The True Maverick Hunter ZERO Deck Scott Forbes Comic Connection Hamilton, Ontario April 8th, 2004 Cost: $6.00 Prize - Losers - Dark Crisis or IOC 2nd - IOC 1st - 2 IOCs Argh, after a struggling week, and another loss to Fro in the tourney last week, I was determined to do better. Anyway, let's get to it. Monsters Witch Sangan Don Zaloog x2 Magical Scientist Kycoo Tomato x2 Breaker DD Warrior Lady x2 Tribe Infecting Virus (Syphilis) Exiled Force Sinister Serpent Fiber Jar Yata Garasu T Monsters Jinzo Vampire Lord Magic 6 Staples MST x 3 Monster Reborn Premature Burial Graceful Charity Delinquent Duo The Forceful Sentry Heavy Storm Mirage of Nightmare Snatch Steal Traps Drop Off x 2 Imperial Order Call of the Haunted Ring of Destruction Mirror Force The return of the tomatoes and dons. The zombies fell apart...literally. Anyway, I came this week with Morris, Fro and Bighead (Yes, we really do call him Bighead...) Just before we left I had to help out finishing Morris's deck so we filled it with tons of crap commons (Morris decks Chaos monsters, 1 of each) and I was so confident that he would not win the tourney, that I said if he did win, I'd shave my head bald (My hair is almost a foot long) and Fro said he'd wear a shirt saying he was Morris's bitch for the rest of the year. Before the tournament, I bought one of those IOC boxes with 3 packs and pulled Ring, Dimension Fusion, Insect Princess and that crap Getsu Fuhma thing. Not too shabby. No Chaos monsters, I know. As much as I like the soldier, I decided I'd be better off without them. Kycoo takes care of opposing chaos monsters anyway. First round: Maverick Hunter ZERO vs. Barry R. (?) MAN, does this guy ever have deck issues. He decks 3 blue eyes, at least 1 dark magician, at least 1 black luster soldier (THE RITUAL!!), Jinzo and some other piece of crap. Holy frickin shit. And after the duel, he insists on telling me dark magician is good. Dear god.... Duel 1 8000-0 Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO As you can probably tell, he got absolutely slaughtered. I started off with pot and set IO and drop off. He goes, loses some 1800 ATKer, no effect, so he sets 1 monster and 2 face down traps. I go and play Forceful. All 4 monsters in his hand are tribute monsters. Anyway, I send back Jinzo, and next I crossout his monster and destroy one trap (MST) and attack with DD Lady. He goes, plays pot, I play IO. My move. I set Mirror Force and summon sangan for more damage. He goes and sets a monster. I go and draw Jinzo. I sac Sangan for it and grab yata. DD Lady attacks his monster which was a spirit reaper, and it's removed and Jinzo attacks his life. He draws and sets a monster. I draw, play Heavy Storm summon Yata, Jinzo attacks some crappy thing, Yata attacks. He has 600 life left and I ask him if he wants to wait it out and he says sure. Summon yata, attack, you lose! Duel 2 3800-0 Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO Dear GOD! HE ACTUALLY DEALT DAMAGE TO ME! I cannot believe this! He reborned his jinzo and attacked my fd witch (Tribe) and attacks my life. He says to himself twice, "Finally, the duel is going in my favour, even after he saw me getting one of me three fav cards (Tribe). I go. I play forceful, get rid of his only card, play HFD, summon tribe, destroy all 3 of his monsters and attack him. He was absolutely stunned. Anyway, he topdecks and gets crap, I get premature, take my Jinzo, summon a don and that was game. After the duel I try to tell him he should try some better tribute monsters such as Airkinght, V-Lord or possibly Dark Ruler so at least you could say I helped him with his terrible loss. All 4 of us advance to the second round. I have a lot of time on my hands so I just kick back and watch the crappy duelists die horribly. This one guy says he tributes BOTH of his monsters for the INCREDIBLE Blue Eyes White Dragon, and I'm like, "No! That's the most powerful card in the game! No card could beat that! And all I have in my hand is Raigeki, Dark Hole, Snatch Steal and Tribe! I'm doomed!" Second Round: Maverick Hunter ZERO vs. Alex Eastman Duel 1 0-0 Victory - TIE!!! Oh my god, we tied! How could this happen! I go second and I crossout his sinister and blow up his traps, summon don, play forceful, get rid of call, attack, destroy the other card (Yata) and he goes, and sets both cards. I go, summon DD Lady, attack. He goes, does nothing. I go, attack again, reducing him to like, 500 life, then he goes. Pot, Graceful, Mirage. God Damn it! He also plays swords and I can't stop it! We're at each others necks for a long time and he manages to blow up my field and reduce me to about 1200 life. I summon tribe and blow up his field but swords stops me still. He goes and swords is gone, but he still has like 4 fd m/t but he says he knows he can't win so he rings my tribe and we tie! Incredible! Duel 2 4600-0 Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO This duel went much quicker than the first. I get a Jinzo on the field early in the game and play Delinquent, which really hurt him. He eventually goes on the offensive with his spear dragons but tribe EASILY takes care of them, without even having to discard. He could not do anything. Duel 3 5100-0 Victory - ???? In case you're unfamiliar with the rules of ties, since we tied one, and I won one, Alex HAS to win this match, or he's out. Unfortunately for him, that's not going to happen. Pot, Graceful, Delinquent, Forceful for me first hand. I do get Mirage on the field and he takes care of it for me with harpies, but it does destroy my Mirror Force, which agitated me. He gets in damage with 1 of those 1900s, but I snatch his monster, sac for Jinzo and finish him off in 2 turns. Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO Whew! I was a little worried, but I came through. I thought Morris was out by now but he was still in, although I didn't learn that til later. Fro is still in but Bighead lost to Nauth. Fro takes on Nauth, who is really beginning to hate him, and I take on Joey, a guy I've never beaten before in a tourney. Third Round: Maverick Hunter ZERO vs. Joey F. Duel 1 6600-0 Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO Heheh, I got him with forceful early on but he hit me with a don which was bad news. He had 2 fd m/t the entire duel. I change of heart his zaloog and sac it for jinzo. Jinzo dealt ALL 8000 damage to Joey. He did set monsters, but I kept killing them with DD Ladys. Duel 2 3600-0 Victory - Joey F. Hey! What happened here! I lost control of the game later on from his Delinquent Duo leaving me with only DD Lady, Heavy and Call. I draw, get Tomato so I play Heavy to no avail (Order) and set Tomato. He plays Raigeki, summons don, and grabs call. I set DD Lady (Afraid of Mirror Force) and he summons some 1900 and pummells me. Ouch! Duel 3 1000-0 Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO This was an EXTREMELLY close duel, but there is only one champion, and it was me! I had a large lead in life late in the duel but he change of hearts my Tribe and attacks me with it and witch. He has 1200 life left. I sac Tribe for Jinzo, and empty his remaining life. Barely won, but a well deserved win. I found out now that Morris had gotten to the Semi finals and I was like, "AAAAH!!!!" We all expected him to get crushed after filling his deck with crap! How did he get so far!? Anyway, Morris was set to duel Cheng Peng and I had to duel *dum-dum-dum-dum!!!!* MR. FRO!!!! Fourth Round Maverick Hunter ZERO vs. Big Gay Fro Duel 1 3400-0 Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO Before this starts, I just want to point out that Fro is a dirty, dirty slut and has the most incredible flukes bounce in his favour. Lottery winners have nothing on this guy. Prior to the duel, I curse Fro's deck over and over. You are not going to believe this. He draws pot, graceful, delinquent AND Mirage of Nightmare + a MST! Unbelievable! And you're not going to believe this! I won that duel! I change of hearted his Slate Warrior and sac'd it for Jinzo! He does destroy it and then reborns two cards, including my Jinzo and destroys sangan with a balter! I snatch Jinzo and do damage, he then plays monster reborn and tried to get back balter, but he can't cause it wasn't properly fusion summoned. He then claims he could've won the duel if he had. I got yata, and killed his slate warrior with Jinzo. He reborns slate, suicides into Jinzo, and is then yata locked. Duel 2 2000-0 Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO (Play victory music) THE FRO HAS FALLEN! NO MORE OF THIS! The Fro has FINALLY been put in his place! The tyranny of this gay ruler is over. The Fro never could overcome my assault and scientist was the key card in finishing him off. Wabokus and big gay slates suck. Truth is though, Fro is a very good duelist, he's just really cocky, so that's why I bug him. Well, as you know, I was panicking because Morris was in the Semis, but he was put in his place by Cheng, a guy I've never beaten before, and he's young too, he looks like he's anywhere from 12-14 (I'm 16 btw). Morris was out and I had one HUGE sigh of relief, as I would get to keep my hair. Although Morris the gay pulled a BLS:EotB (He had 2 at that point) and that REALLY pissed me off. Anyway, the finals were set to go! FINAL ROUND The Hope of the Universe, Maverick Hunter ZERO vs. Cheng Peng Duel 1 2400-0 Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO This was good. I go and get pot and graceful. First turn I wipe out his field and get vampire lord out. This went by very quick. But I did lose my vampire lord to jinzo and he torrentialed me like, twice. He beat me down for a while but Tribe came out due to witch and that ended it there. Duel 2 4500-0 Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO!!!! Yes! IT IS OVER!! I had IO almost the entire game on the field and he was practically topdecking the whole duel. Tribe and tomato kept beating him down and he just couldn't handle the heat! YEAH! I WON! It's over! I got 20 store credit and bought one of those boxes again but pulled Lava golem and big burn. Gay, but still, a kick ass tournament report. Props/slops coming up... Props - Pulling 3 ultras in one box - Getting 2 boxes in one day - Winning the tournament obviously - Keeping my hair - Beating Fro, finally putting him in his place - Tribe, for being an amazing card - Red Wings, finally doing somethin! - Leafs for losing! What a day! - Chicken wings! For their amazing chicken-flavoured goodness - Boz Scaggs! ......Why is that one there? Slops - Fro for being gay, claiming he still could've won if he picked a different monster with reborn - Skill Drain for being a terrible card - Fro - Fro - Fro - Me still not getting Chaos monsters - Morris, for pulling a chaos monster - You know who! Yo people! Got something to say? Email me at sear_lubinus@yahoo.ca , unless you're fro, in which case, you suck. Scott Forbes P.S. Fro sux!