Surprises Around Every Corner Deck, Dominic Minieri  Wizards of the Coast NJ

For those of you that have decided to join me, I thank you. I now give you my tale of action, adventure betrayal, and love!!… ok no love…or betrayal…just read the report…

This is my second time doing my report. Some of you may have read my first, if not check it out. Once again it's me and my partner in crime, Dustin.
My deck:
Monsters (19)

Tributes (3)
The Fiend Megacyber (Outnumbered? Not anymore)
Jinzo (No mirror force? hell yeah!)
Barrel Dragon (Sweet stats and awesome effect)

Normal (3)
Gemini Elfx3 (100 attack above the rest)

Effect (13)
Bazoo (Go souls! Make my monkey grow!)
Goblin Attack Forcex2 (They died for their Country)
Cyber Jar (Oh No! Jinzo! What Will I ever do????Attack and find out)
Kycoo The ghost Destroyerx2 (you wanted those Exodia pieces, didn't you?)
Witch of the black Forest (I want a sac monster...here we go.)
Man Eater Bug (He eats Dragons here and there)
Sinister serpent (It never gives up, never surrenders)
Kuribox2 (That's enough damage to beat me…if I didn't have this that is)
Hayabusa Knight (Double Trouble)
Sangan (If its not one fuzzy creature, its another)

Magic (18)
Mystic Space Typhoonx3 (Maha Vailo attack is back to normal...awww)
Pot of greed (Greed is good)
Graceful Charityx2 (I got monster reborn, sinister serpent and barrel dragon....decisions, decisions...)
Heavy Storm (No traps to worry about...whew)
Monster Reborn (Guess who's bbbaaaccckkkk)
Dark Hole (Who turned out the lights?)
Raigeki (Shocking...isn't it?)
Snatch Steal (I will just borrow your Blue Eyes)
Change of heart (Ok ill use it on your fd magician of faith, flip it, and get it back...again)
Premature Burial (800 is small to pay for jinzo's company)
United We Stand (Divided we fall)
Mage Power (The magicians are pissed)
Tribute to the doomed (I destroy one of your monsters by discarding sinister serpent...then I get it back next turn…good deal)
Harpies Feather Duster (Your traps are dirty…time to clean)
Axe of Despair (If this card was beating me down I would despair also)

Traps (8)
Magical Cylinder (Your supposed to attack me...not yourself)
Mirror Force (Ouch...sucks for you)
Waboku (Saves my monster so I can tribute it next turn...sounds good)
Solemn Judgment (It's the law of the land)
Magic Jammer (Watching Raigeki fizzle out is funny)
Call of the haunted (Oh no! my lp is wide open...oh wait. Never mind.)
Torrential Tribute (Your monster might as well have a time bomb strapped to its head)
Imperial order (I already used magic jammer, so lets try this)

Total 45(I managed to lower my deck size which I think helped)

Side Deck
Exchange
Delinquent Duo
The forceful Sentry
Confiscation
Giant Trundade
Seven tools
Magic Jammer
Card Destruction
Soul Release
Respect Play
Lightforce Swordx2
Stop Defense
Shadow of eyes
Solemn Wishes
This is mostly to stop Exodia, but it is also for clowns, burner, ect. I didn't have to use this at all today.

Just to fill you guys in on all the things that happened since my last tournament…things haven't been going smoothly. I have been in a losing slump ever since this big tournament in Woodbridge. I was supposed to get 3rd place at least, but me and Dustin were screwed over BIG TIME and its been downhill ever since. Then Friday, the day before the tourneys, Brandon (earth specialist on canvas) switched over to a water deck…he then proceeded to beat me…in every single duel…for 45 MINUTES STRAIGHT. I was seething with anger…but instead of losing my cool, I turned off the juice, and compressed and formed that anger into strategy and skill. Did it work? Lets find out.

To the tournament!

# Of people at wizards, 21
Entrance Fee-$6
1st  place-$25 in store credit
2nd place-6 LoN booster packs
3rd place-3 LoN booster packs
4th place-1 LoN booster pack
5th place-Thousand Eyes Restrict store promo
6th place-Buster Blader store promo

We went down to wizards of the coast for the tournament that started at 10:30 in the morning. We were limited for time as the 2nd at sports hounds started at 1:00. We all hung out and talked before it started, which didn't start till 11:00…not good. Each person that goes to the league has their duels recorded and added up. There are 2 different leagues, 1 on Wednesday, and the other on Saturday. The top 5 from both days get into the tournament automatically. I was only ranked #3 because I don't go every week and it affected my record. Oh well.


Match 1(Me vs. RMD)
I have played him before and he wasn't too happy to duel me again. So much for heart of the cards.
Me,8000,7200
Him-8000, 3600, 400, 0
Duel 1
Gemini elf and Kycoo were doing tag team bashing. Later on I got Jinzo out and that settled it.
Duel 2
Me 8000, 7800
Him 8000, 7400, 6800, 4400, 2100, 100,0
He lasted a little longer this time but it was my Bazoo and Kycoo again....plus Jinzo spiced things up

So I moved on. Duh. I checked in on dustin and he was in a heated match with one of the guys from sports hounds. There was some arguing about whether or not dustin could chain scapegoat to his own imperial order. We both advance but it took a while for the second round to begin…especially since we were limited for time…but so far so good.

Match 2 (Me vs. Rob)
Duel 1
Me 8000, 7000, 6550
Him 8000, 3400, 2800, 0
This guy was ranked #3 on Saturday so it was up to me to show who was the big #3 on campus. Was he serious??? He put up 0 fight. Took him out 1,2,3.

Duel 2
Me8000, 7000, 5000, 4400, 3200, 0
Him8000, 7800, 7400, 5500
I may have spoke too soon. Bad Hand + No monsters + angry opponent=defeat. I think he was very angered by the last duels result. If my monsters lasted on the field as long as it took me to draw them…I would have done fine. But that wasn't the situation.

Duel 3
Me 8000, 6200, 5800
Him 8000, 7200, 4400, 0
Here is a new equation. Hayabusa knight + Axe of despair = the losing of half your life points. He was off to a good start. He cleared my field and managed to hit me directly with his own Kycoo. I nailed him with a pumped up Bazoo. He played cyber jar face down…me finding this out after summoning a Gemini. We both got our cards, he got no monster and I got Sangan. I attacked him with it. Next turn he summoned a Sangan and he pulled a kamikaze. I searched for Hayabusa, gave it an axe, and that was the end of him.

Dustin made quick work of his opponent so I didn't get to see his match We both advance but this time something interesting occurred…it turned out that I played the #1 from Wednesday and dustin got the #1 from Saturday…lucky us. 

Match 3(Me vs. Sean)
Sean…the seanster…seanaroni. If it wasn't the head honcho himself. Mr. #1. He took the title that should be mine. But I would make sure he wasn't #1 today.
Duel 1
Me8000, 7500, 6100, 5500, 4800
Him8000, 5700, 3300, 2100, 1100, 0
He is a very creative duelist. He has cards in his arsenal such as ultimate offering which he uses to his advantage. But I think goofing off with jap cards so long got him rusty. He didn't play very strategically and with my MST's on his ultimate offering, he was left high and dry.
Duel 2
Me, 8000, 6200, 5750, 3450
Him8000, 6800, 6300, 5300, 3700, 2600, 0
He was very unhappy with his opening hand (which I found out later contained 3 Gemini's) so I guess that was good for me. I was playing more strategically then him so I doubled whatever he did and played off his moves. Easier then it should have been.

Ok so I'm onto the final 3 people along with Rick and the Dustin (Dustin wiped the floor with Saturday's 60-year-old #1 duelist. No surprise) we were up for a bye. They just randomly choose Dustin to get it…like he needed a bye. So let the semi finals commence!!

Match 4(Me vs. Rick)
I never saw this dude before so I wasn't sure to expect. He was a nice guy and this was a great match.
Duel 1
Me8000, 7700, 6400, 5600
Him8000, 6000, 2000, 100, 0
My Hayabusa bashed this kid into the ground like a nail…except he used an axe. After managing to kill it with dark hole, Kycoo and sinister serpent cleaned up the mess. Duelists always have a habit of prolonging their defeat to merely piss of their opponent. JUST DIE!!!
Duel 2
Me8000, 0
Him8000
This game was painful for me. I started off by summoning Gemini elf. He then used snatch steal on Gemini, then summoned a Hayabusa with a united we stand, and mage power. He set al the m/t's in his zones and killed me in one turn…total bs…-_-'
Duel 3
Me8000, 7800, 6800, 5600, 5000, 3150, 1400, 600
Him8000, 5700, 5100, 4300, 3600, 1100, 0
This was the best of the 3. After the last game, there was no way I was going go lose like that again. I started in the beginning by clearing his field with mystic space typhoon and dark hole, and hitting him with my GAF. He then used Hayabusa to kill it and attack directly. I summoned Kycoo and killed Hayabusa and got rid of some of his graveyard. Most of my hand was gone and Kycoo was my only monster. He played a monster fd and ended his turn. I finally got a Gemini and summoned it only to get nailed with a cyber jar. I got a kuribo, and he got a man-eater bug, and WotBF. He killed kuribo by attack. He ended his turn. I used change of heart on his ma neater, used it to kill WotBF and then sacked it for Jinzo to hit him directly. He then slapped me with Raigeki, Followed by a Sangan and a revival of his Summoned skull. Ouch. I special summoned fiend mega cyber, and Gemini elf. I normal summoned a Bazoo, but I was paranoid of his fd m/t's, so I monster reborned Jinzo…he then offerings to the doomed it. I then tried to bring it back with premature burial…mystic space typhoon. He still had 2 cards fd and I was only at 600 lp! So I took a chance of it being cylinders…it worked. I attacked with pumped up Bazoo and mega cyber. Great match.

So here we are after the finals. And it's against the one opponent I knew I would have to beat if I wanted to win. It's me…vs. dustin…and I declare war. 

FINAL MATCH (Me vs. Dustin)

Duel 1
Me 8000, 7000, 5500, 4300, 3900, 3500, 2800, 1800
Him8000, 5700, 5500, 4900, 4450 4350, 2300, 300, 0
This first was the best. I expected nothing less from him. He is so devious in his strategy and cards. Just when you hit him with all you got, he knocks you right back down. I started off early hitting him with a GAF, and that gave me a early advantage. But knowing him it most likely wasn't going to last long. He then hit me with a Gemini elf. I then used snatch steal and sacked it for jinzo which then hit him again. He killed it with dark hole, reborned it then smacked me with that and ANOTHER Gemini. I was able to special summon Fiend mega cyber, and get a Kycoo with united we stand. I then played Raigeki and that was game….phew.

Duel 2
Me 8000, 6600, 5900, 5200
Him8000 6200, 5500, 5300, 4000, 3300, 2000, 200, 0
This was way too easy considering his skill. All I needed was imperial order and I basically had no problem taking him down. He used kuribo's, and other stuff to slow it down. But this game…was mine.

So I won again! Who hoo!. With both #1's from both weeks slain, and me and dustin victorious, my work here was done. It was fun overall and of course its always fun winning. But since I had my sports hounds tournament, I had to go…..the I won this battle…but the war between me and Dustin is far from over. On another note. I am now a member of a 4 person team…called the elementals. Joining me are Russ Pierce, Jason Friedman, and you know it…Dustin Pigeon. Wwe will start going around to different places defeating the greatest duel teams out there…so if your on a team yourself or going solo…watch out because the Elementals are blowing your way.

NOW PROOOPPPSSS AND SSLLOOOPPPSSSS




Props:
Winning
Dustin going
Yugioh being a great game
My deck
Beating the person who stole my #1 spot
Cheese
Slops:
Clowns
Exodia
New boosters for taking so long to come out
The 1st place prize actually being less then 2nd place
Crappy Newbie Duelinsts.


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