az-states-who-gets-mized-worse-than
Title: az-states-who-gets-mized-worse-than
Author: Michael "Dvader" Girard
Date: Mar 27, 2000
First off, vocabulary lesson for the day - Mize - whenever something happens or someone does something
that in some way screws you over and has little chance of happening. For example, you say I need a
transmission terminated to cancel your visage, you top deck a transmission terminated as the first card you
draw, therefore you just mized all over your opponent.
This is a report on the Arizona State Championship and how things weren't in my favor and how I would like
to see changes to the tournament structure.
Alright, the decks I played were
LS - Speeder Ops off of Ralitiir - pretty much screws over Rops and the opponent must play your game if
he/she has any chance of winning. This is a non-beatdown style of deck.
DS - Girard's patented Vegas Style - This deck starts CCT, so I immediately get a rebel or retreival for the rest
of the game. This deck also sets up the Casino adjacent to the Security Tower with an expand the empire on it
so I can retreive whenever I play sabacc for the safety of the indoors. I stick ephant man, Lando and corporal
Prescott at the tower so I have added retreival during the game (Prescott says instead of force draining, may
pay x to retreive x where x=number of captives :-). I play epp vaders and ig88 w/guns for ground support and
bounty hunter ships for space support. The tower is pretty much secure from invasion. I do damage with
sabacc (trooper and CC), a fear, and interrogation array. TECH card of the deck - Frustration - to keep the
catch cards from catching my sabacc. This deck is tight, I have made all the necessary changes and I feel it is
pretty much invincible.
So I get ready to play. I was going to do some audio broadcasts but the stupid windows program only records
for one minute and it kept locking up on me, so no broadcasts from the AZ State Championships. Gold 18 Will
Schmidt announces a bunch of stuff and answers questions. I find it hard to swallow that there will be no final
confrontation. So since there is no final match, we are going to have a bunch of people clumped together at
5-1 and who ever got the best matchup last round is going to mize the trophy. I think that is pretty stinky,
cause guess what happens. Anyway, I'll save my usual rant until the end of the TR.
Onto the games
Game One vs. Scot Vales LS Holotable/ 16 Anger fear aggression deck.
So, this is probably the most non-interactive game I have ever played. We start out, I get TK422 for some
torturing. I get the casino set up with ETE and start sabaccing. An insert (AFA) is played pretty much every
turn and I lose all my battle cards (IG88, vader, ships). The sabaccs start to hurt him. I am retreiving four force
on my turn and three on his (sabacc, prescott). I keep bousch at bay with scanning crews. So it gets down to
it, he played battle plan so he can't drain at the holotable (only had one force left). This is my chance, I use
broken concentration to put the force back and retreive with prescott. I procede to do that for about 12-15
turns and he finally catches on, he says alright count your lost pile since your going to retreive it anyway.
Woohoo, it worked, talk about a great lock. I retreive while preventing him from drawing up.
FW +39
Lots of dark side won big. I was the fourth ranked darkside player.
Game Two vs. Local Guy DS ISB
Speeder ops is so uneventful. I could tell that this guy was kinda new to the game. He setup at two of my
sites, I setup at the other five and the system. I don't have to pay for drains he does, I win
FW +20something
Sorry, but that is the way it is with speeder ops, drain for two, drain for two, drain for two....
Game Three vs. Jeff McCarrol DS CCT/Manipulator
Thank goodness I played him this morning in playtesting. I helped him make his deck better, but in the
meantime I fortified my deck. I started with Don't Tread on Me and the three effects. I had a shock in my
opening hand but he had a catch card, he still lost four but he got luke. I decided to bait and switch him. So I
put down an operative, 2x speeder (op inside one of them), and beezer. he came down with vader and battled.
I lost some, but not a lot. Now that the big guy was on the board, I would work around him. I setup and
flipped next turn at the far end of the planet with sicsixs for anti-elis protection. I avoided the rest of the game.
He had to lose 15 cards to Senses and alters (including themselves). That put me over the top.
FW +17
So I am the top ranked player at this point. but that is bad, I gotta play my good buddy Josh Martin. We sit
down and talk it out. We were trying to figure it out if a draw (1 +51) would have helped either of us given the
amount of undefeated players that were still in it. We pondered a true tie for about 5-10 minutes and then
came to the conclusion that it wouldn't have helped since there were going to be an even number of
undefeateds and we would have to play again. So we play it out.
Game Four vs. Josh Martin's I built this deck this morning.
Again I feel that I have the advantage cause I helped him build this deck and my dark deck is unstoppable. He
is with Hidden base and I get Jek Porkins for my CCT bait. I sabacc for some turns while he sets up massive
drains in space. I go and contest them and chase around Kal Fal (her and bacta tank = nasty combo to get
around battle order). In the end he has about 6-7 cards left. I ambush kal with vader and end the game. He
would have drained for about 11 next turn and I couldn't risk it for a diff boost.
FW +20something
I am the top ranked player again, this time I have to play one of the better local players Chris Shaner. This guy
is obviously playing ORS/ISB cause he owns like 90 of them. But I get to play dark.
Game Five vs. Chris Shaner's Operatives on Ralitirr
Whoa, it looks like someone thinks like I do. He wasn't playing speeders though, he was playing little aliens
(hmenthe, sicsix, ithorian, epps). I know him off a couple times but he spreads out and lays civil disorder. This
is what won him the game, I couldn't satisfy it every turn so that with the drain of four-six every turn killed me.
I couldn't retreive enough, but this game wasn't lost because my deck failed me, it was my stupidity. He has
three force saved, I play vader to a site with a lone ithorian. I look right at broken con, but don't activate
it...DOH!!!, so he it's a traps the battle and vader is stranded for the rest of the game. he plays around and
wins.
FL -12
So Shaner and I are still top ranked. then it is Jeff McCarrol, Josh martin (they play each other), DJ andrews
and patrick Hug.
Game Six vs. Chris Shaner's ORS/ISB.
Surprise, Surprise. A second turn grimtaash nets me both of his SE Jabba's and two ghhks (what I wouldn't
give to be playing brenston's beats at this point). He still plays scum and villainy, plays some scouts, battles
and retreives jabba and a ghhk. I battle some scouts, he retreives and battles some more. This game was
pretty monotonous for having so much interraction. I ambush the AC and take everyone out and cancel Scum
and villainy. I knock him off my planet and win the game. FW +8
So obviously that wasn't enough. DJ whupped up on Patrick and that put him into first. Josh won against Jeff
and that put him into 2nd. This is where there should have been a final confrontation. DJ got really lucky with
some card plays and won by 30 to put him ahead, does this make him State Champ, I don't think so, I think he
deserves the right to the bye into the 2nd day, but I don't think he deserves the State Championship crown.
Obviously, he disagrees, as do the TD and some of his friends. I think it is bogus and Josh deserved a chance
at a finals. It is pretty sucky if you ask me.
So I went and played Hold 'em from 10pm Saturday till 3pm sunday and mized about 90 bones off of some
magic players, so I am not as butthurt as I was on saturday.
Michael 'Rivering Bastard' Girard
FLGold 120