A day outside of my usual schedule, but due to unusual circumstances during my next week off from work I will be largely unable to attend any of my typical TCG nights, and wanted another night of gaming before I have to miss out for around three weeks.
I played my Scions for each game.
Casual Game vs. Crystals
We played three game against one another, effectively playing a Best of 3.
I took the first game thanks to successfully managing to work around their removal and throwing my own removal and aggression around.
The second game went to them thanks to basically the opposite. I couldn't keep their removal out of play, which meant that they could keep my board cleared off pretty adequately.
Game 3 was a wildly fun back and forth, despite my winning 7-0, with us both throwing a bevy of removal back and forth. After the game, we agreed that Game 3 in no small part came down to their backup math breaking oddly for them, whereas my backup line was pretty full and bountiful, which meant I had ample resources to utilize. They did drop a Cecil that I've never seen from them before, evidently it's in their list as a 1-of. This made my removal options much trickier to use, as Cecil would cancel any effects if I didn't pay a little extra for them.
Casual Game vs. Mono-Ice
Two games against a newer player, both of which I won. They had never really played against a full-tilt aggro deck before, so they weren't completely sure how to handle a deck going that hard and fast against them.
The first game, I had an early Estinien and told them outright that he was by far one of my most important attackers due to his ability to return my Scions to my hand when he swings. They still kept my Irvine on lockdown despite that, as they were concerned about his ability to remove their Break Zone from play. This meant I continued to have the breadth of resources that Estinien affords me, and the game was rather swiftly over in my favor.
In the second, they gave me the chance to play first, which was likely the incorrect choice. I got my more or less ideal aggressive start, dropping a backup Alphinaud and following that with Estinien, using Estinien to pick back up the Thancred I had discarded to pay for one of the two. They dropped a Lasswell, which I remembered from Knights a few weeks back as being a tremendous roadblock for the way my deck operates, so when I drew Y'shtola, I immediately dropped her to hit Lasswell with -8000 power. A Thancred on the next turn removed their next threat. I proceeded to hit them over the next few turns getting them to 5 damage fast.
Around this time, the two more experienced players finished up their game, which was practice for them for an upcoming Winter Cup. One left, the other in turn started watching our game. That player began to help my opponent - which I was more than fine with - so that they could try to buy a few turns to stabilize with. With the assistance from the more experienced player, my opponent did successfully hold back my assault for three or four turns, but eventually their delay tactics didn't pan out, and I took the win.
Conclusion
I am wildly glad I took the time to come out for a few games despite not generally liking to do so on my last day before my work week. I enjoy the FFTCG a ton, and I know that I won't be able to play it during my normal Monday on my next week off - while I should be free for the normal night, all of the other players will be returning from the aforementioned Winter Cup that day, and won't likely be willing to come out for locals.
Plus, the person playing the Mono-Ice deck is an even newer player than myself, and I had never met them before tonight as we typically make it to different Local events. Meeting them was an additional benefit to coming out.
As I said at the beginning of this post, unusual circumstances mean I won't be able to do my normal TCG nights for my next week off, so I won't be posting beyond a "week off" reminder, unless Wednesday FFTCG fires again and I come out for that again.
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