The Don Strikes Again – Azul’s Meta Manipulation

[PMJ]

After Azul GG skipped the first few Regionals and decided to only go to a handful of tournaments, I said that he wasn’t going to get his Worlds invite, which is unthinkable for any top-level competitor. He hit me with the “nah, I’d win” in typical nonchalant fashion, saying that he’d get his Worlds invite by winning a Regional instead of the traditional method of accruing Championship Points. Of course, I wrote this off as a madman’s delusion. But as a wise man once said, everything happens twice: first in your mind, and then in reality. Lo and behold, Azul spoke his own destiny into existence, and we the citizens are left to deal with the fallout.
Azul won Merida Regionals with Miraidon ex, solidifying the archetype as one of the frontrunners in the new Prismatic Evolutions format. After playing this deck, it’s...

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[MarlinRimes]

When Axul gets of his chair to play the game after telling everyone that gouging fire is mid to only face it in the finals, real psychic there

 

[Charmaster:)]

It's intros like that first paragraph that make me check the title page to see if Grant Manley was the author. His writing style just has that iconic Grant Manley flare, full of dramatic statements, cultural references, and a certain comic exasperation with his lot in life. (I still remember the time he filed suite against Skwovet from SVI on charges of grand larceny.)

 

[Grim Thoughts]

For whatever reason, I can’t get myself to like Azul. He gives me weird vibes. But I can’t deny he’s a very skilled player. What he just did is very impressive