#that Luquier game was crazy lol

[carnelianwings]

Finally pulled off a 3-0 tournament at locals (we have a very small group of players here, most weeks we get like, 6-7 people and that’s it), actually pretty proud of myself for managing it considering the Prison Main played Prison this week (not G1 promo for the G4 Superior Ride though, and I think that saved me somewhat). Other thing that helped is I kept “losing” (read: winning) my dice rolls so I got to go second all 3 rounds - which tipped things in my favor since I was playing Chronojet this week.

Round 1: Luquier

This was a surprisingly long round, lots of well timed heals that went off on both sides (so they resolved) so I ended up having to Stride Faterider twice (second Faterider I hit a double heal that healed me down from 5 to 3 because my opponent was on 4) before going into Nextage for game - which took me down to 1 card in deck so that Nextage turn was a do-or-die.

Round 2: Bastion

Another solid round, mostly just a lot of back and forth, but he didn’t check a G3 on his first Bastion turn and I think that’s ultimately what decided the game in my favor in the end. Another game where I had to do Faterider x2 before going into Nextage.

Round 3: Prison

Ah Prison. Or as they like to tease me at locals, the match up that lives rent free in my head - but only because it’s a match up where I can’t just “let my deck do what it wants to do” and have to actively play around it and keep certain things in mind. Like making sure I empty Soul before end of turn. And mulligan for Gigi and G1 Mikani so I can G1 rush. And running cards like a playset of G1 Mikanis so he can “refund” his cost (if I SB1’ed to free him) or so I can give him to my opponent so I can free more units after. Which I did multiple times in that game. I still had to get lucky though (burning Soul to free units means I didn’t have as much for Gigi’s draw) for a blank-heal-OT on 4 on his second Purelight turn because I didn’t have enough to guard everything (the hand rip + Penetrate Aquas’ guard restrict is always a nasty combo) and I won on my turn (because he invested a lot of cards getting 10 into Prison - I wasn’t making it easy for him by keeping Soul relatively empty plus early game rush means he had to guard more on my first Faterider Stride).

All in all, a good week at locals, with some very solid games … even if I had to heal-OT my way out of a loss 😅