August 6, 2019

Written by: Vontz

Hey everyone, my name is Vontz, Gencon was this past weekend and I played in the Infinite Galactic Qualifier with eSatine, R2-D2, and eC-3P0 with Fateful Companions.

Editors Note: Entourage Gaming is excited to announce that Vontz is now the newest member of the EG Crew! He’ll be joining our team to prepare for major events, tweak deck lists, and compete at the highest level Destiny has to offer.

I played this deck for two reasons:

I didn’t want to put too much thought into an infinite deck when preparing for the main event, so it was very easy to just bring a side board to the deck that I thought, and still think, is the best deck in all formats. I knew Yoda Leia mill was going to be popular and I have played that deck a fair amount, and I thought this deck would be strong into it.

Onto the decklist

So the deck obviously plays similarly to all the other formats, with the only difference being I expected there to be way more force speed hyperspace jump type things. I was also expecting mill to be one of the winning decks, since it has been in Infinite up to this point. The Canto Bights were not ever played for free, which was disappointing, but the Inflict Pains were extremely helpful in the mill matchup.

Game 1 – ePhasma Fost AT. He didn’t kill 3p0 until the end of round 2 and by that time I was so ramped that his Phasma was basically dead going into round 3.

Game 2 – Mace Ahsoka. Anytime you’re playing against a character with 4 sides is always slightly intimidating. But I mitigated his 4 sides or ate them when it was worth eating. Ahsoka died early because that’s what she does best, which is fine when Mace is full health with an upgrade or two. The game wound up being Satine VS mace, last round he had 2 hp and i had 7 with tons of mitigation so I felt pretty good. I then drew inflict pain which he for sure never saw coming. That was a pretty fun play ending the game with that.

Game 3 – This game was against Manten, who was playing Palp Watto. He played a better game than me, but the matchup was bad for him. He ramped pretty well with palp killing my dudes and played Price of Failure, which I saw in his hand but forgot he had as his last card because I’m a dumb dumb. He almost won the game with it, and I knew i had to claim early because if he had first action he probably would have healed. I drew into partnership and activated Entourage with my Satine and a Handheld Cannon and wound up with lethal. This one was too close for comfort.

Game 4 – Easiest game of the day. I took no damage this game. It wasn’t even close….Because my opponent didn’t show up. It was after the lunch break and he just didn’t come back to play as far as I know.

Game 5 – This game was against Andrew Rothermel from the Destiny Council. He was on eR2 3p0 eChopper. Any time you’re doing a droids VS droids it can often be a blow out one way or the other based on who has ramped harder and sometimes who gets the first kill. This game I got lucky, going into round 2 he could have action cheated to kill R2 who was rocking a Chewie’s Blaster, but he didn’t draw into it. I however did draw my action cheat and took out a character with an upgrade. From there it snowballed. Andrew is a super strong player and an awesome guy to talk to, and I truly believe he would beat me in a best of 3 with the same decks. Side note – I tried playing force illusion on R2 because I’m dumb, Andrew pointed out that it couldn’t go on R2 and he let me take my action back. So be careful if you decide to play force illusion in this deck.

Game 6 – Joe Colon from the Hyperloops. Joe was on Leia Yoda Astrogation, which I was happy to see, because I had tweaked my deck specifically for this matchup. I played a lot of Leia Yoda last regional season so I knew the strength and weaknesses of the deck. I went for Yoda first to avoid first aid plays, which was very helpful because he had it round 1. This game went my favor because I had so much action cheating and anti mill cards. I made sure to claim before him every round (we were on command center.) I sometimes left 3-4 dice in the pool just because I wanted to ambush out R2 with his handheld cannon (because that’s so thematic) and then 3p0 activate to hit Yoda right in his big dumb green face. I was rewarded with a partnership activation from r2 and Crait Speeder, into a 3p0 resolve for the kill on round 3. After one of those two characters dies the game is swung very heavily in your favor. By the end of the game both of my Inflict Pains had been milled (which put into my hand), and the last one ended the game. We both knew that was going to happen and there was nothing he could do about it. By the end of the game I had 3 cards in hand and 1 in deck (which was inflict pain and both of us knew it) and he was down to 2 health with no resources.

It was pretty fun to play against so many well known players throughout the GQs and the main event. The deck functioned well because the character lineup is so strong, and even though it didn’t win Gencon, I still think it’s the best lineup in the game right now. If I had learned how to beat Ewoks before going into my top 16 match, I think I would have won that matchup (easy to say, hard to do.)

Anyway if you’ve made it this far through my ramblings then thanks for reading all of my thoughts on my deck. Hope this helps you going into any infinite GQs. If you want to take it seriously make sure you know the Yoda Leia match-up because that deck keeps winning it seems like.