rumors—if Wen Jiang truly messes with Song Yingchen’s mindset, leading to psychological problems, that would be big trouble!
Song Yingchen was a player recommended by the Song Family, so there’s no doubt regarding his abilities.
If he wasn’t up to par, the Song Family wouldn’t have pushed him forward to lose face.
The Guiqing coach still holds hope for him.
The world championship team list cannot be changed now; if Song Yingchen has issues, Guiqing could be done for.
Keep steady.
Absolutely must keep steady!
The thoughts of both sides were unknown to each other.
Mount Flower and Guiqing officially began the card-banning phase.
The Guiqing Association’s card bans were conventional, banning core poison output cards and control cards, leaving none of ’Cloud River of Stars Soul Severing the Other Shore Mountain River Map’ untouched.
After all, with only a twenty-five card limit, there’s no way to ban substantially.
The Guiqing Association’s card ban approach was mainly cautious. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶
Song Yi sighed: "They are genuinely scared."
A standard core card system of Mount Flower’s is one they dare not release.
Instead, they let out the three new cards.
But as they anticipated, there’s no way Mount Flower would use them.
Just fighting Guiqing, using new cards would be overly elevating the opponent.
Mount Flower also banned Guiqing’s main output cards, as a mutual courtesy.
Finally, at the card selection stage.
Guiqing, having the second turn to ban cards, thus received the first turn to choose cards, and they directly took Sand.
Guo Shu immediately remarked: "This shows they’re aiming for a late-game card system, the other four cards will likely have two that focus on defense, probably ’Shepherd’ and ’Pied Piper’, with another control card to control the field, since their assassin’s usable cards are limited to a few, probably ’Yan’."
After Guo Shu was done, he immediately ordered: "There’s nothing to nitpick, if they go late, we’ll drag it to the late game as well, our poison cards aren’t weak either. Song Jue, today you take the assassin poison card ’Swamp Maze’, Song Yi, take ’Mantle’ directly. This combo has a bit of a restraining effect on ’Shepherd’.
Song Jue nodded.
Guo Shu hesitated through the earphones: "The other twenty cards, Wen Jiang, choose your favorites, new cards aren’t out of bounds, it’s your choice."
Others: "..."
Wen Jiang picked and chose, not possessing all cards of Mount Flower, after all, replicating SSRs requires effort and shifts, and not all players can have a complete card set.
Yet she did have over ten cards.
Besides the new and banned cards, Wen Jiang selected a card: "I’ll use ’Wind Guiding Flower’."
Everyone seeing this card was stunned for a moment.
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