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The match had been made quickly so i expected to face someone near my on level, so i was more than a little surprised when i saw Andrew (my opponent) had a little over 1000 health. I am Boris Drake, level 5, myth student.

But i am not one to just give up when faced with an overwhelming opponent. If i were i would never have reached the rank of captain i now hold. He may win, but this private was still going to have to fight me for it.

So as eldritch energies swirled in the air between us we began to talk.

Andrew is a descent sort and this is just his second dual.

As the fight went on, i realized something odd in his strategy. He had a stock pile of pips in front of him, but was not attacking.

I began looking for the massive treasure card that would signal my defeat.

But it never came.

Andrew was using a burn out strategy. His deck was just keeping him alive waiting for me to run out of cards. Fortunately i realized this in time and held onto my last two cards, which could not have killed him anyway.

And the dual changed from a competition to see who could defeat the other to an endurance contest to see who could waste more time sitting there passing.

Andrew had a good strategy for this as well. His opening move was "lets talk", and i fell into his trap.

We began talking about his school and my time in the Air Force. It went on for what seemed like an hour. Actually it was about an hour.

I finally realized that by talking with him i was keeping him from getting bored.

So i told him i was going to watch some TV while i pressed the space bar to pass.

It worked, he quickly became bored and cast his last spell. The fight was over. I had won. But for me it felt like a hollow victory.

As soon as the fight was over i apologized for ignoring him, i really did not feel good about using that kind of strategy. In the end we went our separate ways as friends.

So the point of all this is
There was no need for this dual to go on as long as it did.
Neither one of us could 'beat' the other, and i was not willing to sacrifice my rank so i was NOT going to use my last card or flee.

A draw should be a possible outcome of a fight.
After say ten rounds in which no spells are cast a stalemate is determined automatically.
or,
A new button that allows you to offer your opponent a draw. if he accepts then the match is over and no one get anything. No change in rank, no ticket.

I had a rely strange duel too. I was facing a death lvl 26 and I saw his stats before we played and he had a starter deck. That is nothing at the weird point because a starter deck only lets you hold 4 treasures. Well each time I came close to killing him he used a dryad. and the part that is just BIZARRE is that i almost killed him like 17 times with dryad then i guess he ran out and used a satyr and gave up

That sometimes happens... its usually the lower level players who understand the rules of arena, but don't use treasure cards for attack. When this happens, I stockpile pips, get all my blades/traps out, then use combo attacks. If they use dryad after your first strong attack, they are out of pips! Its much easier killing stallers like this. And you don't even have to use a single treasure card unless you're still in wizard city levels... Krokotopia levels have stronger attack cards. If you just level up a little more, you wont have to stuggle against these annoying people.

Signing out,
Paul Fireward Grandmaster Pyromancer
Paul Mythward Magus Conjurer
" Deathward Magus Necromancer
" Stormward Magus Diviner

The rest are still noobs and I wont say levels