name: the dark mage deck: multiple strategies(fine, you think of a better name) place: dave's card shop, phoenix, az prize: there was no prize, much to my utter dismay date: 11/9/02 numbor of people: didn't count, but i think around 20 the cards that i use: monsters: dark magician (favorite card) blue-eyes white dragon (good attack) 3 summoned skull (of course) shadow ghoul (very good late-game card) 2 witch of the black forest (to get summoned skull) 2 man-eater bug (to kill stuff) cannon soldier (also good in late-game) la jinn (also good attack) cyber jar (the reset button) 2 magician of faith (to use restricted magic again) seven colored fish (good attack as well) wall of illusion (good against blue-eyes) princess of tsurugi (really hurts magic/trap lovers) celtic guardian (to get around messenger of peace) 2 castle of dark illusions (for defense) baby dragon (don't ask) battle ox (good attack) maha vailo (to use with horn of the unicorn) neo the magic swordsman (again, good attack) magic: raigeki (to kill stuff) card destruction (could ruin the opponent) 2 fissure (i just destroyed your blue-eyes with a mere fissure, how silly of me) change of heart (i just tributed your monster for my own, how silly of me) de-spell (for s.o.r.l., messenger of peace, etc.) pot of greed (to thin out my deck) horn of the unicorn (for maha vailo) tribute to the doomed (to kill stuff) dark hole (to kill stuff) 2 heavy storm (also hurts magic/trap lovers) monster reborn (to bring back stuff) traps: mirror force (to kill stuff) 2 trap hole (to kill stuff) just desserts (hurts monster lovers) waboku (protection) seven tools of the bandit (no you cannot use that magic jammer) robbin' goblin (hurts exodia lovers) now for the tournament: round 1: the dark mage vs. john dang it! i duel this guy after school! why must he be my opponent? i completely overpowered him with my summoned skulls and raigeki. the match was quickly over. i won. round 2: the dark mage vs. curtis this match was a bit harder, but still easy enough. my attack monsters smashed through his defenses, earning me the win. round 3: the dark mage vs. mario eep. he had an exodia deck. i completely blew through his sangans (notice my mistake?) and eventually got him with my beatdown monsters (at one point he had 4 exodia pieces in his hand...eek) final round: the dark mage vs. reynaldo this was an oh so close battle, and the first time that day that i'd lost. he had a dragon deck, centered around beatdown like me. he won by using flute of summoning dragon to get a blue-eyes and red-eyes out, therefore beating me. dang. props & slops props: to my opponents for being good sports to me for getting raigeki that day to my cards to reynaldo for winning the tournament to dave (the store owner) for holding the tournament to my stepdad for driving me to the tournament to pojo.com if they post this slops: to me for not winning send all hate mail, death threats, etc. to novax@darkwing.org