Reborn Louisville is in the Books

Reborn Louisville is in the books! A mere seven participants showed up to play what has historically been an aggressive and ally-packed format. But that wouldn’t be the case this past Saturday at Bluegrass Magic Shop, home of “Elderguard” Brennan Moody. Thanks to everyone who attended or followed along on Twitch!

The Tournament

We pushed the start time back on this one to 2:00PM to allow for more travel. There was rumblings of some long distance travelers attending and accommodating them was important. Also Core rounds are fast-paced and take less time than the best-of-three format we ran last time.

Like I highlighted last week Core had been the land of powerful allies with a slight bend toward more solo’ish decks toward the end. But with only seven participants anything can happen and it looks like most everyone decided to try and next-level the meta. Here’s the final standings after four rounds of Swiss and what they were piloting:

Patrick Broadway - Alliance Shaman (Doomhammer)
Josh Wilson - Monster Death Knight/Shaman (Harmonize)
Woodrow Hood - Horde Warlock (Last Relic Burn)
Phil Stacy - Horde Rogue (Joleera Midrange)
Frank Adams - Alliance Rogue (Strikeout)
Nathan Cole - Monster Death Knight/Shaman (Strikeout)
Chris Waits - Monster Death Knight (Call of Yogg-Soran)

Notice anything? Yeah that’s two separate Mogdar decks. People really must have a thing for the Ogre dual-class hero on the Reborn Circuit.

The Finals

Although it felt a little bad, Crypto Tournament Policy recommends a Top 2 cut with just 7 participants so that meant Josh and Patrick were slated to meet in the finals. Worth noting is that Patrick and Josh were playing the two decks with the most allies and also made up the Top 2. Probably not a coincidence.

But the rest of the players chose to go the road less traveled and largely avoid allies looking only to ones that enabled their niche strategy like Valeera, Bromor the Shadowblade, and Neltharion the Earth-Warder. In the end allies showed why they are not to be forgotten or forsaken.

We’ll have the decklists up soon enough on the website, but just to elaborate on what each of the Top 2 players were doing, here are some highlights from Patrick’s (Scott Landis’) Doomhammer midrange deck and Josh’s unique take on the Monster Harmonize combos of old:

Patrick’s Deck Highlights

Josh’s Deck Highlights

In the end Patrick was able to secure the win in just two games. Josh’s deck was packing some oddball but powerful cards. An unchecked Monstrous Totem had won him several games throughout the day while on the other side of things topping his curve off with Legacy of the Horde was giving Patrick a lot of wins as well.

Side Games

After the finals most of the players stuck around to draft the Cube and play games into the night. WoW TCG Cube drafting really is a treat. If you make it out to a Reborn event whether local or at a convention, make sure and ask the organizer about Cube’ing afterwards (or just sign up for the Cube draft events at Origins and GenCon). Here’s was what I concocted when the dust settled on drafting:

Seriously, where else would you see these 30 cards together? We played a sort of modified round robin until we grew too hungry to continue. Dinner was Five Guys for some and a local Cuban spot for the others.

After dinner we came back to jam a game of Chaos. It was Jaina and Sylvanas versus triple Dragon Aspects! But the iconic heroines picked on one another and left a flipped Alexstrazsa alone to steal the game off of Benedictus the Twilight Father and Legacy of the Horde.

Next Up?

Coming up next is Reborn Lubbock - a Classic event next month in Texas! Keep an eye out on our socials @wowtcgreborn for more info! Video footage of Louisville will be available in the near (TM) future and the live video capture will be put up as a VOD on Twitch. Reborn Indy footage was delayed due to the production member’s hectic schedules but is nearing completion!