From: Tommy Yan [tommy_yan@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 2:47 PM To: profpoke@pojo.com Subject: YuGiOh Tournament Report Death to Simochi Tommy "Mene" Yan Magic Dragon Games Boise, Idaho June 17th, 2003 Participants? Around 30 $2 Entry Fee Hey everyone, it's me, Mene. I'm back again for my third tourney report. Since Summer has started and all, yours truly gets to go up to Boise more often, more often meaning every week. This is going to be a fun summer. Anyways, the tournament system has changed since the last time I did a report. There are now two age groups, one for the 13 or older people, and another for the 12 or younger people. I'm 13, so I'm in the older bracket. There are now only four matches per tourney. For your next match after the last, you were matched against someone with the same number of wins you had. Pretty much, if you lost you were still allowed to play, but you probably wouldn't get first or second. You only played one duel against your opponent. No Japanese cards allowed. Legacy of Darkness legal. I decided I'd retire the Pyroclasm for a while. I finished putting together this Bad Reaction deck two nights before the 17th. You can't get anymore slap-togethery than that. --- Death to Simochi MONSTERS (18) 1x Cyber Jar 1x Fiber Jar (might I mention that this is 1/e LoD, w00t) 3x Giant Germ 2x Magician of Faith 2x Mask of Darkness 3x Nimble Momonga 3x Penguin Soldier 1x Sangan 1x Wall of Illusion 1x Witch of the Black Forest MAGIC (15) >Change of Heart >Dark Hole >Monster Reborn >Pot of Greed >Raigeki 2x Graceful Charity 1x Messenger of Peace 2x Mystical Space Typhoon 1x Painful Choice 2x Rain of Mercy 1x Snatch Steal 1x Upstart Goblin TRAPS (7) 3x Bad Reaction to Simochi 1x Imperial Order 1x Mirror Force 2x The Eye of Truth This deck is faster than you think. At around my fourth turn of each game, I had ten cards or less left in my deck. --- When we got there, there was around fifteen minutes or so before the tourney started. I did some trades. I got Bottomless Trap Hole for a Gravity Bind, and an Exiled Force for a Luster Dragon. Not bad, I say. Sixteen minutes later, the first round began. --- ROUND ONE Mene vs. Chris? (Exodia) This was a fun match. I got the whole Simochi system out fast. Two Rain of Mercys and an Eye of Truth in the first couple of turns is not a bad deal. I was forced to set a Fiber Jar, which got attacked (OUCH). Most of the time, when defensive players meet defensive players, it's all about speed. I beat him, but that doesn't mean he's a bad Exodia player. The Eye of Truth showed me that he had three or more Exodia pieces in his hand at all times, before and after the Fiber Jar. 1-0 --- Between rounds, I bought an LoD pack. This is my fourth Shadow Tamer now, this crazy lady is stalking me, I swear... --- ROUND TWO Mene vs. Darren (random conglomeration of trash) Easy. He practically killed himself. How you ask? I had Eye of Truth and Simochi out second turn. I say go, and Last Will is in his hand. -1000 Life Points. He set one card down in the magic/trap zone and said go. I Rain'ed on my next turn, set a Giant Germ I think, and said go. I look at his hand again, and Last Will is still there?! -1000 again... He kept the Will in his hand for five turns, he didn't even set it face down or anything. Easy victory. 2-0 --- I bought another pack between rounds. I pulled Creature Swap this time. Why do the foils I pull have to be such junk, anyways? --- ROUND THREE Mene vs. Scott (bigger random conglomeration of trash) Another easy victory. While he didn't kill himself like Darren did, he couldn't do much to get through the defenses. I can't really remember much of what happened, but I do know that I used Rain of Mercy around four times in this duel. 3-0 --- I head off to do some more trading. These kids were offering me Gaia the Fierce Knight and SDK Blue Eyes for my Raigeki. They later tell me that I never trade. Crazy kids. FINALS Mene. vs. Tarv (Relinquished) A tense match. Luckily, we're very good friends (we even went up Magic Dragon together), and I know his deck like the back of my hand. That's probably part of what won me this match. Jinzo was on the board second turn, but Cyber Jar took care of that. He flipped his own Cyber Jar and got me Giant Germ, two Rain of Mercys, and Upstart, and a Snatch Steal. Excellent! 4-0 --- First place was two packs of LoD. This time, I got DropOff (OK) and The Dragon's Bead (OK also). Slightly better than the packs last time, I say. Chris walks up to me and calls me a newbie. Let this be a lesson to you guys: don't be afraid to try new things once in a while. PROPS: Me for winning Me for pulling Creature Swap Me for pulling DropOff Me for telling those little kids that were trying to rip me off to get lost Darren for killing himself during our game SLOPS: Me for doing those awesome trades Those kids that did those awesome trades with me Me not having enough money to buy King Size Fries at the Burger King next door Shadow Tamer for stalking me E-MAIL: tommy_yan@hotmail.com MESSENGER: tommy_yan@hotmail.com AIM: magistermene YAHOO!: magistermene2001 (I'm never on though) Until next time, stay away from solar powered flashlights. _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail