Vader Greedo Melbourne 2nd Regionals 2019 Winner

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Dallas Regional Winning Deck List 2019 15 9 14 1.0
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Took this variant on Vader Greedo to the 2nd Melbourne, VIC Regional. After playing OG Vader back in awakenings, I was quite excited to play the big man again.

Through a whole series of testing and running into some serious removal suits and mill in the local meta. Backup muscle returned from the Awakenings era and proved to be fantastic at ensuring games where Greedo was left to finish things off. I have also found spots for some corner case removal. Mind Trick proving its worth multiple times with 3 or 4 dice wipes in multiple games.

With 22 players, we had 5 rounds of Swiss with a cut to top 4. I apologise to any opponents that I don't quite remember the full breakdown, but 10 games is a lot. Matchups were: Round 1 - Han Solo - Independent Hotshot Yoda - Wizened Master Win 1-0

  • I feel like I won the roll off for this one, we both had Theed. There wasn't much done in the first round or so, He stopped a blowout roll early on. But I got some damage into Han and a Fear and Dead Men off in the third round allowed me to threaten both characters. There came a moment in the 4th round where he rolled out Han instead of Yoda first, which let me roll out Vader to a couple of blanks a force special. He rolled out yoda into a 2 action reroll into lethal on Yoda to swing the game heavily my way. Eventually finishing the game chewing through 2 second chances on Han.

Round 2 - Han Solo - Independent Hotshot Biggs Darklighter - Rebellion Ace Armored Reinforcement Win 2-0

  • I have to thank the dice gods for this one. I won roll off again, which helped and had a back up muscle down early. My opponent rolled low mixed damage with the big hit and run roll out turn 2 and 3 which let me murder biggs in return and leave han on a couple of hitpoints after a price of failure play.

Round 3 - General Grievous - Fearsome Cyborg Royal Guard Win 3-0

  • What a game, I don't remember who won roll off here, but 2 things happened this game. 1, Vader took 29 damage across rise again and a couple of force illusions and 3 rounds of force meditation. Backup Muscle from the grave (meditation chamber) the game ended in my favour. Didn't need to price of failure and if used, would probably hand meant I lost the game. Grevious blew out the game midway through with a power action but Greedo hung in and helped finish the cyborg off.

Round 4 - Leia Organa - Heart of the Resistance Lando Calrissian - Smooth and Sophisticated Win 4-0

  • I have to say, this opponent and I had been testing this matchup the night before with another player using 3 wide mill and I was 2-4 from those games the night before. After winning roll off, gotta love that theed, I got lucky that he didn't have a C-3po turn 1. I was quite sad when he milled my Meditation CHamber, which threw the game in his favour but the 2x back up muscles by turn 2 allowed me to pressure Leia down first action turn 3 with 10 cards left in my deck. He burst my a couple of times but Vader finished off Lando for the win. Again - Backup muscle MVP here.

Round 5 - Tobias Beckett - Thief For HireMother Talzin - Nightsister Matriarch Win 5-0

  • What a match, blow out damage both sides, Mother died from full health to a force speed reroll kill and Vader died leaving Beckett at half health. The last round saw a Vader's Fist chunk Tobias to 1 hp with Tobias showing lethal on Greedo. Beckett fired, Greedo fired back and Beckett hit the dirt. Greedo had rolled 2 ranged every single time this game. That merc was not going down.

Top 4 - Darth Vader - Terror To Behold Greedo - Unlucky Mercenary Win 2-0

  • With slight differences in our decks, it was quite an interesting endeavour. My backup muscles pushed me ahead in the first game and allowed for an almost clinical removal of Vader. to a loss of Greedo on my part. The second game was different. He had the tempo the whole time and I spluttered. By a key mind trick stopped a lethal shot on my vader but meant he had the battlefield for next round (2 damage to kill my vader and his on 8 life) I took the risk, Price of failured Greedo, paid for the vader saber reroll, hit 3 damage and proceeded to roll out lethal on vader. If it missed it was his game to lose.

Top 2 - Tobias Beckett - Thief For HireMother Talzin - Nightsister MatriarchWin 2-1

  • Some great matches here. my first loss of the day with Beckett on 3 hp after roll out and a reroll of vader's fist not showing any damage and a 1hp greedo ready for the kill stroke if it worked out. A game where Vader spent 2 rounds printing money and healing all the damage dealt into him. And backup muscles keeping the pressure on at all times.

A couple of other plays that I remember happening but not who with. Coercion into hyperspace jump to nuke my opponents money. Legacies a vader saber mod to get a Vader dice back without a reroll wasted and clutch friends in high places rise again.

Props to my opponent's and I'll catch you at the next Melbourne Tourny!

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