Here is the sad story. I was playing my Harvest deck for LS, and an asinine BH capture retrieve deck. You have to feel my pain in this folks, it was bad!
At Mind Games, (4100 S Redwood Rd. SLC, Utah, Tatooine region)
Wednesday, May 5th, 6:00 pm.
Game 1, vs Casey Barson
Casey played HB, I played BH deck. I started w/ the Palace, to get the chamber and generate
good t2 force. I deployed EPP Fett to a CC site, the Port town District, and expanded it. I was
looking good, until he Revolutioned it. Took away my best site. I was able to deploy another EPP Fett the next turn, to T:JP, and he was into setting up the objective. He deployed Luke to Fett's site, and we killed each other. It was all downhill from there. His drains were too much. Full
Loss. -27
Game 2, vs James Hunt.
I'm thinking, Ok, I can recover here, w/ a good game from the vaunted Harvest. The deck was
good, but the player left his brains in the car. I FD 1 time, the whole game. Y'know, that's kinda basic? BTW, I should say he was playing HDADTJ. I was able to Serper Visage on 3rd turn, and shocked the heck out of him. He was speechless. I told him it was in there purely for anti CCT, but spies have their benefits. He said, " I use Wedge". I told him again, spies have their uses, and he had to agree. He had just deployed Vader, so was looking forward to watching me lose 1 per turn. I could not, for the life of me find my EPP mains, and he got the DD down. On a bright note, I was able to toss Vader out of play w/ Out Of Commission. On a sad note, I was never able to touch him on table. I desperately harvested 4 times, but it was just prolonging the inevitable. I was retrieving 8, and losing 11. Full Loss. -25 (-52)
Game 3, Francisco ?
Francisco was playing ISB, which I am very familiar w/, since I should have brought that w/ me, and not that (insert your own expletive here) BH deck. I had a good start, EPP Obi and Beru, but he SCrewed me over and took Obi out. he did do me a favor by deploying the moisture farm for me. One thing I really was upset about was I went looking for Yoda's Hut, and couldn't find it. I handed the deck to him for him to cut it, and said "It's not in there" Knowing that it was in my force pile, I began drawing. I guess he misunderstood me, and thought I wanted him to see if he could find it, because when I looked up to get my cut deck back, he was looking through it! So there went any and all strategies. He knew exactly how many of each card I had. It definitely threw me off balance for a moment. I put EPP Leia down and the Lars down, and he hit me w/ Vader and friends. In my infinite idiocy, I targetted Vader w/ Leai. I know full well, that w/ the destiny in that deck, it is IMPOSSIBLE for EPP Han and Leia to hit Vader. So why did I not remember? As I said, I left my brain in the car. I forfeited Leia and Beru. Another Mensa move. Owen is alone. Move him next door, and guess who Elis' over? Vader and friends. WAIT! They called a block party, and even MORE friends are dropping by! Poor Owen got his Vaporators smashed to the tune of 21. Can you say Houjix? Houjix? I DON'T HAVE HOUJIX IN MY DECK! Can you say game (nearly) over? Can you see Houjix in my deck in the near future? I
tried to come back, deploying EPP LH&L, but he wouldn't fight me, and I was losing my Nabrun whenever I'd Harvest it out. Full Loss -32 (-84)
Game 4 vs Karlo.
Karlo was the lone bright spot for me. He lives in the same area as I do, and desires to become a TD, so it looks like I will be able to play and TD. Karlo is a newbie. This news however, did not help that Deck That Shall Never Be Named Again. Since he is a newbie, he was running a HB deck w/o the HB objective. Not any good against the quality decks that were in attendance, but more than enough to cream that DTSNBNA. I had the palace out, and deployed EPP Fett (Who was about the only character deployed for the DS all day long) EPP Obi came down and Fett decided he had better things to do in my lost pile. He then put EPP Luke w/ EPP Obi. Once again, I culdn't find sites. No sites = no generation. No generation = no force to deploy w/. Meanwhile his Xwings and Corvettes are racking up the FD. It was a classic short story. FD for 2. Draw. FD for 7. Draw. FD fr 2. Draw. FD for 7... Full Loss -30 something.
Lessons learned:
NEVER play your deck for the first time in a tournament. I may say Harvest is the best deck in the world, (It is) but nothing kills like speed. Wait, nothing kills like no sites or characters. That's what I meant.
Know the decks you will play against. I had no idea, so I had very little defense against anything, except for my Broken Concentration for MWYHL decks, and Wyron Serper for CCT and (now) HDADTJ decks.
Various rambling notes and observations jotted while survey the field after my (rather) quick losses:
Anyway, if you get out to SLC, drop in and play an anti-HDADTJ deck.
I will close w/ a quote from Darth Maul, regarding my future plans:
"At last, we will have our revenge"
Till next time.
Daeyel, King of Ofer Tourneys! :)