As i groggily awoke last saturday morning I was feeling really down and disheartened ( maybe it was the whisky but who knows?)
I'd playtested a promo Gen deck for the last week against three guaranteed palyers to turn up to the event and claimed more losses than victories. Needless to say I wasn't confident,really so I made a ***Hanzo*** deck ( he's my favourite character ever )
It looked like this: ( the event was legacy BTW )
Charcters: ***Hanzo*** (1)
Attacks:
3x Scourge of Zeus
3x Criminal uppercut
3x Tsuji hayate
Splits:
4x clones
3x Slash elbow
2x Shadow strike
Assets:
3x Assassination Arts
Foundations:
4x program malfunction
3x Ring Veteran
4x Binary
4x Vanity
4x Battle prowess
2x Blinding rage
3x Cutting edge
4x TWOP
4x KOF 2006
4x Revenant's calling
2x Ancient insight
4x Awakening
3x Dormant for millions of years
(66 cards.)
The idea of the deck was to either A:) turtle up and then loop slash elbow using scourge of zeus and Hanzo's E ( never happened once.)
B:) string attacks using Hanzo's E ( it worked ) C;) Control board then KILL!!!!
Before the event I was banned from the event for 2 weeks after choke-slamming my litlle brother for ripping my defender in two.
Returning to pigeon games I wasn't exactly welcomed heartily. :/
Round 1 Me vs. Testing buddy Daniel Bushby ( * Victor* using research notes to mill 10 cards per attack.)
Daniel was my worst matchup, in fact my WHOLE PLAN was to avoid playing agaisnt him...
I opted to go first and over the first few turns I set up a control board tapping out his foundations over multiple turns using Program and Veteran to lock him out. He plonks down Zelzeritch Castle and since I forgot to include Altered mind and body the clock was ticking, 18 turns remaining... Later on he was at 12 after being uppercut'd and cloned in the face multiple times while I stood at 15, I tapped out his staging area bar one Awakening ( didn't matter it was the only thing ready.) then launched a scourge, milled 10, deck cycled, resoleved scourge did it again and then a third scourge using Shadow strike, he was at 1 after blocking and using his siberian training. I had to kill him next turn or he'd mill me for sure.
Thankfully I did, drawing a shadow strike to scourge him in the face and take Game 1, yeah I got extremely lucky.
I sided in my controlled rage as my insurance against Dan and took game 2 in the same fashion.
Record : (2-0)
My chances were looking up after a depressing day, worst matchup down and two more rounds to go (8 players)
Round 2 Me vs. My scout. ( *** Zangief***)
Umm due to occuring emergency this report will be continued soon, don't worry I'll be quick- Daniel wibberton