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RegnR8's Absolute Rule of the Monarchs - Feb. 26, 2005

 

RegnR8's Absolute Rule of the Monarchs
Tournament Report for February 26, 2005

 

Sports Cards and Collectables
Fayetteville, Ga
$5.00 entry fee and you get a pack
Advanced Swiss Format
1st gets 3 packs
2nd gets 2 packs
3rd gets the satisfaction of knowing they are L 7.
Pretty good crowd today. Over 20. A lot of little kids.

 

Hi all,

 

Welcome to this weeks edition of the tournament report. Usually, I attend two tournaments today, but decided to only go to one. I was by myself. My daughter stayed home to further master her skills at Budokai 3, and I decided to go home afterward.

 

As of this writing, the new ban list has been posted and it will take effect the day of the next Georgia Regionals. FET will also be tournament legal and this is going to be a very interesting Regional event I am sure. There may be a lot of ruling questions and a lot of new cards and combos and such. I expect it to be sort of unfair because many people will not have had time to throughly examine and play test decks. Part of me doesn't even want to go because I can guess the majority of players will use warrior/chaos and zombie decks. That's a freakin' no brainer.

 

Let's rant a little about the ban list shall we? What was Konami thinking?!? The banning of Magical Scientist, Painful Choice, Change of Heart and Six Sense was expected. But NOT banning Tribe, Sinster and Breaker, along with my favorite monster BLS, was shocking. If Konami wants to foster deck creativity, why not ban the cards nearly EVERYONE uses in any tier 1 deck?! I'm going to really miss Fiber Jar, it actually IS my favorite monster. Tear....

 

Delinquent Duo back?! This is a HUGE screwup! Banning Forceful I can understand. Banning two pregnators and bringing the worse one back is down right retarded.

 

Butterfly Dagger - Elma?! What the? Who gives a flying rip? Let me tell you the number of times I've been beaten by this card. Let me think....Hmmm. ZERO!

 

Chick the Yellow? Are they on CRACK?!! If you ban Makyura, why semi-limit this weakling?! Stupid.

 

DD Warrior Lady restricted to one. Yeah. That's actually a good thing, but one is too few. It makes her practically USELESS! DD Assailants will simply replace her. Exiled Force has now been vaulted to the #1 slot for removal now.

 

United We Stand?!?! Oh boy. Scapegoat abusers REJOICE! Especially me. Scapegoat, Metamorphosis to TER - take my opponents BLS, slap a UWS on TER and hey, I have a 6200 attacker on the field! Yipee! Mid to late game, this would be nearly IMPOSSIBLE to over come!

 

Mirror Force. Ok. My 6200 attack TER just got wiped out but, hey, I still have 3 tokens on the field and another Metamorphosis in my hand so, whoop-de-la-dee-da-doo.

 

Sangan. He'll help some decks but, not all. I have no problem with him being back. WotBF would be a WHOLE nuther story.

 

Abyss Soldier to 2? Come on! He's virtually UNPLAYABLE outside of a water deck and the ONE monster card that really works well for a water/bounce deck is cut. Pooey. It took me forever to get three of them, too. Sour Grapes. Lol.

 

Night Assailant to 2? Meh. I hardly ever got it's effect to go off when I was running three! I'll have to change my fiend deck a little but, that's no big deal.

 

LLAB and Gravity Bind to 2. Eh, whatever. They never bothered me. Still, drop in three Messenger of Peace and you can still stall with 7 cards. Dumb.

 

Vampire Lord to 2. Hmmm. A lot of people really hate this and I think it'll be more difficult to get rid of the little bloodsucker. I'll reserve my judgement on that decision until I face a couple of him at once. Sounds pretty bad, though.

 

The smartest thing Konami did this go round was restrict Lightning Vortex, Nephthys, Crush Card and ban Six Sense right off the bat.  Oh well, another 6 months of cookie cutters again. When will the madness end?!

 

OK. Well, enough of my pointless ramblings! On to the pointless tournament!

 

Oh, yeah. Large French Vanilla with cream and sugar from the Dunkin Donuts...Bliss.

 

HORRORS! The shop is moving to a new location and it won't be right next door to the Dunkin Donuts next week! What will I ever do?!? I guess I'll have to suck it up like a MAN!

 

Of course, the Monarchs get the nod. Actually, I'm getting a little tired of this deck now. I have some ideas for a couple of other decks but, until I'm ready to enter one in the tournament, the Monarchs will continue to be the deck of choice. I did make one change to the side deck. I added a third Magic Drain for the Divine Wrath. It didn't really matter today. I wasn't in my usual jovial duelig mood.

 

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
x2 Metamorphosis
x2 Enemy Controller
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

 

SIDE DECK:

 

x3 Kinetic Soldier
x3 King Tiger Wanghu
x3 Magic Drain
x2 Magic Jammer
x1 Jinzo
x1 Torrential Tribute
x1 Nobleman of Crossout
x1 Royal Decree

 

ROUND 1

 

MONARCHS VS DRAGON

 

This guy sits down and says, "Great, I'm going to lose. Why do I have to duel you in the first round? I just built this deck like in 5 minutes this morning blah blah blah." Quit your whining!

 

GAME 1

 

Amazing. I win the die roll and chose to go first. I draw Mobius, Change, Thestalos, Gorilla, Enemy Controller and Forceful Sentry. I Forceful the only monster he has back to his deck, set the Enemy Controller and summon the Gorilla.

 

He draw and activates Swords. He sets another S/T and ends.

 

I tribute my Gorilla for Mobius and destroy his Swords and Ceasefire, which he choses not to chain for some reason. I attack him directly with Mobius for 2400.

 

He draws and sets a monster and another S/T.

 

I draw Nobleman of Crossout. Lol. I Change his set Lord of D., tribute it for Thestalos and take out his Giant Trunade. I attack him for 4800LP. Ouch. This is going well.

 

He Calls his Lord of D. back, Snatchs my Mobius and I chain the Enemy Controller to my Mobius and take his Lord of D. for the turn. Hahahahahah....ahhhhh, that was funny.

 

I draw Zaborg and tribute my Thestalos to destroy his Lord of D. and attack him for the win. Yeah that was brutal.

 

GAME 2

 

Well, he won this one because I took a huge hit of 5200 early in the game by a couple of Lusters and a Masked Dragon. I could have taken less damage, but I knew he had a Cyber Jar in his hand and I had a Bottomless set and I was hoping he'd use it. I have TiV in my hand and I get rid of all his dragons next turn, but he keeps reviving Lusters and after I tribute a TER for Mobius, he Rings it and I lose.

 

GAME 3

 

TER gets out early and takes a Luster Dragon, and after it finally takes care of all his searcher monsters (three Masked Dragons and an Element Dragon) I get to attack. Late game, he manages to to get Armed Dragon LV5 out on me, but after I Snatch it and Morph it to Dark Balter, he conceeds because he ran out of monsters.

 

ROUND 2
MONARCHS VS RANDOM DECK OF RANDOMNESS

 

GAME 1 and 2

 

I'm not even going to bother with any sort of detailed account of these duels. This was an inexperienced player who continually drew cards in his end phase, played traps from his hand and other things like that. When I won the first duel he got up to leave and I told him it was best two out of three. Well, it didn't matter because I won both duels easily. He did no damage to me at all.

 

ROUND 3

 

MONARCHS VS CHAOS/BEATDOWN

 

GAME 1

 

I lose the die roll and he lets me go first. Interesting. Ok. I get Morphing Jar, Swords, Metamorphosis, Bottomless, Snatch and Zaborg. I set the Morphing Jar, activate Swords and set everything else but Zaborg.

 

He sets a monster and one S/T.

 

I flip up my Morphing Jar and get 5 cards, including a Mobius. Good. I tribute the Morphing Jar for Mobius and destroy his Reckless Greed, which he chains. I attack his set Peten and he gets another. Pooey.

 

He discards a Thunder Dragon for it's effect and sets an S/T. Then he plays Card Destruction. He sets another monster and another S/T.

 

I draw Magical Scientist, NoC his set Twin Headed Behemoth and summon the Scientist. I pay a couple of thousand for Baltar and Ryu Senshi. I attack his Peten with Baltar and he activates Cylinder when I attack with Mobius and I have to pay another 1000 to negate it. Oh well.

 

He uses Change of Heart on my Scientist and pays for TER to get rid of my Mobius.

 

He summons Injection and attacks my Scientist but doesn't pay for the boost.

 

He's wide open when I draw a Gorilla and Snatch his Lily. I do pay for the boost and hit him for 5400 and game.

 

GAME 2

 

I side deck two Magic Drain for two Enemy Controller, for some reason. I don't really know why.

 

He goes first and sets one S/T and a monster.

 

I get Magic Drain, Painful, Swap, 2 Goats and the other Magic Drain. Oh brother. I set a Drain and a Goat, then offer him some monsters with Painful and he gives me Breaker. I summon Breaker and he Torrentials his Peten. Ah, bother. Whatever.

 

He plays Pot of Greed and I Magic Drain it, he discards and then tributes his Peten for Jinzo. This ALWAYS happens. Everytime I side deck in the Drains, Jinzo comes out and screws me up. He attacks with Jinzo and I activate Scapegoat.

 

I Swap his Jinzo for a token and attack, He uses Enemy Controller to turn Jinzo into defense position. I still have no monsters so I set the other Scapegoat and have to end my turn.

 

He activates Painful Choice. Man! I wish I could activate that other Magic Drain! Darn you Jinzo! He offers some stuff and I give him something, I don't remember. He summons Breaker and attacks his Jinzo.

 

I draw Ring and set it.

 

He removes Breaker's token to get rid of my Scapegoat and I can't activate it, so I Ring his Breaker for 1600.

 

I draw Fiber Jar and set it.

 

He sets a monster. Hmmm.

 

I draw Zaborg. Oh man. Decisions, decisions. Should I flip my Fiber or take a chance and tribute it for Zaborg and destroy his monster. I tell him I am going to take a chance, and if I lose this duel, it will be because of what I am going to do right now. I tribute my Fiber for Zaborg and destroy HIS Fiber! LoL. That was lucky! Well, he can't recover after that and after I tribute my Zaborg for another Zaborg to destroy his set monster, I top deck a Gorilla and hit him wide open for 4400 and the win.

 

SEMI FINALS
MONARCHS VS ZOMBIE

 

GAME 1

 

For some reason I have a lot of trouble with zombie decks and I can't figure out why. I was pretty sure I would lose the first game to this deck and I did. It was pretty hard fought, but Call of the Mummy and Book of Life after a Painful Choice is pretty difficult to overcome!

 

I knew what I wanted to side deck. 3 Tigers, 3 Magic Drain, Torrential and another NoC.

 

GAME 2

 

What the?!?! I get two Tigers in my opening hand and 2 Nobleman of Crossout and a Scapegoat.  I admit, I probably should have summoned the Tiger on the first turn, but I was afraid of Call of the Mummy, so I just set the Scapegoat and it went downhill from there. He managed to get rid of my two Tigers pretty early and I NEVER drew a Magic Drain the ENTIRE duel! I lose this one pretty badly.

 

Well, darn. Lost in the Semi Finals again. I'm getting use to this. I pretty much breeze through everyone but two people. This zombie deck and Taka-shi's Chaos/Morph thingy. At least I didn't have to play that!

 

That's it for this week! Until next time, happy dueling!

 


RegnR8
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