Subject: Killer Deck Report

Killer Deck Report
Collectibles and Hobbies
10 Arleigh Road
Great Neck, NY 11021

Okay, my first real tournament. The rules are pretty weird here, for some reason. 
First tournament. Anyways, you start with 8000 lifepoints. Each destroyed monster's 
ATK power is divided by two and then subtracted from your LPs. Level 1-4 monsters 
require no tribute, 5-6 require one and level 7 requires two. I didn't make the rules, 
I just play by them. Anyways, here's my deck:


Monsters:
Armored Lizardx2
Princess of Tsurugix1
Shadow Ghoulx2
Big Eyex2
The Bistro Butcherx2
Giga-Tech Wolfx3
Cannon Soldierx2
Labyrinth Tankx2
La Jinn The Mystical Geniex2
7-Colored Fishx2
Battle Oxx3
Summoned Skullx2
Neo the Magic Swordsmanx2

Magic Cards/Trap Cards:
Stim Packx3
Ring of Magnetism
Robbin Goblinx2
Magic Jammer
Heavy Stormx2
Pot of Greed
Card Destructionx2
Share the Painx2
Polymerizationx3
Swords of Revealing Lightx2

Total Cards: 46

8 people showed up. Not bad for a first tournament. It's one match per round, 
with 2 losses eliminating you. 

Round 1: I played some guy (I'm horrible with names, sorry) who didn't really 
know what he was doing.

I got an Armored Lizard out early, and while he dumped out Wall of Illusion in 
defence mode to stall. I played Big Eye and arranged my top five so my next 
two cards were Stim Pack and Giga-Tech Wolf. He played a trap card face down 
and passed. I stim-packed the Lizard and destroyed his Wall. He played Petit 
Moth and Swords of Revealing Light! I was stuck! He dumped a Kojikocy, then 
tributed the two for a Blue Eyes! Yikes! He passed his next turn, and I 
dumped a Giga-Tech Wolf in defense mode, and played my own Swords of Revealing 
Light. I was in trouble, though. Armored Lizard was losing power fast. I then 
drew a Ring of Magnetism and played it on Armored Lizard. I drew after that 
and got a Bistro Butcher. This was it. I didn't know what was coming, but I 
knew his Blue Eyes was free after this turn. I drew.....and picked a Cannon 
Soldier. I played him, then Polymerizationed for......Labyrinth Tank! Still 
not enough to break his Blue Eyes, but I had to start somewhere. He dropped 
another magic card face-down and destroyed my Armored Lizard. Ugh. I drew and 
picked......another Stim-Pack! Yes! I dropped it on Labyrinth Tank and blew his 
Blue Eyes away. After that, the match went smoothly. I tributed the Labyrinth Tank 
for a Summoned Skull (when it was down to 2000 ATK) and cleaned house. However, he 
drew a late-game Monster Reborn and dumped it to get his Blue Eyes back. He blew 
my Skull away, leaving it at 1200:1400 Me:Him in life points. However, he had three 
trap cards facedown. I dropped Princess of Tsurugi and flipped.....heads! 1500 LPs 
gone! I win!

Round 2

I don't know how this guy won his first match, but he really had no clue how to 
play. I ripped through a good chunk of his deck with Armored Lizard until he 
destroyed it with Share the Pain. He even played a Mushroom Man #2! He sent it 
to me and I tributed it for a Summoned Skull. It was over after that. Even when 
he got his Dark Magician out, my Stim Pack made sure that it was all over. 

There was two other 2-0 players left, and two who were 1-1 and three who were 
already eliminated. The 1-1's duked it out, and then it was time for the final four.

Round 3.

This was a really tough match. We traded monsters for a while, and brought our 
LPs down to 2700:2300 Me:Him. I got a nice Shadow Ghoul out who had an ATK of 
2600 and ripped through his deck. However, he played Swords of Revealing Light 
and then dumped off two monsters for a Blue Eyes. I got lucky, Sworded him back and 
then bumped up a Labyrinth Tank. He thought he had me, but I played Big Eye and Ring of 
Magnetism. I got a stim-pack out and destroyed his Blue Eyes with the Labyrinth Tank. 
I then used it as a tribute for Summoned Skull and won.

The Finals:

Well, the kid had to leave. I won a pack of Metal Raiders and pulled another 
Princess of Tsurugi, which was nice.

Looking forward to the next one!
Jeff