Welcome to the key Chargers of keyboards my kids focusing on competitive play from the members of the keyboards team the key Chargers. Hey everybody. We're coming here from just after the first round of the Albany Vault tour arc on survival. And it's a me kneel or you Sinners fan and Sean you guys here we go. After first round Sean if you want to go first. Yeah, so I was paired up against a guy named Joe twardowski. He's from the Albany area before the game started. He told me this is like he played before but he's just getting back into it here recently. And so first thing I lost but I looked at his necklace. I felt comfortable. I was going Worlds Collide and he was going Kota. He had a Talega triple Terror basic Shadow sweet that he really never used because round one. He played Talega round one. I think I put a damage on till you go with festering touch just because I had red alert in my hand at the time to next turn. He went this put it the Terror. Down and play played maybe to the tears. You played a couple creatures. So the next turn I just read alerted him put out my my Skirmish Skirmish creature and and Galactic senses. Just for the Amber after that. He called Untamed regrowth to Li get killed my my creature off. I forget how he killed it off, but he got rid of Somehow then then he was able just to control my board and play out his cards like you you had three Fates had Cooperative. I am so that he protected and protected to legal with Shadow Self. The game really wasn't even close. It was like three keys to one. I mean, I only have 13 creatures in my deck, but I had to I had to get them down because I was trying to kill Polly guy can't let her stay to me. It wasn't even a close game and kudos to Joe especially coming. Back into the game after a long break. Yeah for sure. I knew I was going to be in for a tough match. As soon as I saw the pairing sigh paired with Trevor May the winner from gencon are consoelo and then Colin and so I knew that there was you know, Keith going to have good decks. He brought some things at it's an Italian deck and when I saw the decklist, I knew that that was gonna be in some issues. So I was playing the the muscles deck. I think we talked about it when Mike was on the podcast, it's his deck I was Wearing it again. It's done. Well for me, it is not tested well against Worlds Collide at all, but I was hoping you know early that I would run against non Worlds Collide and I did I ran against AOA which you know, normally that sounds great, but it was broaden our Mars as first turn he dropped a grump buggy like two terms later. He dropped the other two. So I knew I was in a lot of issues. It was actually disables the other half. You know, he played out some teachers early and it is Mars besides the triple grub buggy sitting over in in there, you know against a deck that has actually very few creatures, but there's some decent ones, you know, I've got ancient barriers and double fire spitter and or Shaker, you know, I mean, there's some things in there that that have some some bolt and some bolt to them to drive his Kosta to but India's Mars was Martian generosity GG abduction, so I knew that Probably my only way to probably get out of this game at all was to just any you know, he had like a Maverick Swindle in bars, but I just knew I just needed to get Amber as fast as possible and hopefully beat the grunt buggies to the table that didn't happen then it was just trying to keep the Amber down as much as I could because I didn't want him to generosity for a ton instead. He got to nine generosity. Red 18 cards double key Abduction the on the spot and you know at that point when you're down to two one, they the key I forward I had to forge it 12 because in the Triple Crown buggy, so it was pretty was ugly that yeah, I mean, I knew I needed the cowards in with the bodies play. It did not happen cowards in actually end up being on the very bottom of the deck. So, you know, that was the probably my only way out of that and you know good deck actually great deck. That's grim. So we got it. So it's pretty gross. It's great deckhand a great players. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let me know, you know, I did as well as I could have I think is a horrible matchup. Like it's just not good match up whenever I need to combo off to win and it didn't happen. So that was that's that we're on to round 2 and deck to which you know, I think we both put what we thought was our worst deck first. So I mean and real quick recap Brent. And Chris, they were still playing when we came out here Brent was bi he was playing Z from Team SAS. He was playing his son. And when I walked by Brent was down he had zero keys to Amber and the kid had one key and a like 10 Amber and is full. So I'm pretty sure Bruce going to lose that match and Chris Chris. Chris was even it was like they both have one key in two or three hundred. Yeah, but Chris is deck plays that way. Yeah because he'll Archive of us. Stuff just battlefield for the win. So we'll see. You know, what happens we go back in there if he's if he's even like that and there's an archive at I didn't get to see it. But depending on game State I've played that deck enough if there's if there's archived cards, he's probably going to win the game actually, so we'll give you an update on the next recap. Yep. Everybody here after round two with the boat tour and Albany and I'm going to go ahead and go first this time. I'm here with Sean again. And I played Jason Schultz who is originally from the Albany area, but he's moved to Dallas. I don't know if you visiting family. I you know, we'd conversation didn't quite get that far by the time we got set up. He was almost late to the table. He hit me. He got his stuff out just in time to swap cards. So we did a little bit of chatting but not much. He had an AOA deck that was you know, the Archimedes like Neutron shark. Experience mother Legacy. So it was it was a lot of card draw a lot of cycling through his deck. Luckily. I do a little bit of the same. I was playing the they that instructs embryology the horrible wonder the double chain gang and the Legacy Magda. In fact Legacy magnet pretty much want me to game with the end of the game or pretty close to it. But, you know kind of for some things at the end of the game I discarded it earlier in the game with the time. And as he took his spacely went to the time was called right after I finished my last turn I snuck it in with seconds left tops and you know just drew my cards was like your turn and you know time was called right after before you even started doing anything time was called and I had nine Amber. He could kill Magda he could reach a like 11, he could kill Magda and get the probably 10 or something or he could read but I was at nine Amber. All that would do is get to Seven. He had no way to stop the key. Hi. And you know pretty like a me, you know, you could go des and go Allah when I attack you on polst the lash out of the game just a couple turns earlier. So that was you know, something that helped me but super close game really good bad matchup for me because he doesn't he does board things but they just recur and that Neutron shark recursion was just killing me because he just pop everything and double covid week that it seemed like he had every time I had like one creature had to call the weekend and it was Just gone. So how do you go shopping? Yes, so I played I matched up with a George sprek from I think Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. I've seen him around another Vault doors and stuff. He was playing the coda Rush deck. He had triple hunting which and ways to Archive. So he was able to Archive quite a bit of Untamed but it did that didn't hurt me. But what what killed me was my card draw like I was playing the DECA Worlds Collide that called Ryan ruined said yes, Ryan. One said and I got it from my teammate Ryan actually, but anyways, like what I want to do. It's a triple Eddie Deck with a mimic gel. And what I need to do with that deck is to get my ID. He's out early archive my story and because I have Imperial Forge with tribute cow Fijian way double strict. So I'm trying to trying to archive all the story and to win with Imperial Forge or Get it my second key with Imperial for do something but I was forced to play all that to get my first ski with Imperial 4ch. But before I even got the key, he was up to 90 number. I had an Infernus. I killed both of his ghostliness to take him off at gate but the Infernus was the only dissing my hand. Basically it was all cards all after that. I was forced to use exhume on an ed not finished with you. I had to play it earlier because my hand was clogged with this and nothing else. So my card role was pretty bad going into the game. I thought like it was no doubt when if I just drew those Eddie's early, but it just didn't happen and he was able to push ahead pretty quick and we do, you know, Chris did not win this match. He did win the match around one and then Brent won the match Hugh's plan right next to me kind of across the room right next to me and so it was no contest for grew so we have three one-on-ones and Sean is owing to the very top. Okay. We'll see you guys. later Okay, everybody back for and after round three were going to lunch and coming back tight. Brake Sean won't you go first. Alright, so yeah, I'm now showing three and out of the tournament. I matched up with a another codex and that's three codex in a row. However, this matchup was the worst matchup. He had double cowards and a three Fates Annihilation ritual lash, you know to keep me off keys and pretty much you just use those boards. It wipes and big problem are creatures to kill my creatures with Annihilation Rich a while and my deck solely relies on those creatures for double redder. Double since her teeth. I have own voice and a couple more in a couple more creatures is like 20 some creatures. I think I had at the end of the game. I had two creatures left in my deck. So it was like really no contest the matchup just wasn't there for me this this game. That's when we got a couple other people. This time we've got Chris and we've got Britain joining us. Hi. So this is all four of us here. So Chris if you want to go real quick talk about round 3. All right, currently one and two of played against one of each of the sets so far lots of played against Eric Taylor from Team SAS. Super nice great game kind of kind of these local D&D, right? Yeah. We travel 12 hours to play somebody we could have played on a Thursday night. It was a pretty it was pretty bad. He sweat he swept me right there. Be me two keys to three super good game though. Yeah, if you don't know the deck people a lot of people consider this one of the better decks in Kota, they ever come out at least for the long time. It's I don't know the whole name, but I know it's Echo gamer as what everybody calls. It is a double time traveler for Horsemen deck. So yeah, it was a it's also a Lands Deck, but you know those don't exist anymore, but it had the land as the lands combo at it, but Is pretty nutty but the time traveller plays he ended up doing but yeah, you gave me didn't you say you played for Time Travelers in one turn. Yep. He played both Time Travelers and then he twin bolted helping future self the other one and then he never conceded the L Hope from future self afterwards so that he played two more time traveler back again. It was a who's pretty it was pretty disgusting but I gotta give him credit for that. I was it was pretty is pretty sick. You went from like three embroider 10 or something. That one turned from Time Travelers. That was great. Yet what we got Brent, so I am currently two and one I matched up just like Chris to one of each of the sets. My last one. I want to guess was Worlds Collide. My deck is a deck that relies on a bunch of Amber with saurian. So I capture a bunch and exalted bunch and just beef that the creatures so my the real threat for this is Hysteria Nature's call and he had Nature's call, but he never drew into it. So I basically took a troll the game early. So my source Rex and tribute competition arrogance and just kept my Amber generation and exalting to a minimum. So if you did end up drawing it, he wasn't taking very much. So yeah, I don't that that I know that decks filthy. I've played against it many times if thesaurus rex tribute pop to stuff goes off. It's really hard to wipe the board out here basically need hysteria or Nature's called deal with that sometimes. Yep, and then I faced a guy. I can't remember his name for Life me. He's from New York City and he was Playing Worlds Collide kind of a Worlds Collide rushed deck multiple flax. He is Nature's call mimicry ghost Hawk armonia. I had a pretty critical error one point in the game where I buy killed a scullion when I should have killed the harmonia because he definitely rushed back up to six on the next term because I messed that up I even said it out loud, which I don't normally do but I was like, I cannot believe I just did that but I'm playing the embryology deck. Red deck has answers for a lot of things orb of Wonder popped twice in the game. We got down near the end. I got to six Amber. He could make a bunch of Amber, but he couldn't take me off a key time was called but I got my next, you know Ford to key step is he was going when time was called and you know, I got to forge the key because he couldn't keep me off key and that was pretty much it. So I'm Sarah buddy after around for. Okay, welcome back to Vault or Albany realm for just ended for myself. Shawn. You guys are the last round unfortunately is out of the event my round was against Brie Smith. That's you know from Team SAS Aziz wife. And we played know I looked at her deck. It was I think Italian she had the necklace like printed out small like, you know, like just an English version and you know look through the deck and it was crazy quadrant. Job existed actually probably played at gencon are still pretty well with it in my deck. You know, I have discombobulated ER I'm like, okay this Kebab you later with all her small stuff. I think just ends this game if I just get it stick it on group Think Tank opening and I have four logos cars including group think-tank. I don't have discombobulated ER but I have I gor so I'm like I'm saying go start searching through the day, right? And I know I had topped out so I keep searching. I don't find Ed and discombobulated where the last two cards in the deck. I played orbital Wonder used over wonderous some point and I could have grabbed one of the other but at the that point the shadows and stealing to keep her off at he seemed more important because she was racing fast. So I made that choice. I don't know if it was the right or wrong choice. It's just a decision you make but discombobulated Ur. Like if I get it early, I don't think she can win the game because she only had a couple of Titan Guardians and I did a great job early. I'm just using the action she kept putting logos. Preachers Wives as action clear the board action clear the board with a think tank. Maybe if I go faster things are different. I don't know but I mean I even mimic gel that I going to keep digging for discombobulated. ER just so I could go to the deck. I just couldn't find it last card in the deck. So it is what it is great game though. It lasted quite a while because my deck once again kind of stalled things out so and Shiki charge. I mean I literally was like if you got neighbor 51 the game because she had a hollow-core for Amber read. Amber she had tied mechanic on the end. I'm like, you just grab the key charge from wherever it's at. If it's the one in your archives you pick up our archive and key terms I I didn't have I'm out but I did play Alex walked ins with a deck with the deck. I didn't play only on the Vault order, but I ended up being a moves. He he ran a martian generosity and key abduction that can gets me it was pretty gross. But I had my accomplices horror specs working and on that I had the And filled light of the archons and Calvin side. I just kept using that and then I also had double golden spirals out. So I kept exulting in a librarian Palace oars and every once in a while. I had the one the one story of card that moves a neighbor for one creature to Enchanted Evening. Yeah, so I just kept going into that and using that and I had double Falafel sources out and you know, try sharing the ward. I kept your name goes in the bucket. Yes, all ssibly get that. Yep, so I did it was a funny one something but he and it opened my board at the end. He wasted a key abduction on on one tourney. He had a big archive pulled his archive pikey abduction was just like to to Amber short unfortunate key, but the last turn he played Martian generosity again and key abduction for free, but that was the second key and I had like 15 Amber because throughout the game he was added to forage for like 8 or 12 or because Disruption to Old I kept using the the Calvin card role in the destruction field. That's cool. So yeah, but I pulled it off awesome. We'll be back at you after the next round. Hey, welcome back everybody after around five of The Vault or we have three Key charger sitting area me and Neal and Chris and Brett. We're all hanging out here Shaun's playing in a sealed side pot. I think after this round was a matchup. I matched up against John Edwards, but he said he's from three hours West of here. I'm not quite sure what we went back and forth. You got a key fairly quick on me and but I'm playing roads and that's typical roads while I'm setting up and going to make in the plan and put the story in a way. They're you know, they kind of slowly get to key. You got to a key handed the game I think with about Amber I had eight soaring cards archived with Edie protected with award and a taunt and just kept calling into the double tabor's that he couldn't get off the board and just kept doing things out of the house and he you know, we had a fainting he had to Fang to she was a little scared when I saw the deck because if he gets those early, I think I struggle a little bit he didn't and everything went. Okay. I'm on the three and two And I played against a Jeff from Long Island New York said it was a four-hour drive. So not super local but you know local concern Albany but played against his deck was very similar. Both far saurians kind of like to do the same thing have a lot of have a lot of taunts and some tributes and captures and Gail emms to increase key costs and stuff like that except. I have an imperial Road and he had a city Gates big difference was whenever you played a city. It's I had the Poltergeist waiting because I knew that that was the artifact I had to go for you mentioned after game that really hurt him. So that was kind of my big play was trying to make sure that was off the board was able to play around the Tabor that he played and his health has been Spears that he played out early killed those as soon as they got out. She's good for me. Yeah, you did a real good job. I watch the end of the game. I mean you really manage the in the game like a really really well so they game was really I was afraid you had a tribute in hand. I was like it yet is how the tribute there's nothing I can do about it. I tried. To pump Amber. Luckily. I was at nine which she mentioned after the game. Nine was the number I needed a hit because he had a two frames and transport a platform to capture three, but he didn't do more than that. Otherwise really solid deck did some similar stuff to what mine does and he played it pretty well there. Hey good game. What about your friend? So I played a guy named Daniel Lawrence. He was playing a Worlds Collide X. Just like mine it started out where he would not let me get to a key. Actually got key before I did and then put in 10 Amber onto into his pool and I but then the next turn I drew into my saurians and city limits or city state interest and I had about seven creatures on the board. And after I played with Morpheus on the field and my strix is exalting twice and engrams going off twice. I did with my board everything having a an Amber on it at least one and then everything was awarded. Basically. He couldn't get anything off the board enough to get the Amber off of it and time. So awesome. Hey, man, we all just need one more win cross our fingers. We don't have play and we'll see if we can make three people in the day too. Happy to see what happens. Hey, this is Neil coming to you after around six and Albany. We have our kind of final results here for the event for day one and you know, it didn't turn out quite well. If we want I was three and two going into the last round myself. And played am on and Emin maybe and you know, I mean his deck looked like something mind should handle fairly easily your basic Shadows lineup, maybe a little bit more damage than normal fewer creatures. Something like that and then he had this when she Drew almost all of and Andrew a lot of it early and Drew the Arise at the perfect time and you know, I drew 2-2 to Mulligan's didn't even like what was in there and to two to one, you know played to Drew the same to play to your the same to and he will control in the board. I wasn't drunk creatures. I mean it was just rough. Draw and you know, that's the way it goes. So no round two are no day to sorry and we move on and upward I do have you know results from the rest of the team as Brent made a to so good job Brent. He will be playing tomorrow and Sunday and Chris my son that didn't quite make it as well. He went 3 in 3 and 3 as well be lost in the sixth round. So, you know better luck next time but it was a very fun event. We're off to play Team sealed will do one more wrap up after the event. Hey, this is Neil giving you guys to wrap up for the event of alter Albany for the key Chargers Brent lost early and day two and we played some tea mark on and fared. Okay, and T mark on it was me, Chris and Sean. I'll play it on that team was burnt was occupied with the main event a little bit and hey, you know how I want to thank Yeti for putting on a great event as always. They do a fantastic job. Great job Zach being the head judge and tired in charge of the event whether it's events Denise or Zack or Thomas Heather Marcus who were here from Florida helping out. Jade is always doing great point. So great job by Yeti Class Acts. We appreciate what you guys do. You know, we'll see you guys at one of the next Vault tours. I think a depth to come for sure. I'm not Quite sure if we're going to be at Fort Worth, maybe one or two of us, but we will have a regular episode as well here in about a week. Thanks everybody.
We recap our mostly Day 1 and a little of Day 2 (congrats Brent!) at the Albany Vault Tour. 