Store Showdown, Athens: 4–1 with Vigilance Luke

Round three was the tournament in miniature: an aggression mirror-breaker built to race, against a deck whose whole plan is to make racing a bad idea. He led with cheap units into the ground arena; Wing Guard and Guardian of the Whills made every attack cost more than it returned, and Luke deployed on six with a shield already up.

The one loss was self-inflicted — I kept a hand with both copies of Vigilance and no early board, and by the time I stabilised his leader was flipped and the math never recovered. The deck is honest: it loses when you pilot it greedily, and almost never otherwise.