KTOD Radio XX - Set 3 Hype Train!! PQ Week 4 Recap!! | Star Wars Unlimited Competitive Podcast

[@fletchercutting7301]

Hey all, Melbourne PQ winner here! Thanks for covering the PQ, I'm honoured to be in one if your videos, just wanted to speak to a couple of the things that came up when y'all were looking at my list. Tarkintown over 30hp for me is both defensive when playing into aggro, and utility when playing into midrange/control. Against aggro decks like Sabine, being able to ping and TT their T1 play, then play something yourself, is huge tempo. If they play a Sabine or Battlefield Marine T1, if I just left it and it swings 2 or more times, that's already more damage than the 5 I lost from TT. And when playing into decks with space sentinels that have more than 3 health, it helps break through them easier. Concord is an ISB/Daring Raid + TT away from dying, and Bright Hope is a 3/2 + TT. If I go against a Bright Hope and have to sacrifice two units into it, that's a big loss in tempo and sets me back. And yeah there are other ways of dealing with it like 3/2 + Surprise Strike, Waylay and TDR + Ruthless Raider, but TT makes it more consistent to get through, even with a bad hand, and doesn't take up half my turn punching through. I did have 2x Bazine in my mainboard for a few weeks of testing, I just found that it was either too slow or cost too much. Playing Bazine early in the game doesn't get you enough tempo, most the time I'd rather just play a 3/2 ship. Even if my 3/2 ship gets in one attack and then gets removed, the Bazine would have to swing 3 times to make up for that which takes too long. I also did like having it in my resources for when I had a dead hand later on, but I found that if she was hit by Scanning Officer and I didn't get a T1 play my chances of winning plummeted, and even on T4-6 when I had the resources to play her she cost way too much. I normally stop resourcing at 6-7 depending on my hand, and her costing 4 - even if she does get rid of a Cunning or something - means I'm not usually advancing my game in a meaningful way that turn. I just didn't find the value and most the time would have just rather have another 3/2 ship. Thanks for looking at my list though! Such a crazy feeling to have popular KZbinrs talking about me haha. I did published my list on swudb with an event writeup that covers my pairings and how I sideboarded: swudb.com/deck/view/sNCLSoHmtpC

[@SWU_KTOD]

Thanks for the post and the write up! Amazing job!

[@fletchercutting7301]

@@SWU_KTOD Thanks! Had a blast, was a great day, and can't wait to compete at Galactics next year!

[@v1ndicategaming]

2nd place Indy PQ Rey Red player here. I think Rey Red has a pretty solid matchup into boba and it started showing towards the end of the PQ season. 34 Boba decks at Indy and them getting kept from top 4 was pretty good evidence with 3 Rey Red making top 4.

[@johnmorris4295]

I was the Boba Yellow player in top 8 at PQ Indy! Those Rey Red decks were certainly my most challenging matches.

[@L8NightGaming]

Thanks for all the work your team does getting this information out there so quickly!

[@SWU_KTOD]

@@L8NightGaming thanks for streaming!!

[@timokimm]

Sportsmanship. I went to a local weekly play with my kids (we love this game!). It happened to coincide with a Magic weekly play at the store. The game play area was a very large shared space. There were shouting matches and swearing amongst the MTG players. An employee yelled at a player for their language. then loudly quit on the spot. That was enough to never want to play MTG for me.

[@SWU_KTOD]

That's wild

[@timokimm]

@@SWU_KTODyeah I appreciated your perspective and see how that was probably a one off. But that was one of our first exposures to that particular store. Thankfully it isn’t our regular weekly play store but it was enough to consider avoiding it in the future.

[@wfowlks]

Love the guest appearance at the end. You all are doing a great job answering questions and providing realism. I love the humble realism acknowledging that not everything is about winning and it’s not what you can control. It’s the “yes and” mentality that moves forward. Channeling the Ted Lasso

[@SWU_KTOD]

Barbecue Sauce

[@jonathanrfisher]

For the slump discussion, challenge the assertion that continuing to play this game is correct for you. It’s okay to not enjoy a hobby and decide to spend your time doing something else. The challenge is the friends we make in the hobby, makes it more challenging to move on to another hobby at times.

[@Mickeydhs]

I've been so high on R2 into NTATOT with Ani or Plo - its done very well for me in testing.

[@mjbaysinger]

The Quinlan character is awesome. Don’t be bummed it’s not a more known character. He deserves it. Complete badass. Even outside of Ventress.

[@johnfraney4268]

Speaking to the card game slump, not everybody is cut out to grind. So if a slump hits, evaluate your goals, maybe take a breather or play the game in a diff way like twin suns or draft or play leaders you don't normally. Worst case you take a break from the game and come back in after a period of time. God willing it isn't going anywhere

[@SWU_KTOD]

Good advice!

[@stawickyrs9233]

Nah no hand shakes We give big old hugs around here

[@ultimatewildcatfan]

4 of us carpooled to Indy from central Ohio, finishing 4th 5th 13th and 38th out of 98 players . Sean Powell {5th) TOP 4 with Rey [red]. Ohio is a TOUGH SWU place!

[@SWU_KTOD]

Sounds it!

[@ultimatewildcatfan]

@@SWU_KTOD If you hear some Buckeyes are traveling to a tournament near you, reserve one or two top 8 spots because we're taking them. 😉🤣

[@SWU_KTOD]

@@ultimatewildcatfan love it!

[@joshuafinger5596]

I played Han2 Blue in the Portland event. Went 4-3 had a great time and my friend from locals took second with his Sabine green.

[@SWU_KTOD]

Awesome! Glad you guys had a blast

[@L8NightGaming]

A Eugene local! Enjoyed commentating that event

[@stchizen]

Pumped for Vegas! I guess with a day 2 bye I have to go now … excited to see you all again (it’s been what … 24 years Justin? )

[@SWU_KTOD]

Hell yeah!

[@dafyddgape488]

Love the pod but audio levels were really off this time. Could barely hear Mike

[@SWU_KTOD]

I tried to fix it in post, I got a lot of my stuff boosted, but couldn't do it all. My mic settings were at 100 too, so not sure what happened. Sorry about that!

[@tfh2278]

I may have missed a video or something, but did KTOD end up playing at PQ or not? If you guys did, what decks and how did you guys do?

[@SWU_KTOD]

Matty got like 10th or 12th on breakers

[@tfh2278]

@@SWU_KTOD ahh darn tiebreakers haha Only one person in total from the KTOD team played PQs? If so, I assume no nearby PQs or scheduling conflict for the other KTOD team members? :/

[@ultimatewildcatfan]

I wish you would have highlighted the Top 4 of each PQ. Indy was 3 Rey [red] and 1 OG Han [green]. All 3 Bobas were eliminated round 1 of top 8 and was almost 1/3 of the field,

[@SWU_KTOD]

Sorry, with PQs ending we covered the winners but the meta isn't a priority moving forward

[@ultimatewildcatfan]

@@SWU_KTOD Understood

[@SWU_KTOD]

@@ultimatewildcatfan I'm not shocked though and it sounds like a healthy response to a clear best deck. My issue w boba has always been it pushes out other villain options, not that it's oppressive

[@jonathanrfisher]

You did NOT just reference TI-84 Drug Runner 😂😂😂

[@SWU_KTOD]

Lmao so old school

[@acedobleace]

so youre the reason why metalfab have this weird hand token XD

[@SWU_KTOD]

lol we didn't invent it!

[@MADforSWU]

Haha ruthless pretending you sent your brother a pack but really u sent 2 to his buddy instead.