Moniker: Oh! / Hugeness
Deck
Name: Balanced Beatdown
Location: GameCity South (Windsor, Ontario, Canada)
Date: Saturday, July 19th, 2003
Participants: 19
Official
Upperdeck Tournament: Yes
Email: Breton_is@hotmail.com
This
is now my 3 tournament report, the link to my other two are as follows: 1) http://www.pojo.com/yu-gi-oh/KillerDecks/July2003/KDR-12/Balanced%20Beatdown%20-%20Martin%20-%20Game%20City%20-%20Windsor,%20Ontario.htm and
2) http://www.pojo.com/yu-gi-oh/KillerDecks/June2003/KDR-20/Control%20Beatdown%20-%20Martin%20-%20Game%20City,%20Windsor,%20Ontario.txt .
This is my 10th tourney to date. I found out at the Tourney that season 4 doesn’t start until
September, which was kinda disappointing seeing as how I’ve placed 1st
and 2nd respectively the past 2 weeks. My deck remains a beatdown deck, with a lot of support cards
around it, and I’m still anti-power-up, although I do have a Megamorph in my
side-deck. Now, unto my deck, which now
contains a handful of Pharoanic Guardian cards!
Deck Size (42)
Monsters (17)
Yata-Garasu (Yata
Lock Bebe, can anyone say STAPLE)
Spirit
Reaper (Eternal
on-field shield, that has a Don Zaloog effect when attacking!)
Sinister Serpent (Eternal
Shield, just can’t be killed (almost).
Fun to use with Graceful Charity)
Fiber
Jar (Reset
Button!!)
Sasuke
Samurai (Guardian
Sphinx’s worst nightmare!!)
Sangan (Gets Yata,
Serpent, Fiber, Exiled, etc!! If you
don’t play it, then you have problems!)
Exiled
Force (See ya
Jinzo, Injection, Blue Eyes, whatever!)
Witch
of the Black Forest (Gets almost
anything, even JinzoJ, read Sangan above)
Guardian
Sphinx (Tough,
annoying as heck, and Potentially game Breaking!)
Bazoo (Pump,
take out almost anything)
Spear
Dragon (Nice
Fairy Meteor Effect, 1900 is nice too!
Potentially game-breaking)
Gemini
Elf x2 (Secret
Rare, Tough, few downsides, and these elves look pretty sweet)
Airknight
Parshath (Fairy Meteor
effect, + draw a cardJ)
Goblin
Attack Force (Usually a
great One hit wonder)
Jinzo (Gravity,
Mirror, Torrential, Imperial Whats?)
Dark
Ruler Ha Des (No effect
for you, that means no fiber, witch, sangan, anything, oh, and smacks up Jinzo)
Magic (20)
Graceful
Charity x2 (Great
with Serpent, combo with Reborns!)
Pot
of Greed (Pot
of Awesomeness)
Nobleman
of Crossout (A Raigeki for
face down Monsters that will make your opponent regret having played it
face-down)
Mystic
Space Typhoon (Takes out that
Annoying card! It can even smack up
Imperial Order)
Heavy
Storm (Sends
everything to the Graveyard)
Harpies
Feather Duster (Same as
above, but not yours)
Raigeki (Rags have
never looked so good)
Dark Hole (Hole of Awesomeness)
Tribute to the doomed (Kills almost anything, unless the card has an effect that says it can’t be targeted)
Delinquent
Duo (Great for
setting up the Yata Lock)
Forceful
Sentry (A
STAPLE! Has a Huge Pegasus Millenium
Eye effect, and again, sets up Yata)
Confiscation (Like Forceful
sentry, but at a Cost! Well worthwhile
nonetheless!)
Monster
Reborn (Most Popular
Card out there, read second part of Sangan.)
Swords of Revealing Light (Flip that/those cards, can’t strike for 3 turns!, it’s a Waboku gone wild)
Change
of Heart (Best used
with Flip effects, then tribute. Or
else, take Jinzo, and Sacrifice for your own Jinzo)
Snatch
Steal (I’ll
take your Jinzo/Injection/Bazoo/Hades)
Scapegoat x2 (Impervious to Imp Order, Storm, Duster, MST’s, and annoying as
heck to your opponents)
Painful
Choice (Serve 2
functions, puts a Monster you wanna reborn in your graveyard, and puts one game
saving card in hand!)
Premature
Burial (Monster
Reborn at a 10% lifepoint cost!)
Traps (5)
Torrential
Tribute (Kill
everything, cept when Jinzo’s out!)
Mirror
Force (Bam,
face ups go to the Shadow Realm)
Imperial
Order (Staple,
has few Predators)
Ring of Destruction (Game Breaking Card, but again, fearful of Jinzo)
Call of the Haunted (Bring back Jinzo!! If not, Witch or Sangan!!!)
Side Deck: (15)
Mystical
Space Typhoon x2 (Great vs Clown
Control, Gravity bind Decks)
Card
Destruction (Anti-Exodia)
Creature
Swap (I’ll give
you my serpent, and I’ll take that 6 star monster of yours)
Waboku (I can’t tell
you how many times this card has saved my hide!)
Nobleman
of Crossout (A Raigeki for
face down Monsters that will make your opponent regret having played it
face-down)
Solemn
Judgement (Stop
Everything, even Jinzo from coming out!)
Kycoo
the Ghost Destroyer (Good vs certain
types of Decks, he can be devastating especially with a bit of support!)
Magic
Cylinder (Waboku
effect, and they take the damage!)
Magic
Jammer (Stop that
one potentially game breaking Magic card)
Trap
of Broad Eraser (Don’t take
damage, and opponent discards a card)
Non
Aggression Area (Great to
use after a dark hole, and sinister serpent is a great card to combo with it!)
Megamorph (Anyone that reads
my reports knows that I’m against Magic cards, but this one can potentially
hurt your opp too!)
Gora
Turtle (Stops
the Heavy hitters from hitting, kinda a la Gravity Bind, which is great vs
Beatdown)
Dark
Ruler Ha Des (Stops all
effect from occurring, could anything be more excellent!?)
This Tourny is held on Sat afternoons in Windsor Ontario.
There were 19 participants, so first 16 play, and the 8 winners go on, as well
as 5 loosers that get drawbacks. From then on, it’s a straightforward
bracket of 16 participants. I’ll continue
to give brief commentary on my friend (Marc) as well, as I went there with him,
and he’s still my go-to guy when it comes to casual dueling. And now,
without further ado, begins the report!
Round 1 (Oh! Vs no
one)
Ya, that kinda sucks, I got a bye, but at least I’m
safely unto round 2!
Round 2 (Oh! vs GamecityGod a.k.a: Store Owner ‘Bernard’)
Game 1 of 2:
Bernard is a good duelist, it also helps that he has
everycard in print at this immediate disposal.
He was running a Fiend deck with 2 Necrofears. He chooses for me to go first, and I do, nailing him with
Confiscation for 1000, and Delinquent Duo.
I took out his witch, and he took Heavy strorm and another card. I play Gemini Elf, Graceful charity, discard
Jinzo, and Serpent. He play a face
down. I go on to sasuke samurai it, I’d
eventually reborn Jinzo via Premature, I took a change of heart hit from Jinzo,
but other than that, My hand was big, his was small, and I pummeled him. Final was me 4700 – 0.
Game 2 of 2:
He tells me to go first again, so I do. I play my big Pot of Greed, (best first move
in the game), put Sinister down, and end my turn. He plays Dark hole on my serpent (which made me laugh, and hits
me for 1800 with Opticlops) My turn, I
play Painful Choice, and put some heavy hitters out there, and I reborn
Guardian Sphinx, MST his card, and Play Gemini Elf. He goes on to feel the awesome flip effects of my Sphinx twice,
and I smacked him up pretty good despite him using a waboku on me. My last hit on him was Sphinx, Spirit
Reaper, and Yata for game. Final was
6200 – 0 for me
Round 3 (Oh! vs Darryl)
Game 1 of 2:
Anyone who read my tournament reports should recognize
this guy. He play a pretty intimidating
Last turn deck, and he knows what he’s doing when he constructs a deck. I was 2-1 vs his Last Turn deck coming into
today. Anyways, I earn the rights to go
first. Right away, get a graceful
charity, and I make sure to keep my dark hole, raigeki, and change of
heart. My second turn, I use coh to
get (his troop dragon), and attack with
Spear and Troop. Third turn, I raigeki,
and get out my airknight parshath. I do
a decent hit, play Set Ring of Destruction, next turn, I activate it, and boom,
that’s game. Final was 8000 – 0
Game 2 of 2:
Pretty much the same as the first game, but he used an early solemn judgement to stop my summoning of Jinzo. I got my Guardian Sphinx out there, he played painful choice, he offered up one Jowgen, a inspection, and a few other cards. I let him keep MST seeing as I wasn’t relying heavily on magic. He hit me a few times, including one hit with his witch and a 3400 bazoo (ouch), but much in the same fashion as game one, on his turn I flipped Ring of Destruction on my pumped up Bazoo (2500) which brought him down to 0, and me to 900, I know, He almost beat me down with a last turn deck, that would have sucked. In any case, final was 900 – 0 for me.
In this round, my buddy loses to Mike (the guy I’ll meet in the finals). Right before the finals, I look at my buddy, and tell him I’ll get him back for him. Read on to find out what happens.
Round 4 (Semi Finals) (Oh! vs Adam)
Game
1 of 3
This
was basically a battle of the Beatdowns (he has a great beatdown deck
too). Adam just graduated from High
School, and he’s the #2 ranked 1500m runner in Ontario, so Kudos to him. The first game and the series for that
matter, it was basically a battle of the Jinzo’s. He used call of the Haunted to get out his Jinzo, and I had
already used up my Raigeki. He did a
nobleman on my Sangan, then my Injection took out his Jinzo. He used coh to take my lilly, and
Prematured his Jinzo. By now, I had
mirror force, and Torrential down. It
came down to one last draw, maybe 5-6 turns into the game, and I got my Last
turn Killer card, (ring of Destruction), which is all but useless vs
Jinzo. He beat me badly enough, final
was 5600 – 0 for him.
Game
2 of 3:
Battle
of the Jinzo’s part 2 of 3. I went
first, and My Jinzo came out first, he got pot of greed, I got Graceful
charity. I used Forceful Sentry on him
and took away his Witch, and he only had a Goblin in his hand. I kept smacking away, and recycled my witch
via Premature burial to get Yata and Injection out. I never got to use Yata, but heart of the cards gave me Raigeki,
and Jinzo and Lilly took him out. Final
was 4100 – 0 for me
Game
3 of 3:
Jinzo
would be the clincher again this game.
On his Face down Witch, I did change of heart, and hit him for 3000 with
Witch and Spear. Then, he sacs his
Witch for Jinzo, takes out (lilly I presumed) cause of Witch and Smacks up my
elf. Then he attacks my Spirit Reaper
which saved me vs his Jinzo and Lilly, cause he was in defense position, and
doesn’t take damage unless a fairy meteor crush effect monster attacks. Next turn, I drew Scapegoat and I had Heavy
storm and torrential Tribute in my hand.
I set my scapegoat and I already had my call of the haunted down and
spirit reaper in defense and end my turn.
He bring out a face down, Raigeki, and attack me directly, so I activate
scapegoat. So, he kills 2 of them. Next turn, I draw my Airknight Parshath, and
keep it in hand cause I can’t summon it, and end my turn. He flips his face down, (magician of faith,
and takes back mst. So, I have nothing
down cept call of the Haunted, so he attack my 3rd scapegoat with
Magician of faith, then Jinzo hits my 4th, then lp directly with
Injection. Now I’m down to 1900 life,
and he’s at 2200. This time, I draw my
2nd scapegoat, which is keeping me alive. I set it, and end my turn.
He then brings out an elf (I’m lucky it wasn’t spear dragon) He plays his mystical space typhoon, and I
activate Scapegoat. 4 attacks clears my
field of scapegoat, and I have Coth down.
I draw, (heart of the cards……)and get Bazoo. I look and think, and see his Magician of faith, in attack
mode. You do the Math, pump bazoo to
2500, his magician is 300, and hit him for 2200, which is the exact amount he
had. Final was 1900 to 0, although I
give him kudos for having me on the ropes huge. So good job Adam, and thank you Scapegoat for saving me huge!!!
Round 5 (Finals) (Oh! vs Big Mike)
Game
1 of 2:
Again,
anyone who reads my reports knows about Mike.
The first time we played, he beat me 2-0. The last 3 times we’ve met over the past 2 weeks, I’ve gone 2-0,
2-0 and 2-1 vs him. He’s also the Guy
who knocked out my buddy Marc this week!
Anyways, first game, I just dominated.
I drew my pot of greed, and both Graceful charities within the first 2
turns. To make matters worst, I had my
serpent, so I was essentially keeping 2 cards from Graceful charity. I played delinquent duo, I got My sphinx
out, I got Parshath with Monster Reborn, and Spirit Reaper out to attack his
life directly after a Raigeki. So, he
loses yet another card, and puts out a week monster, Sasuke Samurai took care of it, and I kept on attacking for the
game. Final was 8000 – 0 for me
Game
2 of 2:
He
went first this time, and hit me pretty hard.
He played forceful Sentry, and got rid of my lilly. He then played Pot of Greed, got his
imperial order down, and face down monster.
I play heavy storm, he imp orders it, I Mst his imperial order
destroying his mirror forceand imp order.
I play Elf, attack his witch, he get the effect, ends his turn. Then He Plays snatch steal, takes my elf,
and sacs him for Jinzo. Jinzo hits me
for 2400 direct. Then I lay Spirit
Reaper in Defense. He plays Sangan and
attacks with Jinzo, see’s spirit reaper, and grumbles and end his turn. I had nothing really, so I went Sangan for
Sangan and took out my lilly with the effect.
He plays a face down on his turn, and I play Swords on my turn, flipping
over his fiber jar, and giving me an empty field to work with. Now, it was my turn to hit him hard. I drew, got a graceful, and put my parshath
in the graveyard, and reborned him, summoned spirit reaper, hit him for 2200,
but he discards 1 card, I gain one, then I play Delinquent Duo. He’s down to 2 cards, and lost an Imperial
order, dark hole, and exiled force. He
puts a card face down, and sets a magic/trap card. I draw, sac Reaper for Jinzo, and attack with Parshath and
Jinzo. I gain another card, on his
turn, he draws nothing, and calls a snatch steal on My Jinzo, then he laughs,
and I look at his card, which was a mage power, and his only other card was a
jinzo so ya, he conceded. Final was
5600 – 0 for me. I shake his hand, and
emerge Victorious yet again.
Anyways,
that’s the report. I’ve gone 2-3 in the
preseason to season 4, and came in 2nd in the other tourney. Oh well, but I really enjoyed playing with
Restrictions and Rulings of Lod cards, and I really enjoyed the Pharoanic
Guardian cards as well, some good stuff in there, and quite different from the
other sets of cards. I now have to slim
my deck to 40 cards for next weeks tourney.
I went 8-1 today, just barely beating Adam 2-1. Anyways, good times were had, it’s always a
super fun way to spend the afternoon.
Following the Tourney, we played a Twin Headed Tourney (2vs2) non sanctioned
tourney, and lost in the Semi’s Vs Darryl (see Round 3), playing a Last Turn/
Exodia combo. The card that killed us
was Cyber Jar, but Kudos to them for beating us, and winning it in the
end. Anyways, that’s it for this week. Remember, keep deck size at minimum to
enhance the heart of the cards.
Props:
Winning
again
Pulling
Dark Spirit of the Silent, and Barrel Behind the door
Having
my Pharoanic Guardian cards help me out Huge
Having
Scapegoat save me royally
Having
a great time, and meeting new people
Slops:
Not
Winning the double’s tournament
No
Yata-Locks
That’s about it, email me for any deck suggestions or
comments. Hate mail me if you want, it’s all good! Take care, gl in
tourny’s, and have fun!
Martin a.k.a: Oh! and Hugeness