We're back! Last week was more or less an 'off' day as we never had a tournament and instead played 2v2s and relay fights which could be summed up as; RNG hated me that day. I still pulled my weight and won games because Zodiac Time Beast is a fucking dumb deck but hoo boy when RNG is not on your side you know it's gonna be rough. I ended up trading away my Regalia deck for an Oracle Think Tank core (It's missing 2 Still Water and a GB8) in preparation for Premium Format and mentioned I was looking to get rid of Bloom to which I had a couple people interested.
That said let's get on with today;
Initially there wasn't gonna be a tournament due to a MtG event happening but they were conveniently wrapping up by the time the Vanguard playerbase arrived so we were able to do a thing. Someone wanted to trade for Blusha but didn't have enough trade power for the deck so I just let him borrow it for the tournament while I decided to play ZtB as I figured since the YGO crew was in Winnipeg trying their best to get their tops that I should try and do the best I could and just maybe cause the RNG gods to favour them. That and I felt like it was finally time for me to put my money where my mouth is and prove that ZtB was the BDIF and not Dominate;
Round 1 - vs ZtB (Win)
Ah it's the Jet mirror. Usually I win these due to surviving his inherent sacking long enough to grind out a win through being a better player (and he has admitted as such). Not this time. Today I outright savaged him with an early game rush that pushed him to 3 damage despite hitting 3 straight defensive triggers and him never flipping any offensive ones while I got first stride and killed him with Phoenix.
Round 2 - vs Dominate (Win)
Here we are. ZtB vs Dominate. The one guy's been staunch in his belief that Dominate is the best deck of the format to which I (and anyone who keeps an eye on the format) will always say no that's not the case. ZtB is. Dominate is a good deck because Rinne exists and that is literally it. If Dominate can't kill with Rinne then they lose because the rest of the Nuba G-Zone is shit. It's a highroll deck to the highest degree and simply does not hold a candle to ZtB as;
-ZtB has an early game (Rewind Tiger and the ability to start pushing from G1 onwards) wheras Dominate literally does fuck all until Stride
-ZtB can fight for first stride better than any deck in the game due to Jet Z's free stride. Being able to call Revolver Dracokid down and poke from the onset is big.
-Chronojet Dragon Z > Shiranui Zanki
-ZtB have some of the best G-Guards in the game including Heterohound Dragon who singlehandedly fucks over a Rinne Turn
-ZtB have the most free PG in the game
-ZtB are the most consistent deck in the game
-ZtB have the best finisher strides out there (Nextage, Gear Groovy, Gearnext, Abenir, Heritage)
-ZtB have Heritage
-Dominate struggles against any deck that can keep up a large hand as Rinne becomes weaker when the opponent can shrug it off (such as the upcoming Bermuda Triangle decks).
-Dust > Drachma
But no, he refuses to admit this because his bias for Nubatama will not let him look at things rationally. He's alot like Solemn and Aqua Force in that regard.
Now with that all being said I promptly am forced to go first and fail to find a Grade 1 after Mulligan and whiff my G-Assist so I'm forced to sit on Dran Z for a turn. He does not take the chance to punish me for this by only calling a Doge and swinging with both so I only take 1 damage and fail to draw a 1 for turn so I G-Assist again and finally hit something. I think I flip a crit here to put him to 2, he doesn't really aggro me on the following turn while I hit a PG with Dran Z and he chooses not to stay down on 2 for a turn which means I get to first stride Abenir Phoenix and it's gets me a couple more attackers and I take him to 5 damage while he G-Guards meaning I have to deal with Rinne's GB3 on his turn. He does just that using Zanki to wear my hand down followed by Rinne but one of the cards I called was Metal Party who can't attack if the user has no bound cards (and it's not an Auto skill) AND he had no bound cards so I only had to deal with one big RG. He calls down a board and goes RG (which I take), VG (which I G-Guard for a 2 pass which he doesn't get) and RG (I G-Guard that one) to survive his turn at 5 damage and promptly stride into Chronovisor Heritage because I had opened with 2 Heals and was able to use two of the ZtB G-Guard and he has about 5 cards in hand and I've got Metal Party + Merry Block and a Sheep in hand. He's able to survive my first wave of attacks but dies after I take my 2nd turn. Did Heritage decide this? Not really as 5 cards in hand meant I could have killed him with Gearnext if I didn't have the 2nd G-Guard play.
And that's the thing. I have multiple ways to win. My deck is flexible and consistent and doesn't need to rely on the opponent low rolling to get its wins. I also need to point out that I had to G-Assist but I still won. Losing cards in hand to G-Assist made this game closer but otherwise this is pretty much how I feel the GC vs Dominate matchup pans out. ZtB pretty much wins unless Dominate is able to sack their opponent into a unfavourable game state.
Round 3 - vs Dimensional Robos (Win)
Ah yes the deck that wins through literally sacking. Well normally does unless you kill it fast enough and that's what I did here. I don't really have the hand that lets me fight for first stride that well but I make up for it by flipping 2 crits and pushing him to 5 damage, comfortably living through his Daiearth turn and pulling off one of the most godly Abenir turns possible as I already had a 18 column going into it and drew Metal Party + Merry Block + Hypnosis Sheep which meant I had a potential 7 attacks with my opponent at 5 damage and only 5 cards in hand with none of them being PGs or a G-Guard. He was super dead.
My deck is fair.
And that was that. I got 1st place (no duh) and for the most part won my games pretty convincingly like ZtB does. Subsequently I'm now offloading the deck due to it pretty much being worthless in Premium format and am picking up Magia for it.
LIFE IS A CARNIVAL.
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