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Only drew 5 units. 2 of which were from shields. Couldn’t even get the game going. I understand bad hands but this was kind of ridiculous lol.

Seems to be happening regularly.

I never intend to buy any alts but I can draw them!

Remember the puzzle I posted about the Top 4 match at the Düsseldorf regional? (link)

Here's how I'd maximize the chance of winning. There's no guaranteed win in this position, so you have to gamble. Pick a plan and stick to it.

T0 – Read your hand and board state. You have two Justice and a pilot. In the best case (no blocker wall, no bounced units) you can land 7 attacks across your two turns: 2 Silver Bullets now, then 2 Silver Bullets + 1 Justice + 2 Fatum tokens. That's lethal. Your opponent can only close the game with double-linked units, which is hard for his deck, so the most he can do is bring your life to 0. Go aggressive.

Board state before you start to play your second-to-last turn

T1 – Attack with your Silver Bullets and play Justice. Strip his shields to set up lethal.

Be aggressive with Silver Bullets

Play Justice

T2 – His last turn. He can trade your units or reduce your shields. Remember: the player with more shields wins. Say he trades, playing Aile Strike Link (bouncing your Fatum-00 Token) and the Perfect Strike Blocker, and breaks two of your shields, leaving you with 2.

Trade move

T3 – Second Justice and Amuro Ray. Play the second Justice with the Fatum token, put Amuro behind the Justice that can attack, and use his effect to attack with the Fatum token. Now you have as many shields as your opponent (hypothesis: no base burst after the Justice attack).

Last attack

Final board state

What next? If time runs out, the tiebreakers are:

1. Most Shield Area cards (Base + Shield).
2. Most cards left in your deck.
3. Still tied: double game loss.

Statistically you should win on cards in the deck, since the LM version of the SF deck draws more in the early game.

Would it have changed if he had attacked the shields instead of the units? No: the final board state would have been 0 shields each, so the win would have been decided by the number of cards left in the deck.

Final board state with no trade

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