Collectors Corner
Major Castleberry
Beat Downage Ownzor Deck
Piedmont, CA.
7/27/02

My name is Major. The tournament I attended was at  a
place called Collectors Corner in Oakland, CA. There
were no japs allowed and all restrictions and rules
from the Yu-gi-oh! rulebook were to be followed
directly as stated within. The tournament was good,
the people were nice, and unfortunately almost got
screwed over by a semi-bogus call. But all in all, it
was awesome!
I arrived at around 12:00 noonish and the tournament
was to start at 2:00pm. I like to come early to be
able to scout the competition that have the
inexperience to duel and show their deck off before
the beginning of the tournament and also trade. Before
the tournament, I was fortunately able to trade for a
Mirror Force, Tribute to the Doomed, 2 Magician of
Faith, Soul Exchange, Pot of Greed and a Barrel
Dragon. Nice trades huh?

Heres my 3 tournament winning deck:
Total Cards:42			
3 Magician of Faith
3 Man-Eater Bug
3 7 Colored Fish
3 Electric Lizard
2 Big Eye

3 Summoned Skull
2 Sanga of the Thunder
1 Suijin 
1 Barrel Dragon

3 Fissure 
3 Last Will
2 Heavy Storm 
2 Soul Exchange
1 Pot of Greed
1 Change of Heart 
1 Monster Reborn
1 Dark Hole
1 Tribute to the Doomed

3 Robbin Goblin
2 Trap Hole
1 Magic Jammer
1 Mirror Force

Rd. 1: 
I played against a little kid with okay cards. He was
definitely no match and I easily advanced to the
second round easily.
Rd. 2:
Against guy named Anthony. Looked pretty experienced,
but proved to be a little otherwise. Good guy, though.
He played a deck with weaker cards, depending on the
one polymerization in his deck to activate fusion
monsters. I beat him easily, with the basic monsters
in my deck. I also executed some pretty smooth plays
involving Magician of Faith to beat him as well.
Rd. 3:
I played supposedly the best person at the
tournament besides me. He used strong cards as I did,
and used some good monster removal. It was the match
that everyone was watching, and I almost got screwed
over because the guy was losing. Weve exchanged a lot
of damage, 2nd duel of the match and Im one up on
him. He has 1050 life points remaining, and I have
Man-Eater Bug on the field slowly chipping away at his
life points. Then he says the most absurd thing: in
the rule book, it states that I can only play Magic
cards during my own turn. The tournament judge, who is
only in a grade higher than me, suggested that we
scoop and start it over. I scooped, but then decided
to look in my rule book. I then discovered that Magic
Cards may be played during a main phase; making no
insinuation that I couldnt play Magic during his
turn. I molded them all. We started arguing, and
Edmond, my opponent, started to back down. He knew he
was wrong, and was ashamed of himself. We got 4 packs
each, but I gave a proposal and we battled with one
pack on the line for the first prize which was 5
packs. The loser would get second with 3 packs. I
whooped his sorry cheating butt and took his pack with
pride. He left quickly in shame. Hahaha.

Props to: Anthony for being a cool pal and Dean I
think, for bein so grateful for the cards I gave ya.

Slops to: The judge for being so sloppy; he made more
mistakes. Edmond, for trying to cheat me when he was
down.

Major Castleberry
rojam_us@yahoo.com