Deck: The Magical Beatdown Deck Name: Daniel Bacon Location: Home Field Sportscard's and Gaming Where: Pensacola, Florida Participants: 32 November 30, 2002 This is my first report of which will hopefully be one of many. This tournament took place at an official duelist center, but, where Pharoh Servant cards are legal in the tournament. My Deck for this Tournament Included: -Monsters- Amount Monster Name ATK/DEF 3x Summoned Skull 2500/1200 The best monster there is 1x Beast of Talwar 2400/2150 My new favorite monster 1x Dark Elf 2000/800 Beat 'em down! 2x La Jinn The Mys... 1800/1000 Beat 'em down! 2 2x 7 Colored Fish 1800/800 Beat 'em down! 3 2x Harpie's Brother 1800/600 Beat 'em down! 4 1x Maha Vailo 1550/1400 Equip cards to him 1x Cannon Soldier 1400/1300 Direct Damage Vs. Stall Decks 1x Senju of the Th... 1400/1000 Get Relinquished 1x Sonic Bird 1400/1000 Get Black Illusion Ritual 2x Witch of the Bl... 1100/1200 Get a Summoned Skull or Maha Vailo 2x Sangan 1000/600 Get something 1x Cyber Jar 900/900 For desperation 1x Mask of Darkness 900/400 Get a trap back 2x Man-Eater Bug 450/600 Bye-Bye 2 Tribute Monster! 1x Magician of Faith 300/400 Get a magic back 1x Relinquished 0/0 I'll take that card... Thanks... -Magic- Amount Magic Card 1x Axe of Despair 1000 more points, Thank you very much. 1x Horn of the Unicorn 700 more points, Thank you very much. 2x Malevolent Nuzzler 700 more points, Thank you very much. 1x Painful Choice Pick one I can have 1x Rageiki Where'd your monsters go? 2x Tribute to the Doomed See ya later alligator! 1x Heavy Storm No more magics... 1x Mystical Space Typhoon I'll just get rid of that Toon World... 1x Swords of Revealing Light Show me your monsters, please. 1x Fairy's Meteor Crush Don't bother playing that in defense... 1x The Forceful Sentry Wow, Rageki. I'll just place that back in your deck 1x Pot of Greed I'll take 2 more cards, please. 1x Black Illusion Ritual Get out Relinquished 1x Snatch Steal I'll take your Summoned Skull, and then tribute it 1x Monster Reborn I'll reborn your Blue Eyes now... -Trap- Amount Trap Card 1x Spellbinding Circle You can't move! Haha! 1x Mirror Force You attack? All i've got is a Mirror Force to block! 1x Trap Hole 2 Tributes! Wow! Look! It's dead! 1x Solemn Wishes 500 more... 500 more... 1x Magic Jammer Toon World? Sorry, nope! 1x Waboku Sorry, no attack! Is it my turn yet? 1x Dust Tornado I'll destroy that thank you... 1x Horn of Heaven Reborn Blue Eyes? I don't think so! 25 Monsters 17 Magics 8 Traps ROUND 1 Opponent: Some New Kid Deck: Not Really Anything Special This was so simple. I don't really remember much. He didn't exactly have any good cards. Sometimes he tried to play Level 5 and higher monsters without tributing. I had to explain to him he was wrong. It was kind of boring actually. Very quick. ROUND 2 Opponent: Logan Deck: Stall - Burner Deck This match was TOUGH. I have never beaten Logan before. We haven't ever played in a tournament against each other, but, we play each other every week afterwards. I was kind of intimidated because of our previous matches. Anyways, in the first duel he got messenger of peace out pretty fast. I hadn't even done any damage yet. I just tried to keep him from pulling anything off. Then. I got a WOTBF. I tributed for something and I got Cannon Soldier from my deck. Every turn, I seemed to draw another monster. I got him down to about 3000 life. He pulled out his own Cannon Soldier and started doing damage to me. He got desperate and attacked my Cannon Soldier with his. He got it back and kept doing damage. He came back and won the first duel. In the second duel, this was not as long and drawn out. He got a Messenger of Peace out on the first turn. I drew a Heavy Storm and attacked for 2500 right away. He got out another one, and I had to deal with it. I got Cannon Soldier out and was able to do more damage. I used Mystical Space Typhoon to get rid of MOP and killed him. The third duel was FAST. In three turns, I had a Harpie's Brother, a La Jinn, and a WOTBF out. I used Raigeki to get rid of his monsters, and put down another Harpie's Brother. I attacked and got rid of the rest of his life. ROUND 3 Opponent: Anthony Deck: I'm not really sure. It's kind of a Semi-Beatdown deck. Anthony is the Gulf Coast Upper Deck Champion, and the store card guru. I expected him to try and make fun of me while we played, which he did. Anyways, in the first match, it was closer than I thought it would be. We both played SORL on each other right away. Nobody attacked for awhile, and then it was like a wrestling match. We kept hitting each other back and forth. What finally decided it was he used Mirror Force to kill 3 of my monsters, and then attacked to win. In the second match, I actually played better and more strategic. We both used SORL again and this time he couldn't get any good cards. I kept drawing well, and he used Card Destruction and messed up my strategy. We both used Cyber Jar and got more monsters. He finally got some monsters, but, I used Rageiki and finally won. In number 3, it was slaughter. I got NOTHING. Some strong magic cards, but that's all. I could not draw a monster. He killed me with Harpie's Brother and La Jinn. Overall: I thought I played pretty well today. I think I could have beaten Anthony in the first match. I made some bad decisions, but, I think I improved a lot today. I played some after the tournament and did pretty well. Hopefully, I'll do better next week. Props: To me for beating Anthony in one match. To Anthony for winning the tournament. To Logan for giving me my best win ever at a tournament. To my friend Bobby for almost beating Evan. To Glenn who finally made a Toon deck. To Cyber Jar for saving me many times. Slops: To Charlie for copying Glenn's old Exodia deck. To Glenn for actually losing to Charlie. To me for not beating Anthony when I could have. To my deck for not having any monsters when I needed it. Praise Mail? Hate mail? Just want to talk about Yu-Gi-Oh? 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