Here's the results from my awesome day at Krypton Comics with CJ Sarber.
Game 1 (MLB)
I made an early misplay by not 10k guarding their 7+5k attack to my 8k vanguard. They got a crit, which my 10k guard would have shut down completely and saved me two early damage. That woke me up (I'm still pretty tired) and I stopped misplaying after that. I still ended up taking a demanding lead and secure the game turn 4.
Game 2 (Gold Paladins)
I ride up perfectly and reach turn 4. My opponent has mostly 5k shields and has exactly enough guard to block both of my rear-guards, but not my vanguard. He's at 4 damage. I'm at 5 damage because he swung 23k turn two with his Ezel/Tron combo due to the superior ride. So he no guards my vanguard. I have 14 triggers left in my 37~ card deck. My odds of hitting one critical and winning are about 72%. My odds of surviving his next turn if he didn't hit triggers would be guaranteed as long as I didn't drive check two grade 3's. I have two Bors on the field. I drive check two Bors, immediately declare my own loss, and chuckle to myself. This time I'M the Byond Shuffler.
Game 3 (Gold Paladins)
Another Ezelmore deck. I don't remember much about this game. I won with 3 rows of 3 Bors/8k's. Still Byond shuffling like a nooblord. All I remember was that they had 3 damage and no guarded my Bors and I Kageroyal'd them with a double crit.
Game 4 (Spike Brothers)
I got wailed on hard early game. She hit trigger after trigger after trigger. I end up winning by getting a critical at the end, but only because she misplayed a few times.
Game 5 (MLB)
Same player I beat in round one. I got gradelocked at 1 for a turn. This game lasted a while, going to turn 6 or 7. He damage checked a Blaster Dark and I attacked into one of them to retire it. He drive checked another and got one with Wingal Brave. I ended up losing to two consecutive +10k's from moving the Blasters to soul. One of the sad things about not running perfect guards is encountering big-hitting vanguards with bonus crit. I didn't see any Bediviere and 4 of each Blaster, so he had at least 3 instances where not having a booster caused him to be unable to swing over any of my units.
Result - Kageroyals went 3-2 in the tournament, netting me 5th place.
Side games
Kageroyals - won two more side games and lost one, putting me at 5-3 for the day. Not as good as usual, but I won't complain.
Royal Paladin/Dark Irregulars - This deck was dysfunctional. Not because it was built wrong, it just never drew what it needed ever. I did not have a single game where Lohengrin (running 4) was my vanguard save ONE game where he was ridden AFTER Palamedes. Palamedes was my Vanguard 6 games. I only have one of him. I ended the night 0-8 with this deck because Lohengrin is the entire crux of it working. I really need to shuffle better because holy crap that was awful. I still had fun playing it, but it just did NOT function the way it was supposed to. Again, Byond shuffle fail by me.
Hellfire Ritual - Went 5-2. I lost one game before the tournament with it, then lost once to CJ. CJ hit a 6th damage heal and double crit me at 3 damage to seal the deal on me (which I totally called!). I love comebacks, so I was probably more excited about it than he was. Sadly, my strongest row was only 30k unboosted. I guess I need to start lifting again.
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