Xavier Midwest Regionals

[zogfhyr]

This is the Xavier deck I played and took second. It needed some more tweeking, but I thought it would be fun to share.

Pregames:
Xavier St. Cloud
James Horton (Xavier specific TS1-037)
Arms and Tactics (nexus HtG-187)
Stefan le Greffier
The Gathering (Search for Situation HtG-280)
The Gathering (Search fo Location HSFV-262)
5 Crystals

Edges:
2x Alertness (block)
2x Bait and Switch
1x Insightful Planning (capture special)
2x Versus (CVQ074)

Events:
2 Alertness (Super, 1 block, 1 dodge)
1x Divine Intervention (Remove pregame card)
1x Headshot (CVQ019)
1x I'm Back

Situations:
3x Hunter (Hunters cannot be removed from play except by Watchers)
2x Hunter (reduce opp handsize for each hunter in play)
1x Hunter (hunters in hard exertions go to bottom of deck)
5x Lab Director

Objects:
1x Extra Weapon
6x Monkey
2x Watcher's Chronicle (HS4-219)

Locations:
3x Watcher Headquarters

Attacks:
3x UL
2x UC
3x UR
1x Thrust

Blocks:
2x UL (1 promo)
1x UC (promo)
1x UR
1x LL
1x LC
1x LR
4x Guards (2 upper, 1 left, 1 right)
1x Prime Block (upper HS4-02PP)

Dodges:
6x Xavier Evade
1x Distract (generic 2PP02)
2x Master's Dodge (generic - no powerblows)

Concept is that James Horton makes all you allies Hunters. Begin by using The Gatherings to put the Hunter (no remove unless by Watcher) and Watcher Headquarters into play. Now your opponent can't get rid of your hunters (including your location) without lots of ignore effects, capture, or Watchers. Avoid attacks and play 2 Hunters each turn thanks to the Headquarters. Once you get the Hunter to reduce handsize, your opponent is in trouble. The Monkeys effectivly reduce their hand size by 2, since they become hunters and make them discard a card. Lab Directors are just to speed up exhaustion.
Once they have little or no hand, start attacking and returning the Headshot every turn.

[nkeates]

Thank you Jordan for posting your deck. Posts like this are great for encouraging new people as there is talk about strategy which is so often lacking. I really like the watcher headquarters loc which can't be removed unless by watcher ....really nice. Shuts down location dependent decks very nicely indeed. Thanks again for posting. Hopefully this will encourage some strat talk and also some others to post their regional decks. Would love to see that Katherine one.

[warlock]

I played a Rameriz deck. What I tried was the pregame that allowed me to use you opponents hilt power also. Plus the we are brothers so I could use his persona power also. Did not seem to help though won first game. Got clobbered the next 3 games.

[zogfhyr]

Your slashes just kept slicing me down! Ramirez can be brutal.

[zogfhyr]

The best part of the event was the call to have my card sleeves banned.

[ultra]

^.^v

May 2, 2018 20:12:57 GMT -5 zogfhyr said:

The best part of the event was the call to have my card sleeves banned.