This weekend, I attended Friday and Saturday Locals. Jonathan was competing as well, while Raymond was in Toronto.
On Friday, I used Wind-Ups, and went 3-1, losing to Jonathan round 2. I beat Lightsworn round 1, Poseidra Frog Monarchs round 3, and Dragunties round 4 I entered Top 4 and played against Jim and his Elemental Heroes. I can say I finally lost to Jim... Game 3 I was haulted by Skill Drain for a good portion of the game. When I finally drew a way to destroy it, he had another one. He proceeded to draw 2 Miracle Fusions in a row to finish me...
On Saturday I used Six Samurai, and went 2-2... Round 1 I beat Blackwings 2-0. Game 2 I faced Richard and his Dragunities. Game 3 he goes first, and opens with an amazing hand, and I'm defeated by turn 3. Round 3 I faced Kyle and his Hunders. Game 1 he gains too much advantage, and I can't gain advantage at all. Game 2, the only reason I won was because I had my teched Safe Zone to protect my Kizan, which he never had an answer to. I then equipped Spirit of the Six Samurai to it and started to gain a little advantage. I also had the Mind Crush for when he used Thunder Seahorse to add 2 more, and that was the winning play. Game 3 I was just stomped. I didn't open anything amazing, so I couldn't maintain advantage, and I lost. At that point, I couldn't make Top 4. I proceeded to stomp Hieratics in round 4. Thankfully, Jonathan came in 2nd, obtain some store credit for us.
Now, this is the first time in a long time I didn't make Top 4. I was slightly disappointed, but then I started to think... I gave it my all, with the cards I had available. I'm ok with my Wind-Up's performance, so I'm going to discuss Six Samurai. These are the things I noticed and kept record of during the day:
- I didn't search a single monster with Gateway today. I never opened it, and I only drew it twice; both times it was too late.
- I only drew 2 cards with Six Samurai United once today. I couldn't even pitch it for one card because I didn't draw it that often. The few times I drew it today, it was always hit by MST.
- I play 3 Asceticism of the Six Samurai, and I only drew the card 3 times, out of 10 games. I used it once on either Kagemusha or Elder, to get the other one, and the other 2 times were on a different monster, and I couldn't use it to make Beast, Shi En or Barkion.
For some reason, the key cards of the deck didn't appear too often. I realized how difficult it is for the deck to win without those cards. The Rank 4s are great, and they won me quite a few games today. However, I needed to summon Shi En, Beast and Barkion more. I only summoned Shi En about 4 times, Naturia Beast once (to attack for game, not for its effect), and Barkion once. Would I have had better results if I drew Gateway, United and Asceticism more? Probably. But there was nothing I could do.
For this reason, I am taking Six Samurai off my list of considerations for this Regional. I need to take some time to perfect it, and make it more consistent, and find a build I like.
I am also taking Spellbooks off my list of consideration. I haven't had enough practice with the deck to feel comfortable with it. I was going to play it today, but that changed when some random person pulled a Mermail Abyssmegalo, and offered it for a Spellbook Tower and a Temperance of Prophecy for it... I didn't bring my spare Spellbook Tower so I couldn't play the deck today...
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