Now for my matches:

 

Strike Ninja with Tomato control

Strike Ninja does not fare well against Dark World. The idea of Strike is to dodge monster destruction to gain advantage/maintain field presence. His dodging is fuelled by lots of little Dark monsters fetched by Tomato – they all have less than 1500 ATK. Strike Ninja can dodge an attack from Goldd or Sillva, but at the cost of 2300 LP, and when he comes back what can he do? Deck Devastation wipes out almost every other card in his deck, so there is little my opponent can do to stop the Dark World onslaught.

Game 1

Me 2300 > 2400 > 3200 >4700 > Win

Him 2300 > 4600 > 5100 > 5200 > 8000

Game 2

Me 2400 > Win

Him 2400 > 5300 > 8000

Win

 

Get the Phoenix out deck

The idea of this guy’s deck was to get out that pesky Sacred Phoenix using Hand + Captain etc. I knew from turn 1 thanks to Confiscation, which I used to discard Hand. I knew I had to try and stop him getting out Phoenix because Dark World has real trouble stopping the damned thing with its 2400 ATK and resurrection power.

I almost cried the first game. He had no idea what kind of deck I was running and was attacking me willy-nilly with Don Zaloog and DISCARDING FROM MY HAND!!! The one time I would love a hand full of them and I had no Dark World monsters!!! He got way too much card advantage over me and won the first.

The second game was much closer but I actually managed to get my Dark World monsters and my Virus (hahaha goodbye Hand, Marauding and Don!!!) going and took him down.

Now: ten minutes remaining had been called during the second game, so I knew we didn’t have much time. I went into time mode: super aggressive to get ahead in LP and then super defensive until time runs out. To my exultation his first move was to summon Marauding, special Sangan and set a Trap. I MST the Trap, special Cyber Dragon and slam his Marauding Captain for 900 damage. A Confiscation second or third turn allowed me to prevent him from getting Phoenix out and plan my moves around my knowledge of his hand. With this knowledge I prevented him from inflicting any damage besides 2 Ring of Destructions, thus I was still ahead in LP. Just as my options were running out, he managed to summon Phoenix and finish off my last goat tokens, but my plan had worked: time was called! I called over the judge and showed him my LP tally (on paper so there could be NO questioning it). My opponent protested that I only had 1 goat token left, but I had a token count beside my LP tally. I didn’t see him tallying LP or anything on paper: that’ll learn him for not using paper. The judge instructed us to finish the last two turns. My opponent was forced to end his turn; I drew, set a monster and ended, winning due to time. My opponent proceeded to swear at me and argue but I ignored him and didn’t report him because I’m not a dirty ruleshark.

Game 1 (I had to count down for this guy because he insisted. Everyone else said it was fine for me to count up except this guy)

Me 8000 > 6400 > 3800 > 2400 > 300 > 0

Him 8000 > 7200 > 5100 > Win

Game 2

Me 8000 > 7000 > 6200 > 4400 > 4300 > 3300 > Win

Him 8000 > 7700 > 5900 > 5800 > 3800 > 1800 > 0

Game 3

Me 8000 > 6400 > 4500 > Time: Win

Him 8000 > 7100 > 5500 > 3600 > 2800 > Time: Lose

Win

 

Crazy stuff up everyone else’s deck deck

Damn damn damn I always have to duel my brother at regionals etc. He was running an awesome crazy Macro Cosmos with Deck Devastation Virus deck, which basically just stuffs up everyone else’s deck as much as possible lol (Macro removes stuff, Virus kills little monsters).

Unfortunately for him, he was running a combo-based deck against my ultra-fast Dark World deck. As soon as he didn’t have a Macro or D Fissure on the field, either after I destroyed one or before he drew one, I just slammed everything with my Dark World monsters, and tore apart his monster support base (Dekoichi, Merchant etc) with my own Virus.

In the second game he used 2 Solemn Judgments before I even did damage so he only had 2000 LP which was basically 1 attack from Goldd lol.

Game 1

Me 1000 > 2600 > Win

Him 200 > 1200 > 2800 >4800 > 6800 > 7400 > 8000

Game 2

Me 2600 > 3400 > Win

Him 4000 > 6000 > 8000

Win

 

Burn deck

I played against this guy the week before with my E-Hero deck and lost: it was a good burn deck and he knew how to play it. I knew he was going to be annoying, and I put up a good fight, but couldn’t draw into Heavy Storm in game 1. I had him down to 1150 LP but couldn’t get through his limit. It was a damn good game: frustrating but close and exciting. He won the first, and in the second I sided in my anti-limit. My opening hand was Dust Tornado, Dekoichi (you probably think this is pretty good but it gets much worse), Mobius (still good?) and 2 Goldd. I drew into a Virus. My Dekoichi was killed (Nobleman or Exiled I can’t remember) and I drew into Premature Burial. Dust hit something useless, Prem Deko, tribute for Goldd (I wanted to use the Virus but it wasn’t set yet unfortunately): Bottomless Trap Hole (even if I’d summoned Mobius it wouldn’t have helped). He drew into Injection Fairy Lily!!! And proceeded to attack me with it directly for the next 2 turns. Bleh. From the LP count it looks like there was a Solar Flare Dragon in there too – I can’t remember.

Game 1

Me 500 > 1300 > 3500 > 4000 > 4800 > 6500 > 7500 > 8000

Him 300 > 400 > 500 > 4750 > 4850 > 5850 > 5950 > 6650 > 6750 > 6850 > Win

Game 2

Me 500 > 1900 > 5300 > 8000

Him 1400 > 3400 > 5400 > Win

Lose

 

 

Boring deck

This deck is the netdecked garbage that is a plague unto our card game. I didn’t see a single original card in this deck: it was all Dekoichi, Monarch etc. I dueled this guy in a regionals during the regressive format too, and guess what his deck was: 3 Assailant, 3 Dekoichi, 3 Widespread etc wow this guy must have lots of fun building his innovative and fun-to-play decks. I don’t know why half these people play the game. We all know one of those decks is going to win the regionals, so why not see how far you can get with an original deck? Anyways, I’ll stop ranting now.

In the first game I made a really stupid mistake that cost me the game. He had three monsters on the field, I had a Goldd face-up and Virus set. I knew from playtesting against these kind of dirty decks that things got very difficult if they summoned a Monarch (2400 attack and 1 of 2 effects that really damage me – not 3 Thesty is my friend). So in order to prevent a tribute summon I used the Virus to wipe out his 3 monsters and see his hand. One of those monsters on the field was Sangan. A quick LP check and he got Stein with Sangan’s effect. Damn pesky little metal man! I got Steined oh well.

Game 2 I absolutely owned. I managed to get him topdecking within 2 or 3 turns thanks to some crazy thing I did with Sangan, Last Will, Reaper and Thestalos. Then I got out Balter to finish him off: Smashing Ground – I negate by paying 1000. It was brilliant. Needless to say I won that one.

Game 3 was terrible. I got a bad hand which got even worse when he used Confiscation. I tried a reckless Stein when he had 2 traps because I had no other options: Sakuretsu oh well. It would have been great to beat this dirty deck but I didn’t expect to win.

Game 1

Me 2400 > 3300 > 4300 > 8000

Him 1000 > 1700 > 6700 > Win

Game 2

Me 1000 > Win

Him 800 > 4700 > 8000

Game 3

Me 1400 > 2100 > 7100 > 8000

Him 1000 > Win (see the power of the 1^st turn Confiscation!)

Lose

 

Counter Fairy

An actual Counter-Fairy deck! I couldn’t believe it: I’d never really seen one played competitively before. It was close, but in the end I think Dark World moved too fast for the Counter Fairies: they could counter 1 or 2 things I tried to do but were eventually overwhelmed. Magic Drain on Dark World Lightning was annoying but not a real bother. I OTK’d him the first game - from 5900 LP to 0 in one Battle Phase thanks to a 2-Goldd Graceful Drop and a Brain Control: bwahaha.

Second game he won very quickly I can’t remember how, and the third game I Steined him lol. So I was even with the Steining.

Game 1

Me 800 > Win

Him 600 > 2100 > 8000

Game 2

Me 1700 > 5000 > 8000

Him 2700 > Win

Game 3

Me 1000 > 6000 > Win

Him 5600 > 8000

Win

 

So I was 4 wins 2 losses, same as my brother: I came 8^th he came 9^th! I came Top 8 with a Dark World deck how cool is that? I got 4 POTD boosters with absolute garbage in them except for a Dark Panther (a really cool card that they made as bad as they could) and one of those Top 8 duel mats with the zones on them. And the guy who won was actually cool and runs fun decks most of the time (but not this time he was running Monarch with some tech but we knew Monarch was going to win so it’s ok).

 

Pro

Came top 8

Used Dark World (original deck!!!) went 4 – 2

 

Con

Had to duel my brother

Got Steined and then a terrible hand in the decider against netdecked garbage deck

Lost to a burn deck bleh

 

Cheers,

SpoonMan

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