ChopMods - 2nd place at 2025 Hungarian Destiny Championship 1.0

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This deck finished 2nd place at the 2025 Hungarian Destiny Championship.

I qualified at #1 seed to the top8 cut based on the regular season win count, and lost only in the finals against the #2 seed, Gergo, who is a great rival and knows Destiny to the last detail. The tournament used NDH standard format, and since I don't own any unofficial cards, I showed up with this OG ChopMods build (current NDH holocron allows AR to play non-Red supports). Before the tournament I made some changes to my usual build, dropping 2x Field Medic and 1x Sudden Impact to include 1x Flee the Scene and 2x Scruffy Looking Nerf-Herder to counter heavy removal.

Quarterfinals vs eDjarin/eBoba: 2-0.

In the first matchup I was able to dominate eDjarin/eBoba, who had serious Capture potential, refresh mechanics and an event that allowed them to resolve one of my dice showing damage, outplaying my TLTs. Luckily, in the first game, my removal package had a generational performance, with 2 EPs, 1 Aerial and 1 Into the GC hitting 8 dice in the first two rounds. In Game 2, a fully-equipped Shadow Caster came out in Round 1, and I discarded the above-mentioned event with Scruffy in Round 2, to have a calm round where SC could do its work dealing heavy damage.

Semifinals vs eTraya: 2-0

Darth Traya is a 30 point villain, dealing 1 damage after every Blue card she plays. This deck was really well-built, included several low cost cards to assure playing all cards from hand every round. However, this was a no-brainer matchup to Chopmods, with no need to distribute damage between characters and having to deal with only 21 health. In the first game at the end of Round 2 I only had a 5-health Rebel Engineer left, but dealt 18 damage to never let the game go to Round 3. The second game was quite similar, but the Caster even topped its performance dealing 20 damage in the 2nd round.

Finals vs Hutt Cartell Mill: 0-2.

Honestly I ingored the mill matchup while building my deck, knowing I won't have much chance if I face one. My philosophy says that you should't ruin your deck with tech cards to deal specifically with hard-counters, because it does not worth it lowering your chances in other winnable matchups. Bad matchups exists, you have to accept it. Nevertheless, it is by no means my intention to downplay my opponent’s performance, who played absolutely flawlessly in both games. He was able to discard played TLTs both games which destroyed any chance I even had. A great deck with an even greater pilot, nothing but respect for Gergo for winning back-to-back championships.

Finally, I want to credit every player in Hungary for still having such a lively community, with 10-20 players showing up every month to play the best TCG to ever exist. Hungary may be the best place to play Destiny right now, which I'm incredibly thankful for.