Deck: Advanced Hand Control Deck.

Name: Leprechaun71588

Where: Vintage Stock, Overland Park, KS

When: 11:00, Saturday, February 12, 2005

Cost: $5, comes with a TP5 pack after you are done

Attendance: 11

Prize: 1^st – 3 packs of choice

2^nd – Firm Handshake

This week I think I went in a little too confident. I won the last two times, so I thought I could easily do it again. Well, to make a long story short, I thought wrong. I decided I was going to test out some new cards such as Wall of Illusion, and Lightforce Sword. When I got there, I saw that there were completely different people there than the past two times, so I decided I would drop the Lightforce Sword idea and stick with Drop Off.

Deck: Advanced Hand Control

Monsters: 5+ (3)

Mefist the Infernal General Mobius the Frost Monarch

Jinzo

Monsters: 4- (15)

Exiled Force

Wall of Illusion

Berserk Gorilla

Don Zaloog

Spirit Reaper

D.D. Warrior Lady

Magical Scientist

Mystic Tomato

Apprentice Magician

Tribe Infecting Virus

Magician of Faith

Sinister Serpent

Magic: (14)

Fissure

Last Will

Painful Choice

Heavy Storm

Book of Moon

Change of Heart

Pot of Greed

Nobleman of Crossout

Swords of Revealing Light

Creature Swap

Premature Burial

Mystical Space Typhoon

Confiscation

Scapegoat

Traps: (8)

Solemn Judgment

Drop Off

Magic Drain

Sakuretsu Armor

Call of the Haunted

Ring of Destruction

Bottomless Trap Hole

(40 Cards Total)

Fusions: (6)

Fiend Skull Dragon

Ryu Senshi

Dark Blade the Dragon Knight

Dark Balter the Terrible

Thousand-Eyes Restrict

Side Deck: (15)

Kinetic Soldier

Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer

Banisher of the Light

Trap of Board Eraser

Waboku

Nobleman of Crossout

Barrel Behind the Door

Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning

Swarm of Scarabs

Swarm of Locusts

Dust Tornado

Mobius the Frost Monarch

Before the tournament started, I traded my Big Shield Guardna and Draining Shield for another Thousand Eyes Restrict and a Spirit Reaper. Probably not the best deal I've ever gotten…but I figured I could use them more.

Round 1: Bye. I hate getting the Bye right away, I would much rather play someone first round.

Round 2: Played someone new I had never seen before. He was the same person that beat my sister first round.

First Duel I won pretty easily. From watching my sister's match, I knew what I had coming, and he looked very easy. He played a warrior deck, but not like what you'd expect. It used things like Dark Blade, Gemini Elf, Swift Gaia, and other crappy monsters with a bunch (at least 8) equip cards.

Me: 8000-7000-5700-4700-3700-2200-1900

Him: 8000-6600-3500-3100-0

The next round was very close. I side-decked in a Kycoo and a Kinetic Soldier. It was hard for me to get card advantage because I wasn't getting what I needed. I was forced to stall until I could get them. His massive attack monsters just ran over anything I pulled out and I wasn't able to gain very good card advantage. I pulled off a big combo I thought would turn around the game, taking out his whole field, but he was able to topdeck an answer to it.

Me: 8000-7700-6900-5100-3300-2300-1900-1100-700

Him: 8000-6400-6350

This round was again close. I was able to gain somewhat of a hand advantage, but not enough I guess. Again, when I was very low on lifepoints, I was able to pull off a good combo and take out his field, just for him to topdeck an answer to it next turn.

Me: 8000-7200-3600-2600-700-600-400

Him: 8000-7850-6850-6050-4450-2850

Well I was pretty disappointed, but I guess there's always next time. I think I got too into experimenting too much in my deck instead of sticking with what worked. Well I got a few cards that will help me out next time, so hopefully I'll have a little better luck. Out of my TP5 pack, I got Mystical Sheep #1 and a Goddess With the Third Eye.

Pros:

- Advanced Format allowing people with skill, but not all the good cards, to have a chance to win.

- Trading for some good cards that I've been needing.

Cons:

- Low attendance at an Advanced Format tourney.

- Losing, but I guess that's not all too bad. I learned a lot.

If you want to contact me…

E-mail: leprechaun71588@yahoo.com

AIM: Leprechaun71588

Yahoo: Leprechaun71588

Please, I don’t want to hear about how I should change my deck around, it’s the best I can do with what I’ve got. If you want to text or YVD duel I’m always available.