Deck Name-"Flashfire"
Deck Type- Hyper Summon Gravity Bind (no Clowns!)
Tournament Location- Outpost 2000 & Beyond, Brooklyn Park MN
Date-3/17
Number of Participants- Over Sixty (holy monkeys!)
Format-Special Type (our tournament director runs a single elimination
tournament, but with a twist. Everyone defeated in this tournament gets to
play in the Secondary Tournament for the remainder of their four rounds.
The Secondary doesn't count towards national rankings, but everyone gets to play
their four rounds. I like this format)
Prizes/Entry Fee: eight dollars to enter; everyone is guaranteed two
boosters of their choice for entering. If you go 3-1 in the secondary
tournament, you get three boosters. If you don't, just two. Main
Torunament winner gets nine (!) boosters of their choice.
Hey, all. I have been reading the odd Tournament Report every time I
go online, and found most of them wanting. I decided to try my hand at
writing up a Tourny Report, especially since my deck is, as far as I know,
unique. I call it 'Flashfire', due to the speed at which I can summon and
attack. The main Stars Of The Program are Giant Germ and Nimble
Momonga. These two are awesome! Giant Germ, especially, was critical
to the wins I got. He can go suicide into an opposing beast, activate my
Michizure for me, summon a couple more Germs, and since Michizure (typically)
destroyed the only opposing monster, I get two free attacks. Their Direct
Damage effect, combined with Nimble Momonga's healing effect, had a lot of
people with bad math skills pissed at me. The other main strategy I use is
the seriously heavy Discarding engine. White Magical Hat and Robbin'
Goblin save my can. Several times, I got to Robbin' Goblin the one card
that my opponent was going to use to clean my clock with the next turn.
Barrel Dragon, though it seems like a nutso choice, is actually great.
Giant Trunade can let it attack in a pinch, and his effect is just so superior
to Dream Clown's (for me, anyway). Plus, with Gravity Bind down, Barrel
Dragon protects my Life Points just perfectly! What level 3 can get past
him? Okay, by now you've got the gist of the strategy, so I'll get to how
I did.
'Flashfire'
MONSTERS (18)
2 Barrel Dragon
3 Giant Germ
3 Nimble Momonga
3 White Magical Hat
2 Hayabusa Knight
2 Magician of Faith
2 Sangan
1 Cyber Jar
MAGICS (9)
1 Change of Heart
1 Raigeki
1 Dark Hole
1 Pot of Greed
1 Monster Reborn
2 Axe of Despair
2 Giant Trunade
TRAPS (13)
1 Imperial Order
1 Mirror Force
1 Call of the Haunted
3 Gravity Bind
3 Solemn Judgment
2 Robbin' Goblin
2 Michizure
NO SIDE DECK
ROUND ONE
'Flashfire' V. Standard Joey Starter
I was unpleasantly surprised by the fact that everyone I played against had
a bunch of LON cards. As you can see, I hadn't gotten any yet. It
didn't matter against this kid, though. He was playing the basic Joey, and
not to skillfully, at that. The first round lasted four turns. I
managed to hyper-summon my Giant Germs and Nimble Momongas both by turn two,
resulting in four monsters. A third-turn Barrel Dragon finished Joey-dude
off (our scorecards are pieces of scrap paper. I didn't keep mine, and
don't know final scores or names. Sorry) by killing his Penguin
Soldier. Cuuuute! Fourth turn, I dropped a Hayabusa Knight, equipped
him with an Axe, and blasted with two Nimble Momongas, a Barrel Dragon, and an
Axe-ed up Habby Knight. Ouch.
Second round lasted longer, as I didn't get my Barrel Dragons.
Gravity Bind showed up this time, though, and Joey-dude found out that Gravity
Bind hurts. Amazingly enough, he hadn't played against a G-Bind deck
before. Though, since I'm the only guy at the tournaments who plays them,
I guess it isn't so surprising. I don't remember any specifics, but I do
know that this round went to Robbin' Goblin. Hand Destruction rocks.
Flashfire 2, Joey deck 0
ROUND TWO
'Flashfire' v. Really, Really Expensive LON-augmented Beatdown
This one hurt. This guy was packing everything. Bazoo the
Soul-Eating Baboon, Gemini Elf, United We stand and Mage Power, Magic
Cylinder, everything. I have some Solemn Judgments. Mismatch!
However, the first round was crazy-close. The same opening as last game,
Germ and Momonga x 2 each by turn two. He didn't like that. He also
didn't like my Solemn Judging his Raigeki and forcing him to beat past my
massive Weenie-licious army. Gravity Bind showed up, but got MST-ed really
quick. Later in the match, I had a Habby Knight down and was preparing to
win the match, when Opponent Guy used something called Riryoku Field* against
the Axe I dropped. That card stinks! Kill it! Without Axe,
Habby couldn't beat past his third (!) Gemini Elf, and I died.
Brought him down to 750 Life, though.
Second round, I got monster stiffed. He dropped some Goblin Attack
Force, Gemini Elves, and introduced me to Bazoo the Baboon Boy.
Help! Save me! It's a rabid baboon! In the end, I met my
end. Expected, but humilliating nonetheless.
Flashfire 0, Opponent Guy 2
ROUND THREE
'Flashfire' V. Even More Expensive LON Beatdown
Why me!? I'm in the secondary tournament, dangit! These guys aren't
supposed to be here! Oh, well. Make the best of it. This guy
used Bazoo like mad, blasting away several thousand Life before Gravity
Bind showed up. Then he MST-ed my Gravity Bind. To protect myself, I
used the Raigeki I had held in reserve. He then tried to Dust Tornado my
Raigeki, to negate it. ??? When I told him it didn't work like
that, he called a judge over. Obviously, the judge agreed with me, and
Expensive Beatdown left it be, but how can you think stuff like that?
However, in both rounds, he annihilated me. Damn Riryoku Fields!
Give me my Axe back, dangit!
Flashfire 0, Expensive Beatdown 2
ROUND FOUR (Final match)
'Flashfire' V. Sixty-card Exodia/Burn/Beatdown?
I have no idea what this guy's deck was supposed to be. He played
Exodia, but his deck was at least sixty cards high! And there were Burning
and Beatdown cards there, too! This guy's on something powerful! Anyways,
the first match would have been cake if my deck had cooperated. As it was,
a mad scramble for creature ensued, with me hoarding my precious, early-game
Nimble Momonga swarm. Once Michizure started showing its face, I managed
to get a Barrel Dragon down. And he promptly got nothing but tails.
Stupid Barrel Dargon! I gave you a loving home, and this is how
you repay me? No wonder I'm trading you away! The one time the
Dragon got heads, though, allowed an Axe-ed up Habby Knight through. That
was match.
Second round, the bastard pulled Exodia in his starting hand! That
SUCKS!!!!!
Third round, Grav Bind showed, and he promptly Remove Trap-ed (???)
it. Then I flipped a second, and he got mad. This one was all up to
the Swarm Brothers. Germ and Momonga just overwhemlmed the poor guy.
Plus, I Cyber Jarred all his Exodia pieces at once! That was fun!
Not for Opponent Guy, though. Once his 'main plan' went down the hole, he
paniced and died. Too many Squirrels! Call and Reborn brought back
destroyed Nimble Momongas, getting me up to a whole lot of life. Solemn
Judgment, my favorite card, did the rest.
Flashfire 2, Messed-Up Exodia 1
Well, that's it. Sorry I couldn't be more specific, but this is a
spur-of-the-moment report. I had no notes. As you can see, I did
reasonably well against everyone but the second Expensive Beatdown. This
goes to show that any deck, if played well and passionately, can perform!
Come on, people, build your own decks! Your national rating doesn't mean
zilch if you use someone else's deck to get it!
PROPS TO
Jeff at the Outpost, for holding these things.
Mom, for driving me and my friends.
First Expensive Beatdown Guy, for letting me take back a bad
play. Thanks, dude!
Me, for pulling a Dark Necrofear! I can't use it, but I got some
excellent cards in trade.
My friend David, for playing an original deck
SLOPS TO
My friend David, for playing a Toon deck
Second Expensive Beatdown Guy, for that dumb Dust Tornado bit.
Messed-Up Exodia, for getting the thing in your opening hand
Messed-Up Exodia, for yelling at me for playing a 'Math Homework'
deck
Messed-Up Exodia, for being so damned messed up.