After a day to relax and enjoy the con. I've gotten some time to post a few quick notes about the tournament! Although it is one AM and I'm using my phone so please forgive any typos as I'm just trying to get info out to you guys as soon as possible.

My general impressions of the tournament:

First of all I'd like to say this was one of the best organized tournaments I've been a part of. The judges were friendly, helpful, and accommodating. Smooth from first round to last.
Thanks so much to Brad Andres for such a fantastic tournament.

My overall I'm impressions of the field:
I was very impressed by diversity of the field. it says tons about a game when that many different warlords were so equally represented. Also the caliber of player at this tournament was humbling I played nothing but top notch players all day. And I'm not giving lip service. I played not even 1 game all day that I felt couldn't have gone the other way had a few things shaken out differently.

Quick recap of games:

I'd like to start by apologizing to my opponents. I'm terrible at names and was exhausted by the end of the day. If any of you are on here I'd love to get your name again.

Round one - regional bye 1-0

Round two -
This is embarrassing but this is the one round of the day I'm completely blanking on. I know my opponent was a great guy who checked on me throughout the day, but for the life of me can't remember his warlord. I think it was Cato for some reason.

Win 2-0

Round three - vs aun' shi

As I remember this was a quick game with a great guys that could have gone either way. I took command early and won two quick planets. Orbital city let him snipe my command units and I was on the command Backfoot by 3rd planet luckily that was my win con planet and I went for it stacking every body I could at planet 1 and he barely didn't have enough move in to deal with it all.

Win 3-0

Round 4 vs kith

I played Ornatov this round. Not to much to note about this round. He sees a turn 1 den then The only mistake I feel I made was not dealing with his tokens earlier and I get beat by the critical mass and two war leaders at planet 5.

Lose 3-1

Round 5 - vs kith

Great guy I played in the finals of the Durham regionals. I had a good opening hand and took a lot of command. Was a close strategic game but my choke on the money planets was too much to play his war leaders.

Win 4-1

Round 6 - vs Zarathur

Was a really interesting game! Nobody in my meta plays chaos so I had no idea what to expect. I started with what I believe was the best opening hand of my life and took immediate command presence at almost all the planets. He plays a temptation the next turn and levels the field economically but in the end I have too strong of a hold on the planets.

Win 5-1

Round 7 - vs kith

Kenny was my toughest opponent all day. He doesn't make mistakes and his calm demeanor is intimidating to play against. I didn't even get close this match it seems like he had a shield for everything and ripped all the cards from my hand.

Lose 5-2

Finish Swiss in 9th

Top 16 - vs aun' shi

Another close game with another great player. An early mistake with an ion rifle I think gave me just enough advantage I needed to pull this one out.

Top 8 vs Ragnar

I believe my opponents name was Seth? I'm so sorry if I'm wrong! SUPER nice guy! We took a little time to revel in our new command dials and got under way. I'll be honest I was getting outplayed from the start, took some quick damage on starbane got my bluff called in greedy plays but me luckily having two nullifys to eat two drop pods was just enough to pull this game out.

Top 4 vs - Ragnar

Kingsley is hands down the most intimidating guy on the planet to play against. His poker face all game had me absolutely convinced I was going to lose at any second so my hands were shaking all game. I drew into enough command to hold the choke all game and rode I wildrider to victory chaining it down to threaten planet one.

Finals - vs kith

Kenny again and what an epic game this was. My opening draws were a little better this time and his less so. A few planets in we had a battle so great we got some claps before the game was over. He got an archons palace early but I locked down command winning 4-5 struggles a turn. He made a great play with twisted lab to lock my wildrider out of the battle. But in the end I had the gift of isha to seal it in my favor.


Deck list:

3 bien tel guardians
2 eldar survivalist
3 warlock destructor
2 spiritseer
4 starbanes council
1 wildrider squadron
3 mercenaries
2 hellion gang
3 incubus warrior
3 bloodied reavers
3 void pirate
3 rogue trader

3 nullify
2 foresight
3 gift of isha
2 empower
3 archons

1 mobility
3 promotion

1 signature shrine

Deck building notes:

I built this deck to beat what I consider it's worst matchups kith and aun'shi which is why I include the hellion gangs and lose the wraith guards. Both of these matchups are helped significantly by having guys that can survive attacks for 2.
Although it looks like a choke deck on paper it doesn't really play like one. My mission is to be adaptable stalling out my deploys until I can get a read on my opponent and devising an appropriate strategy. Like I said I apologize for any typo's and the briefness if the report I'd love to answer any questions.