Joshua Grace Mirkwood The Real Deal (tournament report)

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Joshua Grace Mirkwood The Real Deal (tournament report) is the tournament report Joshua Grace posted on DeckTech on 29 November 2000 about November 2000 Minneapolis tournament (28 November).[1] Joshua Grace went 2–2 at the Tuesday Mirkwood tournament in Minneapolis, Minnesota on 28 November 2000 with two silly decks, an EPP and Ewok Catapult TIGIH deck and an all-Vader Hunt Down, losing to Michael Raveling and Garrett Larson and beating Ryan twice.

Report info

Games

Games as the author describes them; margins are as stated in the report.

Round Opponent Author's deck Opponent's deck Result Margin
1 Michael Raveling Light All My EPPs and Ewok Catapults (TIGIH) Ties (Kuat start) Loss —
2 Garrett Larson Dark Vader (Hunt Down) Fake-out Hidden Base (Insurrection start) Loss (Grace conceded; a casual rematch afterwards (won by Vader) is not counted) —
3 Ryan Dark Vader (Hunt Down) Profit Win (Ryan had just moved to Minneapolis from ND) —
4 Ryan Light All My EPPs and Ewok Catapults (TIGIH) Raltir Win (paired with Ryan again) —

Original report

mirkwood-the-real-deal

  • Author: Joshua "Stormcrow" Grace
  • Published: Nov 29, 2000
Okay, I figure I have 20 minutes left at lunch break, so here’s my brief take on the 11/28 tournament at Mirkwood. I brought two silly decks that I threw together in Duluth over holiday so that Mike Bergum could finally have a chance of beating me while he prepared to re-enter the MN tournament scene as a contender. My decks, though, won 3 out of the 5 games I played with him. So I figure that’s more than good enough to bring them to Mirkwood for kicks. Light Side: All My EPPs and Ewok Catapults (TIGIH) Dark Side: Vader (in the Hunt Down format) Game 1: My Light vs Mike Raveling’s Ties He started Kuat, and I suspect ties, but he wasn’t playing some of the more typical cards, so I got confused. Actually I was already somewhat confused because I was trying to think if there was any way for my Light Side to be competitive with a player like Mike. Answer: No. At any rate, I started without Chirpa’s Hut, Luke, Saber or Landing Platform. BUT... I remember before any action is taken! Whew! Nearly got that loss by 50+. He drained in space. I drained on the ground. I went in space and won 2 battles, but he knocked out Gold Squad 1’s astromech droid, and I couldn’t chase him around to battle any more. His retrieval was better than mine, since mine was Hell to Pay and then Hell to Pay again. Game 2: Vader vs. Garrett Larson’s Fake-out Hidden Base He started Insurrection, so I wanted to get Vader to the Home One DB and make him immune to Lost in the Wilderness. Lost in the Wilderness would have really sucked since Vader can’t deploy to search for Vader. And though any search party would have had a good success rate with all the 5’s and 6’s in my deck, it’s damn tough to build a search party when the only character in your deck is missing. That’s right 6 Vaders, no other characters. No starships. No vehicles. One Counter Assault. But the deck was about Vader. So we each lose a couple, and he deploys Luke to the Home One DB where I had thrown an early Presence of the Force. Fine. No problem. I deploy Vader there, but don’t have Obsession in my hand. Nor I Have You Now. Nor did I leave enough force to battle because it appears I can no longer do math. No problem. So Garrett deploys Leia and battles. No problem. He swings and hits Vader. I’m only down by a little power. No problem. He plays Skywalkers. Sure, why not? This may be a concern. But I should be fine. I have in my deck more than 30 cards of destiny 4 or higher. He draws a few low and moderate destiny. I draw... 1. 1? Aw, hell. I lose Vader and 9 more. No big deal. With Luke out, a duel will swing things back my way. So I lose my 9. And in that 9... 2 Vaders. Yuck. That’s half my Vaders! Well, he drains for a bit while I draw for a Vader. He plays Out of Commission. Well, that’s another single card that can just wreck my deck. Fine. He misses Vader. The other cards are all meaningless. He deploys spies to cancel Visage, and I’ve lost Come Here You Big Coward. No problem. I get another Vader into my hand and deploy him against Luke now that I’ve finally drawn an Obsession. I play it. He Senses and succeeds. Well, that sucks. So we battle and I lose yet another Vader. He plays Out of Commission again and gets Vader. I have no characters that I can deploy anymore, so I concede. Good game. After our very short game, we play again. Well, after reading about Shadows (I don’t like it). This time, Vader proves his supremecy. Crazy. Game 3: Vader vs. Ryan’s Profit Ryan’s the new guy who moved to Minneapolis from ND. So, having noticed that he began his career in MN paired twice against a Mr. Macy, I assure him that most of us play for fun. And then prove my point. By playing a deck consisting of Vader, 4 sites, 2 sabers and Red Cards. But this time a whole bunch of early drains for 4 at Jabba’s Palace take their toll. He moves Han, Chewie and some other alien dude over to block the drain, and Han dies to Sniper. Vader battles the other two and plays Main Course lost. Ryan was playing Profit for the first time and didn’t know it very well, so he was a bit stunned to learn that he couldn’t drain on Tatooine after Han died. He had lost his other Han somehow, so he just suicided by deploying Obi to the same site. Then he battled Vader with Obi and an Elom. Ok. Vader plays I Have You Now to add a destiny, then completely ignorning the Elom, steps aside to duel Obi. Obi draws a 0 and some other moderate destiny. Vader, meanwhile, has Focused his Attack and draws 3 6’s. He then proceeds to swing and hit the Elom and draw another pair of 6’s for destiny. This is why Vader is cool. Game 4: All set to play The Wormanator (Chad Steger) since we think we should be paired, I get paired with Ryan again. My EPPs vs his Raltir. I thought he might flip and cancel all my drains. But since he didn’t deploy an Imp to the Landing Platform (and never deployed anyone to Luke’s site), I activated 7 force my first turn--after drawing a perfect hand, consisting of 2 EPP Hans, I Know, the Home One DB and the Echo DB. I deploy my sites, deploy the <> DB from my reserve to Raltir, Han to the Home One DB, DB transit him over to Raltir, pay one to move Luke to the Landing Platform and draw. His second turn, he deploys an AT-ST and AT-ST pilot against Han and battles. I play I Know, but he Barriers Leia. I grab the Barrier. Han covers the damage. My next turn I activate 14 (5 at Luke’s DB site), deploy EPP Han from my hand to Leia and battle. I have 18 power with 8 attrition to his 8 power. I lose Leia (having just drawn Life Debt), and he loses everything at the site an a couple more, plus stacks a card. He battles again his next turn, but I play Life Debt, so Chewie joins the fray and I end up stacking another card on I Feel the Conflict. Meanwhile, I’m activating all the force I need to keep my mains at Raltir. He deploys a couple of scrubs to the Executor and Coruscant DB’s, so I figure he’s going to try to take over Raltir shortly, so I move Han and Obi (who’s joined Han) over to the Swamp and DB Transit Luke to Raltir. I also draw until I get Kessel and the mini-Falcon. I throw those down on some succeeding turn and start draining for 3 at Kessel to go with the 2 at Luke’s site and the 1 with Obi and Han. Meanwhile, I set up a Catapult and ASP droid at the Landing Platform and move Luke to the CC:DB in hopes of drawing my Off the Edge to retrieve 6. But Ryan deploys characters to each of the Raltir sites, including Choke Lord and a couple of scrubs against Obi and Han. He initiated a battle there and choked Han on his first action. I played Clash of Sabers to exclude Vader and chopped one of his scrubs. He drew low, and I drew enough to win the battle. Obi was lost, but it was merely a matter of moving Luke to Vader’s site. I waited one turn, hoping for an Off the Edge, but didn’t get it, so I lost a few, then DB transited Luke to Vader. On my next turn, I activated everything and put the Catapult back. With the only card in my deck a 7, I attempted to turn Vader and succeeded. After winning the game, I tried to move Vader over to battle Tarkin, but that pesky Moff cancelled the once-Dark now-Light Lord’s destiny! Ah, Ryan had the last laugh. A fun game. And so... I had no idea what my diffential was, but I got a pack of Cloud City for my efforts--my recycling entry fee. And all was cool... Josh "Stormcrow" Grace

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References

  1. ↑ mirkwood-the-real-deal, DeckTech (Joshua "Stormcrow" Grace, 29 November 2000). Preservation copy: GitHub Pages.
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