Subject: Operation: YamiNoir Beatdown, Zack Dzwonkiewicz, Vintage Stock, Springdale AR Name: Zack Dzwonkiewicz Deck: Operation: YamiNoir Beatdown Tournament Location: Vintage Stock, Springdale, AR Hi. This is Zack, for my third installment with my beatdown deck. I’d like to start by apologizing for my mistake. I was confused about the rulings on using your opponent’s Ultimate Offering. Thanks to Centrice88, DeftSableYeoman, Leo Sweeny, BluePerson0000, and DarkDragon41139 for clearing my up. However, PLEASE stop e-mailing me; I got the picture. I’m VERY new to Yu-Gi-Oh, and am too used to MTG. Now, without further ado... The Deck Monsters 3x Summoned Skull (Basis of my deck. Staple. Thanks to Ricky for two of them!) 2x Man-Eater Bug (Open wide, MEB, this one's a Blue Eyes!) 2x Giant Soldier of Stone (Considerable defense, makes up for Labyrinth Wall) 2x Witch of the Black Forest (Hello Summoned Skull) 2x La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp (Goes with theme, second best four star in the game ) 2x Ryu-Kishin Powered (Equal to 7 Colored with Yami on the field) 1x Labyrinth Wall (Face-down, this thing's a killer) 1x Dark Magician (Theme; need to get my paws on another) 1x Judge Man (Unde - , a great card for one tribute) 1x King of Yamimakai (With the theme, easily powered up to Summoned Skull level) 1x Neo the Magic Swordsman (Goes against the theme, but too unde to ignore) 1x Fire Kraken (See above) Total: 19 Magic 2x Malevolent Nuzzler (Theme) 2x Sword of Deep-Seated (Theme) 2x Book of Secret Arts (Dark Magician and Neo) 2x Dark Energy (Summoned Skull and Theme) 2x Sword of Dark Destruction (Theme) 2x Fissure (Staple) 1x Change of Heart (Obvious. Restricted) 1x Soul Exchange (See Above) 1x Monster Reborn (See Above) 1x Rush Recklessly (Theme) 1x Yami (Theme) 1x Dian Keto the Cure Master (Staple) 1x Tribute to the Doomed (Staple. Thanks to Ricky!) 1x Ookazi (For those tough clincher victories) 1x Paralyzing Potion (Major Abuse) Total: 21 Traps 2x Trap Hole (Awesomeness!) 1x Seven Tools of the Bandit (Thanks to Ricky!) Total: 3 Deck Total: 43 This tournament was single elimination, and no Japanese cards. Also restricted were the Dark Duel Stories cards: Salamandra, Acid Trap Hole, and some other card. There was a 5$ entry fee, and everyone who participated got a Tournament Pack. I still don’t know what the prizes for first, second, and third are, as I’ve never made it past fifth =/ Anyway... Round One Zack (Operation: YamiNoir Beatdown) VS Some Guy Whose Name I Hath Forgotten (Water Deck) Match One I have no idea what happened here; my deck went into the Omega Stall of Death. I drew nothing but Summoned Skulls and King of Yamimakai. The only four star I got out was a Witch of the Black Forest (which did me no good because I had no four stars to tribute for Skull.) Match Two I’m not one to complain, but I think my opponent stacked his deck. First of all, he said he shuffled. I never saw him shuffle, but he said he did it when I was getting out my pen, so I took his word for it. Then, he wouldn’t let me cut his deck. I asked him to cut mine and he said “Oh, let’s not do that this time.” Needless to say, he ended up winning. My deck went back into it’s infamous lag, and he somehow managed to power up a Metal Fish to around 3000 attack. So, once again, out on my first round. However, I did make some good trades afterwards. First I traded a few of my extras (not sure what they were, but they were two commons and a rare, I believe) for a Maha Vailo. Sweet! Then I traded a Molten Destruction (Pah, for some reason he wanted it. Apparently it was the only Magic Ruler he needed) for an Elf’s Light, which I then traded for a Shadow Ghoul. Now, this is the cool part. There’s this guy there named Ricky (Whom I traded my Mechanical Chaser to. If you’re reading this, you’re awesome man!) and he helped me with my deck. He tore it completely apart and gave me some suggestions. He took some out, put some back in, and pulled some cards out of his binder. In the end, he had eight cards that he thought I should add to my deck. (I know they were: 2x Jirai Gumo, 2x Dark Elf, 2x Horn of Unicorn, 1x Trap Hole, and 1x Dang I forgot.) So, I gave him my Toon World for all of them (Let’s face it; I get all my cards mowing lawns, and there’s know why I’ll ever have enough money to run a Toon deck anyway, so please don’t send me hate mail again =/) So, here is the new and improved deck ‘Operation: YamiNoir Beatdown II’ Monsters 3x Jirai Gumo (Who cares about the effect, it kicks! Thanks to Ricky) 3x Summoned Skull (Boom! Thanks Ricky!) 3x La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp (Awesome card. Second best four star without a penalty) 2x Dark Elf (See Jirai. Thanks Ricky!) 2x Witch of the Black Forest (It’s Skull Time, kiddies!) 2x Man-Eater Bug (Open wide, my little friend. This one’s a Blue Eyes!) 2x Giant Soldier of Stone (Slows down those pesky Fish and Genies) 1x King of Yamimakai (Not many people like him, but he’s saved my butt numerous times.) 1x Labyrinth Wall (Obvious enough, I believe) 1x 7 Colored Fish (Pretty cool, IMHO. Thanks Ricky!) 1x Cyber Jar (Has ABUSE written all over it!) 1x Maha Vailo (In this deck? Forget Exodia, THIS is unstoppable!) Monster Total: 22 Magic 3x Malevolent Nuzzler (BEST equip card, IMHO) 2x Horn of Unicorn (Kind of risky, but boosts defense too. Thanks Ricky!) 2x Fissure (Staple) 2x Dian Keto (Great in tight spots.) 1x Tribute to the Doomed (Bye bye Blue-Eyes! Thanks Ricky!) 1x Heavy Storm (You can go first, heh heh heh) 1x Ookazi (Can win the game at times) 1x Paralyzing Potion (Spellbinding Circle’s little brother) 1x Monster Reborn (Obvious. Restricted.) 1x Soul Exchange (Obvious. Restricted.) 1x Rush Recklessly (Reinforcement’s older brother) 1x Change of Heart (Has won me the match countless times) Magic Total: 17 Traps 3x Trap Hole (Booyah! Thanks Ricky!) 2x Robbin’ Goblin (Nasty effect. Great on Sword of deep-Seated and Horn of Unicorn) 2x Just Desserts (Boom!) 1x Spellbinding Circle (Awesomeness!) 1x Fairy’s Hand Mirror (Considering Removal, not as good as I thought it was.) 1x Seven Tools of the Bandit (Magic Jammer my arse! Thanks Ricky!) Trap Total: 10 Deck Total: 49 I’m going to slim it down a bunch; I added a couple cards after Ricky modified it, and it made it worse ;(. Now, for the infamous Props and Slops! Props To Raif’s dad for bringing me To Vintage Stock for hosting the thing To my old-school Seventh Edition MTG deck that can still open a can of pain on a few peeps! To Sean, who traded me a Time Wizard To Ricky for helping me with my deck To Ricky for the good trades To Ricky for still being so cool! Slops To my deck for lagging To me for getting out second round AGAIN To the stacky deck kid To my stupid Magic Ruler and Metal Raiders packs, in which I had all of the cards except for Giant Germ and Skull Knight, which I dislike anyway To the kid who wouldn’t trade me his Barrel Dragon (I swear I’ll get that card someday!) To the wack-o hippy people playing the Lord of the Rings game (even though it was a Yu-Gi-Oh thing) dressed up as elves and Hobbits To my old-school Seventh Edition MTG cards for not being worth diddly To Vintage Stock for offering only 5 bucks for a First Edition Thousand Dragon Comments? Questions? General shtuff? 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