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All the decklists from $10K Seattle! |
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“You went all-in, man. Congratulations!” |
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Most of the pre-match banter was unfortunately unsuitable for print, but the gist of it was that Vidi likes to spout expletives a lot and both competitors respect each other as players and friends. |
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Rokne wreaked a little combat havoc. By the end of the turn, it was his Alfred, two Shimmers, and GCPD Officer to Cabanero’s lone Invisible Girl without her token. |
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The sun has risen and it is time—the final eight warriors of $10K Seattle are ready for the showdown. |
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Check out bios of the Top 8 players here! |
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The dust has settled and the field of eighty-one has been whittled down to eight. |
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Check out the Top 8 Decklists from $10K Seattle here! |
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In a flurry of burn that was backed by four Cosmic Radiations, Krueger went down like a flaming sack of . . . well, like a flaming sack of fire, so much burn was going on. |
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He learned quite quickly that Boliver Trask is no match for Shang Chi . . . |
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“I’m not holding out hopes for Top 8, though, because I’m really not very good.” He smiled, and just briefly, I saw a glint in his eye suggesting that maybe a little bit of him realized he was.
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Rokne was beaten but really seemed to enjoy the game. “You didn’t even do Teen Titans Go!” Yapjoco grinned. “I couldn’t! I never had two guys ready!” |
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One of the great things about Vs. is that a lot of the great vets are really like that—genuinely nice people who genuinely enjoy playing. |
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Fantastic Fun is a perfect matchup for him—it presents so many options that you need a brain like Vidi’s to really make the most out of it. |
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“I got greedy . . . I got greedy. If I’d just activated my characters and stuck to burn, things would’ve gone better. But I tried to attack instead, and that really cost me.”
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Kurtzhall, playing Curve Sentinels, realized too late that he was actually playing the unfortunate variant of the popular archetype, Can’t Curve Sentinels. |
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While they were only played in a handful of the 21 Curve Sentinel decks in competition for the day, Micro-Sentinels had a stunning impact. |
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Backed by four exhausted characters, Dr. Doom, Lord of Latveria attacked, retrieved Press the Attack, and attacked again over and over.
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Take a look at Jason's analysis of the new metagame at $10K Seattle. |
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It’s an average Seattle day, and 81 players have braved one of the city’s signature downpours to compete in the latest tournament in the Vs. $10K series. |
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