Subject: "Counter Strike, Han Man, Mint Collectables, NY"

"Counter Strike, Han Man, Mint Collectables, NY"

Date: September 8th, 2002

Deck Name: Counter Strike ( not creative ) lol

Name: just call me Han ( i prefer it )

Location: Mint Collectables, Monroe, NY

Number of people: 19

Entry fee: $10.00

This tournament was not an official duelist kingdom tournament.

It was a double elimination tournament. They allowed english cards

only ( of course restrictions ). I looked at the prize list. First place:

Gate Gaurdian Set, Second place: Toon Summond Skull, Third place:

3 Magic Ruler booster packs, and 12 or under got 2 figures of their

choice. I really didnt want 1st prize, I really wanted that Toon Summond

Skull out of all the prizes. I faced this one of a brother duo team. His

name was Mark and the other was Matt. At every tournament they win

1st and the other wins 2nd. I faced Mark the younger and slightly weaker

of the 2 ( he still was good dont get me wrong ). It went like this

Han (me): 8000, 7000, 6000, 4000, 3000

Mark: 8000, 5500, 3000, 0 (dead)

It was close but all i know was that Dark Elf was my weapon of choice.

After that I mostly was talking and looking at the others. Mark and

Matt were definetly the ones expected to win. Now get your big bottle of

soda, you have a lot of reading to do.

My Deck: 43

Monsters: 24

2 Blue Eyes White Dragons ( BEWD! strong card just gotta love him )

1 Time Wizard ( Saves your life! believe me it saved my life! )

2 Summond Skulls ( 1 sacrafice for 2500 attack? how can you go wrong?)( dont answer that )

1 Labyrinth Wall ( 1 sacrafice for 3000 defense? stop BEWD in his tracks! )

1 Shadow Ghoul ( With many monsters in the graveyard he can be a powerful card)

2 Man Eater Bugs ( love the effect! goodbye BEWD not mine of course! )

2 Jurai Gumos ( level 4 for 2200 is great except the whole flip thing )

1 Dark Elf ( 2000 attack for level 4 and only 1000 is not that bad )

2 La Jinns The Mystical Genie Of The Lamps ( 1800 attack for level 4 = great starter )

2 7 Colored Fishes ( just like above except the defense )

1 Maha Vailo ( With Black Pendant he could become a Summond Skull killer! )

2 Battle Oxes ( 1700 attack for level 4 = good starter )

1 Neo The Magic Swordsman ( same as Battle Ox )

2 Giant Soldiers Of Stones ( nice defense )

1 Wall Of Illusion ( nice defense but better effect )

1 The Stern Mystic ( see whats in store for you. hehe )

1 Big Eye ( get the good cards first )

Magic: 14

1 Monster Reborn ( nothing wrong about this card except for the restrictions )

1 Change Of Heart ( same thing as Monster Reborn )

1 Heavy Storm ( magic and trap cards go down the hole )

1 Dark Hole ( monsters go down the hole )

1 Card Destruction ( han need better hand! need it now! )

2 Fissures ( monster go down the hole )

1 Shield And Sword ( *cough* Labyrinth Wall 3000 attack )

1 Sword Of Deep Seated ( i rather have Axe Of Despair but im not made of money )(SODS)

1 Black Pendant ( similar to SODS but 500 direct damage when its gone is ok )

1 Despell ( magic card go down the hole )

1 Yami ( power up that La Jinn )

1 Last Will ( sacrafice one for big monster then get good defense monster )

Traps: 5

1 Spellbinding Circle ( saves ones' life. saved myn more than once )

1 Seven Tools Of The Bandit ( trap cards go down the hole )

2 Trap Holes ( monster go down the hole. What a rip off! )

1 Waboku ( with Labyrinth Wall your opponent will lose 3000 )

Monster to Magic/Trap: 24/19

First Match

Han Man (me) vs.Chris D. (basic beatdown deck)

1st Duel

Han Man (me): 8000, 7700, 7500, 5500

Chris D.: 8000, 7800, 6800, 3800, 0 (dead)

This was a very nice duelist, I thought he was new to the game but he did pretty good. I had a horrible hand at the start

but by the second turn I knew what I wanted to do. He took plenty of life points away but I have a counter deck so I

turned the entire game over with some cards and Monster Reborn. As soon as I turn the game around it was down hill from

there.

2nd Duel

Han Man (me): 8000, 7300

Chris D.: 8000, 6900, 6400, 2900, 0 (dead)

I put down Wall Of Illusion in defense (duh). Then he used Curse Of Fiend ( i dont like it ) and made my Wall Of Illusion

into attack mode. Then he attacked with Neo The Magic Swordsman. That was definetly a clever move, though it was

the only damage he would do during the duel. Later he summonded a BEWD, bluffed on his attack because I had a trap

card face down though it was 7 Tools Of The Bandit. I drew my Spellbinding Circle and I sacraficed my monster with

SODS and my other monster to summon BEWD. He couldnt attack so I drew my SODS. Then I attacked it ( 6900-

6400 ). Then it was just downhill from there.

Second Match

Han Man (me) vs.Matt (the best guy there with a wennie rush deck)

1st Duel

Han Man (me): 8000, 4000, 3900

Matt: 8000, 7900, 5700, 2700, 500, 350, 0 (dead)

This was definetly the only chanllenge I really ever had. He is just as good as I am so he was like my rival ( a friendly one ).

I remeber that he had a bad hand and start so that is why he lost. I had my Jurai Gumos killing him except once they took

half of my life points away. I think he powered up one of his monsters with this 700 equip card I forgot its name at the moment

( no not stim pack ) and it was 100 more than Jurai so that is how I lost that 100 life points. Later I got out my BEWD for a

while but then it go bye bye. He still resisted even toward the end. There was no down hill in anyone of these duels (especially this

one)

2nd Duel

Han Man (me): 8000, 7900, 3950, 3700, 1000, 500, 0 (dead) *sniff sniff*

Matt: 8000, 7800, 6100, 5700, 3600

Matt showed his real skill in this match. I dont remeber to much but I do know that he had powered up his monsters

and when I used Despell or something it would just go to the top of his deck. I didnt go down without a fight though.

He overpowered me at the end with his 3 monsters.

3rd Duel

Han Man (me): 8000, 5850, 4150, 1550, 950, 0 (dead) *sniff sniff again!!*

Matt: 8000, 7850, 6150, 4750, 4550, 3550

This was the perfect example of a nail-bitting yugioh duel. Im not to sure of how it went because so much happened that

I couldnt write all of it down. It was back and forth. My cards try to help me even my Time Wizard, still I lost but not by

much!

Third Match

Han Man (me) vs. Barry (good guy just not that good)

1st Duel

Han Man (me): 8000

Barry: 8000, 6800, 7800, 5200, 3400, 1600, 0 (dead)

I have no idea how this kid got this far either that or he just had bad hands in every duel that I had with him.

He had good defense though. I had attacked his life points with my La Jinn my second turn. Then he used Dian Keto to

heal 1000 of his life points. Then I attacked with La Jinn and 7 Colored Fish. Then it was downhill from that point.

2nd Duel

Han Man (me): 8000

Barry: 8000, 7900, 4900, 1900, 0 (dead)

It was like the same like last time except it was way faster. Need I say more?

Fourth Match

Han Man (me) vs. Matt G. (he was ok but not the like the other Matt)

1st Duel

Han Man (me): 8000, 7350, 5700, 4700, 3700, 3570

Matt G.: 8000, 7850, 7650, 5850, 3850, 1850, 0 (dead)

I think I killed myself more than he killed me. As you can see I took 2000 to myself because of Dark Elf.

The only way I got hit by him with his high defense monsters. It took a while but once I had my monsters

out like Maha Vailo it was really hard for him to defend.

2nd Duel

Han Man (me): 8000, 4000

Matt G.: 8000, 7900, 5700, 0 (dead)

The 4000 life point loss thing was oblivously a gift from my Jurai Gumo. In the begining it was like I countered his

every move. Then once I had my BEWD and my other high attack monsters on the field I was destroying him.

Rolling down the hill up to speeds of mach 2. (lol)

Fifth Match

Han Man (me) vs. Mark (the other brother of Matt in the duo)

1st Duel

Han Man (me): 8000, 7950, 6500, 5500

Mark: 8000, 6200, 4200, 2400, 0 (dead)

This was for 2nd place (at least) and the Toon Summond Skull. He was a great duelist with much experience but

it seemed like when I dueled him he wasnt has good as his brother Matt was. I had a rough start but I caught up

quickly with La Jinn and Dark Elf. Of course my magics and traps helped me. Once he was down to 4200 I knew

I was going to win.

2nd Duel

Han Man (me): 8000, 5500, 4500

Mark: 8000, 7200, 5400, 3600, 0 (dead)

This is where my magic cards shined. I had used Giant Soldier Of Stone and Shield And Sword. Later he had

4 traps which were wiped away by Heavy Storm. Other cards helped like Card Destruction and Fissure.

By 5400 it was oblivous that it was just another repeat.

FINAL MATCH!

Han Man (me) vs. Matt ( the better brother that beat me before )

1st Duel

Han Man (me): 8000, 7700, 7500, 7400, 3800, 0 (dead)

Matt: 8000, 6300, 5300, 3900

This time he started up quickly and tried to kill me though I countered. It took him a while but then he

used Axe Of Despair on his monster ( dont remeber lol ). After that I was doomed. I put up a fight at least.

2nd Duel

Han Man (me): 8000, 6200, 4900, 4800, 4250

Matt: 8000, 5700, 5200, 4800, 3000, 0 (dead)

I was thinking about forfitting because if I won this match I would have to win at least 3 more duels and all I really

wanted was that Toon Summond Skull. I did this match just for fun. He had already got his Summond Skull out on

the field on his 2nd turn. Then I used my Giant Soldier and Shield And Sword Combo. Also I attacked with another

card also so you wont see that 800 loss in his life points. Later he got his Maha Vailo out with 2 of those equip cards

that increase his attack by 700 (not Stimpack), and a field that powers dark type by 500 attack and decreases dark type

by 400 in defense. So his La Jinn was 2300 and his Maha Vailo 3950. This was the point I was so glad that I had

Heavy Storm. It was magical. Later he had some more equiped monsters so I had to use Card Destruction and had to

discard my BEWD *sniff*, but then I played Dark Hole then La Jinn and attacked. He put a card faced down and I needed

one card (the perfect one at the right moment) Monster Reborn! Then I reborned my BEWD!!!!!! I attacked his face down monster

with La Jinn and attacked his life points with BEWD! After that I recieved my Toon Summond Skull!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK so I got 2nd though I could have gotten 1st I prefer Toon Summond Skull over Gate Gaurdian!

I know I have definetly have gotten better. I am going to add that other regular Summond Skull that I traded

for and hopefully Ill get that Toon World! Now for the props and slops list!

PROPS AND SLOPS!

props to:

-my dad for taking me there (though I could walk there lol)

-again to my dad for getting Mcdonalds when I didnt have any food since 2:00

-to the kid I traded my Great Moth for the Summond Skull and The Stern Mystic

-to all the kids who were good sports

-Mint Collectables for hosting a tournament every 2 weeks.

-to Mark and Matt for being formidable duelists

-to me for getting 2nd place

-to me for getting Toon Summond Skull

Slops:

-to the fact that I have a Toon Summond Skull yet no Toon World!

-for the entry fee being so much

I hope that first prize will be better next time! (like relinquished and other good cards)

You can check out My other tourney report or tips just look for Han Man! except my first tourney report.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR YOU JUST NEED HELP you can email me at cbasat@frontiernet.net

dont be shy I dont mind (just dont put something like u suck and so does ur deck plz)