vegas-dpc-4-28-01
Title: vegas-dpc-4-28-01
Author: CALEB "_WRAITH_" SMITH
Date: May 5, 2001
Well it all starts on thursday night. After a week full of parties and some otherstuff I
finallly get some time to build some decks for the dpc. For dark I decide to stick with my
BHBM since it has won me the last three tourneys I played in down here in San Diego. It
has got higher destiny than any other deck out there(I mean it). And For light I go with a
Profit with Boshuda, Order to engage , Baragwins, intrudermissles, and on the edge. I am
quite suprised I have never seen any thing like the light i am playing ever before, It is slow
but it just wont die. To many people will be to prep’d for WYS, and HB mains cant
compete as well as it use to. I end up staying up til one cuz I felt like bleaching my hair to
give it that orange tint. Me and Geoff finally leave for Vegas after school on friday. Vegas
is a six hour drive from here, get there, get a hotel, go to sleep and leave for the tourny the
next morning. The tourny is a @#$% to find. It is in some round building, on a college
campus, with Mac in its name. It wasnt my job to get the directions or else i woulda...
We find it after about 25 minutes of looking round on the campus. We show up and fill
out the decklists and pay the entry fee. The four better players (in my Opinion) from San
Diego make it so we are well represented.
I am rated 1824 with 31 games going into the DPC. Skill, but not much expierience.
Game one
My LS vs Chris Hines’s Agents of the Black Sun
Chris is a nice guy and rated 1950 or so from what he said. I start only Uh Oh and
insurrection since he starts Sac Protection. He starts fett and snoova to the chamber. He
pulls generic docking docking bay and moves xizor over to it for the flip... I completely
forgot blacksun could flip first turn and didnt start oonee taaa Dammit. He then proceeds
to move Snoova and fett to JP. Well things arent looking good. I am flippin through my
hand I have epp luke, epp obbi, epp leia, boshuda, no wait thats oonee taa(to god damn
many pictures of Jabba’s face on cards nowdays). Hell yeah. So I drop the whole crew on
xizor. He draws 2 for destiny, I draw an Intruder missile and add one with HFTMF. He
loses xizor and fourteen. He played a much better game after that than I would have
expected him to. Later He captured luke once with jodo cast but obbi got him back after
removing jodo’s head easily. He attacks with Xizor and guri, luke narrow escapes, Ig-88
attacks, luke dodges, Bobba fett shows up and luke On the edges and leaps off the Cloud
landing platform yelling "you’ll never take me alive." Miracuously he shows up a minute
later back at Jabbas palace. Harcseff and baragwins save me from all his drains of 1.
FW By 31
2(31)
Highs: Luke doin what it takes.
Lows: Beat Downs are cheap.
Well after this game Geoff tells me that he forgot prep’d defenses in his ISB and he cant
put it in now. Oh darn. Later he still wins three games with it, starting only arrest order.
Game 2
My DS vs Brandon Chang’s Real HB
This is the one game I get to play at the first table. Well I start first strike instead of op
enforce cuz flip HB usually plays cheap stuff. I start with vader, janus, sim and 2 zuckuss
in my starting hand. Zuckuss wins me a battle 2nd turn against wedge, then cannons get
him. I drop vader. He drops theron to endor with wedge and luke to vaders. I drop 3
dreads and Xizor to wedges site I attack he power pivots, outa nowheres, cancels my five
and all I have is eleven power. He draws twelve for attrition. I forget that I can trash the
dread that Xizor is on without counting Xizors forfeit.... I leave one dread, I have no force
saved, Beatdown for 25 next turn. basically game over.
FL -22
2(+9)
Highs: At least vader kicked lukes @#$% in the throne room...
Lows: I could Have prevented the beat down 3 ways:
Not using sims Game text and moving the dread away with the one more force i would
have had.
Shuttling Sim and Janus abourd for free to reduce the battle damage.
I played like a scrub.
This is the first game I’ve lost in 3 months..
The Ugly: He told me he was rated 1500.
Game 3
LS vs. Jared Aurther’s Set your course Ties
I thought I would win this game and well I got corran horn in my starting hand and I
forgot the whole game that he could break a spies cover or else he would have take about
15 more in drains cuz he got U-3PO out 3rd turn and he started mara in the chamber. I
drew to much looking for on the edges and got monnoked twice for 4 cards each time and
only got on the edge once. He set for stunned Han twice And it was not going good. I
finally realize I am gonna lose right at the end.
FL(by 4)
2(+5)
Highs: Sitting next to Brian Hunter, hey everyone loses, cept I lost again.
Lows: Playin like a scrub again..
Well I knew that the odds are 2 or 3 people in the top four will go 6 and 2 so I still had a
pretty good chance if I won the next 5 games.
Game 4
My DS vs John Patchel’s TIGIH
Well prior to today This was the last person I had lost to... He was playing TIGIH w/
oonee taa vs My Rops... Anywayz I decide to not nab luke right away with the emperor
cuz I am usually really unlucky when tryin to get vader into my hand... So luke moves to
the DB and Xizor and 4 lom come down to attack I draw four, he draws a five, Everyone
dies and it is a tie.. He drops Jedi luke to the JP AC with a palace raider and yoxgit (why
do you play the audiece chamber? Choke vader goes to the endor DB and he cant activate
or drain at lukes location... He forgot about that. Then Obi kills Vader and some how
wins the battle. Vader with saber than hits the chamber w/ his good frieds Dre and Ponda,
and he loses alot of force. Rise my friend gets vader back to the DS throne room and IG
goes down to support Ponda. He wins 2 battles on tatooine cuz he sensed everything I
played But xizor at the back door and duels won me the game... He had 4 cards stacked
cuz I lost a duel and he was tracking to win another but I tracked my Visage of the
eperoror and masta move so i never lost. Still over all I played horribly.
FW +8
4(+13)
Highs: High destiny kills
Lows: Who plays senses now days any ways?
Jim, the highest ranked player in SD, just droped after losing 3 games.
Game 5
My DS vs Michael Memloza’s EBO(not sure i got the last name right)
BHBM got its act together in this game. I start first strike instead of OP enforce. I get
vader to endor db he gets commie luke to the 4th marker. Eventually w/janus constantly
going and 25 cards in my force pile he decides it is no longer safe for luke at the fourth
marker and moves him under the shiel and loses to your destiny... Luke and bout 30 force
would have been lost if he would not have moved luke, cuz he was right I had the hole
crew in my hand. He sets up EBO and gets an x-wing to kiffex. 3 dreads come down on
it, he barriers 2 of them, mara hits the last dread and I draw a 6 and 7 for destiny, he loses
a bunch, including a houjix from his hand but he used all his force on the barriers. He gets
luke to vader finally and moves a snowspeeder w/ hobbie and zev to the fourth marker.
Xizor, Dre, Blizzard 2, and tempest 3 get rid of the speeder but his forfeit covers it.
Everyone then moves over to the DB where there is an X-wing trapped because he lost
the hoth system to your destiny. Game over next turn.
FW+34
6(+47)
Game 6
My LS vs Brett Kitani’s Hunt down
He droped vader to the 2/2 cc location and drained their for the rest of the game. Ben Hit
Jabbas palace 2nd turn then 4 lom, janus and sim came down to fight. Ben killed janus and
died... Then Obi w/ saber, leia w/gun, Harc,and chewie protector came down and he lost
every thing + 15 or so damage. Next turn he saves ten, I free han and beggar his ten away
for secret plans... Thats so cool. maken them pay for your retrieval... I drain, he drains, I drain for more, he
loses.
FW+22
8(+69)
Highs: The Beatdowns keep commin. all of the games i played in this tourny except one
had a beatdown. And my profit doesnt even activate more than 9 force each turn...
Lows:I Never fallen portal this whole tourny and i only pull off 1 on the edge.
Game7
This is where It is all at.
My LS vs Clayton Atkin’s "Atkin’s Skrillings"
No secret plans this game. First three turn no characters hit the table. He monnoks me
twice for some cards then I retrieve every thing he monnoked me for when i free han with
a baragwin. He drops Pote and 2 skrillings to the chamber and inserts. I play lando W/ax
to JP and order to engage . He attacks lando with vader and 4 skrillings lando dodges.
He saw the dodge in my hand when he monnoked me twice and he still attacks??? He
retrieves this battle and the rest of the game with scum while he has an imperial on the
table and i forgot all about that no imperial stuff and i never could remember to cancel
scum when I had the chance.... vader drops his odds quiete a bit. He gets pote and friends
out of the chamber. I drain on cloud city with eppl luke and leia... while odds come up on
me 4, count it 4 times, for 5 or 6 each. he sets up battle order with bosk. Finally he
attacks leia with 3 scrilling + dre, retrieves with scum. I outa somewhere for obi, run luke
run, clash dre and the skrillings bite the dust + alot more. I drew the RLR and the outa
somewhere in my starting hand, he saw them twice with monnoke and he still attacked.
My turn I sit and wait and dre attacks leia and obi and luke and stunning leaders them
retrieves with scum then runs away i finally use the 4 to cancel scum. I then drain for
some and spread back to the chamber with luke. He drops cantina and moves all the
skrillings round so vader and dre are in the cantina and 2 sckillings are at the db 94 and
pote at 3 where at JP. I Drain for my 3 and make him lose 2 from profit. He drains for
some and reduces my deck to 6, time is called. I drain for 3 and 2 profit he is down to 5. I
time win. 6-5
TW+6
9(+75)
Highs: I dont feel that bad, I messed up, i deserve a timed win.
Lows: Messing up. He retrieved 6 with scum while an imperial was on the table and never
drew a destiny for anything the whole game the whole game. Last 6 cards 2 where on the
edge and 1 was an intruder missile, i never got em...
If I wasnt panicking cuz i wanted a full win, at the end when they called 2 minute I
probably coulda realized that if I move lando over to JP and Leia and obi to DB 94 he
woulda lost on my next turn....
I scrub out again... A timed win wont get me any where.
The Ugly: Clayton got like 2 timed wins and a timed loss, dude that sucks.
Well last game is a missmatch I believe, I was playing at the second table and I won, And
now I am at the third table... what happened? I am 9 and + 75 and I am playin against
some one 8 and +30... What is this? There are 3 people closer in score to me on the
opposite side of the force..
My LS vs Danny Rider
Fake EBO kinda. He start insurection, strike planing, staging areas and 1st and 4th
marker. Apparently he has done ok with it though. He pulls all the D bays and gives me
luke vader and luke start to duel while no escape and mara and friends tear up twass and
melas at the generic D bay. Then he double agents mara with blount on his turn. Then
my other mara jade comes down with xizor and Nevar yalnals blount and attacks Premiere
obi and cracken... people die and so on. First strike Is geting me tons of froce back while
Janus is getting me the cards I need and setting up destiny. I win every duel cept 1.
Game ends considerably fast. Mains cant handle BHBM.
Fw(+23)
11(+98)
Somewhere they subtracted ten from my score and I signed it so i guess my real ranking is
11(+88).
Well It’s over now. I get called up after 9 people and get my Holo Decree foil.. So I
guess I made tenth. Not to bad, I’ll do better next time. When I get back home and log
on to the net and see the rankings I realize how close I really was to making it to the top
four.. As brian hunter only made it to 12(+95). Every one else from San Diego dropped
after losing a few games I believe, except for geoff who went 4 and 4.