Name: Scriondar

Deck name: Darkness Attacks

Location: Altered States, Syracuse, NY

Date: Saturday November 23^rd, 2002

# Of people: about 60 – 64 (had 30 tables and some off on side)

Prizes: don’t know but I heard from others that its cash based on # of people

First my deck (47 cards):

Monsters (24):	Magic (15):	Traps (8):
Dark Magician	Change of Heart	Just Desserts
Summoned Skull x2	Confiscation	Reinforcements
7 Colored Fish x2	Dark Hole	Seven Tools of the Bandit
Aqua Madoor	Fissure x2	Solemn Judgment
La Jinn TMGOTHL	Gravekeeper's Servant	Spellbinding Circle
Man-Eating Treasure Chest	Heavy Storm x2	Trap Hole x2
Mystical Elf	Malevolent Nuzzler	Waboku
Ryu-Kishin Powered x3	Monster Reborn
Man-Eater Bug x2	Soul Exchange
Magician of Faith x2	Mystic Plasma Zone
Sangan	Sword of Deep-Seated
Wall of Illusion	The Forceful Sentry
Invader of the Throne	Tribute to the Doomed
Big Eye x2
Whiptail Crow x3

Tournament Report:

Round One:

Me vs. Jonathan (Exodia deck, didn’t know till 2^nd game):

Duel One:

This one went really well for me. Got started fast with Ryu-Kishin and La Jinn. Got him down to 5400 LP when he pulls out barrel dragon and wipes my field clean. This point I have 6850. Lucky for me my next card was fissure and I had Monster Reborn in hand. Once I got his barrel dragon on my side and dropped out a fish and another Ryu, this game was mine.

Duel Two:

This one was almost mine, and it legally should be. The judge made a really bad call and now that I showed him the rulings page on web site he won’t make that mistake again but oh well. This duel was close. By close I mean I had to use Solemn Judgment in round 3 leaving me with 3525 and him with 5900. I slowly beat him down to 150 LP. Next turn he had one face down monster and I had two in attack. No magic or trap cards left to remove it so I attacked it. It was a Witch of Black Forest and he pulled Exodia with 150 LP left. The real problem with this duel was the judge let him use his flip effect on a monster I destroyed with Tribute to the doomed. Just like dark hole or Raigeki his flip effect should not have been activated. Oh well, wont happen again.

Duel Three:

I just did not get any draw at all. With as many monsters as I have in my deck, can you believe I didn’t get one in the first 8 cards? Nothing as far as magic/trap I could use either. He had me done in the 4^th turn.

Ranking so far: 1 win / 2 loss

Round Two:

Me vs. Kenneth (??Dark Magician deck??):

Duel One:

This one went real fast, he never touched my LP and I had him done in turn 4. He did manage to get his Dark Magician out in round three but was scared to use it to attack my face down Whiptail Crow J. Next draw and I got fissure, oh I felt so bad for him when I flipped that card down and then flipped over my crow.

Duel Two:

This duel came really close. I had gotten out my field card that pumps up darks by 500, and then he soul exchanges my only mon for SS and slaps an axe of despair on it. I almost lost but I managed to pull out dark hole and clean his side then I played my only mon and took the rest of his LP thanks to my +500 ATK from the MPZ. I got really scared there for just a minute K

Ranking so far: 3 win / 2 loss

Round Three:

Me vs. MAJR (Heal and burn, I think):

Duel One:

This kid was nice, and very friendly. All I can say is he had me locked in round one. He never attacked unless I was left opened and he had the highest defense mons with horn of light, etc. on them. I show him having lost 1000 LP during our 20-turn duel and I think that came from one of his card effects, hehe. He whittled away my LP slowly but surely with ookazi, Final flame, spark, etc.

Duel Two:

This one started off slow with him pulling some heal and burn cards in his starting hand. I turned the tables at one point and ran for a few rounds to get him to 6300 while I was at 4100. Then I pulled a bonehead move. I had 4 mons on the field, I had a fissure and a big eye in hand, and had set a seven tools. He had a Labyrinth wall in DEF with two horns of light. I played fissure and wiped out his wall. Now he’s open for attack on LP. Not paying attention to numbers I played Big Eye face down because I wanted the effect, I attack with the other four mons and bring his LP down to 1150, for those who don’t know the attack of Big Eye is 1200. I could have ended the match there and gone on to a third duel but nope, I was dumb. Next turn he heals himself a 1000 LP and activates Just deserts for 2500 LP then hits me with a mon to finish me off. DOH!

Ranking: 3 win / 4 loss

Well after round three I had to leave, It was getting late for me. This tournament was scheduled to start at 12:00 noon. We got started with round one at 12:30 or so. It was 3:45pm when I was done with round three and there were other people to wait for to finish. I talked with the judge and although they were not going to cut until after round five I could tell I was already out of it. They were cutting to 8 people and there were ten that had gone 6/0 so far. I had a good time while I was there and some day I hope I can set aside enough time out of my day to be able to stay for the whole tournament.

Highlights of the day are:

• I got Sangan, Sanga of the Thunder, Bistro Butcher, and Princess of Tsurugi in the packs that I bought.
• The judge for being open to correction after the round so that he could learn the rules better. I don’t care if I win or lose, I just want to have fun. The judge was very nice and he went to the web site and we both looked up the rules and he saw how he was wrong. No big deal, at least now he knows, right.
• Someone dropped a piece of Exodia on the floor and the person who found it was nice enough to ask around and return the card. WTG kid!

This was my first tournament and my first tourney report, let me know what you think, and any changes you think my deck needs at:

Scriondar@hotmail.com