Subject: Ritual Reality, Mad Avalanche, Hurricane Comics, New York City

Ritual Reality, Mad Avalanche, Hurricane Comics, New York City
By: Haris Radoncic
September 28, 2002
Entry Fee: $5

Yo sup Yugioh fans. I'm back for a third time, and this time I've brought a nice ritual deck to wreck chaos in the tournaments. Now that I've got a new job, I was able to snag some very nice cards like another relinquished and 2 of his required magic rituals.
As you all know, I have written 2 reports that have gotten lots of excellent feedback, and now I've decided to write another report for my loyal fans.
Well, this time I chose to exploit the amazing powers of the ritual monsters, more specifically, Crab Turtle. He is really amazing. If u draw the right cards, u can bring this brute out first turn and devastate your opponent with a stunning 2550 atk power. He can even prevent an early summoned skull, the staple of all beatdowns. He, along with my other prized monsters the Great Moth and Pumpking, will lead me toward fame, or infamy, if viewed from my opponent's perspective lol.

Ritual Reality (Main Deck): 53 Cards

Monsters:25

3x Blue Eyes White Dragon
3x Crab Turtle
2x Relinquished
1x Hungry Hamburger
2x Senju of the Thousand Hands
2x Sonic Bird
2x Magician of Faith
2x La Jinn the Mystical Genie of the Lamp
2x Big Eye
2x Man Eater Bug
1x Sanga of the Thunder
1x Jirai Gumo
1x Weather Report
1x Cyber Jar

Magic:18

3x Turtle Oath
2x Black Illusion Ritual
1x Hamburger Recipe
2x Mystical Space Tycoon
2x Axe of Despair
2x Swords of Revealing Light
1x Monster Reborn
1x Raigeki
1x Change of Heart
1x Pot of Greed
1x Dark Hole
1x Rush Recklessly

Trap:10

2x Magic Jammer
2x Trap Hole
2x Waboku
1x 7 Tools of the Bandit
1x Mirror Force
1x Fairy's Hand Mirror
1x Spellbinding Circle
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My Deck: Well, u should know by now that I'm running a Ritual Deck, if u don't then u must be mentally unstable.

-As far as monsters go, I put in 3 Crab Turtle for his power, 2 Relinquished for his awesome effect and the fact that he can be brought out very easily, and Hungry Hamburger for his descent atk power and that he requires only 6 stars to bring out. Blue Eyes is in there for his only purpose in life, to beat the stuffing out of my opponents. Senju of the Thousand Hands and Sonic Bird are there to help me draw out the ritual monsters and their required ritual magic cards. La Jinn, Jirai Gumo, and Sanga of the Thunger are added for some extra fire power, and for Sanga's nice effect. Magician of Faith, Big Eye, Cyber Jar, Weather Report, and Man Eater Bug are there for their flip effects, obviously.

-For my magic, I added the Ritual Magic cards to summon my Ritual Monsters. Then I added some new additions to my arsenal, which are Mystical Space Tycoon, Rush Recklessly, and Axe of Despair. These cards are a must for any deck, trust me. They helped me out a lot. Next we have some old favorites, which include Swords of Revealing Light, Raigeki, Pot of Greed, Change of Heart, Monster Reborn, and Dark Hole. That's it for the magic.

-As far as traps go, I added two new buddies to help me out, and they are Spellbinding Circle and Fairy's Hand Mirror. These guys have nice effects, I must say. Spellbinding Circle can stop an opponents power house, like say a Black Skull Dragon or Blue Eyes Ultimate in its tracks. Fairy's Hand Mirror is a very good trap, in my opinion anyway. He is simply amazing. Instead of your opponent equipping his Axe of Despair on his monsters, u can instead select it to target one of your own monsters so that they can be powered up by 1000 points. And say your opponent uses Snatch Steal. Instead of him/her gaining your Blue Eyes, they control your La Jinn and give u an extra 1000 LP for nothing when your Blue Eyes can easily blast away his new La Jinn. That's why I like that card so much. I don't think I will have to explain my other traps sine they are so thorough already.

Tournament Preparations: Well, there were 20 participants and it was a single elimination match. There was to be 5 rounds. The prize was 5 magic ruler boosters. They didn't give away any tournament boosters because they had no more left (damn!). They also told us some rules like no stealing or fighting ,etc. I was kinda nervous though because I knew almost everyone participating there, and I knew that they were very good duelists, not those stupid people who just go for any powerful card they have and try to blast their opponent away. Well, anyway, LETS DUEL!!!

ROUND ONE

RITUAL REALITY vs. PET OF THE HARPIES

This was the same guy I lost to in my first tournament with the Harpie's Pet Dragon. When I we found out we were dueling each other, he comes up to me and apologizes to me that he won against me before. He then tells me that he used the card wrong and that he was only supposed to get powered up by 300 points for each Harpie Lady Sisters (I even looked it up online and found out that that's what it says), not 500. I was kinda surprised, I thought he cheated me when I found out the true effect. I accepted his apology and we both wished each other good luck, then we started to duel. I drew a pretty nice hand - Hungry Hamburger, Pot of Greed, Axe of Despair, Rush Recklessly, Sonic Bird - I go first and place Rush Recklessly on the field f/d then play Sonic Bird face down in defense mode. He goes and plays Harpie Lady Sisters and adds a sword of deepseated. He attacks and I use sonic birds effect to take out hamburger recipe from my deck (it was almost at the bottom!) I then draw Sanga of the Thunder and sacrifice him through the effect of Hamburger Recipe to bring out Hungry Hamburger. I then attach Axe of Despair to him and kill her Harpie Lady Sisters. Then he plays Swords of Revealing Light and brings out a monster face down defense mode. I draw La Jinn. I play Pot of Greed to get Magic Jammer, and Big Eye. I play big eye face down and Magic Jammer face down and end my turn. He then brings out another monster face down and a card in his m/t zone. I go and draw Change of Heart. I flip over my Big Rye and arrange my next cards to be - Swords of Revealing Light, Mystical Space Tycoon, 7 Tools of the Bandit, Blue Eyes White Dragon, Man Eater Bug- Then I play La Jinn in attack mode and end my turn. He goes and tributes his two monsters for a Harpie's Pet Dragon and attaches an Axe of Despair to it and he kills my La Jinn and brings my LP down to 6800. I go and draw Swords of Revealing light and I play it. I then activate Rush Recklessly and attack but then he activates Waboku (damn I should have set up the 7 tools first). I end and he goes. He goes and activates another of his Swords of Revealing Light and then uses an Elegant Egotist to bring out another Harpie Lady Sisters to power up his dragon to 3300. I go and draw Mystical Space Tycoon and play it to get rid of his SORL and I kill his Harpie Sisters. Then I activate Big Eye's effect again and set up the cards, this time I arrange - Axe of Despair, 7 Tools, Man eater bug, Jirai Gumo, then Blue Eyes - He goes and ends his turn by play two cards face down. I go and draw Axe of Despair, the I equip it to Hungry Hamburger and bring him up to 4000 attack power. I kill his Pet Dragon and he loses 1000LP. From there on, the duel tipped to my favor. Later I bring out Blue Eyes and I negate his Mirror Force with 7 Tools. After that, I won the duel by diminishing his forces with Blue Eyes and attacking directly with Hungry Hamburger. He congratulates me on my victory and I congratulate him for doing pretty good in this duel. At least I got my revenge J.

MAD AVALANCHE - 1 WIN        0 LOSE

ROUND TWO

RITUAL REALITY vs. ULTIMATE GREAT MOTH OF DEATH

As I said, everybody that participated were really good duelists and now that we reached the second round, I knew things were gonna get a lot harder. This guy that I versed was a real fan of mine since he read my last two reports and he really liked my Great Moth deck. He pretty much copied it except he added some WotBF to bring out his cocoons and petit moth's out a bit faster and he had the card that I really needed, the "Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth." This guy is the final form of the Great Moth, and he has a life threatening 3500 attack power. Its only drawback is that he can only be brought out if Petit Moth has been equipped with Cocoon of Evolution for 6 turns instead of 4. Well, when we started, he went first. He played a monster face down and ended his turn. I go and draw my hand, which contains - Turtle Oath, Pot of Greed, Jirai Gumo, Sanga of the Thunder, and Relinquished. I place Jirai Gumo down and attack, but I flip wrong (NOOOOOOOOOO) so 4000LP goes down the drain. Then I find out he had Big Eye face down. He sets it up then he goes. He then uses pot of greed and plays a monster face down and equips something to it (I knew it had to be petit moth and cocoon of evolution) and he plays a card face down in the m/t zone. I go and draw La Jinn. I play him and attack with Jirai (this time I flip right) and then he activates The Reliable Guardian. I lose a further 500 points. I end my turn and he goes and plays Swords of Revealing light. Then he plays his own Jirai Gumo and leaves him in attack mode. I go and draw Blue Byes White Dragon. I sacrifice my two monsters and bring out Sanga of the Thunder. From there, he activates another Swords of Revealing Light and then manages to bring out The Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth and kills my Sanga of the Thunder to bring me down to 2600 LP. Next turn I play Pot of Greed and draw Crab Turtle and Magic Jammer. I place Magic Jammer face down and bring out Crab Turtle by sacrificing Blue Eyes White Dragon. I then play my own Swords of Revealing Light. In the three turn stall, I draw weather report, 7 tools, and Axe of Despair. I add Axe of Despair to my Crab Turtle. Then he plays Wobaku and pulls off another Swords of Revealing Light with a Magician of Faith. I use Weather Report's effect to negate it and I then Destroy his Moth, then kills his magician by La Jinn. Since Weather Report allows to attack again, I attacked again with direct damage with Crab Turtle and Jirai Gumo (I flipped wrong again and that brought me down to 1300 LP while he's down to 2550). He then goes and plays raigeki. I play Magic Jammer. Then he plays Jirai Gumo with an Axe of Despair attached to it then he kills my Jirai Gumo (he flipped right.) now im down to 300LP. I go and draw Fairy's Hand Mirror and play it face down. I try to attack but he activates Spellbinding Circle to trap my Crab Turtle. Then he goes and attaches a Malevolent Nuzzler to his Jirai Gumo and brings its attack up to 3900. However, I activate Fairy's Hand Mirror to target the power up to my Crab Turtle instead. I go and draw man eater bug. I play it face down and end my turn. He goes and plays dark hole. Then he uses Steel Scorpion and attacks me to bring me down to 50 LP (I have no Idea why he would play Steel Scorpion) I go and out of sheer luck, I draw the ultimate……………..Monster Reborn!!!!!!! I then use it to bring back the Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth! I then attack his unprotected Steel Scorpion and I blast away his remaining LP. I guees he wasent as clever as I thought, but he did put up a good fight. I just asked him why did he play Steel Scorpion, then he says " I wanted to see if I could humiliate you by defeating u by a weak guy with only 250 attack power." Well it didn't work pal, get outta my sight!

MAD AVALANCHE - 2 WIN             0 LOSE

ROUND THREE

RITUAL REALITY vs. EXODIA: OBLITERATE

This was one of my friends form my high school. I knew that he played an Exodia deck and I knew his cards inside out. He loves Exodia and he always uses this deck no matter what. I thought he would be a very easy adversary, but he wasn't as easy as I thought because he added some new cards. When we started the duel, I drew - Crab Turtle, Blue Eyes White Dragon, Spellbinding Circle, Fairy's Hand Mirror, Axe of Despair - I go first, and since I didn't draw any no tribute monsters, I just play Spellbinding Circle and Fairy's Hand Mirror face down and end my turn. He goes and plays a monster facedown and plays a magic card called Toll, which requires each player to pay 500 LP to attack. I go and draw La Jinn. I play it and attack his monster. It ends up to be a Sangan (what a surprise) and he searches for his Exodia piece no doubt. He goes and plays another monster face down, but this time, he plays Messenger of Peace (OMG I hate this card when its used against me lol) which renders my La Jinn useless. I then smack his head cuz he knows how much this is gonna hurt my chances at winning this duel, then he smacks me back lol. Anyway, I go and draw Pot of Greed and use it to draw Magician of Faith and Big Eye. I play Magician of Faith face down and end my turn. He goes and plays Giant Soldier of Stone to attack, but I activate Spellbinding Circle. I go and flip my Magician to face up attack mode. I activate his effect to bring back my Pot of Greed to draw Swords of Revealing Light and Axe of Despair. I attach Axe of Despair to my Magician of Faith and raise her attack power to 1400. I attack and kill his Soldier of Stone. He goes and plays a monster down and uses Upstart Goblin to draw a card. I go and draw Rush Recklessly. I then place Big Eye down in attack mode. I attack with Magician of Faith, which then turns out to be a Magician of Faith which he uses to bring back Upstart Goblin. I then attack directly with Big Eye and end my turn. He goes and plays a card face down then plays Painful Choice. He shows me five cards I choose Toll to go into his hand. Then he plays another monster face down. I go and draw Change of Heart. I then attack with Magician of Faith, but he activates Mirror Force and clears my field. He goes and plays Mystical Space Tycoon to get rid of my Swords of Revealing Light and he then plays another Giant Soldier of Stone and plays a card face down. He then attacks for direct damage. I decide that I need to end this before he draws Exodia cuz he has way to many stall cards out. I draw the amazing, the unstoppable, Mystical Space Tycoon and use it to destroy his Messenger of Peace. Then I play Change of Heart and attach Axe of Despair to it. Then I attack directly again. He goes and lays a defense monster down. I go and draw Magic Jammer and attack to reveal a Mystic Tomato. He goes and tries to play Messenger of Peace again, but I activate Magic Jammer. So, he lays another monster face down. I go and draw Raigeki and use it to get rid of his Witch of the Black Forest and attack directly. Next turn he doesn't lay anything (I bet his hand must have four of the Exodia pieces by now) so I go and I attach Rush Recklessly to Giant Soldier of Stone to bring his attack to 2900 and blast his LP away to 0. After I won, he revealed his hand and he had four of the pieces with only 13 cards left in his deck. Boy was that close. The new cards I was talking about were Toll and Messenger of Peace. Well, I congratulated him on putting up a great battle and I went on to the next round.

MAD AVALANCHE -   3 WIN 0 LOSE

ROUND FOUR

COMIX WORLD vs. SHINE PALACE

This was the semi-final round between my friend's cousin and some guy I didn't know. I was set up to verse whoever won the semi-finals. I didn't feel like watching the beginning so I went to talk to some of the people who stayed. We talked about the new magic ruler cards and about the upcoming Yu-Gi-Oh episodes. That's when I noticed that the guy with the Toon deck was slipping in cards to his hand from his pocket. I went up to him and confronted him. When they searched him, they found he had Toon World and Toon Summoned Skull and Swords of Revealing Light in his pockets. He claimed that he just kept them in there but when they counted his cards (then had only just started), he had 9 cards in his hand filled with Toon monsters. Anyway, he was disqualified and they set me up with the other kid for the final match.

ROUND FIVE

RITUAL REALITY vs. SHINE PALACE

This guy ran a light deck with Blue Eyes White Dragon and Twin Headed Thunder Dragon as his main powerhouses here. He also ran three Shine Palace (which powers up light monsters by 700 attack points) and Luminous Spark, which is a field magic card that increases 500 attack power and decreases 400 defense power from any light monsters on the field. I know that he had thses cards cuz I took a look at his deck after we finished. I didn't get to see him use these cards though cuz the duel wasn't much interest at all. I beat him very quickly that it wasn't even funny and the only reason I beat him was cuz he couldn't draw a single monster. Here's how it went. I go and draw - Jirai Gumo, Blue Eyes White Dragon, Relinquished, Black Illusion Ritual, Black Illusion Ritual - He goes and lays Neo the Magic Swordsman in attack mode equipped with Shine Palace. I go and sacrifice my Blue Eyes to summon Relinquished and absorb his Neo to attack directly. From there he played no more monsters because from the looks of his annoyed face, he couldn't draw any. I later layed Jirai and finished the duel with him and Relinquished. A very disappointing victory indeed. He made quite a show with his other duels cuz I could hear some of the people watching him go "omg this guy is sure to win" and "ooooooo nice combo, damn this guy's good." Well, at least I won lol.

MAD AVALANCHE - 4 WIN 0 LOSE

Tournament Results: Well I won first place again. This time I won five magic ruler boosters and in them I got Cyber Jar, Messenger of Peace, Maha Vailo, Black Illusion Ritual, and The Forceful Sentry. No tournament pack this time, how sad. Well, that's it for this time. A very fun tourney though, despite of the easy victory in the end. I got to experience nice decks that the people used like the Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth and I got my revenge against the guy with the Harpie's Pet Dragon. Well, until next time!!

Props:

- Winning the tourney
- Getting my revenge
- Getting Maha Vailo
- Beating the Perfectly Ultimate Great Moth (its Japanese just in case anyone was wondering)
- Disqualifying the Toon guy cuz Toon monsters are annoying to deal with and I was sure I would have to verse him in the finals

Slops:

- For having a disappointing Finals match
- For only winning five Magic Ruler Boosters
- For not winning a Tournament Pack
- Still not owning a Gate Guardian
- For not being a Pojo member


Well, if anyone wants to email me for tips, you can reach me at KingHR6788@aol.com I will also do deck fixes since I am a good duelist. You can also reach me on my AIM sn which is QueensCrUsHeR911 (if u want to chat then chat with me on my aim screen name, I prefer it better). Well, peace out everybody and happy dueling!!!

P.S> I have been interested in Pojo for a while and I was wondering if I could become a deck mechanic or Card of the day reviewer because I know I would be perfect for the job. I have helped a lot of people out with their decks and I am an expert at Yu-Gi-Oh. I would like to ask of the people that I help online to please contact Pojo and try to convince them  that I would be perfect as a part of the Pojo staff. I would really appreciate it.

PPS> If anyone wants to duel online then im me but only if u wanna duel using YuGiOh Virtual Desktop, not that bull Instant Message dueling cuz its very easy for someone to cheat. Ok, Bye again!