From: Marcus Nightingale [ marcus_nightingale@hotmail.com ]

Mantis’ Eat my dust SUKA! deck.
Coleridge Community College 2004 secret tournament (has to be secret or we 
get grief from guys at school who think their all hard).
Some dudes house.
Cambridge, England.

This is my deck for the tournament:
Monsters: 17
Second goblin x 1
Penguin soldier x 1
Sword hunter x 1
Princess of tsurugi x 3
Magical marionette x 1
Giant orc x 1
Blue eyes white dragon x 3
Lord of d. x 1
Launcher spider x 1
Spikebot x 1
Troop dragon x 1 (because my deck got mixed in with my trading pile and I 
had no time to sort it out fully so I just got as close as I could)
Relinquished x 1
Dark magician x 1
Spell cards: 19
Shield and sword x 2
Cold wave x 2
Monster reborn x 1
The flute of summoning dragon x 1
7 completed x 3
Scapegoat x1
Dian keto the cure master x 1
Malevolent nuzzler x 1
Block attack x 2
Graceful charity x 1
Black illusion ritual x 1
Token thanks giving x 1
Stop defence x 1
Black pendant x 1
Traps: 18
Waboku x 3
Numinous healer x 2
Bottomless trap hole x 1
7 tools of the bandit x 3
Solemn wishes x 1
Raigeki break x 1
Ray of hope x 1
Ready for intercepting x 1
Fairy’s hand mirror x 1
Robin’ goblin x 1
Life absorbing machine x 1
Thunder of ruler x 1
Gravity bind x 1

Round one:
I was against this guy called Antony, kicked his butt because he was a 
complete newbie, his deck was basically just a Joey deck, and a summoned 
skull from a booster pack. (We weren’t playing side decks because it was a 
tournament that wasn’t very well organised.) I cancelled out most of his 
attack force with gravity bind, and used relinquished as soon as I got it to 
get his summoned skull’s attack power and that, basically got rid of him 
after a few hundred turns. He did some minor damage with red eyes the turn 
before I got gravity bind. Overall I crushed him in both duels by luck of 
draw and a better deck and more knowledge of the game. Pretty boring duel 
demolished him twice in a row.
Round two
Skills, luck or cheat pretty slow duel until I tributed lord of d and giant 
orc for launcher spider and played three 7 completed fort a 4300 attack 
launcher spider which destroyed he guy (who’s name I never got!). He had a 
pretty random selection of cards.
Not so much luck in next two duels destroyed by unexpected lucky hands from 
the dude. That’s the end of the tournament for me.
My best friend went on to win the title, which I then won from him the next 
day, with a superior deck to the one that made me lose.

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