Deck Name: Rundown Defeat Name: Voltaire Abaya(thunderv11@yahoo.com) Location: A World of Books, San Leandro, CA Date: 6/4/03 Deck List: Monsters(17): 2x Magician of Faith Goddess of Whim Bazoo the Soul Eater Mask of Darkness 3x Hysteric Fairy 2x Cannon Soldier 2x Princess of Tsurugi Cyber Jar Sangan Witch of the Black Forest 2x Spear Cretin Magic(16): Fairy Meteor Crush Axe of Despair United We Stand Graceful Charity Scapegoat Mystical Space Typhoon Heavy Storm 2x The Shallow Grave Premature Burial Monster Reborn Raigeki Dark Hole Pot of Greed Change of Heart Swords of Revealing Light Traps(10): 3x Just Desserts Call of the Haunted Imperial Order Solemn Judgment Mirror Force Ceasefire Magic Jammer Skull Lair Total: 43 Well... ummm... as I think I may have mentioned last week, D&R lost its lease... and is closing down. So I'm checking this place out as an alternative place to duel out. In all that thinking and figuring out I forgot I messed up my deck a bit. In this week alone, I went from light to burn to gravity bind to cemetery recursion... and now finally back to burn. Actually, it's more like beatdown/burn. Mostly because I smacked Bazoo there... I got it from a nice trade. I won UWS from a guy I know, too. Another reason why it's beat/burn. $6 to enter. Get a LON pack for entering Dunno what the prize is...(like it matters... ~_~) Pre-Tourney: I played this one guy who has a 4-creature deck. 1 Cyber Jar and 3 Giant Germs. The rest is a really cool stall/burn deck. First duel against him my 2 Just Desserts against his field of 4 scapegoats and 1 Germ and my early heavy storm mess him up. Second he takes me out. Way cool deck, man. Duel 1: Voltaire vs. Edmond If anyone read last week's report, it was apparent what kind of deck I lost to: life-gaining, insane-stalling... slow-burning... fire princess deck. Little did I know it was going to happen again... oh, and for future reference: if there was ever a deck to take out burner, it's fire princess deck. Thanks for the heads up, Mike Barnes. First duel... he starts by card destructing his Marie into the grave, and with putting me at a loss of my only creature and my swords. I play a few cards and Spear Cretin. His Fire Princess causes me to lose 500. He sets some cards and lets me go. I go down from 7500 to 4500 in a few turns of his Fire Princess, Solemn Wishes and Marie. He keeps gaining life with 2 solemn wishes, Marie and even Hysterics. His life ends up at 11900 when the game ends. Dammit... when I see his life going up at 1200 a turn, I know I'm done. Don't know anyone who can burn that much that fast. Next one, I do much better. I start by setting Mask of Darkness and Ceasefire. He sets a card and a monster. I play cannon soldier, change of heart his creature, then play ceasefire. It's a Princess... of Tsurugi, that is... so I attack with all 3 and then launch Mask and Princess. He plays nimble and suicides it, gaining 600 life net. He grabs 2 more. I play Raigeki. Then... it doesn't last much longer. I start the duel going down to 3500. I take out his Princesses every time they appear, but it takes a very short time for him to defeat me. Gah! I'm bringing a tech Prohibition next time! No more Fire Princesses! Meh! After, we open our packs. My rare... return of the doomed. His rare: GEMINI! FWEH!! Tourney Highlights: -Wow, I saw another Morphing Jar. Whoa, the luck of my opponent is SO my opposite. Cons: -Gah. A loser is me! -Voltaire Abaya(Eternal) -Thunderv11@yahoo.com -Note: Hmmm... I need deck ideas! Or not... maybe I should join in and go play beatdown... maybe?