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Rj's Deck Garage
July 18, 2005
The Luck Factor

Welcome back readers! Today, I want to discuss a rather popular topic, the topic is: The Luck Factor.

Even if you want to say things like "You can come back from that stuff!", and "Your making to big of a deal over it, its just a little God hand!". The luck factor, is still there. Very much so actually. This "Luck Factor" affects everyone. Some of the best players that the USA Has to offer fail at major tournaments because of, this, Luck Factor*.

In my case, the only large tournament I have honestly performed well in was the last formats Regional tournament. We had about 75 people, most of them, not very good. I brought 3 of my friends, and we all did very good. I went 7-0 in the Swiss rounds, and then won my top 8 match to score my invitation to nationals. In top 4, I lost to the same guy I 2-0'd in the last round of Swiss, his deck was based around drawing Pot Of Greed, Painful Choice, Confiscation, and The Forceful Sentry every hand. :).

Now, besides that tournament, I went to the Orlando Sjc in the last format, I did OK, dropping after my second loss in round 6(Either that or round 7, I dunno) due to a bad headache, and a lot of other things I don't want to get into.

Enter, the NEW Advanced Format.

In the NEW Advanced format, I have failed to show an impressive record in the following tournaments:

Houston Sjc
NJ Sjc
2 Regionals

Now, I won't get into my losses, they sucked. The regional's happened after my first regional, where I got my invite, which leads to, Me scooping atleast 2 times in each regional. Although I did lose the first round of the Houston Regional to some amazing topdecks :).

All of those events, were, very luck based. In the Houston Sjc, I received 2 losses, where I was told to drop by my team, to help with the side events. I lost to Osmon Ortiz, of Comic Odyssey, and, Mario Begay, who went 9-0 in Swiss. In the New Jersey Sjc, I played against 2 members of the Pojo.com forums, Dan M, and Mark W. I lost to Dan first, he got delinquent duo every hand, all three games, and in game 1 and 2, he had Pot Of Greed to follow it up. I can't come back from that much luck at one time :). Mark got a very nice opening hand of Graceful Charity, Sinister Serpent, Magician Of Faith, and Delinquent Duo in our first game.

In the second game though, I did beat him after a long game with him opening with Delinquent Duo, with only 7 seconds remaining on the clock. We went into Sudden Death, where I lost because of my lack of monsters, I had a lot of things sided, but I digress.

Just look at some of the reports in the Tournament Report section on this site, read some of those reports. 9 times out of 10 you will see someone say "He got Pot/Graceful/Duo in the opening hand and won".

That IS sort of dramatic, you can definitely come back from just one of the trinity cards, and its not terribly hard to come back from all three, if you, have these:

1. A nice hand even after the Delinquent Duo
2. Nice skills :)

If you have those, you can come back. But most of the time, if the opponent is lucky enough to pull all of those, then he is lucky enough to discard your Pot Of Greed/Other momentum shifting card off of the random discard of Delinquent Duo**.

The bottom line is, The luck factor IS there, and it is here to stay, atleast until October, when the NEW Advanced format is here. You can't stop people from complaining about it, we will just have to deal until the new format is out :).

I have to run now, Me and some of my friends have a night of Lazer Tag planned in celebration of my recent birthday ;oooo.

Bye for now...

-Rj

* The massacre that was, US Nationals 2005.
** Happened to me in 3 out of the 4 games I played, in said nationals.
 


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