Thanks, and was good to read through your thoughts. Looks like we both had opening hands that were not great. You had no 1-drop, eg for the max pressure hero + Nautical Dog, and I had no 2-drop for the solid response. But the Rambaster open made things things a lot easier for me – already up a 2-cost unit by the end of T1 on top of my P2 economy advantage, and starting on the way to being able to build Tech 2 on T3. If you’d opened with a Hero (at lvl 2 to avoid the pillage), you’d still have the P1 initiative, and plenty of time to use all your aggro options.
Good luck with your other matches, and big congrats on the round 1 giant-kill !