Top 4 Kansas City Regional - 7-0 in Swiss

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Ciena Becket 1 1 0 1.0
BeckAR and Mauler 1 1 0 2.0
Top 16 in WA 57 Player Regional. 5-2 in Swiss. 6 3 5 1.0

AZDevil 288

This is the deck list I piloted to place top 4 at the Kansas City Regional on January 26th, 2019. One of the guys at my local store had been playing a similar build for the last several weeks and I didn't want to be another guy playing Vader so gave this deck a spin.

I won't go into to much detail about each round, but more so cards I thought should stay in the deck and a few tweaks I would make to potentially make the deck better.

Round 1: Bye (1-0)

Round 2: Jyn/Cassian (Win, 2-0)

Round 3: Han3/Qi'ra (Win, 3-0)

Round 4: Han3/Qi'ra (Win, 4-0) Chase Campbell

Round 5: Solo Sabine (Win, 5-0) Phillip Gamble

Round 6: Yoda/Gungan/Hired Gun/AR (Win, 6-0) Scott Gray

Round 7 Yoda/Leia2 (Win, 7-0)

I was on stream for rounds 5-7 starting at about 3 hours and 40 minutes into the stream. https://www.twitch.tv/videos/370238763

Got lucky and didn't happen to face any Vader other than a couple warm up matches I did with one of my locals during our Bye. Finished as the only undefeated in swiss and the #1 seed. Top cut matches:

Top 8: Yoda/Chewy (Won 2-0) Matt Phillips who placed top 4 at Tulsa Regional.

Top 4: Yoda/Leia2 (Rematch of Round 7 in Swiss, Lost 2-0) Robert Vontz

There were 48 players in total and lots of great matches were played. My only losses were to the eventual Winner Robert Vontz who beat Shane Martin in the mill off finale.

I played Firespray-31 in the first round of every game except for Round 6 against the 3 wide I brought out Umbaran Hover Tank. Both were great with the Ciena Ree - Adept Pilot resets and did tons of damage throughout the day. Triple Laser Turret in my opinion is the best mod in this deck as it has great sides and protects your vehicle die as a bonus. Dorsal Turret give you that ability to resolve the die at least twice on the turn you play it if not more for 1 resource. I never played more than one Handheld L-S1 Cannon in a game, but the die is great for 2 resources. Could potentially see cutting one as I was always playing it on Beckett and was wanting to spend 2 on a reset more often than playing a handheld. Targeting Astromech was okay, but I think I would of gotten more value out of another Vandalize or Probe.

For events the card that won me several games was In The Crosshairs. Had big blow out turns against guns or specials that won me games. I enjoyed Coercion and felt it was almost another Friends in Low Places for hand knowledge, but also to force my opponent into spending resources. It also would have been very useful against most of the Vader decks as I believe most were running The Price of Failure. Vandalize was a card I wanted two of most of the day just to remove the pesky Force Jump or R2 Astromech versus the Shadow Caster reset deck in Round 6. The remaining removal cards and Partnership are all pretty self explanatory and did great all day.

Overall the deck felt really good and the few adjustments I think I would make after playing it the 10 rounds would be to -1 Handheld L-S1 Cannon, -1 Targeting Astromech, -1 Coercion, +1 Vandalize, +2 Probe. It was a great day of destiny and did better than I could of anticipated for a deck I had only a few reps with. Let me know if you have any questions.

10 comentarios

Razelll 244

I am going to take a Cienna Beckett to my regional and I was wondering, why Theed over Weapons Factory Alpha? Also, do you think pulling out the Umbaran Hover Tank is the right choice against 3-wide? And would you put in a second In The Crosshairs since it won you a couple games?

Sabn512 74

did you have any games where your vehicle got mitigated off the board? Id like to run something similar but i know a lot of the guys at my local store pack a lot of vehicle mitigation such as vandalize and surgical strike.

AZDevil 288

@Razelll I found the resource from Theed Royal Palace - Naboo was more beneficial as I usually only played one of the vehicles and could gain the theed dollar multiple times. Umbaran Hover Tank was definitely the way to go verses three wide as one special hits for 9 damage. I don't think I would want a second In The Crosshairs as the three cost is pretty steep, but great when you can play it.

@Sabn512 If you watch my round 6 game I did lose Umbaran Hover Tank on turn 3 I believe. I did as much as I could removing the N-1 Starfighter die to keep my vehicle on the board. I pitched a Vandalize earlier in the game and needed it to stop an N-1 Starfighter reset from R2 Astromech, which eventually knocked my vehicle off the board. Luckily Umbaran Hover Tank had done its job and pumped out a good 12-14 damage. I think you can play around the vehicle mitigation and be fine if you know what to look for in those matchups.

Razelll 244

@AZDevil Alright, thanks for the answers.

ancienthipster 1

@AZDevil Great looking deck! I am going to give this a go. One question though, what is the benefit of Backup Muscle? Why not a third vehicle?

Venator class star destroyer! 20

@ancienthipster,backup muscle goes through shields, so it’s great against shield decks when you just need that last damage but he keeps pumping shields.

Echo7 328

How do you reliably set off the Umbaran Hover Tank special, or hit the sides you want on the Firespray-31? Looking at the build, I can't see how you're relying on anything other than luck and re-rolls (and the occasional Beckett , but I might be missing something.

Echo7 328

Looking back at that comment, it looks a bit like I'm criticizing. Sorry if it looks that way - I think it looks like a great deck - just trying to understand fully how it works. Clearly you can't be just relying on luck to go 7-0 in Swiss.

AZDevil 288

@ancienthipster Backup Muscle was great for that additional 1 damage I needed in rounds to kill off a character or knock off second change and not waste additional damage. I never really felt the need for a third vehicle with Armored Reinforcement getting me a vehicle Turn 1 every game.

@rogue6548 I was was resolving the Umbaran Hover Tank if I rolled damage as there was a good chance I would get a reset most turns. The Targeting Astromech does help focus to the special, but usually had a couple re-rolls to try and hit the special. The Tobias Beckett - Thief For Hire focus does help a lot in this aspect as well.

demorenan 30

Looks like @Poem's deck idea. It is a strong deck, but needs a good player to be with it. Congratz!