Beat down tactics                            
                                      James McGhee
                           The gate comic bookstore-Cumming Georgia
                                    December 8 2002
                      Not sure of the participants but there were alot         

This is a pretty good deck but I am still developing My strategies.

44-cards 

monsters 20

2x man-eater-bugs(monster destruction)
3x Jirai Gumo(Solid attack wall)
3x 7 colored fish(1800 level 4)
1x summoned skull(strongest power for only one tribute)
1x Jinzo(Good attacker disables traps)
1x magician of faith(get a magic card back)
1x maha vailo(extra punch with equips)
1x cyber jar(dark hole with a gamble)
3x la jinn(1800 level 4)
1x witch of the black forst(I can get anymonster from my deck)
3x dark elf(2000 attack paying 1000 life is worth it)

Magic 16
1x Mega morph(thinking about switching it out but good with the dark elfs effect)
1x monster reborn(come back jinzo or any other monster)
1x raigeke(aww did I kill them all?)
1x swords of revealing light(stall)
2x Heavy storm(clear the field of bothersome traps and magics)
1x pot of greed(2 more cards)
1x dark hole(monsters be gone!)
1x change of heart(free monster for a turn)
1x snatch steal(worth it especially if you grab a skull or something powerful)
2x fissure(monster destruction)
2xgiant trunades (blows premature burial and dangerous threats back)
1xpremature burial (Reborn my monster at a worth it cost of 800 life)
1xpainfull choice (Well worth it I will explain how this belongs)

traps 8
2x solemn judgement(counters any card I want)
1x seven tools of the bandit(counters other traps)
1x magic jammer(Bye bye danger)
1x magic drain(they get rid of a card always)
2x trap hole(any good deck has them)
1x mirror force(you know the drill)


Now let me start off by saying painful choice fits if you have maybe a monster reborn in your hand and 
they will always let your most powerful cards go to the graveyard and you can get them back with monster 
reborn but I am currently going to try to switch this for a mega morph or axe of despair and I switched 
my cannon soldier for maha to try it out cannon soldier lacks in attack but its ability can help but on 
the other hand if you premature burial Maha vailo it's 2050 attack. if you have any questions or 
suggestions email me @ atl_exposed@yahoo.com

Round one this is a single elimination tournament/swiss tournament.

Me vs. A kid about 14 or 15
I flew through his deck he had a high number of tribute monsters.

Round two
Me vs JJ 
This kid had a beat down/damge prevention deck he is very annoying and so is his deck he kpt using 
solemn wishes woboku and stuff like that but I maintained my composure and beat him I solem judgemented 
at some wrong times and it almost costed me both rounds the second round went by quicker but about the 
same.

Round 3 me vs Matt hes my best friend
He also runs beat down and is very good I hate dueling friends but it had to be done I was lucky and 
got megamorph when I needed it and finished him off.

Next round he came vwery close to getting me he had 3200 life left I raigekied his face down moster 
which was a man eater and then arely got him with summoned skull and cyber jar in attack mode believe 
me I needed a monster and cyber jar came through for me on my draw.

Round 4 Kid with an exodia deck

I got my monsters out fast and mega morphed a dark elf and he prohibitioned heavy storm and magic 
drain good thing I run two trunades I basicly took all his points by straight force.

Next round I needed a stronger attacker because megamorph on my witch was't enough so I suprised 
everyone and man-eatered my own witch to grab my skull which I then tributed man eater for then 
megamorphed for the win.

Now the next set of rounds were seeded by the wins 4 people remained Me my friend Matt JJ and the 
Exodia Kid

Me vs JJ I had to win because he insulted my friend for no reason well I tore through him so fast 
I stole his skull with snatch steal and had one of my own he was toast.

My friend Matt lost because the Exodia kid drew Exodia on the first turn and shuffled under the 
table and didn't want to do cutting I made him cut decks though and he layed down all his magics 
and traps which I heavy stormed so that pretty much took him there.

I got 4 packs one which I gave to my friend I opened the magic ruler and has happy that I got a 
Blue Eyes Toon Dragon Then I opened the Pharohs servant and about wet myself a Jinzo the card I 
had wanted for a while now I replaced one of my skulls with him I got crap out of my metal raiders 
and Matt got a karate man....


Well this ends my first tourney report and remember if you want to share strategy or just want advice 
my email is -James McGhee- Atl_exposed@yahoo.com