We hinted on our Instagram that a recorded home game would be coming and here it is! Thanks to Duncan for his help. Sorry for the air conditioning noise in the background but it was hot. When it gets colder we won’t have to have it on. The match up is TaCos vs Rainbow Aphra. I wanted to try this version of Aphra over the Snoke version because I felt it might be better vs TaCos and Mill. Was I right?

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The match didn’t feel very close and TaCos beat up Aphra pretty bad. I made some questionable decisions at certain points – getting no value from Force Illusion felt very bad but I have to give credit to Duncan for playing well in that spot. No one ever wants to use Force Illusion for 1 damage and if I’m playing around Back-Up Muscle that’s what I should be doing. One of the reasons Mandos is so good is that it turns a godly card like Force Illusion and makes it average.

At one point I had a The Best Defense and could have thrown the damage into the Force Illusion once he rolled in Talzin but if he rolls badly and only shows 2 damage its going to be a waste. I chose to play Hailfire instead since he was showing 2 resources and wanted to be aggressive. The Best D is kind of poor vs TaCos in general and I was kind of giving up on playing it – its really there for the mill and Snoke decks.

Overall even if I made some different tactical moves I don’t think I would have won, it would have admittedly been closer. The match up feels very bad, they have such a high health pool, and you have a lot of indirect damage which combined with Force Illusions and Witch Magick makes it seem like an impenetrable wall at times. I was hoping that the more direct damage would help it out but the direct doesn’t matter if you can’t stack damage on one of their characters.

As far as the production of the video goes I’d give it about a C+. We had an issue with the AC background noise and next time we might try some post editorial work to remove it if possible. The supports are off camera for the Aphra deck which is slightly annoying but the dice looks very crisp besides that. There is some glare from the sleeves which I might try softening with a different light. I want to thank the Loopers out there for supporting us. We’ll try to keep improving the quality to make sure your support doesn’t go unrewarded. Thanks for watching!

-NJCuenca

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