Got Jinzo?!!! Well do ya?!!! deck Ace Discordia Games Bremerton, WA November 27, 2002 Number of Participants: 15+ The strateejery behind this updated version of my old updated version of my old deck was to scrap some of my old monster removal cards for magic/trap removal cards. I've found more often than not, most people depend entirely on their magic/ trap cards, be it burners, deck destruction, beatdown etc. So much can ride on a magic card played at the right time that it could arguably be more damaging than any monster/effect monster. So in response to that I've put in a dust tornado, a magic drain, my imperial order and jinzo of course, and another MOF for good measure. Other changes go as followed: Monsters( 4 level or under): 1 Cyber Jar 2 Hayabusa Knights (greatest card with an axe) 2 Witch of the black forest (good for Jinzo or Cyber Jar) 2 Wall of Illusions 3 Magician of Faiths 2 La Jinn 3 Harpy Brother 3 Man Eater Bug Monsters (5 level or higher): 2 Summoned Skull 1 Jinzo Magic Cards: 1 Dark hole 1 Monster Reborn 1 Tribute to the Doomed 1 Nobleman of Crossout (fun card!!) 2 Swords of Revealing Light 1 Pot of Greed 1 Snatch Steal 1 Change of Heart 2 Axe of Despair 2 Heavy Storms Trap Cards: 1 Magic Drain(Magic removal of course) 1 Call of the Haunted ( monster reborn in trap form, Jinzo combo) 1 Dust tornado (M/T removal, good for SORL) 1 Imperial Order ( Magic Negation in a tight spot) 2 Trap Hole (might replace for michizure, email me on opinion) 2 Waboku ( great great great card) 1 Michizure (kind of like trap hole but better) Ace here again with another tourney report. Coming into this tournament I really didn't have many expectations other than recieving a season 2 tourney pack and getting some good trades. The only reason I didn't expect to win of course was that the place where this tourney was held was a place where most expert duelists tend to flock to on tourney day so facing the elite in town wasn't sitting too well with me when I joined. Last week there was a very well put together Exodia deck that swept the tourney (if you remember in my first tourney report, it was Jason, the guy I beat first, who collected all five pieces of Exodia and decided to make an annoying piece of crap deck that was just as annoying to beat hehe j/k), and I decided to face it before the actual tourney..... well..yeah I guess you can say that losing to that deck horribly was just a pre-cursor to the rest of the day. Oh well here we go to round 1. Round 1: Ace vs. Jonathan 1st duel: It started off pretty well I guess. We traded blows with harpy brothers, a couple man-eater bugs, and I think a monster reborn or two. He pulled out summoned skull but I just michizured it once it destroyed my magician of faith. I pulled 9 turns of SORL, but all it got me was a couple of whacks with the hayabusa knight ( which of course can attack twice despite speculation of it and the japanese tyrant dragon because of wording. READ THE CARDS YOU ILLITERATE PEOPLE!), and getting my monster reborn back from the graveyard. After my swords ended he put out his own swords, but I just dust tornadoed it and set a trap hole for some odd useless reason. I finished him off by reborning his summoned skull, change of hearting his face down card which was a man eater bug using its effect to destroy his last face down card and tributed it for jinzo. I ended it with an attack of a hayubusa with an axe, a summoned skull, and jinzo (yeah!). 2nd duel: oh my gosh this was the stupidest duel I ever played and lost. He went first and put a monster face down. I put my own card face down and my own M/T. He put one more on his turn but he didn't flip summon his first so I decided to take advantage of it totally. With the greatest hand ever, I Tribute to the Doomed his first face down monster which was a Wall of Illusion, and discarding my Summoned Skull, I monster reborned my Summoned skull, change of hearted his second card which was an MOF and got back my monster reborn, summoned a hayabusa with an axe and attacked with all of them resulting in 6800 damage on my second turn!! Well of course he raigeki'd and put a monster face down along with an M/T card. I didn't know what to do having a depleted hand and all so I just monster reborned my skull and put a harpy brother in face down defense mode just incase he had a mirror force down. BIG MISTAKE! I attacked and all it turned out to be was a stupid 7 colored fish! If I had put my Harpy brother in attack mode I would've just won the match but NO!! Anyways I paid for my mistake with him reborning my jinzo some time down the duel and attacking with nonstop monsters while I drew nothing but magic. I did draw a SORL but he just MST'ed the sucker and ended that duel. 3rd duel: I was so pissed that I made that stupid mistake that I vowed to myself that I'd win this last duel or I'd lose all respect for myself. Well the round started off with us trading blows like crazy but no damage actually happening. I had the weirdest draw though and pulled all three magicians of faith and my jinzo all in one hand! Add to that a change of heart that I had drawn and that leads to a whole lot of mess for jonathan. Here's what happened. set down one MOF and change of hearted his face down card which turned out to be another MOF, took back my change of heart once I flipped that MOF, tributed his MOF for my summoned skull and attacked...he woboku'd. He set down another card. I set down another MOF, I change of hearted his face down card which was ANOTHER MOF! took back my change of heart by flipping his other MOF, flipped my first MOF to get back my monster reborn, and attacked with my Summoned skull to get rid of his first MOF that was returned to his hand. The second MOF returned back to him at the end of the turn. His turn, he tributed his MOF for a Summoned skull, but I trap holed it, he played SORL so I flipped over MY second MOF and got back my pot of greed since it was the only magic card I had left in the graveyard. And then as confusing as it was, here's where it ended. I heavy stormed his swords off, I used pot of greed to get a hayabusa knight, summoned hayabusa with an axe, reborned my jinzo and attacked with my Jinzo, SS, and a Hayabusa with an Axe of Despair. Game over. Winner: Ace 2-1 2nd Duel: Ace vs. Doug I'm not gonna even post this match just due to a ruling by the store owner that cost me the last duel. I'm not saying the ruling was totally uncalled for, but I had centered my stratejery for that one moment in desperation and in doing so, screwed up any other stratejery I tried to compensate for in the last turns of the duel. Winner: Doug: 1-2 Well lets just say it was alright that I lost that match cause I had to go straight to work at exactly the time I lost the match. I got nothing in my tourney booster which was a downer, but I did a great trade for the one of the two cards I've been trying to get my grubby hands on since I started the game. Oh yeah and that one ruling that cost me the game had to do with Jinzo and call of the haunted. Basically it's already pure fact that you can use COTH to get back jinzo since the effect of summoning happens before Jinzo's multi-trigger effect comes into play. Basically all that means is that the summoning of Jinzo with the Trap card COTH happens before Jinzo's effect takes place. Once he's on the field though, COTH becomes a blank card due to Jinzo's negating trap card effect which means if COTH is removed from the field Jinzo isn't destroyed despite COTH's stipulation that says "once either card is destroyed, then the other is destroyed," since any effect of the card was negated due to Jinzos effect. That's fact and if you have any questions on it, please play your GBA yugioh game or email me. What happened in the duel though is since Jinzo's effect negates the COTH, then if jinzo is removed from the field (ie Raigeki, TTTD, fissure, etc.), his effect on the field is thus removed. What I had thought is since Jinzo is removed from the field, COTH gets reactivated meaning I can reborn Jinzo again with the same card due to COTH being an infinite and thus leading to an almost infinitely permanent Jinzo. Some people had major issues about this being a forever loop though it wouldn't be considering you could get rid of COTH and thus end the loop once you destroy Jinzo. My final strategy was to protect the destruction of my COTH and keep Jinzo on the field until I could draw better cards. Well anyways, the store owner was called out and had to rule against me there and say once Jinzo is destroyed, COTH's effect cannot be re-used(ie. in the case of spellbinding circle). If it had been the other way where COTH was destroyed, then Jinzo would've stayed on the field. Well I played my GBA to re-create that same event and found out the judge was right, ending my animosity on the ruling. Good call ref! PROPS AND SLOPS: Props: -For me trading my Goblin Attack force and Noble man of crossout for the card I've sought after for so long: raigeki. -For the store owners good call. -For having only one winning match, but an awesome match. Slops: -For haivng only one winning match, but an awesome match. -For working right after I lost....gay. -For losing my second match cause of misinterpreted strategy. -For me not pulling anything in my tourney pack. -For no hot girls playing yugioh....what am I saying?! For comments, questions, concerns, Email me at: Knonymous@hotmail.com