It’s been a busy playing week for us. We made it to 3 armories this week. I know that I said that the armories in Hamilton weren’t going to be regular and are more treat armories but we got to both of them again.

This week I also got my haircut. Stay with me, there is a Flesh and Blood connection. As all barbers do, he asked me what had I been up to? And I responded that I’d started playing a card game called Flesh and Blood. He said he knew of it and we chatted Magic and cards as I got my haircut.

His brother had given him a bunch of Flesh and Blood cards but he didn’t know anything really about them. After my haircut he popped into the house and brought back 3 boxes of cards. I started going through them and there were commons and rares, nothing special. Then there was a Heart of Fyendal, Scabskin Leathers & Tectonic Plating….

When I told the Tauranga crowd no-one believed me so I rang Levi up and went round to take photos.

He’d been diving in to see what the cards were worth and had watched streamed game. I’m going to have to get him down to the local armory….

News

This week it’s all looking forward to next year and the prizes that will be available for Road To Nationals and ProQuest Las Vegas.

Definitely need to try for those In The Palm Of Your Hand cards as part of Road to Nationals.

Those Bittering Thorns cards will look good in my daughters Ira deck from the ProQuest. So I guess that’s us signed up for these events next year….

Emptying The Wallet

Last week I ended up spending quite a bit so I had to have a much more sensible week this week. Luckily we aren’t counting petrol or drinks…..

This week it was only entries for events so $15 each at both Card Merchant Hamilton and Gaming DNA and $6 each at Gateway Games. That’s a total of $72 and we got 10 booster packs and 6 GEM packs for that.

Armory - Card Merchant Hamilton

I’m already a couple of days late with this post so it’s going to be a bit of a whistle stop tour of the games I played. First up was Card Merchant Hamilton which was a Blitz armory due to the Skirmish happening on the weekend. I thought about trying to build a Tuffnut deck but in the end did the sensible thing and cut down my Pleiades CC deck.

A draw against Arakni was not what I was expecting first up but this wasn’t the first time that Ettie and I have drawn a game.

I them faced Jesse playing Data Doll. There was so much stuff going on in this game. There were boom grenade threats and I did survive 2 rounds to make them runout of steam. But I couldn’t block everything in the end and I was mainly left swinging with my hammer. I did manage a 12 attack with Colossal Bearing but that needs to get to 13 for it’s on hit to activate. I did lose it in the end but I did have him worried at times.

In the final round I managed to beat Andrew playing Oscilio. A couple of big hits was what it took as he couldn’t block well.

Armory - Gaming DNA

Gaming DNA was back to CC. Finally a game with Ettie that didn’t and in a draw! Verdance this time and I did manage to get big hits in to reduce their life to 2. But that just rose back up to 11 by the end! I only got attacked once during the game which meant that I didn’t get to use my armour. I really should have gone for more arcane block, especially the feet.

Prism against Nick is always a tough game. I got lucky and was close the first time we met but since then it’s been 1 way traffic. As you can see below there’s a silly number of cards in play. I did make a mistake early on, I mentally gave up at that time and just went through the motions after that not that it would have made any difference to the result.

Finally was a fun race against Dexter playing Rhinar. This one was close and it was pointed out to me afterwards that I should have used card to block and saved my armour. Armour can’t be intimidated or dominated you see. I did get some good hits in with Crush Confidence and Thump but it wasn’t enough and it finished 0-3.

Armory - Gateway Games

I started off with a bye as we had 9 players this week in the least diverse meta I’ve played.

Round 2 and my first game was against ET playing Verdance. I got into the rhythm of things and was able to swing big repeatedly. I got good disruption from A Good Clean Fight, C&C and Thump that slowed his game plan down. You might not think of A Good Clean Fight as a disruptive card but it stops Decompose in this matchup. I threw enough damage at him that I got the win!

In round 3 I was up against Kayo and we both were swinging big hits. Blood Rush got him the tempo and I lost this one. It was setting late so we dipped out of the last round so I don’t know if Declan won his first Armory or not.

Cardboard

I was very lucky to be gifted a play set of Cries of Encore when we arrived at Gaming DNA. This is a card that I’ve known I need for my Pleiades deck and will help make it less clunky at times.

We chose to get 4 History Pack 1 boosters as our entry for Gaming DNA hoping to get Ancestral Empowerment for my daughter’s Ira deck. We didn’t get that but we did get a Command and Conquer that went straight into my Pleiades deck.

We didn’t get anything else of significance from total of 10 boosters and 6 Gem packs we opened over the week.

Meta Matters

Having attended 3 armories this week there are 3 locals Metas to go through. First up the Blitz Meta from Card Merchant Hamilton where we had 7 heroes across 8 decks:

* Pleiades

* Data Doll

* Arakni

* Oscilio

* Arura

* Kayo x2

* Florian

With Blitz leaving I’m not sure that there’s much to say about this one to be honest.

Back to CC at Gaming DNA where we had 11 decks and 10 heroes (just like last week):

* Pleiades

* Ira

* Prism

* Jarl

* Cindra

* Verdance

* Rhinar x2

* Max

* Kassai

* Gravy

From last week we lost Oscilio, Bolton and Puffin gaining Max, Kassai and Gravy. Great to see non-meta heroes like Max getting a run out. A shame that I didn’t get to play him though.

The Gateway Games meta was the least diverse I’ve seen it!!! 6 heroes across 9 decks.

* Ira x4

* Florian

* Verdance

* Arakni

* Pleiades

* Kayo

We lost Gravy, Vynnset, Prism and Puffin. Florian, Kayo, Arakni and an Ira came in. Actually 2 Iras came in as one of the Ira players from last week changed to Florian. It can’t even be explained by new players using the armory deck. These are all experienced players just being silly.

What’s Coming Up?

I keep saying that there will be Armory Deck League posts and then not delivering. I don’t think that there will be one this week.

My barber friend has bought a box of Super Slam and asked if I would like to do an unboxing video. So that’s a maybe.

I really need to put the video together for the Armory Guide for Gaming DNA. The post is already written I “just” need to record and edit the video. I know that there’s normally no evidence of editing but for the Armory Guides I‘m trying….

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