Zombie Deck in Progress Toys R Us Akron OH 8/7/04 Okay, so this wasnt exactly a real tournament. Im just the guy in charge of the duels that are held there every saturday morning, and my boss hasnt had me set up a real tournament. So anyway, there were about 20- some odd kids there, ranging from about 10 to a few 40 year old men AND women. I got there about 9:20. Stuff was already set up for me. I brought my sister along, and we got to some trading. I traded a Gravekeeper's Watcher and Harpie's lady to a little girl who wanted to start a gravekeeper deck. I got a scapegoat (too lazy to buy a joey deck) bubonic vermin (yeh i know no one plays them seriously any more and that they're common. again, laziness and sorta help thin my beast deck) and some other semi crappy 5 star. Traded a Mystical Knight of Jackal (yeh kids were impressed witht he Jackal-lock and i had two of the card) for a Gear Golem Moving fortress and something else. some how i got a skil drain, Fear from the Dark and something else for a gigobyte or whatever (little one star) a secret ring of destruction for a chaosrider gustaph (for a guys gren maju de ezia deck which i am a big supporter of) (I have 2 anyway so i consider this a fine trade)!!!! and a great maju grazette (sp?) for a machine king. not to bad a day, almost got a invader of the dark for a buster blader....then i told the kid that he was being crazy to trade that. anyway onto the deck. Monsters = 18 ....bear w/ me like i said its a work in progress 3x Patrician of Darkness (part one of the 'zombie lock' and Reaper food) 2x Spirit Reaper (part two) 2x Ryu Kokki (soon to be 1 when i get my V.Lord) 1x Despair From the Dark (yeh i know a little tribute heavy but for a purpose) 1x Regenerating Mummy (i need more!) 2x V. Lady 2x Des Lacooda (draw power durring the zombie lock) 3x Pyramid Turtle (who doesnt love special summons???) 1x Royal Keeper (holding the place of another regenerating mummy) 1x Sinister Serpant (mmmm thousand eyes restrict and it keeps comming back) Fusion =2 1x Reaper on the Nightmare (more powerful spirit reaper = good) 1x Thousand Eyes Restrict (to deal w/ those things that seem annoying :cough: CED BLS :uncough:) Magic...excuse me SPELL = 18 1x Card Destruction (for when MoN seems like too much effort, and i really just want to dump some tributes anyway) 1x Pot of Greed 2x Mystical Space Typhoon (need a third) 1x Nobleman of Extermination (will have to suffice as a substitute) 2x Offerings to the Doomed (Jinzo killer among others...hopefully Des Lacooda is giving me extra draw power to compinsate) 1x Graceful Charity 1x Monster Reborn 2x Book of Life (a third please? ) 1x Dark Hole 2x Call of the Mummy 2x Metamorphosis (bring me those fusions!) 1x Mystical Plasma Zone (giving v lady a much needed boost, and helping out reaper on the nightmare never hurts) ....i dont want to play Raigeki or HFD since i figure im going to have to get used to the bans at some point Traps = 7 1x Magic Cylinder 1x Judgement of Anubis (definatly better mid game, when they have summoned monsters that cant get through the lock, opens up the field) 1x Raigeki Break (b/c 3 Offerings to the Doomed seemed like overkill) 3x Waboku (a personal favorite trap 1x Magic Drain (not a commonly seen trap around me, but i tend to like it, plus it looks cool) TOTAL = 43 ...i find that 41-42 is a really nice number especially when i seem to be summoning fairly quickly anyway SIDE DECK my beast-Jackal deck. Didnt play it, but brought it along to show the kiddies that Yata-locks arent the only kind of fun you can have. Also to promote trading my second mystical knight of jackal... Round 1 (not really a round but whatever) Me v. Caitlin (my sister!) a Dark Magician Deck Cait and I kind of threw this deck together at home in a few hours last night, so i wasnt so sure on how it would fare. Its suprisingly ok though. Since there isnt a whooole lot of M/T removal, she tends to be annoying on the traps, especially the chainable ones. Anyway, she did ok. Got dark magician girl out early. but i got rid of it and finished it of. Later on however, she and her new deck would go on to get some victory's against some of the tougher opponents! good job cait! Round 2 Zombies v. Dragons and Victor This kid is one of the better ones that shows up 1st match went to him, a strong deck. i forgot tyrant dragon's immunity to traps and wasted a raikegki break. but whatever, i learned his deck. 2nd- patrician locked early, held off with a combo of offerings and des lacooda drew untill i was up against a tyrant dragon till i thousand eyes restricted it. 3rd- look above...almost the same exact duel winner= me Round 3 Zombies v. Some sort of Chaos Control deck To be honest, this kids deck wasnt all that good. Could tell there was a lot of money dropped on it, and it had a few really good cards in it. But just no sort of organization whatsoever. He got out jinzo early, luckilly he attacked 2 face down pyramid turtles for patrician and spirit reaper. after i offerings his jinzo, the match was pretty much mine. match 2- suicided my ryu kokki into his BLS, then finished it from the, removing bls w/ book of life reviving a despair from the dark. winner = me Round 4 Zombies v. Some German cards!?!?! umm what to say.....he had all three god cards....yup. that kind of deck. not to be mean, but he got trashed. good kid though. very nice guy. winner = me Round 5 Zombies v. Exodia This kid isnt bad, he comes most saturdays it seems. knows what hes doing more than a lot of the kids. However, playing 2 spirit reapers and a reaper on the nightmare does nothing for ones hand. and exodia was toast. twice. winner = me Round 6 Zombies v. Exodia kid with a beatdown deck Match 1-Lost this one. wasnt drawing well. but did manage to get the patrican lock out. sadly it didnt matter since he was packing a Panda and a fairy's meteor crush. He got me in our rematch. good thing though, i learned that my deck doesnt do so hot against trample monsters. Match 2- Judgement of Anubis on something strong, ridding the field of his only monster, and the game turned from there Match 3- Thousand eyes for the win again Round 7 Zombies in a Double Duel! My partner blew. Im not even sure how the double duels work to be honest. Im pretty sure the rules are kind of made up as you go. But at any rate, my partner never drew a single monster under 5 stars.....so needless to say he wasnt much help. Patrician locked the field for a while but 2 dark holes later and we lost the match. Oh well. winners= them Round 8 Revenge!...kind of Zombies v. Gravity Bind Burn...my personal finals This dad plays a pretty solid gravity bind deck, which trashed me a few weeks ago. I figured, since i was packin a few new suprises since then...namely thousand eyes restirct, and just a better slew of magics...spells, that i might as well give it a go and see how i did. noblemaned his gravity bind! yay. I managed to get reaper on the nightmare early. Jumping over his nimble mongma's and bubonic vermin (see some people still use them) along with spirit reaper, this guy did some damage, expecially when i got mystical plasma zone out. I got him within a few hundred life ponts, however with a few mesenger's of peace, mask of restricts and level areas, he mostly kept me from attacking any more. At least i had a much better showing against him this time. the match drew a bit of a crowd actually, which was nice. Gravity bind v. tribute heavy decks = difficult. maybe next week ill figure something out. winner = him, after a really long game. anyway, there was one other older man there i wanted to try and duel. he had a few thousand cards w/ him, and a couple of preconstructed decks. but we ran out of time. theres always next week. Lessons of the day: zombies v. trample = trouble a suprising lack of M/T removal being played...hmmmmm Moms play Yugi too! (after a mom dueled someone today, a personal highlite i feel) a little too tribute heavy, even for all the special summoning i do Props- My Zombies for putting forth a solid showing. Some obvious work and weaknesses to go through but hey, thats what its all about Doing much better against Gravity Bind guy! Caitlin beating a number of good duelists A fairly successful trading day moms dueling dads dueling Slops- 2 1/2 hours doesnt seem long enough sometimes working an 8 hour day after the duels :-\ bad double duel partener not a real tourney not getting the cyber jar in a trade i wanted no vampire lord yet! (darn you ebay!) comments...questions? love it hate it ect. email me at benthegreat1210@aol.com