Deck name: 'Destiny'
Duelist: Lindsay 'ladydragontamer' Bacon
Location: Guernsey's at Green Tree Mall - Clarksville, IN
Date: 5-25-03
# of Participants: 40 or so

Hey everyone, it's me again. Wow, it's been a while since I've written one of these. Anyway, this was a decent tournament, though LoD was not allowed(no restrictions or anything out for it yet). Too bad, I didn't get to use my new Tyrant Dragon :( Darn. Anyway, here's my Deck, it's gone through some revision... 'Destiny' is a Dragon Beatdown.

Level 4 or lower Monsters:

3x Lord of D.(ragons)
2x Magician of Faith
2x Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer
2x Wall of Illusion
1x Sangan
1x Sinister Serpent
1x Gemini Elf
1x Cyber Jar
1x Bazoo the Soul-Eater
1x Goblin Attack Force
1x Witch of the Black Forest

Level 5-6 or 'Ritual' Monsters:

1x Jinzo

Level 7-8 Monsters:

3x Blue-Eyes White Dragon
2x Tri-Horned Dragon

Magic cards:

3x The Flute of Summoning Dragon
2x Graceful Charity
2x Tribute to the Doomed
1x Premature Burial
1x Dark Hole
1x Change of Heart
1x Raigeki
1x Monster Reborn
1x Heavy Storm
1x Harpie's Feather Duster
1x Pot of Greed
1x Swords of Revealing Light

Trap cards:

2x Solemn Judgment
1x Imperial Order
1x Magic Cylinder
1x Mirror Force
1x Call of the Haunted

Total: 44

Side Deck:

1x Exchange
1x United We Stand
1x Axe of Despair
1x Confiscation
1x Card Destruction
1x Scapegoat
2x Soul Release
1x Giant Trunade
2x Fissure
1x Chain Destruction
1x Mask of Restrict
1x Seven Tools of the Bandit
1x Skull Lair

Total: 15

Prizes:

-Entry was $5
-Everyone got a booster pack or TP3 pack for entering (I pulled Axe Raider in my TP3 pack, go me...)
-Dunno the rest of the prizes, sorry...

Round One - Me vs. Logan, whose Deck had -no- theme

The guy was new, I gotta cut him some slack. But he did know the rules, at least. Unfortunately, my Jinzo decided he didn't want to cut the boy some slack, and he and one of my Kycoos pummeled his Life Points for the win.

LP: 7350
His LP: 0

Duel two:

The only damage I took this Duel was from the use of a Solemn Judgment, when he tried to knock off my Lord of D.(ragons) with a Flip-Summoned MEB. Sorry, hun, Lindsay ain't gonna have that. Kycoo swung in for more hits, and massive Graveyard Removal, joined by one of my BEWDs and Jinzo, who simply wouldn't stop picking on poor Logan. Match goes to me.

LP: 4000
His LP: 0

Round Two - Me vs. Tony, a little kid who carried a BIG stick... in the form of a standard Beatdown

I want to make something clear: I hate standard Beatdowns. EVERYONE plays them, and they're just annoying, with their stupid Equip cards(Equip cards are lame...), their Skulls, their Jinzos(no offense to mine), etc. And they're so boring. But anyway... on to the Duel itself. The kid was good. I get overly suspicious when little kids make it to the second round, as competition is harsh around here. And he almost got me. I was at 1600 Life Points and he had a Jinzo on the field who had been blasting me repeatedly with its nasty psychic attacks. I was getting frustrated. But I was also never one to doubt the Heart of the Cards... I drew, and got a much-needed Graceful Charity.

Pot of Greed. Raigeki. Mirror Force. I had two Flutes in my Hand, and two Blue-Eyes. I dropped the Force(*wince*) and a Flute. Played the Pot of Greed. Feather Duster. Another Graceful. Dropped the Graceful. Got DRAGON LORD and two other cards I didn't need. Let the other cards go.

Not for the first time, my beloved Deck had saved me. Down came the Dragon Lord. In his hand went the Flute. Out came two snarling, bristling, and otherwise exceedingly angry Blue-Eyes White Dragons.

The look on his face was priceless. :) Needless to say, I won the Duel thanks to a hefty assist from my Deck.

LP: 1600 (!)
His LP: 0

Duel two:

See, kids, this is why we don't annoy Dragon Duelists and their beasts: their BEWDs will come back and bite you in the butt. Jinzo, Dragons, Kycoo... the kid was dead pretty quickly. I only took one hit, and that was from his Harpie's Brother. Never trifle with me. -_-
LP: 6200
His LP: 0

Okay, I wanna make something clear here: Don't talk to my dad before I go into a Duel. Because, chances are, I'm going to end up Dueling you. Josh, Charles' nephew, was talking to my dad before this Duel. Guess who I end up having to face? -_-

Round Three - Me vs. Josh, who ran a crazy, modified standard Beatdown

I got off to a decent start this Duel, hitting him with a Jinzo by my second turn. He came back strong, but then I retaliated, and got him down as far as 300 LP. It came down to me playing Premature Burial, and pulling back one of my Monsters, thinking I could swing in for the death blow and be done with it. Note this: he used Kycoo to remove my Jinzo from the game earlier, this is why I did not recover Jinzo. I pulled back Kycoo and Attacked...

I hate Waboku. -_-; Guernsey's has heavy Waboku abuse.

It cost me the Duel. He Change of Hearted, dropped another Monster, hit me with it and won. Crap.

LP: 0 (friggin evil blue men)
His LP: 300

Duel two:

He pretty much owned me this Duel, I couldn't get anything mounted... that is, until some heavy Monster Removal came in. It came down to him with nothing on the field, 'cept a face-down card. I had Dragon Lord in my Hand, ALL THREE of my Blue-Eyes white Dragons, and two Flutes. In other words, I could've killed him a turn. Certain the Duel was mine, I sent out the Dragon Lord to do his work...

And now I'll name another card I hate(hate being used against me, that is): SKULL LAIR.

Yes, of all things, his face-down card was a friggin Skull Lair. Four cards out of Graveyard, and there went my chance to blow him away. On his next turn, he just drops a Monster and kills me. D'oh. x_x

LP: 0
His LP: 8000 (yes, you heard me correctly, I never touched him -_-)

Props:

-There has been something I've been wanting to get off my chest all week. Everyone at Guernsey's should read this:

BILL GUERNSEY: DUELIST IS NOT SPELLED WITH AN 'A', GO TO www.guernseys.net AND FIX IT -_-;

-To Josh, Brad and the rest of the crew at the Game Room for being good judges and such. And Josh, cheer up, man... I don't know what happened to you, but you seem to have been down all week...
-To all my opponents for great Duels
-To all the people that gave me great trades(acquired a holo Curse of Dragon, Fiber Jar and Spear Dragon that tournament... I now have all 12 Dragons from LoD :D)
-To all the Duelists at Guernsey's, there ain't a person there I don't like.
-To my Deck for saving my sorry butt in my 2nd round Match :P
-To all the Monsters in my Deck, who do all the dirty work while I sit and tell them what to do :P Many thanks.

Slops:

-To Branden(Exodia-Boy) for quitting Yu-Gi-Oh! *pouts* Why?! The Game Room isn't the same without you...
-To Skull Lair. I hate you -_- (no offense to the one in my Side Deck)
-To people that are dumb and abuse restrictions(i.e. people who played 3 Gracefuls when they KNEW the restriction would be 2... how lame)
-People that cheat in online Duels. You know who you are.
-Charles, don't pick on your nephew -_-