Sometimes, no matter what your skill level, you will occasionally lose matches because of missed drops. That was the case for a few unfortunate individuals in round 10. 

Table 3: Gabe Walls vs. Ash Macabenta

Gabe Walls took a win with his Teen Titans deck after Macabenta missed his 5-drop. Had Macabenta recruited Sunfire and copied its effect with the face up Rogue, Power Absorption he controlled, the game might have been totally different. But it wasn’t, and despite Macabenta hitting his turn 6 Mimic, he was unable to fend off a final attack from Walls. He didn’t get to recruit the Professor X and Jean Grey, Phoenix Force that had been in his hand for several turns.

Table 4: Dan Clark vs. Michael Jacob

The only tight match amongst the tables surveyed for round 10, Dan Clark narrowly eked out Michael Jacob’s Mutant Nation deck with the Titans. In a textbook Titans game, Dan almost lost to a mauling from Wolverine, Berserker Rage, but Roy Harper put a round between Wolverine’s eyes that took the fight out of him.

Table 6: Kyle Montgomery vs. Kim Caton

Kim Caton and Kyle Montgomery went at it tooth and nail in a very even matchup. Caton’s Spider-Friends build tackled Montgomery’s Curve Sentinel with admirable aggression, but when she missed her 7-drop, her fate was sealed. Unable to provide opposition to Montgomery’s Magneto, Caton watched with dismay as her field was taken apart piece by piece. A few glances at the pair of Spider-Man, Cosmic Spider-Mans in her grip and one handshake later, she was out of the match.

Table 5: David Bauer vs. Aaron Breider

The man whose use of Total Anarchy in Curve Sentinels will likely be imitated en-masse for the next few months managed to lose in round 10 when he missed his 8-drop. Aaron Breider’s X-Beats deck got to turn 8, and when it did, Breider dropped The Demon, Etrigan. When Bauer realized he didn’t have enough endurance to pay the cost of keeping his resources, it was the beginning of the end. Breider controlled the initiative, so Bauer never got a chance to claim any resource points. The Demon smashed and drove Bauer into negative territory, and after looking at his options for a couple of minutes, Bauer scooped what remained of his board and conceded.