Defensive BEATDOWN
Sinister., Comic Odyssey, Pasadena CA
May 3, 2003
Five Dollar Entree Fee For Prepay Duelists Seven Dollars on the spot.

First Place: Store Credit, Usually 70+ depending on the count of players
Second Place: Store Credit *lowered amount*
Third Place: Store Credit *lowered amount*

Players who are eliminated choose between Labyrinth of Nightmare Booster or Tournament 3 Pack Booster ( although since
they moved they didn't get the TP3 packs yet so we had a choice to pick up the TP3's if we wanted them next week ).

Deck: 44
Monster: 22
    Tribute/1
Jinzo
    Monsters/21
Gemini Elf x1
Goblin Attack Force x2
Giant Germ x3
Man-Eater Bug x2
Penguin Soldier x1
Magician of Faith x2
Sinister Serpent x2
White Magical hat x2
Mad Sword Beast x1 ( Frowns upon that decision )
Bazoo the Soul-Soul Eater x1 ( I had 2 but I needed another graceful and very very sadly I had to give it up :( sigh... )
Sangan x1
Witch of the Black Forest x1
Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer x1
Cyber Jar x1

    Magic:16
Raigeki x1
Dark Hole x1
Swords of Revealing Light x1
Pot of Greed x1
Monster Reborn x1
Change of Heart x1
Premature Burial x1
Snatch Steal x1
Graceful Charity x3
Harpie's Feather Duster x2
United We Stand x1
Mage Power x1
Scape Goat x1
   
    Traps:6
Imperial Order x1
Magic Jammer x2
Magic Cylinder x1
Mirror Force x1
Skull Lair x1


Tournament Introduction:
Comic Odyssey has some of the best duelists many playing with Morphing Jar, Needle Worm, and even running a few Mechanical Chasers.  That's more then a 300 dollar valued deck just by playing those cards. I've personally been there maybe 10-11 times attending  only 5-8 tournaments there because they are really hard to win.

Deck Introduction:
Last time I was there I played with a Burner Beatdown using Amazon Archers and Scape Goats which really didn't get me anywhere so I decided since most players were playing with a defensive deck I should go with one too.  Luckily I was able to get my hands on  2 Sinister Serpents and 2 Harpie's Feather Duster without spending much money before the tournament.  I had planned on buying a one more Graceful Charity so I could put my Sinisters to good use however they were selling it for $4 so I had no choice good by Bazoo ( it was the only card they would take for store credit that I had available on me ).  As for the rest of my deck I had a hard time  fitting the rest of the magic/trap cards in it, I still wanted to play with 2 Nobleman of Crossout, 2 Tribute to the Doomed, and Torrential Tribute.

The Tournament:
Unfortunately I don't play there enough to know the players names so I won't name them at all just so I don't end up embarrassing myself by giving wrong names.
Game 1: Sinister vs. Player [ Mixed Deck, Just a bunch of rare cards and a few staples ]
   
    Round 1/
I started off beating his life points easily he wasn't able to bring out any monsters so I gained an easy monster advantage and wiped his life points.  Then another small kid like himself was looking at my cards and starting telling him what I had so people around that were watching  told him to stop I won.

    Round 2/
Started with Giant Germs wasn't able to draw anything strong he ended up noblemaning my witch and I snatched steal his witch and attacked he then was able to change of heart my Kycoo and sacrifice his 4 started monster and my 4 stared monster to get out The Masked Beast.  Now on all ritual card it says "you can tribute a monster 8 stars or more from the field or your hand" I thought that meant you can tribute One Monster    therefore the a monster but another guy told me you can so I let it go since he ended up attacking my mirror force. After that I had his witch, my sangan, 2 germs, and a white magical hat out and he had his 2000 defensive monster so he stalled and leeched off my snatch steal but I ended up sacrificing for Jinzo and winning.

Game 2: Sinister vs. Player [ Beatdown Offensive ]
    Round 1/
I played scapegoat and ended up messing myself over since I had one monster on the field and 4 goat tokens and had snatch steal and change of heart in my hand.  Finally I got skull lair and killed his monster then I removed 1 card for 1 of my tokens snatch steal sacrificed for Jinzo and  played United we Stand. I won.

    Round 2/
This game just got alot harder as he was beating me with his Gemini's and Bazoo's finally he got his Jinzo out and wham hit me for a heavy hitter that game lasted for awhile and by this time both of us were already nervous. I lost.

    Round 3/
This was it, either I win it or loose it all here I snatch'd his Jinzo and he penguin soldiered it back to his hand leaving my snatch steal for him to leech this was a problem because if you look at my deck I don't play with Heavy Storms or Mystical Space Typhoon.  We went back and forth most of the time using Swords and the score was me 4200 and him 10500 it looked pretty hopeless when finally I got Raigeki and hit him for a clean 2000 with my Giant Germ and White Magical Hat.  The score was now 2300 to 8500 he then got me for a heavy hitter with change of hart leaving me at 1100 Imperial Order had drained most of my life points.  He had a witch of the black forest out and at 8500 life I had bazoo, witch of the black forest and he had his witch in defense mode and another card face down.  I drew Raigeki YES finally the card I needed in a diversion to see if he had a Jammer down I activated monster reborn to get my Jinzo back then summoning mad sword beast I raigeki'd and won the game.

Game 3: Sinister vs. Player [ Defensive Deck Squirrel Deck with Light of Intervention and Skull Lair combo ]
  
    Round 1/
An easy round as he got only 2 monsters out I easily got the monster advantage and won within the 8th to 9th turn easy win for me yet shouldn't
have been so over confident.

    Round 2/
After getting a good shuffle out he was ready to get me he played light of intervention claiming that my already face down monsters flipped face up unfortunately the guy next to him Henry agreed with him and since Henry has pretty much been winning or at least getting 2nd or 3rd place since he played there i figured he would know best (disregarding wartortle's rule) I revealed my monsters this would unfortunately cost me the game as he had skull lair out and wiped out my monsters he won.

    Round 3/
Great now the pressure was on the game was going pretty good for me until I had my man eaters down and he played light of intervention again my monsters flipped face up and he was able to skull lair my monsters.. Very Depressing..  then he snatched my Jinzo and hit me for all I got  once again I lost. 

Final Thoughts:
I felt I did better then the last tournament but like I said again this place had to many good duelists its to bad I didn't win I requested a tp3 pack and will go and pick it up next week but until then I guess now I need to find me another bazoo 2 or 3 more gemini's and a morphing jar hopefully they don't restrict my graceful charity and harpie's feather duster any time soon :( until then... - Sinister :)~

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