Store: Comics, games… and stuff Location: Glen Burnie, MD # Of participants: 11 teams (it was a doubles, there was also a singles but I was in the doubles 11 x 2=22 people all total) Deck Name: The usual Suspects Team name: Rich and Tom (Team Us) The Usual Suspects: Tributes: Jinzo Airknight Parshath Non-Tributes: Injection Fairy Lily Yata Garasu Goblin Attack Force (3) Spear dragon (2) Gemini Elf (2) Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer (2) Cyber Jar Witch of the Black Forest Don Zaloog (I was really only field testing this) Penguin Soldier Sinister Serpent Marauding Captain (I was really only field testing this as well) Exiled Force Bazoo the Soul Eater (2) Magics: Raigeki Monster Reborn Dark Hole Change of Heart Snatch Steal Graceful Charity Pot of Greed Premature Burial Swords of Revealing light Mage Power Axe of Despair (2) United We Stand Harpies Feather Duster Heavy Storm Mystical Space Typhoon Tribute to the Doomed Traps: Mirror Force Call of the Haunted Magic Cylinder Imperial Order Raigeki Break (Field testing this) Torrential Tribute That is my Usual Suspects Deck, I call it that because those are basically the cards you will see in almost all beat down Decks and because "The Usual Suspects" is one of the most awesome movies ever and it is one of my personal favorites. On to the tourney report. Btw, my partner Toms deck is basically like mine, without Jinzo, Airknight, and one Spear Dragon, those are the only differences I can think of right now. Now on to the report. Round one Team Us vs Team Them (was a weird combo, a fiend dark ruler deck and a gravity exodia?) First match went to us, it was fairly ugly, me and tom pulled out big hits real quick to end the fiend guy, then the exodia player fell soon after to the Injection lily. Only real detail I remember from this one is Tom had Injection Spear Bazoo and I think a Gemini out and had a united on the Lily…Exodia Gravitied but it was still too little to late. Team Us: 8000-7000-6200-3800(me) 8000-6500-5500(Tom) Team Them: 8000-7300-4800-0(fiend) 8000-6100-5300-5100-0(exodia) Second Match was more of the same, we hit the fiend Duelist out fast Exodia Stalled a little longer than in the first match but in the end he was taken down by a Morphing Jar #2 and a Sangan (lol). Team Us: 8000-7500-5500(me) 8000-7200-7000-6000-5800(tom) Team Them: 8000-9000-4000-3200-1300-0(fiend) 8000-6100-5700-2900-1900-0(exodia) Side Note: We were getting PGD for participation, and I pulled the Sasuske Samurai, which replaced a goblin immediately (Spear Dragon runs rough shot in my area). Didn’t get to use my Don yet however I did get to use my raigeki break and the conclusion on that is Field Tested and Duelist approved. Round Two Team Us vs Bye We did nothing but sit around and watch the comp play a little, I played two quick singles vs some kids but it wasn’t terribly hard Side Note: TJ and Crunchy went out this round to two little kids do to a lack of time, makes me sad, those are some duelist friends of mine and they got taken out by a dice roll??? Sad. Round Three Team Us vs Team Them (Joe-beatdown Danny-Necrofear) First Match was us for the win, all I really remember was that I took Joe out fast, and then me and Tom just chopped away at Danny. I do remember that Danny had to suicide a opticlops into a Kycoo so that he could special summon his necrofear in defence mode, Tom still destroyed it and Danny took my lily that he couldn’t pay for… Team Us: 8000-3700-4700-3900-1900(me) 8000(tom) Team Them: 8000-5350-5100-3300-1800-0(Joe) 8000-6100-5200-1800-0 Second match, only difference in this one is that it went the other way, lol. Joe and Danny two pieced me pretty quick, then went to work on Tom. Tom did hold his own taking Joe to 2750 and taking Danny to 200 he did real well. Oh yeah and joe used graceful charity like 6 times do to his magicians, annoying… Team us: 8000-3200-1400-0(me) 8000-7000-5000-3700-2300-0(Tom) Team Them: 8000-7300-3650-2750(Joe) 8000-7200-6600-4700-2500-200(Danny) Third Match was totally sick. It wasn’t ownage or anything but it was really fun. It was round and round, it was intense. Me and Tom took out Danny late in the game and then Joe whipped out tom when he could have went for some damage off of me and then take out Tom. Its down to me and Joe, this is where you need a little background, last week Joe took me down in the Finals, and the week before he took me down in the Semis…I wanted revenge! Well I draw pull swords and play it and a sinister face down. He draws plays something face down and ends. I draw get imperial set it sack my serpent for an airknight and hit his magician he gets back pot, he draws plays a Gemini and plays the pot, I imperial that (no drawing for him) he ends his turn without attacking, he forgot my swords were negated he could have suicided the gemine and hit me with the kycoo directly(his kycoo was down from a previous turn). Next turn I draw Change of heart, don’t pay for the imp change the Gemini, play a spear that I drew off of the Airknights effect and have all three attack him and I take him down, we win and are moving on to the finals. Team Us: 8000-5600-4900-2500-3500-2300(me) 8000-7000-3200-400-0(tom) Team Them: 8000-7000-6100-5900-2950-2150-3150-2150-650-0(joe) 8000-7200-6200-3100-2500-0(danny) Side note: got to use my Don…was not impressed, and it has now been replaced by a fiber jar that I got off a trade to tom for my Goblins that I took out. Also got to use my Marauding and the conclusion is Field tested and Duelist Approved. Finals Team Us vs Team them(lewis beat down and keith beat down) We didn’t get to play this match since it was 20 minutes past closing, we all decided on a draw to get 3 packs a piece. However our two teams are meeting next week on Monday so that we may settle the score. The Usual Suspects after the tournament Tributes: Jinzo Airknight Parshath Non-tributes: Goblin Attack Force (2) Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer (2) Gemini Elf (2) Spear Dragon (2) Bazoo the Soul Eater (2) Marauding Captain Injection Fairy Lily Yata Garasu Exiled Force Witch of the black Forest Cyber Jar Sasuske Samurai Fiber Jar Penguin Soldier Sinister Serpent Magics: Raigeki Harpies Feather Duster Dark Hole Heavy Storm Change of Heart Snatch Steal Monster Reborn Premature Burial Axe of Despair (2) United We Stand Mage Power Tribute to the Doomed Swords of Revealing Light Pot of Greed Graceful Charity Mystical Space typhoon Traps: Imperial Order Call of the Haunted Torrential Tribute Mirror Force Raigeki Break Magic Cylinder Now onto the so called props and slops Props The first “Prop” goes to my lovely Girlfriend who was there with me and cheered me on and also kept the score for me seeing as how shes all smart and I suck at math, thanks hun =). The second prop goes to my awesome partner who really came through in some tight pinches and who I obviously wouldn’t have made it all the way through Third goes to me, I get third because I did alright with my deck and hopefully I helped out which I think I did Fourth goes to pulling the Sasuske Samurai and to the card its self for owning Other props are to the Raigeki break for also owning(replaced a TttD), to Lewis and Keith for meeting us in the finals next week, and to them for not pushing the game and excepting the draw. Slops To TJ and Crunch for losing and not getting there Maurading Captains Prohibited by Lewis(he was threatening it and he actually side decked it before the Tourney) To thieving fiends who have stolen many cards including one of my premature burials and a fiend megacyber…dastardly bastards To not pulling anything in my packs that I took for the draw To the Don Zaroog for not being all that good, however he will be going in the Yata Lock im going to make I know Im at 45 cards and I know that is kind of large but I find that my deck works better now than it did when I had it at 40 even so…ill try and keep it that way and it wont go over 45. If you have any questions about the deck or about the movie the Usual suspects. If you don’t like what ive posted or just feel like yelling at someone go ahead I don’t really care this is the email Victim0963@aol.com My AIM name is Theuberloser if you feel you need to yell immediately or something.