The unstoppable Exodia deck
Played at Toonplanet
Downey, CA
August 9th

My deck:

Monsters - 23                 Magic - 9                      Traps - 8
2x Man-Eater Bug              1x Dark hole                   2x waboku
2x Magician of faith          1x monster reborn              2x trap hole
1x Mystical Elf               2x last will                   2x solemn 
judgement
2x hane-hane                  2x swords of revealing light   1x magic jammer
2x witch of the black forest  1x fissure                     1x mirror force
2x sangan                     1x change of heart
3x wall of illusion           1x pot of greed
2x summoned skull
1x trap master
5x Exodia

Total # of cards : 40

Side deck: 2 heavy storm, 1 fissure, 3 la jynn, 3 7 colored fish, 1 summoned 
skull, 1 blue eyes white dragon, 1 trap hole, 2 dark elf, 1 stim-pack.
I use my side-deck to take out exodia from my deck and change it to a beat 
down deck if they use TOO many card destructions(card destructions piss me 
off).


My deck is like an offensive deck that keeps its defence too. Even if card 
destruction or robbin' golin takes my exodia off, I still have a chance to 
win with my summoned skulls. I counter card destructions using solemn 
judgement because I don't have to discard a card from my hand. Magic-jammer 
is really bad if I don't have an extra card in your hand besides exodia (or 
if I have an extra card, it's a real good card). I also put in a trap master 
to kill off their robbin' goblin (robbin' golin can really mess up exodia). 
I practiced with my friends. I let them use robbin' goblin and even to rig 
their decks. I have beaten them countless times, but I lost a lot too (since 
I let them rig their decks, they put 2 card destructions on top of their 
decks to use against me).

Approximate Numbers of people participated in the tournament : 28
$3 fee. Winner gets barrel dragon. 2nd place gets Kazejin. No japanese cards 
allowed at all.

The 1st round-- Exodia deck(me) vs. ????(some weird deck)

This round was real easy.He was a kid who just started collecting yu-gi-oh 
cards. He didn't even have any strong lvl 4 cards in his deck. I finished 
him off easily with my summoned skulls. The second round, he lost in a blink 
of an eye. The winner is me!!! ( I didn't feel happy beating a little kid)

The 2nd round-- Me vs. beatdown deck/ discarding deck.

The first duel was pretty easy.I sacrificed my own witch with last will 
activated for a summoned skull. It let me draw an exodia piece and let me 
put another witch or sangan on the field!! (I love that combo). I got my 
exodia very late because I was messing around with him. Easy win on the 
first duel. The second time we dueled, he had changed his deck to a 
discarding deck. He used ultimate offering to summon 2 bistro butchers with 
robbin' golin and attack me directly since all my monsters on the field died 
by his acid trap hole. 2 bistro butchers made me draw 4 cards and he 
discarded 2 of them because of robbin' goblin. Also he used many card 
destructions which killed all my exodia pieces. I decked out really quickly. 
The third duel, I knew I had to change my deck into a beat down deck using 
my side-deck. I beat him easily when his bistro butchers let me draw really 
good cards. I am the winner!

The 3rd round-- Me vs. a dragon deck

This was my favorite round. I was very happy to counter his combos. He used 
basic combos like lord of D.+ flute+ 2 blue eyes. All I had to do was 
magic-jammer or solemn judgement his flutes and keep on attacking his life 
points. That's how I won my first round. On the second round, he tried to 
stall and gain life points.
He changed his deck a little by using his side deck. He used swords to stall 
and ultimate offerings to bring out his immortal of thunder and hane-hanes. 
He flipped immortal of thunders to gain 3000 life points and he used his 
hane-hane to get it back to his hands. He did that until the swords ended.He 
had about 15,000 life points.After that, he used card destruction so he can 
get rid of his immortal of thunders in his hands, but would I let him do 
that? NO! I blocked his card destruction with my solemn judgement. He was 
forced to put down his immortal thunders which I killed. His plan has 
back-fired.

The 4th round(semi finals)-- Me vs. Direct-life point deck.

The first duel, I put many monsters on the field because I thought his deck 
was a beatdown deck. When I had 4 monsters on the field, he used 2 just 
desserts on me. 4000 life points gone!! Also when I finally realized that it 
was a direct-life point deck and tried to attack him, his monsters were 
mostly witch of the black forest or sangans to draw his ultimate card: 
princess of Tsurugi. I always leave my solemn judgements and magic-jammers 
down so I can counter things, but he took advantage of them. His princess of 
Tsurugi did direct damage on me because i had trap cards on my field. The 
first duel goes to him... I was so mad. I changed my deck only a little bit 
with  my side deck. I put 2 heavy storms in my deck. In the second duel, I 
used my heavy storm on my first turn!!! I killed his 2 just desserts with 
ookazi and waboku. He knew his plan had failed. After that, I just got my 
exodia pieces easily without worries. The third duel was pretty easy. He 
tried to make his deck a beatdown deck by switching cards, but not good 
enough. I got my exodia in 4 turns! WOO HOO, I'm going to the finals.

Final round-- Me vs. Hardcore beatdown dragon deck.

This is the duel where I learned about the heart of the cards. He was the 
hardest duelist I have ever faced. Everyone in the store knows about my 
exodia deck now, even him. On the first duel, he used many combos. I used up 
my combos too. On his third turn, he had summoned skull and 2 blue eyes on 
the field. He sacrified his witch to summon summoned skull and its effect to 
draw lord of d. I barely blocked his attack by using waboku. I had 4 pieces 
of exodia in my hand. It was my turn and my turn to draw. I was thinking of 
heart of the cards to draw the last piece but no luck. I drew a trap hole 
which was a useless card for that situation. I lost the first duel. The 
second duel, I had 3 pieces of exodia on my first hand! He tried to use card 
destruction but I countered it by using magic-jammer even though I had to 
discard my mirror force!! I got my exodia pretty fast. Even before he got to 
use his lord of d. +flute+2 blue eyes combo. The third duel was very 
intence. Everyone in the store was watching us duel. This is the duel where 
I learned about the heart of the cards. He attack my life points so many 
times that my life was down to 3700.He even attack me with his man-eater 
which got me to 3250 and no chance watsoever of attacking him. I was going 
to forfeit but I still believed in my cards. The next turn, he summoned his 
blue eyes, sacrificing his own man-eater and la jinn and attacked me 
directly. I had 250 life points remaining. Everyone thought I had lost the 
match. Even I thought that. It was my turn to draw a card. I tried to use 
heart of the cards again, hoping I would draw something powerful like 
raigeki, but I drew an exodia piece. I thought I lost. An exodia piece is 
useless in this condition, but when I looked at my hand, I had 4 pieces of 
exodia!! With the piece I drew, I had all 5 pieces of the Unstoppable 
Exodia. Match goes to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had fun at the tournament. I got many new cards including my barrel 
dragon.
I always believe in my cards now. If there is will, there is always a way. 
Happy dueling people!


                                                                      Nam 
Kim
                                                       
kulmikey14@hotmail.com


The unstoppable Exodia deck
Played at Toonplanet
Downey, CA
August 11th

My deck:

Monsters - 23                 Magic - 9                      Traps - 8
2x Man-Eater Bug              1x Dark hole                   2x waboku
2x Magician of faith          1x monster reborn              2x trap hole
1x Mystical Elf               2x last will                   2x solemn 
judgement
2x hane-hane                  2x swords of revealing light   1x magic jammer
2x witch of the black forest  1x fissure                     1x mirror force
2x sangan                     1x change of heart
3x wall of illusion           1x pot of greed
2x summoned skull
1x trap master
5x Exodia

Total # of cards : 40

Side deck: 2 heavy storm, 1 fissure, 3 la jynn, 3 7 colored fish, 1 summoned 
skull, 1 blue eyes white dragon, 1 trap hole, 2 dark elf, 1 stim-pack.
I use my side-deck to take out exodia from my deck and change it to a beat 
down deck if they use TOO many card destructions(card destructions piss me 
off).


My deck is like an offensive deck that keeps its defence too. Even if card 
destruction or robbin' golin takes my exodia off, I still have a chance to 
win with my summoned skulls. I counter card destructions using solemn 
judgement because I don't have to discard a card from my hand. Magic-jammer 
is really bad if I don't have an extra card in your hand besides exodia (or 
if I have an extra card, it's a real good card). I also put in a trap master 
to kill off their robbin' goblin (robbin' golin can really mess up exodia). 
I practiced with my friends. I let them use robbin' goblin and even to rig 
their decks. I have beaten them countless times, but I lost a lot too (since 
I let them rig their decks, they put 2 card destructions on top of their 
decks to use against me).

Approximate Numbers of people participated in the tournament : 28
$3 fee. Winner gets barrel dragon. 2nd place gets Kazejin. No japanese cards 
allowed at all.

The 1st round-- Exodia deck(me) vs. ????(some weird deck)

This round was real easy.He was a kid who just started collecting yu-gi-oh 
cards. He didn't even have any strong lvl 4 cards in his deck. I finished 
him off easily with my summoned skulls. The second round, he lost in a blink 
of an eye. The winner is me!!! ( I didn't feel happy beating a little kid)

The 2nd round-- Me vs. beatdown deck/ discarding deck.

The first duel was pretty easy.I sacrificed my own witch with last will 
activated for a summoned skull. It let me draw an exodia piece and let me 
put another witch or sangan on the field!! (I love that combo). I got my 
exodia very late because I was messing around with him. Easy win on the 
first duel. The second time we dueled, he had changed his deck to a 
discarding deck. He used ultimate offering to summon 2 bistro butchers with 
robbin' golin and attack me directly since all my monsters on the field died 
by his acid trap hole. 2 bistro butchers made me draw 4 cards and he 
discarded 2 of them because of robbin' goblin. Also he used many card 
destructions which killed all my exodia pieces. I decked out really quickly. 
The third duel, I knew I had to change my deck into a beat down deck using 
my side-deck. I beat him easily when his bistro butchers let me draw really 
good cards. I am the winner!

The 3rd round-- Me vs. a dragon deck

This was my favorite round. I was very happy to counter his combos. He used 
basic combos like lord of D.+ flute+ 2 blue eyes. All I had to do was 
magic-jammer or solemn judgement his flutes and keep on attacking his life 
points. That's how I won my first round. On the second round, he tried to 
stall and gain life points.
He changed his deck a little by using his side deck. He used swords to stall 
and ultimate offerings to bring out his immortal of thunder and hane-hanes. 
He flipped immortal of thunders to gain 3000 life points and he used his 
hane-hane to get it back to his hands. He did that until the swords ended.He 
had about 15,000 life points.After that, he used card destruction so he can 
get rid of his immortal of thunders in his hands, but would I let him do 
that? NO! I blocked his card destruction with my solemn judgement. He was 
forced to put down his immortal thunders which I killed. His plan has 
back-fired.

The 4th round(semi finals)-- Me vs. Direct-life point deck.

The first duel, I put many monsters on the field because I thought his deck 
was a beatdown deck. When I had 4 monsters on the field, he used 2 just 
desserts on me. 4000 life points gone!! Also when I finally realized that it 
was a direct-life point deck and tried to attack him, his monsters were 
mostly witch of the black forest or sangans to draw his ultimate card: 
princess of Tsurugi. I always leave my solemn judgements and magic-jammers 
down so I can counter things, but he took advantage of them. His princess of 
Tsurugi did direct damage on me because i had trap cards on my field. The 
first duel goes to him... I was so mad. I changed my deck only a little bit 
with  my side deck. I put 2 heavy storms in my deck. In the second duel, I 
used my heavy storm on my first turn!!! I killed his 2 just desserts with 
ookazi and waboku. He knew his plan had failed. After that, I just got my 
exodia pieces easily without worries. The third duel was pretty easy. He 
tried to make his deck a beatdown deck by switching cards, but not good 
enough. I got my exodia in 4 turns! WOO HOO, I'm going to the finals.

Final round-- Me vs. Hardcore beatdown dragon deck.

This is the duel where I learned about the heart of the cards. He was the 
hardest duelist I have ever faced. Everyone in the store knows about my 
exodia deck now, even him. On the first duel, he used many combos. I used up 
my combos too. On his third turn, he had summoned skull and 2 blue eyes on 
the field. He sacrified his witch to summon summoned skull and its effect to 
draw lord of d. I barely blocked his attack by using waboku. I had 4 pieces 
of exodia in my hand. It was my turn and my turn to draw. I was thinking of 
heart of the cards to draw the last piece but no luck. I drew a trap hole 
which was a useless card for that situation. I lost the first duel. The 
second duel, I had 3 pieces of exodia on my first hand! He tried to use card 
destruction but I countered it by using magic-jammer even though I had to 
discard my mirror force!! I got my exodia pretty fast. Even before he got to 
use his lord of d. +flute+2 blue eyes combo. The third duel was very 
intence. Everyone in the store was watching us duel. This is the duel where 
I learned about the heart of the cards. He attack my life points so many 
times that my life was down to 3700.He even attack me with his man-eater 
which got me to 3250 and no chance watsoever of attacking him. I was going 
to forfeit but I still believed in my cards. The next turn, he summoned his 
blue eyes, sacrificing his own man-eater and la jinn and attacked me 
directly. I had 250 life points remaining. Everyone thought I had lost the 
match. Even I thought that. It was my turn to draw a card. I tried to use 
heart of the cards again, hoping I would draw something powerful like 
raigeki, but I drew an exodia piece. I thought I lost. An exodia piece is 
useless in this condition, but when I looked at my hand, I had 4 pieces of 
exodia!! With the piece I drew, I had all 5 pieces of the Unstoppable 
Exodia. Match goes to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had fun at the tournament. I got many new cards including my barrel 
dragon.
I always believe in my cards now. If there is will, there is always a way. 
Happy dueling people!


                                                                      Nam 
Kim
                                                       
kulmikey14@hotmail.com