Subject: The Death of Shining Friendship: Morgan Donley: Cincinnati Scifi: Middletown: Saturday, May 17, 2003

Hey everybody. After so many weeks of 1st round loosing and being absent for 2 weeks of competeating. I'm back and here to say, I no long have
Shining Friendship in my deck. No, I did not take anybody's advice on burning it, tearing it up, or trade it. I still like it. So here is my newly constructed deck.




MONSTERS:
Fire Princess
7 Colored Fish x2
4-Starred Ladybug of Doom x2
Man-eater Bug x2
Harpie's Brother x2
Hysteric Fairy 
Red-eyes Black Dragon
Cyber Jar
Sangan
Witch of the Black Forest
Wall of Illusion
Tornado Bird x2
Summoned Skull
Grand Tiki Elder
Invader of the Throne
White Magical Hat
Magician of Faith
Maha Vailo
Dark Elf
Kuriboh
Kycoo The Ghost Destroyer

MAGICS:
Fissure x2
Spiritualism x3
Change of Heart
Pot of Greed
Offerings to the Doomed
Graceful Charity
Card Destruction
Mask of Brutality
Raigeki
Dark Hole
Axe of Despair
Monster Reborn
Swords of Revealing Light
Mystic Plasma Zone
Ekibyo Drakmord


TRAPS:
Trap Hole x3
Magic Drain
Acid Trap Hole
Gryphon Wing
Robbin' Goblin
Mirror Force
Waboku
Dark Spirit of the Silent
Mask of Weakness
Deal of the Phantom


Yes, my trades have finally gotten good and I no longer have Destiny Board. Well, I'm going to add it to my side deck that I keep on leaving at my house. This time
I made it up to the 3rd Round. I was surprised my self. I haven't worked on it till last night and this morning while eating breakfast. But alot of rounds were really slow.

ROUND #1
Me Vs. #9 or #11(I was #10 this time)
Well, I did get a really good hand and most of the time, I had the Ghost Destroyer kicking butt turn after turn. The final match, I had Kycoo, Fire Princess, 4-Stared Ladybug of Doom,
Man-eater bug and either a 7 Colored Fish or Harpie's Brother at the same time. The kid was surprised I had that many monsters. I guess he was a newbie but a really good newbie if he was.

Round #2
Me Vs. and Unknown Number
I forgot the kids number, be he gave me a challenge. Some of my moved that I pulled on the last kid was countered. But it was Robbin' Goblin who kept it up. We both had Mystic Plasma Zone, but he played his first before I could.
During the matched I asked if he had a Mirror Force. He said no and wanted to know if I had one. I said yes and he wondered if it was in my magic and trap card and I said no. After a few turns, I used it and he was surprised that I had it and tricked him.
You gotta have the poker face to pull off a stunt like that. I almost gave it away by smiling and laughing while trying to say no. He had only one piece of Exodia and used it as a defense monster. I think it was the
left arm. He was good. He might have made it to the next round if he wasn't going ageist me or had better cards

Round #3
Me Vs. #13
Well, it was the most hardest duel I have ever done, other than both duels with Kevin and Monji. This kid kept on using that freaking Penguin Solider so manytimes along with Call of the Haunted and Shallow Grave. He stomped me in the first match and it wasn't pretty. Mainly, I had used Mirror Forced and he used 7 Tools of the Bandit and then I tried Mask of Weakness on the Fiend Megacyber that
was attacking, and I still lost. Finally, in the 2nd match, I started a come back. I thought I was going to loose, but thanks to Wall of Illusion, the only non flip effect due to Royal Command, stopped his La Jinn with United We Stand. Then, when he tried to summon to destroy Invader of the Throne, Trap Holes came out and won me the match. 3rd match lasted ooo...a good 2 minutes. He mainly used Penguin Solider so manytimes, that my hand 
overflowed and left me open and I lost. He was very good. He beat Will and almost beat Monji before my match started.

Well, it was very good for someone that hasn't dueled in so long. Next week, I have new cards that I haven't had that might..beat out Travis and some of the others.^^

Props:
Kyle for giving my Dark Necrofear and Black Pendent for free. I'm so happy. I've been looking for Dark Necrofear since the set came out.
This one kid for a good trade of so many cards like Giant Truenade and Seven Tools of the Bandit.
Monji and Kevin for showing up after so long. Fans, Monji might be competing again...due to some people who called him weak when he took apart his deck. 
Omni for cheering me on!

Sloppy Joes:
Ben....He's not going to be working there anymore!! He was the Coolest Judge ever!!!!!!!*cries*
RAIN!!! IT'S BEEN FREAKING RAINING FOR THE PAST MONTH!!! I couldn't stand outside to get some air or to eat.


Morgan
moon_guardian@hotmail.com