Wow. I am speechless. This weekend was crazy, thank you to everyone for the support especially
@noahlesak
@JakobF27766905
Mikey, Iain, Andrew, Bodhi, and Alex and Gamerelated. 1st place at the largest regionals ever? Deck was insane, wouldn't change anything.
2023 Toronto champion!!!!!! What a weekend! The deck was great and the list was fantastic, I used every card to some extent. S/o to Mikey Sanagustin for working on the list with me, and
@JakobF27766905
@noahlesak
for playing same 60. 1/?
18/2605 at EUIC with Gardy 💀 rotation can’t kill the BDIF. Shoutout to
@BodhiRobinson
@iaingharding
and Hunter for testing, and the gardy 🤓 himself
@noahlesak
for telling me to play collapsed and candy, both were broooooooken cards.
Top 8 at Knoxville!!! Thanks to everyone for the support! Sad to see a crazy day 2 run end but I didn’t have a great wincon in top 8 so it is what it is. Really fun deck and weekend, happy to give one? last great run to Inteleon! Thanks to
@BodhiRobinson
for the list (1/?)
Thank you so much to
@DragonShield_
for sending me their care package with a ton of awesome product!!! Can’t wait to try some new sleeves in Knoxville!!
18th at Knoxville! After a 1-1-2 start I’m very happy to get some cash. List felt really good except for minor, in the LZ where he belongs. I think this is 1 card off the Liverpool list. S/o to the usual crew for cheering me on and thanks to my sponsors DDG and DragonShield!
After careful consideration, I’ve decided not to renew my contract with DDG for this upcoming season. I had a great ~2 years with them and wish the team all the best moving forward. I will still be writing for Cut or Tap and hopefully create more content once I’m back in Toronto!
I am playing in the Knoxville regional championships tomorrow! Good luck and have fun to all the other competitors! Thanks to
@BodhiRobinson
for the list and
@MikeySegwuastin
for testing!
Welp, played mew because nothing else felt good and wanted to do it eventually, ended 5-4 after 5-2 lol, had some rough luck, next event should be Toronto, thanks to everyone who came up/congratulated me, you were all super nice!
I hate drama, but unfortunately I have to be making this post, please read below and watch the clip before replying.
Tl;dr: Noah did not cheat, he got lucky and drew Stamp, but a lot of other circumstances made it look weird.
Hello! I just wanted to say thank you to everyone for all the support I have been receiving lately, I don’t have the time to individually reply to each message/comment, but I do read and appreciate all of them! <3
Going to start making threads (not paying to have longer tweets lmao) every once in a while going over my thoughts on the current state of the game, as well as card reveals, stuff like that, you get the idea.
Let's start with Pittsburgh:
19/1000+ at NAIC!!! Medicham was super useless I used the other attack more than Yoga Loop. S/o to Gamer’s basement + Jakob for being extremely supportive and especially
@noahlesak
for playing same 60 and day 2ing bc the deck was kinda gas.
23/1525 @ EUIC w/ Ice Age Goodra!! Articuno **almost** won me 3 games, it for Garde mu but I got super lucky. Shoutout to
@MikeySegwuastin
and
@BodhiRobinson
for testing! All my opponents were super nice. S/o
@DragonShield_
for sleeves and
@DeadDrawGaming
for the sponsor!
2022 recap!!!
slc: bubbled 128 gengar
euic: t64 arcmally
1*indy: t32 arcmally
2*naic: t32 ai
worlds: bubble t32 liminal
3*balty: win! radzard
peoria: we dont talk about that one (mew)
4*toronto: win! mewtwo
#* are the lists/placements im most proud of in no particular order
18th/1010 at Indy! Kinda mad about my stream game, got super unlucky there and my opponent got super lucky, but whatever, happy with the deck choice and list. Pictured in the bottom right are the only good cards in my list.
Top 32 at Fresno! Deck was mostly gas but in my losses it was not. Felt like a solid call overall but all the matchups are pretty close and I didn’t feel super comfortable sitting across from any particular deck. Shoutout to
@MikeySegwuastin
for having me and
Top 128 at TX, last round I had really good odds to win, but my opponent was playing for a tie, so unlucky. Super fun deck though, thanks to
@noahlesak
for being the only believer and
@DeadDrawGaming
@DragonShield_
for the support as always.
I am playing in day 2 of the Knoxville regional championships tomorrow! Good luck and have fun to all the other competitors! Thanks to
@BodhiRobinson
for the list and
@MikeySegwuastin
for making day 2 with me!
I am playing in the Knoxville regional championships tomorrow! Good luck and have fun to all the other competitors! Thanks to
@BodhiRobinson
for the list and
@MikeySegwuastin
for testing!
17th NA & 21st global after a wild first full season in masters, shoutout to Shady Dealings for always being there for me until rotation :(, I would probably be more upset with missing top 16 but I skipped the 2 smaller ICs, so it was always pretty out of reach from my POV.
I am playing in the Charlotte regional championships tomorrow! Good luck and have fun to all the other competitors! Thanks to
@BodhiRobinson
for the list and
@MikeySegwuastin
/
@noahlesak
for testing!
Hello all, for a school project I am working on designing a card game, so I was hoping to get some input from some fellow TCG players! If you want to help, please reply with your favorite aspect(s) of a card game, and some cards (any era) that have cool/interesting effects! TIA!
63/2300+ at Indy with Gardy! Super happy to earn my 9th invite with this placement! S/o
@hegstertcg
for working on the list and
@Jakob_ef
for outplacing us both despite yoinking the 60 and playing like 1 game lol.
I think I’m gonna be putting gardy back in the vault until NAIC
Here’s the list, deck is really good, 1 loss was to arcpeekjolt the other to prizing triple drizzile g3, tie was to prizing double raihan g3 preventing me from practically winning early game (opponent had 1 palk Vstar in play) 1/?
Pokemon off-season heist complete 😎 2nd at CM one piece regs from the waitlist lol. The list felt really good despite the unorthodox counts, I used every card at least once. Thanks to
@ikailakai
for having insanely good articles and
@balex_blaze
for carrying my resistance
I have a math test in like 2 hours, so let's do another state of the game thread! I go over some popular decks for future events, as well as some more Paradox Rift stuff for LAIC. Maybe I'll go over Bo1v2v3
Birds are my special interest 🙂 Top 32 at apparently the biggest regs with not gardy 💀 I’ve wanted to play pidge for a while so happy to finally do it and cash out 🤑🤑🤑 list could’ve been more refined, play could’ve been better, but that’s just me not practicing.
It feels insane to win another regionals (and a bit weird that I don’t have an invite lol) and I hope to continue this success into the rest of the season.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!
My gift to you is a reminder to not play Urshi Intel ☺️ that deck is awful and does not have that good of matchups into the decks it’s supposed to!! Also it still has a bad Mew mu even with Tomb!!
Lately, Giratina has been dominating events IRL and online, boasting solid match ups into Arc Piles and Gardy! My latest article covers some well performing lists, changes I’d make to them, some advantages and disadvantages of each build, and some tips on the deck. (Link below)
I'm excited to announce that I am now coaching on Metafy! I have 3 different types of sessions at the moment, and my schedule is pretty open. Check out to book a session!
if i were going to slc id probably be playing arc tina or mirage gate lost box
gl to everybody going, can’t wait to write a philosophy paper and do college app stuff while watching cool decks on stream lol
I tried to the best of my ability to recreate Noah’s shuffling sequence, this should be the last thing I have on the whole situation, but I hope this makes it clearer what happened, and hopefully reasonable people will see that he did not cheat
Won a cup (6-1) with close to
@NicholasMoffit2
EUIC list. Super cool trophy that the store made! I also bubbled t4 at a LC yesterday (4-1). Almost an
@ExtremeListPics
but I couldn’t keep the cards on the dashboard. S/o to
@MikeySegwuastin
for wanting a shoutout
#DDGWIN
808/350
56/620 at EUIC! Arc Mally is super fun to play, until your opponent top decks out of it lol. I’m too lazy to resort my list but I ended up playing 2nd judge instead of bird keeper. Hyper pots seem like the move for this deck
I am playing in top 8 of the Knoxville regional championships this afternoon! Good luck and have fun to all the other competitors! Thanks to
@BodhiRobinson
for the list and congrats to
@MikeySegwuastin
for making t128!
I am playing in day 2 of the Knoxville regional championships tomorrow! Good luck and have fun to all the other competitors! Thanks to
@BodhiRobinson
for the list and
@MikeySegwuastin
for making day 2 with me!
6-2-1 here at vanc lol, I had no idea what to play so went with the ol faithful gardy. This deck is like kinda broken when I don’t brick but I’ve prized double ex twice today :( hopefully I have some better luck tmrw!
3 for 3 on day 2s with Gardy this season, unfortunately all have been 6-2-1. This deck is a lot better than I expected it would be, but it’s still kinda mid, excited for day 2 though, and happy I didn’t completely throw a 5-0-1 start.
#DDGWIN
Got 64th at Peoria this deck was so mid but I kept winning for some reason. S/o to Iain for giving me the deck at 11 pm the night before, so much gold 🤑🤑🤑. List was pretty vanilla so I don’t want to lay it out.
Thanks to
@DeadDrawGaming
and
@DragonShield_
for the support
I went 6-3 with this list (6 mirror (3-3) 2 regi (2-0) 1 zorobox (1-0)) very fun and funny list 460/500 (just need 128 at Knoxville and I’ll finally have that invite lol)
I Volod 3 whole times today, and only whiffed t1 Lugia once! Huge improvement from SD :)
10th at Orlando with Lugia going 5-2. Only losses were to mirror. Wash and Volo won me 7 games, as it made lost box a free. S/O to the Gamer’s Basement. Especially
@noahlesak
@piperlepine
@JakobF27766905
as they gave me the list while I made bad decks. +250$ +80 CP 1060/400
on comfey colress: in my testing I found, assuming you have prize checked, comfey first is usually a bit better as you are less likely to hit two very bad lost zones, however I think colress then comfey is fine routing too. Pretty inconsequential decision though imo
Thanks to
@DragonShield_
for sending me these super sick Blue/Silver dual matte sleeves!! Excited to use them (or Pinks) this weekend at NAIC, with some of the cool new cards from Twilight Masquerade!!
6-3 at NAIC :/ LZB felt like a good play, but my draws weren’t great and my play wasn’t super clean, although I wasn’t feeling super great today which likely contributed to that. First masters IC I haven’t cashed at though which is kinda unlucky but wtv I’ll lock in for worlds.
I won my 3rd cup yesterday with Gardy yippee!! 1 more!
My latest article goes over how I’ve been building Gardy, and has the 57 or 58 cards I’ve played at my last three cups to 1st 2nd and 1st, as well as how/why I’ve been changing the last spots.
Won another cup, this time with my goat Gardy. I started with henrys top 8 naic list (by far the best one from naic) and changed like 5 cards, not sharing what those changes are tho lol. Got 20 packs this time, now at 125 (1, 1, t8) points after 3 events yippee
I loved coping Gardy last format but I swear this time it’s actually broken, so check out my latest article on the deck if you want to learn more about why it’s so good!
Went 6-3 at PPG online regs with Red Luffy! Unfortunately lost my last round to maybe get t32 (probs not though) and did not bubble into 64 (I took 2 of my losses too early) Happy with the 99th place though for my first big event, I got into it this morning too lol.
7-1-1 at LA with suboptimized Pidgey Control. Unfortunately I couldn’t find it in me to send the deck until Thursday night so my list is goofy ahh but wtv hopefully I can farm some more Zards and Cpaos tmrw
#DDGWIN