a-T1: Duo, set Reaper is the play. He did that.

d-T3: Of course hit with Asura, but I don't think you should set Goats there. Goats seems like something you MAY want to discard off Charity in a turn or two, so you don't NEED to commit it to the field right now. It's not like I had a light and dark, or that you have a Meta in hand (AKA you wouldn't EP the goat if I wound up just setting). Just seems like, if I go set/set on my next turn, that you being forced to summon Breaker makes your Goat vulnerable to a Dust unnecessarily.

d-T5: I think this would have been a strong spot to summon Breaker instead of Asura tbh. He wound up summoning Asura and it got TT'd. It also wound up not affecting much of anything down the road. Just seems like a spot where you got to imagine my FD isn't Goat, so using Breaker to break what could be Mirror/Saku (or fall to Ring/TT) just means that Asura can keep pimping on the following turn. Asura is also likely to do work, considering my reply to it was a single set s/t last turn.

a-T7: Passing is good.

d-T9: When your opponent goes from having a blank field to setting 1/1, you have to imagine that's a real flip and a real way to protect it. On T8, you know you're going to have to summon Breaker, right? So I think the process here is, "What's the f/d s/t, is it a Spell that can justify Faith, or is it Merchant or Jar? In either case, am I prepared to let the flip resolve?" You have to imagine that waiting to set the flip instead of just setting it on an earlier turn is because you want to do something with it, i.e. tribute for AK or use Tsuku. So on turn 8, there's a 60% chance that between your draw and Charity on turn 9 that you'll hit 1/2 NOC, 1/3 Meta, Pot, or BLS. I think you need to weigh that against the very real possibility that a flip + Tsuku is about to go plus off you, that you're about to get Heavy'd + Airknight'd, or worse, that Jar is about to fuck up everything. So in general, I think it's sort of a coin flip to not EP Goat on T8 (with the main thing against the idea that you're wasting Graceful really early), but I think it's a mistake, on T9 once Breaker gets Book'd, to set Graceful. You either need to gun Graceful here and hope to hit NOC (bad), or just set Saku to avoid Tsuku killing your Breaker. Because the fact is that you don't have a good answer to Faith + Tsuku now and you're going to have to gun the Graceful next turn anyway. And if I wind up having Heavy (which you should expect at this point), at least you don't lose your main way of crawling out of this hole (Graceful).

T10: Just a small comment on my own play, you have to imagine that my being forced to Meta the Faith to take your f/d Breaker just means one of the two cards in my hand has to be BLS or Jar, or my hand is otherwise awful somehow.

d-T11: You don't HAVE to MST the f/d and Tsuku right now. For starters, it doesn't matter if I Tsuku the TER and hit for 1100 - you have Goats, it doesn't matter. I wasn't willing to tribute TER for AK into two face-downs so that wouldn't change next turn, right? It's also not like, you know, if you Tsuku my TER this turn, that you're going to connect for 1700 with an ih Asura next turn, so it's not like you're doing anymore damage to me by using Tsuku this turn. I would set MST here instead. In that case, I would have wound up using Dust on the MST instead of chaining it on your set Graceful.

Scratch the above. I just noticed that I had set a monster on the previous turn. OK, so I read that as Jar. In that case I think you should have EP the Goat on T10 and gunned the Graceful to try to draw Meta on T11. Just looking at the logs, you happened to draw Meta for your turn, so I would have still gunned the Graceful because you know you have to MST the face-down and you don't want to risk losing your Graceful to a Dust.

Either way, OK, assuming you didn't EP the Goat on T10, I would set the Saku before using MST to try to divert attention away from my set Graceful. Like I would've set, then said hm, then waited as if I was changing my mind, to just sort of sell that I set the Saku before committing to my line of play. I may have even set the Saku, then set MST, then said hm, then took back MST, then activated it.

But OK, assuming you don't do that and you MST the Dust and the Dust gets chained to, yeah, using Tsuku on TER and then attacking the fd is the right play. Side note is, I recall feeling very bad at this point of the game for having completely misreading the situation and not thinking at all that burgundy had an MST, and losing BLS unnecessarily as a result.

Ending the turn with 6ih is the right move at this point. Should be an easy win from here on out.

a-T12: Right, don't activate anything.

a-T13: Trying to hit with Tsuku is good. Note my spot-on read for the Goat placement though.

ok-T15: Summoning Sangan and trying to kill TER with Book vs 3 f/ds is fine.

d-T17-19?: I lost track of turns here by keeping this on fast forward. I'm a little confused why it's OK to Book TER and hit with Sangan on T15 but it's not OK to do that here when you have the second Book. Remember, my BLS is gone. You have more cards than me, meaning you're going to have to commit and risk getting Heavy'd more than me. You can't invest another Tsuku without clearing out my backrow, making yourself more vulnerable to Heavy. Just feels like maybe you want to simplify this game a little bit right now, especially when you have Pot and 2 Faith in hand.

I don't understand the logic of using Meta on Sangan to search your second (AND LAST) Tsuku, just to try to hit TER. Now you're going to need BLS/Snatch/Tribe/2nd-3rd Meta. You could have just invested your Book to get rid of TER, and kept the Meta. You also wouldn't have gotten yourself an extra card, forcing you to commit more backrows.

And jeez, my Mirror Force on Tsuku forces you to use NOC, meaning my TER really put in work.

ok-T21: Fine.

a-T23: Yup.

T24: Not committing Faith earlier made the 2nd face-down seem like Goat. This was a good play because it got me to set up and use Call, just to run into a second Saku unexpectedly. It also cleared up your backrow, removing the potential vulnerability to Heavy.

d-T25: I agree with the AK and TER plays kind of, and I think it's OK to set Book here. But it's a mistake to set Meta. 2 Dust are gone, man, you're going to Book my Breaker if I summon it, Book the Snatch if I activate it, etc. Don't limit your future-Heavy options by setting Meta right now.

a-T27: Yup.

d-T28: I think aiming for the Goats is a mistake. You should know I run 3, am down to 11 cards in deck, and likely have another in hand. Instead hit the other card (can only be NOC, Prem, Snatch, or Heavy) and get more value out of Dust.

a-T29: Yup.

a-T31: Yup.

G1 was won because I misread the situation earlier, trying to resolve both BLS and Jar and losing BLS in the process. Every other thing was sort of desperation, setting up for a game shot that never came because I could never get Pot or Grace into Prem/Heavy/Ring even though you gave me 30 cards to get there. I don't think your plays were catastrophically bad, but I do think many of them were suboptimal that could have been punished if I drew better.