mystic-visions-columbia-pa-5-5-01
Title: mystic-visions-columbia-pa-5-5-01
Author: Ted "Rogue15" Panczyszyn
Date: May 5, 2001
Mystic Visions Gaming Convention
Pre-Tourney Stuff:
As we last left our hero, he had just gone 4-2
in his own tournament last Sunday, 4/29/01. A
few weeks ago, plans had begun for a dinner and
movie night with the core of the Philly Posse.
12 of us met at Outback Steakhouse at 7PM, ate
The Onion, some meat, then ventured out to see
The Mummy Returns. All in all it was a fun
night and it was great to see Joe Young, Livio
D’Alessio, Dan Bordier, Dave Diehl and his lovely
fiance, and Scott Mr. Ramapo Lingrell himself.
The only tragedy was that Wojciech had an
accident while meeting us and called to tell
us he wouldn’t make it. Man, that guy has some
bad luck!! I get home at about 12:45 and I
decide to make new LS decks for the double header.
I’m up to 3am trying to figure out what to do.
I make a few interesting LS decks and decide to
use Big Pete’s Revenge for both tournaments.
Nathan Brown picks me up at 8:30. We get some
breakfast at the WAWA convenience store and
away we go.
For those of you that know me, I don’t write lengthy
game details. Reid "Voice of Law" Smith and Doug
Faust seem to have photographic memories...I do not.
Here are the basic summaries with a few highlights.
Tourney #1 11:30am, Director: Mike Carr
Decks: Big Pete’s Revenge (DS beatdown M&T)
Bith Rocks, 2001 (insert/asteroid sanct.)
Game 1 v. Shannon Caine’s WYS/Harvest Deck
This was the first tournament where I got to see
the new cards and objectives in full action. I
quickly learned the danger of this combination,
and I managed to out-muscle her on Tatooine with
my onslaught of characters. Of significant note,
4lom and toy disarmed Jedi Luke and I captured
the Lars Couple with IG88. With her Harvest
retrieval engine out of commission, Its something
of a drain race because I did not want to engage
her smugglers in space and she did not want to
meet me on the ground. FW by 19
2(+19)
Game 2 v. Jeremy Kauffman’s ISB Space/Big Blue
My gameplan was to see if it was safe to begin
inserting things again. Jeremy had no insert
protection from the start, so I managed to get
an early pop for 8 force with Doik Nats and
Wedge on a corvette at Clak d’or 7.
Unfortunately, I could not get a Big One or
another Odds into my hand and I lost them to
force drains early on. I took a chance and
put an A-wing at a sector, but he Lat Damaged
it and took Bossk in Bus to beat him up. I
couldn’t even Lost Relay the Bus so he sets
up all these admirals and ISD’s in space and
I have no room to get other cards out. I
basically lose all my good cards off the top
to force drains. It could have been a lot
worse... FL by 24
2(-5)
Game 3 v. Mike Carr’s WYS Mains/Tat Celebration
This was a hard-fought game. I get enough
force generation early, but I don’t have the
characters I need to really bring on an
offensive early in the game. We end up chasing
each other all over Tatooine and between Kashyyyk
and Tat. system, but I could never manage to
cancel his Celebration. It probably won the game
for him. Those added destinies with 2 smugglers
are a tough cookie to swallow. After a pretty
good battle between ZIMH and DIPO vs. Mirax and
Dash in their ships, as well as Premiere Han in
Falcon, I was left with ZIMH only and not enough
power to make a difference. On the ground he hits
me with a few "Artoo, IHAVBFAT" and I can’t make
a dent in his ground forces... damned droid combo!
It basically becomes a big chase-n-drain with the
Celebration making the difference. FL by 12
2(-17)
Well, after some confusion with the software,
(it tried to pair Shannon and Nathan Carr with
the same allegiances they played earlier in the
tournament), I end up playing Shannon again and
we finish the tourney sans software.
Game 4 v. Shannon’s MKOS/Gallid deck
This was interesting. She had never, ever, seen
a Ted insert deck before. She had no protection
whatsoever. I get figgie dan and Tedn Nedal on a
corvette at Clak D’or 7 my second turn and in it
goes. It pops the next turn for 8. I get Jedi
Luke to the 2/1 desert site and pop another in
there... 2 turns later I have 15 to her 3.
Another goes in.... I get an X-wing to the Big
One and it survives every asteroid draw, so I’m
hitting her with a drain of 3, 4 Asteroid Sanct,
and a drain of 2 at the desert. with my Battle
Plan, she has to activate to drain, and I play
Figgie too.... I felt bad, but that’s how that
deck was supposed to work.... FW by 30.
4(+13)
So I finish in 5th out of 10. Jeremy Kauffman
goes 4-0 to win by beating Drew Scott and Nathan
Brown goes 3-1 with a timed win to take 2nd. A
buch of us are 2-2 with some differential and
Nathan Carr brings up the rear at 0-4.
We have about 30 minutes until the next event is
scheduled. Nathan B. and I go to get soda and
ice cream, then Shannon puts on the TD hat.
Tourney 2 4pm Director: Shannon Caine
Decks: DS: Big Pete’s Revenge
LS: Chu’s Vegas Deck (y4 start, m&t)
Game 1 v. Drew Scott’s HD Beatdown.
Probably the tightest game I played all day. I
get trans term/ooc in my opening hand and make
him lose before cancelling it. His next turn he
uses the DS "ounee ta" to get it back (DAMMIT!).
We basically deploy characters everywhere, using
sabers, interrupts...some mindgames, to get the
advantage. I never get any good spaceships, so
he manages to beat Battle Order/Battle Plan
while I try to drain and deploy too. We have a
few knock down drag out fights, but in the end
it becomes a drain race. I can’t recall any
significant tech or moment. It was just an
awesome game. FL by 3.
0(-03)
Game 2 v. Nathan Carr’s WYS M&T
Nathan is playing a similar version of his brother’s
deck, but without the Harvest’s. He is a young
player and seemed really hesitant to be aggressive
in his play. He gets a few character’s down, but
I basically beat him into submission. I somehow
manage to forget a few force drains in order to
give him the opportunity to fight me. We have a
few minor skirmishes, but what was really cool was
he put Captain Han and Lando with gun at the 3rd
marker..he deploys a Jedi LS on Han (No Lie!!),
then he initiates against choke vader and some
bounty hunter. He swings, draws a 0, then a
frikkin Intruder Missle to make big daddy go
bye-bye. Later, he OCC’s my pretty good-sized
lost pile and guess what he places out of play!!
Talk about luck!! First he hits big daddy then
he takes him out of play... I could have ended
this game in about 20 minutes, but I wouldn’t
have traded the look on his face with that wild
swing for nothing!! FW by 8
2(+5)
Game 3 v. Mike Carr’s Agents of the Black Sun
Again, new stuff for me to look at. He was
complaining that this deck wasn’t doing well all
day for him. We take a few turns to get some
docking bays out and get some characters in our
I get Jedi Luke to H1 DB then transit him to Tat
DB. I keep adding characters and weapons as I
get them in my hand. I also have Scramble on
the table, which also prevents him from drawing
destinies... He runs away quite a bit!! I soon
get Home 1 out to my Kessel, which he does not
like. He Lat Damages it, I have over 7 ability,
so when he deploys Zuckuss and some oddball pilot
to Kessel I still get a destiny draw (5) and he
has to lose everything. I get a few more ships
out and I hold Kessel and the Tat DB the whole
game, so I’m not affected by Battle Plan. He
has AT-AT’s at Tat and he tries to trample me a
few times..he gets a few small guys but everyone
else seems to dodge those big feet. I leave
Luke with his flashlight in the Audience Chamber
for most of the game, and when he finally comes
in for me I scurried to the JP site (or vice-
versa if necessary). I basically manage to
out-survive him in raw charater power and I hold
onto my free drains for the rest of the game.
FW by 16
4(+21)
Game 4 v. Drew Scott’s Profit Deck.
Cool.... Rematch!! I figure this is gonna be a
big slugfest, but I underestimate the power of
artoo and threepio and "Artoo I have a..." I
deploy Mara and Dr.E to the Chamber, as usual. I
deploy 1-2 guys down there per turn, so when he
comes with EPP Leia and Luke to free their buddy,
I draw totally a$$ destinies and he always
seemed to draw good ones when he needed them.
Mara is a machine...I manage to lose her and
redeploy her and take out all 3 of his EPP Lukes.
I manage to get rid of General Solo (placed at
start of game), but the EPP just would not go away.
He deployed 2 lando with axe’s and managed to
dispatch 2 of my choke vaders (none of which I
got in my hand until well into the game). The
artoo/threepio card and EPP Obi sat at the 3rd
marker for the last half of the game unmolested
because I couldn’t draw destiny. Drew did play
rather quickly, resolving actions before I had
a chance to think through my actions (5 hours
sleep sucks) and I could have sensed a few of
his interrupts... Shame on me, I suppose...
Anyway, that tech manages to outlast me and I
was hesitant to go to space and play (silly me)
since I had Kashyyyk out early and Endor in hand,
as well as 3 starships from early-on. I
learned a lot this game and Drew has a good
chance of placing in states in a few weeks.
I cant keep up with the Profit force loss and
drains after 3 vaders and 2 maras and a lot
of bounty hunters hit the table. FL by 25.
4(-4)
Again I finish at 5th. Drew won the tournament
going 4-0 and Mark Freer comes in 2nd 3-1. Again
there are many of us 2-2 with close diff. Nathan
Carr again goes 0-4, but he had a great time!!
Mike lets us pick, in order of our ranking, 2
rares out of his binder. I take a TT/OOC combo
and a foil Salatious Crumb.
Props:
-philly posse reunion on friday nite
-The Mummy Returns for being a decent movie
-Nathan Brown for driving
-Mike and Shannon for running excellent events
-James Leiser dropping as the 2nd tourney began
so there wouldn’t be a bye...he’s all class!!
-The cheap, yet tasty, food at the fire hall
where the mini con took place.
-Nathan Carr for having the nerve to put a Jedi
LS on Capt Han...and hitting Vader!!!
-the overall good sportsmanship and relaxed
atmosphere. I will go to Mike’s regular tourney
sometime!!
-Getting one good insert-smackdown game in.
-Shannon Caine working in the same field I do and
swapping stories with me. She has a great sense
of humor too!!
Slops:
-Gas for being so expensive
-Me not planning this out so I could get some
sleep (refer to last game of the day..)
-Me for not scoping all the new tech to figure
out how to beat some of this new Jank...
That’s it for now... Next up: PA States on
5/20/01!!!!
Ted Panczyszyn
Rogue 15