Lorcana Crew x QuestwithKole! The Lorcana Crew Podcast

awesome we'll love to hear it uh so why don't we jump right into preparing for a ccq right uh some people may not have ever had the chance to attend a ccq and they are going to become a lot more popular with the next season so what is how is it different uh preparing for a ccq than like a local set change right kind of run me through your tips and pointers for that

um yeah i'd Josh, go ahead.

You go first.

I'll go, yeah.

Okay.

So for me, set champs, we have a couple local stores in our area, so I kind of go to them and I frequent them and I know who's going to be there most likely, who's going to be the strangers, the one-offs, or the people that only show up for set champs.

So you kind of tailor your deck choice to what you know.

You get a little more information if you so choose to do so by supporting your store, which you should.

And so I'll tend to choose different...

For example, if I go to board in the game, I know it's going to be a very heavily aggressive side of the board there.

There's going to be a lot more aggressive decks, so I know there's some deck card choices that I think are going to be very inappropriate to survive the initial slog.

So I need to make some choices to, you know, if I get paired into aggro 1, 2, and 3 rounds, I need to... have the mulligan to get out of that.

Because I don't typically play mid-range.

However, with the CCQ, I choose to make deck choices or card choices or inclusions or 2-ofs or 4-ofs based off of the meta as a whole.

For me, I choose flexibility over meta guessing.

I mean, you can always make a good guess and have a great day.

I'd rather have a little more tools that I probably wouldn't have, like I'm considering putting in put that thing back where it came from, or so help me, a couple copies of that in the deck I'm taking to Brainwash, because it wouldn't help me at certain game stores, but if I think if I run into certain decks, like a mirror match in blue-green, that's going to help me get over the edge, and it's inkable.

I would never take it to Locals, but I'll probably take it to Brainwash.

So that's what I'm thinking about.

Yeah, very interesting.

No, I agree.

I think what Josh is saying is I think that the meta is very important in both cases here in its own right.

And this will be personally my first CCQ level, though I've done a DLC level event.

So I'm personally kind of equating it to something more like that.

In a similar way, I probably am... not going to play something um at this type of event that i i maybe would more at a local event that i've never played as much i'm going to take something that i probably have more reps with something i feel a little more comfortable with um just because quote-unquote more on the line, you know, further travel, further, you know, X, Y, or Z, you know, whatever you may call it.