Tom P.

Exodia’s Power

Dragons Lair, West Hartford CT

12-21-02

This was my first tourney in about 3-4 months. Man am I missed playing the game. The store I used to play in went out of business so I stopped playin for awhile, sold my best cards. Oh well I guess I Should just tell what happened.

My Deck:

Monsters 23

Magics 10

Traps 7

Monster Lev. 7-8

Barrel dragon

Monsters Lev. 5-6

Summoned Skull 2x

Monsters lev. 1-4

Exodia the forbidden one

left arm

right arm

left leg

right leg

spear cretin

witch of the black forest

Sangan 2x

mystic tomato 2x

mask of darkness

wall of illusion 3x

man eater bug 2x

La ginn 2x

Goblin attack force

Magic

pot of greed

fissure

painful choice

monster reborn

malevolent nuzzler 2x

change of heart

dark hole

the shallow grave

mystic plasma zone

Traps

solemn judgement

seven tools of the bandit 2x

trap hole 2x

waboku

backup soldier

I’m going to start off by saying I know my deck has some MAJOR problems but it’s the best I could do on short notice. I stopped playing after magic ruler came out because the store I played at closed. That wouldn’t stop most people but I decided to cash in on the game. Sold some of my best cards and got around $57 so I was happy to just retire. Well for about a month I’ve wanted to play again and my friend found a new store for us to play and it has official tournaments.

Ok so back to the tournament, .we got there and it was crowded. I haven’t bought any card since magic ruler so I had no clue what I was up against. When I got there my friend saw they were selling the psv packs for 2.99. Oh man that was great. I had a lot of extra money from my Chiasmas card I got form my aunt so I bought 10 packs or so. (I may have bought a few more). I got some nice card to add to my deck the best being the Goblin strike team.

Once all the brackets were chosen I sat down to face my opponent.

Me vs. Adam Round 1

Things started out well enough. I drew a couple parts of Exodia at the first draw so I thought I was doing good. We went back and forth a few with us setting up our strategies. He was using a beat down deck and at that point he had no clue about Exodia. I was just barely hold him off then he brought out his Skull. I use a trap hole and bye-bye Skull. I was so happy until he flipped michizure (I HATE THAT CARD)destroying my defend man eater bug . After that things went down hill with him powering up a harpies bro with a nuzzler and attacking. I don’t remember much except at the end of that round he won when I had 4 pieces in my hand and my next card was Sangan. Oh well I was close. He still didn’t know my plan. Then one of his buddies is like "dude this guy had 4 pies of exodia" Stupid big mouth. He ruined my surprise.

Round 2

Ok so he knew my plan and he was ahead but that didn’t matter. My opening hand was awesome I got a piece of exodia plus search engines plus a revival. So I draw my first card its Goblins attack force. I set my wobf and I set a trap (don’t remember what). He killed the witch I brought out a piece. I used shallow grave to bring it back and I summon my goblin strike to destroy he witches killer. He destroys them both in a couple of turns. I draw a monster reborn and bring my witch back. The game continues and I hold him off. At some point he activated solomens wishes and brought his LP way up, But eventually I drew exodia.

Round 3

Adam was really good. Early on I tried to take advantage of his harpies bro not being powered up by attacking with my Goblin but he activated spellbinding circle. Soon after he activate solomons wishes and made life really hard. After that we went back and forth with control of the field. After a lot of turns and a lot of life for him I had four pieces of exodia. But I had a problem a BIG PROBLEM. .My side of the filed was almost bare while his was almost full of high end monsters with power ups. I set my cretin and hoped that he would attack it and he did I summoned a sangan from the grave and face down. Now at this time he must have known I was close. Just by the crowd we had gathered you could tell ths last move was gonna I wanted him to attack it but he wouldn’t. Its his turn again then hi does the unthinkable he uses change of heart on my face down sangan and attacks me with it and hi skull and a few others finishing me off. So close so very close. Even thought I lost I still had a great time. Next time I will do better.

My friend Cory made it to round three and I duel a few more people for fun. Most of the people there that I played after my match were pretty and that was my only loss today.

Prop:

Getting goblins attack force

Getting a whole bunch of PSV cards

not having to deal with the ego of one of the people who used to beat me with my old deck and rub it in

Slops:

Getting eliminated the first bracket

Kids who put gravity bind in a deck that isn’t a deck made for it such as a beat down.

Questions, comments or any thing else email me at DisturbdDragon@aol.com