I took some PTO from work this week because, frankly, I needed a slightly longer break than usual.
I also happen to have a few errands I'll be using these extra days off to run... But that aside, I used the day off to head out to FFTCG tonight. I haven't played my Scions in a long while, and I wanted to get some games in with them tonight.
It went... A bit worse than I had hoped, to be honest.
With only four players tonight, we had a quick, 3-round Round Robin event.
Round 1 vs Ice/Lightning Control - Loss
I hate Seymour.
I hate Seymour so much.
But I digress. I had some fairly early plays, punched a few points of damage in, then the Maester hit the field and kept a significant part of my board locked down while beginning the process of stripping away my hand. I dumped all of the cards I had into an Odin to remove him from the field, and was able to start building back up to take another point of damage, but got held back by a second Seymour and a copy of the new Kadaj from Dreamlike Oceans. With my hand still mostly emptied from when I popped the first Seymour, Kadaj made certain that my hand remained fully emptied for by and large the rest of the game.
With no resources available, and my board mostly locked down, it was an inevitable defeat, held at bay mostly by my opponent's concerns about hitting an Odin EX Burst.
Turns out I only have four Odins in my list right now, though. Who knew? I certainly didn't remember that fact.
Round 2 vs Three-Color Scions - Loss
Not quite a mirror match as my list is only a Water/Lightning Scions, lacking the addition of Earth that my opponent has added to theirs (well, give or take my one copy of Wuk Lamat), but...
Well, close enough, right?
Anyways. Long and short of it, I made some significant misplays and my opponent was able to better leverage their removal. My draws weren't great, which didn't help me, but I'm not going to lay the blame for my loss on that alone.
Round 3 vs Wind/Lightning Crystals - Win
This was an absolutely buck wild list, mixing and matching Crystals with Class Zero Cadets and building a weirdly cohesive whole.
My only win for the night, and frankly that was mostly because my opponent saw exactly one backup over the first four or five turns, and that was one that was sent to damage when I hit them. My first few turns were also weird, slow, and frankly kind of bad, but at least I had resources to play the game with, which ultimately is why I was able to come out ahead and take this game, even after they played the 8-drop Wind Bartz and managed to secure two Backups out of the deal.
Conclusion
I am deeply rusty with my Scions. Misplays, poor draws, generally forgetting what a few of my cards do to the point that I had to double- and triple-check more than a handful.
I eventually managed to take a game against the otherwise-undefeated Wind/Lightning player, but even that wasn't strictly because I played well and finally remembered how to make the list work, my opponent just had worse draws that left them struggling to accrue resources.
If I'm still harboring notions of using Scions as my deck of choice once the competitive season does finally get back into swing, I am going to need a lot of practice to get back up to speed with it, and may even need to make some significant changes to it to make it work better.
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