Ryan Fojtik Milwaukee WI 5-20-00 (tournament report)

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Ryan Fojtik Milwaukee WI 5-20-00 (tournament report) is the tournament report Ryan Fojtik posted on DeckTech on 21 May 2000 about May 2000 Milwaukee tournament (20 May).[1] Ryan Fojtik went 4–0 (8 (+94)) at a local tournament in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 20 May 2000 with a high-destiny Hunt Down dueling deck and a Profit Bothan Spy numbers deck, beating Corey Faherty and twice Erick Butzlaff.

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 — Dark Hunt Down high destiny (dueling) Toschi Mains Win (opponent's name forgotten by the author) FW +41
2 Corey Faherty Light Profit Bothan Spy (Profit numbers) Hunt Down with few characters (Operational Enforcement start) Win FW +23
3 Erick Butzlaff Dark Hunt Down high destiny (dueling) Juz's Revenge Win FW +25
4 Erick Butzlaff Light Profit Bothan Spy (Profit numbers) Ralltiir Ops ('i just took bubo out') Win (second game against Butzlaff) FW +5

Side event: 2000 Victorian State Championship

The report also covers 2000 Victorian State Championship (May 2000). Ryan Fojtik reports that Michael Josem won his Australian state championship (before 20 May 2000) with a Profit odds deck.

Original report

milwaukee-wi-5-20-00

  • Author: Ryan "XjedeyeX" Fojtik
  • Published: May 21, 2000
yeah, so after a hiatus from the listserve and starwars that lasted about 3 weeks (the length of time it takes to get a job, start working full time and get a paycheck) im back.. so i talked to erick (a local tournament director and player) about whether or not there was a tournament on saturday the night before, and he tells me that evan fitzgerald and corey faherty are coming (i guess evan must have hit a snag), and that since theyre on our team, i should come to offer up some rating points or something.. anyway, during the 3 weeks that i didnt play starwars at all, somehow my decks got entirely mixed together beyond recognition, and after finding that out 2 hours before the tournament started, i made a dark deck in an hour and a half, and went to the tourney light deck-less.. so i got there, and i had a box of cards (one of those 250 card boxes) and i was going through it and trying to decide whether i should just whip together some mains deck, or try and make something weird, and weird won out somehow, so i decided to try and make, from scratch, with no decklist, a spinoff from a deck that mike josem was talking to me about over AOLIM the night before... profit numbers.. heres a decklist, and im positive that Joz's version has got to be better than this one (i made it in 15 minutes) so not to knock the concept overall (i actually like it, and it integrates its strategies very well, which is cool) but the deck i made was ass.. here it is for your perusal: start 6 Profit JP JPAC Signal DoDN Han Locations 5 3 2/0 Lars' Holotable Characters 18 2 Artoo 1 8d8 R3PO 2 R2x2 R4M1 6 Bothan Spy Momaw EPP Obi EPP Leia EPP Luke EPP Lando Ships 3 Falcon GL RL Devices 2 2 Landing Claw Interrupts/Effects 25 4 Numbers 2 Anger Fear WNMOG Battle Plan 3 ICBW 5 Undercover Bargaining Table 2 Transmission Terminated 3 Projection Wise Advice A Gift 2 Lost in the Wilderness in any case, i tust that my point is clear about why my choice shouldve been mains :)) my dark deck was a high destiny HD, with duelling, but it rarely actually duels.. first game- Dark Side HD High Destiny vs. (i forgot the name.. sorry) Toschi Mains: I start PoTF on his Obis hut, and lay darth helmet there with his stick... it just so happens that i drew a focussed attack and a circle in my opening hand.. go figure.. anyhow, he lays obiwan for 2 force, and starts to lay something (he tells me later its his saber) but since i get the next action, i duel (figuring hes got 6 cards, i get 3 destiny, and the likelihood of him having better destiny than me isnt good, and him having both duelling counters is terrible, plus i have a stick and he doesnt..), play focussed attack, draw 6,5,4, he draws a 5,4 my total is 24, his is 14, he places obi out of play and loses 9, draws 3 cards, and lets me go.. on my turn i drain for 5 with vader, and draw a few... he just draws some more.. i get out mara with stick and a vehicle with vader (mara goes to the jundland waste), he eventually tries to battle mara, but hes getting hit for between 7 and 9 per turn, plus the loss of 14 right away from drain/duel and this game lasts about 5 minutes.. full win by 41 2 (+41) Game 2:LS profit bothan spy deck vs. Corey Fahertys HD deck with hardly any dudes anyway, i didnt want to play the deck i had against corey (since i had an inkling of its true nature) and i was sitting there wondering how i was gonna win.. so i saw him start op enforcement, and since that card is always in duelling decks to counter SAC (grab the sac, track the dueling card, and they cant stop it) i pointed out that he wasnt going to fool me ( ;p) and started the bargaining table (figuring hed have a small number of locations to drain at, and that it would save me quite a lot of force).. in any case, the game started out badly for both of us, i couldnt find numbers, he couldnt find vader, until we both finally got rolling.. he got around battle order by playing ships in several locations, and vader on the ground, and i had undercover spies cancelling drains, and ICBW + BT stopping him in space plus im hitting for 2 each turn at the holotable, so it looked like a standstill.. until he drained with vader, i played lost in the wilderness (all my 2/0s were outdoor) and he SENSEd!! id managed to draw THREE senses the turn before by playing interrupts hoping hed play them not anticipating the LITW against vader, and but i guess he had 4 in hand.. oh well.. so he senses, draws a VISAGE, and it doesnt cancel my LITW.. so what do i draw?? a friggen ZERO!! there were exactly 4 cards in my deck that couldve caused LITW not to work, and i drew one of them.. ha well.. anyhow, the game starts to go a little south for me, so i finally drop some bothans and free han, to give me 2 more force drain.. after that it gets a little strange, while he spreads out as far as he can in space to drain for a lot, and i end up taking out two with a RL, and circumventing my own battle order to seal the victory.. i understand that he made a mistake near the end that wouldve made it closer, but otherwise this was a well played game on both of our parts, and i learn that the surprise value of the deck isnt to be underestimated (a note: the 0 side of profit works well because an undercover spy at JP stops all drains at tatooine which makes them much less likely to defend the AC at all to stop you from taking it over.. the suicide EPPs can wipe it clean in the endgame easily to free han because wasting 6 characters where they cant drain just isnt good at all).. full win by 23 4 (+64) Game 3 My DS vs Erick Butzlaff's Juz's Revenge I start PoTF on the throne room to invade Y4 (since its the only way to go in this matchup) and get out some locations early.. first turn he draws 2 nudj, so i play mara get her saber, and whack one.. next turn i play vader to the PoTF site to drain.. I have 3 tortures in my deck, and since he neglected to put enough grapplers in his he only gets one numbers through.. so i drain for a ton, he suicide EPPs a couple times to no real effect, the pressure is kept on (despite a psuedo hilarious couple seconds where IG88 and a walker were running away from orrimarko) and without numbers hes not really gonna win this one.. he tries to beat up vader with a lone luke, but I Have You Now, plus hitting luke does 11 battle damage.. ouch.. full win by 25 6 (+89) Game 4 LS 'pile' vs Erick's 'i just took bubo out' ROps This game starts out terribly, i cant get anything going, and he gets out some decent drains , and even alters my bargaining table (it goes to used).. anyway, it sucked pretty bad, but i got some stuff moving finally, got a couple inserts to work and started blocking drains.. midgame freed han to do some damage and to satisfy search and destroy to even up, and late-game it was pretty even, with both of us draining at roughly equal rates.. finally, he gets out kashyyk, drains for some extra force per turn, and the balance starts shifting in his favor.. eventually, i sacrifice an EPP that id been saving to defend han if necessary to kill mara + a scrub walker (to stop me from LITW, i let erick page through my deck before the game and hes using that to his fullest advantage) and i finally redeploy my WNMOG.. so it comes down to the wire, ive got 6 cards left in reserve, 3 in hand (numbers, momaw, and the useless bargaining table, ive used all of my bothans already), luke, a bothan, and han at the AC, a droid and a UC spy facing ozzel and DS2 in a walker at JP, and a projection at the holotable, hes got 3 cards in reserve, no hand Igar and T1 draining for 1 on raltiir, and zuckuss in space draining for 2, and a scrub walker (atst) with marquand and watts at the Farm draining for 2.. so i sit and think cause, his turn, hes gona drain me for 5, im then only gonna be able to hit him for 1 cause i wont be able to drain, then hes gonna hit me for 4 and kill me.. so i need a better way.. so i sit there for maybe 5 minutes, which makes erick a little mad, cause he almost thinks im stalling (i offered to forfeit in that case, i dont want a timed win on stalling) and inspiration hits.. i pull the projection from the holotable (he wont be able to drain next turn anyway under the current hypothesis) and lay it on Igar's site.. i lay momaw vs the scrub walker (he has 2 active and it costs 2 to battle, so they dont get the extra destiny, and if he does that, i lose 2 force, and he loses 2 to han/luke, and isnt able to drain me out anymore) break the UC spy at JP's cover, move it over with momaw so i get a destiny, and let it be erick's turn.. now hes forced to initiate battle against luke to not get hit for 2 by profit, and if he wants to KILL luke, he cant even drain (WNMOG makes him use 2 to initiate and he only has 3 life-force).. so he initates, and picks a 1 (tarkin) and with the Rops bonus (2) he only nails the droid at the location.. the next turn he gets hit by 2 from profit, drains me for 2, and i win by 5 :)))... probably the best most obscure play ive been a part of or responsible for in a while.. itkinda reminded me why i play swccg in the first place.. to pull what looked like a losing situation out at the end.. i guess mike josem actually ended up winning his australian states with his version of profit odds (disclaimer:which is totally not even similar to mine at all) , so the concept is actually pretty cool.. anyway it was fun to play a totally rogue deck instead of a modified concept.. full win by 5 8 (+94) so thats all from that tournament, i won a captain han in the CC prize support (awesome, FINALLY something i didnt have to give away ;).. )..

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References

  1. ↑ milwaukee-wi-5-20-00, DeckTech (Ryan "XjedeyeX" Fojtik, 21 May 2000). Preservation copy: GitHub Pages.
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