Tewksbury, MA Jan 17, 2003 32 man single elimination tourney Denny's House of Pancaeks I share a deck w/2 friends.. this is this decks first appearance at a tourney and... well, read to find out how I did =\. Competing deck: Monsters Total: 17 Attacking Mons 2x Skilled Dark Magician 2x Giant Orc 2x Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer 1x Spear Dragon Flip-effect Mons 2x Magician of Faith 1x Old Vindictive Magician 1x Apprentice Magician (sorta - speeds up deck) 1x Cyber Jar Leet ability Mons 1x Sangan 1x Witch of the Black Forest 1x Tsuyokumi - reuse Flips, reuse Orc as a Flip summon, pwn Geminis) 1x White Magical Hat Pieces of Crap Mons 1x Dark Magician (SDY =\) Mag--Sp--wtf, Magic Total: 17 Field Advantage 2x Mystical Space Typhoon 2x Fissure - underrated - fast, drawback-less 1x Offerings to the Doomed - chainable - willing to sac some draw power 1x Change of Heart 1x Snatch Steal 1x Monster Reborn 1x Dark Hole 1x Raigeki Hand Advantage 1x The Forceful Sentry 1x Delinquent Duo 1x Card Destruction - more useful than Pojo reviewers think =\ 1x Ante 1x Mirage of Nightmare 1x Graceful Charity 1x Pot of Greed Traps Total: 7 Crossout Paranoia 1x Altar for Tribute (chainable - often discarded for Vamp Lord XD) 1x Ceasefire 1x Imperial Order Damage Prevention 2x Sakaretsu Armor - New skool Mirror Force 1x Trap Hold - Old skool goodness 1x Waboku Deck Total: 41 Side Deck: 15, but I forgot to use it 0.o You may notice I am missing: - Sinister Serpent - Jinzo - Tribe-Infecting Virus - Yata-Garatsu - Vampire Lord - Premature Burial - 1x MST - Painful Choice - Duster - Heavy Storm - Confiscation - Magic Drain - Ring of Destruction - Call of the Haunted - Mirror Force I'm working on those... Anyway, I went to Rob's Card Shop with Eddie and Jiang. Downstairs, we bought tourney packs. Jiang got a Magic Drain; I got a 7 Colored Fish, Eddie got nothing worth mentioning. I bought Mirage of Nightmare for $5 and quickly slipped it in. I also split a MFC pack w/Eddie, I got the rare (Big Bang Shot) and he got the commons. I had a warmup duel against this kid Nick, who was running beatdown. He let me go first; Crossed out my Witch. I managed to keep a stream of Trap Hole/Sakaretsu Armor going and had some Flip-effects; finally I Snatch Stole a 1900 and rammed it into his other, clearing his field nicely. I finished him off w/Kycoo. He used Ordeal of Traveler, but I guessed right every time. He never kept Monsters in his hand. I traded Warrior Returning Alive (from my utter crap Warrior deck) for Spirit Reaper (yay!), but I didn't know what to do w/it. The next kid was pretty shaky, even though it wasn't a tourney battle. He kept setting stuff like Man-Eater Bug and Sinister Serpent, stopping me from building up. Second turn he Cylindered Orc ><. Anyway, I took my chance with Sentry and saw the Head of Exodia and a limb 0.o;;; so I ditched the head into his deck. He had me on the ropes b/c I knew he had Tribute to the Doomed/Backup Soldier in his hand, and when he played Painful Choice I thought it was over until I remembered he didn't have enough Mons in his graveyard. Eventually he used Fiber Jar, Painful Choice/Backuped, but I ditched a limb w/Delinquent Duo. He was forced onto the offensive, but needless to say I pwned teh hell outta him. TOURNEY BEGINS I'm number 37... next to me there's this little kid holding a pile of cards, and he thinks my partner (Nick) is his. First question - "Wanna play no sacrifice?" Later this kid Andrew showed up to play the 400-card deck and would've pwnt him a lot faster if the kid knew not to use Change of Heart if Imperial Order's there or if Andrew didn't let him draw 5 cards per turn... but yeah, my match right? Round 1: Denny's House of Pancaeks vs.... Nick wtf? It's the same kid who ran beatdown... Duel 1 Well, this time I used up his oldskool Man-Eaters/Trap Holes early and was able to keep him on the ropes w/Spear, Skilled, and Kycoo. He got 2 Waboku's =P. He did something to them, prolly Dark Hole. His Jinzo/Skull were removed. Since he was drawing no mons, I attacked w/2nd Kycoo; no Wabokus left, so he was forced to use Ordeal of Traveler to sustain himself - Magic. So he drew and was stupid enough to set a card in the M/T zone - I summoned White Magical Hat - Magic, no hand, Kycoo. Game was his next topdeck. Duel 2 Once again I built up an army of 1900/1800's, and once again they were blown away by Dark Hole - or maybe just something stupid. Anyway, after again exhausting his Wabokus, he seemed to draw no monsters and was setting cards like crazy. I thwacked him with Kycoo; he Ordealed me. I called Magic and was right =P He draws, keeps it in his hand wtf. I played White Magical Hat, call a Magic and he discards one. I hit w/Kycoo for the win... again. 8000-0 Match: Shdwdde, 2-0 He started complaining after that, and though I didn't say anything, I felt he was being a jackass. I did sympathize when he said "I'm sick of running this boring beatdown" though. This older kid told him stfu cuz he sucked and pwnt him. As I was dueling, Jiang and Eddie came to watch; they'd already won. They like I were surprised I made it through. I dueled Eddie, the Yu-Gi-Oh of our school, and beat him in one duel. Details are hazy. I tried trading Ceasefire and a Mystical Knight of Jackal, but nobody wanted Jack. So I went on to the next round. Eddie told me I'd lose to Andrew. Round 2: Denny's House of Pancaeks vs. Andrew (person who beats Eddie) This is the guy who pwnt the little kid w/the 400 card deck... Duel 1 I pwnt the hell out of him. XD I tried to control his board - I remember getting thwacked by Skilled Darks, Gemini Elves, and/or Archfiend Soldiers. I remember ramming one into the other, and also Reborning one and removing another. When he was at around 2600, I beat him down w/Kycoo (my fav mon ^^;;;). Sry for lack of details... I do remember that I used Ante (each player chooses a card from his/her hand, they both show - the one w/lower stars is sent to Graveyard; owner takes 1000). It's a pretty amazingly underrated burn/contol/disruption card, especially when you have Dark Magician in your hand XD. I took out his Snatch Steal w/Ante. I also remember that he used Troop Dragon :o And that he Cylindered Orc >< Duel 2 The only damage I remember taking is a 1900... well, I got Mirage, but he MST'ed in his draw phase. Again he got Troop Dragons and set some serpents on me, but I didn't waste Dark Holes on them and crushed him with Spear Dragon/White Magical Hat. Again I burned him early on with Ante. Match: Shdwdde, 2-0 Not much time between these duels... Jiang and Eddie lost, even though they were both better than me. Jiang lost while he had the enemy in a Yata-Lock thanks to Magic Cylinder. And he had Heavy Storm XD Round 3: Denny's House of Pancaeks vs. Neil (1337) This guy looked a bit older than me, prolly a senior... Duel 1 I had no chance.. Sentried his hand, saw Cylinder, Mirror Force, Trap Hole, Vamp Lord; ditched Trap Hole. I played something and MST'ed his f/d Cylinder next turn. When he flipped my MoF I made the mistake of taking Sentry instead of Typhoon... Jiang never let me off for that. I destroyed his Vamp Lord and he had a Witch in Attack mode and I had Kycoo! - but he had Mirror Force, I recalled. He struck me directly a few times for the game. Duel 2 Vampire Lord was waiting around the corner... I got him into what would be a Yata-lock, but then I drew no monsters for 3 turns, letting him build up a defense of M/T's. He again pwnt me w/Vamp Lord. I got Mirage, but it wasn't till I had no mons in my deck that I realized I had already used both MSTs... Somewhere I had Sangan/WMH, set an MST. I attack, CotH on Gemini Elf - and I can't chain cuz I just set the MST. I'm liek wtf? Match: Neil, 2-0 Well, it was a good match. We shook hands, congratulated each other while Jiang berated me for not getting Typhoon. Jiang, who runs Fiend/ Necrofear, got beaten by new-skool Archfiend/Necrofear. Afterward, me and Eddie went downstairs. I bought a Dark Crisis and pulled... Darkbishop Archfiend. -_-;;; In the trash I found a nice case and Eddie got a Great Maju Garzette, which he traded for Freed the Matchless General, which went into his Warrior deck. At around this time I found out that Jiang's pwner had lost in the same round I had... Eddie's pwner beat Neil two rounds after me, and he lost a little bit later. =P I returned to duel this rich kid with light blue (wtf?) sleeves. He had like 8 Dark Magician Girls, Jap and American. He was snobbish and rude to people who wanted to trade... Anyway, the first round, he got me down low with Ring on my Orc and some direct strikes. I got him down to about 2600 to my 900 - he had no hand, field, nothing - I had a f/d MoF or something. He drew - Graceful Charity, discarded two cards, summoned Spear Dragon... I won the next one, he won the next... So it was a good day. I went downstairs for a Coke. I went around and finally traded Ceasefire and Jackal, though I got ripped off. It's okay - Dark Magician is cool. Props ~ Eddie's parents for the transportation ~ Beating Eddie once ~ Mirage of Nightmare ~ Kycoo for pwning ~ Tsuyokumi for pwning Gemini Elves ~ Vampire Lord for pwning me ~ Dark Magician for being kewl ~ Pojo for (possibly) posting this ~ Albert/Robert for sharing the Azn Pride deck ~ Jiang for being 1337 ~ Eddie for getting 1337 trades ~ Eddie for being school's top duelist ~ Neil for beating me ~ Andrew for being cool after losing ~ You - for reading this. Thanx. Slops - Weird rulings :o ~ People Ring/Cylindering Orc? ~ That one duel w/the Mirage of Nightmare... ~ Losing ~ Jiang/Eddie for losing so soon... ~ Rich kids =\ ~ Pulling crap... ~ Not having Ring of Destruction/Vampire Lord -_-;;; - Shdwdde - [Shdwdde@Yahoo.Com] www.geocities.com/shdwdde