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Begone_Knave_Deck_Eric_Engelmann_Dreamwizards_Rockville_MD

November 12, 2006

14 contestants

I'm a 51-year-old collector introduced to the game by young son. I've since developed a passion for building oddball decks I can have fun playing even against inexperienced players, although I usually lose. At this tournament I used a deck I read about on Metagame.com recently. I thought it would be a lot of fun to try, and wasn't disappointed. I'd describe it as a Tomato control deck with Begone, Knave! for bounce effects.

Here's the deck:

3x Begone, Knave!

1x Breaker the Magical Warrior

1x Call of the Haunted

2x Dark Jeroid

2x Don Zaloog

3x Dust Tornado

1x Graceful Charity

1x Heavy Storm

2x Magical Merchant

3x Majestic Mech - Ohka

2x Masked Sorcerer

1x Mirror Force

3x Mystic Tomato

1x Mystical Space Typhoon

1x Nobleman of Crossout

3x Offerings to the Doomed

1x Pot of Avarice

1x Premature Burial

3x Reckless Greed

1x Ring of Destruction

1x Sangan

3x Spear Dragon

I had never played this deck before, even in practice; so I hadn't given any thought to a side deck. I did create one that had three Mask of Restrict cards I thought might be swapped, plus 12 filler cards.

It was a rainy Sunday following a simply beautiful Saturday, and turnout was very low by Dreamwizards' standards. I think 8 people showed up on time, but we eventually had 14 contestants. My deck was missing one of the three Don Zaloogs it needed, but I was lucky enough to be able to trade for one just minutes before the tourney started.

My first match was against Joel, a young man who looked about 14-years-old. He was playing a Destiny Board "Final" deck, a win condition I had thought was quite impractical. He played well, with Noblemans on my set flips on the first turn of each of the first two duels. I couldn't recover in the first duel, but duels two and three turned into bouncing slug-fests, with me squeeking out a win each time.

My second match against Joseph, whom I'd characterize as an expert player. He was running Zombie build, and I assumed I would be crushed. I was amazed to get great opening hands (Heavy Storm in each), and went all-out aggressive from the beginning. He never pulled his Deck Devastation Virus cards, and I was able to quickly break him down, using the Begone Knave cards to prevent him from keeping any field presence and my Don Zaloog's to deplete his hand. We played a for-fun duel after the two regulation duels and he thoroughly crushed me with a timely Deck Devastion Virus.

My third match was at table 1, something I can't recall ever happening in the brief time I've played the game. I was matched against Lawrence, another expert player, who was running a Monarch and Hydrogeddon deck. This should have been a good match for my deck, especially with Lawrence drawing all three Hydrogeddons in his opening hand. I just couldn't draw my Begone Knaves, and he beat me pretty quickly with 4300/0 and 4400/0 scores.

My final match was against Tyler, again an expert player. He seemed to always have the answer to everything I played, and quickly beat me 5300/0 and 4500/0.

I didn't make top-four, and I didn't pull any decent cards in the single TP pack I got for participating, but I did make a couple of trades and had some fun playing casual duels while waiting for my son to finish playing Naruto. I think the post-tourney casual play is actually my favorite, because players feel free to bring out novelty decks, like my Ghandipants variant with Stumbling and Mask of Restrict.

All in all, a great way to spend a rainy fall day.