Well I got some gameplay in, and won two in a row. Nothing quite as Timmy as gaining 64 life and blowing everything up but I did some neat things regardless.
Game 1 ended on about turn 5 when, after a
Rionya, Fire Dancer deck dropped
Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker and passed turn without going off. I was holding onto a
Zealous Conscripts, and one of the other players was running
Sen Triplets. I could either pop
Magus of the wheel and make sure neither of us went off, or take the chance they chose someone else. They did and I stole a win. Not my preferred method but it sufficed.
Game 2 was beat down central, same decks. Got a hugely explosive start with turn one
Sandstone Needle, turn 2
Spinerock Knoll, removing a depletion counter into
Sol Ring into
Mind Stone into
Skullclamp. Rionya played
Dockside Extortionist on their turn for 11 treasures, and when my turn came back around I drew into
Cursed Mirror. Copied the pirate, made 14 treasures, landed Purph, snuck
Myr Battlesphere into play, swung in for 8+4 which went unblocked, and cast my hideaway spell for free which was
Bloodfire Colossus. I then clamped two myr to refill to 7 and popped the colossus which killed the board.
From there the game was pretty much done, I had thicc boys in hand to drop in
Balefire Dragon and
Scourge of the Throne, as well as Kiki/Conscripts, both pieces and an
Assault Suit to keep pieces around. I considered just going off again but two games in a row seemed a bit gauche and I really only want them as an out. The previous game was different, using someone else's, and really it was a race to the finish there anyway.
I didn't see much of any new additions sadly, although
Cursed Mirror was quite good. Theres a case to be made that copying the Dockside won me the game.