Subject: Fire Princess Deck - Matt Marcelo - Toronto, Ontario Matt Marcelo Place: Dolly's Craft Shop (they sell cards too), Toronto, Ontario Fee: $1 Number of people: around 20 Prize: 1st - 4 of any pack 2nd - 3 of any pack 3rd - 2 of any pack 4th - 1 of any pack Deck: The Burning Princess Monsters (17) Fire Princess x 3 Marie the Fallen One x 3 Lava Golem Spear Cretin x 2 Sinister Serpent Mask of Darkness x 2 Witch of the Black Forest Sangan Magician of Faith Cyber Jar Giant Soldier of Stone Magic (12) Change of Heart Harpies Feather Duster Swords of Revealing Light Monster Reborn Messenger of Peace x 2 Dark Hole The Dark Door Graceful Charity Heavy Storm Mystical Space Typhoon Tribute to the Doomed Exchange Trap (12) Gravity Bind x 2 Ceasefire Seven Tools of the Bandit Graverobber Dust Tornado Solemn Judgement Magic Jammer Solemn Wishes x 2 Call of the Haunted Mask of Restrict Well, this was my first tournament ever and it took some persuasion from a friend to get me to join. Pre-Tourney: Me vs. Little yata kid Well before the tourney I decided to see if I was any good against these people so I asked if this kid wanted to duel and told me that I can't beat his deck cuz it had yata, but he played me to show me that my deck didn't belong here because it wasn't a form of beatdown. Well my opponent had the regular cards that most people use and managed to break the lock and killed my Maries saying that those cards didn't belong in any deck. After locking him yet again he managed to clear my monsters and summoned his yata and "locked me" since I didn't have anything to do but it was the near end of the deck and he thought I was beat but I told him that my Maries keep giving me enough life to take any damage and since I locked him he eventually decked out. Me: 8000 - 6000 - 5000 Opp: 8000 - 6000 - Decked Out First match: Me vs. kid who just lost their cards (I didn't know anyone since its my tourney so I don't know names their names) Duel One: For a kid who just lost their cards he sure has got a lot in just a week, anyways on with the duel. I got an early lock with my Gravitys and MoP's and built up some defense but that all got feather dustered and beat down but I put up the same lock and smacked down a Lava Golem and waited eight turns. Me: 8000 Opp: 8000 - 7000 - 6000.......and so on Duel Two: Not much action here I just got beaten down.........bad. Me: 8000 - 6100 - 4000 - 0 Opp: 8000 - 7000 (got some burnin done) Duel Three: This one was a bit better, I got 2 Maries in the grave and 2 Solemn Wishes out and that went for about half the duel because of my MoP. After my opponent built a wall of beatdown monsters (Around the last 10 cards)I got a cyber jar and from that flip I got 2 Fire Princesses and the duel went on till I burned enough (4000 a turn XD). Me: 8000 - 6100 - 14000 (after 20 turns or so) Opp: 8000 - 7500 - 3500 - 0 Second match: Me vs. a Fiend beatdown Duel One: It amazed me that this was almost the same duel as the first one in the first match, well I locked him with a Lava Golem and won it. Me: 8000 Opp: 8000 - 7000 - 6000.........and so on Duel Two: After taking some Summoned Skull damage I locked him and slowly burned him to death with the princess. Me: 8000 - 5000 - 9000 (after about 10 turns) Opp: 8000 - 7500 - 5500 - 3500 - 1500 - 0 Match three: Me vs. really good hand disrupt/beatdown Duel One: Well I didn't get any lock so I got beaten down. Me: 8000 - 6000 - 4000 - 0 Opp: 8000 - 7000 (due to a CoH) Duel Two: Managed to get a lock but then I hit a Fiber Jar.........then it was downhill from there. Me: 8000 - 6000 - 7000 - 6000 - 4000 - 1000 -0 Opp: 8000 - 7000 - 6000 Props: Having placed 4th in my first tourney Finding that my skill and deck are better than I had thought Beating that yata kid Proving to people that my deck works Slops: Not facing my friend who got kicked in the first round Knowing that school was just around the corner People trashin my deck Not getting to know any of the people who I dueled Contact: E-mail: omi_takatori_69@hotmail.com