Got
Jinzo? deck
Ace
Wizards
Of the Coast@ Kitsap mall
# of participants: 30+
This is my first tournament report. The tournament was an official one held at
the local WOTC
in
allowed, though everyone followed the japanese rulings and
restrictions to my knowledge (ie only
one jinzo and one imperial order). My deck consisted of:
non-tribute monsters:
2 Witch of the
black forest
2 La- jinn the
mystical genie of the lamp
3 Seven colored
fish (why a seven colored fish is so strong is beyond me)
1 Magician of
faith (magic revival)
2 Wall of
illusions
3 Man-eater Bugs
1 Mask of
darkness
1 Invader of the
throne(my fun card!)
1 Harpy Brother
1 Cyber Jar( my
other fun card!)
Tribute Monsters:
2 Summoned Skull
1 Jinzo (if you
don't have one, get one!)
Magic Cards:
3 Fissures
2 Tribute to the
doom
2 Swords of
revealing light
2 Heavy Storms
1 Change of
heart
1 Snatch Steal
1 Dark Hole
1 Monster Reborn
Trap Cards:
2 Trap Holes
2 Waboku
1 Michizure (if
one of my monsters got sent to the graveyard, send another monster to
the graveyard
with it)
1 Imperial Order
(basically negates all magic cards, 700 life upkeep)
1 call of the
haunted( Monster reborn, but stays on the field, if either monster or trap
is destroyed,
destroy both)
1 Magic Drain
(when your opponent plays a magic card, if the opponent cannot
discard a
magic card from their hand, the magic card is negated and destroyed)
Total Card Count: 41
The strategy of my deck was to remove all monsters and traps
from the field if possible and
then to attack them directly for lp damage and leaving them
with nothing to base a play off
of to make a comeback.
Jinzo and my imperial order didn't play a major role in my deck, but
soon enough it would become my savior in most of my
matches. and if I ever got desperate,
my traps, my jinzo or my monster control cards would save me
somehow. I followed the
japanese rulings and put only one jinzo and one imperial
order into my deck even though
I had two of each (greatest booster pack pulls ever). My deck needed a lot of improvement,
but with what I had, I knew I stood a somewhat better chance
than in my first tournament
where I just got slaughtered.
Round 1:
Ace vs. Jason
I had just met this guy previous to the tournament and had
traded him a left arm for a
snatchsteal which I really needed to put in my deck. He had previously won one of the
tournaments at WOTC before so I was really hesitant in
battling him with a new deck I
had just barely used.
Anyways the match got off to a rocky start with me losing in the
first duel due to some stupid mistakes on my part. We traded around a Summoned Skull
for the first part of the first duel until he raigeki'd the
field and attacked me with
two summoned skulls, which I couldn't do anything
about. The second duel I easily won
since I had pulled Jinzo my first hand, a man-eater bug, a
monster reborn, a black witch,
and a michizure. He
had two monsters on the field. I man-eater bugged one and then he
destroyed my witch with his own michizure, brought out
summoned skull by tributing MEB,
and since I had set a michizure the previous turn, I pulled
it and destroyed his last
monster and attacked with Skull to win, never using
Jinzo. He came out the third duel
on the second turn and it was lights out for Jason.
Winner: Ace 2-1
He was utterly surprised by his loss that he challenged me
again, resulting in three straight
match losses.
Second Match:
Ace vs. Some guy who
beat my friend aaron
I was surprised to hear my friend Aaron had lost to this guy
since Aaron was the one guy
I tested my deck on and had traded wins between him and
I. I didn't really care too much
about that latter fact, but I faced him with caution. I can't recall this match too well
considering it wasn't very significant, but there were some
key points. During the first
duel I brought out my imperial order and screwed up his
strategy pretty well when he tried
to played dark hole, resulting in a win for me with my seven
colored fish and harpy brother
constantly attacking.
The second duel, he had pulled out his own swords against my swords
as we had three turns to build a strategy. Of course he pulled a magician and flipped it
to return his swords onto the field, while he TttD my monsters and trap holed the
rest.
what I couldn't believe is once I got my Jinzo out, he heavy
stormed the field and FISSURED
my Jinzo!!! that was definitely uncalled for, so I lost that
duel. On the third duel however,
he kept drawing monsters, so I just trap holed and MEBed the
lot of them while attacking his
lp. He had a good
stack of trap cards before I heavy stormed them, he played magic drain,
but since I didn't want the heavy storm to be negated I
discarded fissure, and proceeded to
pay him back for that humiliating thing he did to my Jinzo.
Winner: Ace 2-1
Third match:
Ace vs. Kenneth
About this time, I was feeling really good about myself
since I had won my first two matches
(not flawlessly but still pretty good), that is until the
manager announced I had to go up
against my friend Kenneth, who up until this point had won
the past three tournaments in a
row! I kind of
expected what was going to happen after that.
The first duel was over
quickly. He TttDed my
man-eater bug, set his seven colored fish with an axe of despair
and hit me hard. I
drew another MEB, but he played a shadow
of eyes negating its affect.
He fissured that and then proceeded to summon a harpy
brother and pummeled me again. I drew
a TttD and got rid of
his seven colored, he sacrificed his harpy brother to bring back the
axe to the top of his deck and then I attacked him
once. He then pulled his change of heart
sacrificed it for his jinzo (rendering my trap hole
useless), and then won the duel. The
second duel, he pulled his own Jinzo out early and pulled a
swords as well. I couldn't do much but
sit there and take another beating.
Winner: Kenneth 0-2
Fourth Match:
Ace vs. some kid I
almost lost to during my first tournament
I was feeling a bit bummed about my inevitable loss to my
friend Kenneth, so I guess you can say I took my aggressions out on this
guy. At no time during our two duels
did he ever attack my lp. On the first
duel I drew a witch and a summoned skull, used the witch to bring out my Jinzo, brought them both out during the match
and ended it quickly after. The second
duel, he brought out two harpy brothers and a seven colored fish, thinking he
had this duel won. but with no trap
cards set, I snatch stole his harpy brother, change of heart his other harpy
brother, fissured his seven colored fish,
call of the haunted my summoned skull, and tributed for my Jinzo and
wacked him for a one hit kill. Boy did
that feel good, although he probably didn't think so.
Winner: Ace 2-0
I offered some encouraging words to him to remake his deck,
but I guess the defeat was just a little too much for him.
Final Match:
Ace vs. Jonathan
This guy had also won a couple tournaments beforehand as
well. We were dueling for a certain
place that was to be tabulated later, but knew it wasn't going to be first
considering Kenneth had beat us both, but I didn't really care who won or lost
this match, knowing I had already placed.
I won the first duel pretty easily, but during the second duel, I made
the stupid mistake of playing my swords but then activating my imperial order
to negate his axe of despair he had played while in the process negating my
swords for a turn. He took that
opportunity to he hit me hard with a change of heart and two summoned skulls,
and then dispelled my swords during my main phase two, playing his own instead,
resulting in my loss. The third duel
however was similar to my first one where we traded the possession of my Jinzo
until finally I kept pummeling him with that while negating his traps and his
attacks with SORL.
Winner: Ace 2-0
Conclusion:
Surprisingly
enough, I had taken second place when the winners were announced. Kenneth was of course first place since he
had dealt me my only loss, but I was alright with that. First place won five Magic Ruler packs and
one tournament pack while second place just won five Magic Ruler Packs. I was still stunned at my placement (after
finishing seventh in my first tournament) that I didn’t care what I got in
them. Surprisingly enough, I pulled a
Maha and a Spellbinding Circle which I later traded for a Seven tools. Not bad at all considering Kenneth had only
pulled a MST (ha!). I’ll do better next
time and see what I come up with then.
Props and Slops:
Props:
-For me taking second when i was just happy with my
performance.
-For Jason trading to get all the pieces of Exodia that day.
-For not being late for work when the tournament was over.
-For all the really nice newbs at the tourney.
Slops:
-For it finally raining in WA.
-For some little kid almost ripping off another little kid
for his raigeki, but saved him!
-For someone who totally reeked while I was playing near
them...whoever you are...bathe!
-For my friend aaron dropping out after the first match
cause of girl problems (wuss!).
-For someone jacking my GG....oh well not to big a loss
considering I found it!
Ace
If you have any questions comments concerns(or suggestions
in the deck set up) then please email me at:
Knonymous@hotmail.com