GCCG Tournament report
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:57 pm
After a brief stint with Minion last year, I decided to lose with my tried and true Fallen Saruman fetish.
Unfortunately, due to a scripting error, my perfectly legal deck was deemed illegal in GCCG, so I had to go with another. I decided to run my New Ringlord deck (the resource portion can be found at meccg.net) and REALLY lose with style.
In my first round vs. Vastor, Mionid managed to corrupt out while transferring a Binding Ring. This happened to be the same turn in which Vastor, out of the 100 cards in his deck, had both Rolled and Mouth of Sauron in his hand. The upshot was the loss of my other Binding Ring and the Precious Gold Ring I had been hoping to play that turn. I managed to get a Ring and the Scroll to Isengard, but the Ring Test was to no avail -- Vastor gets 6 points.
My next game was against HexDrake, who was running a Radagast Wolf-Squat with Roadblock hazards. Lots of Skin-Changers, Snowstorms, Long Winters; etc.
Thanks to some lucky sideboarding, I got my Promptings of Wisdom into play early enough to not be mired. Unfortunately, while Eradan was patiently waiting at the Stones for his Prompted Ranger escorts, he got nailed by a couple of Cave-Drakes, and my Dark Trysts did not reveal any Crept Alongs; he survived the first but not the second, and thus perished my Scroll.
As it turned out, though, the Scroll would not have made a difference, as I couldn't roll above a six for Ring Tests that game, anyway.
Still, in all, it was a fun experience. The nice part about any well-managed dunk decks is it puts the win squarely on the dice -- I lost both games off of the Ring Test rolls, which I don't mind. It was a fun experience and a large one -- there was even this complete stranger named Miguel who expressed some interest in learning about the game.
Unfortunately, due to a scripting error, my perfectly legal deck was deemed illegal in GCCG, so I had to go with another. I decided to run my New Ringlord deck (the resource portion can be found at meccg.net) and REALLY lose with style.
In my first round vs. Vastor, Mionid managed to corrupt out while transferring a Binding Ring. This happened to be the same turn in which Vastor, out of the 100 cards in his deck, had both Rolled and Mouth of Sauron in his hand. The upshot was the loss of my other Binding Ring and the Precious Gold Ring I had been hoping to play that turn. I managed to get a Ring and the Scroll to Isengard, but the Ring Test was to no avail -- Vastor gets 6 points.
My next game was against HexDrake, who was running a Radagast Wolf-Squat with Roadblock hazards. Lots of Skin-Changers, Snowstorms, Long Winters; etc.
Thanks to some lucky sideboarding, I got my Promptings of Wisdom into play early enough to not be mired. Unfortunately, while Eradan was patiently waiting at the Stones for his Prompted Ranger escorts, he got nailed by a couple of Cave-Drakes, and my Dark Trysts did not reveal any Crept Alongs; he survived the first but not the second, and thus perished my Scroll.
As it turned out, though, the Scroll would not have made a difference, as I couldn't roll above a six for Ring Tests that game, anyway.
Still, in all, it was a fun experience. The nice part about any well-managed dunk decks is it puts the win squarely on the dice -- I lost both games off of the Ring Test rolls, which I don't mind. It was a fun experience and a large one -- there was even this complete stranger named Miguel who expressed some interest in learning about the game.