Waukesha, WI – some hall rented by a local comic store – April 26, 2003    “Shadow”  The Nuisance Deck

 

1st - 4 LON

2nd - 3 LON

3rd - 2 LON

4th - 2 LON

 

Entry - $5

 

Deck: The Nuisance (42 card burner)

 

Mons (21):

2 Man-Eater Bug (a.k.a. MEB or bug)

1 Penguin Soldier

3 Giant Germ

3 Nimble Momonga (yes, squirrels)

2 Cannon Soldier

1 Witch of the Black Forest (a.k.a. Wotbf or witch)

1 Sangan

2 Magician of Faith

2 Mask of Darkness

1 Cyber Jar

1 Wall of Illusion

2 Cure Mermaid

 

Magic (13):

1 Scapegoat

1 Raigeki

1 Mons Reborn

1 Change of Heart

1 Pot of Greed

1 Graceful Charity

2 Messenger of Peace

3 Chain Energy

2 Giant Trunade

 

Traps (8):

3 Grav Bind

1 Ceasefire

3 Just Desserts

1 Magic Jammer

 

Sidedeck (15):

Exchange

Card Destruction

3 Prohibition

2 Fissure

2 Trap Hole

1 Messenger of Peace

2 Wall of Illusion

3 Hane-Hane

 

Since there were so many people and so little time, the guy running the place decided to go with single duel matches, single elimination.  It was the first time he ran one this big, so I don’t really blame him for not planning things better.

 

Round 1:  Me (Shadow) vs. Harry (Jinzo Beatdown)

                I went first.  I started with 2 facedown m/t and set a meb.  He crossed out the bug, reborned it, summoned jinzo and attacked.  What a crappy start.  I flipped my scapegoat.  He used a raigeki, then tried to attack again, and it took 10 minutes and a judge to explain to him that raigeki is normal magic, and can only be used during a main phase (since he already declared an attack, even if he changed his mind when the number of creatures changed, it still put him in main phase 2).  I used a pot of greed, cannon soldier, launched 2 sheep (H: 7000), change of heart, attacked for 3800 (H:3200), then launched another sheep and jinzo (H:2200).  He played Gemini Elf and an m/t, attacked, but gravity bind saved me.  I drew a just desserts, but layed out a germ, and put cannon soldier in def.  I took 900 dmg by attacking his elf with the germ, killing my germ and using it's effect to grab the other two while hitting him with 500 dmg (Me: 7100, H:1700).  I launched the 2 fresh germs, the last sheep, and cannon soldier.  (H:0000).  His facedown was a mirror force, but he didn't use it when my germ attacked because he didn't understand my plan.  Oh well.

 

Round 2: Me vs. Bee (Speed Exodia)

                Sidedeck in Exchange and Card destruction out 1 each MoP and Grav Bind

                I've heard this guy is a cheater and stacks his deck.  After he 'shuffled', he put down his deck and promptly drew his cards.  I put my deck in front of him, took the cards from his hand, put them back on his deck and cut the first 15 cards or so off the top.  He went first.  He played two facedown m/t and a Wotbf.  I played a penguin down, along with 2 m/t of my own.  He put out a squirrel and attacked my f/d with the witch, promptly returning his two mons to his hand.  At this point I was doing all I could to keep him from getting some type of shuffling effect (wotbf, sangan, squirrels, germs....) since I was pretty sure I had cut away most or all of exodia.  Although I had an open field to attack, I decided to set a princess of tsurugi in def.  He obliged by playing a 3rd m/t, and attacking with his resummoned witch (B:6500).  I drew a ceasefire, and set it along with a squirrel of my own.  He played his own squirrel, and attacked my f/d one with his witch (Me: 9000).  I pulled out my other two and set them, then popped ceasefire and a just desserts for 3K (B:3500).  I drew and played graceful charity, but he jammed it.  With no mons in hand I let him go.  He played another squirrel and attacked mine with his, and then direct with his witch (Me: 9900).  I drew a cyber jar, and having nothing else, layed it out f/d.  He played a sangan (lucky snot), and attacked my cyber, giving him two search effects after the 5 card layout.  Cyber gave me raigeki, just desserts, a germ, a meb and chain energy.  He got his last squirrel and a hayabusa from cyber, and grabbed the head and a limb of exodia for his wotbf/sangan effects.  He didn't attack, oh well.  I flipped the meb on his knight, set raigeki and jd, and used an exchange for his exodia head (he took my chain energy).  I summoned the head f/d, attacked his squirrel with my germ, using it's effect to fill up my mons slots.  I finished the atk and won the game (B:0000).  His remaining f/d were backup soldier and gravity bind.

 

Round 3: Me vs. Gerri (Weenie Beatdown)

                (I forgot to put the exchange and card dest. back in my sidedeck)

                Gerri has been playing for a while, and she’s one of the store’s best.  Her parents pretty much buy her anything she wants, but she really does have some skill too.  She changes decks almost every week.  Just my luck this week she’d be using a weenie deck.  She won the toss.  She started with 1 m/t and mons f/d.  I tossed out a f/d germ, and j/d.  She layed a jinzo7 with black pendant, flipped a squirrel, atked with both, killing my germ and using the jinzo7 to go direct past the two I pulled from the deck (Me: 7000, G:7500).  I drew and put out cannon soldier, then attacked with it.  She flipped Gravity bind, so I used 1 germ as a suicide against her jinzo7, launched the other (Me: 6500, G: 6500).  I put out a giant trunade f/d, and then played a chain energy.  She played mystic lamp with united we stand (G: 5500), I popped a jd too early (G:4500), because she used her squirrel to suicide on my cannon soldier (G:5100) so she could play the other two.  That put her mystic lamp at 2800 direct dmg, and of course she used it just for that (Me:3700).  I used giant trunade, then set 2 chain energies.  I attacked her naked lamp with cannon soldier (G:4100).  I then flipped up my 2 chain energies.  She drew something and set the gravity bind on her turn (G:3100).  I drew, played and attacked with a cure mermaid(Me:2700), forcing the grav bind.  She passed her turn.  I took my 800 and passed as well (Me:3500).  She played another mystic lamp and the united we stand (G:1100), then attacked again for 2800 (Me:0700).  On my turn (Me:1500), I was lucky and drew/played MoP (Me:0500).  It was her turn, and she could have won here but didn’t see it (If she would have attacked with her squirrels she would have gained life, and brought the atk of the lamp down to only 1200, below the MoP limit of 1500).  Instead, she passed.  I took my 800 life (Me:1300) and used it to summon the wall of illusion I drew (Me:300).  I sac’d my 3 mons to cannon for the win.  I told her how she could have won, and although a little upset she was really cool about it.  We all make mistakes.

 

Round 4: Me vs. John (Beatdown)

                (Still forgot to sidedeck stuff back, but it kind of helped.)

I went first.  I drew… all m/t, including the exchange.  I set graceful charity, grav bind, mons reborn, raigeki, and used exchange to give him a MoP for another Mons Reborn.  I then used the graceful charity which gave me a MoD (tossed Grav bind and cannon soldier).  He evidently drew a crossout and used it, then played his Gemini elf for 1900 (Me:6100).  I drew Wotbf, played that, used raigeki, reborned his Gemini and my cannon soldier, attacked for 4400 (J:3600).  He played a GaF and attacked to activate my grav bind.  I drew and played chain energy, switched all but Gemini to def.  He sac’d the GaF for Jinzo (J:3100), and attacked the cannon soldier.  I drew MoF, and set it, switched Gemini to def (Me:5600).  He played another GaF (J:2600), attacked the elf with jinzo, and my MoF with his GaF.  I grabbed Exchange.  I drew a MEB, but gave it to him with exchange and took back my MoP, which I played right away (Me:4600).  I then attacked his GaF with my Wotbf.  He played a m/t, and a face down mons and passed to me (J:1600).  I drew a jd, set it (Me:4100), and attacked his f/d with my wotbf.  It was the bug, and he used it on my witch.  I grabbed cyber jar and set that too (Me:3600), pretty much set for a win.  He drew and passed again.  I drew another gbind, flipped cyber jar.  It gave me 2 germs, a princess, another chain energy and ceasefire.  He got jarai gumo, la jinn, 7 colored, and some m/t.  I left all my mons f/d and set the ceasefire (Me:3100).  On his turn, I flipped the ceasefire, which he 7 tooled (J:0600).  The jd took care of the rest.

 

Round 5: Me vs Damien (Nuisance clone)

                I remembered my sidedeck.  I put back the exchange and card destruction, and brought out the 3 prohibitions and wall of illusions in place of my Gravity Binds and MoP

                I played with this guy before at HobbytownUSA in Delafield, and he copied my deck and altered it a bit.  I don’t really mind too much since he did try to change things a little.  I congratulated him on making it this far with my deck :P  I then told him I’d teach him to use the sidedeck too.  He went first, set 3 m/t and a mons f/d.  I set a wall of illusion, and a jd.  On his turn, he played sangan with another m/t, and attacked my wall (D:7150).  He flipped a mask of the accursed on my wall (one of his changes I guess).  I drew and set princess of tsurugi, holding my giant trunade for next turn.  He started his turn (Me: 7500), set another f/d mons, and passed to me.  I popped the princess (D:5150), then giant trunade.  I reset my jd with the one I drew this turn, then used a prohibition on it (he seemed irritated, I asked later and he had 2 jd returned by trunade).  He set 2 m/t, flipped a penguin soldier, sacd it for Jinzo, and attacked directly with that , his flipped giant germ, and sangan for 4200 (Me:3300).  I used change of heart on jinzo, summoned a cannon soldier, attacked with both (D:3550  Me:2800) and launched jinzo for 500 more (D:3050).  He summoned a cannon soldier of his own, and I took the opportunity to flip both jd on his 2 germs and cannon (D:0050).  He used his cannon soldier to kill mine, then attacked directly with his two germs (Me:800).  I played my wall face down with an m/t and passed to him.  He drew something and passed.  I drew and played chain energy.  He laughed and forfeit.  His m/t were magic cylinder and mirror force (neither of which I have).  I let him see my sidedeck, which he suggested some good changes for.  He hasn’t put one together yet but said he will.

 

Round 6: Me vs Jimmy (??? deck)

                I switched my deck back to normal.

                This was a quick game.  I won by disqualifying the guy.  This guy cheats a lot.  Everyone knows it, and he had been warned once already in a previous tourney (3rd time caught you get banned from the store).  He doesn’t even cheat all that well either, as you’ll see.  I’m not sure how the idiot got this far.  I went first, played a germ f/d with a jammer in m/t.  He used snatch steal, which I jammered, then he used a SECOND snatch steal.  I had a judge check his deck.  He had repeats of a bunch of restricted cards.  Bye-bye cheater.  Instead of giving him the 3rd/4th place prize of two LON, I convinced the judge to give them to the guy he ‘beat’ in the round before.  I would have dueled that guy to give him a fair chance, but he had already left.  The judge held the packs for him though.

 

Round 7: Me vs Barry (Beatdown)

                My deck was made for dueling beatdowns.  I had watched part of his last duel, so I knew exactly what to expect.  He went first, playing a jarai gumo in attack, no m/t.  I set a wall of illusion and played MoP.  He used a heavy storm, and a crossout on my wall.  He then put out a GaF and attacked with both mons, winning the gumo flip as well (Me:3700).  I got my pot of greed, followed by graceful charity.  I set a gbind and a giant germ in def, and the ceasefire.  He played another Gumo, and attacked my germ with one, losing the flip (B: 3500).  He attacked one of my new germs and guessed the flip right (B:3000, Me: 2500).  I played a squirrel and attacked a gumo (Me:2300), bringing out two more facedown.  Then I used the ceasefire to finish him off (B:0000).

 

Aftermath:

                Although I guess I’m supposed to say that I got 2 Gemini Elves and a Magic Cylinder in my 3 LON packs which all came from the same box, I didn’t really get anything good, just the ‘I’ from final which I have a few of already.  It was the first time I won a tournament, although I’ve made it to the quarter finals once before.  I’m still not all that well known, and neither is my deck, which is good locally.  It’s a killer deck if your metagame is almost purely beatdown.  If you find a lot of people using this deck, I’d suggest using a life replenish/dd deck (like fire princess) against it, or pack a lot of m/t counters and removal cards.

 

Props:

 *Pojo, for putting all his sites together with reliable information.  Double props for maintaining them.

 *Winning, of course.

 *Gerri for being cool about losing, and a really good duelist.

 *Damien for trying to add original twists to my deck.

 *Any tourney, sanctioned or not.

 *One of my friends who took the notes in exchange for me helping her learn the game.

 *For a few lucky or timely draws.  I know it was luck.  I’m ok with that.

 

Slops:

 *Cheaters

 *People who try to be cool by saying unrealistic stuff in tourney reports.  You win sometimes, you lose sometimes (hell, I lose all the time, just got lucky this time).  And you aren’t cool just because you get good stuff in packs.  Lucky, maybe.  Cool, no.  Get over it.  We want to know what really works at tourneys, and can usually tell when you’re fibbin.  I don’t know how many reports I’ve seen where the person draws exodia in the first or second turn every single game, or has a Lord of D, Flute, and 2 BEWD on the first turn, in all 3 duels!  Either you’re lying or stacking your deck, and I don’t want to hear about either.

 *Cheaters

 *Thieves – what the hell.  Get your own cards.  I don’t have a lot of money but I managed to get what I needed.  You can build good decks without all the expensive stuff.  Mine works, and other than the starter packs, it only has like 1 ultra rare and 2 super rares, a very cheap deck!.  If you touch my cards I hope a million chiggers infest your armpits.

 *Cheaters

 *Cheaters – what the hell good is it to win by cheating.  If you have to resort to that, it’s only obvious that YOU SUCK.  If you don’t think you’re good enough to win on your own, then take the loss and play more people to learn how to play better.  Ask questions.  Try new things.  Listen to the people that do well without cheating.  Everyone can improve, but you won’t if you don’t learn where you’re making mistakes.

 *Cheaters – P.S.  I have no problems getting you disqualified the first time I see you cheat, and then I’ll make a big deal about it so every knows you’re a cheater, and they’ll hate you for it.  If you can’t play by the rules, get out.

 

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