Drew against Dash - new player who had to learn the game
Won against fatigue Pleiades - great matchup for me
Lost to Kayo - welp
Lost to Kayo - welp

Aggro is hard. I really need a good turn 0 setup and see Short Shrift early to be able to win, since I can't sustain good value turn by turn the way a well built aggro deck can, and unlike other guardians I don't have the defensive tools to draw it out and fatigue them (too many 2 blocks). The anti fatigue tech that I put in was great. I feel very confident about fatigue matchup. But to keep up with aggro I think I need more disruption to reliably have it up. More 3 blocks would be handy, to have the option of doing more midrangey things. That kinda goes hand in hand with running more suspense auras to absolutely ensure that we get to steal value turn 0.

When I get my hands on magmatic carapace that will probably come in, and maybe also civic steps.

I will tinker with these ideas for a bit. I feel like the Snatch and Razor Reflex package, while really cool, is a tad unreliable. It doesn't steal value turn 0 and it is a struggle to build the deck so that we can use that card drawn. Thump seems like it could be good, leveraging Slap-Happy, Magmatic Carapace and What Happens Next?

Still unsure about Embolden. It has similar problems to Snatch in that we don't know if the card drawn will be usable. But if we pivot towards using more Guardian attacks like Thump and maybe even Concuss it seems like a plausible card.

I'm tempted to test one copy of Energy of the Audience and Emboldened by the Crowd which seems like ways to maybe keep up in the value game against aggro. It's not at all hard to make it a 2 card 8 and on a really good turn it could be even more. Blocking with Helm of the Adored and playing a free 0 for 6 seems pretty alright.

Oasis Respite is another consideration, which is quite awesome if we have What Happens Next? in play and are facing aggro. It's easy to side it out when we are up against fatigue.

There could be something here!

Dash, Database

They started. They didn't expect this game plan. They were playing setup/payoff that would normally be good into guardian but this allowed me to play a lot of cards and apply pressure. After the first few turns I was at 12 or so and they were at 8. I sent a boulder drop, they said no blocks, +1 in reactions for the win.

Kassai, Cintari Sellsword

They started. They were not very experienced with Kassai (they were borrowing a deck from someone), and it felt pretty chill to take the worst edge off of their attacks while still doing my thing. I got them on the back foot and had just enough equipment to keep denying refraction bolters while sending 8+ every turn. Eventually I got there.

OTK Viserai with lots of D reacts and blocks

I did classic setup/payoff to leverage their lack of ability to convert a full hand. Confidence FTW! Macho Grande got there in the end. I won with 19 life and they had something like 12 runechants, so this one felt pretty easy. If I took a setup turn they would just meekly create 3 runechants or whatever.

Kayo

This was a really close game where I had to make some tough blocking decisions. Overall I played really quite aggressively and ended up eventually winning when they had two red non blocks and could only send claw for 3. They had a 19 damage turn with buckwild, Pulping and run roughshod so it wasn't like they completely whiffed either. Still, this was really close, too close for comfort!

Oldhim

Ahh, the fabled blockslop. I won the roll for the first time of the day and got a decent enough turn 0 setup. They discarded fruits. Off too a decent start, I felt, and I managed to play mostly confidence 9+ attacks in the early game. Then it hit me just how bad confidence actually is in the matchup since block cards are excepted, and they have a whole lot of them. My biggest turn was macho grande with confidence for 23, but even so they still blocked 14 (4 block 2 equipment, 8 staunch). Had I been more focused on going super duper tall and not sent as many attacks for 10 or so I might have gotten more hits in, but with only two dominate cards in the deck I don't really think I had that great of a chance. I got fatigued like a puny aggro deck in the end.

Heroic Pose is not the right sideboard tech for fatigue because of the prevalence of block cards, which is a bit unique to Silver Age, so this is one area where we clearly have to diverge from Elly's CC tactics here. We need to combine confidence with dominate.