Name: Evan C.
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Third Place
Deck Name: The Ghost and The Darkness
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To Love-Ru Darkness
How was the regional? It was pretty fun. A lot of very intense matches, all of them came down to the wire.
How do you win with your deck? Do everything you can to get your level 3 Nemesis in hand along with your backrow. Start churning out cards every turn. You have a lot of extra soul damage with your zeros so try to accelerate the game pace and reduce the amount of time your opponent has to set up. At level one you can either wall with the 1/0 Nemesis, 1/1 Mea and your 2k backup, or go for the 1/0 Mea and disrupt their backrow. Wall up hard at 2 with your 2/1 Nemesis and Mea. Nemesis finisher at 3 if possible. The deck naturally has decent compression since you tend to win the board, and need to be careful with your stock due to the level 3 games extreme cost.
Name: Thomas F.
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Fourth Place
Deck Name: For Grape-kun
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Kemono Friends
How was the regional? This was the first WGP regional I've competed with so I can't compare it to any other regional. I will say that it was a roller coaster of emotions.
How do you win with your deck? The Serval restand definitely feels like the better of the finishers but this is WS, almost anything can finish the game. The Emperor penguin definitely helps you find the puzzle pieces or the missing level 0s that need to be in memory. While the level 3 Serval's restand condition is fairly easy to meet, more and more decks are starting to run stock bombers and clock bombers at level 0 to stop the restand condition. This set is definitely still a work in progress.
Any shoutouts? Shoutouts to the Southeast Michigan WS play group who have helped me practice and learn this game at a competitive level. Special shoutout to Andrew for helping me build and playtest. One extra shoutout to Mike from Card Academy who I've watched build this type of deck. RIP Grape-kun
