The Sneak That Never Happened

As I mentioned in my previous post, today was the sneak peak for GAOV which I had been looking forward to for the past week. However, since it was Good Games' first one that they had held since they opened in around December, the staff were trying their best to sort everything out with Konami and in the end, they could only get enough product for 16 people to join. Me, being myself on a saturday afternoon, woke up as late as possible and got there at 1pm on the dot (starting time for the tourney). However, there were already in excess of 20 people there, and as mentioned before, only 16 could sign up, so that was that, no sneak for me. Sad face :(

More people came in over the course of the next half hour, and I was honestly surprised at the turnout. I hadn't expected it to be so packed. But the main thing to take away from this is that the community here is clearly loyal and very healthy. I mean, if over 20 people come in ready to pay $40 each for a sneak, there really couldn't be a better sign. They're keen as. Hopefully, Good Games will be able to increase the amount of product they get off Konami for the next one, and can kick up the sneak even more.

Over the course of me looking over at others playing, never once did I see an Atum, Sun Dragon, Cardcar D, Photon Strike Bounzer being pulled. Apparently a Strike Bounzer was pulled but I never saw it. I was pretty pissed that it managed to slip by unnoticed. So maybe it wasn't a bad thing that I didn't join. Because that's really all I was in it for... and also the mat lol. Pretty weak pull of secrets/foils in general (there was other jank not worth mentioning) considering how many packs were opened aside from the Gaia Dragon that David pulled. You'd think that Atum being a super would have meant that a couple were flying around, but no. My general opinion was that the set had less in it than I had even thought. It lacked good fillers aside from the obvious Hammer Bounzer. There was just so much crap for lack of a better word.

Anyway, since the store felt bad for not having enough to go 'round, they decided to hold a small turbo pack tourney for fun, with no entrance cost, so that was nice of 'em. First and second place would each get a turbo pack but I was honestly just dying to play someone. There were only 7 of us. So, first up...

Match 1: Chris (not the same one as before) w/ Bubblebeat
*Duel 1 - On the second or third turn I think, he hit out with a blade armour combo alongside a stardust that had been summoned because I thought I would get lucky with heavy storm. I had completely forgotten to Maxx C before bubbleman came down and so only did so halfway through the combo, and failed.
*Duel 2 - I had a Tragoedia to push early. A turn or two later, a soul exchange for thestalos on his only alius left his gemini sparks dead, and with only other spells in his hand, he scooped it up once LaDD came down the next turn.
*Duel 3 - He set like seventeen backrows, summoned alius and ended. I set a treeborn and a torrential. On his turn he summoned stratos, I torrentialed, he used starlight again, and he continued on to end up with blade armour ninja, stardust, stratos and alius from memory thanks to a reborn. I had fader but once he warning-ed that, I really had nothing and died. Turns out I also had forgotten to side in puppet plants for a bit of quick swing damage. Should have gotten more sleep the night before but as it was, I got to sleep at 6 in the morning thanks to more than a few good LoL games with Warwick.
XOX

Match 2: Daniel w/ Crystal Beasts
*Duel 1 - A turn 1 Gorz to push early and a Vanity's Fiend ended this one pretty quickly. I even forgot to summon the token (yeah, really needed more sleep). Heavy storm meant that there was no way he could draw using rare value or any of that other stupid stuff.
*Duel 2 - LaDD came down thanks to soul exchange, and Vanity's Fiend backed him up afterwards. Heavy also again made a cameo.
OO

Match 3: Tyson w/ Umi + Gigagigo (I think)
This was essentially just a water attribute deck that ran a legendary ocean to pump his monsters and bring down big guys easily. Fenrir is a cool card, but I had thought it got its effect if it attacked directly. Lol this isn't yata-garasu again.
*Duel 1 - I reckoned I could take my time setting up, and kept his biggest monsters off the board with soul exchange and a monarch. Bls followed another Caius onto the field, and the next turn, a special summoned swap frog allowed me to put Vanity's Fiend down and it ended right there.
*Duel 2 - A huge Tragoedia hit over a couple of his monsters, and held him off until I had enough monarchs to successively hit him with one every turn for 3 turns.
OO

Because of pairings (I lost to Chris), I didn't get the turbo pack but I mean really, meh. Not going to lose too much sleep over that. I was impressed however, at how consistent and explosive the bubblebeat was. I had expected it to generally play as the regular hero beat for two turns, and then go off once it had the combo pieces and control of the board. Currently, the deck's missing 2 skill drains and a d-prison. I plan to play Gorz in my build because he's too good not to play. And I do not want to get screwed over by inzektors, or anything else for that matter, OTKing. Also Heroic Champion Excaliber from REDU will really allow them to have a crazy amount of flexibilty in their hands: him to get over big monster, or blade armour to deal more damage.

The stuff I would have pulled from today's sneak honestly would have gone into a box somewhere. So naturally, I'm looking forward to the REDU sneak peak because the set has so many archtypes with potential that not only should they play well out of the packs, but I actually WANT to collect Geargia and Magical as I stated in my last post. The Geargiganto exceed is so cool (art on the rest is up to personal preference I guess), and the whole Magical archtype screams smexy. I really DO promise to get the archtype reviews done for you guys, but I was heaps busy this week with Uni, quizzes/tests, LoL, sleeping, and general procrastination. My IB diploma, if nothing else, verifies me as being a master of procrastination in every situation that can be thrown at me. Haven't had much more of a chance to extensively test my Magical deck on DN yet, but it'll come. All in good time.

It wasn't all that bad a day though. My trades/buys for the day included Scrap Dragon (had to get a TCG one to replace the OCG version I had), Void Ogre Dragon, Neo Galaxy-Eyes, Snowman Eater, and Ra Yellow ultra foil versions of Yaichi and Zanji to complete my six samurai set for collection. As it is, I only need a Brionac for my synchro pile, and the exceeds need Tiras, Roach and Zenmaines. Seems like Photon Strike Bounzer will have to wait a little longer. I had a few decent chats to a couple of guys there that I didn't meet last week. Shaun, whom I dueled in the final round in the previous post, got (how many packs I don't know of) GENF (and other stuff?), and ended up packsacking a leviair, roach, and some other good foil, in addition to his pull of a rabbit beforehand after buying a box of PHSW. Good weekend for him obviously. David walked away with the win for the whole thing, and won the mat. Chris got paired down in the beginning thanks to a bye but didn't lost any of his matches either, so that sorta sucks but whatever. What can you do. He most certainly has enough mats though (about 8 lol).

As you can see, I really cannot write short posts, so that's something I've got to work on, but you guys deserve quality reads. I'm interested in knowing what you think of my blog posts so far below, so if you've got anything you're dying say or point out, I'm all ears.

Till next time, this is DEFER signing out.