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Subject:
RegnR8's Absloute Rule of the Monarchs - March 26,
2005
RegnR8's Absolute Rule
of the Monarchs
Tournament Report for March 26,
2005
Hi
all,
Welcome to this, the
last tournament report until the new ban list kicks in!
Excellent!
Today was a busy
Saturday with two tournaments in two locations. The Monarchs were itching to
finish out the season with some solid wins before the deck has to go through
some minor revisions for the new ban list. As you can see, there shouldn't be
too many changes. Two monsters and two Spell Cards and I'm good to go. For now,
the deck looks like this:
Absolute Rule of the
Monarchs
x3 Nimble
Momonga
x3 Berserk Gorilla
x2 Mobius the Frost Monarch
x2 Zaborg the
Thunder 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
x2 Scapegoat
x2
Creature Swap
x2 Metamorphosis
x2 Smashing Ground
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
x2 Bottomless Trap
Hole
x1 Ring of Destruction
x1 Call of the Haunted
x1 Royal
Decree
SIDE
DECK:
x3 Kinetic
Soldier
x3 King Tiger Wanghu
x2 Magic Drain
x3 Royal Oppression
x1
Jinzo
x1 Torrential Tribute
x1 Forceful Sentry
x1 Nobleman of
Crossout
On to the first
tournament of the day!
Sports Cards and
Collectibles
$5.00 to play, you get a pack for
entering
3 packs for 1st
2 packs for 2nd
Nothing for losers who can't
make it to the top 2
5 rounds of Swiss
Advanced Format
25 or so folks
there today. Good crowd.
We got there and I
bought a box of Dark Revelation for some strange reason. I have about a dozen of
every card in the set anyway. I really didn't get anything that good except a
couple of cards and got a RARE Tribe Infecting Virus. DOH! Oh
well.
ROUND 1
MONARCHS VS
SOME WIERD BEATDOWN THING
This deck was really
strange. He had a lot of goofy stuff in it that, if he had taken out and
replaced with a little more consistant cards, would've actually been a fairly
decent deck. Maybe.
GAME
1
On his first turn he
activated Gravekeeper's Servent and I don't care. I keep attacking him anyway
because the damage being done to him for outweighs the discard. The Royal Decree
stops him from using Bottomless Trap Hole on my Zaborg. Meh. I manage to summon
a Mobius right after that. After he uses Exiled Force on my Mobius, he gets out
a Gemini Elf with Mage Power at 3900 attack and attacks my Mobius. It's ON now!
I had a Nimble on the field and, next turn, I tribute it for Zaborg and destroy
his jacked-up Elf. My Decree is keeping me safe from all harm and I just hammer
away at him.
GAME
2
This guy uses tons of
traps and set monsters so I drop in Jinzo and another Nobleman for the Reckless
Greed and Magical Scientist.
This is getting
stranger by the minute. Is this a Earth deck with Warrior support or a Warrior
deck with Earth support? He summons Amazoness Paladin, Rock Spirit, Freed, and
other strange things. Man Eater Bug, MoF, Penguin Soldier. It doesn't really
matter because I pretty much dominate this duel and kill him with a Nimble
Momonga! GO NIMBLE!
ROUND 2
MONARCHS VS
DRAGON
GAME
1
I win the die roll and
draw Sinister, Mobius, Nimble, Zaborg, Gorilla and Creature Swap. Not too good.
I set the Nimble and the Swap.
He summons a Masked
Dragon and attacks my Nimble. I gain 1000LP and get two more on the field. Gotta
love those Nimbles. He set a couple of S/T
cards.
I draw Painful Choice
and decide not to play it, yet. I don't know why. I just did. I Swap my Nimble
for his Masked Dragon, then tribute it for Mobius and he chains the two set
cards. Ring of Destruction on Mobius and Book of Moon on the Nimble. Crap.
That's annoying.
He summons another
Masked Dragon and attacks with my Nimble and the Dragon. Boo hoo. My Nimble has
turned traitor!
I draw Fiber Jar and
set it.
Fiber Jar saves me
(I'm gonna miss this card!) when he summons another monster and attacks it.
After that, it goes downhill for him. Soon after, I summon Twin Headed Behemoth,
Premature Zaborg and Smash his Luster Dragon for the final
kill.
GAME
2
Oh my gosh. After a
Cyber flip, he gets a ton of monsters and I get crap and he hammers me for a
lot. He saves his Ring of Destruction when I summon Mobius while I was at
1500LP. Not good.
GAME
3
My, this is annoying.
Smashing Ground, Enemy Controller and Book of Moon frustrate me to no end. His
defenses can only hold for so long and I finally get him top decking and down to
100LP. I have Zaborg and a Gorilla on the field and he has one card set that
can't help him, or he would have already activated it. He's looking to the
"Heart of the Cards" and he draws. He summons the Sinister Serpent he just drew
and attacks my Gorilla just to kill himself. LoL.
GG....yeah.
ROUND 3
MONARCHS VS
MYSTIC SWORDSMAN
GAMES 1 and
2
Marauding Captain and
Level Up! can, and will, deplete your hand in a hurry, plus Tribe Infecting
Virus OWNS a type specific swarm deck. After his first turn or two he is reduced
to holding one or two cards in his hand both games and it's a set of fairly easy
duels.
SEMI
FINALS
MONARCHS VS RFG/STIKE NINJA/CHAOS
GAMES 1 and
2
I simply can not take
notes when I duel this gentleman. His deck is too wierd and too good and I MUST
concentrate on what I am doing at all times or I will lose. The first game I was
losing by a couple of thousand LP but managed to come back after I Snatched his
Chaos Sorceror and removed it from play. The second game was a little faster and
I dominated with the Tigers and Royal
Oppression.
FINALS
MONARCHS VS
WARRIOR TECH BEATDOWN
GAME
1
I Bottomless his Spear
Dragon while I have a Nimble set. I draw SoRL, summon a Gorilla and attack for
3000. He Snatch's my Gorilla and turns it to defense position. Reinforcements
gets him a DD Warrior Lady. I Change of Heart it and tribute it for Mobius and
attack him for 2400. He's at 1600LP and he summons two Maraudings on me and that
stalls for a while. I can't do anything.
He tributes one of the Maraudings
for Dark Ruler HaDes (I didn't expect that one!) and attacks my Mobius. I draw
Ring on my next turn and Ring his Dark Ruler in his next draw phase for the
win.
GAME
2
This game is really
close. It's 3000LP each when he uses CHANGE OF HEART (banned as of April 1 -
YES!!!) on my Nimble and summons a Gorilla and kills me with my own Nimble. Boo
Hoo. My Nimble betrays me for the second time
today.
GAME
3
Enemy Controller kills
two of my Berserks, Smashing Ground destroys my Monarchs and DD Warrior Lady
removes my Nimble. Not good.
Well, the Monarchs
place second and I get my packs and pull nothing of note, so whatever. It's not
about the cards, it's about WINNING HAHAHAHAH!!!! No, just kidding, it's about
having fun and WINNING HAHHAHAHA....oh pardon
me.....ahem.
We head out to Books A
Million to do some trading with the little rich kids and things are kind of slow
so, we head on down to the second tournament of the
day.
Newnan Sports
Cards
Free to play
1st gets 4 packs
2nd
gets 3
3rd gets 2
Single Elimination
Advanced
Around 24 or so people
today. Another good turnout.
Wow. The store is
packed. There's a Mech Warrior tourney going on, so a couple of the tables are
already taken up with sheets of plywood and folks with their tape measures and
note pads and cool little painted figures hovering over them (and they say
Yugioh players are geeks....hmmmm).
Well, I hurry up the
judge to begin the sign up because I want to leave early today if I can. The
sign up is suppose to start at 4PM but he usually doesn't begin until nearly an
hour later. Everyone is pretty much already there so, he starts sign up and
first pairings are called.
ROUND 1
MONARCHS VS
BEATDOWN
We had to drag a
busted ol' table out of the back room and duel standing up. That
sucks.
GAMES 1 and
2
Move along, nothing to
report here. Cyber Jar hurt him pretty badly the first duel when I got a lot and
he got nothing. The second duel was pure domination on my
part.
ROUND 2
MONARCHS VS
CHAOS BEATDOWN
This is a fairly
straightforward Chaos/beatdown deck. BLS, Giant Orc, Angel, Spear, Exiled,
Tomato, Spirit Reaper, MoF, standard stuff, no surprises.
GAME
1
We Fiber flip three
times. I'm really going to miss this card after the ban. It would have been four
Fiber resets but I tribute for Zaborg once, destroying his. This duel is really
long and drawn out because we keep nibbling at each others LP. I have the
upperhand most of the duel and when I Swap a face up token for his Spear Dragon
and Premature Burial my Zaborg it's over.
GAME
2
I go ahead and side
deck a little. Three Tigers and another Nobelman to take care of his MoF and
Spirit Reaper. Smashing Ground and Book of Moon kill me. He Smashed two
consecutive monsters, then Booked my third.
GAME
3
I hit him hard and
heavy early in the duel. Later, TIV takes care of his Scapegoat tokens and SoRL
protects me for a while. TER stalls with his Shining Angel and I Ring it for the
match win.
ROUND 3
MONARCHS VS
BEASTDOWN
Ahhh, a duelist after
my own heart. Gyku-Gire Panda and some beastly trample.
Cool.
GAME
1
Dust Tornado, MST and
Giant Trunade frustrate my efforts for a while. He tramples me for a little bit,
but his Panda is too weak to do any real damage. Nimbles give me some LP and
Mobius takes out his traps and I take the first duel 8300 -
0.
GAME
2
Ha ha. I do the most
damage to myself. I attack into a Cylinder with a Gorilla and after a Fiber
flip, I do the exact same thing! LOL! Dust Tornados and MST really wipe out a
lot of stuff I set. They don't get rid of my Royal Decree, and when I chain it
to his Bottomless Trap Hole, I manage to get him with my
Gorilla.
SEMI -
FINALS
MONARCHS VS BEATDOWN
This deck has 47 cards
but it works because I lost to it in the finals earlier today. Rematch and
REVENGE!
GAME
1
Smash, Snatch,
Bottomless and Book of Moon! Argh! We both Smash and Snatch each other! I Snatch
and he Book of Moons his monster. He Snatch's my Nimble and whatever, I attack
it and get LP. Heavy Storm, Creature Swap and a Zaborg destroying his set
MOF give me the final victory, though.
GAME
2
I side deck in
Torrential and the second NoC. I was going to gain advantage my next turn, but
Card Destruction ruins my plans and he Premature Burial's his Jinzo. I can't get
rid of it, nor stall long enough for
anything.
GAME
3
After he Nobelman' s
our Fiber Jar and attacks me a couple of times, a Heavy Storm clears the way for
a big attack and Torrential allows me to attack him again with some Premature'd
and Call'd monsters for the win.
FINALS
MONARCHS VS
LAST TURN
This deck is
absolutely BRUTAL. It hasn't lost a duel all day long. If he wins the die roll,
goes first and summons Jowgen and sets two S/T cards, the game is over for me.
Wall of Revealing Light and Self Destruct Button can end duels in draws over and
over again.
I hope I win the die roll. If I get the chance to go first, I may
be able to win before he either Self Destructs or uses Last Turn. If I lose the
first game, I am going to rely on my side deck to pull me through. I know he has
little to no S/T removal or monster removal or any means of attacking me. The
deck is built for pure draw power and speed. Shallow Grave, Cyber Jar, Card
Destruction, Book of Taiyou and Magician of Faith can recycle cards and deck me
out, too. This deck is a real threat and a real
challenge.
GAME
1
I WIN the die roll and
chose to go first! YES! If I had gone second, I may have lost without even
drawing a card. I do not get a very good draw. I do have Mobius in my opening
hand, and if he doesn't get rid of the Nimble I set and doesn't win on his turn,
I may stand a chance.
He draws and sets 2
S/T and summons Jowgen. NO!!!!
I draw and he doesn't
activate anything. Ahha! He has NOTHING! I tribute for Mobius and destroy his
set cards. One of them was Spell Reproduction and the other was something
useless. After that it was all Monarch.
GAME
2
I side deck in 12
cards.
He draws and sets 2
S/T and summons Jowgen. NO!!!!
I draw and he
activates Wall of Revealing Light and Last Turn. I
lose.
GAME
3
At least I get to go
first this time.
I get Royal Decree in
my opening hand!!!! YES! What luck. A turn two Mobius takes care of his set
cards, and along with a Called Gorilla and summoned Breaker the following turn,
it's over. He had nothing and I didn't even have to use my
Decree.
HOORAY! The Monarchs
RECLAIM their rightful place on the throne today!
I ended up not going
home early as I wanted because I had to win the finals. Heh. Oh well. Sad me.
hah. I got my packs but I don't remember what I pulled. Some useless stuff I am
sure, or I would have remembered. We went to McDonalds aftewards and ate, then
went home.
Well, that's it for
this week. Next weekend is Regionals and I still haven't decided wether to go or
not.....
Until next time, keep
winning!
RegnR