Name of Deck : Weenie Army Name: Terrell Sanders Tourney Location: The Game Midwest City, Oklahoma # of Participants : 15-20 Meet My Army of Weenies: 3x White Magical Hat (Oh yeah - I'm smooth - I got a white top hat and sunglasses...) 3x Nimble Momonga (They... just ... won't ... die!!) 2x Sangan (Meet my next weenie...) 2x Wall of Illusion (Would you like to play that BEWD one more time?) 2x Masked Sorcerer (You little hand. Me big hand.) 2x Goblin Attack Force (To do the dirty work) 2x Man Eater Bug (Don't you dare play that card in defense) 2x Magician of Faith (Hello again, Raigeki) 1x 4-Starred Ladybug of Doom (Your wish is no longer his command...) 1x Witch of the Black Forest (Jinzo, where are you?) 1x Jinzo (My heavy hitter with an attitude) 1x Time Wizard (Sometimes it just takes a miracle.) Do you believe in Magic? 2x Fissure (Get outta my face) 1x Heavy Storm (Do you feel a draft?) 1x Nobleman of Crossout (Cross that baby out, sucker! - wait... no... not my MOF... darn...) 1x Premature Burial (Being buried alive is my greatest fear) 1x Monster Reborn (And now I'll play your BEWD in attack mode...) 1x Dark Hole (And now I'll flip my robbin goblin and play my White Magical Hat...) 1x Confiscation (Wow, that WAS a great hand you had there.) 1x Delinquent Duo (These guys are my best friends) 1x Change of Heart (Sacrificial Bait) 1x Snatch Steal (Your BEWD likes me better...) 1x Pot of Greed (Why wouldn't you play it?) 1x Raigeki (The mother of all magic cards) You fell right into my trap! 2x Robbin Goblin (Yes, those two white magical hats + this = four, yes that's FOUR discards) 1x Ceasefire (No, you can't use that man-eater bug.) 1x Mirror Force (Ok, you're attacking with all 5 of them, right?) 1x Call of the Haunted (Jinzo returns) 1x Magic Jammer (No, I don't think I will destroy all my monsters this time, thank you.) 1x Imperial Order (Upper Deck does something right!) The tournament: This was the first tournament in our new local "Labyrinth of Nightmare" league. The leading player at the end of the league in February gets a bright, new, shiny 1st Edition Labyrinth of Nightmare box. Needless to say, I WANT IT! Each Tuesday night tournament is played first as a 3 round swiss, followed by a single elim bracket of the top 8 players. Match 1: The weenies reveal themselves not... My first opponent was a kid with your basic Kaiba starter deck + someone else's BEWD and a few good cards he'd picked up here and there. He never got any serious monsters out the first duel, and the ones he did play got fissured or killed by man-eater bug. I won with my 2 Goblin Attack forces and Jinzo, without seeing sight of more than 1 or 2 of my major weenies. The second duel started with us each playing monsters in defense mode - my two were man eater bug and nimble momonga. On his third turn he plays BEWD and attacks my Man-eater (woops). I play Mon Reborn, raigeki the La Jinn he brings out next turn, play a White magical hat, and two turns later it's over. Match 2: I'm just giving you a false sense of security... My second opponent is a teenager with a pretty decent basic beatdown deck. He plays your normal La Jinn, Harpy's Brothers, and 6 colored fish (I REFUSE to call it 7!) with most of the staple magic and trap cards. His favorite card is Cold Wave, though, and he plays at least two in all of our matches. During our first match I draw, of course, 5 magic cards in my first hand, then a white magical hat and a mirror force. He plays cold wave on two early turns, so I can't get my stinking mirror force on the field. Before I know it I'm down to around 1000 and he's got 4 monsters on the field. I've already played and pulled my nimble momongas and my man-eater bugs are nowhere in sight. I finally get Mirror Force down and play a WOTBF in defense, but he MST's the Mirror Force (I'm pretty sure I traded him that card last week, darn it) and runs me over for my first loss. In the second match my deck works beautifully. By the third turn he's top-decking and my White Magical Hats and Robbin' Goblins are running rampant on him. Eight 1000 point attacks later and we're 1 &1 A dark scowl is developing on his face. :-) The third match is amazingly close, with him dealing me some early damage before I get my nimble momongas on the field, empty his hand with delinquent duo and Confiscation, and deal him some damage with my masked sorcerors.He finally topdecks a good monster and kills my beautiful weenies. He backs me slowly into a corner, with me unable to keep anything on the field long enough to stay in the match. With 500 life left, I draw my time wizard and set it on the field. Whispering my mantra, "Tails never fails" under my breath, I flip... and lose. This one ends in defeat. Match 3: The weenies come out of hiding. This kid is playing a Maha Vailo deck with malevolent nuzzlers and Horn of the Unicorn, but I'm drawing monster removal cards like a police sketch artist. He never even gets started on the first match, and the second match ends when he can't draw anything because his Horn keeps going back to his deck every turn, because he won't stop equipping monsters with it. My weenies don't even flinch at this guy. He's 2 and out, and I'm in the Single Elim bracket. Quarterfinals: You got into the top 8 how? There's no use even describing this one. He's playing the wierdest assortment of Big eyes, Dark Magicians, and weather reports I've ever seen. I swear I saw a skull servant fall out of his deck while he was shuffling. I have no idea how he won 2 matches to get into the top eight. My best guess is that he was related to the head judge. This one's 2 and out without even breathing hard. Semifinals: The Flip Nazi (No mo soup fo you!) I swear I didn't get to flip a single monster during these matches. He kept playing Ceasefire and Nobleman of Crossout. Luckily, while my deck is based on effect monsters, most of them aren't flips. Other than the flip-hate, his deck is mostly basic beatdown. In the first match, my deck works well, and he isn't able to top-deck anything good enough to stop my weenie army. The second match doesn't go nearly as well, and about 10 turns in I'm staring across an empty field at 4 of his big monsters. My next draw is the much maligned, ever-fickle Time Wizard. Feeling sadly Joey-ish, I play it and take my gamble. Tails it is, and the match is mine. On to the Finals. Finals: The weenies want revenge... This one is a rematch between me and the teenager with the beatdown deck that defeated me earlier in the tournament. I'm itching for revenge, and my deck must have felt it. The first match ends in about 5 turns, him with an empty hand and me with 6000 life - the only damage being from Delinquent Duo and Confiscation. The second match he starts out strong with a couple of harpies and a Summoned Skull, but I get a raigeki in and start laying out my White Magical Hats. I'm temped to prolong his pain by holding back the two Goblin Attack forces I have in my hand, but better sense prevails, and I take him out in a couple of turns. Winner: Me! Props: To the owner of The Game, for starting the league and providing nightly prizes as well as the LON Box that will be the ultimate prize. To the Flip Nazi, who, upon seeing me exit my car with briefcase in hand before the tournament, winced and said "Oh $#%!, he's here." (I saw his lips form the words through the store window) There's nothing more satisfying than frightened opponents ;-) To [FD]Keltic of the Pojo online league, who was kind enough to show me his butt-kicking weenie deck which inspired my butt-kicking weenie deck. My army of weenies is not the same one he uses, but it's very similar and I definitely owe him some recognition for its conception. Flops: To all the other members of the Tuesday night LON league, who were frequently overheard saying "he just got lucky tonight with all those little wimpy monsters" while my back was turn. I'll see you all next week. :-) It's a Weenie World! Terrell Sanders terrellsanders@northridgecofc.org