Well this was an interesting day. A little bit of cool mixed in with a bit of derp and dickbutt while there were moments of salt to be had.
...so like any other weekend. BA-DUM-PISH!
Actually my sodium levels were relatively low with only a couple instances where I got flat out annoyed, though given the circumstances its understandable. In regards to locals itself we had about 6 people present, so there was an actual tourney to be had! Yay! Everyone also had a Legion deck! Yay! I also bought some boxes of BT17 and did well, so I can't complain about any lack of a good haul. The Great and Dragnewt in th same box is pretty legit. As for the tournament it was a best of three so I decided to play Bluish Flame Liberators which is arguably my best deck;
Round 1 - Liberators vs Kagero (2-0)
Megamonkey had managed to scrounge up a decent The Great/Pain Laser Dragon/Dragnewt and wouldn't you know it we were paired up R1. I don't remember the details of these games a great deal other than in one game I flip a crit after using Prominence Glare's skill and win the game there while the other he had a piss poor hand and I didn't give him a chance to get back into the game.
Round 2 - Liberators vs Regalia (2-0)
I lent Derrick my Yggdrasil/Minerva so I know exactly what I'm up against and in both games rush him before he's able to properly set up, stockpile 0s for when Yggdrasil hit the board and finished off with Glare's skill.
Round 3 - Liberators vs Deletors (2-1)
These games more or less came down to me being able to ride after I got Deleted or not. If I could, then I was fine. If not then the amount of advantage lost was too great. Game 1 and Game 3 came down to me being able to pull off Glare's skill and him not being able to heal out of it (this happened in G2 and I lost because of it).
Final Round - Liberators vs Witches (2-1)
It's my first time playing against Rati.dek and I already hate it with a burning passion. The swapping my RGs with Triggers wouldn't be too bad if I had Prominence Glare in play as I could sack those off to get new RGs, but I never saw the bloody thing in Game 1 and 2. I rush and win Game 1, lose Grade 2 because I couldn't get to Glare and in Game 3 I'm Gradelocked for 7 plus turns. While this does keep him from Legioning and therefore my VG never goes to -7k power, it's still ass in terms of how much advantage I'm losing which starts to get me annoyed to the point I tell Woodhouse to shut up, as his voice can literally piss me off. I hang on and keep in the fight to the point that I'm at 5 damage, have only 2 cards in play and one card in hand, a Regulation Aglovale. The game literally came down to what I was going to draw and in my moment of true peril...I rip a Prominence Glare off the top! RIDE LE VANGUARD!
Oh man I was hyped. I NEEDED to draw Glare at that moment and he came for me in the clutch! I Legion, putting back my heals, a crit and an Aglovale from my Drop Zone as I had none in the deck as Legion Mates and decide that I have to yolo and attempt to get off Explosion Blue which given the circumstances were very, very slim;
-1 Regulation Aglovale was damage checked and 1 was in Drop Zone. Factor the 1 in my hand that meant no copies could be called from the deck to fish for a G3 to discard.
-2 Josephus were in the drop zone and one was in play, meaning the chance of hitting one off of Glare's call skill and drawing a Grade 3 to discard was extremely low.
I call Aglovale and have Glare kill off my on field Josephus to look at the top 4 for a call and I see a Ketchgal Liberator, who I immediately call. Ketchgal goes off and one of those 3 cards happens to be the last Josephus in the deck, who I call. Everyone is watching as my opponent cuts the deck and I put my hand on the deck as this draw would literally determine the outcome of the fight. I pick up the card, flip it around for him to see and scream "EXPLOSION BLUE!!!" for I had drawn a Grade 3 off the top. Glare's skill goes off, giving him a +1 Crit and the Glory Malestrom effect and I attack to my opponent's triggerless hand, flipping a Crit in the process for massive overkill.
Gentlemen, that was some straight up, anime level bullshit right there. Gaillard and Aichi would have been proud if they existed.
The tournament ended after that and I got first place, won a Blaster Joker Mat while also picking up said guy as after today I'm swapping my Liberators with Megamonkey's Star Vaders. This was not before we had a rematch after Locals where we had a grindy G1 that I won with Glare, a Game 2 where I couldn't close out the game and a final game where Monkey was gradelocked.
Props
-Got to play with Libs in a tourney and won
-Finished Musketeers, just have to wait on Ebay orders
-I'm about 5 cards short of having Joker/Dancer done
-I won despite being Gradelocked and got justice in GLORIOUS ANIMU FASHION. Ironically enough it was against an otaku.
Slops
-Gradestuck fucking sucks
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