Played a few casual games of GLC on the side of our weekly Standard League play, getting more practice in with my Fairy Control deck.
Game 1 vs. Grass - Loss
I managed to get an early lock set up using Fairy Lock Klefki, but it only took a few turns for my opponent to find a Switch and break from that lock. That sort of set the tone for how this game went down for me. I stalled them, got a few locks in place, but invariably it would only be a turn or two before they managed to draw some out or another to break what I had in place while I was whittling away and trying to find my Miss Fortune Sisters or my Team Rocket's Handiwork to mill some cards. All in all, it was honestly a little frustrating to see the luck of the draw break so much in their favor that way.
Ultimately, a mistake on my final turn is what did me in, rather than their incredible luck at drawing their outs: I wasn't paying enough attention to how many prizes that they had taken. I thought they still had two left, when they were on their final prize. Had I been more cognizant of them being that close, I would've used my Supporter for the turn to play a Team Flare Grunt and discard an energy from their active Pokémon in an attempt to prevent them from attacking for the game. Instead, I used Team Rocket's Handiwork, trying to get some more mill done. Of course, given my luck that game, they probably had another energy in-hand and would've been fine to just attach and finish the job regardless, but I obviously can't say that with certainty.
Game 2 vs. Colorless - Draw
Again, I established an early Fairy Lock, but they got through it thanks to Colorless having a plenty of "double" energy in addition to other Supporter-based energy ramps, meaning that they got an attacker set up to knock my Klefki out. This left me a bit on the defensive, but I managed to stall them out regardless, and my Crushing Hammer luck did see me discard all of the energy that they had in play.
They eventually conceded as it was late into the day, we had paused so that the League's leader could work through an end-of-month raffle that our League does with support from the shop which was a lot of excitement and noise, and they did need to leave, so I technically won.
That said, I consider it a draw for a reason: I was running low on cards-in-deck myself, though I had a number of recursion effects in my hand that would let me keep myself from decking out. And while I had managed to slow them down by discarding all of the energy that they had managed to get into play with Team Flare Grunt, Crushing Hammer, and Enhanced Hammer, I can't actually say for certain that I would've managed to keep the stall going long enough to get the victory had they not conceded.
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