Board Thread:Current Episode Discussion/@comment-9890645-20140702015012/@comment-9890645-20140702023704

Once again, my alt performed significantly so I will list it to the right of my main's stats.

Final Rank: 13 // 640

Final Score: 301,451,829 (woah what a new record) // 43,315,288

Deck Power (Pre/Begining/End/Post): 45956 / up to 147k (also new record) / 50857 (Straxus and a Mindwipe make the final deck) // 34551 / up to 47k / 36023 (lacking resources to upgrade prizes beyond the one signed Mindwipe I lucked into)

Money Spent (and currency): $200 on coins, have a bunch left over // FTP

Coins Spent: 17250: Had to go to seventh unlimited tier to complete (unsigned) OP (and got an extra unsigned bot and signed alt!), and took an eighth for chips (at the least) to finish a Pointblank. 350: 2 Weapons Bridge, 2 Powermaster OP weapon. // None

Battle Cubes: +2600ish //  -277

Energon Cubes: +200-300 // +49

Ruby Pulls: A TON... obviously. Lots of fodder for Straxus // Enough for an MTM and 2 weapons. Had used the 500 ruby prize I held over from MGKv1 to accelerate the process.

Medals: I think I got an MTM PB, 2 PB weapons and 1 POP weapon over the course // 1 of each weapon, second R5 weapon for the account

Liked: For once, a lot to like.

- I kind of liked the concept (wish they were colored, even if comic book ink style) and I personally LOVE Straxus's art, as it reminds me much of Jack Kirby and the old school comic artists.

- Surprisingly easy for me to complete OP; having Wildrider last raid was massive, but this time my whole leader line had x16 mods and... boy, that power was something else. I had the top power in episode cards for about 10 minutes, until Damnitmann tweaked his weapons to pass me for good (but not by much). The only thing I wasn't one-cubing consistently was Strax 9, but I was successful more often than not.

- Worked on a lot of new strategies now that I possess three devices capable of running TFL. ;)

- Taking a stab at top ten on the main (made it to 9th for a while), then surgically inserting my alt into T2 from the high 1000's with around 6 hours left in the episode.

- One of my friends was nice enough to farm Day 1 with my alt for me for a few hours; without that farming, T2 would not have been possible.

- The chase for the signed Mindwipes was awesome. My main scanned one (after a loooong time) and left about 1m after a two-cube hit. (I took pics! lol) but had already gotten two others via others seeding them without securing MVP. My alt was seeing a lot of them in queue on Saturday night, but didn't MVP one until the last day before I was emboldened to make my run to the top; it took about 12-15 cubes... but I wasn't sure I would T2 at the time and wanted a Mindwipe for the deck.

- There are a few allies I would like to specifically thank for littering my queue with bosses. Vyxal500 and Spawngarcia611 were off the charts this episode. Thanks, guys.

<p style="text-align:left;">Disliked: A few things...

<p style="text-align:left;">- Sure, the one episode I luck into a super ridiculous deck and have lots of time off (as the school year has ended here finally), they make a special top ten prize and I just couldn't keep up with the madness at the top.

<p style="text-align:left;">- The revelation of replaying MGK with all prior raiders intact after I fed my OP alt from the episode to finish an OP piece.

<p style="text-align:left;">- DAT LAG was SUPER BRUTE on Day 1 with everyone farming for every possible second. At times, the app was crashing every 5-10 minutes and it was hard to play continuously for more than 20 minutes. As soon as Day 1 ended... so did the lag and the crashing... well, back to normal levels. ;)

<p style="text-align:left;">- I understand why the signed and unsigned cards have to be separate cards, but it sucks to not be able to MTM a signed and unsigned card. They really were incredibly vague about it.

<p style="text-align:left;">- Speaking of vague, "Saturday." That is all.

<p style="text-align:left;">- Seems like neither of my accounts have won the top 500 MVP or top 1000 scanners awards. I really wasn't playing for them, but I figured my main would get top 500 MVPs.

<p style="margin-bottom:0px!important;text-align:left;">Other: Not sure what I can say that hasn't already been said... other than this event taught me a lot about this game... Perhaps I'll be more revelatory after some processing time. ;)