It was a little unplanned that I decided to head out to the other card shop for FFTCG tonight, but I decided that I wanted to get a little bit of practice with my Golbez deck, so out I went.
A total of four of us showed up for tonight's locals and while we didn't set up any sort of formal "tournament" structure, we did wind up with Best of 3 games going on. I also only got games in with two of the three other players.
Games vs Ice-Lightning Crystals
This wound up being two control decks playing against one another, and as a consequence it was a pretty long set.
The first game was especially long and drawn out, and I didn't see a Yuna until the very end of the game. When she did finally show up, I was able to shut down my opponent's entire board and swing in to take my opponent from 0 to 7 in one turn.
Our second game, I was handily shut down by an early Gentiana from my opponent, shutting down all of my dull Forwards' abilities. Combined with Al-Cid keeping Yuna frozen almost all game, and their ability to dull Golbez during my Main Phase before I could get the combat auto-ability, I was effectively locked out of my entire game plan. Not helping matters was my attempt to take Gentiana using Golbez, eating almost my entire board only to immediately lose the Gentiana to their Emperor breaking her.
The third and final game, I was slowed down by a Cid Randell disabling my Vikings' auto-abilities, meaning I was slowed down from a critical mass of Forwards since I couldn't constantly refill my hand with each Viking entering the field. I did, however, manage to snowball my way to victory regardless, as I was able to get Yuna and Golbez both in play, along with enough protection to keep my opponent from locking me down the way they had in Game 2. Yuna kept their board under control until I reached the necessary mass of Forwards for my winning turn.
Games vs Mono-Earth
Only two games to this set, because I lost both of them.
Each game, I built a decent board position up on my first handful of turns, but was met with a board wipe that I couldn't sufficiently tax away which left me down on resources without much recourse while my opponent was able to stockpile much more ample resources, comparatively speaking. Likewise, I couldn't find sufficient protection to keep Yuna safe from a couple of instances of targeted removal, though even if I had I doubt it would've had drastically much influence on the games.
That said, I did finally see my Kalmia during Game 2, and she accomplished the exact role she was added to the deck to accomplish: She kept my board safe from the board wipes of a Shinryu on my opponent's side, preventing me from scooping in the face of a mass power-reduction effect. I still lost, obviously, but getting to see Kalmia actually do what she was added to the deck to do was at least a small victory of sorts for me.
No comments:
Post a Comment