Subject:Just Clowning Around-Mile High Comics,Denver Co.

Daddy dualist-aka Neil Ballensky

Mile High Comics

Thornton,Co.

march 1st 2003

About 60 people in this dualling tourney today.Best pizes by far of any Tourney I have been in or read on POJO.1st prize=1 box of Pharoah’s servant AND 6 packs of Tourney cards, not bad eh???? 2nd=half of servant and 3 Tourney packs,3rd 4th-8th also got some kind of perks!

1st and forthmost,the deck of doom for ya!!!

Normal Monsters:2

2x Giant Stone Soldier-I need some "D" in this deck.

Effect Monsters:15

3x Dream Clown- "DUH" pt. 1

2x Crass Clown- "DUH" pt.2

3x Hayabusa knight- "DUH" pt.3-With 2 Axes, just try to be his friend,with 3 Axes,

just give up!!!!!!

2x White Magical Hat-I love to discard those Jinzo’s,Chasers,and Goblins from my

opponents hand!!!

2x Magician of Faith-What?I can only have 1 Raigeki,I beg to differ!!

1x Sangan-He’s O.K. with me!

1x 4 Star Lady bug-In this deck,could be the second best effect monster in here!

1x Cyber jar-Here’s the best effect monster there is!!!BOOOOOM!!

Magic:16

1x Raigeki-DUH pt.4

1x Dark Hole(SR)-DUH pt.5

1x Monster Reborn(UR)-Cool looking card,great effect made even better!!

1x Pot of Greed-Cool!! I drew a Gravity Bind and a Dream Clown!!!

1xSwords-Cool, 3 times you cant do squat let me set up 2 Clowns and my Hayabusa

with an axe,then whup that candy A**!!!!!!!!!!!

1x Premature Burial-Paying 800 life points sucks,having it Horn of Heaven or Man

Eater Bugged on the same turn or next,sucks more!!!Thinking

about changing this out for a Shallow Grave!!

3x Prohibition-I love Prohibiting Jinzo,Heavy Storm and Myst. Space Typhoon!!

2x Myst. Space Typhoon-great to use,if I dont Prohibit it first!

1x Messenger of Peace-DUH pt.6

3x Axe of Despair-DUH pt.7

Traps:10

3x Gravity Bind-SUPER DUH pt 8

2x Magic Jammer-Love jammin my opponent(my favorite trap)

1x Magic Drain-Same as Jammer,but cooler if my opponent throws another magic!!

1x Mirror Force-umm,yea DUH pt.9

1x Call of the Haunted-Love flipping this on my opponent!!

1x Ceasefire-Love the look when I do 3000 life point damage on my opponent!!

1x Imperial Order- I pay the upkeep,if im ahead in life points!!

There it is,my "just clowning around"deck tweeked just a little bit from Someguy’s,and with 43 cards every thing HAS a purpose,really with my draws every thing is good.I usually open up with a Bind and Prohibition and on my next couple of draws I get a Jammer or Drain,so I prohibit Jinzo right away and jam Heavy storm which is cool cause then if I draw another Prohibition,I will mess with them by declaring M-E-B or La jinn and really they cant do much.In my area almost everyone and I mean EVERYONE runs stupid Beatdown decks complete with all the usual suspects like LaJinn,Fish,Jinzo,Goblins,Harpys,Chasers and so on.I dont use a side deck because everyone has the same cards and runs the same type of decks with similer magic and trap in those Beatdowns!!But on the same note.I have found it harder to beat those Beatdowns,cause if jammer,bind or prohibition dont come up im screwed,thats why I have 3 of each.Heres a breakdown of my tourney:

Round 1-J.C.A. vs. some newby old dude

O.K. this was easy,no life points were gone from me,and I controlled from the get go!!Both duals went that way Just Clownin Around-2 and 0!!

highlights of this match was my Hayabusas with 2 Axes Ouch!!!He had played monsters like gurochin gurigatobokoo or what ever that bug is named,Ryu-Kishin Powered and tribute monsters like Flame Cerebus and Giant turtle who eats flames or whatever.I kept my laughter to myself and the clowns controlled!!

Round 2-J.C.A. vs a really good kid running a beat down Exodia!

Thats right , a beatdown Exodia,I thought i was doomed cause he brought out skull and goblin attack,but my binds came through,he used M.S.Typhoon on my bind and got one attack of 2500 in on me,but my Swords of revealing light came to me and that was it!!I only knew he was running Exodia when I smacked his Witch around with my attacking Crass Clown,he went to his deck and brough out Right arm and I thought "dang nothing in the clown deck to counter" but then I forgot I have the best counter against ANY kind of deck PROHIBITION!!!!!O.K. high lights were as followed;I prohibited his skull and sangans,and I cleaned his clock with my new best friend (sorry Dream Clown) hayabusa with axe,and proceeded like that for 2 duals!!With Exodia he could do no better then 3 pieces in his hand,also he had no other helper cards like Shallow Grave,Painful Choice or Upstart Goblin.

He got away with jamming me a couple of times and a Mirror Force,but that was it.After the dual since this kid was nice,and so was his dad,I helped him get a few cards for his Exodia deck,because I like diff decks when dualling,and they were great people,I usually dont help people in this enviroment,cause why help if one day ill be dualling them for all the marbles?? But in this case I was the helper!!

Round 3 A bye!!!yea,I just chilled watched a few people, checked out their decks I might be going against-thats the benefit of a bye,peeping out my opponents weakness and strong cards (so I know what to prohibit if I dual them)

Round 4 J.C.A. vs annoying store champ from across town(Valhallas game center)

ok this teen was,no wait,is the most annoying person to dual I have faced and met,he has all the good cards (and why not hes champ right?) he has a beatdown with 3 chasers,morphing jar,jinzo,3 goblins,mirror force,jammers,M.S.T,heavy storm and so on,hes so cocky he even sits down when he duals and sings Nelly’s "I am # 1" which bugs everyone he duals,but any hoo heres the breakdown:Dual one-he gets me out the gate with heavy storming my jammers and summoning jinzo-I hate that card- and proceeds to whoop butt on my deck,im done in like 2 minutes,no prohibitions or clowns come up so its easy for him.Then he got cocky,he turns around and tells his friend "go get us some lunch cause ill need the energy to go to the final match" Then I woke up,shuffled my deck real good and since I lost,drew my six cards and went first,WHOA COOL, my six cards: 2 prohibitions,2 jammers,dream clown and a gravity bind,nice draw.I lay G.B,play Prohibition on Jinzo and Heavy Storm,lay one jammer,and summon Dream Clown and pass.his play he puts out LaJinn and attacks but G.B. was there and he passes.My turn I draw Magical Hat and summon it to the field and turn Dream Clown to defense and destroy his Lajinn and attack with the hat but what? Waboku saved him that turn and I pass.His turn he drew M S T and tried to play it on my bind but I jammed him and it was downhill from there with him.I drew another Dream clown a couple of turns later and he was gone.Dual 2 was interesting,I drew no Binds but he drew no good cards either it got down to the end with J.C.A down to 1000 life points and him down to 200 life points,I won when I drew an Axe and played it on my Dreamclown to attack his face up Mech Chaser!!!Highlights of these matches was as followed:when I attacked with White magical hat a couple of times I got to discard a chaser,lajinn,and a couple of good magic cards like change of heart and such

This loss engulfed him like it was the end of the world,like a normal store champ would do when they lose,he started to whine and gripe saying he wanted to check my cards for illegals like having 2 Raigekis,4 Gravity Binds,4 Dream Clowns and such when the judge came over to check my cards I was legal and he looked like a buffoon for making such a scene,we were shouting at each other and so forth that the judge had to calm everyone down,what a sore loser he was but he had to go get his tourney pack!!!! Wow,the clowns beat the store champ and I was flying high,thinking im going to go all the way no way could I lose now that the champ was gone bye-bye,that was my downfall.I had took a bit of his cockiness and went on to round 5 which was-----------------------------

Round 5 J.C.A. vs another beatdown

ok short and sweet,my opponent beat me in the first match because of one card IMPERIAL ORDER!!!!!!!!!!!thats right the same card I have except he summoned high monsters like LaJinn,7 colored and Goblins and used M-E-B as well on my face down cards,he kept the upkeep on imperial because his monsters were doing damage to my life points every turn and I could not play any magic like ch of heart,raigeki,prohibition (boo-hoo) and such and he got me!!

2nd dual,I thought hey I was down 1-0 to this last guy who was store champ,running a better deck then this guy and I came back and won the next 2 games,so I thought ill just do it again but HA no can do he came back harder this next dual cause I drew no binds for what seemed like forever but by then I was toast buttered on both sides.Highlights of this match was nothing I lost!!!

Anyhoo the clowns controlled some what til I could not draw a bind,which sucks.I wonder if in Japanese there is a card that lets you look for a trap in your deck and if it will be out in English some time!!!I know with the cards coming out in Labyrinth of Nightmare the Clowns are going to get stronger- I.E.(United we Stand,Magic Cylinders and such) so im still going to run the clowns cause really I had just one bad draw in my last match and my opponent had a strategy which was using Imperial AND keeping up with the upkeep which was new to me so ill counter that with me winning the next dual!!!!!!

Props:for me going that far(final four),having my son get to round 3 with his new Exodia deck (he lost to delinquent duo-card destruction combo twice!!!)for playing at the best place you can play at (mile high comics) mcdonalds for MY ENERGY not the champs,trading for Mystical Space Typhoon and some other ultra rares,my wife for letting the "big kid" (me-Just Clowning Around) go.

Slops:the sore loser from Valhallas (store champ),delinquent duo and card destruction (for beating my son’s Exodia deck) Imperial Order for turning AGAINST me and for me not pulling Gravity Bind in the last dual!!!!!

Questions,comments on gameplay,my awesome clown deck hit me up @ nballensky@msn.com or duallingdaddy@yahoo.com Peace! the Daddy Dualist aka-Neil Ballensky!!!!!