Following yesterday's LCQ, today's Locals were just a quiet, chill affair. A total of four players showed up tonight, including the newer player whose first Locals was last week.
All we wound up doing tonight were grinding out a bunch of friendlies together. In total, I played a good number of games, all but one of which were with one other person who was playing Category MBM, and then a final game with the newbie player.
For three of my games with the first player, I used my Fire/Ice Priming list. And those games were...
Weird. Among other things, my lack of practice with the deck really hit me a lot. I was unsure about what my deck's play lines should've been, my draws weren't presenting anything obvious, and MBM's ability to throw tons of bodies in play before using Penelo for a lot of removal was incredibly strong against a deck like Priming that usually only has one or two Forwards in play.
Their copies of Gurdy also did a surprising amount of work as removal pieces as well.
It was definitely rough going for me. Which is why I put the Priming list aside and pulled out my The Twelve instead. And those games went...
Also weird. I had a rough time getting Llymlaen in play for almost all of them except our last. One game I wound up not getting Llymlaen until about turn 3 or 4, when I had to drop LB Noctis to get a WoL4 back, using that to cover the Wind element to play the Llymlaen that I had finally drawn. This left me with almost no cards in hand and a relatively low number of backups.
Our final game wound up being an incredible, though. Neither of us were able to really build a position to "control" the game, and with the amount of card draw they were burning through using their Vaans, I wound up winning through deck out of all things. They were sitting on 5 damage for the last few turns of the game, and they were able to keep a defensive position in place that kept me from being able to get the last damage I needed in, but neither could they safely hit me back.
That was when two of tonight's players had to bounce, leaving just myself and the newbie. They had earlier in the night said that they were interested in building a Priming list - they had seen the more Ice-heavy variants that only splash Clive thanks to Torgal letting them ignore element restrictions, rather than something more like my Fire/Ice build - and so I offered to let them take my Priming list for a spin while I played The Twelve against them.
It wound up being a 7-0 game, in part because of their unfamiliarity with the deck, the fact that the deck was giving them some weird draws as well, and my The Twelve deciding to play absolutely buttery smooth for one game. That said, it still let them get a small glimpse at a Priming list, and I was able to run them through my The Twelve list after, showing them everything in the list since they had shown a fair bit of interest in that as well when I told them what I was playing at the start of the game.
All in all, it was a really pleasant night of FFTCG, a nice, chill wind-down after the LCQ, and I'm glad I went out.
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