The ChubbyChocobo's "Standard-Beatdown" Deck ChubbyChocobo Korean Business Financial District Toy Plus Unofficially Sanctioned Open Heat I Garden Grove, California Sunday June 8th, 2003 8 Participants (Heat I of III) Round Robin Format A. Tournament 1. Rules a. No "God" Cards, Japanese Cards, All Official Restrictions. b. Use dueling mannerisms, and good sportsman-like conduct (I think that's what he said) 2. Prizes a. A Box of Legacy of Nightmare Packs b. Set of (3) God Cards. (1x Slifer, Obelisk, WD) c. Your Choice of (1.) Stairway to Destined Duel + Eternal Duelist Soul (2.) Duelist of the Roses + Tournament Pack (wherever that came from) d. Choose any combination (not two of the same) of a,b,c. 3. Format a. Round Robin, Best Record. 1 Duel, No matches. (8 entries + RoundRobin + 2 more heats = OUCH for TimE) b. Tie will be broken in a Sudden Death Round, 1 Duel. B. Deck. 3x Vailo (I know, I know) 3x Gemini Elves 1x Jinzo 2x Summoned Skull 2x Magic Jammers 2x Bazoo! (I love this guy) 3x La Jinns 3x Malevolent Nuzzlers 2x Axe of Despair 3x Black Pendant (I know, NOOB) 1x Change of Heart 1x Raigeki 1x Monster Reborn 1x Dark Hole 1x Feather Duster (traded for it, don't ask) 2x Fissure 3x Kycoo's Ghost Destroyers 3x Harpie's Brothers 3x Horn of Unicorn 1x Robbin Goblin (41 Total) As you can see, I rely heavily on equip magic (duh-hut). I didn't put as many heavy hitters in there, (why?) because the equip magic + 1800's = homemade heavy hitter. So here we go with the tournament. Since the owner knows me (yeah, i know) and he's a pretty nice guy he lines us up, pulls me and my brother out, and 4 other kids, and lets us choose. We kind of acquaint each other, shake hands, and begin dueling. Now Toy Plus is no big place. It's not even a hole in the wall. More like a carnival stand, So we duel on tables, or on the floor. The owner still sells cards and does his trademark "bend the pack and try to find godly" deal, but keeps it to an over-the-counter deal, and sort of closes the shop during these hours. But enough rambling. So begin the duels. I chose first, a Vietnamese kid named "Vince" Pham. Round 1 Vince. I think he is testing, because he's playing some pretty shady cards, but on with the duel. He has the whole "Duelist Calculator" Thing going on, while i use my cell phone's archaic "calculator feature" to do the arithmetic I swore to myself i would never learn (just kidding). He goes first, his honor. He plays a Harpies Brother, and I immediately assume Beatdown, Beatdown written all over his Harpies, all over his Axe of Despair (I know). My Turn, I draw Malevolent, Malevolent (I look at myself in disgust for my cruddy shuffling) , Kycoo, Monster Reborn, Change of Heart. BTW, I had this all written down in a notebook, but sorta lost track towards the end when the owner got kind of impatient with me for writing everything down, but I remember it like yesterday, because, well, it was yesterday. Kycoo, 1 Malevolent, Set the Monster Reborn and Change of Heart on the Appropriate Spaces. During this time, I send it over to him. Okay This is getting too lengthy, so I'll shorten it down a little. He pulls out a harpie lady. I look at him like he is crazy, and I start laughing at him. I know this is crappy sportsmanship, but man, a harpie lady deck, it was a bit humorous but the funny part is how close he got to beating me. He had tons of wind power-ups, swords of deep-seated (this is a mutual agreement, i think) and axes (i asked if he had one for trade) and eventually ends up killing ok 1x vailo 1x kycoo my summoned skull (-_- those sword and shield thingies i wish i tore up) I almost lost, it was an 800 point margin. To me, that is the closest to losing without flat-out getting kicked up the arse i have ever been in my experience as a Duel Monsters player. I have a lot of respect for Vince, he is running a deck and improvising strategy from style. It was one of the best played matchs ever, sorry I couldn't elaborate. Round 2 My Brother. Now my brother runs an identical deck to mine. ( Identical, meaning EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY) He has 1 axe though, and he had to buy that off me for $7. Ok, so we begin the duel, My Harpie's Brother and Axe of Despair. He draws nothing but Magic and Traps. Next Turn, He Draws a Kycoo and attaches a Sword of Deep Seated. This is the funniest part of the whole Tournament. Now I add a Malevolent, and kill his Kycoo. I also (at some point in time) activate a Robbin Goblin. Ok, so his Sword goes to the top of the deck. Now I see him next turn drawing the sword, and putting it in the forefront of his hand. (he has no monsters.) I attack his life points directly, and discard the Sword (which i knew where it was.). The sword gets back into his hand, and I repeat the process until 2 turns later, I win. It was absolute hilariousness in its purest form. Round 3 Steve Chun K This guy was running a Kaiba Deck with some modification, which was found to be pretty easy to beat. I won't elaborate, but he somehow (EHEM CRUDDY SHUFFLING) got his 2x Blue Eyes out in the first few turns. (Lord of D + Flute + 2x BEWD = OUCH). Lucky for me it's absolutely no monsters on the field for me, just magic and trap, he does a fair 4200 courtesy of Waboku, and I have no monsters out still, And next thing you know, BOOM! Vailo. I Use Dark Hole (Lucky Me) and then summon my vailo. Attack 2 malevolents and an axe (That's 1550 + 1500 = 3050 + 2400 = 5450 = OUCH FOR HIM) and it's like DIEEEEEEE. The next turn he just sorta looks down an tells me, "good game." I think he cheated, but there's no point if you cheat and you lose. Round 4 Michael Lee This guy let me look through his deck. He was trying to show off, but I had yet to be impressed that he had a buncha stupid magic-trap godlies (cylinders, mirror force, etc. etc.) I just inconspicuously missed what would eventually disqualify this kid. We were four turns in, he had 2 Man Eater Bugs Face Down (This kid was arrogant as two Vegetas and told me what was "in store for me" ha-ha) when he flips both, kills my baby vailo and my baby bazoo, and summons god of obelisk. Of course, i report to the owner and he is automatically inelegible. He threaten to beat my face in, but then, he's 5'10 150ish and i'm 6'2 230ish. Round 5 K I gotta run through these or I'll be sued for giving you eyestrain. Edwin Oh K Edwin is a friend of mine, he's been coming to Toy+ for a fair few months to sharpen his game, and he is by no means a push-over. As a matter of fact he is the only person I have ever lost to in this game next to Andrew Pham, but that's a different story where it was the beginning of Yu-Gi-Oh! and he had 3 yugi decks where i had one -_-. But I Digress. Edwin uses a Fairly wise chosen Dragons Deck. In his small menagerie includes Blue Eyes, Tri-Horn, Mirror Force, and a heck of a lot of luck. But Edwin's got a lot of talent going for him, unfortunately this time he did not have the luck with him, as he drew Tri-horn and played him, did the card destruction, destroyed my vailo combo and my Monster Reborn (NOOOOOOOOOO) but i use raigeki, hit him hard a couple times he did peep back a little, but not enough to keep me away. I won by a length and another horse, 3550 i think. Round 6 Paul Choi Paul ran a pretty standard poor-man's beat down, in that he's kinda casual and i paid his tournament dues, also couldn't keep up but kept a pretty decent beat down deck of battle oxes, man-eater bugs, neos, lajinns, etc. etc. It was a pretty decent game, but I won again. My Vailos were more than a match for his "Tricked-Out Neo the Magic Swordsman". 7400-0 Round 7 The Gravity Bind Deck Ok, I swear i was this close || from cleaning this kid's clock. a.) He was a total brat about winning. (It seems most of my korean race are realllllllly arrogant and don't know when enough is enough and shut up means be quiet, or SHUT UP) b.) I lost to him. This is why I posted. Because I need a side deck, and I need suggestions because I am totally lost as to where I should be on this whole Gravity Bind Situation. He used two mystic lamps and axe of despair, malevolent, and I just sat down and cried. (Not really, but sorta like internal bleeding) SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO MAKE A SIDE DECK FOR BEAT DOWNS THAT KILL THESE STUPID GRAVITY BIND DECKS! THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE GONE OUT OF FASHION 2 MONTHS AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Round 8 The Gravity Bind Deck Part II Ok This is my breaking point, but it seems both of them had had a pretty rough day in that they had been beaten 4 times out of a bunch of crappy decks in the midst of a high stakes (trust me, those prizes were enough to get some kids' emotions rolling like a cadillac in the middle of south central L.A.) So This time I play it REALLY LUCKY in that this kid NEVER GETS HIS GRAVITY BIND OUT!!! (I figured out in the end that both of them only got 1 gravity bind each, as to why they were so unsuccessful, that might be a good explanation). So he put out mystic lamps, and i put out the HURT. 2x La Jinns + 2x Malevolent + 1 axe = More Hurt. I won in a good 10 turns. So, as I said before, I really need the help with the side deck. My name is Michael Wong xEuNoWhOx@hotmail.com Thanks for Reading Thanks POJO for posting, I LOVE YOU GUYS