“The Evil Deck”, Adam Povey, Nottingham, England
Well, I haven’t noticed anyone from the UK putting up many tourney reports, so I though I’d make one. In the UK we don’t actually have any official tourneys that are known about, but a website named Cardshows runs unofficial ones. They take a slightly different structure, starting with a qualifying round where eight players of similar ages are placed on a table. You then play each person on the table once (one duel). Then the top eight players from each age group (bigger tourneys get more people through) go through to normal best-of-three knockouts. This tourney was in Nottingham.
45 Cards
Monsters:
Jinzo
Witch of the Black Forrest
Cyber Jar
Twin-Headed Behemoth
Big Eye
Kuriboh X2
Spirit Reaper X2
Princess of Tsurugi X3
Sinister Serpent
Magician of Faith
Mask of Darkness
Inaba White Rabbit (all hail!)
La Jinn
Harpie’s Brother
Magic:
Dark Hole
Change of Heart
Swords of Revealing Light
Monster Reborn
Dark Room of Nightmare X2
Mask of the Accursed
Ookazi X2
Scapegoat X2
Graceful Charity
Mystical Space Typhoon
Tribute to the Doomed
Trap:
Imperial Order
Nightmare Wheel
Mirror Force
Bottomless Trap Hole X3
Just Desserts X3 (it is a good card! 1500 direct damage!)
Waboku X2
Coffin Seller
Magic Cylinder
The Tourney:
I originally didn’t think they were going to run this one, but at the last minute enough people showed to start (these normally get about 90 people, but this had about 40).
Qualifying Round:
I tied for first on my table with 5-2 getting life points (me first):
500-0 (a cannon soldier deck of a friend of mine. Luckily he didn’t know cannon soldier could tribute itself, so the duel didn’t end in a draw)
0-900 (sort of a beatdown deck. finished off at the last second with a change of heart and injection fairy)
8000-0 (nightmare wheel, princess, jinzo, coffin seller, ookazi, and dark room in first hand. Didn’t last long with their basic deck)
4100-0 (nothing special for a deck. Guy who didn’t know the cards very well)
Then a break. A pattern win/lose seemed to be starting, but then…
6100-0 (a kid’s dad with a 150 card deck. Was a more interesting duel than you might expect though. Held out for a few turns)
5500-0 (a good duelist with counter deck. Not good at maths, but that doesn’t matter that much. He just had a bed habit of setting four m/ts and attacking a face-down Princess)
0-3350 (alright. I bunged this one up. Another friend from previous tourneys. Likes a card destruction deck. I could have won (maybe) if only I had flipped by two Princesses before he Raigeked them.)
After lunch we returned, and I found that I had qualified for the quarterfinals.
I was paired off with another friend who was very impressed to get to this far. Sadly her confidence went way down as she has played me before.
7200-0
8000-0
Poor her. Her deck didn’t deserve that. A nice Harpie’s deck. Just a bit to slow to stop me.
Next though, my confidence dropped completely. I was paired off not with one of the couple I had already beaten, but the only person to score 7-0 in qualifying. He had a dangerous deck filled with cards most people never see. He had two Nightmare wheels, two Needle worms, jinzo, delinquent duo, confiscation, forceful sentry. In the last round he beat another quite good duelist 2-1 with 8000 left in each of his victories. Well, it went better than planned
0-1500 I was soooo close. He didn’t quite know what to make of me. It seemed the chaining of just deserts against dark hole or harpie’s feather duster wasn’t something people do. Sadly, I just ran out of things to do and got Raigekied.
0-6600 This time he knew, sort of, what to expect. He had two solemn wishes and a nightmare wheel in play. I did 10,000 points of damage to his life points in that duel, but I just couldn’t get around those two solemns. I also, for the life of me, could not get rid of that ruddy wheel. Where was my mystical?!?
I then decided, as that has gone quickly, to do the third duel.
5500-0 I won! Wippie! Dark Room of Nightmare + Ookazi X2 = fun! Then I finished off using change of heart to take his only monster, tributed it for jinzo, monster reborned his jinzo and wiped clean his life points. If only I had done this earlier.
Well, I went away with two Pharaoh and two Labyrinth packets, getting nothing interesting (besides Sword Hunter which my Brother desperately needs. ^__^). I intend to change the deck a bit. Get rid of the attackers and go for more of a lock down and to stop my arch nemesis, Spear Dragon (the card of great evil). Also, I might put Heavy Storm back in.
Adam Povey