My Name: Kale Avery Tournament: Wizards of the Coast Location: Puyallup, Washington Date: 8-12-02 5:30 pm System: Swiss Participants: 11 Deck Name: Nimbus Strike Monsters/20 1x Neo the Magic Swordsman (To be replaced with La Jinn soon.) 2x La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp 3x Seven Colored Fish 2x Witch of the Black Forest 2x Man-Eater Bug 2x Mask of Darkness (Some people don't think it's worth having. Trudt me, it is.) 2x Magician of Faith (I now have three in my deck by replacing it with Big Eye.) 1x Big Eye (Now out of my deck. Was worthless at my tornament.) 1x Wall of Illusion 1x Time Wizard (Deffinantly worth having.) 3x Summoned Skull (Best attack for a sacrifice one to play creature.) 1x Barrel Dragon (Great effect and attack. Also is not a dragon.) Magic/13 3x Fissure 1x Share the Pain (To be replaced with Heavy Storm once I get one.) 1x Pot of Greed (To be replaced with Swords of Revealing Light once I get one, maybe.) 1x Soul Exchange 1x Card Destruction (Good to have in your deck even if you opponent doesn't have Exodia.) 1x Tribute to the Doomed 1x Monster Reborn 1x Change of Heart 1x Dark Hole 1x Swords of Revealing Light 1x Raigeki Trap/6 3x Trap Hole 1x Waboku 1x Robbin' Goblin 1x Mirror Force (I'm looking for at least two Magic Jammers.) Side Board/15 2x Dragon Capture Jar 2x Remove Trap 2x Soul Release 2x Reverse Trap 2x Tremendous Fire 2x Sword of Deep-Seated 1x Shield and Sword 2x Fake Trap (I never used any of these) This Tournament was harder than the one I did last we which my brother Holland did a report on. His deck was called Should Have Placed Second. I won the last one so I was expecting to do good again. There were eleven people there with a register fee of $6.00. I was a little worried when I found out that my friend Si (I think that's how you spell his name) changed his deck, so now it wasn't a dragon deck which are a peace of cake with Dragon Capture Jar. My brother Holland also came with a good deck and he barrowed a SORL. The last person I was worried about was my friend Mark who has more of an effect/defense deck with Gate Gaurdian pieces but no Gate Gaurdian. I tried getting a Heavy Storm from a little stand outside of Wizards. I offered him a holo Change of Heart, a Magician of Faith, and a Baby Dragon that He needed. After a half an hour of thinking he finally said no and the tournament started. Match 1 Round 1 Me VS. Some Kid This kid stared at me in fright when he found out, before we started, that I won the last tournament and didn't play very well. I kicked his butt with some LA Jinn an 7 Colored Fish. He played some good defense guy's out like Wall of Illusion and one Man-Eater Bug. He also played Just Desserts but It hardly effected me. I took out his guy's with TTTD, Fissure, and Trap Hole. I took him out quickly and we played the second round. Round 2 The second round was much the same. He played just Dessert and a card that inflicts 800 direct damage to my life points and played regular guy's, except this time I played Summoned Skull and Mirror force on him just for fun. This round was easier than the first. Me 1-0 Brother 0-1 (played Si) Si 1-0 Mark 1-0 Match 2 Round 1 Me VS. Kid who traded me Raigeki, SORL, and Barrel Dragon to me a while ago I addmit I was a little worried about playing him because he got a lot of new cards since the last time I saw him. He was a little tougher than the last kid but I still wasted him. He played a lot of the same average cards like Trap Hole and Fissure and I did the same. After about two turns of not doing much I started getting some really good cards. I ended up getting my Barrel Dragon with a combo of TTTD and Monster reborn, then I got out a Magician of faith. I one my coin toss an attacked his life points directly. He was then able to destroy my Barrel Dragon so I flipped Magician of Faith and got Monster Reborn back to get my Barrel Dragon again. I then got another MOF and the same thing happened again. After I hit him hard with some more monster I won. Round 2 This round was much easier than the first. The only problem was him getting out a Time Wizard when I had about four attacking guy's out, but luck was in my favor today so he lost the coin flip destroying his Time Wizard, the only monster he had out, so I attacked with all my monsters and won. Me 2-0 Brother 1-1 Si 2-0 Mark 1-1 Match 3 Round 1 Me VS. Si This was the hardest match I've ever played. We were the two best duelists there playing each other. We started out going back and forward alway's countering each other's move like we could read each others minds. I was able to play a lot of good magic cards like TTTD, Raigeki, and Dark Hole. He also Played a lot of good cards until I started ponding on him. I ended up with about four guy's and his life points low enough to kill him in one final blow, but when I attacked he used Mirror Force. That Sucked. HE did some damage to me but not much because I still had one defense guy out. I was running low on cards and I could tell that he had plenty so I used Card destruction causing him to lose and draw five cards and me one. But hten something bad happened. He played SORL causing three turns of nothing because I also played one. Then we each had three cards left and I knew that I'd run out first. So after SORL was gone I played a guy and he Trap Holed It. It was his turn and he played another SORL. That really sucked. So I lost the duel due to running out of cards. Round 2 This round lasted a long time also. we pretty much did the same thing as the last duel except more damage, and he played Solemn Judgement on my Mirror Force. We were running low on cards again so I waited until he had about three cards in his hand, then I used Card destruction which saved me beacuase I got SORL when he had three cards and I had four and he ran out of cards first. Round 3 It had been 35 min. since we started and by then everyone started whatching us since the second round, so the person running the tournament gave us the idea of a draw. I asked her what would happen if we did and she basically said that if we win the next round then we'll both tie for first and seconed and split the prize. We both didn't want to risk losing so we agreed to have a tie. Me 2-0-1 Brother 2-1 Si 2-0-1 Mark 2-1 Match 4 Round 1 Me VS. My Brother I was very nervous that my brother would win and I wouldn't tie for first and I'm sure Si was also nervous because he was playing Mark. Holland and I like to go really fast while playing each other in tornaments. Don't ask me why we just automatically do. We went back and forwardth playing the average cards until he played SORL then bringing it back two more times, but it didn't matter because in the end I beat him with a Barrel Dragon and His Summoned Skull which I monster reborned Round 2 We played fast again but I lasted longer. we had a big controversy over something. Before he played a monster down in defense mode, then paused for a seconed then took him back and played Dark Hole. I allowed him to do this because we do that all the time. Everyone makes a little mistake. So he lowered my life points to 400 and attacked me directly with a Man-Eater Bug. I said O.K. because I didn't know my life point. He then said I'm dead so I said hold on I acn stop that and I played Mirror Force. He went on about how I can't do that and that it's cheating. He alway's does stuff like that. One time we had a huge fight because he said that when you play a trap hole on a monster that monster isn't summone therefore you don't use an effect like WOTBF. You'd think an older brother would be smarter than you but he's really stupid. Anyway's, he ended up agreeing with me about Mirror Force (I guess because he thought it wouldn't matter). I then won the duel and the match but after he started getting mad about the Mirror Force thing and said I cheated and that he won. Everyone agreed with me but we had to call over the tournament leader person. I told her that my brother basically did the same thing with the Dark Hole and that we do stuff all the time. My brother Lied and said that we don't but she ruled in my favor. Me 3-0-1 Brother 2-2 Si 3-0-1 Mark 2-2 Si and I ended up tieing for first and two others tied for first which were the guy I played my seconed match with and the guy I beat in the finals last time. My brother didn't place so I guess he got what he deserved. Mark did good with his kind of deck, but I think he's hard to beat. Once again I rule Supreme with Si. But next week I'll beat him. Prizes: First/Seconed place Tie: 4 boosters each third place tie: 2 boosters each Props: *To Wizards at South Hill Mall for their seconed tournament *To Si for tieing with me *To my mom for giving me $6 for the tournament *To everyone but my brother for being good sports when they lost Slops: *To my brother for being a pain *To the people who got a bye like my brother (Markalso got a bye but he said that he'd rather duel) *To the guy in the stand outside of Wizards who wouldn't trade one of his two Heavy Storm Here's my contact information if you have something to say email: pasture_pimp@hotmail.com Name: Kale Avery http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx