Yata-Beatdown
                                      by:Steven Kearney 
                                    Books-a-Million Nov.19
                             Wilson N.C. 13 Participants
                           
 
    Finally! My Hometown Tournament! Haven't been to this one in a while. Been busy
kicking butt in Jacksonville. Anyways lets get started. I've always ran beatdown, put I
recently got a Yata. So lets see how this works out.
 
Monsters
 
Yata 1 (duh)
Hayabusa Knight 2 (here, have an axe little man)
Jinzo 1 (what trap?)
Cyber Jar 1( boom!)
Witch 1 (search)
Sangan 1 (see Witch)
Fiber Jar 1 (the absolute best monster ever!)
Old vindictive magician 2 (look at me,I'm old and vindictive.whatever that means)
penguin soldier 2 (back where you belong)
Lily 1 (time for your shot!Oops dull needle.)
X-force 1 (out of the way!)
Giant Orc 3 (Forget Goblins these are cheap!)
man-eater bug 2 (rooaar!)
 
trap
 
Magic drain 2
Imperial Order 1
time seal 2
Magic Cylinder 1 (right back atcha!)
Gravity bind 2
 
magic (spell?)
raigeki 1
duster 1
heavy storm 1
axe of despair 2
united we stand 1
mage power 1
snatch steal 1
dark hole 1
change of heart 1
reborn 1
pot of greed 1
scapegoat 2
confiscation 1
delinquent duo 1
forceful sentry 1
graceful charity (why'd they have to restrict it? Why!?)
 
 
 
Match 1
Vs. Evan(palidin)
1
He goes first and actually makes a Dark palidin on his first turn. luckily he laid all of his hand facedown.I played snatch steal, then a hayabusa with an axe, united ,and a mage.Play Feather Duster, Game!
2 He forfeits because of bad hand
 
Match 2
Vs.Richard(palidin)
1
Another palidin? I get a horrible hand,then I draw Fiber Jar! He does not attack and I flip it on my turn. Then...Awesome hand! Forceful sentry delinquent duo, pot of greed, axe, Jinzo. play pot of greed, confiscation and Yata.....Can you say Yata-Lock? I Know I can.I peck away waiting for a time seal. I finally get it and play hayabusa. Next turn I play time seal, and then it's yata lock all over again. Game!
2Very very long duel I'll spare you the details except that I won by Snatch stealing his paladin and reborning my giant orc. Game!
 
Match 3 Bye
 
Match 4
Vs. Holly (Light Deck)
 
I know Holly well and me and my friends taught her how to play. She is still new to it though.
1
I Get a decent hand and she plays card destruction. She easily beats me down after she manages to get out a luminous spark, 2 hoshinigens and 2 hysteric fairys out on me.I don't know what happened. She wins.
2
now I've got to be on my toes. Maybe I Underestimated her. I go for a quick Yata-Lock but Torrential tribute! I do Fiber Jar and get it back.Then Hayabusa+Axe=4000, Then I play X-force on her and it her with hayabusa again. Game!
3
Winner faces Stefhen my long time rival!
She forfeits saying she knows she can't beat him. I try to talk her out of it but hey, the easier for. She wishes me luck as I go against Stefhen. I'll need it.
 
Match 5 Finals
Vs. Stefhen (palidin,Exodia,Monster removal,beatdown)
 
Why must everyone run Palidin!?
here goes.
 
1
I go first. This match is back and forth until I get his Exodia head with Confiscation. He got me down to 250 life points. I got him down to 1200 before I finally did Magic Cylinder on His Skilled Dark Magician. Game!
2
He wins quickly. Later he tells me he drew 3 exodia peices, witch,played pot of greed and picked up the fourth piece then used witch. lucky. He wins.
3
It all comes down to this.
He goes first we exchange blows back and forth the entire match. I activated Cyber jar and got his Exodia head on the field. then I played Delinquent duo, heavy storm, and dark hole. Yata-lock for about 15 turns then I reborn his Exodia head attach and attach an axe for the win.Game!
 
            I win the tournament!!
This is my second time winning this tournament.
First prize is 10 packs of magicians force and a tin of our choice. I picked XYZ because I already have Tin Jinzo.
 
time for props and slops.
 
Props/
to books-a-million
to pojo.com
to my tin for pulling an axe and  a Tri horned in my packs
to everyone there for losing to me (sike)
 
Slops/
to people who forfeit
to people who beat me (none)
to people who think they have a better deck than everyone else (me)
to Tyler L. for living in Jacksonville. I really wished he could have been there. Whats up Tyler!?
 
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