From: Joker Dark [yami_malik_and_ra@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 11:45 PM
To: yugiohdepartment@pojo.com
Subject: Dark Tourney Brawl
J.D.William
A & R Cards & Comics
Chicago, IL
7/13/02
yami_malik_and_ra@home.com
 
Spells of Darkness Deck
Monsters                                                                                    Side Deck
Dark Magician x2                                                                    Catapult Turtle x1
Summoned Skull x2                                                                Solemn Judgement x1   
Lajinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp x 1                       Princess of Tsurugi x1
Masked Sorcerer x1                                                                 Big Eye x1  
Crass Clown x2                                                                        Share Pain x3   
Magician of Faith x2                                                               Steel Scorpion x1
Witch of the Black Forest x1                                                 Dragon Capture Jar x1 
7 Colored Fish x1                                                                      Germ Infection x2
Man Eater Bug x2                                                                     Stop Defense x1
Neo, the Magic Swordsman x1                                            Stim Pack x1
Mystical Elf x1                                                                          Just Desserts x1
Battle Ox x1                                                                               Shield and Sword x1
White Magical Hat x1
Wall of Illision x1
The Bistro Butcher x3
Magic
Change of Heart x1
Dark Hole x1
Soul Exchange x1
Fissure x2
Pot of Greed x1
Raigeki x1
Monster Reborn x1
Card Destruction x1
Paralyzing Potion x1
Sword of Dark Destruction x1
Sword of Deep Seated x3
Dark Energy x2
Yami x2
Traps
Acid Trap Hole x1
Trap Hole x2
Robbin Goblin x1
Ultimate Offering x1
            This deck is basically beatdown with cards that support the theme. The main atributes are Fiends and spellcasters. All this deck does is power up monsters and destroys the oppnents with magic, traps, and such. When I got there I saw only two people there entering the tournament, but more people came, which added up to seven. It was a double elimanation match which means if you lose two times, your eliminated.
Round 1: kid with Yugi Starter Deck with Some MR packs.
            Duel 1: Unlike many duels that last long this didn't. He played really weak cards on defense like winged dragon and Baron of he Fiend Sword. I summoned Summoned Skull and some of my other level four monsters easily took him out.
            Duel 2: Same as the first duel, only he misued some cards like not sacrifing level 5-6 monsters. The match was simply won.
Round 2: store manger with heavy offensive deck
            Duel 1: This was one of the hardest matches i had today. He kept using fissure and trap hole to limit my monster amount. He also used direct damage magic cards. As soon as I get out my Dark Magician, he uses change of heart to sacrifce it for Blue Eyes. With some more assistance from his Lajinn and Dark Elf, he slayed me fast.
            Duel 2: He got a bad hand during this turn. With only one monster (man eater bug) on the field, the game was easy to win. And to make sure he couldn't get me, i used white magical hat to make sure he didn't try anything funny.. Using a lot of beatdown monsters, he was defeated.
            Duel 3: He got a lot mons out on the field, but I dark holed him to get the game . As I was about to win, something u should know not to do.  If u know you are going to win, don't put anything down on your  turn. I put down man eater bug and he beat me using Just Desserts! I feel stupid. However since this was my first loss,  I was still in the tourney.
Round 3: a rival with a mixture of cards
            Duel 1: He had an ususal deck with no strategy. It was simple when I had some man eater bugs in his path with a wall of illision.  In an unbelievable move i used change of heart on his monster to sacrifce for Dark Magician. He left his monsters on defense when it got worse for him when i summoned my second dark magicain. Soon he had no monsters to defend homself with.
            Duel 2: For safe measure, I put Solemn Judgement in my side deck with White Magical Hat in exchange. He played card destruction ridding me of Dark Magician, the using monster reborn on it, but i counted it with my Solemn Judgement leaving my lp at 4000. I put all of my mon on the field, but he destroyed them with dark hole. He put his monsters  on a heavy attack easily with ulitimate offering on the field.  Because of my real low lp, i lost.
             Duel 3: I returned my deck back to normal. I summoned my Dark Magican within the second turn following by Summoned Skull. He killed my weaker monsters, but because my Robbin Goblin rid him of his hand,  he was easily beaten.
Round 4: store manger again (finals)
            Duel 1: Every time I placed down a monster, he detrooyed it with a fisure, trap hole, or man eater bug or used justdesserts.
This made me made as I couldn't defend and had to take the monsters' attacks blow from blow.
            Duel 2: One of the most competive duels in the game. I got my Dark Magician out with my soul exchange.and wall of illision.
He used paralyzing potion to block that from attacking as well as a summoned skull I summoned turns later. My Magician of  Faith gave me control of the gaame with change of heart to give me the second of my Summoned Skull. Soon, he had no monsters to defend with as i finshed him.
            Duel 3: This victory was easy for him. I didn't have any monsters to summon as he easily took me out with his monsters and ookazi.
    I finished in second with ten dollars in store credit. I got one metal raiders pack and got a first edition Magic Jammer. I know I'm coming back Saurday.
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