Banana Deck (no, I'm serious) Ivy B. Game Castle Loveland, Colorado November 24, 2002 My first tournament report ^-^. Hope you all enjoy ^-^. Banana Deck (52): Monsters (28): 1x Electric Lizard 1x Beaver Warrior 1x Red Archery Girl 1x Ancient Elf 1x Blue-Winged Crown 1x Ryu-Kishin Powered 1x Man-Eating Treasure Chest 1x Feral Imp 1x Baron of the Fiend Sword 1x Battle Steer 1x Great White 1x Mammoth Graveyard 1x King of Yamimakai 1x Witty Phantom 1x Wall of Illusion 1x Silver Fang 1x Winged Dragon #1 1x 7 Colored Fish 1x Mystical Elf 1x Giant Soldier of Stone 1x Gaia the Fierce Knight 1x Summoned Skull 1x Celtic Guardian 1x Dark Magician 1x Barrel Dragon 1x Man-Eater Bug 1x Curse of Dragon 1x Neo the Magic Swordsman Magic Cards (17): 1x Block Attack 1x Malevolent Nuzzler 1x Mystic Plasma Zone 1x Fissure 1x Sword of Dark Destruction 1x Book of Secret Arts 1x Monster Reborn 1x Eternal Rest 1x Change of Heart 1x De-Spell 1x Dian Keto the Cure Master 1x Dark Hole 1x Germ Infection 1x Card Destruction 1x Soul Exchange 1x Yami 1x Remove Trap Trap Cards (7): 2x Two-Pronged Attack 1x Snake Fang 1x Trap Hole 1x Castle Walls 1x Reinforcements 1x Waboku Side Deck: 1x Dragon Piper 1x The Unhappy Maiden 1x Mystic Clown 1x Ceremonial Bell 1x Armored Lizard 1x Penguin Knight 1x Flame Cerebrus 1x Peacock 1x Castle of Dark Illusions 1x Molten Destruction 1x Dark Zebra 1x Forest 1x Eatgaboon 1x Dragon Capture Jar 1x Reverse Trap The overall strategy of my deck is to catch my opponent completely by surprise. Once they thought they had my strategy down, they would be blown away. Round # 1 - Ivy vs. Katie This match took a really long time. My opponent had a huge deck, a variation on the Yugi Starter deck, I think. We were playing 2000 duels, but they had matched us really well. It was taking so long to finish one duel that the ref got mad and told us just to finish the one duel and declare a winner from it. I had had Gaia on the field for almost the whole duel. What really killed me was her direct damage magic cards. I didn't have anything to counter them with. I might have won if we had played the three duels, but meh. It ended up that she finished off my LP with some magic card and a monster that I can't remember at the moment. Round # 2 - Ivy vs. Andrew They matched us pretty evenly in this match also. In the first duel, it came so close, it could have been a photo finish. We were tied many times in the game. The finishing plays were unbelievable. His deck was really a mix of all semi-powerful cards.I was going to use monster reborn to nab his crab turtle, but he used trap hole right back on me. In the end, I had 150 and he was down to 450. He had a monster with 500 atk points in attack mode (idiot XD j/k), a 1600 monster, and another 1600 monster all in attack mode. I knew all I had to do was take out the weak monster, but what if one of those face down cards was a trap? So I took the chance and came out on top. He apparently wanted me to think that there was a trap there, meh. The second duel went much the same way, until we got short of time and he forfeited, saying he would probably lose anyway. What a nice guy ^_^. Round # 3 - Ivy vs. John This match went amazingly fast. This guy must have been collecting for a year or more. From what I could tell before I got wiped out, he had a very strong dragon deck. In the first duel, he pulled a red eyes and a blue eyes on me! #!@$%^*#$%! So, I lost of course. The second duel went much the same way. He pulled some powerful card that I can't remember, but I lost anyway. Round # 4 - Free Win There were an odd number of 13-year-olds, so I got a free win this round. Yay! ^_^ Round # 5 - Ivy vs. Jake This guy was hard, but not as hard as John. He was a bit nicer about it than John, too. He had a kind of flying monsters deck. From this match, I learned that you actually CAN use Pharaoh's Servant in this Tournament. *crap* I had a lot of good cards from it. He used a combination of equip magic cards and warrior monsters. It was a good strategy. Good enough to beat me. What do you know. RESULTS I didn't really hear all the other age groups, but for 13 year old it was as follows: 1st place: Taylor 2nd Place: Jake 3rd Place: John 4th Place: Tie between 4 people: Me, Andrew, Connor, and Katie. They rolled the dice to see who got the pack, and it was me! *Yay!* I got a Metal Raiders booster pack and you didn't! Haha! lol j/k By: Ivy B. saria2007@smileyworld.com