The Australian Buddy Challenge

So I entered the buddy challenge in Australia and man it was a great experience so today I'm going to tell you all of my experiences. However, this is just a brief overview, I will have my entire thoughts will be on the next episode of the Future Fighters Cast podcast.

So first, I did not win, but I did get to the top 8. There were about 37 players with about half playing Dragon World, about another quarter playing Wizards (am unsure if there were any 72 Pillars entered), and the rest were split between Katana and Danger with no Ancient World. The top 8 consisted of 1 magic world deck, 3 Danger world decks (including my own) and 4 Dragon World decks. I think all my games were against Dragon World, put it was fun anyway. One battle I had would have me lose through Galvanic Feather Dragon burning me to death as I tried to kill it with Khan only to be stopped by an endless stream of dragon shields. I won the next two matches against that player, but man that was a fun loss that I didn't even think was possible. The games were really tough (except for one preliminaries match), the giveaways were in the plenty and the set up was professional and had no problems with judging, between matches or the set up. On terms of players skills, i was one of the better players there, with the top player beating me through top deck and the 3rd place player completely thrashing me, I find it difficult to imagine there were many more players that where of their level. However, for the average, casual player, you weren't going to win often. Out of what i saw out of the Weiss side of things, they had twice as many players but ran just as smoothly, Neko Cards employees and volunteers know how to run a smooth event.

So thats just an overview of the event, if you want my deck list its here: http://www.tradecardsonline.com/im/showDeck/deck_id/528862 and I will have more to talk about in the podcast, which will be on YouTube on this channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI-g6hJUYqw-lzCQ_9SMa5Q my slightly more updated deck list is also on that channel, but it didn't change much. I might even have an interview with the winner.

Competative Attitude and Sportsmanship

This will be a difficult topic for both me and you, dear reader. Today I will be writing about how to think competitively, but also how to be respectful of your opponents and rivals. Trading card games have reached the point where they can be considered a mental sport, much like video games are turning into full blown events. Magic the gathering has massive events streamed to the world with high production values, amazing commentators and high level prize pools. Buddyfight seems to be trying to take Vanguards trail and rush its way into a competitive scene, evident with the buddy challenge giving away plane tickets to even bigger events when the game is not even at its 3rd biggest set. This is a risky move by Busiroad, and I'm really excited for it. As I write this I am preparing for Australia's buddy challenge in Melbourne, and I've been training and reefing both my skills and deck for the big day, and I feel both confident and anxious, which honestly is a weird

Buddyfight Metagame Analysis: What it is and how to do it!

With any competitive, multiplayer game with collectable aspects, buddyfight has a meta game. For those who do not know, a meta game is not how you should play the game, but how people are playing the game. Now before I continue, I WILL NOT ANALYSE THE CURRENT META GAME IN THIS POST, this is a guide on how to analyse it yourself rather than getting others to do it for you. This is a valuable skill not only in game, but also in real life, as analysing how other people do things allow you to change your own actions to be more effective in anything you do. Also meta games are dependent on where they are, as different groups of players play different things depending on what resources (in this case cards) are available to them and what people like. So first, lets see how a meta game works.

Deck Building Basics

Note: This article is of my opinion and written for beginners only. As such, this article is to be used as a guide only, not a set way of how to play. Aspects of this guide will change for various reasons.

One thing I have noticed in Buddyfight is that building a deck isn't as clear as Vanguard. You have your world then your Attribute (example: Dragon knights, Armordragons, 72 Pillars are all attributes) and maybe an Archetype ( to work with but that's all that guides you. This means its rare for your deck to be exactly the same as someone else without net-decking (The act of copying a deck list off the internet) and I like that. Unfortunately this has led to people putting random decks together and unsure what to do. So here is a simple guide to help those having trouble building decks.