This weekend i flew down to Melbourne for our Blasted Lands champs, and got crushed.
The night before i wanted to change decks from Daspien solo, to Ressa.
Round after round i was crushed by weapon destruction and rush.
My stomach felt like a washing machine, and my brain like a slowly boiled sausage (ew ew ew)
My head was swirling with thoughts of "if only" and "im hungry". My mouth was dry and all i wanted cusrl up into a ball
and cry myself to sleep. Brutally honest, no? We all go through this at some stage, we feel that we wasted alot of money only to lose
every match. But this was so much different.
The meta game is balanced, and it shows in all the lists that have posted 5-0's from the champs around the world.
But that can be a problem.
"in a balanced metagame, there are match ups that run in our favour, and those that run against us"
For me, i ran into every bad match up all day minus the last game.
Grenan burn? loss. Alliance rogue solo? loss. any deck that has enough weapon destruction? loss...
Sounds pretty stupid, right? not really. Chipper being reccured and played over and over is painful to solo.
"Kill Chi[pper" "in reponse i will sack him to kill your dagger" draw draw draw, no dagger crap im dead.
Out of 23 players, 8 were alliance the rest were horde. I only heard of 1 priest discard, and one priest combo.
Alot of rogue decks, a few Shaman, and a few other decks i cant recall.
Scissors beats paper, paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, this is our meta.
Balanced with nothing that can truly dominate.......Depending on the match ups.
For me, this was the worst performance at a tournament for a long time, and it hurt.
Here is the deck list:
Hero: Daspien Bladedancer Allies3 Vexmaster Nar’jo Abilities4 Surprise Attacks 3 Jackknife 3 Vanish 4 Sinister Strike3 Purloin 3 Kick 3 Cloak of Shadows Equipment4 Perdition’s Blade4 Whispering Blade of Slaying 2 Scarlet Kris 2 Demonblood Eviscerator 3 Striker’s Mark 3 Eye of Rend 2 Timeslicer Quests2 Counterattack!2 A Warm Welcome 4 One Draenei’s Junk . . . 3 Solanian’s Belongings 3 Orders from Lady Vashj
Side Board
1 Purloin
4 Pickpocket
1 Jackknife
3 Dismantle
1 Vexmaster Nar’jo
Now, all my games were very close to me winning, i just got unlucky and would fail to get the final 3 points of damage in for most games. Makes you feel like you want to shut all those cards away in the darkest hole you can find, but we cant stay away.
We move forward and onto the next big tournament.
In short, when you lose your dreams, you lose your soul.
props to UDE EU for upping the support and giving what the US got, props to Chris Foggan and the crew for running a fantastic tournament
Slops to me and my epic fail.
Voit Starr
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