Post by Deleted on Jun 11, 2006 15:18:21 GMT -5
Hello again. I posted before about us "Windies" and our experience at this event, but I guess I should also provide a more specific tourney report. It was Lafayette of course, in an awesome store by the way (I forget the name, but I'll get it and post it later). It had 15 participants vying for that grand prize Xbox 360, Cards for a Year and the 2 round MegaFaceoff bye. We had a great tournament that flowed well with no rules issues since Sithmasters Keith and Dave were both in the hizzy. Regrettably, Keith's still struggling with that computer, so he had to manually pair us all the time. What a headache it must have been for him! I don't suppose he had too much fun with that. Oh, well. Thanks Keith! Ok, let's get into it. I'll submit what I know and remember...
1st Place deck: Zycon Heatwave (aggroZycon?) 4-0 (Ricardo)
Again, I'm not quite sure what you guys are calling aggroZycon, but this deck went undefeated over 4 rounds, not losing a game. It saw a near-bye round 1 against a nice attempt at an angel deck w/Saintheah. But the burn was too strong too fast, and the other deck wasn't able to get anything going. Round 2 saw a tougher Sutraps deck. Along with the 8 power, his natural damage resistance makes things go longer than desired. However, the supertec maindeck Corpse Collector provided just enough chumpers in Game 1, and the sideboard Peacetime was more than enough in Game 2. Round 3 saw a powerful Glye in all his glory. Tough matchup, but it wasn't unexpected. It's those meddling Sworn Defenders that make things difficult for Ricardo's burn deck, and you don't exactly want to use a whole Lightning Bolt against it or worse. But this deck decided to uncharacteristically add a playset of Purify for just this very expected metagame. That, plus they stop the rings and the biblios and all that. All of a sudden, Glye wasn't protected from his own warriors' treacery, as a Fireball on 2 Orge Warriors and a Gladiator removed all three and hit Glye for 11. One Heatwave later and it's curtains. Last Round was a mirror match between two Windy City warriors, knowing that it would come down to the draw. It was a fun chess match of burn/counter burn, both of them Thoughtful Studyinging themselves and hitting ridiculous 8 and 9 card draws from them conversely. I say it was a mirror match because they played the same deck type, but in truth the two decks had about a 9-10 card difference between the builds, and it seemed to be just enough to give Ricardo's the advantage and the sweep. And it was over. The deck finished perfectly with complete sweeps. The losing deck got 4th place.
2nd Place deck: Glye the Juggernaut 3-1 (Raoul)
"Don't you know who I am? I'm the Juggernaut, b****. I'm gonna whup yo a**. Ain't nobody told you?" C'mon, I know you guys have seen this, right? Anyway, another Windy player (or just Windy) piloted this to 2nd place. It was a powerful Glye beats deck, and well played. You all have this decklist. It's essentially the same as the one posted on another thread in this forum, complete with the Vorex in for Talon. It crushed a 1st round Zycon who never found a Peacetime. Round 2 saw Glye vs Glye, and I believe the opponent deck was handled by one of our hosts in Indy (Ann? I believe)., She also had a good deck, but I guess Raoul's was the true Juggernaut and took the sweep. He also had a sweep in Round 4. It was almost perfect if not for that Round 3 pairing with the eventual winner (see above) Zycon who reportedly hit the Juggernaut with his pimp cane. The whoozy Glye lost that round 0-2.
3rd place deck- Belphegor? 2-0-2
A fellow named Robert played this deck. Not being a Windy, and strangely enough not being paired with either of the top 2, this deck kind of went under the radar as I missed it too. I do know it drew the first round. Round 1 was strange as it saw 2 sets of draws, so naturally, in Round 2 Robert faced another one of the other draws instead of playing a Round 1 winner, which could have conceivably been either of the top 2. Nevertheless, he won the next round to get a record of 1-0-1. Round 3, since the top 2 were both 2-0, they faced each other, and Robert got paired elsewhere. He did get a win, and in the last round, being 2-0-1, he could have played Ricardo's Zycon 3-0. However, there was another 2-0-1, Steve B.'s Zycon. The luck of the draw saw Steve facing Ricardo instead. But Robert still got a Windy match-up, kind of, in the form of Al, playing that Phe-Ronde archer deck that we handed him last minute since he wasn't supposed to play. I didn't catch the whole match, just the last 5 minutes of the match. Now again, all I knew of Robert is that he was playing a Belphegor as his character. I was suprised and jealous, because I've always wanted to use him but just haven't yet. I wasn't aware he could be viably used, or just never really thought about it. Or maybe it isn't that good and just got fortunate pairings. I don't know, but I would love to hear from you guys that their is or could be a viable Belphegor, and if so, that Robert may have had it. All I saw at the end were Cranial Leeches and Tree Ents. He was in game 3 against Al's deck with one damage point on Belphegor to the Lady's none. Time had expired and it was Turn 5 for Robert. He attacked with 2 zombie tokens that traded with Al's 2 tokens. Robert then attacked with his Character against an engaged Phe-Ronde, but an equally engaged Goblin Archer gave up his life for her. It looked as if Al would win with one point, but out of nowhere Robert with his last action hires Cranial Leech and attacks! With no more help, Phe-Ronde has to take the 1.Robert ends his turn and they both finish the match with one damage counter on their characters for the draw. It was pretty good of Robert to surprise Al with the Cranial Leech at the end, and in truth it was an advanced play, because he preyed on Al's mistakes. Al, having Cranial Leeched two of Roberts creatures on his own turn, should have waited so as to not give Robert extra attackers. Still, having done that, had he chose not to defend at least 1 zombie token and instead blocked a creature attacker, the disengaged token could have defended against Belphegor himself and caused 2 extra damage, securing the win. Still, Robert did what he had to do and try to force at least a draw from a certain loss, and he expertly did just that. Robert finished 2-0-2, good enough for 8 points and 3rd place. Good job, taking Belphegor in there for a good performance. Perhaps we'll cross with him again in the future.
On a final quick note, Windy member Steve B. who had to face teammate Ricardo in the final round finished 2-1-1, 4th place. He played a very similar Zyconburn deck. Interestingly enough, his first pairing was with a tough Sutraps, and after splitting the first two games, Steve found himself in a losing situation where he was chumping Sutraps every turn with his wizards and running out of options, not being able to take even one more hit since more that half his life was gone. Down to his last wizard with no help from his drawn card, rather than face defeat, he playes Heatwave against a Sutraps with exactly 10 damage to intentionally draw the game. Coldblooded! That was pretty cheap, but I guess I would have done that too...and so would you. Good job, Steve, giving our Chicago team a good outing with 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 8th place finishes out of 15.
I hope you enjoyed this lengthy report. If we have a qualifier in Chicago, maybe we'll see you here. As for Lafayette, we like to thank everyone again for a good tourney and genuine nice people. That being said, Go Chicago! Windies 4-life!
1st Place deck: Zycon Heatwave (aggroZycon?) 4-0 (Ricardo)
Again, I'm not quite sure what you guys are calling aggroZycon, but this deck went undefeated over 4 rounds, not losing a game. It saw a near-bye round 1 against a nice attempt at an angel deck w/Saintheah. But the burn was too strong too fast, and the other deck wasn't able to get anything going. Round 2 saw a tougher Sutraps deck. Along with the 8 power, his natural damage resistance makes things go longer than desired. However, the supertec maindeck Corpse Collector provided just enough chumpers in Game 1, and the sideboard Peacetime was more than enough in Game 2. Round 3 saw a powerful Glye in all his glory. Tough matchup, but it wasn't unexpected. It's those meddling Sworn Defenders that make things difficult for Ricardo's burn deck, and you don't exactly want to use a whole Lightning Bolt against it or worse. But this deck decided to uncharacteristically add a playset of Purify for just this very expected metagame. That, plus they stop the rings and the biblios and all that. All of a sudden, Glye wasn't protected from his own warriors' treacery, as a Fireball on 2 Orge Warriors and a Gladiator removed all three and hit Glye for 11. One Heatwave later and it's curtains. Last Round was a mirror match between two Windy City warriors, knowing that it would come down to the draw. It was a fun chess match of burn/counter burn, both of them Thoughtful Studyinging themselves and hitting ridiculous 8 and 9 card draws from them conversely. I say it was a mirror match because they played the same deck type, but in truth the two decks had about a 9-10 card difference between the builds, and it seemed to be just enough to give Ricardo's the advantage and the sweep. And it was over. The deck finished perfectly with complete sweeps. The losing deck got 4th place.
2nd Place deck: Glye the Juggernaut 3-1 (Raoul)
"Don't you know who I am? I'm the Juggernaut, b****. I'm gonna whup yo a**. Ain't nobody told you?" C'mon, I know you guys have seen this, right? Anyway, another Windy player (or just Windy) piloted this to 2nd place. It was a powerful Glye beats deck, and well played. You all have this decklist. It's essentially the same as the one posted on another thread in this forum, complete with the Vorex in for Talon. It crushed a 1st round Zycon who never found a Peacetime. Round 2 saw Glye vs Glye, and I believe the opponent deck was handled by one of our hosts in Indy (Ann? I believe)., She also had a good deck, but I guess Raoul's was the true Juggernaut and took the sweep. He also had a sweep in Round 4. It was almost perfect if not for that Round 3 pairing with the eventual winner (see above) Zycon who reportedly hit the Juggernaut with his pimp cane. The whoozy Glye lost that round 0-2.
3rd place deck- Belphegor? 2-0-2
A fellow named Robert played this deck. Not being a Windy, and strangely enough not being paired with either of the top 2, this deck kind of went under the radar as I missed it too. I do know it drew the first round. Round 1 was strange as it saw 2 sets of draws, so naturally, in Round 2 Robert faced another one of the other draws instead of playing a Round 1 winner, which could have conceivably been either of the top 2. Nevertheless, he won the next round to get a record of 1-0-1. Round 3, since the top 2 were both 2-0, they faced each other, and Robert got paired elsewhere. He did get a win, and in the last round, being 2-0-1, he could have played Ricardo's Zycon 3-0. However, there was another 2-0-1, Steve B.'s Zycon. The luck of the draw saw Steve facing Ricardo instead. But Robert still got a Windy match-up, kind of, in the form of Al, playing that Phe-Ronde archer deck that we handed him last minute since he wasn't supposed to play. I didn't catch the whole match, just the last 5 minutes of the match. Now again, all I knew of Robert is that he was playing a Belphegor as his character. I was suprised and jealous, because I've always wanted to use him but just haven't yet. I wasn't aware he could be viably used, or just never really thought about it. Or maybe it isn't that good and just got fortunate pairings. I don't know, but I would love to hear from you guys that their is or could be a viable Belphegor, and if so, that Robert may have had it. All I saw at the end were Cranial Leeches and Tree Ents. He was in game 3 against Al's deck with one damage point on Belphegor to the Lady's none. Time had expired and it was Turn 5 for Robert. He attacked with 2 zombie tokens that traded with Al's 2 tokens. Robert then attacked with his Character against an engaged Phe-Ronde, but an equally engaged Goblin Archer gave up his life for her. It looked as if Al would win with one point, but out of nowhere Robert with his last action hires Cranial Leech and attacks! With no more help, Phe-Ronde has to take the 1.Robert ends his turn and they both finish the match with one damage counter on their characters for the draw. It was pretty good of Robert to surprise Al with the Cranial Leech at the end, and in truth it was an advanced play, because he preyed on Al's mistakes. Al, having Cranial Leeched two of Roberts creatures on his own turn, should have waited so as to not give Robert extra attackers. Still, having done that, had he chose not to defend at least 1 zombie token and instead blocked a creature attacker, the disengaged token could have defended against Belphegor himself and caused 2 extra damage, securing the win. Still, Robert did what he had to do and try to force at least a draw from a certain loss, and he expertly did just that. Robert finished 2-0-2, good enough for 8 points and 3rd place. Good job, taking Belphegor in there for a good performance. Perhaps we'll cross with him again in the future.
On a final quick note, Windy member Steve B. who had to face teammate Ricardo in the final round finished 2-1-1, 4th place. He played a very similar Zyconburn deck. Interestingly enough, his first pairing was with a tough Sutraps, and after splitting the first two games, Steve found himself in a losing situation where he was chumping Sutraps every turn with his wizards and running out of options, not being able to take even one more hit since more that half his life was gone. Down to his last wizard with no help from his drawn card, rather than face defeat, he playes Heatwave against a Sutraps with exactly 10 damage to intentionally draw the game. Coldblooded! That was pretty cheap, but I guess I would have done that too...and so would you. Good job, Steve, giving our Chicago team a good outing with 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 8th place finishes out of 15.
I hope you enjoyed this lengthy report. If we have a qualifier in Chicago, maybe we'll see you here. As for Lafayette, we like to thank everyone again for a good tourney and genuine nice people. That being said, Go Chicago! Windies 4-life!
