Japanese Maha Beatdown Joseph Abad Jr. Jelly's the Original Aiea, Hawaii 4/27/03 12:00 - 5:30 P.M 20 Contestants Entrance Fee: $5.00 Prize: 1st - $45.00 Gift Gift Certificate 2nd - $27.00 Gift Certificate 3rd - $15.00 Gift Certificate. Japanese Tournament (Non-Sanctioned, Japanese and Hybrid decks) Deck: Monsters: 18 1xAndroid Psycho Shocker (Jinzo) 1xVampire Lord Dark/Undead/5/2000/1500 Effect: When this Monster does Battle Damage to your opponent, name a card type (Monster, Magic or Trap). Your opponent searches his or her deck for 1 card of the chosen type and puts it in his or her Cemetery. Also, if this card is destroyed via a card effect by your opponent, Special Summon this card to the Field during your next Standby Phase. 1xGemini Elf 3xTurner of the Dead: Kaiku (Kycoo: The Ghost Destroyer) 3xDemon Soldier Dark/Demon/4/1900/1500 2xGoblin Strike Team (Gobling Attack Force) 1xIntiate Troops' Type: Effect Monster Earth/Warrior/4/1000/1000 Sacrifice this card. Destroy 1 Monster on the Field. 1xMagic Warrior - Breaker Dark/Magic User/4/1600/1000 When this card is Summoned, put 1 Magic Counter on this card (to maximum of 1). For each Magic Counter on this card, increase this card's attack strength by 300. Also, you may remove 1 Magic Counter from this card to destroy 1 Magic or Trap card on the Field. 1xBlack Forest Witch (Witch of the Black Forest) 1xSaint Magician (Magician of Faith) 1xCyber Pod (Cyber Jar) 1xFiber Pod Earth/Plant/3/500/500 Effect: Reverse: Each player shuffles his cards on the Field, hand and Cemetery into his or her deck, then draws 5 cards. 1xYatagarasu ("Eight Giant Crows") Air/Demon - Spirit/2/200/100 Effect: This card cannot be Special Summoned. Return this card to its owner's hand during the End Phase of a turn in which it is Summoned or Reversed. If this Monster does damage to your opponent, he or she skips his or her next Draw Phase. Magic: 15 1xThunder Bolt (Raigeki) 1xRaise Dead (Monster Reborn) 1xEarly Burial (Premature Burial) 1xChange of Heart 1xSealing Swords of Light (Swords of Revealing Light) 1xJar of Greed (Pot of Greed) 1xAngel's Gift (Graceful Charity) 1xTempest (Heavy Storm) 1xHarpy's Feather Sweep (Harpy's Feather Duster) 1xTheft (Snatch Steal) 2xCyclone (Mystical Space Typhoon) 2xEmissary of Obliteration (Nobleman of Crossout) 1xWelcome for the Dead (Tribute to the Doomed) Traps: 7 1xMagic Jammer 1xThunder Break Type: Trap Effect: Discard 1 card from your hand. Destroy 1 card on the Field. 1xCry of the Living Dead (Call of the Haunted) 1xBottomless Pit Trap Type: Normal Trap Effect: If your opponent Summons, Reverse Summons or Special Summons a monster with an attack strength of 1500 or greater, remove it from the game. 1xMagic Cylinders 1xDestruction Ring (Bell of Destruction) Type: Normal Trap Effect: Destroy 1 face-up Monster on the Field, and do damage to each player equal to the attack strength of that Monster. 1xHoly Barrier - Mirror Force (Mirror Force) Total: 40 cards Before the tournament, I made a quick stop at a hobby store, Toys 'N' Joys II. I bought 4 Controller of Chaos boosters and i went to Jelly's. I went up to my buds, and I opened the new Japanese boosters. I got commons in the 3 packs and a Parallel Rare in the 4th. It's a Chaos Soldier (Black Luster Soldier) with an effect but it isnt a Ritual Monster. Whoa...what luck. I prepped my deck, see if changes were needed and dueled away! Also, more people showed up than the last time. 1st Round: Dad (The father to the kids that also entered in the same tourney), Amatuer, Beatdown deck. 1st Duel At first, I thought he would be a challenge, but after seeing wut he does, he wasnt really a challenge. He learned the game a month ago I guess. But he did play well. Knew the basics of the game. Basically, I beat him with ease. 2nd Duel I still summoned my monsters and did lots of damage. He played Raigeki at a certain point and hit me. It wasnt much but at least he hit me. I pummeled him down to 0. He had the problem of his monsters on the bottom. 2nd Round: Brandon, Amatuer, Beatdown deck. 1st Duel I dueled this guy. He is one of the sons of the guy I dueled last round. He did well, better than his dad. I just summoned my power monsters and removed his set cards. I kept dealing damage and summoned monsters. 2nd Duel Same as last duel. He did some damage to me, but I damaged him too. I'm in the lead, dealing damage to him. Soon he lost, brought him down to 0. I was too tought for him. 3rd Round: I get the Bye!! --20 Minute break-- During my bye and 20 min. break, I ran across the street, bought Mochico Chicken plate lunch and ran back inside and ate it...I was so hungry...Tim, a regular at Jelly's, brought his Xbox and played Halo. He was prepping for a Halo tournament, he said $10,000 to the winner...winner take all. I played Halo, with Erik and Antonio (a worker). A deathmatch, up to 15 frags. It was fun playing around, throwing frag grenades and shooting each other like crazy. Erik won the damn deathmatch. 4th Round: ???, Veteran, Dark Nechrophia (Dark Necrofear) Deck. 1st Duel I knew right from the start, I am going to lose, but I did fairly well. A Dark Necrophia deck...built really well and its A LOT faster than English DN decks. I eliminated his monsters for awhile and beat him with my monsters. It was a close game. 2nd Duel After a few turns, he pulled of the Deck Destruction Virus of Death on me plus Hades: Demon King of the Underworld on me. My monsters with 1500 ATK and higher got destroyed for 3 turns and I was stuck with low ATK monsters. He also pulled off Dark Nechrophia. I was doomed, and lost. It was also a close one. 3rd Duel A few turns later, Hades appears once again with a Dark Nechrophia along with Deck Destruction Virus of Death. I did a really idiot move, I flipped Fiber Pod on my turn. DDVD is still active. My new hand, had couple 1500 ATK and higher monsters, they were sent to the grave. I play Angel's Gift and same thing happened. He got me down to 600 a couple turns later and I never layed a scratch on him, still at 8000. I soon lost. He is really good, he placed 1st. 5th Round: Mike, Veteran, Beatdown Deck. 1st Duel: I've beaten him before in the past tournament. Right at the start, I was nervous, I hoped that I'd win. I played my best and did lots of damage to him. He also did damage to me, but it didn't stop me. I got rid of his m/t and used Nobleman of Crossout and got him down to 0. 2nd Duel: I had a crappy hand. I set Cyber Jar and maybe 2 m/t. He used Change of Heart and flipped it. I got a good descent 5 cards. He had a Cyber Jar too. He said that I messed up his plan, I was happy to hear that. His next turn he flipped his Cyber Jar and he got good cards, I got some good cards. He still was mad. After a couple of turns, he smashed me. I thought he had everything screwed up. 3rd Duel: The heat was rising in this match. I played my good cards and my 1900's, the attacked him and my Life Points were pretty high. He then cleared my field, summoned the most hated card...Injection Angel Lily!! He attacked and payed 2000 LP to add 3000 ATK to her small 400, and hit me for 3400. I wemt down to 1700, and he was at 1100. I drew and it was the card that decided the match, Magic Warrior - Breaker. I killed Lily with a monster removal card, he had 2 set m/t. I assumed it was Mirror Force and Magic Cylinder. I used the effect on one of his m/t, it was Magic Cylinder. I can't really remember how Breaker ended up in the grave. But After I used the effect, I revived it from the grave and used it's effect again on his other set m/t. He quickly said that it's game. I WON!! I placed 2nd and got my $27 Gift Certificate. I went down and browsed the DVD section. I had a choice to buy Love Hina: Spring Movie ($35) and Samurai X ($30). Then I went to the card section and wondered if I should buy 5 LON packs. I didn't want to waste such good prize money on English cards, so I went and bought the Samurai X DVD and payed the difference. Later, I went back up and played Halo for a bit and went home. I also watched my Samurai X, it was so cool, blood everywhere. Here is the effect for the card I got... Chaos Soldier -Messenger of Creation- Light/Warrior/8/3000/2500 This card cannot be Normal Summoned. Remove 1 Light and Dark Main-Type Monster in your Cemetery from the game to Special Summon this Monster. Once during your turn, you can choose 1 of the following effects and activate it. - Remove 1 Monster on the Field from the game. If you activate this effect, this card cannot attack during this turn. - If this card destroys an opponent's Monster as a result of Battle, this Monster can attack 1 more time. Props: -Getting Chaos Soldier -Messenger of Creation- -Getting at least 2nd. -The good food. -Tim for bringing his Xbox. Slops: -From losing from that damn Dark Nechrophia deck. -Finding The Shallow Grave, it helped increase the speed of my Deck Destruction deck. Contact Info: AIM - aznflipartist808 Email - abadv001@hawaii.rr.com (main) / aznflipartist808@yahoo.com