The Tournament:

The tournament was a lot of fun and its always great to see the Maryland players. I drove down with Joe from Highlander who ended up making Top 4 as well, which was really cool. Also shout out to Platform for trading me the Prime kit box, best prize from the day.

Once the tournament got under way they announced we had 35 total players, which would mean 6 rounds of swiss with a cut to top 8. Games and Stuff ran a really smooth event with barely any time between rounds.

Round 1 – Piett/3x First Order Storm Trooper – Win (1-0)

My opponent round 1 hadn’t been playing much Destiny over the past few months, but decided to come out for the Prime, which was great to see. His deck never really got going and I was able to take the game.

Round 2 – eLot/eSatine/Han – Win (2-0)

This was a really cool deck that came out of the day and I ended up playing his friend in the Top 8. The deck was trying to either mill or kill. In this game he was able to ramp extremely hard into double Entourage, double Hired Muscle, and a Fickle Mercenaries. In the end, I was able to squeak out the final kill before his ramp could take out Rey.

Round 3 – Rufus McDufus from L8 Night Gaming – eZeb/eJyn – Win (3-0)

Rufus’ dice never really cooperated for him. There was always a modifier that he couldn’t pair. I got a lot of value out of double Soresu Mastery and Untamed Power to almost always remove the base ranged side.

Round 4 – Robert – Reylo – Win(4-0)

This was the first of my games on the Golden Dice Stream, which you can find here.

Round 5 – Menion – eBail/eLor/Anakin – Loss (4-1)

My second game on Stream. Menion was playing his same mill deck that he took to a top 64 finish at Worlds. He wrote about his deck previously on our page and you can check that out here.

Round 6 – Krysis from Discard 2 Re-roll – ePalp/eWatto – Win (5-1)

This game was to guarantee making the top cut. Krysis had a bit of a weak opening hand with only 2 abilities. I was able to race out damage and discard one of his Bacta’s at the end of Round 1. I got into a situation at the end of Round 2 where I had already done 10 damage and had a Mind Extraction in hand. I claimed early, but Krysis played a Protective Suit to prevent the Mind Extraction. In the end I was still able to get the kill early in Round 3.

Top 8 – Dirk – eLor/eSatine/Han (Win 2-0)

Game 1 started with Dirk playing a Han’s Blaster on Han and rolling out into 5 damage into Kylo. Thankfully he didn’t have Entourage and his ramp kind of stalled there. Once I killed Han he didn’t have a lot of threatening dice and I was able to come away with the win. Game 2 I was able to control his Entourage dice and come away with the win again. Dirk posted his deck on the database here. Pretty cool idea that got him into the Top 8.

Top 4 – Robert – Reylo (Win 2-0)

Once the Top 4 shook out, we knew that we were playing for the Worlds seat since the other two in the Top 4 already had theirs. Rob was trying to make it to the Ravens game after the tournament so we were playing really fast to try and get him out of there.

Game 1 I was able to burst down his Kylo and protect my own. Game 2 – My ramp was really good in this game. I used both of my Luke’s Trainings by Round 2 and ended up with a Niman Mastery and Untamed Power on each of characters. The removal from both Untamed Powers was too much.

Final – Menion – eBail/eLor/Anakin (Loss 0-1)

Menion and I both had long drives ahead of us, so we decided to play a best of 1 for the final. This game was also streamed. I thought everything started off in my favor with him getting no upgrades down Round 1. It collapsed pretty quickly after that as he was able to ramp and control. An Easy Pickings of both my Kylo dice on double special really swung the game back in his favor. Well played by Menion and congratulations on the second win.

In the end my only two losses on the day were to Menion with a final record of 9-2. Going to the Las Vegas Open, I feel like Reylo is in a really strong place. If I was going, I would consider playing this again with a few tweaks to the list. I’m not sure if something needs to be added or changed to beat mill or if I just can’t beat Menion.