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Aaron Fletcher on
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Before I begin I have a confession to make, well two
actually. Firstly it wasn’t a regional as I hyped it up to
be, it was a city championship and secondly I had loads of
notes on which to report, with my scores in the various
games but I had lost them due to some reason, so I’m working
off memory here. If you want to skip the report please go to
the end, where I will look at one of the most ingenious
decks that I have seen top 8. So henceforth this report should be renamed:
Manchester Report: The Day that Aaron Got Schooled. It was about 10:30 when registration started, I came down
with a friend (it was his first competitive tournament) and
we waited for what seemed like ages. We signed up, and paid
our 6 pounds, I was anxious to see what other people’s decks
were as I was trying to counter the meta, as I was playing a
dark world variant. This was one of the first lessons of the
day which I’ll come back to later on. There were six rounds
in total. It intresting as soon as the rounds started people
realized that I was a pojo featured writer, and I was
surprise the amount of people who could relate to what I
wrote about. This apparently gave me access all areas, so
much so I got a few decklists at the end. Anyway in the City Championship there was 44 players,
some new faces, some veterinary players and 17 players in
the Duelist Academy. Now I have abstained from playing
competitive for most of this format as I have had personal
views on the ban list so I decided to try and counter the
meta with my deck list, it failed. From the hype I gathered
that Gadgets were going to be played in their masses, so
hence the dark world variant, of which this is the deck list
of: Main Deck [3] Goldd, Wu Lord of Darkworld [3] Sillva, Warlord of Darkworld [3] Cyber Dragon [2] Mobius the Frost Monarch [3] Dekoichi the Battlechanted Locomotive [1] Sangan [1] Spirit Reaper [1] Morphing Jar [1] Giant Orc [1] Injection Fairy Lilly [1] Treeborn Frog [1] Breaker the Magical Warrior [1] Magician of Faith [1] Pot of Avarice [2] Enemy Controller [3] Dark World Lightning [1] Graceful Charity [1] Heavy Storm [1] Mystical Space Typhoon [2] Smashing Ground [1] Card Destruction [3] Bottomless Trap Hole [2] Deck Devastation Virus [1] Mirror Force [1] Torrential Tribute [1] Ring of Destruction [Total 42] Side Deck [2] Royal Decree [1] Jinzo [2] Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer [2] Legendary Jujitsu Master [2] Mystic Tomato [1] D.D. Warrior Lady [1] D.D. Assailant [1] Don Zaloog [2] Creature Swap Now I really don’t require fixes to this deck for the
reason that this meta is over in the matter of weeks, which
hopefully in the next one I will play more competitively. Let’s discuss the deck briefly Out of the 6 rounds that I played I lost 3. Now this is a
poor score but I count every game you play as experience so
I’m not that sore about loosing, and I lost to some
experienced players. The decks which I encountered (In this order were) Monarch – Lost Burn Deck – Won Beat Down - Won Monarch - Lost Exodia/Heart of the Underdog OTK - Won Chain Burn – Lost Notice something? A deck that I had was geared to kill
Gadgets, but I played Zero gadgets. From my understanding
only 4 players were playing Gadgets that day. This leads me
to my first lesson of the report don’t ever try to
counter a meta that your unprepared for. I haven’t
played competitively in a while, and the forums were not an
accurate representation of what decks people are playing on
the top tables, believe me. As I have notes for the last game that I played, I will
use them as an example. I was playing Domal Coleman
who was from what I gathered an experienced player. He was
one of two players here today playing chain burn, but it
seemed that Chain Burn just didn’t have it in it to Top 8 a
tournament. At this stage we both knew that neither of us
could Top 8 the tournament. 1st Game Dominal Coleman, 8000 – 7500 –5100 –3500 -2100 Aaron Fletcher, 8000 – 7000 – 2600 – 1800 – 200 - 0 He activated firstly Tremendous Fire and chained
Strike and Secret Barreled for the win. So I decided to side the only 3 cards that I have to beat
a Chain Strike Deck, which were Jinzo and two Royal Decrees.
I decide that in order to win I must become a seriously more
aggressive player (which isn’t my play style) so this is
game two. 2nd Game Dominal Coleman, 8000 – 900 - 0 Aaron Fletcher, 8000 – 7200 – 5400 – 3100 Basically he set one monster, which I summoned Cyber
Dragon too. I then proceeded to normal summon Giant Orc, and
card destructioned into Two Gollds. This finished him off
before he could set up a Chain Strike burn 3rd Game Dominal Coleman, 8000 – 7700 - 4700 Aaron Fletcher, 8000 – 5700 – 2700 – 400 –0 Again he set up the Chain Strike Win and beat me to it. I
thanked him for that game, and lesson in side decking (i.e.
have an adequate side deck) and proceeded to go and find
some my notes which I had just lost. This is my second
lesson of the day: Use an adequate side deck. Of the
games which I played, there are two which a properly
constructed side deck would of helped me so much. Onwards to my third lesson of the day: Don’t use YVD
as your only deck-testing tool. Now to some this may
seem self explanatory, as YVD doesn’t emulate the pressures
that you are under on the day, but YVD is great for testing
theories but its drawing algorithm has flaws, and it isn’t
an accurate representation. This I believe was the reason
why online this deck faired so well, but in real life, the
draws were that good. All in all it was a good championships and I enjoyed
myself. People of mention (well people who want mention) is
Mustafa who I give the best of luck for his application to
do medicine. He seemed impressed when I informed him of my
offers to do Veterinary Medicine, James for giving me a lift
down and being a friend and my opponents for teaching me so
much. So to Sum up the lessons of the day Little did I know that the best was yet to come…. The Top 8 Micheal Jackson (Aka Matty) played Gadgets Tomas Morrisey played Horus Wayne Pickney (UK National Champion 2006) played
[Unknown] Mark Griffith played Chimeratech One Turn Kill Ahmed Matthews played Monarchs with apprentice
engine Tom May played Gadgets Mark Pilkinton played Chimeratech Recruiter Adam Simpson played Gadgets/ D Hero. Its interesting isn’t it, out of 4 gadgets, 3 had top 8,
along with Horus, Monarch and two chimeratech decks? To be
honest we have all seen people top 8 so I didn’t pay that
much attention to it, but I did to Adam Simpson’s deck and
he has gracefully offered us a decklist to digest, after
which his friend played me with his deck. Destiny of the Gadgets [Adam Simpson] Main Deck [3] Cyber Dragon [1] Jinzo [1] Blowback Dragon [1] Dark Magician of Chaos [2] Green Gadget [2] Red Gadget [2] Yellow Gadget [3] Monster Gate [3] Reasoning [3] Dimension Fusion [3] Overload Fusion [1] Future Fusion [2] Lightning Vortex [1] Card Destruction [1] Graceful Charity [1] Heavy Storm {2] Giant Trunade [1] Limiter Removal [2] Spell Reproduction [1] Premature Burial [1] Gravity Bind [3] Threatening Roar Side Deck [3] Destiny Hero - Dasher [3] Destiny Hero - Diamond Guy [2] Destiny Hero - Fear Monger [2] Reinforcements of the Army [2] Divine Sword - Phoenix Blade [3] Royal Decree Now the main deck runs exactly like a gadget deck, well
with some minor modifications. It’s geared towards swarming
the field to create a one-turn kill with the Giant
Trunade… pretty standard stuff. Here is where it gets
interesting, into game two you side deck out all, yes all,
of the machine components and add in the Destiny Hero stuff,
and Voila you have a stable Phoenix Blade OTK on your hands. The text of Destiny Hero – Diamond Guy reads "Once per turn, you can look at the top card of your
Deck. If it is a Normal Spell Card, send it to the Graveyard
and you can activate its effect during the Main Phase of
your next turn. If the card is not a Normal Spell Card,
place it on the bottom of your Deck." The ruling that we are concerned with is "Since you are only activating the Normal Spell Card's
effect, and not the Normal Spell Card itself, you do not pay
costs and you do not have to meet any activation
requirements. For example, you would not pay 1000 Life
Points for "Confiscation", or discard 1 card for "Monster
Reincarnation", or need a "Blue-Eyes White Dragon" on the
field to activate the effect of "Burst Stream of Destruction". Let me outline the point of this deck - It’s to play
things for free, and mill extremely fast. The Destiny
Hero - Diamond Guy is one of the crux to this whole
plan, it allows you to play Dimension Fusion,
(no life points cost), Graceful Charity (3
card draw), Spell Reproduction (1 free spell
card), Lightning Vortex (free destruction),
Monster Gate (free monster) for free, i.e. no costs,
whilst thinning out your deck. The Reinforcements of the Army reinforce
this whole plan, allowing you to search for these cards and
have them work their magic immediately. The traps
Gravity Bind and Threatening Roar
stall to allow you to activate Destiny Hero - Diamond
Guy in multiples, while the Destiny Hero –
Dasher once in the grave allows you to summon
that Dark Magician of Chaos which you just drew, for
free. In short this is an extremely complicated, extremely
fast, extremely potent one turn kill. Royal Decree
stops any sort of traps interfering with your plans To cap it off besides the swarm, and cost less advantage
that this deck generates there is another one turn kill,
Divine Sword Phoenix Blade The text of Divine Sword - Phoenix Blade Reads "You can only equip this card to a Warrior-Type
monster. Increase the ATK of the equipped monster by 300
points. If this card is in your Graveyard during your Main
Phase, by removing from play 2 Warrior-Type monsters from
your Graveyard, add this card to your hand." This card removes from play your Destiny Hero –
Dashers (Preferably) or the other Destiny Heroes as
Dark Magician of Chaos removes itself from
play these cards instantly create synergy with the
Dimension Fusion. As Divine Sword - Phoenix
Blade is activated at any time during your main
phase and if it ever hits the grave (which it will with all
that milling which just occurred) it turns a drawn Dimension
Fusion (or a previously sent to the graveyard, and cost less
one) into a force to be reckoned with. Another snazzy thing
which I’ve seen is bring it back before you activate Card
Destruction, as its can cancel out the –1 effect of
Card Destruction. Now I’m not a guy to preach about this deck to anyone,
but it came out of no where. This deck top 8 and I would
have never though to fuse the two together, this shows a
class above that the TCG has seen in a long time. This is
just one of those decks which has to be played in order to
appreciate the beauty, so that’s exactly what I did. In order to do all my deck testing on YVD (which for
reasons above shouldn’t be your only source of testing) I
play against the very skilled people at www.obeliskblue.uni.cc,
if you ever need to hone your skills, I would urge you to go
there. So far I have played against Chain Strike, Gadgets, and a
Strike Ninja. It completely walked all over them. The side
deck was not seen by any of them and they completely (like
me) admired the beauty of the deck. Seriously, add it to YVD,
proxy the deck or just make it, then play. The only fix
which me and Obelisk Blue have come up with for the deck (I
have showcased the deck in order to generate interest) is
instead of running two Spell Reproductions,
run two Magical Stone Excavations So this concludes the day that Aaron got schooled, the
best thing about being a player is that you can always learn
more. For people who attend Manchester Tournaments or in this
area, or need information on them here is the next dates of
the upcoming events in that area. City Championships: Fanboy 3, Manchester, 10th March 2007,
Contact: Regional: Roundabout Toys, Manchester, 24th March 2007, Contact: dave@thegamingcrypt.comFanboy 3, Machester, 14th April 2007, Contact: enquiries@fanboy3.co.ukDuel Academy: Fanboy 3, Manchester, 31st March 2007, contact: enquires@fanboy3.co.ukSneak Peaks (Strike of Neos): Zombies ate my wookie, Blackpool, 25th February 2007, contact: emuron@gmail.com (I’m judging)Fanboy 3, Manchester, 24th February 2007, contact: enquires@fanboy3.co.ukThanks for taking the time to read! If you would like to chat, discuss or want more details please contact emuron@gmail.com Aaron Fletcher
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