No point in talking about the Vanguard portion as I had one of those days where more things went badly than good (notable examples being a game where all 5 of my damage were non Jewel Knights and in two matches where I don't check a single trigger via damage or twin/triple drive for five turns) and I've subsequently given Thing Saver the boot with Sanctuary Guard being next.
Now what about the Yu-Gi-Oh! part? Eh I decided to switch to Ritual Beasts because I again wanted to try something different. And it went like...
Round 1 - vs Shaddolls (1-2)
Game 1 I win despite being hit by several sack cards, Game 2 I lost because he blew me out with Exciton Knight and Game 3 started in time and he said he was going first but changed his mind at the very end when I had sided appropriately. Incidentally I realized I had kept Upstarts in not realizing we had gone into time and wouldn't you know I open with 2 of them and well, trying to out LP dolls in time is pretty much impossible.
Round 2 - vs Masked Heroes (2-0)
He opens with Monk into Shadow Mist and immediately drops Darklaw on my Standby Phase...to which I'm TOTALLY FINE WITH as I had Gold Sarc, Wen and a card a Ritual Beast Card in hand, so I banished then summoned Pettlephin and bounced the Darklaw, proceeded to combo and win the game. Game 2 he drops another Darklaw T1 but I out it with Dark Hole while opening Elder + Cannahawk so I win the game decisively.
Round 3 - vs Iron Chains (2-0)
This deck once topped here. And then Ryan and I actually participated in Locals and it never topped again. Also I didn't let him play Yu-Gi-Oh! which is how you're supposed to play Yu-Gi-Oh!
After that my tournament was over. My deck functioned well but there were some issues (weakness to BRD/Exciton) that need to be addressed and Construct can go screw itself. Now that one of the two resident helmet players has moved I don't need to side as much for Tellarknights as I used to (tho Qliphort is still a thing sadly) and can instead dedicate more space to beating Shaddolls as it makes up 50% of the meta here.
Following this we went to BK where we met a guy from Quebec who had just moved here and was looking to get back into Yu-Gi-Oh! while making it clear that he's primarily a competitive person and promptly pissed off Derrick because of him saying "fuck poor people" which is rude, but given that Quebec has a much more competitive environment I'm not surprised. It's just what he grew up in. My only concern is how badly he's going to influence Nord. Nice guy however.
Then we shot a video and I had games of Gear Chronicle vs Woodhouse's newly accquired Blue Flames from Damon that Derrick also got butt rustled over though I don't understand why as Woodhouse probably overpaid for the deck and Derrick can get the thing from him for less than he would have had to pay Damon? By the sounds of it a deal was lined up, but Damon changed his mind and traded the deck to Woodhouse instead. Perfectly fine, if you get one offer but then get another one that's even better then you take the better one especially when Woodhouse is involved as he's notorious for overpaying with cash whereas Derrick has to rely on overtrading with cards...except he gives away everything so he has nothing to offer when something else comes up and gets upset because he can't build what he wants because nobody will give him the cards he needs...because he has little to nothing that people want. It's not a matter of nobody wants to trade, it's just they basically can't because they can't find things they want and not everyone is willing to just give money cards away for free. As dickish and mean as this sounds I'm not Jordan or Chingo. I don't do pity trades (at least not anymore after the fiasco I had with the Aqua Force core I wanted to sell off and ultimately got a much worse deal for it than I wanted). I'm not going to just give something away all of the time. Especially if it's only going to enable the self destructive habit of continuously overtrading/paying just because you REALLY want something nownownow. Seriously this cycle needs to stop as I don't see it ending in any way but badly.
That being said here's what it comes down to; a trade/sell is not final until the actual exchange happens or a handshake agreement is made. Until then ALL BETS ARE OFF.
Incidentally there was a much bigger fit thrown earlier in the day too as Ryan freaked out because he couldn't finish his deck for the tournament as he...wasn't willing to take out all the pieces from his multiple decks/binders and expected everyone else to pull out cards from their stuff out of the blue to help him. That's how it looked to me and the subsequent freak out was comparable to my little scene in March and as such I told him to knock it off to which I got a scoffed at with basically, "yeah so you're one to talk so shut up."
Yeah this is a case of the teapot may be calling the kettle black, but the kettle is still fucking black here. He subsequently got over it and admitted he was in the wrong as the day went on but god damn, this community has become really whiny, bitchy and the attitudes with some people have become noticeable. Be it an ego from hanging around people, lording a shiny card you have over everyone, complaining about not being able to get a deck despite having the best deck in the format, becoming super cocky because you topped a regional with a helmet deck through dumb luck, complaining about the degeneracy of the game but playing a degenerate FTK deck and defending it, constantly bitching about anything that's not MtG and lording it as the superior game when I could care less, constantly telling everyone their problems don't fucking matter because a day in your life is a million times harder or getting super salty over losses everyone's gotten really bad.
Damn, I think I just took a shot at everyone in Regina, myself included.
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