Wow today was a crazy day.

Sorry I’ve been slacking on the tournament reports lately guys! I’ve… been slacking! D:

BUT here am I back again with a new Tournament Report and OHHHH MAN is it a doozy. Today’s tournament had a MASSIVE 39 participants, which is far beyond anything I’ve ever seen at Desu-Nation. This was the first tournament I’ve ever seen to have six rounds, as well as being the first I’ve seen with a Top 8 prizing instead of just Top 4.

As usual, the tournament was done in Swiss format, with no cut to top. After six rounds, the tournament is over and prizing is awarded.

For today’s tournament I decided to take my new waifu for a spin with a Sweets Nisekoi deck made from new cards from the Nisekoi: Extra Booster (or as I like to call it, 2sekoi. get it? eh? 😀 no? D: ok…) The deck played extraordinarily today, going 5-1 throughout the day, and getting first place overall!

Not bad for a deck with LITERALLY no prior testing. (I built and sleeved the deck as round 1 started LMAO)

Oh yea also I pulled this :DDDDDDD

#HARUHYPETRAIN #HaruBestGirl

Now then, on to the list of decks that were played today. Because the new Sword Art Online set was released today as well as Nisekoi, I will once again be labeling SAO as either “EN” or “JP”. If a deck has different stuff between English and Japanese but is not marked, this means that I did not identify the language the deck was in, so sorry about those! D:

btw special thanks to Jin for collecting all this information for me!

Nisekoi (JP) – G/B Sweets (Freefresh Kosaki choice)

Nisekoi (JP) – R/B/Y Key (Pendant choice)

Nisekoi (JP) – R/B Key (Pendant choice)

Nisekoi (JP) – Y/G/R Weapon/Daughter (Did not play any choice cards)

Nisekoi (EN) – B/G Kosaki Waifu

Nisekoi (EN) – Y/R

Love Live (JP) – Red Honoka-based

Love Live (EN) – G/Y

Love Live (EN) – R/Y Honoka Waifu

Love Live (EN) – Y/G/R

Love Live – R/B/Y

Love Live – Y/B

Attack on Titan – Blue Titans

Attack on Titan – Green

Attack on Titan – Yellow

Sword Art Online (EN) – Sinon Waifu

Sword Art Online (EN) – R/B

Fate Series (JP) – R/G Rin/Archer-based

Fate Series (JP) – Yellow Saber/Shirou

Fate Prisma Illya – B/R Kaleidoscope

Fate Prisma Illya – B/R Double Strike

Phantom – G/R/Y

Phantom – G/R/Y

Terraformars – G/R/Y “The Spanish”

Terraformars – R/Y

Kantai Collection (EN) – R/G

Kantai Collection – Y/B/G

Project Diva f – G/Y

Project Diva f – Green

Madoka Magica (JP) – G/R/B

Madoka Magica – G/R/B

Milky Holmes – Y/G Melodia

Milky Holmes – R/B/Y Detective

Symphogear – R/B

Symphogear – R/G Chris Waifu

Kill la Kill – R/Y

Nanoha – R/Y

Disgaea – B/R/G (Flonne Choice… I think)

Crayon Shin-Chan – R/Y

AAAAAAAAND Top EIGHT:

Nisekoi (JP) – G/B Sweets (5-1) Fate Prisma Illya – B/R Kaleidoscope (5-1) Crayon Shin-Chan – R/Y (5-1) Terraformars – R/Y (5-1) Nisekoi (JP) – Y/G/R Weapon/Daughter (5-1) Symphogear – R/G Chris Waifu (4-2) Attack on Titan – Blue Titans (4-2) Love Live (EN) – Y/G/R (4-2)

Now then let’s get into the gameplay. Today’s tournament was a massive SIX ROUNDS, so we’ve got a lot of ground to cover.

Round 1: vs. Nisekoi JP – R/B Key build

Kinda funny considering that a week ago I was like “I really hope I get to play against Nisekoi Key decks next week”. First round? I get paired vs. Nisekoi. HYPE

I started the game fairly simple, with some whatever plays. Once I hit level 1, I used two Haru CX combos to clear my opponent’s board as well as grab some cards from my clock for the midgame. My backrow was 2 copies of the new Haru global, which gives a +500 boost to every Sweets character, and gives another +500 boost for each Pendant of Promise my opponent has in their memory. Because of this, it was the perfect counter for a standard Nisekoi build. My opponent put two of his Pendants into memory to turn on his Kosakis and Marika, but this allowed my backrow to become two Global +1500s.

As I hit level 2, I noticed on the previous turn that my opponent triggered two Gates to salvage a Level 1 Marika anti-change backup AND a 2/1 Chitoge anti-change backup. It didn’t stop me from playing the 2/1 Kosaki level support, which has a Climax Combo to change into the 3/2 Kosaki (obviously this would be playing right into his Anti-changes, but…)

On my attacks, I attacked with the Kosaki first, allowing me to get my search off using her CX combo. I also Side attacked, to prevent my opponent from using Anti-change, and I could use her to deal some damage. My other characters would just crash into his Level 3 blue Kosakis so that they couldn’t be reversed by a Marika since they were already dead.

On my opponent’s turn, he was unable to hit me to Level 3. I also got another Stock Soul climax, allowing me to get even more cards into my hand via the Kosaki 3/2’s Climax Combo. He had to crash into the Kosaki last turn (because she was a massive 19500 power), and so I had a nice open lane to attack– and not have him use his Anti-Change counter.

On my next turn, I had three Harus in my hand, all of which I played (None of them got the clock shoot ability unfortunately, I milled 1 CX each time). With the help of a 1k1s Climax, I punched for 3 damage each time, with my opponent already at 3-4 to begin with. On the third hit, I took the game.

Round 2: vs. Nisekoi JP – R/B/Y Key build

Another Nisekoi matchup? Is it my birthday or something?

This match was a bit more one-sided than the previous one. He was unable to get 2 pendants into memory the entire game, which means he could not play his early Kosakis nor could he burn with his Marika.

The midgame for him consisted mainly of 1/0 CX combo Marikas and 1/1 Marika with 7500 power. The first time he played it, he topchecked a Climax, causing it to be rested. As a result, he lost attacking power for the turn which I think might’ve cost him the game.

The game was fairly straightforward from there on out. One mistake my opponent made though on his final turn was attack with Marika while he had no stock. The attack got him 1 stock, but you need 2 for the restand, so not only did she not burn, but she didn’t restand either. His attack would’ve put me at most at 3/6, so I wouldn’t have lost that turn anyway, but it was a mistake that we both noticed almost immediately. I took the game on the following turn by clock shooting his Marika.

Round 3: vs. Symphogear – R/G Chris Waifu

“Watch, Randall’s gonna hit me and I’m gonna take like a full level of damage right here”, said my opponent at the start of the game. Apparently I tend to do that to him sometimes. Hopefully it’s not so much salty as I think it is, cause he and I are good friends.

However, get hit for full levels of damage at a time is exactly what happened that game. I think I hit him for 6 on turn, and then later hit him for like 7. At some point during Level 2 he used a 2/2 Event to bring out his 3/2 Chris, but once he hit me to level 3, my 3/2 Harus made quick work of his field with their 3k buffs, even though I didn’t get to clock shoot. Again D:

He ended up getting top 8 though.

Round 4: vs. Attack on Titan – Blue Titans

There are only two ways to beat the titans. You have to either Anti-change their Colossal Titan, or you have to throw your face at the wall. This was a throw-face-at-wall kind of game.

While my opponent DID hit level 2 before I did, I left some characters on his stage because of side-attacking, and he didn’t feel like it was time to put his Colossal Combo on the board just yet, instead deciding to play some Level 1s. I took this opportunity to push for more damage with 1/0 Haru CX combos while keeping my board alive to take less damage later. Eventually I built up enough of a damage lead that I could set up for a lethal play.

My opponent started the turn at 3/0 with 2 cards in deck (all 8 climaxes out). I couldn’t really search for specific cards to play, and had to resort to slamming with whatever I had on hand. Luckily for me, I had a global +1 soul climax and three characters, and he ended up taking the 6 damage plus refresh for exact game.

He ended up getting top 8 as well.

Round 5: vs. Crayon Shin-Chan – R/Y

My opponent in the fifth round is someone I always knew as a very good Weiss player. He’s the kind of player who I think could pick up a majority of different decks in the game and now how to play them. In fact, today, he wasn’t even playing his own deck, he was using a deck owned by a friend of ours.

Nevertheless, he knew exactly what he was doing. For the first half of the game, he kept card advantage with the runner (the one with Shin’s butt on it lol), keeping it alive and always having cards to attack with. My Level 0 plays were also killed by his Level 0 suiciders, while his runner kept running around to safety.

At level 1, he used a yellow 2k1s CX combo to play a 2/1 with clock encore from his hand. For the most part, I ignored it though, instead planning for my own play at Level 2. Unfortunately for me, I completely screwed up, not remembering that Shin-Chan has an anti-change counter (RIP Kosaki 2015).

Afterwards he hit me to level 3, and he was at 2/6 going into my turn. He had been spending a good portion of the game using Gate CXs and brainstorms to get multiple copies of the 3/2 red Shin to burn me a bunch of times next turn, so I needed to get the win ASAP. Unfortunately for him, he took like 7 to the face despite refreshing on 8 climaxes. Adding that 7 to the refresh damage, and I got a win out of nowhere.

Also got top 8. Third place to be precise.

Round 6: vs. Fate Prisma Illya – B/R Kaleidoscope build

Level 0 was ordinary. Level 1, my opponent used the 1/0 Illya CX combo twice to bring out the 1/1 Kuro (this was actually a misplay that I didn’t notice. The 1/0 Illya cannot call out the 1/1 Kuro unless the Illya herself is in the front row. One of them was in the back row. But it fixed itself… sort of).

He attacked with one of the 1/1 Kuros first…. while he had only 2 stock. Thus the Kuro blew itself up (it was never supposed to be there in the first place, to be fair). We basically just went back and forth from that point on. I had quite a lot of climaxes in my hand, and didn’t draw into any of the 0/0 Haru Azusa clone to filter them out, so I think I refreshed with like 6 going back in.

As we both neared Level 3, I had to constantly check how many Class Card Sabers were in his Waiting Room. As he refreshed, he had 6 climaxes in his waiting room. He had one pants (Illya/Kuro pants) in stock, and a Class Card Saber which he salvaged with that pants. In a mass of yolo which is my opponent’s trademark playstyle, he dig through card after card after card with Illya 3/2 Draw 2 Drop 1 and Miyu topcheck X. He ended up having 2 Illyas, 1 Miyu, and 3 Class Cards, which got him a 2-burn-per-attack combo.

tl;dr I ate it. RIP 6-0 the dream

At least it wasn’t as bad as the previous round, where my opponent (the Illya player) got 4 Class Card combo for 3 burns per attack. That was dirty.

And so concludes my first Tourney Report in quite a while. I hope you guys enjoyed the read, and I also hope that you guys will try out the new Nisekoi stuff! It’s a TON of fun!

Special Thanks go out to:

Jon Flores and Kenny Kong for letting me borrow cards for the tournament

PokiMart for getting me my boxes of 2sekoi (SIGN CARD HYPE)

Desu-Nation for hosting tournament and being my sponsorino

Raymond S. for getting rekt in round 6 and causing me to sneak into 1st place via tiebreakers

All the other 38 players for making this a huge tournament that was super fun!

ALSO Expect deck profiles soon up on my channel for not only my Haru Sweets deck, but also Jon Flores will be returning to my channel to bring you guys a deck profile of his Weapon/Daughter deck, which took 5th place today! Look out for it at http://www.youtube.com/Peshkatz! See you guys next time!