After a week where other obligations got in the way of even considering TCG nights, I made it to the shop tonight for Final Fantasy. There were only a total of four of us who showed up tonight, a woefully tiny turnout. Unfortunately, I will have to return to work later this week, so I'll be missing out on next week's Locals, which will likely have much higher attendance while people try to get their last-minute practice in before the Materia Cup on the 27th and 28th.
But I digress! That's next week, tonight was, uh, tonight. I wanted to play my Scions, so I pulled them out and shuffled them up for a quick round robin event.
Round 1 vs Mono-Water Monsters - Loss
A rough game to start with. Funnily enough, we had played a friendly before our other players had arrived, and while I won that one due to having a much smoother start (and, notably, my copy of Kalmia to keep Witch of the Fens from being able to obliterate my Forwards), this one, I didn't have quite that same luck.
For our "real" game, we both had fairly smooth starts, building out our backup lines fairly well, but unfortunately, I never found Kalmia.
Not that Witch of the Fens was necessary to remove that many Forwards. Various bounces and tucks cleared away my board, and the absolute suite of Monster-Forwards that they had available gave them an incredible amount of pressure that they used to end the game in the course of a few turns once they had the board under control.
Round 2 vs Fire/Water 2025 Starter Deck - Win
The same newbie player that's been showing up for the past few weeks, now rocking some nice Bahamut sleeves and one of Ultra Pro's Final Fantasy playmats (featuring one of my favorite pieces of art from the finale/end credits of Endwalker).
Much like the past couple of weeks, I was explaining my deck to them as the game went on, explaining each piece of my deck as I used it against them.
Round 3 vs Wind/Water Gullwings - Win
This was probably the most fun game I played today strictly because I've never played against Gullwings before. It was a blast to see a brand new-to-me deck.
Part of that fun was trying to figure out what I had to do to get around their board, because I've never seen what Gullwings does. So when one of my first game actions involved discarding my Kalmia to pay for a backup, I didn't realize I was making things difficult for myself later on after they dropped Yuna from Dreamlike Oceans into play, and started using her effect to shrink and remove my Forwards.
Still, thanks in part to Scions having excellent recursion, and per my opponent my ability to keep my hand full so that I wasn't playing catch-up on resources, I was able to take the victory over them.
Conclusion
Despite only having a few players show, this was a fun night of cards. And also the last I'm going to get for a little bit - I have to go back to work on Thursday, and next week after my work week is over, I'll be attending Too Many Games, so I'll be missing out on even considering Commander Night, definitely missing out on Gundam TCG, and then between that same weekend being the Materia Cup and since I'll be returning from TMG on that Monday, I might miss out on FFTCG (a combination of people probably not wanting to play after the MC, and me possibly not getting back home from TMG in time).
Who knows? We'll see.
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