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Belgium Interview – Wim Eliano
By Ally
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Ally:
First I like to thank you for taking
some time out of your fun fill life to do this
interview with me. It's always a pleasure to
interview someone that doesn't live in the USA.
Hopefully some of our readers get a bit of insight
about the metas that are not just in the USA.
Wim: You’re welcome x].
Ally: Alright, for my first question
what is your full name?
Wim: Wim Eliano.
Ally: How old are you?
Wim: I will be 21 years old on
December 3rd.
Ally:
Awww
birthday coming up soon. Happy early birthday to you
:].
Wim: Thank you ^_^.
Ally: Can you tell the readers a
little about yourself?
Wim: I’m made of awesomeness and win,
been playing Yu-Gi-Oh! for three years now, I work
full time as an industrial cleaner/asbestos remover,
like to go out with my friends, playing sports,
sleeping, and God knows I love sleeping.
Ally: I couldn't tell that you love
sleeping hehe. You said you been playing for three
years now? What was your first Yu-Gi-Oh! experience
like?
Wim: I lost to Blue-Eyes White Dragon
;_;.
Wim: Which was an awesome monster in
those days.
Wim: But I didn't get into the game
until later on, mind you I was a student in those
days, and students like to spend cash on different
things.
Wim: I really got into Yu-Gi-Oh! when
I pulled a tournament pack four (tp4) Royal Decree
on the first day of tp4's release and gave the Royal
Decree to a friend who collects rather then selling
it for 300 + on ebay.
Wim: Since that day I play with his
cards.
Ally:
Poor you! Oh well it happens. Even
though in those days make you sound old when you're
the same age as me :P (well about to be). What was
the first deck you ever built?
Wim: Exodia lol; my locals didn't
know about the forbidden list and the only sets were
LOB - MRL – MRD.
Wim: So yeah three Sangans and three
Witche of the Black Forest was pretty hot.
Ally:
Sangan and Witch were at three at
that time? Wow, brokenness I'll say lol. Do you
still go to the same locals as you do now? What's
your locals meta like if so?
Wim:
My local meta consists of four
players whom I destroy on occasionally.
Wim: Meta in Belgium is pretty much
the same as the US meta which is lots of monarchs
and zombies.
Ally:
Do you think that Light and Darkness
Dragon will completely destroy Zombies and Monarch
decks? A lot of people been saying that Light and
Darkness Dragon is hard to get out but what is your
thoughts on that?
Wim: Light and Darkness hype is
totally misplaced.
Wim:
It's a pretty inconsistent deck, and
lacks speed over samurais and zombies.
Ally:
You know people are still going to
try and build Light And Darkness Dragon decks. Got
any advice to those who do want to try and build it?
Wim: Yes I do.
Wim: Don’t build it and don’t sack me
with a crappy dragon please XD.
Wim: No in all seriousness it can be
good.
Wim: But it isn’t the best deck in
the format.
Wim:
The tip I can give the deck builders
do not stare blind at the Japanese builds.
Wim: The Japanese meta is way
different then ours.
Ally:
Do you think this is why a lot of
people fail at deck building, because he or she
thinks "The Japanese know what their talking about
since they own every card in the game, so I'm going
to net deck them!"
Wim:
No the point they fail is the fact
they blindly netdeck SJC top lists, don't learn how
to play with them, and think “Oh? This won it must
be autopilot.”
Wim: Don't get me wrong.
Wim: I don't care if you netdeck.
Wim: But if you do it please learn to
play the deck inside-out first.
Ally:
Hopefully people do take that advice.
What is your view on Enishi? You mentioned earlier
about Six Samurais, so you think the card gave the
deck a big boost or you think it will stay below top
16 range of a SJ?
Wim:
Enishi is not the new moneymaker of
samurai.
Wim: Spirit of the Six Samurai and
Cunning however are.
Wim: Those cards are ridiculous.
Wim: Abuse Grandmaster more plz.
Ally:
Do you think Cunning and Spirit might
get a limitation then since they make the Six
Samurai deck powerful?
Wim: Nope, because they’re fairly
balance.
Wim: Spirit isn’t even run able in
twos in my opinion.
Wim: ^^
Ally: Oh I see. Do you think
Grandmaster needs to be limited or semi-limited? If
so why?
Wim: Hell No.
Wim: I bought a playset for $120 US
dollars XD.
Wim:
Because some regions in the world did
not get a sneak preview grandmaster promo >_<.
Wim: But I don't feel it should be
limited to one; semi-limited is a possibility
though. UDE will probably just sit back and see
what's gonna happen ;p.
Wim: Fact is if the six sam player
gets a good hand with a grandmaster in hand; it's
very hard for the opponent to make a fist.
Wim: You can't destroy it without
losing advantage of some sort.
Ally:
Alright, moving on, what are some of
your credentials?
Wim:
I won the 2006 Belgian Nats, won the
Summer Cup 2006, placed 5th in the 2007 Belgian
nationals (losing in quarters to eventual winner
meh), and fresh of a Pharaoh Tour Stop win. I also
top regularly.
Ally:
What was wining Belgian Nats '06 like
for you? What deck did you run?
Wim: It was kinda cool ;p. I ran a
deck which me and my Dutch friends made.
Wim:
Emon was fresh off some Shonen Jump
win with his chaos return the day before nats.
Wim: So we decided to counter that
strategy which had three maindecked Dusts,
Cyberstien, and Last Will.
Wim: I went 10-0 with that deck baby.
Wim: We kept the deck a secret though
and a week later my friend got second at his nats a
month later he won Euros.
Ally:
Impressive. How much of a shock was
it when you won Belgium Nationals '06?
Wim:
It wasn't really a shock, everyone
good scrubbed out except for Sebastian Gonzalez and
Thibault Coppens.
Wim: Seb lost in quarters to
Thibault, and I had the better match up in the
finals vs Thibault.
Wim: So it was the logical outcome,
but still it's ygoz.
Wim: We celebrated ;p.
Ally:
Was your matchup with Thibault
difficult for you or an easy victory?
Wim:
I drew good he drew not so good :p.
Wim: He played a machine chaos build.
Wim: I had answers to whatever he did
so it was a relative easy match up.
Ally:
How was Belgium Nats '07 for you?
Wim: A nightmare >_<. I played an OD
burn deck and in round three I go against a noob
with Demise!
Wim: He gets off his combo twice
despite my 70000000 counters in the deck, so I’m
like great I’m done for XD.
Wim: I win out in seeds and 3rd
in tops!
Wim: I play this monarch dude. Game 1
he wins, because I open with triple Stealth Birds,
Scapegoat, and wave wave in hand.
Wim: Game 2 I win.
Wim: Game 3 I have game set up he
tops PoA into Mobuis, so I have to make a draw with
the untargeted Ring of Destruction. He killed Force
and Cylinder.
Wim: Game 4 he opens with
Confiscation with every card he needed. So yeah YGO!
Ally: Wow I'm sorry that happened to
you. Well, how was Euros for you both years?
Wim:
Year one ( 2006 ) was a blowout, I
overslept because the hotel didn't give me a wake-up
call, I got just in time for the 1st round (about 10
minutes spare) without a deck but yeah that’s ygo,
so I assemble some crap and scrub to a 3-4 d1.
Wim: Year 2, I start out day one with
a pretty sexy 6-1 record.
Wim: And day 2 was a letdown once
again.
Wim: Couldn't draw decent all day 2
and slumped to 7-5.
Ally: What were you running at both
Euro Nats?
Wim: Euros 2006: decree chaos.
Wim: Euros 2007: Theerasak.dek.
Ally:
How was your Summer Cup experience?
What is a Summer Cup?
Wim:
A summer cup is hard to explain. The
Summer Cup people take ten stores all over Belgium
who hold qualifiers, six qualifiers per a store
final. Each winner qualifies to the store final.
Wim: The winners of those had to duke
it at a round robin tournament. Each store champion
gets a nice lil trophy with a shiny card. The
national winner ( me LOL ) XD got a Chimeratech
ultimate rare in a trophy of plexi glass.
Wim: It's actually a misprint
Chimera.
Ally: How was it misprinted?
Wim: It’s missing parts of the name.
Ally:
What did you run for the Summer Cup?
How was the Pharaoh Tour for you?
Wim:
I ran monarchs with a side into full
stein.
Wim: I dropped after losing to
Megarock Dragon.
Wim: Tough Beats.
Ally:
Alright, what was your first regional
experience like?
Wim:
Wow that's a hella long time ago lol.
Wim: I lost in the finals with a burn
deck.
Wim: It was when no stall except
gravity bind existed.
Wim: So I locked them with DNA
Surgery and dragon capture jar.
Wim: Epic times those were.
Ally:
No insect barrier?
Wim:
Nah dragon capture jar was pro.
Wim: Also I had no insect barriers
lol.
Ally:
Aw I see. What decks do you like to
build for fun?
Wim:
I can build pretty much anything I
want, I switch decktypes every tournament to keep it
fun.
Wim: But at the moment I like six
samurais.
Ally:
How does your six samurai build look?
Wim:
Pretty standardized pre - glas
samurais =p.
Wim: However I’m quite impressed with
the deck Adrian Madaj delivered at pharaoh tour
Hamburg.
Ally: What type of build was that?
Wim: It was samurais, no reasoning,
no rota's , tech backs to the wall, tech united we
stand, three maindeck cyber phoenix, and a sidedeck
to gadgets.
Wim: Took everyone by surprise.
Ally:
Got any new decks planned for the
future besides Samurais?
Wim:
Yes but itz a secret.
Wim: You guys will find out in time.
Wim: It's that big of a secret that I
don't know what it is either.
Wim: some well known North American
metagame player is hooking me up with something
rather seksi so I heard.
Ally:
What's the next event you’re going
to? Are you bringing your secret deck to it or your
Six Samurai deck?
Wim:
Next event is the pharaoh tour finals
2007.
Wim: Winner takes home a Sarcophagus.
Wim: And it'll be the secret deck ;p.
Ally:
How well does your secret deck test?
Wim:
I have no idea as it’s not mine.
Wim: And I haven’t seen it yet.
Wim: But the player who has it is not
a small fish in the pond ;x.
Ally:
You really excited about going to the
Pharaohs tour final?
Wim:
Been there twice, so I know what to
expect; we'll see on the day itself on how it goes.
Ally:
What do you think the most dominant
deck type will be at the finals?
Wim: Monarch.
Wim: It’s all the people here know xD.
Ally: Oh I see. Onto a different
topic, what are your thoughts about the forbidden
list?
Wim:
It's decent at the moment.
Wim: Nothing is unbalanced IMO.
Wim: I'd love to see them bring back
imperial order though
Wim: Seeing as how I have 40 of them
XD.
Ally:
If you had to make changes what would
they be?
Wim:
That's a hard one.
Wim: Feels to me that gadgets need to
be put back to three, doesn't matter at two or
three.
Wim: We really need the goat lists
back though :p.
Wim: three goat, three meta, three
tsuk.
Wim: <3
Wim: three ter of course.
Ally:
You're crazy!
Wim: Maybe I am.
Ally: I don't mind goat format back,
but Tsuki can stay away ^_^.
Ally: You’re for more of a diverse
list then?
Wim:
I like a list where basically any
deck is playable.
Wim: And I feel with this list
everything is playable.
Wim: But like three lists ago the
only playable deck was chaos.
Wim: That's no fun =)
Ally: Do you think Raiza should be
limited?
Wim: Nope
Wim: He's not broken at all
Wim: If you are to limit monarchs
then you are definitely doing it wrong
Ally:
How do you think people should do it
if you want to kill monarchs?
Wim:
leave it alone =p.
Wim: It’s not overly broken decktype.
Ally:
Oh I see. Interview is almost over
L.
Do you have any advice to give out to the new
players that just started the game?
Wim:
Yeah go to a local store and have
yourself taught by the best player you can find
there, invest in a deck, and make a profit.
Ally:
That's some good advice. Thank you
for the interview Wim. Would you like to make a
closing statement?
Wim:
Yugioh! is serious business!
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