Placed 3rd at a Set 4 JTL Chaos Sealed $1k Tournament at Odyssey Games
3/29: I went 4-1 in Swiss, Top Cut prize split.
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3/29 - Chaos Sealed $1k Tournament at Odyssey Games
Format: Bo3, 5 rounds with Top Cut draft, 27 players, SOR Boba leader was banned (players get to swap it for any other leader); https://melee.gg/Tournament/View/279858
Good value, even if one scrubs out, as that’s guaranteed 11 packs total (3 SOR, 3 SHD, 3 TWI, and 2 TWI packs) for $30 ($33.85 total with the Eventbrite fees). We ended up doing a Top Cut prize split, so no need to draft and play up to another three rounds of Bo3.
Alyssa played as Rey Red. Her late game units were SOR Luke Skywalker and Knight of the Republic.
Alyssa went 3-2 (#9 in standings), I went 4-1 (#3 in standings).
Deck - Bossk Blue
Supreme Leader Snoke was the only bomb card that I pulled, so I knew I wanted to go into blue villainy. I saw that I had two Seventh Sisters, so that’s why I went to red. I didn’t have a good red/blue villainy leader option though, so just settled on Bossk leader for the Aggression aspect. I only played this deck for the first round.
My leader options were:
SOR: Chewbacca, Grand Moff Tarkin
SHD: Hondo Ohnaka, Bossk
TWI: Quinlan Vos, Chancellor Palpatine (← I was tempted to try this with a blue base, but I felt it was a bit too meme-y and slow for limited.)
JTL: Admiral Piett, Darth Vader
Deck - Quinlan Blue
After Round 1, I pivoted to Quinlan Blue.
Much less mid/top end, but I wanted to see if Quinlan’s incremental value pings were better than a Supreme Leader Snoke bomb.
Matchups
Bossk Blue vs IG-88 Green 2-0
In game 1, I drew my only bounty in my starting hand. They were pretty aggro, with an Admiral Ozzel start, followed by a Outland TIE Vanguard buff and the IG-88 leader effect in the following turn. They had Encouraging Leadership and Outflank for burst damage, but I eventually controlled the board.
Quinlan Blue Vs SHD Han Green 2-0 (fellow CBG’r)
Lots of pings and board controlling. I couldn’t really deal with their space unit(s), but I just base raced them via the ground arena.
Quinlan Blue vs Sabine Green 2-0
In game 2, they floated all three resources on Turn 2. They played The Darksaber on curve on their Sabine leader. I had to run my Quinlan and another unit into it in the following turn to kill it.
Quinlan Blue vs IG-88 Green 2-0
In game 2, I did a misplay when I didn’t read their TWI Bo-Katan Kryze properly and missed that it had Saboteur while they controlled Mandalorian Warrior after I played my Village Protectors. We got to like resource 8 or so.
In the post-match discussion, I told them that I was expecting bombs, such as Maul, to show up, but they said that their deck runs very low to ground.
Quinlan Blue vs Rey Red 1-2 (fellow CBG’r)
They had a much stronger mid-late game units and more kill events than me.
This round’s results also didn’t really matter, because we were the only undefeated, so we were guaranteed to make Top Cut.
Conclusion
Tbh I didn’t expect my Quinlan Blue deck to perform that well. It had very few units for mid-late game, so I was heavily relying on being able to swarm the board and hope that my opponent also keeps playing low cost units so I can get the ping value. Idk, despite my performance, I just felt a bit bad of my deck’s overall quality while playing it.
There were two new players at the event that the EO was helping out with regarding their deck constructions.
This was our first chaos sealed event, and I’m not too big of a fan of it, because some leaders are so set/trait specific and there isn’t enough of a set’s card pool to have synergy, so it makes for some awkward decks. Good value event though.