Name: Esteban P.
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Hammergirl Anime Champion
Deck Name: Thank you for playing!! - Happy Synthesizer ver.
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Yuko
How was the National? Every game all the way to the end was exciting, and the final game is probably the best game of Luck and Logic I've ever played. Until the final battle, it was never clearly anyone's game.
How do you win with your deck? Synthesize your way to the top. Keep a TC with soul alive until turn 4, trance into a L2 at turn 3 if you need to. TC into the Rainbow Colored Synthesis flowbreaker if you go first and the opponent has no 2 territory members, and use Legendary Items if they have any 2 territory members, to avoid fights and still flowbreak. Use Alchemical Pandora defensively to stock the opponents +2 Limit cards in the BZ to stop them from being able to put more cards into the BZ, and win by default.
Synthesize some more. Use your stock and drop as extra storage, and keep shuffling cards into stock with Growing the Wealth and retrieving them with the synthesis skill of Water Art.
Keep synthesizing. Get to over 40k and 7 aura for the final push.
Any shoutouts?
As always shoutouts to the Ryan's Place(TM) crew, for games and rides and testing and theory and everything.
Huge shoutouts
to Chris O and Ryan M, my Luck and Logic mentors from beginning to end
to Alicia D, for the amazing final game
to Caleb H, for the midnight games and for being my partner in learning the game
To Brady F, Wenjing H and Dakota R, for being the next generation of players that helped me learn how to teach the game, and learn some things along the way
to Ben L, for the deck building help when I was just starting
and of course, to Heart of the Cards, for bringing us the wonderful game.
Thank you for playing!!
Name: Alicia D.
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Second Place
Deck Name: Don't Cry For Me Septpia
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Tamaki
How was the National? Fantastic, yet slightly bittersweet. It was great seeing everyone again for one last tournament, and to show our support/appreciation for the game. The tournament overall ran with no issues, and matches were fun & exciting as anticipated. That final round versus Esteban, super intense, going to our limits, it felt like a great sendoff!
How do you win with your deck? Defense and aura are key with Tamaki. Utilize covenants to maintain cards in hand and have trance material every turn. Tactics, Lovely Spiral Tamaki & paradox bonus effects can overwhelm opponents and shift battles into my favor. Endgame choices are based on what's needed at the time. Lovely Guardian for defensive walls, Ribbon of Happiness for messing with the opponent, and the TR for an offensive push.
Any shoutouts?
Usual shoutouts to the Hammergirl crew for all the testing, strategy & games. To Chris O. for being an fantastic rival since the release of the game! And congrats to Esteban for joining the Prime Logicalist club! Thanks to Luke and HotC for running these tournaments & supporting the game, and to all the players who continued playing right up to the very end. Thank you for playing!!
Name: Christopher O.
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Third Place (tie)
Deck Name: Thank you for playing!! - Mana-Mana is moe moe mk. FINAL ver.
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Mana
How was the National? What a great sendoff to a great game. Thank you everyone who came, thank you to Heart of the Cards for supporting the game through to its finale, and thank you to Bushiroad for making the game. As a fellow Prime Logicalist, I welcome Esteban P into our midst in forming the Prime Logicalist Triforce. Congratulations to everyone who participated! Thanks to everyone for making the event such a great sendoff!
How do you win with your deck? Limit my opponent's ability to respond to threats. Both my Logicalist and Foreigner Covenants draw a card, so I can build up a board without theoretically committing any resources. Using Silent Songstress Mana, limit my opponent's handsize so that I don't have to fight in order to reduce my opponent's options. Follow this up with Fist of Victory Mana and Upstream Mana to reduce my opponent's Limit when I'm attacking, forcing battle wins while spending minimal resources. When my opponent is on one or two remaining Gates, use Shinto Music of Arrival Mana or High-End Shooting Mana to finish them off, depending on how many cards I have in my Drop Zone.
Any shoutouts?
Shoutouts to everyone who came out to this tournament! Seriously, what a great finale. Shoutout to the Ryan's Place(TM) crew as usual for the good times and deck testing. Shoutout to the Card Academy group who also came to the Nationals and supported the game alongside us. It was great to celebrate the finale together the past several weeks! Shoutouts to my fellow Prime Logicalists, Alicia D and Esteban P. It's been a great rivalry these past years with you guys. And again, shoutouts to Luke M and the entire Heart of the Cards team for supporting and translating the game through its entire life.
As a final anecdote, it's been a wonderful time these past three years playing Luck & Logic. From playing and recording games with the prerelease demo decks all the way back in late 2015 (it's so weird to watch those matches again now, what a different game it was), up to now, celebrating this finale, I have so many great memories playing this game. It's thanks to Luck & Logic I have my current (near-universal) online username (going 21-0 in weeklies the first several weeks will do that). Thank you to everyone who played and supported the game through these years!
Thank you for playing!!
Name: Caleb H.
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Third Place (tie)
Deck Name: Thank you for playing!! - Blink and You'll Miss It ver.
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Sena
How was the National? It was fun but I'm kind of sad the game is over. Thank you to everyone for the fun times we had with the game!
How do you win with your deck? Play one card, blink it, look at your field and you should have a full field by the time you finish the trance.
Any shoutouts?
Shoutout to the Ryan's Place Crew(TM) and everyone who showed up to the regional for the grand finale. Also shout out to Esteban and Alicia for sending out the game in the greatest game of L&L ever seen.
Name: Melanie Lynette S.
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Finalist
Deck Name: Soar on the Winds! Nina Alexandrovna
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Nina Yellow
How was the National? It was amazing! I'm so glad that I got to meet and play with everyone again. Thank you for all of the enjoyable games and the great memories.
How do you win with your deck? Deck takes advantage of the level zone and pushes to win advantage through aura.
Any shoutouts?
Thank you HotC for hosting all of the Luck and Logic National events I have participated in over the last 3 years. Thank you to all of the supportive and talented community members that I've had the honor to interact with. I'm still going to keep playing this game because it will continue to be fun as time passes. Please keep supporting Luck and Logic in Weiss Schwarz! Thank you for the irreplaceable memories!
Name: Ryan M.
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Finalist
Deck Name: Thank you for playing!! - From 0 to 100% and Everything In Between ver.
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Olga
How was the National? Coming together with the Luck and Logic community for one last event was a wonderful experience. Everyone played their best games and had a great time. It was the perfect send-off for this game that we love so much.
I was debating between taking Olga, Giselle, or Sieghard to the tournament, but settled on Olga as his was the first original deck that I built back when Believe and Betray was brand new.
How do you win with your deck? As it happens I did not win all that much with my deck, but am glad I have the opportunity to explain how it's supposed to work.
In theory Olga specializes in using trickery to win rather than in conventional battles of power and resources. Fighting battles head-on is always disadvantageous, but with the proper field and ability setup you can force opponents into nigh-impossible attacks and defenses.
First of all, Olga tech consistently allows you to play higher level members early ahead of your actual level and gain conditional "early-play" benefits for doing do. From the mid to early game, opponents will be forced to fight uphill battles against higher level members than usual.
Next, the incredible idol promo "Charming Everlasting Darkness Olga" packs the ability to add levels to members on field so that you can always remain at a higher level than the opponent and continue to get the aforementioned conditional "early-play" benedits even late in the game.
Finally, the most amazing pieces of the Olga arsenal are the tactics "Gravity Star" and the ability of "Height of Arrogance Olga". When played under specific conditions, it's possible to create an impassable power gap of over 100,000 power and ten aura during the biggest fights of each turn.
Unfortunately, the Olga deck's biggest shortcomings are the fact that much of your resoruces are spent on setting up and maintaining the specific board states that allow its biggest plays. A prepared opponent can anticipate which battles are worth fighting and hit hard when resources are short. Additionally, strategies that revolve around increased attack limit completely deny "Gravity Star"'s ability to interrupt flow.
Any shoutouts?
There's a ton of shoutouts to do for the local community, the frequenters of Ryan's Place (TM), and beyond that were such a big part of the experience I had playing Luck and Logic over the years.
Chris O was one of the original players locally and will be forever legendary for his win record (and his dedication to Mana). Also, there's always the chance that they'll print more Nina so long as Hina Logic is in WS.
Alicia D was our first Prime Logicalist and makes sure that even with Luck and Logic's passing that people are playing good games (and drinking good soda) with almost spiritual dedication.
Ben L might now be en route to the distant land of Michigan, but he too was here at the start and shared the dream of there one day being more Paradox Twin representation in the game.
Caleb H valiantly pushed Veronica farther than anyone believed possible and was a diehard Sena fan until the bitter end. The Monolium Investigative Logic Force will live on forever in our hearts.
Esteban P took the top spot this year with masterful Yuko play in the greatest game of Luck and Logic I've ever seen. Even when not playing Aoi, I can still guarantee that his mantra is "Friends With A Dolphin".
Xixiao Y's complete dedication to Luck and Logic Club shenanigans brought random-card-flipping, rock paper scissors hilarity all the way to the final regional.
Wenjing H stuck with Yukari and brought her full might to bear, learning fast and making the most of the time he had to play and practice.
Brady F put his faith in Kurara to claim victory in an intense last game we played against each other. Now that Luck and Logic is over, maybe he'll finally have time to to finish building that WS Darling in the FranXX deck...
PJ rode the Trance Re:union 2 hype train with us up to the release and through the very end.
Cheng Y was late to the party but was still the life of it. Yeah Tiger!
Bryan B was the sole representative of Lion in the local scene and can pronounce her name correctly, so he's got that going for him.
Dakota R always wanted to build a Mejiko deck and assembled a playset the night before the regional to make it a reality.
Henry C picked apart lore updates (among other things) on the Japanese website and was the first to break the news about the mysterious 5th world Pentacruz.
Shoutout to Pentacruz for existing. Steampunk voodoo economics sounds amazing and just makes me even more curious about what they were planning to do for world 6.
Irvin D, the absolute madman, believed in tactics when no one else would.
Steven C thought Tamaki was cute, and I agree.
Joe O is probably one of the few people in the world who can say they made a proper Luck and Logic cosplay from scratch. Mana's light-up scarf was doubtlessly one of the world's greatest feats in modern engineering.
A big shoutout to our friends Melanie S and Jason S from Ohio that stuck with Luck and Logic as long as we did. Visiting their regional and getting to see them before the national was totally worth the full day of driving.
A shoutout to Colton W and co from Syracuse. Their dedication to assembling a full playset of everything was admirable and the completed collection was a sight to behold.
A big thanks to Luke M who organized and coordinated everything, from pre-release through launch all the way until now at the very end.
This is it, the bittersweet farewell.
Until the day comes that we return to this world where logic transcends the atom, "Thank you for playing!!"
Name: Wenjing H.
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Finalist
Deck Name: Thank you for playing!! - Stand Up, Girls! ver.
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Yukari
How was the National? A wonderful experience. It was short, but nonetheless challenging to play seriously against other people. Words cannot describe how intense the final match was.
How do you win with your deck? Play Yukari cards that rest themselves so I can restand them and gain advantage combos for free. Force my opponent to pay stock if they choose to perform logic definitions. Wall with an 11k level 3 Yukari as I stack soul with trance changes to meet EX Soul 3 conditions once I hit level 4 to ideally attack 5 times.
Any shoutouts?
Thank you Ryan's Place(TM) for introducing me into this great game. It's rare to find a card game that involves so much careful planning with every move the player makes. Thank you Ryan M. for the T-shirts. Thank you Chris O. for teaching me how to play L&L. Thank you Esteban P. for helping me deck build. Thank you WUG for the inspiration. Thank you HotC for supporting L&L. Thank you everyone for playing.
Name: Brady F.
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Finalist
Deck Name: Thank you for playing!! - Better Late Than Never Ver.
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Kurara Red
How was the National? The Regional was fantastic! It was fun playing with everyone and I had the privilege to watch the best game of Luck & Logic ever played.
How do you win with your deck? Trance, Trance Change, and then Make-Up as much as I can to stack as many EX Soul abilities as possible. Once I hit level 4 I flow-break every turn to attack 5 times and bleed my opponent dry of resources. In other words, turn cards sideways, break gates and win.
Any shoutouts?
Shoutouts to the Ryan's Place (TM) crew for everything! Also shoutouts to Luck & Logic for being an amazing game. I wished I had gotten into the game earlier but I will cherish the memories this game has given me. Thank you for playing!!
Name: Travis E.
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Finalist
Deck Name: Adjacent Bullet
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Mana
How was the National? The national was great. It was the first LnL tournament i've ever been able to play in and I'm glad I got to be part of such a great game
How do you win with your deck? The gameplay is to keep my trances "adjacent" to their opponent at all time
Any shoutouts?
Shout outs to everyone who participated in this event, and to HotC for running this amazing event. I'll never forget these memories
Regional Champions
Name: Esteban P.
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Hammergirl Anime Champion
Deck Name: Thank you for playing!! - Happy Synthesizer ver.
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Yuko
How was the regional? It was great, we got a bunch of people to come and got to enjoy the last regional together.
How do you win with your deck? Synthesize, synthesize, sythesize. Take stuff from your stock or drop. Get huge during both turns using your Lv3 synthesis and get initiative in every battle. Use the TR to get even bigger. Get to 30k 7 aura and wonder why the opponent isn't defending. Yuko is a big girl.
Any shoutouts? Shoutout to Ryan's Place(TM) crew for doing the dishes, Ohio players and all the people still playing. Huge shoutout to my L&L mentors Chris O and Ryan M.
Thanks to HotC for continuing their support of this game.
Name: Melanie Lynette S.
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Card Academy Champion
Deck Name: Irreplaceable Memories - Thank You Everyone!
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Disfia Yukari
How was the regional? It was so much fun to play! Thank you to everyone from the Rochester playgroup who traveled and played in our event. I look forward to playing with everyone at Nationals. Thank you for all of the amazing games!
How do you win with your deck? This deck maintains hand and then has a variety of options to respond and adjust to the game state.
Any shoutouts? Thank you to HotC for continuing to support this amazing game this year, and all of the players who are still playing here on. You all are awesome!
