The True Maverick Hunter ZERO Deck
Scott Forbes
Comic Connection
Hamilton, Ontario
April 8th, 2004
Cost: $6.00
Prize - Losers - Dark Crisis or IOC
           2nd - IOC
           1st - 2 IOCs

Argh, after a struggling week, and another loss to Fro in the tourney last week,
I was determined to do better.

Anyway, let's get to it.

Monsters

Witch
Sangan
Don Zaloog x2
Magical Scientist
Kycoo
Tomato x2
Breaker
DD Warrior Lady x2
Tribe Infecting Virus (Syphilis)
Exiled Force
Sinister Serpent
Fiber Jar
Yata Garasu

T Monsters

Jinzo
Vampire Lord

Magic

6 Staples
MST x 3
Monster Reborn
Premature Burial
Graceful Charity
Delinquent Duo
The Forceful Sentry
Heavy Storm
Mirage of Nightmare
Snatch Steal

Traps

Drop Off x 2
Imperial Order
Call of the Haunted
Ring of Destruction
Mirror Force


The return of the tomatoes and dons. The zombies fell apart...literally. Anyway, I came this
week with Morris, Fro and Bighead (Yes, we really do call him Bighead...)

Just before we left I had to help out finishing Morris's deck so we filled it with tons of
crap commons (Morris decks Chaos monsters, 1 of each) and I was so confident that
he would not win the tourney, that I said if he did win, I'd shave my head bald (My hair
is almost a foot long) and Fro said he'd wear a shirt saying he was Morris's bitch for
the rest of the year.

Before the tournament, I bought one of those IOC boxes with 3 packs and pulled Ring, 
Dimension Fusion, Insect Princess and that crap Getsu Fuhma thing. Not too shabby.
No Chaos monsters, I know. As much as I like the soldier, I decided I'd be better off
without them. Kycoo takes care of opposing chaos monsters anyway.

First round:   
Maverick Hunter ZERO vs. Barry R. (?)

MAN, does this guy ever have deck issues. He decks 3 blue eyes, at least 1 dark magician,
at least 1 black luster soldier (THE RITUAL!!), Jinzo and some other piece of crap. Holy
frickin shit. And after the duel, he insists on telling me dark magician is good. Dear god....

Duel 1
8000-0
Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO

As you can probably tell, he got absolutely slaughtered. I started off with pot and set IO
and drop off. He goes, loses some 1800 ATKer, no effect, so he sets 1 monster and 2
face down traps. I go and play Forceful. All 4 monsters in his hand are tribute monsters.
Anyway, I send back Jinzo, and next I crossout his monster and destroy one trap (MST)
and attack with DD Lady. He goes, plays pot, I play IO. My move. I set Mirror Force
and summon sangan for more damage. He goes and sets a monster. I go and draw Jinzo.
I sac Sangan for it and grab yata. DD Lady attacks his monster which was a spirit reaper,
and it's removed and Jinzo attacks his life. He draws and sets a monster. I draw, play Heavy
Storm summon Yata, Jinzo attacks some crappy thing, Yata attacks. He has 600 life left and
I ask him if he wants to wait it out and he says sure. Summon yata, attack, you lose!

Duel 2
3800-0
Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO

Dear GOD! HE ACTUALLY DEALT DAMAGE TO ME! I cannot believe this! He reborned
his jinzo and attacked my fd witch (Tribe) and attacks my life. He says to himself twice, "Finally,
the duel is going in my favour, even after he saw me getting one of me three fav cards (Tribe). I go.
I play forceful, get rid of his only card, play HFD, summon tribe, destroy all 3 of his monsters and
attack him. He was absolutely stunned. Anyway, he topdecks and gets crap, I get premature, take
my Jinzo, summon a don and that was game.

After the duel I try to tell him he should try some better tribute monsters such as Airkinght, V-Lord
or possibly Dark Ruler so at least you could say I helped him with his terrible loss.

All 4 of us advance to the second round. I have a lot of time on my hands so I just kick back
and watch the crappy duelists die horribly. This one guy says he tributes BOTH of his monsters
for the INCREDIBLE Blue Eyes White Dragon, and I'm like, "No! That's the most powerful
card in the game! No card could beat that! And all I have in my hand is Raigeki, Dark Hole,
Snatch Steal and Tribe! I'm doomed!" 

Second Round:
Maverick Hunter ZERO vs. Alex Eastman

Duel 1
0-0
Victory - TIE!!!

Oh my god, we tied! How could this happen! I go second and I crossout his sinister and blow up
his traps, summon don, play forceful, get rid of call, attack, destroy the other card (Yata) and he goes,
and sets both cards. I go, summon DD Lady, attack. He goes, does nothing. I go, attack again, reducing
him to like, 500 life, then he goes. Pot, Graceful, Mirage. God Damn it! He also plays swords and I can't
stop it! We're at each others necks for a long time and he manages to blow up my field and reduce me to
about 1200 life. I summon tribe and blow up his field but swords stops me still. He goes and swords is gone,
but he still has like 4 fd m/t but he says he knows he can't win so he rings my tribe and we tie! Incredible!

Duel 2
4600-0
Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO

This duel went much quicker than the first. I get a Jinzo on the field early in the game and play Delinquent,
which really hurt him. He eventually goes on the offensive with his spear dragons but tribe EASILY takes
care of them, without even having to discard. He could not do anything.

Duel 3
5100-0
Victory - ????

In case you're unfamiliar with the rules of ties, since we tied one, and I won one, Alex HAS to win this
match, or he's out.

Unfortunately for him, that's not going to happen. Pot, Graceful, Delinquent, Forceful for me first hand.
I do get Mirage on the field and he takes care of it for me with harpies, but it does destroy my Mirror
Force, which agitated me. He gets in damage with 1 of those 1900s, but I snatch his monster, sac for
Jinzo and finish him off in 2 turns. Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO

Whew! I was a little worried, but I came through. I thought Morris was out by now but he was still in,
although I didn't learn that til later. Fro is still in but Bighead lost to Nauth. Fro takes on Nauth, who is
really beginning to hate him, and I take on Joey, a guy I've never beaten before in a tourney.

Third Round:
Maverick Hunter ZERO vs. Joey F.

Duel 1
6600-0
Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO

Heheh, I got him with forceful early on but he hit me with a don which was bad news. He had 2 fd m/t
the entire duel. I change of heart his zaloog and sac it for jinzo. Jinzo dealt ALL 8000 damage to Joey.
He did set monsters, but I kept killing them with DD Ladys.

Duel 2
3600-0
Victory - Joey F.

Hey! What happened here! I lost control of the game later on from his Delinquent Duo leaving me with only
DD Lady, Heavy and Call. I draw, get Tomato so I play Heavy to no avail (Order) and set Tomato. He
plays Raigeki, summons don, and grabs call. I set DD Lady (Afraid of Mirror Force) and he summons
some 1900 and pummells me. Ouch!

Duel 3
1000-0
Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO

This was an EXTREMELLY close duel, but there is only one champion, and it was me! I had a large
lead in life late in the duel but he change of hearts my Tribe and attacks me with it and witch. He has 1200
life left. I sac Tribe for Jinzo, and empty his remaining life. Barely won, but a well deserved win.

I found out now that Morris had gotten to the Semi finals and I was like, "AAAAH!!!!" We all
expected him to get crushed after filling his deck with crap! How did he get so far!? Anyway, Morris
was set to duel Cheng Peng and I had to duel *dum-dum-dum-dum!!!!*  MR. FRO!!!!

Fourth Round
Maverick Hunter ZERO vs. Big Gay Fro

Duel 1
3400-0
Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO

Before this starts, I just want to point out that Fro is a dirty, dirty slut and has the most incredible
flukes bounce in his favour. Lottery winners have nothing on this guy.

Prior to the duel, I curse Fro's deck over and over. You are not going to believe this. He draws pot,
graceful, delinquent AND Mirage of Nightmare + a MST! Unbelievable! And you're not going to believe this!
I won that duel! I change of hearted his Slate Warrior and sac'd it for Jinzo! He does destroy it and then
reborns two cards, including my Jinzo and destroys sangan with a balter! I snatch Jinzo and do damage, he
then plays monster reborn and tried to get back balter, but he can't cause it wasn't properly fusion summoned.
He then claims he could've won the duel if he had. I got yata, and killed his slate warrior with Jinzo. He reborns
slate, suicides into Jinzo, and is then yata locked.

Duel 2
2000-0
Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO

(Play victory music) THE FRO HAS FALLEN! NO MORE OF THIS! The Fro has FINALLY 
been put in his place! The tyranny of this gay ruler is over. The Fro never could overcome my
assault and scientist was the key card in finishing him off. Wabokus and big gay slates suck.

Truth is though, Fro is a very good duelist, he's just really cocky, so that's why I bug him.

Well, as you know, I was panicking because Morris was in the Semis, but he was put in his place
by Cheng, a guy I've never beaten before, and he's young too, he looks like he's anywhere from 
12-14 (I'm 16 btw). Morris was out and I had one HUGE sigh of relief, as I would get to keep my hair. 
Although Morris the gay pulled a BLS:EotB (He had 2 at that point) and that REALLY pissed me off. 
Anyway, the finals were set to go!

FINAL ROUND
The Hope of the Universe, Maverick Hunter ZERO vs. Cheng Peng

Duel 1
2400-0
Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO

This was good. I go and get pot and graceful. First turn I wipe out his field and get vampire lord out.
This went by very quick. But I did lose my vampire lord to jinzo and he torrentialed me like, twice.
He beat me down for a while but Tribe came out due to witch and that ended it there.

Duel 2
4500-0
Victory - Maverick Hunter ZERO!!!!

Yes! IT IS OVER!! I had IO almost the entire game on the field and he was practically topdecking the
whole duel. Tribe and tomato kept beating him down and he just couldn't handle the heat!

YEAH! I WON! It's over! I got 20 store credit and bought one of those boxes again but pulled Lava
golem and big burn. Gay, but still, a kick ass tournament report. Props/slops coming up...

Props
- Pulling 3 ultras in one box
- Getting 2 boxes in one day
- Winning the tournament obviously
- Keeping my hair
- Beating Fro, finally putting him in his place
- Tribe, for being an amazing card
- Red Wings, finally doing somethin!
- Leafs for losing! What a day!
- Chicken wings! For their amazing chicken-flavoured goodness
- Boz Scaggs! ......Why is that one there?

Slops
- Fro for being gay, claiming he still could've won if he picked a different monster with reborn
- Skill Drain for being a terrible card
- Fro
- Fro
- Fro
- Me still not getting Chaos monsters
- Morris, for pulling a chaos monster
- You know who!

Yo people! Got something to say? Email me at
sear_lubinus@yahoo.ca , unless you're fro, in which case, you suck.
Scott Forbes




P.S. Fro sux!