Whatever I Want
Sunday, October 13, 2024
Best Player Counts in Board Games
Sunday, October 6, 2024
My First Lorcana Store Championship
Went to a local Lorcana Store Championship yesterday! I had to miss the afternoon session of General Conference for it, but it's okay, I'll watch them soon.
Here's a quick recap of how the tournament went:
Played a Ruby Amethyst Bounce Control deck! I'll link my decklist here. I plan on making a couple card swaps for the next two store championships that I plan on attending this upcoming two Saturdays. I sold pretty much all my other expensive/meta-relevant cards in the other colors, so Ruby Amethyst it was! But that works out just fine because I enjoy its flexible playstyle and it's a meta-relevant deck right now.
There were 24 attendees. It was Swiss-Style for 4 rounds, and then they did a top 8 cut. The top 8 proceed into a single elimination bracket.
My Round 1 opponent was a person whose husband plays a lot of Lorcana. They play it with them, but this was actually their first tournament. They played a hyper-aggro Amber Amethyst deck. I got a couple really helpful Brawl's and Fox's that kept their aggro under control enough to win 2-0.
My Round 2 opponent was a fellow Ruby Amethyst player. Overall, did not feel super happy with how I played this match-up. Took some risks that really back fired. Maybe that was just me being unlucky, idk, but I lost game 1. I got a solid curve game 2 and just played much safer to win game 2. We didn't have time to finish game 3, so it went in as a draw.
My Round 3 opponent played an interesting aggro Amber Ruby deck. Felt like it was pretty much just worse aggro Amber Amethyst. Won with an easy 2-0. We played a friendly game after against a different deck of theirs. That deck was so goofy funny, I love it. It was a deck revolving around The Queen - Disguised Peddler.
My Round 4 opponent, I fought an opponent who was undefeated thus far. Super cool dude, we talked quite a bit while waiting after our round. He played Sapphire Ruby Control non-Sisu oriented. Sapphire Ruby is always scary, but I managed to get enough early presence game 1 and game 2 to win 2-0. Was very happy with that victory.
Which means I made top 8. As the 2 seed! Very exciting.
My Round 1 in top 8 was against a cool dude named Ryan who I lost to in a weekly back at the beginning of the year. He was also playing Sapphire Ruby Control, but he did have Sisus. We had a very very competitive set with back and forth gameplay. All came down to game 3.
I was slowly able to get some questers on board getting work in as he continues to ramp up. And then the ending of the game happened. And, well, I'll just post a screenshot of my messages I sent to my two friends Joe and Tyler after the game happened:
(Lady Tremaine and Tamatoa and Lucky Dime and Goat links for reference. Note: You need 20 lore to win) |
So freakin' sad. I had it! But, alas, tcg's do be like that sometimes. Did some rough math, and it was about a 5% chance that I draw two uninkables in a row there.
Had a blast overall though! Love getting in some competitive game playing in. Super satisfying. Got 5th overall (due to my 2nd seed in the final bracket, I placed higher than the other people who lost at the same time as I did in top 8), which is definitely respectable. Excited to hopefully compete in two more store championships the upcoming two Saturdays!
This time around, I won 4 packs (all of which were garbage), a Nala Promo, and a Mirabel Promo (scroll down slightly to see the promo version). Not sure how much Mirabel Promo will sell for yet, but we shall see.
Sunday, September 29, 2024
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Sunday, September 22, 2024
Chess Phases (but honestly mostly side-note adventures)
So I've been playing a lot of chess over the course of these past few weeks. I've spent, if I remember correctly, a total of 38ish hours on the chess.com chess app over the course of 3 weeks.
It's been a blast, I love chess. It's also incredibly frustrating when I do something super dumb, haha.
I think it's fascinating how I go through these Chess phases. I wrote that a couple months ago. Shortly thereafter I just stopped playing. And this isn't the first time I've done that, haha. It's the second. [Explaining the joke here because I think it's funny [Side note: I think explaining jokes can sometimes be funnier than the joke itself since you get to reflect on the cleverness of the joke]: Typically when people say 'this isn't the first time I've done that' it implies that they've done it time and time again. But that's where the subversion of expectations come in and I say it's only my second time, which I think is quite rather subtly funny.]
I mean, chess is really good. And sometimes I do just get a burst of motivation to compete in a new thing, and chess sometimes becomes that thing. There's soooooo much to learn, which I enjoy doing. [I don't think that sentence makes sense grammatically, but it makes sense anyway. I feel I do that a lot. [Side note: note sure exactly why brackets feel more appropriate than parentheses in these past couple circumstances. I think it may be because I want it to be on a side-note/lower level, but the idea is separate enough from the previous sentence that parentheses don't feel right. I think this is why there's a period between as well. Typically with parentheses you'll often find I don't have a period separating them because the ideas are too connected for the period separation to make sense]]. Not sure why it ebbs and flows so suddenly, though. [I think it's kind of funny/quirky/interesting/fun that when I use so many parentheses (and in this case brackets (whoa, I just used parentheses)) and then I continue the thought as if they were never there presumably causing this tedious need to glance back and figure what on earth I was talking about before the whole side-note adventure.]