Luca Costanzo TR Melbourne 19-12-99 (tournament report)

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Luca Costanzo TR Melbourne 19-12-99 (tournament report) is the tournament report Luca Costanzo posted on DeckTech on 23 December 1999 about December 1999 Melbourne tournament.[1] Luca Costanzo finished about 10th at a Swiss open at Australia on Collins in Melbourne on 19 December 1999, going 3–3 (6 (+30 something)) with a Mind What You Have Learned deck and an operatives deck after two timed losses; Michael Josem won.

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 Beng Dark Imperial Occupation ops (Stuart Jones inspired) MWYHL Brentson's Beats Loss (timed loss; 'Timed loss by 19?') −19
2 Chian Light MWYHL M&T CCT Scum and Villainy with Sabacc Loss −2
3 Tristan Light MWYHL M&T ISB ops / Dark Deal Loss (timed loss) —
4 Tristan Dark Imperial Occupation ops (Stuart Jones inspired) Hidden Base Win —
5 Ronnie Dark Imperial Occupation ops (Stuart Jones inspired) Endor Objective (blowing up the Bunker) Win —
6 Ronnie Light MWYHL M&T CCT Scum and Villainy Win —

Other results named in the report

  • 1st: Michael

Original report

tr-melbourne-19-12-99

  • Author: Luca "Luca/Tzizvvt" Costanzo
  • Published: Dec 23, 1999
Hi all, long time since I last wrote a tournament report. I was Light in last week’s ECC sealed, so I didn’t really want to write about that ;-) Today’s tournament was a Swiss open with lots of prizes run at Australia on Collins. I decided to play a MWYHL M&T deck, without emphasis on beatdown, but using funky Threepio tech and, of course, plenty of high destinies. I was a bit stuck for dark because I wanted to play something strong, but didn’t have any dark ECC so I played a Stuart Jones inspired ops deck with Kashyyk for cancelling TPTIFF. I turned up and realised that I only owned one Abyssin Ornament so I chucked in an extra operative and a reactor terminal. GAME 1 DS vs. Beng’s MWYHL Brentson’s Beats Well, Beng was playing Michael Josem’s regionals deck and I was playing Stuart’s, so we were in for a hell of a long match (see Michael’s tournament report of the Calamari Regionals if you don’t know what happened). I started off with a couple of ops and grabbed my reactor terminal. I think I flipped early with a bunch of AT-STs. Beng got out TPTIFF and for some reason got EPP Luke out to complete JT1. At this point I was afraid that test 2 was coming, but it never reared its ugly head. Beng committed his mains and I deployed IAO, battle plan was out but I occupied space. I ran away from a lot of battles at the beginning, preferring to fight later when I had decent stuff out (I never drew a Vader). Towards the end it looked as if I had enough momentum to drain Beng out, but Terry called time. I counted 18, Beng had 19 and I sat there looking like an idiot with reactor terminal and 2 cards in hand. Highlights: Beng’s one of the nicest people to play against. Lowlights : Timed loss by 19? #$%& off! GAME 2 LS vs Chian’s CCT Scum and Villainy Chian was playing sabacc as well as trying to flip the objective. He got a lightining-slow start, picking up heaps to try and avoid a massive beatdown (am I that intimidating?). I sat there picking up to get a traffic control, looking through my deck to see if there are any grimtaashes in my force pile. There’s one, but I miss it because I deployed a bacta tank. He dumps down a whole bunch of guys to the Carbon Chamber and I’m happy to just dump Obi-Wan at the pub and an Insurrection (told you I wasn’t focused on beatdown). After freezing Wedge, he gets some guys at the AC and then starts sabaccing, this is when I kick myself for throwing out my ONE grapple and a Projection of a Skywalker. We have some battles and I end up controlling cloud city. Being only able to use aliens, Chian eats a drain at Kessel for about 8 turns before putting Fett in Slave I down and, despite the fact that I have about a 12 card reserve deck and at least half of it is destiny 5 or more, I just can’t seem to kill it! I’m draining for a lot, but he’s retrieving enough to stay in and just ekes out a win by 2. Highlights: Winning about half of the sabacc we played. Lowlights : Would the world just explode if I had a little bit of luck? Come on, one 5 over about 5-6 battles isn’t unreasonable! GAME 3 LS vs Tristan’s ISB ops/Dark Deal Tristan is from interstate, so I had no idea what to expect from him. When I saw ISB and IAO I nearly had a heart attack envisioning my small army of decent characters chasing his mob of random crap across the galaxy, all the while depleting my reserve deck. The first location that Tristan deployed was Cloud City. Here was my first sign of hope. On about his 3rd turn Tristan got out Bespin with Sunsdown on it and about 4 ISB duded at the casino. I signalled for TPTIFF instead of Traffic Control and parked it at Dagobah next to the Tantive. He drains for one and I look at the disarmed in my hand but decide to lose it off the top. There goes Traffic Control. Seriously, a little bit of luck wouldn’t go astray. Maybe I’ll get some for Christmas. Maybe. Tristan only gets out about 3 locations, a hit squad clears one out, Obi-Wan with his rusty - err trusty- stick beat up some more crappy guys. At this point the situation is looking ok although I’m not causing him any damage, but I finally get out Order To Engage. Vader and an entire legion of resurrected crap decide to take on my guys and it’s just a massacre. EPPs + destiny rig is some good, although he has enough guys that he can lose the 3 that are hit an forfeit another few. Bossk in Bus and a Dreadnaught set up an occupation and the Falcon decides to take them on. The worst battle in history ensues, both of us drawing 0s. As you can tell, this game is dragging out but wait- on the horizon - it’s a main, it’s a ‘plane, it’s R-3P0! He comes out with all guns blazing, forcing the ISB agents to fight me, but it’s all to late. Another timed loss that I think I could’ve won (aren’t I @#$%y?) Highlights: Super R-3P0, hero of the rebellion, mercilessly hunting down ISB agents. Lowlights : Our TD, Terry Lyons, feels sick somewhere around here and goes home. GAME 4 DS vs Tristan’s Hidden Base Allright, it’s Stuart’s deck, and Stuart doesn’t lose to hidden base, does he? Does he? Nope. Not much to tell, I flipped early, converted Coruscant, probed with Security Precautions, prevented any beatdown (there was none, but I had ghhks and imperial barriers) and played my SOLE Abyssin Ornament for 6. Highlights: What- you mean I finally get to win a game?! Lowlights : Boring deck vs boring deck. GAME 5 DS vs Ronnie’s Endor Objective Great … I’m playing the only deck that has difficulty stopping this deck from blowing up the bunker. Oh well, I guess I’m just starting the game with 8 less force. Ronnie is out for revenge after I drew 4 battle destiny against him in last week’s ECC sealed and makes no effort to conceal the fact that he’s going to try and beat the living $%^& out of my ops, with an ASP droid and ewok catapults sitting on Endor. He blows up the bunker surprisingly quickly and gets out Kessel and Dagobah. I see TPTIFF cycle around about 3 times before being lost to a force drain- phew! Ronnie sets up a massive beatdown with EPP Han, Chewie and the Endor effect that makes Life Debt used and some scouts. Fortunately, I barrier Han, Ronnie doesn’t fight and I then use my tracked destiny to squish Chewie. The Executor makes a guest appearance to stop the drain at Kessel and I quickly drain him out. Highlights: Winning a game when I started off with a massive disadvantage. Lowlights : This game seemed fairly one-sided. GAME 6 LS vs Ronnie’s CCT Scum and Villainy Well, it starts out the same as game 2, with Ronnie taking IG-88 and the JP Dungeon into hand and me giving him Wedge. Ronnie gets All Wrapped Up out early and I sit there debating what to do. We both pick up and I get a used Grimtaash off. Obi-Wan goes to the Chamber to drain, but gets the living daylights beaten out of him and IG-88 holds him with the binders (Ronnie did say that he wanted his revenge!), although I do manage to move an ugnaught away. Next turn I beat down on the ugnaught with Jeroen Webb and Tawss Khaa. I finally decide that I want my guys back, so I send Luke to the chamber to slice up IG-88. He manages to kill him after Obi-Wan missed being frozen, but I still get Wedge and someone else back. At this point I’m more or less in control of Cloud City, so Ronnie runs to Tatooine and I project both sites. Ronnie gets some gamblers out, but it’s not very hard for me to win the wagers. Kiffex shows up and, once again, I drain him out. Highlights: Knowing how to beat this deck. Lowlights : IG-88 + Binders + All Wrapped Up was better than R-3P0. Nooo! Well, I finish up on 6(+30 something) after a horrible start to the day and manage to come about 10th. Despite being left to run the tournament, Michael manages to come first ;-) Everyone ended up with about 5 rares, 2 packs of Cloud City and 2 of Premiere (told you there were heaps of prizes) to conclude the last tournament before the new year. Terry  : Get better soon. Stuart  : I’ll try Vader’s Personal Shuttle. Everyone  : Merry Christmas and a happy new year. Luca Costanzo tzizvvt@hotmail.com

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References

  1. ↑ tr-melbourne-19-12-99, DeckTech (Luca "Luca/Tzizvvt" Costanzo, 23 December 1999). Preservation copy: GitHub Pages.
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