Hoth Topic: 6-2, 25th Overall, at NA Champs (Highest Emo Kid 1.0

• Wersje
• 1.0

Took this deck to 25th (tied for 13th on record) at the North American Championships at Gen Con. There were a lot of other Emo Kids decks in the field, but I believe this one finished highest.

There's nothing terribly surprising about the list, but I think it has positive matchups against FN decks, Poe/Maz, Palpatine, and several others that are heavily represented in the competitive meta.

R1 (1-0) Emo Kids Mirror: Played against a very nice, relatively casual player from Vancouver. He was running something approximating the Edgelords edition, which just didn't have the speed or mitigation to keep up with the damage output. Got off a second turn Boundless/Enrage/No Mercy to finish it.

R2 (2-0) Baze/Snap: Almost lost this one. Had Baze down to two health on turn two, with a Vader 3/1 on the table. He played Hit and Run on a Wingmanned Baze, and rolled out 12 damage for four resources between Baze and Snap with two Holdouts. Had to No Mercy a 1 melee Kylo die for an extra two to kill off Baze that turn, and then just outran Snap.

R3 (3-0) Luminara/Rey: Closer than I would have expected, with some fortuitous early Luminara rolls, but Vibroknife did work in negating two Cautions.

R4 (4-0) Palpatine: I've never been happier to have Overconfidence in my opening hand, as Mike Rudin rolled double 3s on the first turn. The amount of mitigation in this deck really helps reduce Palp's damage output (both direct and indirect). I didn't see a Deflect until the last turn, when it wasn't needed, but Force Illusion kept me alive long enough to start turn five with Palp at 3 health (Kylo and Vader each had 3 as well, with FI on Vader). Rolled in Vader, claimed Throne Room to finish it off.

R5 (5-0) FN/Bala/Nightsister: Saw a Boundless Ambition in my opponent's hand with a Kylo special, and Isolated the FN die that was focused to the resource side that would have allowed him to play it turn one. Burned FN down early turn two, and didn't have any trouble from the other two, except for a Bala trigger when Kylo was killed (he was targeted first because he had Force Speed and Mind Probe turn one).

R6 (6-0) Funkar: Sometimes your dice just win games for you. Won the rolloff, activated Vader, rolled double special, and he had no mitigation without dice in his pool. Pretty much inevitable from there. This is one of the few matchups where I'll play Vibroknife on Kylo turn one, simply as a means to up the early damage curve, and avoid it being discarded. Since most of my other cards are 0 or 1 (and mitigation is spotty against FN anyway), I'm not that worried about providing a resource ramp from Unkar pulls. Makashi Training is also key here, since it can pull Z6's 3/1 for the cost of a weak Kylo melee side (or a pay side that I can't pay for anyway).

R7 (6-1) Poe/Maz (1st after Swiss): My opponent was on Frozen Wastes, and won the roll-off. I knew I was in trouble when he took my battlefied and double-shielded Maz. He hit me with Thermal/Falcon off a Hit and Run, played Cunning on Maz, rolled her in, hit the Cunning special and her one-ranged side, resolved both, and killed Vader. I managed to kill Poe turn two with a No Mercy/Lighstaber Throw, but he got two Planetary Uprisings on the table, and even with Vibroknife in play, and a Boundless draw, I could only get Maz down to one health remaining before I ran out of options. He claimed as his first action of the next round, and it was over.

R8 (6-2) Vader/Guard (7th after Swiss): Sometimes dice just lose you games. I did seven damage to Guard on turn one, and Jason only had one card in hand. It was a Price of Failure, and I ate three extra damage from his Vader roll. Kylo was fully loaded up with Makashi/Force Speed/Vibroknife, but I managed to roll zero un-modified damage on two rerolls, had my Force Speed special Overconfidenced away to remove the Force Speed/reroll/resolve chain option, and he CQAed the last two cards in my hand. I also should have Makashi-ed away a Vader three-side, but with Vader on six remaining health, and four melee dice in my pool, I was more focused on trying to kill Vader. Continued to roll Kylo specials, which are essentially blanks in this match-up, and that was all she wrote.

If you had offered me 6-2 before the tournament, in a field of 350, I would have taken it, without a doubt. I'd never played in a tournament outside of the Louisville/Lexington/Cincinnati meta, so I wasn't sure how I'd match-up. Going from 6th after six rounds to out after eight was enormously frustrating, but after cooling off, it was still a lot of fun, and a solid showing.