Gnars' Artificery Season 4 Winner decklist (outdated) 1.0

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Hello everyone! Thought that I might post my personal experience in the top64 Artificery Season 4 Tournament that I had with this deck.

First of all, I'd like to say a couple things before I talk about the matchups I had. Firstly, I'm not one to write big long write-ups, so I'll try and keep it as short and sweet as I can. Secondly, this deck is SUPER outdated. We had to submit decklists about 4-5 days after legacies was legal, so everyone was still sort of testing things out. No one knew the power of Into the Garbage Chute yet, which is why it isn't in the list. Thirdly, big thanks to Joey "Allerion" P for helping me doing some practice against my Top 64 opponents decks. All games are best of 3. I'll do my best to say how the games went, but keep in mind that top64 was probably like a month ago.

Alright, now for the matchups!

Top64 match: Yoda/Zeb This was the first time I had ever played against a zeb/yoda deck with my deck, as I stated before with legacies being so new, no one had really been trying it out. I certainly questioned some of the decisions of cards my opponent included, and he apparently had submitted a different zeb/yoda deck after the deadline, and it hadn't gone through. So he ended up having to play some really weird cards in his Zeb Yoda list, such as crafted lightsaber. In the end, zeb/yoda just fares too slow against the power of late game vehicles. 2-0

Top32: Rey2Poe2 Also the first time I would have played this matchup, as everyone was testing legacies decks for the first time. Of course I've played against this deck a bunch and know how it works though. The list was pretty much spot on to every other list. Medium damage, high sustain. After testing with Joey for about 1-2 games, I realized that Rey2Poe2 was all but dead in the legacies meta (at least against my deck). Not too much to say about this, but this was certainly a deck where easy pickings didn't shine too well. 2-0

Top 16: brOTK vs BobbySapphire I don't believe I ended up testing vs this with Joey, but everyone plays this deck differently. I actually thought this would be a matchup super favored towards the brOTK player, but it turns out that I either got lucky, or that the disrupting/discarding sides of Rose are the real MVP here. I kept him off resources as best I could, as the deck has a ton of cards that shine at 1 cost, such as boundless, best defense, and leadership. I somehow ended up taking a 2-0 win here. Late game I ended up looking into his hand and seeing he had a rise again with 4 resources. I had an Ezra blank showing, and he had then activated Seventh Sister. After a couple actions, he rerolled into the resource on Seventh Sister, and I rolled out 3po. He resolved his resource immediately, with rise again being his only card in hand (or one of the only ones). I snap-responded by taking his resource with 3po's action. I don't think he had seen that coming. 2-0

Top 8: Yoda/Zeb vs Goopies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzNcGOonHDU&t=3498s

This was certainly a better version of Yoda/Zeb. It had some interesting "tech" (?) cards like Impulsive, which has seemingly found a spot in most yoda/zeb decks today. He had this with 1 all in as well, as well as lot of 0 cost removal cards. This match was close. In fact, the closest by far in the tournament I had been up against. He took the first game basically due to draws. I drew a hand of double easy pickings, double rally aid, tech team in the 2nd round, after only having played 1 vehicle the prior turn. First game went to him. 2nd game on my Battlefield, things turned around quickly as I had popped out way more vehicles in the 2nd round. I also went into round 2 or maybe round 3 with his yoda having 2 chance cubes on him. He rolled out, spending both resources, and rolled double 3s on chance cube. I couldn't do anything about it, and he had 6 resources. I thought at this point I had lost the game, but looking at the playback, I was very fortunate he didnt have any upgrades to play on Zeb. Late game does what vehicles always does. Win. game 3 was hilarious. For me, not him. If there's a game you watch out of the long video, watch the 3rd. I played 2 easy pickings back to back. Anyways, I got a somewhat early u-wing out, and chose to get the 6 shields, as I knew that the longer I could make the game, the better chance I had at winning. Credit to Goopies, 1st opponent to make me lose a game up to this point! 2-1

Top4: Obi/Maz vs Teambass Well, I'm not sure why I misplayed so much in this match, but being me, I have to have a reason to blame something! I'll blame it on the fact that this was the only match in the whole top64 experience where I was in the discord room with my opponent. The guy certainly made some questionable decisions with thermal detonator, often using the 2 discard side instead of just focusing the special to do 9. most of the time he knew I had no mitigation cards for it, because he planted maz's goggles onto maz early every round (he was running 2 maz's goggles). Not too much to say, as vehicles whops this deck any day of the week ;). There was also an interesting situation when in the 2nd game, he had 2 thermals out, 1 on maz, and 1 on Obi. He instantly resolved a 2 discard on maz's thermal with her ability, and later on in the round when he had focused obi's thermal to special and resolved it, he removed Maz's thermal. I told him in discord that it should be Obi's thermal, not maz's (and even pinged it in the video). But he said that he had just moved the die over to maz's character or something, I can't really remember. To be honest, I just agreed because I only vaguely remember what had happened earlier in the round. But oh well. Of course I got no credit from the commentators for some of the decisions I made while trying to play around "fair trade" which he runs 2 of. This lead to the commentators saying "Oh nooo, he forgot to use tech team" when cheating out a vehicle with rally aid or something. I was not going to let him disrupt me for 3, and then him get 3 resources :P. 2-0

Finals Top2 Yoda/Riekkan vs SunMarcher After some pretty short sessions of testing this matchup, it became apparent to me that whoever won the roll off at the start was going to win the tournament. And hey, I won the roll-off, and won the tournament! Woo! My opponent knew how to play his deck, and it seems easy to beat on paper, until you play against it.... Talk about a tanky ass deck. Basically game 3 came down to the fact that he had 2 c3pos in his starting hand. After he played 1, I did everything in my power to discard the other one, as I knew that when I drew vandalize, he wouldn't have 3po the whole game. He ended up discarding it to reroll, so that job was done. Later on, he played determination to mill 2 from my hand on a yoda die, and round 3-4 or so, he force illusioned both of his bespin wing guards away. Round 5 I found my last FiLP, and took determination. These were the only cards in his deck list that could attack my hand. So he basically had to rely on Yoda's natural discard side to close out the game. Hey, props to this man for making it to the finals with an unorthodox Mill deck! Unlucky that he lost the starting roll-off. 2-1

Well, if you made it through the blocks of text, thanks for reading! First article I've posted. I also like how I said i'll try and keep it short and sweet. Hah, I guess that didn't happen!

Let me know if you have any questions about the deck :)! It's much different now!

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