Romping Rotting Ruffians
Lee Sandow
Galactic Quest Comics
Lawrenceville, GA
10-16-04
Ladies and Gentlemen, today is a special day! Do you know why it is special? DO YOU?!? I’ll tell you why! It’s because I’m back with another exciting tournament report! Aren’t you SO happy now that I told you that! This week we had a special tournament, where you could only use ONE color in your deck. I chose to descend into darkness, and live in the shadows… which is pretty much what my room looks like anyways. So it really wasn’t that different. But I digress; I had to put Dark Tide away for the week…
I named this deck while I was under the influence of Crunk Juice, so please, laugh at the name all you want.
Romping Rotting Ruffians (44 Cards) |
DARKNESS CREATURES: 324x Writhing Bone Ghoul 4x Horrid Worm 2x Poison Worm 4x Chaos Worm 3x Bloody Squito 2x Marrow Ooze, the Twister 1x Bone Piercer 4x Wailing Shadow Belbetphlo 1x Jack Viper, Shadow of Doom 1x Vashuna, Sword Dancer 2x Zagaan, Knight of Darkness 4x Mongrel Man
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DARKNESS SPELLS: 124x Terror Pit 4x Death Smoke 2x Dark Reversal 2x Critical Blade |
Crunk Juice is awesome. But anyways, I arrived at the store at my usual time, and sat there for a while. I played the storeowner twice; he was using mono light. Time passed, and we FINALLY got eight people so we could begin the tournament. Since we weren’t using the decks we normally used, we decided not to report it to the DCI. I killed the time waiting for the tournament, and the stupid people who forgot the mono only format borrowed Justin’s spare decks. Finally, we were ready to begin…
TOURNAMENT STRUCTURE:
We did it by Swiss points, once again being four rounds long. We could only use one civilization in our decks. Each match was best two out of three, and winner received a TIN. The entry fee was $5.
Pairings were announced. My first opponent was Matt #2… remember him?
FIRST ROUND: LEE vs. Matt #2
DECK TYPE: Mono Nature
One of the aforementioned stupid people, he borrowed a mono-nature deck from Justin. He had read my last tournament report, and complained I needed more details in this one. So I got a piece of paper and took detailed notes of how each duel went. It meant extra typing on my part, but I’ll do anything for my fans.
DUEL ONE: I drew an EXTREMEMLY bad hand, and Matt drew a bunch of mana acceleration. Then, he succeeded in summoning two Barkwhip the Smashers, and two Raging Dash Horns. I got massacred… 0-1
DUEL TWO: Back with a vengence, I rushed him. He summoned some decent monsters, but my slayers and a lucky Terror Pit in the shield zone made this game MUCH easier than the last one. 1-1
DUEL THREE: This was CLOSE. Matt succeded in eliminating all my shields early, and then I held him off for EIGHT TURNS. During that time, I succeeded in generating thirteen mana, 12 creatures, and 8 cards in my hand. In the end, Matt was swallowed by the darkness… 2-1
Many of us had interesting things to say today, so I took a “Quote of the Duel” (COTD) from each round.
ROUND ONE COTD: Emeral should be outlawed in all 50 states, including Canada!
DECK TYPE: Mono Water
Justin was the best duelist in the store that day (aside from myself of course). He’d had a deck prepared for every civilization, and in the end opted to go with water. I thought I’d be all washed up (Lame Pun), but turns out things went a little better than I thought they would.
DUEL ONE: He summoned many blockers, and put too many good creatures that could attack into the mana zone. I dealt with his blockers with critical blade, death smoke, and my slayers, and then just broke all his shields and attacked directly in one turn, so he couldn’t get hand advantage. 3-1
DUEL TWO: He learned his lesson from round one, and this time didn’t focus too much on blocking. I pillaged his hand with horrid worm, and once again used Mongrel man to swarm the field and break almost all of his shields at once. 4-1
COTD: I want a Barkwhip plushie to huggle.
DECK TYPE: Mono Dark
Since we’d had such a measly turnout, and since business was slow that day anyway, the storeowner joined the tournament. He has a large collection, and he had also decided to go the mono dark route. His focused more on small hitters and fewer late game drops, whereas mine was best late game.
ROUND ONE: Both of us tried to Mongrel Rush the other, and in the end I was able to destroy his Mongrel Men and take the advantage. An unfortunate Silphy drop late game hurt me pretty bad, but I was able to recover from it. 5-1
ROUND TWO: Same song second verse, but this time I was in control from the get-go. He was unable to do anything about me, and Jack Viper appeared with a Mongrel Man, to create a loop for Bloody Squito and Marrow Oozes to keep returning over, and over, and over, and over… 6-1
COTD: “It isn’t over until the fat lady sings.” “You didn’t tell me your mother was a singer.”
I was the only one left undefeated at this point, but we had to play the fourth round. I was forced against Justin again, and I had to win at least ONE game to beat him point-wise. But Matt #2 had to face Kyle, and if he managed two wins against Kyle, and I only won one, then he and I would be tied. So I decided to just be same and win two games, and my tin.
DECK TYPE: Mono Water
As I said above, I needed at least one win to beat Justin for points, and if I won two games then I was guaranteed first place. So into the duel I lept.
ROUND ONE: It was horrible. I’ve seriously seen better hands on a clock. I got OWNED. 6-2
ROUND TWO: I can’t afford to lose this one! Fortunately, I didn’t. I pulled the good old slayers with Mongrel men, and drew many extra cards each turn. My chaos worms just owned this game. 7-2
ROUND THREE: If I win this one, then I win the tournament. Nerve racking stuff, huh? So, the duel begins, and my shields were gold. I had two terror pits, and I drew all my Chaos Worms at the moment I needed them most. In the end, I had four creatures to attack, and he had only one shield left with two blockers on the field. As you can guess, he wasn’t able to stop the darkness. TODOME DA! 8-2
QOTD: There’s a party going on in my mouth!
I had the most points at the end of four rounds, which means I WIN!
THE AFTERMATH:
Two weeks in a row y’all! First place got a tin, and everyone else got one booster pack. I don’t think anyone pulled anything very good though. Everyone started to want to trade me for cards in my tin, and I told them to talk to me again next week. All hail the darkness!
Now, to slops and Props.
PROPS:
WINNING!
Winning a TIN!
Relatively cheap entry fee
For Galactic Quest being an awesome store (Free advertising)
For my opponents being good sports.
For Mongrel Man, cause he is The Shinzit!
For the darkness engulfing the store…
SLOPS:
I didn’t eat lunch.
Half the people (COUGHmattCOUGH) borrowed decks that were better than what they would have had otherwise.
IN CONCLUSION:
So, this is my third report for Pojo.com. I think I’ll do this regularly, since it is in fact quite enjoyable.
Anyhow, this concludes my report. Got any questions, comments, rants, COTD crew openings, or suggestions? E-mail me with the below address. I look forward to hearing from some of you.
Catch y’all later!
Lee Sandow
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