Dark Kamui's The Dark Carnival Comes to Town Chimera Cards and Comics- Fond du Lac, WI August 8th Participants- 32 Fee- $5 This is my first tourny report, though I've taken 1st in a few sanctioned tournaments. I come from a chess background, so I prefer a thinking man's game to a mindless beatdown slaughter fest. Keep that in mind as you look at the deck. Send me any comments on how I can improve my reports in the future. Monsters 17 1x Yata Garasu 2x White Magical Hat 3x Magician of Faith 3x Dream Clown 3x Hayabusa Knights 1x Sinister Serpent 2x Kuriboh 1x Cyber Jar 1x Freed The Matchless General (Look it's the bearded lady!!) Magic 14 1x Snatch Steal 1x Premature Burial (The sawing someone in half has gone terribly wrong...) 1x Monster Reborn 1x Heavy Storm 1x Pot of Greed 2x Graceful Charity 1x Swords of Revealing Light 1x Change of Heart 2x Axe of Despair 1x Harpie's Feather Duster 1x Dark Hole (Is it just me, or is that supposed to be a porta-potty that flushes?) 1x Raigeki Trap 10 1x CeaseFire 2x Drop Off 3x Gravity Bind 1x Mirror Force (A hall of mirrors... though this is a better version) 1x Imperial Order 1x Solemn Judgement 1x Call of the Haunted Total Cards-41 Side Deck- 2x Tribute to the Doomed 2x Penguin Soldier 2x Magic Jammer 2x Seven Tools of the Bandit 1x Jinzo 1x Giant Trunade 1x Dark Necrofear 2x Prohibition 2x Messenger of Peace A note about running the deck- Based a little bit on a clown control deck, but with a few of my own modifications, that make it a game stopper once that Yata hits the table. Use the Clowns to clear the way for the White Magical Hats, Hats clear the hand for Yata, Yata locks the game. I arrived 2 hours before the tourny, no one there but me and my older bro who got there a few minutes later. Decided to split a pair of boxes after talking to the owner, and managed to get a small deal on them. I had decided earlier not to play, it'd been weeks since I last was there, and always was I wreaking havoc on the little kids, they're afraid to play a 6' man wearing all black for some reason. Pulled the Yata, and decided to play, figured it would go good with a clown deck, with a few modifications from the cards we pulled. Constructed the deck in fifteen minutes, before the tourny actually started, used what extra cards me and my bro had, always nice to be able to switch cards back and forth like that. Then began the tournament, maybe it was time for me to see if I had lost my deck building touch. Round 1 Dark Kamui vs. Jeff Tried running a bit of a Fisherman deck, had some decent cards, but he had offered to trade with me before hand, knew what to expect from the kid when he hit the table. Very monster heavy, but The Legendary Ocean and Umi three of each, along with a Tornado Wall made up for that. Opening hand Yata, Dream Clown, Gravity Bind, Swords, and Solemn Judgement. First turn drew a Graceful, and it all went down hill from there. Yata lock real fast. Me- 8000 Jeff- 0 Game 2, more of the same, however Yata was the card I drew in the first turn, again went away REAL fast. He at least managed to get a tornado wall with umi out, that lasted a few turns while I stalled, heck that's what the deck is for, and drew my heavy storm. Smoked the umi and wall, then let my Yata and Axe wielding White Hat go loose on him. Me- 8000 Jeff-0 After the first round I slipped out for a smoke, and the owner told the kid were to find me. He came out said he was my next round, and showed me the life points he had from the first round, 15,000. Pretty impressive. I knew at once I would be facing a Fire Princess deck, gave the kid a bit of an overinflated ego, feigned a bit of fear for him to make him think he had an edge. Told him I fielded no monsters over 1200 attack, other than my Freed, and he only got a bigger head at that. Round 2 Dark Kamui vs. James Again my Yata appeared in the opening hand, and he waited a few turns before beginning to peck away at James. Drew a Drop off a few turns later, played a hayabusa with Axe, used the drop off to keep him empty, end of Game when Hayabusa attacked. Must say, first kid to do damage to my LP (via a black pendant), even though I stole 2 monsters and gained 1000 with his Hysteric fairy before hand. Me- 8500 James- 0 Duel 2 was the same way, kid's thinking I have more than one yata in the deck cause I drew it opening hand again, only own one, and it's restricted, showed him the deck afterwards. Again, a quick game that was pretty much over real quick. Again his stupid pendant hit me. Me- 7500 James-0 After that round I had some time so I watched my brother finish off his opponent, using a deck that we fine tuned before hand (It's my normal playing deck). The kid goes off to tell the judge he lost, and comes back telling my brother he's gotta play Greg, aka Dark Kamui aka Me. Now it gets down to the nitty gritty, I knew the deck he was using like the back of my hand, but would it pan out like I hoped it would. Round 3 Dark Kamui vs. Ed I knew the deck, and knew the weaknesses in it, but would that help against a high speed beatdown that had cards to make it so it could go the distance against my deck? First hand, didn't draw my usual Yata, however a Gravity bind, Mirror Force, Dream Clown, Graceful Charity, and Solemn Judgement really made up for it, or so I thought. He came on fast, I'd built the deck before the tourney, and he knew a long game played into my hands, by the third round it was over, when the smoke cleared it was; Me- 0 Ed- 6700 Ouch, knew that was coming, what would I expect from a beat down that ran few monsters, and had plenty of tricks up its sleeve. Moving on, the next game was a little bit longer, Yata on turn 3, but never got set up for the Yata Lock. The three Gemini's and 2 Spear dragons were too much for me, however I wasn't giving up at that point. Needed to play solemn judgement, but that proved to be my downfall, lowered me to 3250, easy pray for his Raigeki of my monsters, and wipe out of my LP. Me- 0 Ed- 5900 End of the day, had a good few duels, managed to prove to at least James there was more to dueling than just the cards, it's a mental game, psyche your opponent out, or make him think he's going to win big, and you're going to find a whole heap of trouble. At least Ed won. I have to mention one more thing, about this amazing kid there. She's only 6 I think, and was smoking her competition. Rachel, I have to hand it to you if you ever read this, keep going the way you are, and whip those older kids that think they got an easy victory. I played her afterwards (managed to barely win, and told her to keep the card, cause she asked if I wanted to have a winner takes a card match), and man she's great, makes half the kids that call themselves elite, look like beginners. You go girl! Props- Building a deck 20 minutes before the start and managing to make it work Pulling that Yata from the one of the two boxes I bought, with my bro. Pulling another Freed from one of my packs for losing. To my bro for the Victory in the tourny. To Rachel, only 6, and already whooping people. Slops- Losing to my own deck To James for falling to mind games To me for pulling the mind games, dirty trick I know, but you gotta use what you can. Cause I still had to go to work afterwards To all the kids with dinged up cards asking if I'll trade my Jinzo. Email- squall411@hotmail.com Make sure in the title you put Yu-gi-oh Tourny Report, otherwise it goes out with all the spam, plus go ahead and send me deck ideas you got, and I'll try to help work them out with you, I've been playing these games far too long so I know a thing or two. Otherwise just call me Greg or DK in emails.