Report on my other 2 Lorcana Store Championships

Wanted to report on my other two Lorcana Store Championships that I went to the two Saturdays after the one that I reported on during this blog post.

Had toooons of fun. I love Lorcana and competing in Lorcana. There's this super big tournament in Seattle happening right now and part of me wishes I had made the arrangements and up and gone. There are so many fun and intriguing decisions, and I think the meta is super cool right now. Super glad I decided to go to all three Store Championships.

2nd Store Championship:

In Swiss:

I fought against 2 aggro decks, which I feel quite comfortable against. One got really close, but I managed to get the win in the end 2-1. The other one I had a tight grip on the whole time and got a clean 2-0. 

Fought against an Emerald Steel Discard deck. Got quite lucky Game 1, I put out 2 Flynn Frenemies and my opponent didn't draw any of their removal, so I won very quickly. Game 2 was a lot closer, but a well timed Be Prepared won me the game. (Neat side story: He was looking into the company that I'm currently doing my internship for, so I got to tell him a lot of information. Felt like a neat little tender mercy for him that I got to be a part of). 

Fought my good buddy Austin who I met when first going to Lorcana tournaments. Him alongside me and my two roommates were the consistent group that went to tournaments every week. We had an extremely competitive set and I was able to clutch it out in the end 2-1:) 

My last opponent in Swiss (John, the goat) and I decided to a agree to a draw so we both got guaranteed top 8 (this is very common behavior in competitive Lorcana). Finished with the top seed.

In top 8:

My first opponent was an aggro deck, which as stated before I feel comfortable against. Won with a clean 2-0.

My 2nd round opponent was a super cool guy named Alex. We had a very tight set and he clutched it out 2-1. Some of the most fun games I've played (he stated this the following week as well). Was happy with how I played because he said he normally feels super comfortable against my deck (Ruby Amethyst) with his deck (Emerald Amethyst) and thinks the match up is heavily in his favor, so to get that close to winning was awesome. He said he was very impressed with how I played.

Final placement: 3rd.

3rd Store Championship:

In Swiss: 

Was one turn away from losing to a Queen combo-wombo, but won the turn before that happened. Won 2-0. 

Fought in the mirror match, which is such a wonky match-up. We split 1-1.

Won against a hyper aggro deck, 2-0.

Had two of the closest games you could possibly dream up, barely winning 2-0 when my opponent was at 19 lore at the end of both games (quick reminder: you need 20 to win). Heckin' wild games.

My last opponent (Tim, super cool dude) and I agreed to draw to both get guaranteed top 8. Finished with the 2nd seed.

In Top 8:

Round 1 was not somebody I wanted to fight against and I was quite nervous going into it. They played Emerald Steel Discard, and I know I won that match-up against a different player the previous week, but I don't feel comfortable in the match-up. Feel like I made some smart decisions and was able to get a dominating board presence in both games. Big Sisu (a card I added in for this tournament) being the finisher in one of them. Won 2-0 advancing into top 4.

Round 2 I fought John who was piloting Steel Sapphire. He got some really unfortunate draws and I won in a fairly anti-climatic 2-0.

Round 3. Fighting Tim piloting Ruby Sapphire. Winner takes the tournament. And I'm fighting against a good match-up for me! Too bad I lost 0-2, haha. Yes, I got some bad card draw luck, and he stated that he got some really good card draw luck, but that's the way it is sometimes. Really wanted to take home to victory, but my run ended at 2nd.

Final Results:

So in the end I placed 5th/24, 3rd/25, and 2nd/18. John totaled up the points from all the tournaments and I ended up getting 3rd overall. Tons of fun.

Winnings:

Won a $10 gift card in a drawing completely unrelated to my placement. Spent a couple bucks extra to get 2 packs with it.

Won a lot of packs (19 in total from the 3 tournaments, I believe), got some very playable cards, although nothing really pricy. Still waiting to open my first enchanted. 

Won 3 Mirabels valued around $40 each right now, one for each top 8 (picture below).

Won a Mirabel playmat for my top 2 placement (picture below).

I, uh, can't seem to find a way to rotate the images from within blogger, and I've decided to let them be the way they are.