Muddy Waterz Deck cecillbill Comic City Saint Louis

Deck: Muddy Waterz
Player: cecillbill
Venue: Comic City
City: Saint Louis, MO
Date: May 15, 2004
Participants: 6
Format: Swiss; best of 3 duels
Entry Fee: $5
Prizes: Store Credit to 1st - 3rd Place Winners

Notes: I have gone over to the dark side. I'm playing Control. For the folks

who think Control will ruin the game, don't worry. Control decks are only as

good as the person playing them and they often fall to Rush decks. My reason

for running Control was to do something different from Stall and "Hit & Run"

(a moniker I gave to one of my Fire/Light decks that has hitters and 
blockers at nearly every mana cost from 1 to 7). I slapped in some cards 
last minute, like Candy Drop, breaking my "keep it focused" rule because I 
wanted to flesh out some ideas--good or bad ones. I am not going to run 
Control at the next couple of tournies because I want to try out a deck I'm 
dubbing "Trix are for Kidz." More on that later ...

About My Metagame: The first thing I noticed at this tourney was that not 
many people ran Evos. The most commonly ran Evos where the ones for the 
Light civ--Ladia--and Water civ--Paladin and many were dropped as mana. 
Another thing to note is that several people ran 3 or more civ decks. Some 
of these decks are much larger than 40 cards. Light was the most commonly 
played civ, and there were no mono-Light decks. Depending on the players who

come to the tournies, we see about 1-3 Fire/Light, 1 Weenie Rush, 1-3 
Control, 1-2 three or more civ or more decks, 2 Mana Gain/Swarm, 1-3 Weenies

with Finishers decks.

The Deck--Muddy Waterz
Creatures
[2] Crystal Lancer
[1] Crystal Paladin
[4] Aqua Hulcus
[2] Aqua Soldier
[4] Marine Flower
[2] Hunter Fish
[2] Candy Drop
[4] Horrid Worm
[2] Chaos Worm
[4] Bloody Squito
[2] Zagaan
Spells
[4] Brain Serum
[4] Spiral Gate
[4] Terror Pit
[4] Death Smoke
[3] Critical Blade
[3] Ghost Touch
[55] cards

This control build is flawed, so I would not recommend running it. 55 cards 
is by far too many for a Control deck, but it has worked in my metagame. 
Only Rush gives it a huge tail whipping. Anyway, check below to see how this

behemoth control deck performed. I usually am able to recount just about 
every move made during at least one match of a duel because I have this 
weird habit of taking mental notes of plays. Call it photographic memory; 
I'm compulsive about details. Right after the tournament ends I jot down 
notes so I can learn from my mistakes and my deck's weaknesses. Since this 
is all based on memory, I hope I got all the plays right; some may have been

forgotten. LOL. 

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Duels: 1st Matchup--Vs Nature/Water/Light/Darkness Domain
Winner: Me
Cards in my opponent's deck included: King Depthcon, Ura Giga, Bronze Arm 
Tribe, Natural Snare, Candy Drop, Death Smoke, Terror Pit, Horrid Worm, Dark

Reversal, Gran Gure, Szubs Kin, Senatine Jade Tree, Critical Blade

\\1st Duel//
Ah, the match up against the 2 women players at the store. CATFIGHT! Just 
kidding. We've played many duels against each other before, both tourney and

causal. We're both infamous stall players. I knew if I saved some kill 
spells for her unblockable then I'd prolly do okay. I'm only going to 
recount 1 match in the interest of brevity.

Early Game: I went first and dropped Marine Flower. woOT! She drops down 
mana. Next turn I play mana and she drops Ura. My next drop sees a Hulcus 
and I draw a card. She drops Bronze and adds mana which was a Snare. Next 
turn I drop a Squito into my mana zone and drop Blade to her Ura. I hit with

Hulcus. She plays mana, drops Candy. Next turn I summon a Drop and hit with 
Hulcus. She's down 2 shields. She summons another Bronze Arm, hits with 
Candy giving me Death Smoke. I drop Horrid Worm, hit the Drop with Hulcus 
and hit another shield with my Drop. She's down to 3 shields and I have 4.

Late Game: She plays mana and Smokes my Horrid. She suicides one of her 
Nature guys into my Drop and I don't block with Squito. I'm down to only 
Hulcus and Bloody Squito. Next turn I draw a Chaos Worm, put him down as 
mana and summon another Hulcus and draw. She plays 2 blockers and Blades my 
Marine Flower. I drop Critical Blade on her Szubs Kin. I suicide 1 Hulcus to

her Tree. She blocks it, then I hit with the other Hulcus. Next turn she 
plays Depthcon and another blocker. I have a Horrid and Chaos Worm in hand. 
I can only cast Horrid, but I decide to Terror Pit Depthcon instead. With 
only Hulcus out and her blockers, I decide not to attack. Next turn she 
Dimension Gates and casts Gran Gure. I Smoke Gran and cast another Horrid 
Worm. She plays Depthcon. I smoke Depthcon and Critical Blade one of her 
blockers. I then ram Hulcus into a shield and she decides not to block. 
She's down to 2 shields. Next turn I drop Chaos onto Horrid, kill off her 
lone blocker. I cast another Flower, then hit her for her last two shields 
with Chaos and Hulcus. She Natural Snares my Chaos giving me 2 mana, and 
plays blockers. Next turn I cast Lancer on Hulcus and that's game. 

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Duels: 2nd Matchup--Vs Nature/Fire/Light Weenie with finishers
Winner: Me
Cards in my opponent's deck included: Bolshack, Draglide, Immortal Baron, 
Poisonous Dahlia, Fear Fang, Ura Giga, Crimson Hammer, Bronze Arm Tribe, 
Braid Claw, Brawler Zyler

\\1st Duel//
This was my first time playing a duelist under 12. I am not one for ageism 
in any fashion, so I never view younger players as easy wins. This kid knew 
how to play the game, and had won his last match against a player who has 
beaten me an occasion. I'm only going to recount 1 match in the interest of 
brevity.

Early Game: He plays mana and drops Braid Claw. I play mana and drop Flower.

He plays mana and Hammers my Flower then hits with Claw. Next turn I cast 
Squito. Next turn he plays Nature mana and summons Arm giving himself extra 
mana. He suicides Claw into Squito. Next turn I play Horrid Worm. He drops a

power attacking Nature guy. I play Hulcus and draw a card. I hit him with 
Horrid for a shield and take away and Immortal from his hand. He plays Ura 
and Zyler and hits me for another shield. Next turn I Blade his Ura and 
attack with Hulcus and Horrid for 2 shields and a card from his hand. We're 
both down to 3 shields.

Late Game: He plays Dahlia for some reason then hits me with his Nature guy.

He triggers Pit. I kill off Zyler. Next turn I Spiral Gate his Nature guy, 
Spiral gate the Dahlia, hit him with Touch for a card, then I hit him with 
Horrid removing Draglide from his hand. He's down to 2 shields. I then hit 
him with Hulcus. Next turn he casts 2 Fire guys, Sweeper and another Zyler. 
Next turn I cast Chaos onto a Horrid and remove his Sweeper. I then attack 
him for his last shield. I then hit with Hulcus for the win. 

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Duels: 3rd Matchup--Vs Fire/Darkness
Winner: Me
Cards in my opponent's deck included: Wyn, Immortal Baron, Crimson Hammer, 
Tornado Flame, Ura Giga, Pit, Withering Bone Ghoul, Bone Assasin, Death 
Smoke, Gigaron, Dark Reversal

\\1st Duel//
This guy wore headphones during the match. Two people do that here, so no 
worries me. He's a good player with a deck that could have beat me had it 
been more aggressive in the early game. He also used Wyn which is something 
that I found nifty. It's funny because even though he was able to avoid 
handing me Death Smoke via using Wyn's effect, he still ran into Terror Pits

and Gates which helped me. Good stuff! I'm only going to recount 1 match in 
the interest of brevity.

Early Game: I dropped mana. He plays mana. I play mana again. He casts Wyn. 
I cast Hulcus and draw. He plays a weenie Fire guy and uses Wyn's effect to 
peek at a shield. Must have been a deadly shield because he hits a different

shield giving me a Hulcus. I cast a Horrid. He plays mana and hits me with 
Wyn, again using the effect and hand me a different shield. It was Pit. I 
peg off the Fire guy. I have 3 shields and he has 5.

Late Game: I Spiral Gate Wyn to his hand. I hit him with Hulcus. Horrid 
takes away a card and a shield. We're tied at 3 shields. Next turn he casts 
another Fire guy and Wyn. I drop another Horrid Worm. I hit him with Horrid,

taking away a card and a shield. I then hit with Hulcus. He has 1 shield 
left. Next turn he casts a blocker & Smokes 1 of my Horrids. He hits another

one of my shields, triggering Blade. He says goodbye to his lone blocker. He

hit another shield and it's a Gate. Wyn goes back to his hand. I'm down to 1

shield. Yikes! Next turn I got a sweet draw--Lancer! I cast Lancer on 
Hulcus. I hit him for 1shield. The shield is Pit, and he makes the mistake 
of pitting Lancer instead of the guy who could hit him this turn, Horrid. I 
hit him with Horrid for the win. He realizes his mistake, and we shakes 
hands.

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Tourney Results: I won 1st Place. The other female player won 2nd Place with

her 4 civ 40 + card deck. She's the only DM player I've met thus far who can

make a deck with more than 3 civs and 40 cards work. 3rd place went to a 
player running a 3 civ 40+ card deck. 40+ card decks & ladies ruled that 
day. :-)

I bought some Marvel Vs, Duel Masters and Yu Yu Hakusho packs with the store

credit prize. I pulled some goodies for Marvel, but was left dry with Yu Yu 
and DM pulls. After the tourney ended I played my deck in some fun duels vs 
a modified Kokujo starter and a Shobu starter. To show you how flawed my 
control deck is, just in case you think I'm trying to cover up a hidden gem,

I lost to both starter decks. I got pwned by Marrows and Claws! LMAO.

On a good note, I played in a really fun mulitplayer match. 3 players ran 
control (one was Water/Light/Darkness and the other 2 were Darkness/Water) 
and the 4th person played a 4 civ deck (Light/Nature/Water/Darkness). I had 
to leave before the game ended, but I was losing badly anyway. I only had 1 
shield left when I had to leave the store. Everyone beat up on little 'ole 
me. Gee, I wonder why? LOL. Multiplayer ROX! Until next time...Keep playing 
Duel Masters! Contact info--name: cecillbill; email: kaiserpso@hotmail.com.

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