Return of the Magicians Store- Home Plate Where- Jefferson, Iowa Entry Fee- $5 Well I'm back again with another report. You might remember me from "Yata and his Buds" report. Well , I'm back to do a report from my home turf. Anyway, our shop isn't signed up with upperdeck so we have tourneys in our own way, like with the bracket. However, if you lose first round, there is a losers bracket which you can be in. If you win the regular bracket you get any pack of choice. If you win the losers bracket, you get a pack of cards that were handed out. Today we got MCF and I pulled an XY. My friends pulled Skilled white, skilled dark, and paladin of white dragon so it started off as a good day. Well before we begin, here is the Dark Magician deck i used today. If you compare some of the Spells and traps from this deck to my Yata deck, u'll see that i made a few substitutions and i will point them out as well as why i might be playing a certain card: 3 Dark Magicians 2 Dark Magician Girls 3 Skilled Dark Magicians Gemini elf 2 Kycoo the Ghost Destroyers ( i use this for grave controll and keep the DMs safe) Breaker the Magic Warrior Witch of the Black Forest Sangan ( he may not do much, but he can at least get me witch, cyber, fiber, serpent, and e-force) Exiled Force Cyber Jar Fiber Jar Tribe-Infecting Sinister Serpent Pot of Greed Graceful Charity Mirage of Nightmare (i'll play it in any deck but a yata deck because i dont want to lose Yata) Monster Reborn Premature Burial Change of heart Snatch Steal 3 MST Raigeki Dark Hole Heavy Storm Harpie’s Feather Duster Painful Choice Diffusion-Wave Motion (sorry to say, but i did not use this card AT ALL TODAY, i know it is sad) Mirror Force Ring of Destruction Waboku (subing for Magic Cylinder. In the other deck id be on defence more and would use it to get a quick burn to help.) Raigeki Break (discard Dm, comes in handy sometimes) Imperial Order Call of the Haunted Torrential Tribute Ceasefire ( subing for Nobleman of Crossout, i like to have a few cards to do some burning with) Anymore ? on my deck or so on just get the email from the bottom. Moving on. Round one Me v. Brandon (exodia) I dont like playing him only because its not fair to him but we drew for who we were playing so it cant be helped. He has all the exodia pieces but no pot of greed, jar of greed, graceful, upstart goblin, anything to help him draw. Most of his stuff is starter deck things so thats why i thougt it was unfair for me as a duelist to have to play him. I played and won. Next week though i promised him i would bring some cards to help him with. So arnt i a nice guy ? Round 2 Me v. S. Vargas (aka Mako) Steven is a friend of mine. He was the one that pulled skilled dark before the tourney. I started. I gotta nothing in my hand. I play painful and give him a choice of 3 DMs, serpent, and gemini. He gave me a DM. So then i play graceful. get an exiled a premature. cant remember the other. I got rid of the DM and i believe that one card that i cant remember. I set exiled and mirror force. His turn he MSTs the mirror force and raigekes exiled, plays legendary ocean and summons 7 colored fish and hits me for 2000. My turn i prematured the DM an attack the fish. For the next few turns he was on defence. Then he was top decking and played dark hole. My turn i summon Kycoo, attack and then set CotH. He draws monster reborn plays in on my DM and i play Call on it. I won the next turn. Game 2 was the same except he put up a harder fight. Though in both games he never did play any of his fishermans. he did get me a few times with hes 7 tools of the bandit and other stuff. I won and he said what he ususaly says " your a B---- stampe". We laugh and do what ever. Round 3 Me v. Ryan M. (burner) Ryan is a new player so i went easy on him till the end. He was usin bad reaction to simochi and other stuff, cannon soldier, so on that is good for a burner. With bad reaction, he was using rain of mercey and upstart goblin so you would burn instead of prosper. Too bad though. I learned one thing from Ryan. He can be anoying while playing, since he is a comedian at school. I tried to tell him to be quiet but he wouldnt so i beat him badly. Im sorry i cant fill in the rest of the events, but with him talking all the time, it was hard for me to remember what happened. I do remember that breaker saved me from him activating gravity bind and that he hates breaker now but other then that, his voice erased my memory. Sorry. Finals Me v. D. Vargas (the warrior of doom) Dan is one of my friends who pulled the paladin of white dragon. I started of crappy. I played painful choice and like i did with steven. And he gave me a DM as well. i set some traps and was done. He summoned Goblin Attack force but did not attack. So i snatched it and attacked him. he however, did not want to kill it as it was giving him LP. Finally i tributed it for DMG. I then activated raigeki break to break his one trap and attack his monster which was witch. he got fiber. so the next turn i had DMG attack the fiber and i got a better hand then before. He didnt get as good so i took advantage of the next few turns to attack his LP directly. finnaly i got him down very low and i was still high ( in LP, not the other stuff, not that i do it.) any way i set a ring and just ringed one of my monsters for the game. Game two He flipped fiber jar 3 times this game and i set mine to be flipped but he always activated ceasefire or flipped his or mine with change of heart. STill i won because he could not get any good stuff. He did premature exiled and i was mst'in the thing but he said it hit the field and that he could chain exiled on it. NOw yes that could work (Being i am the judge there in a way, since everyone always comes to me first) but if he activates premature and i emediatly activate MST to it then it doesnt hit the field. I let it go though and reborned my DMG which he killed, attacked and was game. For my prize i got a MFC pack and pulled a spell canceller so it was a good day. Pros: Having this deck work (usually i do just play my yata deck) Getting XY and Spell canceller in packs Winning Getting a few cards afterwords to work on my light deck ( mabey ) Cons: Ryan's voice HAving to play little Brandon That was it. In a couple of weeks i may play my XYZ deck. I am waiting to get a Cannon soldier. I know its sad i dont have one but i really dont like MRD. A reflect bounder would be nice too. PLus i need to work the kinks out of it. Oh well. Until the next time. And remember, always read DM7's articles Peace out ~Ko~