Dear Rulers,
We would like to report the results of the GP held on 11th and 12th March 2023. We have received comments from some of the top players, although not all have provided strategic insight. We are grateful to the 3 players who shared their thoughts with us.Thank you for sending them in.
As the GP is still ongoing, this report may have an impact on the metagame. We encourage even those who did not play in the tournament to take a look.
■ 2nd Place（Name：Logan Hezekiah Moses）
What was the Decisive factor in choosing your Ruler for this event?
Aristella, twin prince because of his strong contract and mastery chants, and the very strong cocoon and moon children.
What was advantages of your deck in the competitive environment?
The ability to lock out the game with discard or to rely on my j-ruler and Athena to close out games.
■ 3rd Place（Name：Paul Martinson）
What was the Decisive factor in choosing your Ruler for this event?
I knew going in I wanted a moon child ruler to have access to a child of the darkness moon and a child of the light moon especially. Aristella Control provided a proven strategy from its results at FowFest, going I think 2/2 to Top 8 at the event.
What was advantages of your deck in the competitive environment?
The combination of dark and light child along with Great Wall leads to the ability to almost always survive the first few turns of the game. The silence will stop the fast combo deck in its tracks, and can also be used to force through the big spells that the deck depends on for its win condition. The will fixing also allows us to run a greedier will base, focusing on foresee stones or utility stones like magic stone of reign without giving up on any consistency of casting our cards. With this rather low investment, high reward, to surviving the early game, we're able to develop a mana advantage with flute and tea party while searching for win conditions or answers to what our opponent is doing with the birth of the twin princes. Birth of the twin princes and flight of the holy sword both perform double functions as well. Birth helps to find our win conditions, being flight itself when awakened and Athena, and then protecting our win condition once we get it into play. Flight awakened puts our win condition into play while also dealing with whatever our opponent has developed, and then extra copies can protect our Excalibur or Athena with barrier/eternal or reset our God Arts if they attempt to fight through it with double spelling or their own threats. Overall the deck is rather versatile and rewards game knowledge of knowing when to play a reactive game or when you need to push to go for the win.
■ 5th Place（Name：Joseph Slone）
What was the Decisive factor in choosing your Ruler for this event？
When it came to selecting the Ruler I would go with it really came down to comfort. I don't get as much practice time as I would like and Falchion is a Ruler I have been practicing since it's release. When it comes to tournament play I believe comfort and knowing the deck you are playing is one of the most important things.
What was advantages of your deck in the competitive environment?
So the list I decided to run this event essentially focused on Pricia, Seeker of Friends//Pricia's Big Show as a engine. If I could resolve a single copy of Big Show I could push for lethal on Stone 5. Nothing is unique about that strategy however I believed the cards I built around it facilitated it much more than other options. My list provided me with ways to slow down aggressive decks in the forms of Illusionary Mermaid, Castle of Belial, and other options like Illusionary Flower of Sorrow among a few other choices. Against decks that would try to cancel me that preferred going later in the game the inclusion of Spirit Ring allowed me to essential have two extra Will each turn for cards like Fiola, Spirit of Oblivion which provided a body on field and a form of non-resonator hate. In essence the Falchion package of easily acquired Additions that provided much value and high value cards rounding out the build made it feel like an easy choice going into a undefined meta.
