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RegnR8's Absolute Rule of the Monarchs - March 5th and 6th, 2005



RegnR8's Absolute Rule of the Monarchs
March 5 & 6, 2005



Hi all,



Welcome to this special double edition of the tournament report we all know and love!



Thanks to all who have emailed me! I try to answer all of them when I have the time, but I am getting more and more so, it's becoming increasingly difficult to answer them all. I'll do my best, so don't be offended if I don't answer right away!



This weekend was frustrating and interesting at the same time. The Mantis program screws me AGAIN! This time, I am fed up with how it keeps messing up everything and I took it to the store owner and he is going to look into it for me. More about that later.



I made minor changes to the deck and substantional changes to the side deck. I was looking through my cards, thinking about what hurts me the most and how I could shore up my defenses. I also was looking at what seemed to help me the most and how I could strengthen that aspect of the deck.



In looking for cards to help my defense, I came across Royal Oppression. There are many people that rely on special summoning of monsters (including myself) and I thought Royal Oppression may be a good asset in my side deck, especially for Taka-shi and his Chaos deck, which is VERY heavy on Metamorphosis/Scapegoat and the summoning of the Chaos monsters. I didn't want to main deck any, but I did throw three in my side deck. They proved to be VERY effective throughout the weekend. I had to be careful when I activate one though, because it did actually hurt me in one duel. I also found the Magic Drain to be helpful so, I decided to main deck one to see how it did.



Offensively, the one card that really helps me the most is Metamorphosis. So, I decided to up the count to three. This too, proved useful a couple of times. After the ban list takes effect, I may opt for returning 2 Night Assailant to the deck and switching the Magic Drain to Magic Jammers. Just a thought. The deck will be easy to switch out to the new ban list. No problem there.



So here's the deck this week:



x3 Nimble Momonga
x3 Berserk Gorilla
x2 Mobius the Frost Monarch
x2 Zaborg the Thunder Monarch
x1 Thestalos the Fire Monarch
x1 Tribe Infecting Virus
x1 Sinister Serpent
x1 Breaker the Magical Warrior
x1 Morphing Jar
x1 Twin Headed Behemoth
x1 Fiber Jar
x1 Magical Scientist



x3 Scapegoat
x2 Creature Swap
x3 Metamorphosis
x1 Nobleman of Crossout
x1 Pot of Greed
x1 Change of Heart
x1 Snatch Steal
x1 Swords of Revealing Light
x1 Heavy Storm
x1 Mystical Space Typhoon
x1 Painful Choice
x1 Premature Burial
x1 The Forceful Sentry



x2 Bottomless Trap Hole
x1 Ring of Destruction
x1 Call of the Haunted
x1 Magic Drain



SIDE DECK:



x3 Kinetic Soldier
x3 King Tiger Wanghu
x1 Magic Drain
x3 Royal Oppression
x1 Jinzo
x1 Torrential Tribute
x1 Nobleman of Crossout
x1 Royal Decree
x1 Enemy Controller



March 5th
Sports cards and Collectables
Fayetteville, Ga.
$5.00 to enter
Around 25 people today. Excellent turnout.
Advanced
6 rounds of Swiss
3 packs for first
2 packs for second
Nothing for the losers



Well, this was the first tournament in the store's new location. It's bigger and better for sure! Horray! BUT! I can't walk to the Dunkin Donuts anymore so, that's negative points for the location. It is within walking distance to a convienence store, so that's a plus, I guess.



First things first, I bought two boxes of Flaming Eternity and was pretty happy with what I got. Especially the Lightning Vortex. I pulled two, one of which is an Ultimate Rare. SCORE! Other cards of note were: 2 Blast Magician (one Ultimate), Gearfried the Swordmaster, 2 Deck Devastation Virus, Ultimate Behemoth King of All Animals, Granmarg the Rock Monarch and assorted Rares and Supers. I did have to trade a couple of Silent Swordsman LV3 for an Ultimate Phoenix, but I was happy. I will probably purchase one more box next weekend and then trade out of that for what I need.



Enough of the blah, blah, yakkity schmakkity. On to the duels!!!



ROUND 1
MONARCHS VS DRAGON



GAME 1



I roll a two, so I'm thinking my bad luck of die rolls is continuing but, he rolls a one. Hooray. I go first and draw Scapegoat, Morphing Jar, Metamorphosis, Swords, Gorilla and Twin Headed Behemoth. I set the Scapegoat and summon the Gorilla.



He plays Pot and summons a Mirage Dragon, Book of Moon's my Gorilla and attacks. He sets a S/T card and ends. I activate Scapegoat in his end phase. He says, "Why did you do that?" Little does he know....evil laughter....



I draw Pot and play it. I get Tribe and Heavy Storm. I Heavy his set Card Destruction and know he's got nothing. I Morph a token to TER and take his Mirage Dragon and attack him.



He plays Smashing Ground on my TER and attacks a token with a Masked Dragon.



I draw Snatch, summon Tribe, discard for dragon and attack.



He summons a Luster and attacks my Tribe.



I draw MST and activate Swords.



He sets a monster and ends.



I draw a Nimble and set it.



He flips his Fiber Jar and summons Twin Head, then plays Card Destruction and I get a Metamorphosis, Gorilla, Breaker, Forceful and my Twin Head. He attacks me with the Twin Head.



I draw Zaborg and Forceful his Change of Heart. Hey, that's two cards we won't see in a few days. I set my Twin Head and a Metamorphosis as a bluff.



He summons a Luster and attacks my Twin Head. He attacks directly with his Twin Head and I bring mine back during the end phase. He sets a S/T card.



I draw MST and use it on his Cylinder. Heh. I tribute my Twin Head for Zaborg and destroy his Luster. I attack his Twin Head. He forgets to get it during his end phase and could have won the duel if he hadn't made that error.



I'm losing 3200 to 4800 when he Snatchs my Zaborg and, if he had remembered to get his Behemoth back, he could have attacked with both and won. He realized his mistake too late and I would not let him get his Behemoth back. He didn't complain too much because he knew he blew it. He attacked me with my Zaborg, the tributed it for a face down monster.



When he tributed my Zaborg for a face down monster, I said, "That's a Kaiser Glider." He said, "I need to change my deck". I just activate Scapegoat.



He summons a Masked Dragon and attacks a token.



I have a Metamorphosis in my hand and I want the Kaiser Glider face up so I can suck it up with TER but I can't remember what it's defense is. I only have 800LP left to his 3500. I go ahead and attack his set Kaiser Glider with a Gorilla and it's defense is 2200 so, I take 200LP damage but at least it's face up now. I Morph a token to TER and take it. More evil laughter.



He sets a monster.



I attack his set Luster with TER.



I stall a while, tribute the Gorilla for Thestalos and do 400LP damage by taking out a Spear Dragon. I NoC another Masked Dragon and when I Creature Swap a token for his other Masked Dragon, he can't recover and I snatch victory from the jaws of defeat!



GAME 2



I was losing again by a couple of thousand LP when TER stalls for a good while. Soon he has only one card in his hand and an open field (after I MST the monster I hand on TER to take his set monster). I have kept setting monsters, and when I tribute TER for Thestalos and take the only card he has left out of his hand (it was Kaiser Glider), I hit him for 6500LP damage with Thestalos, Tribe, Behemoth and finally the Nimble for the win. GO NIMBLE!



ROUND 2



MONARCHS VS FINAL COUNTDOWN STALL



GAME 1



I had no idea what this deck was. He played Final Countdown on the second turn and stalled like crazy with LLAB, Swords and everything else you could think of. I lose by Final Countdown. Wheeee! That was neat!



GAME 2



I side deck the Tigers and Torrential and another NoC and other stuff and I really get lucky. I NoC two Stealth Birds and Mobius takes care of all his ST fairly early in the game and I win this one within three or four turns.



GAME 3



Once again, Nobleman of Crossout comes through and Zaborg takes care of all his pesky monsters while Mobius takes care of his S/T.



ROUND 3



MONARCHS VS CHAOS/MORPH



Grrr. It's Taka-shi and his evil deck. Well, I've got something for him today. I'm probably going to lose the first game, but I am going to side deck in the Royal Oppression and see how it goes.



GAME 1



I'm psychic. I lose really badly.



I side deck in all three Royal Oppressions and the Tigers. I think I side decked 11 cards if I remember correctly (which I probably don't).



GAME 2



Beautiful. He tries to Morph and I negate it with Royal Oppression. He tries to remove a light and a dark for Chaos Sorceror and I negate it. The Royal Oppression and the Tigers do their job wonderfully.



GAME 3



He choses to go first and sets one S/T and one monster.



I get a Goat, Ring, Morphing Jar, Nimble, Tiger and Magic Drain. I set the Goat and the Ring and summon the Tiger. I attack his monster and he activates Waboku. He still has to flip up the monster and it's Exiled Force. It's automatically destroyed by the Tiger's effect. Now, before people get bent on me, the Tiger's effect doesn't work on cards that are "flip summoned". Attacking Exiled and having it flip is DIFFERENT from a flip summon. It's simply "flipped face up" it isn't considered summoned. So it is destroyed.



He MSTs my Ring. I knew I should have set the Magic Drain! He uses Monster Reincarnation to get his Exiled Force back (like it's gonna matter...Evil laughter). He sets a monster and another S/T.



I draw a Nimble and set it. I attack his face down with the Tiger and he Cylinders. Meh.



He tributes for Airknight and attacks my Tiger. I activate Scapegoat, and the next turn I Morph a token to TER and take his Airknight. When I Premature Burial the King Tiger he can't recover and I win.



ROUND 4
MONARCHS VS ZOMBIE



Zombies have been giving me fits lately. No matter what I do I can't seem to get on top of them. Well, my little side decked friends can come out to play. I figured I would lose the first game.



GAME 1



OH! My psychic abilities failed me! For once I am wrong. This duel goes back and forth for a long time. We manage to counter everything the other does for a long time. After he rams a Turtle into my Zaborg to get a Ryu Kokki, he suicides and has 200LP left. We are both top decking and I am like at 800LP or something stupidly low and I top deck a Gorilla for the win!



GAME 2



Oh crap. My psychic abilites were off by one game. Even after side decking all my Royal Oppressions and King Tigers, I got hammered within three turns by a zillion zombies at once. I attacked his Cyber Jar and I didn't get anything useable and he totally destroyed me with Despair and Patrician and V Lord and ugh...it was sad.



GAME 3



WOOT! Total reversal of game 2. My Tigers do the job and all his Reapers and Turtles can't save him this time.



SEMI FINALS



MONARCHS VS CHAOS/MORPH AGAIN !?!?!



What!?! This has got to stop!!! I have to play Taka-shi again in the semi finals. There are 4 of us left. I am the ONLY undefeated player. Everyone else has one loss. I have beaten two of the three players left. Mantis is retarded. I'm sure Taka-shi and I get paired up because we probably have the highest points, but that doesn't seem. Shouldn't I play the one person I have not faced yet instead of a player I have already defeated? This makes no sense to me whatsoever.



GAME 1



I lose badly. The Royal Oppression actually hurt me because I was losing by a couple of thousand LP and I had Tribe in the graveyard and Call of the Haunted set. I could have cleared out Taka-shi's field but I knew he would have paid the 800 to negate Call.



GAME 2



I lose even worse than game one.



I am ticked off. How can it be that a person I defeated earlier in the day, has the opportunity beat me and then go to the finals? That is wrong and unfair. Our win loss record against each other is the same. It is not right that he be able to move on to the finals after tieing one/one. Now, if I had played Taka-shi in the Finals and lost, I would have no problem with that at all. I should have played the player I had not played during the day in the Semi's. I complain to the store owner and he is willing to check into it for me although I'm sure nothing much can be done about it except go to single elimination which, is ok, but I like Swiss better because it gives more opportunities for people to duel.



Well, that's just great. I get over it.



March 6th
Newnan Sports Cards
Newnan, Ga
Free to play
Advanced Format
Single Elimination
1st gets 4 packs
2nd gets 3
3rd gets 2
20 - 25 people



Well, I figured the weekend isn't over and I still have a chance to win a tournament. I have been finishing in the Top 4 pretty consistantly so, I guess that is still a testament to the deck. Maybe I will do better today.



ROUND 1
MONARCHS VS BURN/STALL



GAME 1



I get to go first but he manages to stall with a LLAB and a Swarm of Scarabs and I keep sitting out my Sinister Serpent and he keeps destroying it and attacking me for 500LP every turn. He does get Lava Golem out but I tribute it next turn for Zaborg to destroy his Swarm so, it didn't hurt that much. I manage to get in a few hits here and there with a Nimble on the rare occassion. His deck stalls well and we are getting close to the end of our decks. I think he has about 6 left and I have one card left! I am winning 2600LP to 1000, but I will lose because I only have one card left in my deck. I draw, and it's Ring of Destruction!! Amazing. I set it and then Ring my Zaborg for the win in his draw phase! Wow! That was close! If I was really paying attention, I would have known that Ring was the last card in my deck.



GAME 2



I side deck in all the Royal Oppression, the Tigers and Torrential and they all come in handy. When I activate the Royal Oppression, he can't special summon the Lava Golem. I get lucky and have a ready supply of Mobius and Zaborgs fresh for the killing of his monsters and S/T, and I win in about three to four turns.



That was very fun!



ROUND 2
MONARCHS VS HORUS/FIRE



This guy is very fun to duel. He is a good deck builder and a good duelist, too. We haven't played each other in a few months so, we are looking forward to it.



GAME 1



I'm looking pretty good early in this game. An early Forceful Sentry takes out the only threat in his hand (a Widespread Ruin) and I know the only monster he set after I summoned a Berserk Gorilla is a Command Knight. I Nobleman the Command Knight and open up with a strong attack of 2000LP damage.



A Change of Heart later and I'm looking at a Horus LV6 and I can't get rid of it and soon Horus LV8 is on the field and it goes downhill from there.



GAME 2



I side deck in all the Royal Oppressions and Torrential and anything else I could think of to stop him. He tends to special summon a lot so, I'm thinking the RO's will hurt.



I go first and get nothing but a bunch of garbage and a Fiber Jar. I do manage to Magic Drain his Painful Choice but he summons a monster and attacks my Fiber Jar and I get nothing but two tributes and a bunch of spell and trap cards.



I keep drawing S/T cards and he's attacking me, and soon gets Horus LV6 out on me and I don't want to summon or set a monster because I do not want the LV6 to destroy it. I can't continue to take the damage and am forced to set a monster. He destroys it and gets Horus LV8 and I have two Scapegoat, Metamorphosis and a Bottomless Trap Hole in my hand. I draw Breaker and thats not good. I get killed.



I NEVER drew any Royal Oppression. That really could have helped. As usual, we hung out and ate Pizza and dueled some more. I tested out my defense deck and it's working pretty well. It's almost ready to use in a tournament!



Oh well. That's it for this week.



I have been working on revising my deck to the new ban list and creating and tweaking some new ones. Some of you may remember my Panda deck. It has gone through DRASTIC revisions and now doesn't even have a Panda in it! It actually works better without them now! Wierd.



Well, until next week, happy dueling!



RegnR8
RegnR8@yahoo.com