I always love getting to talk about non-NA events, and this one was extra fun because we had several folks who play in the LATAM region in the chat so we had a chance to discuss why certain choices were made, both meta choices, yeah I still don't really like BT2 ShineGreymon, and those made because of card scarcity.
What on Earth Possesses me to do all three of these in one go?! Well, I did it! First up on the chopping block was the top 16 out of the July 29th PPG Regional!
Gah, I am still a bit annoyed with myself for some of my goofy misplays, I don't know if I could have locked in top 16, but I certainly could have come closer.
It's what is says on the tin, a deck profile of my own Shinegreymon list from the PPG regional.
You know the only thing better than winning your nats invite?
Me either, but your team mate winning thier nats invite off an extremely wild toolbox deck is a pretty dang good feeling!
Right after we confirmed Kris took 11th with his blinged out Royal Knight deck I immediately pinned him down for a deck tech and interview, mostly so I wouldn't forget.
Someone from Locals asked me a rulings question on an EX4 card, and being the gremlin I am I answered, then read every card in EX4 and tried to predict as many questions and answer them ahead of time as I could!
Well, the first Ultimate Cup write up is still in the works, but between locals last night and, wow, just this morning, something else took a bit of priority!
We’ve known for about a week now that we’d be getting a Banned and Restricted list update today, which will go into effect April 1st, and card game nerds being the rampantly speculating goblins we are, well, rampantly speculated. But before I dive into that nest of bees, because, yes, yes I will, the important thing for those who avoid Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, because who can blame you?
A single card, BT11 Greymon X Antibody is restricted to 1 copy per deck.
Why, Yes, I did decide to do a write about about what I intend to write in the next few days, sue me, it make my brain happy!
But, if you want a primer for why the deck lists coming out of Ultimate Cups are going to be goofy, here you go! Up next, actually writing about the lists we have so far!
And we are caught up! Ignore the backlog of VoD's shhhhh we're caught up. I definitely don't have a rule about not playing Elden Ring until those beast sized videos are out of the queue
Home stretch, we're almost done with the recent VoDs!....And we get to do this one, bleh. It was fine TM.