Subject: Dark magician deck, Elliott Maglio, Gamers realm, NJ
OK. I had a tourney in gamer's realm in west windsor which was my first. My deck did good considering
certain things. Lets start off by reveiwing my deck (Though It has changed alot since the tourney)

Magic cards:
Dark hole (For the "Dark hole then summon and attack combo"thing)
Soul exchange (Very nice when you need the enemy's blue-eyes to help you summon Dark Magician)
Book of secret arts (For my magician and others)
Dian keto the cure master(Just for the off chance that it helps)
Share the pain(To weaken the enemy before you unleash the ultimate card)
Remove trap(I use this openly to check. Just like a patrol)
Monster reborn(mmmmmm..... This helped me defeat my freind two hours ago..)
De-Spell(Another patroll card for fun)
Sword of dark destruction (For my dark magician and Co.)
change o' heart (Get that black skull dragon to attack his own controller heheh...)
Card destruction (Counter exodia or change my hand)
Fissure (To keep there attacking monsters to a minimum)
Malevolent nuzzler (To +700 on the lil' swordsman of aile combo)
Last will (To keep up my defensive for my LP's)

Trap cards:
Reverse trap ( 2400 Atk dark witch? uh- nonononono.....)
Ultimate offering (Defense builder)
Reinforcements X2 (+500 ATK to determine the outcome of a stalemate)
Fairy's hand mirror (To take the +700 ATK Malvolent nuzzler from  your blue eyes and to my dark magician)
Trap hole (To beat down those beat-down monsters)
House of adhesive tape (on a chain link, it can stop man eater bug's affect and destroy it)
Waboku (To take away ANY damage done to me for a round when im wide open)
Just desserts (500 LP dmg to opponent for any monsters he has)
Dragon capture jar (For dragon counter)

Monster effect cards:
Hoshinigen (Tribute, keep defenses,+500 for light mons -400 for dark mons)
Trap master (tribute,defenses, Patrol enemy for trap card)
Spear cretin (Defenses,tribute, After  death summon another dead monster on the feild costs no tributes (applies same for enemy))
Cockroach knight (tribute, defenses, When dead I can choose to put it on top of my deck for next round)
muka muka (Tribute, defenses, I dont use his effect)
HANE-HANE (TRI, DEF, Sends attacking monsters back to hand or fusion zone(Great for terminating fusion monsters)
Lil swordsmanX2TRI, DEF, Attack can raise to 3600 just with effect. With full combo 5100 ATK)
Griggle X 2 (TRI,DEF, Raises me life +3000 wooo!!!!!!!!)
Ameba (TRI, DEF, 2000 DMG directly to opponent)
Stern mystic (TRI, DEF, all cards are seen by both players)
(Ill get lazier)
Jarai gumo 2200 attack no trib
Weather report double your atk phase if you use it to destroy swords of  lighy
Wall of illusions (same as Hane Hane)
Man eating bug (For instant kill monster)
Princess of tsurugi (500 dmg to opponent for each of  their magic trap cards (Plus shes really hot)

Regular monsters:
Dark magician (2500 atk)
Dark witch (1800 atk)
Prevent rat (2000 def)
Neo the swordsman (1700 atk)
Curse of dragon (2000 atk)
Gyakutenno megami (1800 atk)
Giant soldier of stone (2000 DEF)
Mystical elf (2000 Def)
7 colored fish (1800 ATK with no tributes!!!)

Now heres my side-deck

Water omotics (1400 ATK)
Hungry burger (2000 ATK)
Ceremonial bell (All hands are visible to everyone until this is destroyed)
Gaia the feirce Knight (2300 ATK)
Final destiny (Discard five cards to destroy ALL cards on feild)
Two pronged attack (to kill the blue eyes with ameba and stern mystic)
Yami (Powers up dark and weakens fairies)
Mushroom man #2 (If i feel like having a quick match)
Rainbow flower (I dunno, I personnaly hate atk life points directly cards with a 400 ATK monster...)
Gate guardian (Maybe I may be able to summon him one day..)
Hyozanryu (2800 Def.. wow!)
Launcher spider (2200 ATK is nice.)
Germ infection (If my mind urges me to)
Ryu-Ran (2600 def... hmmm.....)
Steel scorpion (kind of sets a time bomb on attacking monsters)
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Ok! Now on to the tournament. please NOTE:I had a very diffrent deck during the tournament!

Match 1: Me V.S. This cheating kid.
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Ok, this kid was my first opponent and I was kinda nervouse. In the first round he drew a crappy hand so he made
this "re-shuffle deck if no playable monsters rule" so he could start of good. I had a Jarai-Gumo but I decided
to do it too. I started beating on him, but he eventually won (very close)

Match 1 duel 2+3:
Heres where he really cheated. He started off okay. Then I ran a bulldozer over him because I started to think more.
He was in desperation. Then he drew a card. Then two more (I doubt this was the first time during our match)
. I confronted him about it and he said "Oh, sorry. I forgot." I beleived him the first time. I pulled another
bone-crushing combo on him and he drawed again. And yet again he drow more then 1. I said
"Dude, your still drawing more cards." He responded with a "Oh, im just crazy today HAHAHA!"
The last offense was that he had a marked card. "Oh, I see my trusty (Put good card here) Is next!"
He stated. I didnt make any comment but after I Beat the crap outta him he forgot that we still
had another match left. But he deserved to lose. Cheater....

Match 2: Me V.s. Huon (wonn)
As they announced it, I started to feel nervouse. Wonn? Wonn is probably a rich asian kid thats gonna destroy me!!!!
But, I got a 18 Yr. old tan skinned guy that bought gold color backers for his cards. (The one person I didnt want to face)

Matcvh 2 duel 1:
We both started off blocking and stalemating each other until he started drawing his best cards.  He built up his defenses
and .

Match2 duel 2:
Wonn got his black skull out and things started to heat up. I kept him down to
my level but yet again, all my powerfull 7th level monsters kept popping up (ryu-ran, ect.)
and yet again I lost miserably. I remember telling him "If I had to lose to one person, Im glad it was you and not that snot in round 1"
But the tournament was not over yet! Wonn forfitted for me because he had to go to work soon anyway! YAEH!!! (Thanks wonn!)
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::::::::::I was going to fight my new friend with the exodia but he got an apply::::::::::::::

Match 3: Duel 1 Me V.S. John (Wonns friend)
This guy was amazing. It was like a Yami of  Wonn! He was solemn and instead of stalemating and blocking he stopped my attacks
He stopped then countered em'!!!!

Match3 round 1: I was blindly working my way through the duel doing good before I noticed I took the wrong parth.
My choices in what moves I should've done seemed to decrease drasticcaly each of my end phases.
Soon I felt like I was a mime in a box because he somehow lowered all my defenses and I lost 2 rounds.

Well, that was It for me! I learned alot and decided to make arrangements in my dack
(Put a card in my side deck that X2's your battle phase while destroying Swords of revealing light because wonn used them so much
ect.)

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