titans-boca-raton-florida-1-23-00
Title: titans-boca-raton-florida-1-23-00
Author: Mike "Iceman" Fitzgerald
Date: Jan 23, 2000
I had this little pre-tournament party where I had Neal Razi
, David Akers , Chris Schutz , Daniel Blackford , and Lee
Edwards over to play cards and mess around. I was messing
around and testing stuff but gave my buddy the deck I was
using in playtesting. I go to sleep at like 5:30 AM and get
up at 10 AM. I'm addicted to NFL2K so I just threw together
the decks I actually used at the tournament pretty quickly.
With only 4 hours of sleep I was actually pretty charged up
and ready. Quite a few funny scenarios like Harc Seff's
Armor saving his hide ;)
Deck intro :
LS - Throne Room thing normal stuff , nothing really
special .Lightside decks don't deserve a name ;)
DS - 'Bittersweet Symphony' - Musicians with ECC and EJP
hate. I think I might've missed 1-3 cards that I sketched
for the deck but I couldn't tell. Used new EJP Objective
Sidenote : Lee leaves his decks at my house , my dad finds
it and drives it to the tournament , we go back and look for
it at the house and hear my dad went to tournament , then we
go back to tournament. So basically we force the tournament
to start 10-15 mins late.
Game 1 : 'Bittersweet Symphony' v. Eric Carbone's MWYHL
Court of the Vile Gangster nails him for damage. He starts
MWYHL and Goo Nee Tay. I dump out like Lyn Me , Rystall ,
and Boelo or something to retrieve my damage. He says
something like ' oh no , not musicians' hehe ; this might
be the only area in the World where you'll hear that phrase.
He passes test one and two very quickly. He's giving me a
lot of force , I'm generating like 14 force a turn.
Basically I get Ak-Rev out and cycle through my deck for the
musicians I want. He takes lots of damage from CotVG and the
n deploys Captain Han Solo to the Casino. He plays CC Sabaac
. He busts and I win the Sabaac. He leaves Captain Han there
. I've got a pretty solid group of characters in the Audience
Chamber. He draws up his active force you probably see the
picture here Elis , I drop Fett for free, Jodo Kast , 3-4
Musicians including Rappertunnie. Hit Han with Fett so his
forfeit is 0 , spit and hit him with Rappertunnie so his
power is 0 : Sidenote - Lyn Me would've made his Total Power
0 anyway. So its Scum 21 and Han 0 - absolute 0. 21 Card
units of Damage later he's pretty much dead. I have no lost
pile. Win by 29. Record : 2 ( +29 )
Highlights : The huge battle.
Lowlights : Smacking a newbie in his first game at least he
recognized the decktype.
Game 2 : LS vs. Andrew Ledwith's Imperial Scrub deck w/ interesting twists.
I get a huge jump on generation. He starts Death Star with
Imperial Arrest Order. He throws out Kiffex and I throw
down tough Falcon and spit out Order to Engage. He starts
saving up. I'm paying 3 to drain him at Kiffex for 2 but it
is worth it and slowly taking its toll. I Tunnel Vision on
consecutive turns for 2/0 locations to start working the
advantage. Murtoc Yine drops to my Farm w/ Jabba the Hutt
and Normal Vader but he doesn't kill my Nudj. He Lateral
Damages my Falcon but Captain Han doesn't fear Damage he
laughs in the face of Lateral Damage. I Barrier him here
and there and Order to Engage and my Multiple destinies
( EPP Leia on Spiral , and bunch of other pilots there too )
slowly take their toll. He deploys the CC:DTPlaza and I
throw Obi-Wan Kenobi there to finally get past paying
Battle Plan even though it isn't that bad. He throws Mara
down there and battles I draw a 3 and Mara draws a 0. I get
ready to unload on Mara. I deploy Luke , Wedge , Beezer ,
Yoxgit . I swing but I miss her and I only draw a 1 , but he
draws a 0 so he has to lose Mara and 7 or 13 so Mara and 7
go down. I now have Battle Plan/Order Fulfilled so I'm pretty
much home free. He pays to drain at the Farm to hit off
some damage. Win by 26 I think. Record : 4 ( +55 )
Highlights : Winning .cracking jokes about Han not caring
about Lateral Damage.
Lowlights : Beating one of my buddies pretty bad.
Game 3 : 'Bittersweet Symphony' v. Brian Fein's Hidden Base Scrub guys.
He starts HB and Insurrection. I deploy Mara Jade
with Lightsaber to Audience Chamber and he takes Court of
the Vile Gangster Damage for the whole game long. I
reinforced it with somewhat of a Musician theme to retrieve
with Rystall. I get out Scum and Villiany and he flips so I
go to probe. I've got the probing machine Jabba's Cruiser
+ Jabba + Security Precautions + Outer Rim Scout. I throw my
fantastic fleet at him and probe it out in like 2 turns. I
make a huge mistake when probing though and Mist Hunter is
on the end of a beatdown that takes it an 18 force down. I
manage to retrieve a bunch with Scum and Villiany and
Musicians to do damage but Scrub Pilots add to drains here
and there. If I get First Strike I win this game . Also which
I didn't think of earlier is that I don't remember seeing
Battle Order all game long probably one of the cards I forgot
to put in or something. Search and Destroy needs to go in
this deck too Loss by 6. Record : 4 ( +49 )
Highlights : not much
Lowlights : no ground interaction at all I will revise this
deck to force interaction or else.
Game 4 : My LS v. Daniel Blackford's Ominous Rumors deck
Well first turn I get 8 force. I deploy a 2/0 , drop
EPP Luke at his DB , and do a nudj thing. I hit him for
early damage with the docking bay drain. I get huge amounts
of generation and pretty much do things at will. He throws
Evax across from Luke and gets Rumors out and moves Evax to
Bunker with Perimeter Patrol. Bothan Spy , Tawss , and
Beezer come in and knock Evax out of there. He gets out
Kessel and I put Red Leader in Red 1 out there. Order to
Engage is out and he comes back with a Dreadnaught and
Arnet piloting it. I 'React' with Spiral and get rid of
Arnet. I deploy a Landing Claw on RliR1 and pretty much
stick him on the hip. Right now I've totally infiltrated
Endor Tawss , Beezer ,and Spy in Bunker ; EPP Luke , Harc
Seff , Yoxgit , and Jereon Webb at Docking Bay and Clawed
ship on Dreadnaught. He deploys the Bus to Endor and next
turn I 'detach' from the Dreadnaught and drop Loaded Falcon
against the Dreadnaught. I get Draw Their Fire and battle
I kill the Dreadnaught for it and a handful after that. I
slide over and sit in front of the Bus w/ Loaded Falcon and
company. He drops Igar and a pilot in a Blizzard Walker and
battles against Luke. I've got a lot of forfeit down there
and Smoke Screen to kick out the DS pilot. The Bus lands
after loosing 3 for O2Engage and goes with Igar in Walker.
I Rumble at the docking bay for a few turns in a row with
FS / DTF damage and characters dropping all over the place.
Eventually I knock off Igar and it's down to Vader. I have
Yoxgit and EPP Luke across from Vader. I TC a few cards back
and then use 3 to get a green card w/ Yoxgit. I grab Obi's
Saber. Drop Obi-Wan Kenobi and Stick with Luke and Yoxgit. I
hit Vader with a Weapon destiny of 11 , Glancing Blow , and
him drawing a 1 total destiny means he's down a Vader and like
15 force. Win by 28. Record : 6 ( +77 )? Somewhere in there
or so.
Highlights : Nothing.
Lowlights : Slamming another apprentice , he didn't have
much of a chance.
Wrap up : I had a load of fun at this tournament and weekend
just messing around with cards and stuff. David Akers won the
tournament going 4-0 with a nice differential. I came in 4th
with my record. I watch as Lee Edwards goes on an urge and
buys a box of Reflections he got some really really good
pulls though so it didn't seem like a wasted venture. There
was excellent prize support - Reflections and a bit of EJP
and ECC. I get the Fett ECC pack and a Chewbacca Foil. My
friend Chris pulls an Artoo Foil , David pulled a Spiral foil ,
and Neal pulled a Guest Quarters ( why ? ) foil. All in all
a really fun time. I thought my lightside wouldn't do as
good as it did but it did okay. The Musician deck is looking
very strong switch about 3-5 cards here and there and it is
set.
Mike Fitzgerald