Balancing the Kharmic Scales (Top 4 Marshall)

published Aug 09, 2016 | | |
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JRBookman 3

So this is what I placed top 4 with at Gen Con in the Marshall event. We (the deck and I, we were a team after all) went 5-2 overall and finished 5th after 5 rounds of swiss play going 4-1 with two of the wins and the loss all being at time and frustratingly, exhaustingly back to back.

There is however an asterisk on our Top 8 win since our opponent thought the round started two hours later and we were awarded the win when he no-showed for the match. But a win is a win and we will take it.

All that aside we had a great time. The deck was inspired and is similar to something I had been talking with Richard Carter about for a while. This deck also seemed like a nice way to balance out my kharma since winning with 108 slide at Origins. I never posted that deck out of a feeling akin to shame for those wondering.

I won't be doing a round by round breakdown, because frankly I just don't remember enough of all the matches to do a write up justice. Here are some of the high points of the tournament though.

--I settled on this deck as I was registering for the event. It was the only deck I had together that I had never played before because I just hadn't gotten to it in testing. --When sitting down for my first game, I didn't have my deck sleeved and I was freaking about it so much that my deck essentially exploded onto the floor. My opponent Devon, was super awesome and said I could play without it being sleeved. --SUNDAYS BEST is amazeballs. Using 2x to walk through a packed Town Square to squat on a deed to deny production every turn is ridiculously rewarding.

So this deck isn't necessarily the fastest thing around, but it can shoot and it can convert from aggression to semi-slide as the game and needs of the moment dictate. It also can control its economy well enough turn to turn in a way that allowed us to pretty regularly win lowball. Influence was an almost non-issue in all games excepting the last, our Top 4 loss to David Lapp.

Starters were Rico, Asakichi, Randall, Hamshanks, Xiaodan & Hiram. There was enough flexibility in options to have a stud or two if needed after using Rico or more influenced start versus slide to slow things down until we could squat all over town on any and all deeds we chose.

3 comments
Aug 09, 2016 mplain

Now this is a type of slide that I can get behind :)

Aug 13, 2016 Itsapaul

Nice deck. Why's Theo in it though?

Aug 13, 2016 JRBookman

No upkeep on value influence is what I should say.

That he has deep, personal significance is also a part of it. Hevwoild likely have been in any deck I played at the marshall.