RegnR8's Absolute Rule of the Monarchs. Jan. 9,
2005
RegnR8's Absolute Rule
of the Monarchs
Tournament Report for Jan. 9,
2005
Newnan Sports
Cards
Free to play
1st gets 4 packs
2nd
gets 3 packs
3rd gets 2 packs
Advanced Format
Single
Elimination
Around 25 people today.
Hi
all,
Welcome to the Sunday
edition of the tournament report! I hope you are all well and winning!
We got to the store
close to 2 PM. There is a thirteen and under tournament and some of the guys I
brought with me played in it while myself and the older boys traded and dueled
and generally hung out. I made a lot of good trades today for cards I haven't
had before. I got rid of some of my major multiples. I was able to get a lot of
promo cards. I got 2 Archfiend of Gilford, Anti-Spell Fragrance, Makyura the
Destroyer and a Command Knight for some Fire Princess, Catapult Turtle and
Limiter Removal. I also got a Silent Swordsman Level 3 and an Ultimate Rare
Machine Duplication for some Gorilla and Archfiend Soldier to a kid who was just
starting out. All in all, a good trading day!
I made some minor
adjustments to the deck from yesterday.
Absolute Rule of the
Monarchs
x2 Mobius the Frost
Monarch
x2 Zaborg the Thunder Monarch
x3 Night Assailant
x3 Nimble
Momonga
x1 Sinister Serpent
x3 Berserk Gorilla
x1 TIV
x1
Breaker
x1 Fiber
x1 Cyber
x1 PoG
x1 Change of
Heart
x1 Snatch Steal
x1 Premature Burial
x2 Scapegoat
x2 NoC
x2
Creature Swap
x1 Painful Choice
x1 Heavy Storm
x1 MST
x1 Swords Of
Revealing Light
x1 Hammer Shot
x1 Dust Tornado
x2
Bottomless Trap Hole
x2 Horn of Heaven
x1 Call of the Haunted
x1 Ring
of Destruction
SIDE DECK
x3
Kinetic Soldier
x1 JInzo
x1 Royal Decree
x2 Enemy Controller
x1
Divine Wrath
x2 Magic Jammer
x1 RoD
x2 Raigeki Break
x2 Magic Drain
x1 Magical Scientist
Well, 4 o'clock rolled
around and the first pairings were called.
ROUND
1
Monarchs VS
Spellcaster
GAME
1
He wins the die roll
and goes first. I get Goat, Horn, NoC, Assailant and Gorilla. He sets a monster
and ends his turn.
I NoC his set
Archfiend Soldier. Why set that? I dunno. Some people play differently, I
suppose. I summon a Gorilla and attack. I set the Goat and
Horn.
In his draw phase, I
activate the Goat. He sets a S/T card and plays Card Destruction. I get an
Assailant and Zaborg. He summons Injection and I negate the summon with Horn and
a token. Ahhh. Sweet negation.
I draw Cyber Jar, set
the Assailant, attack with the Gorilla and end my
turn.
He sets a monster,
plays Tribute Doll and summons Dark Magician and can't attack because of Tribute
Doll's requirements.
I draw a Nimble,
tribute My Assailant for Zaborg, destroy his Dark Magician and attack for 4400
and the win.
8000 - negative 400.
Ahhh. Good start to the tournament.
GAME
2
He goes first and sets
a S/T and a monster.
I get Snatch, Painful
Choice, Assailant, Cyber, Horn and another Assailant. I play Painful Choice and
offer him Swords, NoC, Goat, Change of Heart and Swap. Too my surprise he gave
me the Nobelman of Crossout. I NoC his set Skilled Dark Magician. Why does he
keep setting attackers like that? I don't know. I set the Assailant and the
Horn.
He MST's the Horn and
sets a monster.
I draw Fiber Jar, flip
my Assailant and destroy another set Archfiend Soldier. I do NOT understand this
at all. I set Fiber, attack for 200LP with the Assailant and end my
turn.
He sets another
monster. Ok. Whatever.
I draw and flip my
Fiber Jar. I get Change of Heart, 2 Assailant, Zaborg and Horn. Crap. Not what I
want after I flip my own Fiber Jar! I set the Horn and the
Assailant.
He sets another
monster and an S/T.
I draw Call of the
Haunted, play Change of Heart on his Apprentice Magician, tribute my Night
Assailant for Zaborg and destroy his Magician and attack for 2400. I set Call of
the Haunted.
He sets a monster. Oh
man.....
I draw a Nimble,
summon it and attack another Apprentice Magician and he gets another, which I
attack and he starts looking through his deck for another spellcaster but can't
find what he's looking for. I ask if he's looking for Magician of Faith and he
says he's looking for Magical Scientist!. It turns out, it was stuck to another
card in his hand and he couldn't summon it anyway. I was ready to negate it with
Horn though, so I was cool. I have to end my
turn.
He sets a monster and
one S/T. DOH!
I draw Zaborg. Heh. I
tribute my Nimble for Zaborg and destroy his Archfiend Soldier and he conceeds.
8000 - 0.
Wacked.
ROUND
2
Monarch VS Huge deck
of something Fiend/Control/Necrofear/Chaos like. I don't know, it was kind of
incoherent. This guy is nice enough but, is one of those people who is nearly
obsessed with rulings and how good this or that combo is an how they discovered
a new combo and how bad he beat his previous opponent, you know the
type.
GAME
1
I go first and get
Bottomless, Nimble, NoC, Breaker, Scapegoat and another Nobleman of Crossout. I
set the Nimble, Bottomless and Goat.
He activates SoRL,
flipping up my Nimble, sets a monster and 2 S/T
cards.
He Drops Off my
Premature Burial, meh, and I NoC his Magician of Faith. Hah. He has to get
another removed from play. I summon Breaker, remove the token to destroy his
Swords and I attack with the Nimble, he flinches and reaches for the set card
but doesn't activate it. I attack with Breaker and he activates Draining Shield.
Ohhhh, I'm scared.
He sets 1 S/T.
I draw Horn, set it,
and attack with Nimble and Breaker.
He plays Painful
Choice and offers Morphing Jar, Giant Germ, Archfiend Soldier, TiV and the Fiend
Megacyber. I have Nobelman in my hand and I start playing a little mind game. I
look at the cards for a while and say, "Hmmm. I could use some more cards in my
hand , too." I give him the Morphing Jar. He sets it and 1 S/T
card.
He Drops Off a Night
Assailant and I don't give a freakin' rip! Heh heh. I NoC his Morphing Jar and
he is royally ticked off! I attack him with Breaker and the Nimble again! I'm
loving it! He's getting madder than a wet dog in a room where you're not allowed
to shake your dog!
He sets another S/T
card.
I attack him with
Breaker and the Nimble again.
He draws a card and
quits! Ha. Killed by a tokenless Breaker and a Nimble Momonga. Go
home!
GAME
2
He goes first and sets
one monster and one S/T card.
I get Swords, Gorilla,
Horn, Zaborg, MST and Breaker. I play Swords and flip up his Giant Germ. I MST
his Cylinder and summon a Gorilla. I take the 500 damage from the Germ when I
attack it. Big deal. I'm not afraid of a little bit of burn from some dumb Germ.
Yeah, yeah, Dark Necrofear food, big deal. He gets two Germs to the
field.
He plays Change on my
Gorilla, tributes it and a Germ for Guardian Angel Joan. That was a little
unexpected. Ok. Swords is out, so I'm good. He sets one
S/T.
I draw Call of the
Haunted and summon a Berserk in attack
position.
He draws and sets
another S/T card.
I draw and he Drops
Off and Assailant. Ok, I could have used that. I tribute my Gorilla for Zaborg
and destroy his Joan and attack him for 2400 and set the
Call.
He Premature Burial's
Joan and still can't attack. This is the last turn on
Swords.
Heh. Heh. This is
evil. I draw another Zaborg. I tribute my Zaborg for Zaborg, destroy his Joan
AGAIN and he's mad. I attack him and he plays Widespread Ruin on my Zaborg. Oh
darn. I Call Zaborg back and he MST's my Call. Oh darn
twice.
He draws and does
nothing.
I draw Assailant and
set it.
He sets a
monster.
I get Fiber and set
it. I flip up my Night Assailant and destroy his set Slate Warrior. I set Horn
of Heaven.
He summons a Mirage
Dragon and I negate the summon with Horn and my face up Assailant. Wahahahah! He
says something about nobody uses Horn of Heaven and I'm thinking, I do and it
just owned you with it.
I flip Fiber Jar and
get Painful Choice, Change of Heart, Sinister, Breaker and Pot. I play Pot and
get a Night Assailant and Creature Swap. I play Painful and offer him 2 Gorilla,
Scapegoat, Nimble and TiV. He's at 2200LP now and I know he won't give me the
Gorilla. He probably won't give me the TiV so, it's down to a Nimble and the
Goat. I hope he gives me the Goat and he does. I summon Breaker, set the
Scapegoat and attack him for 1900LP. That puts him down to
300LP.
This is where it gets
interesting. He summons Amazoness Swords Woman and equips her with an Axe of
Despair. Oh, he is so going to die now. He attacks Breaker and I take a good bit
of damage from that one. He sets 2 S/T.
I draw Snatch Steal
and he plays Drop Off. Darn. That could have come in handy. It doesn't matter. I
activate Scapegoat and Creature Swap. He face falls to the floor!! Priceless. I
can't change the position of the token, even though I activated it before the
Swap, so I attack the token with his jacked-up Swordswoman. Ha. Do NOT stick an
equip card on your monster against me or you will feel the wrath of your own
monster as it TURNS against you! (Evil
laugh).
He sets a
monster.
I draw a Horn of
Heaven. I Change of Heart his Germ and attack for the WIN! NO! He Cylinders it!
Hahaha! What do I care! I'm at 7000LP, I can afford to take a measely 1000LP!
Ok, I attack with the Swordswoman and he activates Widespread Ruin! Hahahah!
What do I care, it's his own stupid MONSTER! Hahahah! Whew. Ahhh, too funny. I
set a Night Assailant and Horn.
He sets a
monster.
I flip up my Night
Assailant and destroy some monster he set, I forget. I attack for 200. Kuriboh.
I can't kill this guy!
He says, "Since you
have two or more monsters on the field than I, I special summon The Fiend
Megacyber!" I negate the summon with Horn and a token. He gets really miffed!
He's owned again by a card nobody plays with. He sets a monster instead.
Ha.
I draw a Bottomless
and attack his card with the Assailant to see what it is and it's a Germ. I take
the 500 damage and he gets two more to the field. Grr. Stall. Stall. Stall. All
I need to do is 300 lousy points of damage for cryin' out loud! I set the
Bottomless.
He tributes a Germ for
another Fiend Megacyber and I Bottomless it! Oh, man! That brings tears to my
eyes. He curses and turns his Germ to defense position and ends his turn.
I draw Call of the
Haunted and set it. I attack his last Germ with the
Assailant.
He draws and sets two
S/T cards.
I draw Mobius but do
not tribute becasue he may have some chainable traps down and I may be able to
simply kill him with the Assailant. I attack with the Assailant for 200 and he
takes it. Ok, he has 100LP left now. Grrr. I go ahead and tribute the Assailant
for Mobius and destroy his 2 set cards which were non-chainable so, I'm good.
His field is clear for next turn.
He draws, sets a
monster and one S/T. I don't think he's got anything to stop me next
turn.
I Call my Gorilla
back, attack his Morphing Jar with the Gorilla and it doesn't matter because I
attack him with Mobius for the win.
Afterwards, he was all
like, "If I only was able to summon BLS" and stuff. Yeah, right.
Whatever.
ROUND
3
Monarchs VS
Zombie
This is the same deck
I beat yesterday in the Finals at another Tournament. I think he's looking for
revenge!
I lose the die roll
and he goes first. I get a Nimble, MST, Premature, Horn and Dust Tornado. He
activates Call of the Mummy and special summons a Patrician of Darkness and a
Pyramid Turtle. He sets one S/T and ends his turn. One of the drawbacks of a
zombie deck is hand depletion. He has four cards on the field and two in his
hand in one turn . If I can get the cards I need, and play conservatively, I may
be able to get him to burn all his cards up in a
hurry.
I draw Zaborg. Hmm.
Options here. I MST his set Book of Moon, set the Nimble and the
Tornado.
He summons another
Turtle and attacks ALL my Nimbles. I gain 3000LP, but I have nothing left to
tribute my Zaborg for.
I go ahead and Tornado
his Call of the Mummy, Premature my Nimble and tribute it for Zaborg. I destroy
a Turtle and end my turn. I can't attack Patrician because he'll make me attack
a Turtle, then he'll get a Ryu Kokki and my Zaborg will be
dead.
He uses Book of Life
to get a Turtle back, summons a Regenrating Mummy and attacks Zaborg with a
Turtle and gets a Kokki and kills my Zaborg then hits me with the Patrician,
Mummy and the other Turtle. I am dying in a hurry
here.
I draw Creature Swap.
It does me absolutely no good because he'd only Swap a Turtle. Dang it! I'm in a
barrel. I set Sinster and end my turn.
He attacks the Serpent
with the Mummy, then attacks with Patrician and the Turtle.
I am praying for Fiber
Jar or Cyber or something, and I draw the Fiber. I set
it.
He sets an S/T then
attacks my Fiber. I am desperate for something good to happen now! I get an
Assailant, Goat, Mobius and MST. Workable. Maybe. He summons a Turtle and sets 2
S/T.
I draw Sinister and
set it along with MST and the Goat. I think about MST'ing the card to his right,
but don't.
He tributes the Turtle
for Ryu Kokki and Rings it for the win. The card I thought about MST'ing was his
Ring. A little reminder folks: Always go with your GUT
instinct.
GAME
2
I side deck out
Swords, Swap, Assailant, NoC and Hammer Shot for 2 Jammer, 2 Drain and a Raigeki
Break.
I go first and get a
Goat, Raigeki Break, Horn, 2 Zaborg and a Gorilla. Hmmm. Possibilities. I
summon the Gorilla and set the Goat and the Raigeki Break. I almost set the Horn
but didn't want to empty my hand.
He draws, plays Change
on my Gorilla and tributes it for Ryu Kokki. DARN! See what I mean about GUT
feelings. If I had set the Horn, I could have negated the summon if I activated
Scapegoat in his draw phase. He sets one S/T and attacks. I activate my
Scapegoat and he hits a token.
I draw Mobius. NO!! I
set the Horn this time.
He attacks another
token.
I draw Snatch Steal.
OK. This'll work! I activate it and he Book of Moon's his Ryu Kokki! Darn.
That's a nasty trick. OK. I got a trick up my sleeve, too. I have to end my
turn.
When he flips up the
Ryu Kokki, I negate the summon with Horn. That was a nasty trick, too. He plays
Book of Life on it and I'm icked off and I have to Raigeki Break it. I discard
Zaborg for the Break, hoping I can get it back later. Then he FREAKIN' Premature
Burial's the Darn thing! I can't get RID of that monster! He attacks a
token.
I draw Night Assailant
and set it. Maybe I can get rid of it this
way!
Nobelman of
Crossout.....NOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am instantly dejected and know
there is little hope for me now. He summons a Spirit Reaper and attacks with the
Kokki and the Reaper, taking out a Zaborg from my hand with the Reaper's effect.
I draw a Bottomless
and set it.
He summons a Turtle
and attacks with everything. I need a miracle draw, here.
I don't get it. I draw
Change of Heart and he's going to kill me next turn no matter what I do so, I
conceed. I got owned that time.
Boo hoo. He had his
revenge. Someone told me I jinxed my deck by saying he wanted revenge. I don't
believe in that sort of thing anyway. Oh well. There's always next weekend. I'm
over it!
Today was fun even
though I lost in the third round. We ate Pizza, hung out, traded and left a
little early today. I needed to finish typing up the
reports.
Regionals is next
weekend and I am ready for it. I think. I still need to tweak the side deck a
little more, I think. I'm going to probably make a couple of changes to the main
deck, too. I have some ideas, but don't want to post them here in case anyone
who goes to Regionals reads it...you know who you are!!!
Heheheh.
Until next
week!
Happy
dueling!
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welcome!