Control in traditional format

Location: Eindhoven, Beurshal, The Netherlands
Date: friday Nov. 29th 2004
Event: Qualifier for Benelux Tournament
Participants: 114

My day started around 7:30 in the morning. I tried very hard to get out of 
my bed, but
it was just a bit too early to me. Luckly I woke up gently. My younger 
brother came to me
saying that I should better use a second creature swap instead of snatch 
steal. I told him
that I was going to play a advanced format tournament. Which I know that 
there wouldn't
be any big trap/magic removals in the game. I made my point I borrowed his 
blade knight,
don zaloog and snatch steal. My snatch steal was snatched by somebody.. 
sigh!!!

After a delightful breakfast made by my mum, I headed to the trainstation. I 
put up some
music to get relaxed. After a while one of my friends, Danny joined me and 
both of us were
talking about what would dominate at this tournament. Danny already 
qualified for the
Benelux Tournament, so he decided to test his new made Deckdestruction deck. 
I gave him some
book of taiyou's to support his deck destruction. His deckvalue must be 
around 1000 euro's.
I said that I wouldn't want to play against that deck during the tournament.

Okay, when we arrived at the mall. We had to wait about 2 hours to get in. 
After a few hours
the tournament finally begun. This was the first time I played traditional 
format with the
new restrictions. So, it's going to be a challenge for me and a lot of 
people.
Here's my deck:

17 monsters:
BLS-envoy of the beginning
Jinzo
Mobius the frost Monarch
3x dd warrior lady
2x kycoo
2x blade knight
2x don zaloog
breaker magical
shining angel
exiled force
magical scientist
tribe infecting virus

16 magic:
forceful sentry
confiscation
2x smashing ground
nobleman of crossout
reinforcements of the army
scapegoat
change of heart
creature swap
snatch steal
pot of greed
painful choice
heavy storm
Mstyphoon
warrior returning alive
premature burial

7 traps:
2x sakuretsu armor
call of the haunted
magic drain
torrential tribute
ring of destruction
waboku

Fusions:
all the staple fusions ofcourse!
restrict, balter and senshi


sidedeck:
mobius the frost monarch
horus the black flame dragon lv6
airknight parshath
exchange
nobleman of crossout
2x book of moon
creature swap
fiber jar
penguin knight
compulsory evacuation device
mystic tomato
spirit reaper
magician of faith
2x kinetic soldier

My sidedeck is the most important tool. I just didn't know what the metagame 
will be. That's why I
sidedecked cards against, exodia, burn and deckdestruction. I had to play 
against all those different
types of decks I just told you respectively....

We played a swish system. Which means: DO NOT LOSE IN THE FIRST ROUND!!!!

1st Round:
Control vs. Exodia
1st duel
I flipped heads and I could start the game. I opened with a confiscation. I 
immediately saw his
exodiapiece. I discarded his change of heart, put angel in attack mode and 
put some traps and ended my turn.
I played painful choice in the next turn.. after the 4th turn i dominated 
the field with jinzo, bls, mobius
and don zaloog on the field. 1-0
2nd duel
He started his game with messenger of peace. I couldn't go through with my 
dd warrior ladies and blade knights.
Until I drew don zaloog. This game was a stall at the end, but when I 
tribute summoned Mobius on the field it
was all ownage for my monsters. 2-0

2nd round:
Control vs. Burn
1st duel
This kid couldn't really do much when I cut into his hand with my forceful 
sentry. I returned his swords of
revealing light back into his deck. Knowing he could stall with that card 
for three turns. I put my dd warrior lady
attack and ended my turn. After a few turns he didn't draw any monsters. I 
won because of his bad hand. 1-0
2nd duel
He had a early stall with messenger of peace, but I blew it away with my 
mobius, and he returned with scapegoats.
He then summoned cannon soldier using the scapegoatshooting combo. :) I like 
this combo a lot! I use it in my
burn deck aswell. Anyways, after while I used my jinzo to negate his gravity 
bind and attacked for the win
2-0

3rd round:
Control vs. Deckdestruction
1st duel
I had to face somebody that I didn't want to match up to. Danny runned a 
needleworm, morphing jar deckdestruction deck.
This deck was very well balanced with the correct deck destruction cards. I 
luckly could go first, cutting through his hand
with a confiscation. Discarded his shallow grave. Basicly he didn't draw any 
good monsters, he stalled with messenger of
peace, but I kept attacking him with my don zaloog's!!!.. 1-0

2nd duel
I knew I would face a hard second duel, so I decided to put some anti 
deckdestruction cards into my deck. Like fiber jar,
penguin knight, nobleman of crossout, another mobius, compulsory and horus 
lvl 6. I knew I had to break through his stallage.
It started very slow, because he could stall with his messenger of peace 
again. Finally he flipped his needle worm killing
a nobleman of crossout, 2x mobius, heavy storm and change of heart. I 
thought oh my god!! there goes my holiness. I unfortunatly
drew a penguin knight :(.... how sad!!! Anyways, I didn't know that BLS and 
penguin knight could go through his gravity bind
and messenger of peace. I never knew that penguin knight could win for me 
because of his amazing attacking abilities. hahaha
after a while I summoned Jinzo with call of the haunted and normal summon 
don zaloog and attacke for the win.
2-0

4th round:
control vs. horus/chaos
1st duel
Vincent is a very skilled duelist and he has his mind focussed on this game. 
This game ended up topdecking for him. He never
really could get out his horus. Allthough I know that Horus was in his deck. 
But I controlled the board with my dd warrior ladies
He played cards like enemy controller. So he ended up wasting cards for one 
turn defense. Which kinda give me the chance to
gain cardadvantage. This is one of the main things to aim in my controldeck. 
I want more cards than you.
I won bringing out BLS with warrior returning alive with the combo of 
painful choice dumping BLS into the grave. I gained
fieldcontrol and attacked for the win. 1-0
2nd duel
He started to hit me with a few a attacks, I had a green/red hand. NOT 
GOOD!!!... but I searched my exiled force with
reinforcements of the army and gained field advantage again. Slowly I drew a 
army of monsters and summoned them on the field.
He countered with book of moons, and trapcards, like ring of destruction, 
magic cylinder. But again he was wasting cards.
He needs to some heavy monsterremoval. So he set his torrential, and I 
summoned my donzaloog.. he torrentialed me. I didn't care
He torrentialed my only dark into the grave, which I needed for BLS!!.. so I 
attacked for the win with it.

After 4 wins I qualified myself for the beneluxtournament. But Upperdeck 
wanted us to play one more game. They wanted to have
the three best of this tournament. So I faced the father of Thom Klaveris 
from Belgium. Thom is very skilled. His father is
also very skilled.
Finals:
1st duel
control vs. beatdown/control
He played with book of moons and enemy controllers. So he ended up wasting 
cards to remove monsters again. But somehow we ended up
topdecking. We both were summoning and removing the next turn. I ended up 
winning with BLS, because he raigeki breaked my
summoned kycoo. 1-0
2nd duel
he fiber jarred twice. I had a great hand first and a bad hand and a normal 
thand after the third fiber jar. We ended up topdecking
again. Amazingly we both topdecked very bad. He drew traps/magics and set 
them. I drew BLS without any dark in my grave. And Jinzo
He luckly drew nothing but that. I drew a dd. warrior lady and set her 
facedown. He drew again nothing harmful, but he set his
dd warrior lady down aswel. I drew a exiled force. So I summoned my jinzo 
and attacked in deedee. So he gets removed. I somehow won
again because of BLS at the end. 2-0


Positive remarks:
Get to trade a lot of good promocards, yata and interdimensional matter 
transporter. I always wanted IMT.
I won 20 boosterpacks
of SOD. Getting out a ULTRA lv6 and some other good cards.
I promised my younger brother to get  Mystic swordsman lv 4 for him
and amazingly I got one for DMOC.
Winning all games with 2-love!!!!
Knowing that control can do a lot!!!
Mobius being my anti-stallage leader!!!!!!
Penguin soldier killing instead of saving my deckdestruction??!?!


Negative remarks:
I ended up 3rd, because the number 1 and 2 have a better UDE ranking than I 
do.
Penguin soldier not doing his real job.


Thanks again for reading my tourney report.If you have any Questions,
Comments, Compliments, Complaints, or whatever, feel free to E-mail me at
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With Love,
GuanHer Ng