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While his stats aren’t much bigger than those of the average 7-drop, Sentry’s “Pay ATK” power can drastically hinder an opponent’s attacking options in the late game.
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$10K Wizard World Texas
Metagame Staff
 
November 06, 2004

 

Happy Birthday, Robert Leander!

Robert turned 19 on Day 1 of the Texas $10K event for Vs. System, and celebrated by winning $2,500 and another berth on the Pro Circuit. He was playing the complicated but oh-so-powerful Teen Titans Go! deck. It features combo upon combo, all of which key off of team attacks and the eponymous plot twist. While the deck scared off many a player during deck selection for this weekend, Leander seemed confident in the deck’s power and in his ability to wield it.

“It went like clockwork,” was how Leander described his interaction with the deck this weekend.

Robert was just one of four Realmworx members to make the Top 8 of this event, and they all played different decks.  Andrew Yip and Joe Carey were each playing Brotherhood decks, Yip opting for the super-sized version while Carey had a medium. Rounding out the Realmworx squad was David Spears, who was piloting a Realmworx special—Curve Sentinels. The deck dominated a PCQ in California last week, and with minor modification, made it all the way to the finals this weekend before falling to the combo might of the Titans deck.

The most played deck this weekend was Common Enemy, with better than twenty percent of the field opting to run the deck that Kibler used to win the first Pro Circuit event. Sean Poestkoke has been playing the deck for two straight weeks, and when he lost in the quarters to Josh Wiitanen’s mirror-tweaked version, it was his first loss of the weekend. He was the only player with a 10-0 record on Day 1.

Rounding out the Top 8 was a throwback New Brotherhood deck without any Lost City or Avalon Space Station, played by the stoic David Jafari, and a third Common Enemy deck played by Jerry Cook.

There were three each of Common Enemy and Brotherhood variants in the Top 8, but it was Teen Titans and Curve Sentinels that emerged on top. What will this mean for the upcoming Pro Circuit event at Gen Con So Cal? I guess you’ll have to check back in a few weeks to find out! 

Texas $10K Tournament Final Standings

1st Place, $2,500: Robert Leander playing Teen Titans
2nd Place, $1,500: David Spears playing Curve Sentinels
3rd Place, $1,200: David Jafari playing TNB
4th Place, $800: Josh Wiitanen playing UnCommon Enemy
5th Place, $400: Sean Poestkoke playing Common Enemy
6th Place, $400: Joseph Carey playing Medium Brotherhood
7th Place, $400: Andrew Yip playing Big Brotherhood
8th Place, $400: Jerry Cook playing Common Enemy 

Congratulations to the Top 8 Finishers!
 
David Spears was playing Curve Sentinels, a Web of Spider-Man enabled build that dominated the Costa Mesa PCQ last week. Robert Leander was playing Teen Titans, and many people picked him and his deck as the early favorite . . .
Josh and Robert shared some bad beat stories from earlier Sealed Pack events while they shuffled up for the game.
It is always a serendipitous coverage occasion when you feature two decks on Day 1 and both head toward the Top 8. David Spears was playing one of those decks today, a Curve Sentinels build made possible by the addition of the Web of Spider-Man card pool.
The Iceman turned out to be critical, as Sean had been forced to pitch all of his Fantastic Four characters at the end of turn 6 and could not steal the initiative.
The Realmworx crew placed four people in today’s Top 8, but they’ll soon be whittled down to two. Over here, Robert and Joe are playing for a slot in the semis. One table over, Dave Spears and Andrew Yip are competing for their slot.
Read all about the Top 8 players!
Day 1 of the Texas $10k Vs. System shoot-out has come to a close, with eight players advancing to tomorrow’s elimination rounds.
Check out the Top 8 Deck Lists for the Texas $10K Tournament!
The last time these two players faced off in a major tournament, John Rich was knocking David Spears out of contention for Day 2 of Pro Circuit Indy. In this final round, Spears could attempt to exact revenge or magnanimously concede to put them both through into Top 8.
Curve Sentinels can play out robots on every drop of the curve, starting at 2 with the Sentinel Mark III, going up to 6 with Bastion, and topping out at 7 with a boosted Tri-Sentinel.
Neither player made a 1-drop, and Nolan was frustrated when his deck offered him nothing on turn 2, either. Jafari, on the other hand, played a Pyro backed by two The New Brotherhoods.
Robert Leander is tearing up this tournament, avoiding any losses until last round when he made one of the game’s most fatal errors. Says Robert, “I missed my 4-drop.”
By the time the sixth round rolled around, there were only four undefeated players remaining. David Spears was playing a Curve Sentinels deck against local product Sean Poestkoke’s Common Enemy deck.
There were exactly 100 players taking part in the Texas $10K event, and more than one in every five of them was packing a Common Enemy deck.
Josh finished in the money at the Indy Pro Circuit stop and is qualified for the next three events. What kind of deck could make Josh zigzag across the country, put up with such housing hardships, and suffer John Stephen’s questionable taste in pop music?
Welcome to the Vs. System $10K tournament coverage, coming to you live from Wizard World Texas!
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