The following are the notes I took during the event - this has not been edited, but could be entertaining regardless. #likecommentandsubscribe
Round 1: Fallen Angel over Geppetto and Share Bear, find tons of strong Frogs and Summons early, poly + Kiss into Womabats, but never find an XP spell or other scaling things. Poly into an Ashwood on 5.1, and go trees mostly successfully, Pan’s Shadow goes Puff PUff and gets 4th, Muerte finds a Good Boy and rules the lobby, outstatting me twice and leaving me in 3rd. Treasures were Fancy Pants, Fool’s Gold, Helm, Staff, (from two Nian triples), ending on Spear and SoFI for the last fight.
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Round 2: My computer fritzes and I start the game in Round 2 with a random hero. Luckily its Charon. And I get a bunch of Wizard’s Familiars, including Kidnapping a golden one, so I’m able to stabilize at a high life total. I don’t find any spell treasures or Monster Books, but I’m strong enough to win a Wish fight at 5.0, and build into pumpkin/doombreath. Unfortunately Merlin is my finals opponent, and out-techs me with lucky Lightning Dragon hits on my Gold Pumpkin every time (or attacking it normally the one round I sneak it into slot 4), and a Soltek to protect his huge spellweavers from my Doombreaths. Our first fight I lose a 50/50, and 3 rounds later I finish in 2nd.
Round 3: The Fates over Cursed King. My first shop is Mim, Tiny, Bossy, Shrink Spell. I go with Bossy, and end up locking the shop every round until 3.2 even though I buy the 3rd bossy on 2.2. Bossy gives me Faire Tale, and I triple up a Mim as well, which (along with 2x Black Cat and some random dwarves like Doubly and Amy) gives me enough strength to win a Wish fight and get to L6 3 xp ahead. I also
poly into an Ashwood, so I go directly to Trees (with a slight detour to grab a Tweedle for immediate strength), Knighting that Ash and eventually finding enough pieces to beat Mirri, even though my treasures up to the last fight are Fairy Tale, Ring of Meteors (because I might have gone Dwarves), and Ring of Regeneration (which made me feel better, but I finished at life total > rounds, so it didn’t actually do anything). On the last fight I replaced one with Ivory Owl, and got 1st.
Round 4: Horde Dragon, Morgan, Pan’s Shadow, Charon.I take Morgan, since I’m doing well, and don’t need a high roll, just more 2nd and 3rd. I go into a standard double Mim, cat, peep start with a spell weaver, and I hit exactly 20 hp during level 4, grabbing Deck. At level 5 I find a The End to go back above 20, and add an Aeon to my board of double Fancy Pants Lady of the Lake. At level 6 it looks like I’m going Trees, with an early Ashwood, but Morgan gives me a 9th Book, and a Genes Wish knighthoods my Monster Book, so I pivot back into Mages. In the final 2, I lose a fight to an non-upgraded pumpkin, and it puts me at 3, giving me Mimic, which is enough to win the last one. 1st place again
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Round 5: Gep, Grann, Drac, Piper. I take Piper, again not needing to high roll. After a normal piper start, I’m taking some damage throughout the midgame while I grow a spell weaver and pick up a couple Sporkos and gold up a Poly. On 5.0 I slay into a Bearstein, but I’m on 9 health. I’m able to pick up some strong summons (2 Bears, Golden and Normal Flies), but just before 6.0 I run into double Lightning Dragon Slay w/ Drac’s Saber _and_ a piggomorph. So, I’m going to lose, clearly, but then the fight RNG is very bad, with Bearstein dying first, so I don’t even get a big Time Flies, and Piggo/Dragon hitting both Sporkos as well, so I don’t even have a ranged support to try and fight though the pile of medium stats (I have Eye of Ares and Ring of Rage). I manage to trade with some things, but the dragons grow _just_ enough from slay and saber to triple trade with my now ~10 atk bears, and I die in 5th place.
Round 6: Jack, Granny, Morgan, PM. Going with Morgan again to lock up Day 2 with 6 points needed. I have a Wizards Apprentice start, do normal early game things while accumulating two pollywogs for later golden 6-drop equity. I grab Sporkos and scam pieces, and eventually get Lance to proc, polly to slay, and take a bunch of damage from I don’t remember, but many golden supports and end up getting a gold Grumblegore, a L5, and a L6 treasure all as I hit level 6. I grab a Staff and an Owl to go with my SoFI, and start collecting pumpkins. Unfortunately I die shortly thereafter to Skip on dragon slay, where I miss the 33%er to have the second Jorm attack my Apple Tree after I hit the first one with Medusa, and my second pumpkin (the first obviously died to Dragon) doesn’t give me the scam I need to get through it. 5th place again.
Round 7: Just need 7th place. Fates, Horse, Evella, PM. Clearly we take the mistress of 2nd place, and go with Evella. I get a normal evella start with a cat and some level 3 evil ranged, pick up a Sporko on L4, and some casual XP. I eventually get lucky with a Poly and get an early Herc into Embiggening stone, wich is enough, in conjunction with a Dragon Slay Loki to clean out the lobby. I find a Soltek once we’re top 2, and that stuffs both Dragon attacks, letting my Doombreath kill both his Babbas, and leaving my trees to clean up easily for the win!
Day 2
Round 1: Fallen Angel over Geppetto and Mad Catter. Starting with an Egg over neutral dwarves against Piper. Safe. All good start, with a Frog and selling Egg for Stag ^ Romeo on 3.0. Lock for Wish on 3.2, but didn’t win. I don’t find a comp for a long time, and especially don’t find any treasures. I have kinda sorta some tree stuff going on when I hit 6, and find Pumpkin and Echowood (taking the first, but not the second), but no Ash and end up with a kinda bad scam board, and lose or win some close games before being crushed by double gold Bearstein from Piper (who won the lobby shortly thereafter). 4th place finish to start the day
Round 2: Gep, Evella, Pants, Skip. Taking Evella. Apparently I was in position to just play mono-Geppetto if I wanted. Beautiful start with Black Cat, lock Minotaur and roll. Which turned into buy 2nd cat and roll into Mim + Cutpurse. Just an ideal opening for Evella, and good enough to crack Apoc’s Egg T2. I add a spellweaver at 3.0, and then lose two in a row to the weaver getting attacked first among my back row. Then I pick up some additional ranged backline, and do some dragon stuff, but keep losing by inches until I eventually die in 7th with a newly acquired Radiant Prism (over Mirror Mirror and Excalibur, with a board + shop that did nothing with Mirror and 2x Time Flies in hand to go with Prism)
Round 3: Fates, Evella, Morgan, CT. Going with Fates - we aren’t quite at the point of needed 1st or bust. I get offered Minotarur, Cutpurse, Prince, Shugar and Spice round 1, so I’m on Cutpurse. Who then gets some slays, but again I lose literally every round through 4.0 and just die in 8th place.
Round 4: Bye & Drop so my wife could go play D&D - finish similar to my November performance, were I also made Day 2 and was out of it after 3 rounds.
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