From: tomcombs99@setel.com Black Luster Beatdown-Tommy Combs-Sword and the Stone-Whitesburg, Ky Well I finally got to go to another tournament. My first one with the ban list in place. I can say one thing. I don’t mind the ban list. Finally a first place finish. OK on to the deck. Monsters Ritual 1x Relinquished Special Summon 1x Black Luster Envoy of the Beginning 2x Chaos Sorcerer 1x Mirage Knight Tribute Monster 1x Dark Magician of Chaos Monsters 2x Skilled Dark Magician 2x Zombyra the Dark 2x Thunder Dragon 2x Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands 1x Hysteric Fairy 1x Getsu Fuhma 1x D. D. Warrior Lady 1x Cyber Jar 1x Spear Cretin 1x Magical Scientist Spells 2x Black Illusion Ritual 2x Axe of Despair 1x Nobleman of Crossout 1x The Shallow Grave 1x Giant Turnade 1x Painful Choice 1x Pot of Greed 1x Premature Burial 1x Reload 1x Change of Heart 1x Card Destruction 1x Mystical Space Typhoon Traps 3x Waboku 2x Sakuretsu Armor 1x Return from a Different Dimension 1x Ring of Destruction 1x Magic Cylinder Total: 42 Cards Fusions 1x Thousand Eyes Restrict 1x Fiend Skull Dragon 1x Dark Flare Knight 1x Dark Balter tomcombs99@setel.com The way these tournaments work is they break them down into two groups. 15 and older (adult tournament) and 14 and younger (kids tournament). There were 10 people for the adult tournament. It was swiss format. My first duel was against a guy with a partial beatdown and direct damage deck. Not much to tell on this one. Fisrst game was mine 7200 to 0 Second game was mine 4850 to 0. My second duel was against a Amazon deck. The first game was mine 3600 to 0. Second game was hers 6200 to 0. Third duel was mine 1200 to 0. My third duel was against another envoy deck. My first duel was close he was at 3800 to my 2400. I played return from a different dimension and summoned back 2x skilled dark magicians and a dd warrior lady. I special summoned a chaos sorcerer. Removed his black Luster envoy from play and hit him for 5300. second duel he won severely beating me 7200 to 0. Third duel I went second. I drew black luster, premature burial, painful choice, axe of despair, and ring of destruction. I set ring activated painful choice dropped three dark 2 light including DMOC. He gave me thunder dragon. I activated premature bringing back DMOC removed light dark to summon Black Luster. I attacked with Black Luster to kill hysteric fairy attacked with him again, attacked with DMOC for 7000 points. Then on his turn I ringed black luster. Game over. My fourth duel was against a odd assortment deck. You just couldn’t really classify it. Direct damage, life gain, defense deck is about as close as I can come. First duel I won 8000 to 0. Second duel he had me worried. I attacked his face down Dice Jar. I rolled a 3 he rolled a 6. 6000 direct to me. Next turn I attacked his man eater bug and lost my monster. He ozaked for 800. I was down to 1200. He attacked for 600 which put me at 600. I used all three wobakus and came back to beat him 600 to 0. My fifth duel as against my step-son Landon. I had built him an Earth Beatdown deck and it was good. He won the first one then I won the next two but it was a really close match. Sixth Match was against the other envoy deck again. I beat him for a clean sweep of the tournament. Finally a first place finish. By the way my stepson came in third in the adult tournament and my son came in third in the kids tournament using my zombie deck. In case you are wondering I got $30.00 in store credit. Enough for a couple of PS2 games and a fiber jar. Hey they wont be banned forever!!! Till Next time Pleasent Dueling tomcombs99@setel.com