Subject: Shining Water - Yami Unknown - Capilano Mall (Sports/Card
Store) - Edmonton

Deck Name: Shining Water
Name: Alia Samson a.k.a. Yami Unknown
Locale of Tournament: Sports/Collectibles/Cards Store in Capilano Mall City, 
PROVINCE, and Country: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Date: October 1st/2002
#of people: 8

1st Prize: Relinquished (1st Edition) + $50 + Magic Ruler Booster 
2nd Prize: Toon World + Magic Ruler Booster


Here's a report from Canada, eh!
The components of "Shining Water" are:


Normal Monsters:
1x   Blue Eyes White Dragon (main power)
1x   Gyakutenno Megami
1x   Mystical Elf (stall)
1x   Hyozanryu (stall, until proper card comes up)
1x   Neo the Magic Swordsman
1x   Rude Kaiser
3x   Launcher Spider
1x   Red Archery Girl
1x   Octoberser
1x   Dark Magician (power)
1x   Summoned Skull (power)
1x   Swordstalker
1x   Crab Turtle (needs Turtle Oath)

Effect Monsters:
1x   Senju of the Thousand Hands (lets me grab Crab Turtle)
3x   Yado Karu (stall, shuffling)
1x   Hoshiningen (powers light monsters and Blue Eyes White Dragon)
1x   Star Boy (powers water monsters and Crab Turtle)
3x   Jirai Gumo (stall)
1x   Man-Eater Bug (insta-kill)

Magic:
1x   Sword of Deep-Seated
1x   Sword of Dark Destruction (may as well power the dark monsters I have)
1x   Soul Exchange (lets me use enemy monster as a tribute)
1x   Reborn the Monster
2x   Fissure (rids me of direct damage monsters)
1x   Ookazi
1x   Turtle Oath (lets me summon Crab Turtle)
1x   Chorus of Sanctuary (increase defensive monsters' capabilities)
2x   Remove Trap

Traps:
1x   Just Desserts
2x   Reinforcements
2x   Castle Walls
2x   Reverse Traps



First Duel: Me vs. 7-year old girl (used an all dark monster deck)

In the first match, I was destroying the girl with Neo, Rude Kaiser, and 
Launcher Spider, but then she pulled
out a Red Eyes, and pretty much reduced my monsters in those turns. I drew 
the Blue Eyes White Dragon and then haphazardly won that round.

Round 2: During the middle of the match, she fused a Summoned Skull with her 
Red Eyes to create the Black Skull Dragon, and destroyed my troops (at the 
time was Jirai Gumo, Red Archery Girl, and two Launcher Spiders). I sent my 
Hyozanryu in defense mode while I laid down my trap. With her Black Skull 
Dragon, Dark Magician, and Witch of the Black Forest on the field, she used 
DM to attack, but then I revealed Just Desserts and lowered her life points 
to 0.

She was a good sport.


Second Duel: Me vs. Girl my age (hard to describe)

Round 1: I couldn't seem to find my Turtle Oath, Senju, or Blue Eyes, and 
she defeated me with her Manga Ryu-Ran.

Round 2: This time, I got Gyakutenno, Neo, Hyozanryu, Hoshiningen and Blue 
Eyes on the field at the same time. Because of Hoshiningen's effect, my Blue 
Eyes White Dragon was at 3500 points, plus another 5oo because of Sword of 
Deep Seated, and I hacked at her life points.

Final Round:  When I summoned Crab Turtle (I had to sacrifice Dark Magician 
and Hoshiningen), and Star Boy, my attack was 3050 to her Harpy Lady 
Sisters' amped power of 2500. Without that monster, I wouldn't have won that 
match.

Unlike the first opponent, she was a whiny girl... I don't like that.


Final Duel: Me vs. Dowie (bass tuba player I know; had a fire and wind deck)

Round 1: Rude Kaiser, Swordstalker, and even Mystical Elf was destroying his 
monsters left and right. Until he played a Swords of Revealing Light on me, 
and he summoned 4 face down monsters and Jigen Bakudan on the field to give 
me a whooping half of my lifepoints. Later, he played Magician of Faith to 
get back Swords of Revealing Light, and played Reborn the Monster to get 
back Jigen Bakudan, and destryoed me.

Round 2: I started with some stalls with my three Jirai Gumos in attack 
mode, and a Senju was on the way, but he then played Sword and Shield to 
lower my Jirai Gumo trio  to 100, and got a Barrel Dragon to destroy one of 
them, and he got the three coin flips correct, and destroyed another Jirai 
Gumo. When I played My desperation monsters (Dark Magician, Blue Eyes, and 
Crab Turtle), he used a Swords of Revealing Light, and used Time Wizard to 
destroy my half of the field, and on the next turn, he attacked with Barrel 
Dragon.

He handed my butt to me on a silver platter...




But anyway, I guess Toon World is an okay trade-off, since I'm not 
interested in Toon Monsters.



Name: Alia Samson (Yami Unknown)
e-Mail: TRUE_Unknown@hotmail.com

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