Let’s venture into the not so foreign territory of top cut decks! The decks we’re going to be taking a look at are from the Tabletop Simulator Season 3 which is currently at the semi-finals (Top 4) stage and is set to draw it’s conclusion (to semi’s, not the finals) this weekend. Whilst I do actually have access to all FOUR lists (the lists were handed to opponent’s in case you are thinking something funny and 3 of the 4 top spots are taken by members of the Hyperloops Discord), I won’t be posting them at this time (it would be unfair to the event organizers and other sponsors to release the info at this time). Each of the 4 lists is currently thought of to be as Tier 1 in one form or another.

Quigon Kanan – Elrathion (Artificery)



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“Death by a Thousand Cuts” would be a pretty valid way to describe the deck. There are moment where the deck will string together some big chunks of melee damage, but a lot of it’s offense is tied into being able to use it’s defensive shield measures to poke and prod an opponent’s character to death. Early conceptions of this deck had attempted to abuse Luke’s Protection and Fearless as a way of consistently carving out damage via shields when you didn’t need them to sustain your defense. The current versions went away from the slow and inefficient cards to now have a more extensive damage mitigation suite so that they can claim more actively without losing a beat. Many people are tired of seeing the massive amount of shields brought on by Shoto Lightsaber and already miss Vibroknife, but we’ll have to live without it folks and find a way to just punch through damage.

Sabine Ezra – BobbySapphire (Hyperloops)

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A lot of people just attribute this deck’s consistency to Sabine’s ability, but I think Ezra is the one carrying Sabine and her resource spending ways. Sabine is the shopaholic who must have all of the new toys and Ezra is the one slaving away trying to fund all of the expensive purchases. If i’m not mistaken, Sabine Ezra won the recent Austin, TX regional and that goes to show that it isn’t just a deck that has to roll hot or die. Sabine and her action cheating gun blasting ways leave a sour taste in an opponent’s mouth but it is a much more exciting match, because you never know what will come up in that ever important activation. Running Interference combined with Hyperspace Jump or Never Tell Me the Odds set up some awful situations for the opposing deck and if it wasn’t so reliant on actually drawing into something to sustain her 11 health, i’d put this deck in God Tier for being the current meta’s Poe Maz where the game could be over without being able to do anything.

Kylo FN – Fofef (Hyperloops*)



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You might be wondering who this is; he is a gentleman from the Hyperloops Discord and he’s shown tremendous ability after coaching. The asterisk is only because he isn’t one of the core 3 members, but as far as I’m concerned, everyone on our Discord is a part of the family / team. He’s that out of state/country cousin that you don’t see too often, but it’s always a good time when they show up.

Kylo2 is well situated for the current meta due to many of the tops being primarily Mono or heavily geared towards 1 color. Nines on the other hand is that crazy uncle who was always great to you (the person playing it), but was banished from the family (game) for making everyone else feel miserable as he left devastation in his wake. A 3-die start is a big pain in the but to work with, but both character’s abilities easily make up for that. The actual current meta has traded out Nines for Vader2 (formerly called Anakin) and swapped to a Holocron and Rise Again package. Is this the return of Nines or a last Hoorah before decks were fine tuned??? Kylo FN threatens every Mono deck with a high rate of automatic 2 damage via Kylo effect and then the late game explosion of Z6 Riot Control Batons / Rocket Launchers on FN. The deck starts out a bit slow but it can output some serious damage at the drop of a hat.

Rainbow No.5 – HonestlySarcastc (Hyperloops)



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Bala-tik and Nightsister are near and dear to my heart and I force them every set it seems. Who know what i’ll do come rotation but for now the plan repeats itself. Gain advantage via additional dice to output big chunks of damage / overwhelm opposing mitigation then use our own mitigation to slow down their damage. After that is to annoy with Nightsister / make our own dice more consistent and hope to get an untap with Bala-tik then crush the opponent with the superior advantage from the extra usage of dice. The deck teeters a dangerous line due to the low health of Bala-tik in comparison to every other main character in the upper echelon of decks, but having 5 dice for the roll off means that there is a very consistent win of the roll off to bring him up to 10 (when you choose to).

Conclusion

It is unknown who will come out on top but the current brackets guarantee a Villains vs Hero Finals since Kylo FN is against Rainbow, then Sabine Ezra is against Quigon Kanan. The Villains match SHOULD be streamed via Artificery’s Twitch Channel at 9am ET Saturday and Heroes should be Sunday night ET with no current timeline being set.

All 4 decks are arguably the best at accomplishing their gameplan of Defense + Small Damage, Uninterruptible Spike Damage, Heavy Firepower, and Out Tempo-ing via Additional Dice. The only other big time deck that is missing is R2P2 which has a similar gameplan to Quigon Kanan but has healing and Specials abuse. Will these decks represent the more highly played decks at the following Regionals??? I think they will, because they are surprisingly consistent at doing their jobs and each does a great job at keeping other decks from being successful.

~ HonestlySarcastc

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