Any of our readers who have been with us since Day 1 of TheHyperloops will surely remember my initial claims of having a deck that could take “Worlds 2017″ by storm. Unfortunately at the time the 3 of us couldn’t get tickets to worlds and missed out on trying to show our mettle during the Awakenings meta. To this day, I still firmly believe that it is / was the best deck in that format but there isn’t a real way to prove it and it doesn’t matter any more. Fast forward to the 2017 North American Championship and I felt that I had created another Rainbow Monstrosity in “Rainbow Nines” and with some hard-work and fortune BobbySapphire and I took down 1st and 2nd Place at the biggest Star Wars Destiny event (as far as attendance). I fail to make top cut at US Nationals (Nova) a couple of weeks later as the 12th seed (both Round 7 and 8 I believe) and whilst I’d like to blame the Tournament Organizers for changing the structure from 7 Rounds Cut to Top 16 – TO – 8 Rounds Cut to Top 8 instead, it’s my own fault for losing twice… #ShouldaBeen16. A couple of Regionals go by where we introduce 2 new decks to the meta (7th Sister / Ciena/ NS {brOTK} and Rey / Aayla {Stairs}) on the groups way to snagging both spots to make it an all Hyperloops Finals in the NJ and CT Regional.

Calm Before the Storm

So we’re now in mid to late March with no events in sight besides a PAX East Galatic Qualifier in April and then Worlds 2018 in May. Things get progressively busier for our tiny group in regular life and we’re wondering if there will be a Rules Reference Guide change that will blow the whole meta up so we set off in different directions to learn new decks in case of changes. I had been internally banned from playing brOTK in the hopes that it would die down and not get a nerf bat so that we could pick the deck back up with some updates and go crush Worlds with it. I had been playing a million different variations of Yoda decks and felt that there was something there that I’m just missing to make it the best deck in the format. Ahsoka Yoda and Zeb Yoda were the more combo oriented versions I kept trying to make work, but I very much dislike the smaller health pools and feeling like I’m dead in the water once I lose a character. I knew that I wanted Yellow for Friends in Low Places and Easy Pickings because both of those cards just put you in such a good place, but I also wanted very strong removal so I decided to trade in Zeb for a Wookiee Warrior and Padawan which seems a bit blasphemous at first, but during my theory craft, it made all the sense in the world. Round 1 getting Ancient Lightsaber or Vibroknife for a single resource would set me up to be able to cast removal and I’d gain access to Flank which is one of if not the best removal in the game when you are sitting on 3 characters and most other players only have 2. I take the awful looking pile of crap to PAX East and I think I go 3-2 (might have been 4-2 but don’t remember), but realistically that can be some growing pains and me not being familiar with the deck. My losses were to Vehicles (brutal match for me) and an untimely death to Stairs where my opponent rolled out a natural 5 melee with a one upgrade Rey and I had no removal in hand for it. I go back to the drawing board and make adjustments to the list that make it feel better and try again at the other Standard GQ 2 days later. I again go 3-2 (this one i think was 4-2 but doesn’t matter), but my losses are to Boba 7th in time and then Sabine Ezra whilst living on the wrong side of probability (I couldn’t roll 2 damage? with 3 dice and 3 rerolls), so I leave that weekend feeling dejected about the deck, but I know there is good stuff there, I just have to figure it out. We call the deck PYW PYW (pew pew like the gun noise) because Padawan Yoda Wookiee and I’m testing the crap out of it and it is feeling solid, and then I’m just constantly getting into close end games time after time and not being able to close out so I know the deck isn’t for me. It’s not a meta breaker if I keep having to go to coin flips against most decks and win based on probability. I tried to be Owen Turtenwald with his 45% Zoo deck, but it just wasn’t in the cards. For context Owen Turtenwald is a great Magic The Gathering player and he once played a deck at a Grand Prix that he said was 45/55 against the entire field, which means he has no good matchup and no bad matchup but he’s always behind and the theory was that his skill and understanding would make up for the negative percentage points and get him wins; He went 9-0 in Day 1 but Day 2 wasn’t so good to him and went 1-5 to make Top 64.

I’m now deck-less and have no idea what to play. B-Saph has been on a rampage with his Mill deck and i’m heavily considering making a swap to it even though I don’t ever see myself playing Mill in this game unless it becomes super overpowered. My reasoning is time procedures aren’t beneficial to it, top cut is 90 minutes which is 30 minutes per game instead of 35, and when you “God Roll” with Mill, it doesn’t win you the game right then and there. I definitely wanted Yellow and Blue Hero and access to Yoda so I start working on Hondo Yoda a bit and am really loving Energy Slingshot in the deck and think that it’ll fix the more questionable matchups like Sabine Ezra (which it did in testing), but I was still losing randomly to blow out removal and it didn’t feel great having a bunch of expensive questionable removal myself. I had set out in search of the greatest Force Wave Yoda deck that had yellow as well and required there to be 2 characters to carry the Force Wave. I kept looking at silly things wondering if i could make it be good enough with only 3 character dice that had damage on it to start and I really just wasn’t content with pay sides since it would slow me down. I was going through my library of theory crafted decklists and saw my old eKanan, eEzra, Rookie Pilot gun deck from EaW and decided that Yoda in the place of Kanan makes a good swap and I can just update it to be more “new school” with vehicles. I had played some eYoda/eRose/Jawa support deck in trilogies so I already had an idea of how i’d need to play it if vehicle based but since I start with more damage sides, if I had a couple DH-17’s to smooth out the vehicles cost base, and double Force Wave since Ezra can carry one if Yoda gets attacked so then I should be good to go. I played it for a few games and won every game I think but never looked at the deck again until a week + later when everything I was playing felt terrible and I want back to the drawing board with only one week left before Worlds. I picked it back up and shot it over to the play group along with a few other lists that seemed to have merit. I was told that I have a hard on for DH-17 and that I was crazy, but I lobbied for it being an amazing card that people stopped using for no good reason and it belongs there because I was all ranged unlike normal Rainbow Vehicles.

I got some testing in and terrorized Reflex’s Sabine List with just a couple DH-17’s and the group think on DH-17 was forced to change. It didn’t mean that the deck was good, but it was at least a good start. I played B-Saph in one game against Mill to see if it still kept the bad match there and I ended up winning relatively easily due to threatening resource theft with Ezra’s special which kept him off of using removal and I picked his hand apart with Friends in Low Places and Scruffy Looking Nerf Herders to make sure I was in the clear. Once again, not a bunch of games, but that I could do that at all felt great and I pretty much locked my deck in right there and was going to grind out the testing to tighten up the screws and have a decently well-oiled machine. B-Saph had tested the list a few times because he wasn’t locked into Sabine yet and got smashed against Stairs (Rey2 / Aayla) three times in a row and called it a wrap and that he wouldn’t play the deck. I was concerned that he wasn’t playing the deck properly. In a future coaching session against stairs we ran into a similar issue, but it was a close game and there were some decision tree options made that I wouldn’t have taken with the main one being playing a Fang Fighter instead of a Resistance Bomber since I wanted to smash the opponent for 12 damage by using the die twice instead of just 6. NJCuenca made some initial changes before playing the list that were pretty blasphemous to me (cut Force Illusions, DHs and Resistance Bombers), but he ended up reverting back for the most part and I adopted his Rally Aid’s inclusion after several games of feeling “poor” at times and C-3P0 being dead / not super useful.

Deck List

I won’t keep you in suspense any longer; Below you can find the deck that I ended up piloting at Worlds. I originally called it Rainbow PSP (Pink shit and peppers), but the YOUR Destiny Podcast group called it Drive By Shooting and i liked that better.

This is no longer it’s FINAL FORM, but it was where I arrived after a few days worth of testing that I was able to get in. I personally feel that the deck is the best deck in the format hands down (after some minor tweaks). We have a bunch of consistent dice, a bunch of very strong removal, a busted resource engine, and all 4 Hand peek and rip removal cards that we can pack. The deck gives you a lot of flexibility in how you want to play the round out since you can decide to just ramp out more dice, turtle with removal, or just try to show a bunch of damage sides and spike people off of the table. I have breakdowns and V-Logs about it on our Discord, so I won’t be going over it too much here.

Worlds – Day 1A

So we arrived by plane on Wednesday and the plane was late due to a storm and needing to change the route and fly into Canada so by the time we got in we just went straight to our AirBnB and couldn’t stop at FFG for our badges. B-Saph asked what I wanted for food and I told him “whatever is fine” and the man picked sausages and as I looked at the list of available items I began to realize that it was the worst mistake and I should’ve just picked food that I wanted. I picked a cool sounding one and then asked for it to be completely plain and cried at the $8 sausage that wasn’t convention food. We got some games in and he proceeded to have Ezra beat survive through my 8 dice for 3 rounds and ended up beating me after I had traded my Ezra and like 3 damage for his Sabine. I seemed to have a very strong Sabine matchup and I think it was the only one I lost so I was okay with it.

Thursday (Day 1A) was BobbySapphires day so we went and got badges and stuck around for moral support in Round 1 then ran off to do pods at the Radisson. I needed a ton of testing to get real tweaks in, but more often than not, I can just make minor adjustments based on flow and feeling and end up just fine. I did a single 8-man pod then got in like 3 more 4-man ones and hadn’t lost a game but had some relatively close calls. I was really loving the DH-17’s so somewhere before this I had cut the 2nd Force wave for a Holdout Blaster and ended up cutting 1 of the Resistance Bombers for a 2nd one prior to doing Swiss. The 4 man pods were relatively stacked since it was with Chris Allroggen (German Nationals Champ) and Drew Warren (VA Regional Winner?) and then my buddy Yodaz (Undefeated in Swiss at MD Regional I think or X-1). Chris and Drew were on Hondo Yoda and I got to put the deck through the grinder and it seemed to be completely unwinnable for them or at least it was from my view. Having super positive matchups against both Sabine and Yoda/Hondo made me feel much better about going into Worlds with a “random pile”. We grab some grub from Joe Senser’s and then go back to Reflex’s place where I get some more testing in and beat up Serdapi (Regional Winner and guy who made the 4 wide vehicles deck in EaW meta) who had Yoda Hondo who couldn’t figure out why I was winning the match at first and wanted to run it back a couple of times to realize that it wasn’t a fluke. He later ended up running the list as well and had an extra day to test because he played on Day 1C, spoiler, he 5-1’d to make Day 2 but ran into Stairs during Day 2 TWICE back to back to end up 0-2 drop. That could’ve ended up being me, so I had some luck going to dodge that.

Worlds Day 1B

Friday arrives and it’s GO TIME! I send out the Bat Signal to see if anyone knows where I can get a milkshake, because I have an odd superstition about starting the day out right with one. JediGeekGirl pulls through clutch (she’s great!) and stops at Dairy Queen and meets me outside so I can pound down the Banana flavored milky greatness. I started off 1-0 due to my Bye that I got for winning NA Champs and now I’ve got a milkshake in me so I’m ready to start “gunning” people down. I don’t expect most people to know what’s going on in my deck or to think that they’ll have tons of time because the only versions of that character lineup that have been public were decks with HUGE vehicles and the deck starting off very slow.

Round 2 (1-0) I get paired with Vader1 Royal Guard and it’s a relatively big surprise. I really don’t like losing a card every round and I don’t know what to expect but I assume that i’ll be okay. My opponent seemed like a good guy, but he seemed a bit nervous and ended up passing instead of claiming the battlefield (I had control of Weapons Factory Alpha) at the end of Round 1 which put me way ahead going into the 2nd Round with another discounted Vehicle. I made quick work of Vader after dancing around his removal in Round 3? and the game was over.

Round 3 (2-0) I get paired up with teammate NJCuenca who decided to run the same deck. I see my opening 5 cards and keep all 5. I do him dirty and do 10 damage Round 1 into his Yoda. Ezra had 2 shields and he Rally Aided into the Force Illusion and put it on Ezra so I couldn’t one shot him. I had Friends in Low Places’d him and left his FiLP which took my caution, but I had double T-47 and Rally aid and natural rolled the 10. He was in a pretty bad spot and the end of Round 2 had both Yoda and his Rookie Pilot dead. He did what he could to try to claw out of the hole by jamming down more vehicles but his doom came soon enough. Nick had a tough time and ended up 3-3 to miss Day 2.

Round 4 (3-0) I got to play against another Premier Player in Nick Obee AKA Tacster who was on Rainbow 4 Character Vehicles. In our talks before the round he mentioned that it wouldn’t be a good matchup for him if we played because I could ramp better and consistent Ezra theft is a huge problem. He couldn’t get a vehicle down and I kept him off of resources as much as I could. He landed an Aftermath and I didn’t want to actually kill any of his dudes because I didn’t want him to start getting Vehicles down. He couldn’t string damage together well, but he also prevented me from doing big damage strings when he could. We went to the long game and I had a ton of vehicles down and chipped away at all of his guys and I either killed all 4 in the same round or had killed 3 of them at the end when it no longer mattered, and mopped up the last character the next round. I literally could do no wrong that match and every Rally Aid with a 50% shot for a vehicle had him pick the vehicle from my hand and when he ditched down to 1 card with a Rally Aid available, I Scruffied for Support and took the vehicle (I had FiLP’d earlier and knew it was in hand). Obee ended up going 5-1 to make Day 2 and eventually 8-1 to make Top 16 if not mistaken. The guy is a great player.

Round 5 (4-0) I end up playing a fellow Looper who is on Boba 7th. He starts out hot with some big damage and Ezra ends up taking 5 whilst he has a shield and I’m sitting with a Force illusion in hand. I absolutely hate casting Illusion before some damage is on because then people switch targets and I feel like I wasted it and the resource. He gets a backup muscle and I end up making a misplay with Illusion the next round where I put it on Ezra but had a field medic to bait the backup the prior round, but he has a 2 melee and a 1 melee and deals the 1 melee first which would put Ezra to 6, so then I crack the illusion and he dies to the 2. A big chunk of the game could be attributed to not having that Illusion available for Yoda later who ended up taking a 5 shot at some point and I may have been able to actually claw out of that if I could FI that damage later. I also ran into a situation where he kept rerolling for damage and I was playing around an Intimidate by getting 1 shield at a time. I end up giving up on playing around the Intimidate and he jams it down and it’s game over. Moonset (Discord name because i suck at spelling his real name) ended up going 5-1 on the Day and made Top 16 as well. Super proud of you man!

Round 6 (4-1) – I’m a bit antsy at this point because my reflection on the previous round leaves me disappointed with myself because of the mistakes. Pairings go up and I’m playing Jack Broomell from Golden Dice, who also happens to be a fellow Looper and on Sabine. Even though I feel pretty great about the Sabine matchup, anything can happen and I let him know that I’m okay with him rolling out decently, but he isn’t allowed to nut roll out 8’s and 11’s. I joke about not wanting to be playing him right now and then BOOM! a judge says to not start playing because the round is getting re-paired!

Round 6 #2 (4-1) – I don’t remember a whole lot about this match, but it was against Thrawn Talzin which I felt would be a bit scary from the removal perspective, but pretty good for me from the “this dude is going to be too poor to do shit” perspective, well unless he hits a chance cube. I think i control his resources a bit and he ends up using Best Defense on two of my dice, so i jam 6 damage into Thrawn. I can’t remember if it was Witch Magick, Rise Again, or Force Illusion that I saw from him, but the expectation was that I could quickly get Thrawn off of the table and probably lose my Ezra but then be able to control Talzin out or string in big damage and take her out. Thrawn dies and I think my Ezra lived long enough to make sure he couldn’t pay for any Rocket Launchers or Force Wave die resolutions. A couple big damage strings and the game was over. We did it guys, 5-1!

Loops Dinner

We go to the Rose Vine Hall where we had the Loops catered dinner and hang out until food gets served. Great Food and Great People make for a good time. I want to cry when I look at the bill (it’s below), but I would 100% do it again if I had to replay the situation. It was a blast talking with everyone and stuffing our faces. Long live the Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwiches! Fuck you Ham and Roast Beef! Who the hell puts Tomato’s in their Quesadilla’s, gross! Drew got blamed for breaking his glass, but it turned out that it was Paul, both are from Arrow Brook Gaming. When it’s time to have someone “Hold your Beer”, just remember … don’t let Paul do it! Calomino bought us into a Baseball game where we both did terrible the 1st time around and then we both tried to go absolutely broken after and beat the high score but I got robbed and that’s the story I’m sticking to. The chicken was on point, the sausages not so much, the appetizer platter got devoured except for the Onion Rings which makes me always wonder who really eats those, because I sure as hell don’t.

Worlds Day 1C

I meet up with Jonathan Magnuson + Brian Lindberg from Destiny Council and Mr BB8 himself Eric Wainright + his plus 1 Eugene for the Star Wars Destiny Disc Golf World Championship. It’s hole 18 with me and Eric tied and some crazy long shots and I don’t want to be co-champions so I go for the super long putt and whiff hard, I miss the followup long putt for the Co-Champion tie and instead tie for 2nd with J-Mag. I kind of regret not just going for the easy par on the hole, but in my book, you play to win so I have to go for it.

I meet up with the team for lunch (minus Blake because he played today) and then we go back to the house to grind out games in preparation for Day 2. There was a ton of analysis going down on the 6-0 decks to get B-Saph prepped for his likely opponent’s and I flipped my shit at the Stream due to the sub-par play from the “elites” and went to the kitchen to test because I couldn’t watch that garbage any longer. Tons of inefficient / bad play and I’m super critical of both myself and others. I don’t look forward to reviewing one of my streamed matches because I know I played bad and I will have to beat myself up over it.

I spent most of my time helping the other Loopers that made Day 2 get prepped for their bad matchups. One of my major regrets was not getting adequate testing against Stairs (Rey Aayla) so that i could better understand how to play the match. I called it a bad match and moved on with my life and just hoped to not have to play against it.

Worlds Day 2

I go in knowing that i need to win Round 1 and then just winning one of the next two should put me in a real strong spot for being Top 16. Round 1 I get paired with Obi Maz and we were both awful. Like we played relatively well, but we both did silly shit to miss lethal. Round 1 I put 8 damage into Maz to leave her at 1 hp. She gets 3 shields and I resolve 3 damage into her to “kill” her. As soon as I say it, i ask WTF is wrong with me, since i’ll have to waste an additional die now to finish her off and I could have easily just done it later in the round and only did it then to prevent me from missing it up later …. the irony. Oddly enough, my opponent is later showing 3 on Obi, +1 on shoto, and +2 on shoto and resolves the 3 into a Rookie Pilot who had 4 damage and 1 shield, to leave him at 1 HP. He later has to concentrate his +1 to a Base 1 to try to kill the Rookie, but i grab a shield to prevent that. We are playing so methodically that we go to time and I win on damage. I was pretty confident that I could kill the Obi anyways, but time was called when he was out of things to do and I quickly saw that I’d be ahead and did enough damage after counting how much I needed. Mission Complete 6-1!

I play against one of my locals, Jeff who also happens to be a Looper, but it turns out that he was X-2. I go double check that I got the pair down and I did and i cry inside a bit. Tiebreakers matter a ton and it means that I’m most likely going to have to X-0 Day 2 to make Top 16. He is on Qui-gon Yoda and he’s seen what my deck does already and we play a pretty close game. I put him in a position where I have 4/5 damage showing with the ability to make it 5/6 damage via fixing my die and know that he’ll claim to put a shield on Qui-gon to keep him out of reach and I’ll kill Yoda, but he instead claims to put a shield on Yoda and missed my extra damage or miscounted and loses Qui-gon which ended the game. He played pretty tight most of the game and only ran into an issue with him being greedy for damage and not being able to hit double base melee and after each reroll I ended up removing a die because I had like 3 flanks/OC/pinned down in hand. I’m 7-1 but it’s not super amazing, but if I lose next round there is still an outside shot.

This time I’m playing against Tobias Winter and I have absolutely no idea who he is, but he has an accent and talked about it being the best time to run into me because it pretty much doesn’t matter who wins due to the tiebreaker being such a good one. I explain that I got paired down and he immediately scoops to me to get both of us into Top 16. So that actually didn’t happen that way at all, I just thought it sounded collusion-y enough to make someone’s rage meter fill up, before they had to bring it back down. Tobias was on Thrawn Talzin and that immediately made me feel good about the match. I’ve played a decent amount of that deck so I knew the feelings and situations for it. The match didn’t go the way you’d expect. He seemed a bit flustered by the Ezra threatening to choke with a disrupt and he had cast a piece of removal on it which was actually a waste of a card if i was going to disrupt his resource anyways. I don’t think I did much of anything damage wise Round 1 because he spent time getting money and i stole it away. I think I killed Talzin round 2 with like 10-12 damage or hit her very hard and let her witch magick. I don’t remember him getting much damage in because I controlled his resources and he ended up with a Thrawn on 2 focus, a DH-17, and a rocket launcher die but no resources and no rerolls. After talzins death I made short work of Thrawn and I was 8-1 and automatically in Top 16. Tobias also ended up making Top 16 on tiebreakers so it did work out for both of us.

I find out that the FFG food place has these bad boys and I try to re-energize on ice cream so I can gain super powers!

Top 16

Hello darkness, my old friend! So Round 6 #1 from Day 1B has returned to see who would win. I’ll be playing against Jack Broomell, Golden Dice Podcast and fellow Looper, who is on Sabine Ezra and I’m not as concerned at this point because it’s a Best of 3 and getting nut rolled twice is just super unlikely. We are the #7 and #10 seed and there was no stream love. I’m not quite sure how much Jack had gotten to see of my deck, but he had access to my list and he had the same list as B-Saph so I was familiar with it already. The games were honestly a blur to me, but I was chucking damage at Sabines head and took her out Round 2/3 of each game. I think in one of the games I ended up doing 5 to pop Second Chance and another 5 to defeat her in Round 3 and the other I was able to keep him off of Hyperspace Jump as well as the 3 resources to cast Second Chance (he had already overwrote) and knocked her off the table. It’s a pretty bad matchup for Sabine so there wasn’t a whole lot he could do without the reps to know what would happen. I’m always proud when a Looper does well and there isn’t much that you can hope to do some times, this could have easily been me playing against Stairs and getting thrashed.

Top 8

Brendan Devitt, another Looper doing us all proud, was also on Sabine Ezra and took down Luke Magnuson’s Obi Maz in Top 16. Looper v Looper so we went in knowing there would automatically be a Looper in Top 4. We had ran this match several times back at the house previously and I got to terrorize him with Scruffy Looking Nerf Herder to rip apart his life saving measures so he was well prepared for my antics. Game 1 and then the other part of it and Game 2 from the TheChanceCube Twitch stream. They were slow and powerful games as we danced around each other’s options. He definitely made me follow decisions trees that I’d prefer to avoid since it made me give Sabine a ton of time but I was fortunate that the God Roll came when I was already hiding in a turtle shell of Force Illusions. I won’t spoil the games so that you may watch it for yourself.

Top 4

I had a good amount of time before it was decided who my opponent would be, but I quickly found out that it would be Stairs (Rey Aayla) or B7 (Boba 7th) and it wasn’t going to be a great time no matter which one I faced. I had lost to a B7 in the swiss rounds and the Stairs match seemed to be my auto-loss, but I wouldn’t go down without a fight. Mads Utzon (Stairs) from YOUR Destiny Podcast ended up taking down Matei Dragne (B7 / another fellow Looper whose report should be going out tomorrow). I small talk a bit with Claus (YOUR Destiny Podcast) who I’ve talked with a few times online and am curious if they’ve run the match at all since I want to pry some information as to if they knew the match up was bad for me and the answer I got was pretty much “you know we did a little bit of it and it was okay” but not in those words, so I immediately knew they didn’t know I was going in the underdog. Stairs tends to be the underdog against regular Rainbow Vehicle decks because they can both turtle and the Vehicle deck will build to critical mass while throwing out blowout removal after blowout removal, where as mine was all single target removal and more focused on direct burst so I could get set back pretty heavily from their removal. I go in hoping that Mads will misunderstand the match and allow me to steal a couple games. I haven’t re-lived the streamed match, because I know i’ll be angry at myself with the lack of reps and understanding. The link was above in case that wasn’t understood.

Game 1

There was a lot of feeling each other out going on throughout the match. I chose a few odd lines of play which I kind of regret now, but they made sense with the info that I had at the time so I can’t be too upset with myself. The game reached it’s pinnacle in a Aayla vs Rookie fight. I had 5 damage showing on the table and a Fang Fighter on an irrelevant side and resolved the damage to put Mads in a tough spot. Aayla would have 2 health left, but could Ancient to heal 2 and then i’d be able to claim, and try to kill him on rookie pilot roll out with 2 guns OR he could claim right there and grab a shield to put Aayla to needing 3 damage to die with my Fang Fighter available and me having 3 cards in hand. He went with probability there which was that he’d live through the round 60% of the time and would lose and die the other 40%. It was the gamble that I was hoping for because I didn’t think that I’d honestly be able to survive / get enough damage in the next round due to only have those 3 cards left and no deck. I went for it and couldn’t get it. 0-1 in the set.

Game 2

I’m behind a game and I take the shields again and put 2 on Ezra this time which was my first mistake in this game. He decided to go straight after Yoda which is fine at times but not based on my hand. I try to “next level” him when he was a force speed focus and double 2 indirect on Aayla when i had an Easy pickings in hand but was concerned about actually losing one of my guys to 7 direct due to there being an Ancient on Rey and me not having more available resources. He ended up sniffing out my plan or just resolving it for the sake of it and it started my path of doom. I got mopped up pretty quickly and the Hyperloops storm never reached critical mass with BobbySapphire also taking the L. Time to grab our prizes and get out of there.

Fin

BobbySapphire and I didn’t get to live the absolute dream that is another Hyperloops Finals and scooping it up to run away and make our flights. It was a good run while it lasted and it’s really hard to hope for more in anything with an element of luck to it. Leave your “all” on the table and just try to pick up the pieces when things don’t work out and get read for the next one. We’re on to Indianapolis! (explanation linked, but if you know football, then it’s “We’re On To Cincinnati“)

Shoutouts go to everyone at Worlds that I met, talked with, ate with ,etc. Too many people to list, but I especially need to thank my team for being there, Outrun for shuttling me to the house and the airport like a mad man, JediGeekGirl for the Milkshake, my pod mates for playing real decks and dealing with my crazy nonsense pile of a deck, the Uber drivers that actually showed up to pick us up (F U uber drivers that tried to make us late by taking our trip and just leaving us hanging!), Maggie? the ladies house that we stayed at in exchange for digital green cloth, our waiter at the Loops dinner who didn’t charge us for the broken glass and definitely didn’t know I took 6 PB&J sandwiches home with me, and all the Loopers because we have an amazing community that keeps me motivated to try make both them and ourselves the best of the best. You all are awesome! Thanks for reading and kudos if you did it all in one sitting.

~HonestlySarcastc

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