I did go out to play Final Fantasy TCG tonight. There were a total of four players, and though there was no formal "event" happening so to speak, we did each play a best-of-3 against each other player present.
In full honesty, though, I didn't take any notes to speak of during the course of these games, and I was sidetracked from beginning this post between a few small, late-night errands I needed to run on my way home and being hungry, so I can't even say that I remember drastically much detail about any of the games played tonight beyond what each of us were playing, and the results of each of my own games.
I played my Scions list, because while I had honestly wanted to play a new, different deck I ordered pieces to build, a few cards still have not arrived in the mail.
Game 1 vs. Sky Pirates - Win
I have actually played against this Sky Pirates deck before. Sort of. Last time that I played against it, this player had also been running a package of Noctis and his Retainers from FFXV in the list, but they've since been removed, which threw me off to some extent when I was expecting to see them.
Regardless.
I won in our first game, lost the second, and then won the third. I believe the major difference was, as it usually winds up being, that I was unable to get an Estinien on the table in Game 2, and my opponent who was using three elements in their list actually saw the Earth-element cards that help to fuel a decent portion of the deck. In games 1 and 3, I had Estinien, and they didn't see enough of their Earth cards to make the deck tick properly.
Game 2 vs. Warriors of Darkness - Win
A wholly new deck archetype to me, I've never seen Warriors of Darkness played before.
And while I didn't get any notes down, the deck looked like an absolute blast. This deck was running the Noctis/Retainer package I had been expecting from the Sky Pirates player, which was the pivot for the deck when I fought through Nacht and the Warriors of Darkness. One of the three games was full of board wipes, with an Earth element Neo Exdeath, a backup Shantotto from the earliest set of the game, and I'm fairly positive at least one other wipe that I'm forgetting off the top of my head as I write this.
I also forget which of the games was the one I lost. I just know that I did take two of the three, with our third game having been a quick scoop due to my opponent not paying the game enough attention and deciding to just call it early.
Game 3 vs. "The Tax Man" Ice - Win
I have no idea what to refer to this list as beyond being a primarily-Ice control list, but with numerous "tax" effects increase costs of most any actions taken against them, or to punish wide board states. The player of the deck was leaning heavily into the tax-heavy nature of it, jokingly referring to themselves as "The IRS" and that they were here to "make sure we'd paid our taxes". The list was evidently built partially to leverage the effects of a Light-element Yuna that's been previewed for the as-of-this-writing upcoming 25th set, "Tears of the Planet", which obviously has not released yet, so the deck was in a technically-unfinished state, with some filler choices made to fill out the space. They had also never had an opportunity to play the deck prior to coming out to tonight's games, per their own words.
But I digress. In short, it was a heavy control list, playing against my heavily aggro Scions. I'm fairly certain I lost game 1 because I wasn't sure what my game plan against the deck needed to be resulting in me getting denied basically any and all resources, but in games 2 and 3, I knew I needed to have more Backups in play to get around the tax and discard effects that otherwise stripped me of my resources. Taking a somewhat slower start so that I could build up a wider board of backups, I was able to play even with my hand stripped bare during each of my opponent's turns.