The Legend of the Shadows Deck Do you guys remember this one duelist
that just kept on writing tournament reports and then everyone thought he quit
but he never did and just basically became a judge and didn't have the time to
write tournament reports anymore? Well, I'M BACK!!!!! That's right,
Matthew "The Shadow" Sita is back and he is in a GREAT mood. It has been 6
months ever since my last tournament report (March 2004), so my writing style is
a little rusty, and my dueling skills aren't as well as they once were since I'm
now a judge at the one tournament where I was once known as the champ.
That's right, Springfield Mall (that's the real name...what? I'm
serious. I'm not copying The Simpsons) is now my official playground for
my exclusive tournaments, but here's where it's messed up: I CAN'T PLAY THE
TOURNEYS I JUDGE...hold on...what was that...there's a place not so close called
The Lucky Frog where I can play...$1 PIZZAS!!!! I'M IN! Some friends
of mine (Dead Fishbone, who now wants to be called GyroYam and Uncle) told me
about The Lucky Frog and the whole fact that there were people that were known
as "unstoppable." Let's just see about that. If there unstoppable,
then I'm the phenom known as the King of Games. Time to show you the
return of The Shadow's Deck:
Matthew "The
Shadow" Sita
The Lucky Frog
Springfield, VA
July, 31st, 2004
about
19 people
Monsters (17):
1 Witch of the
Black Forest (My favorite little searcher...)
1 Sangan (...except when it
comes to a 3-eyed Critter.)
2 Kycoo the Ghost Destroyer (EVIL GHOST,
BEGONE!!!)
2 D.D. Warrior Lady (they're so beautiful, the'll send you to
another dimension)
1 Magical Scientist (I've seen this card run rampant...so
now I use it.)
1 Breaker the Magical Warrior (BREAK THE IMPERIAL, BREAK THE
MIRROR, BREAK EVERYTHING!!! (realizes that it can only "break 1
m/t")...DAMMIT!!)
1 Sinister Serpent (hisssssssssssssss...)
1 Blowback
Dragon (The better Barrel Dragon that can blow everyone away.)
1 Cyber Jar
(FEAR THE SMILING, ABOUT TO BE BANNED ROCK THAT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A MACHINE
CARD!!!!!)
1 Tribe-Infecting Virus ((In Kaiba's voice) All of your monsters
are now infected by my virus. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!)
1 Fiber Jar ((stares at
card)...What exactly is that? No seriously, WHAT IS THAT? A piece of
broccoli? A tree? Medamucil?)
1 Jinzo (FEAR MY TINZO...I mean
JINzo!!)
1 Reflect Bounder (My new Magic Cylinder)
1 Exiled Force (They
gang up on you and blow you to pieces.)
1 Yata-Garasu (The bird that keeps on
prevent you from drawing...what? That means it like you.
lol)
MAGIC (stupid M:TG crybabies) (19):
1 Premature Burial (YOU WAKE
UP NOW...NOW!!!)
3 Mystical Space Typhoon (They're the cyclones that just
hate Imperial Order, Mirage, face down traps (keeps babbling on).)
1 Mirage
of Nightmare ((sigh) if only Card of Sanctity used it's REAL effect from the
anime...)
1 Raigeki (hmmmm...wonder why its almost banned (gets "Raigekied"
from above)...okay nvm.)
1 Heavy Storm (Oddly enough, every time I use this
card, its starts raining real badly outside...)
1 Graceful Charity (Where's
her halo?)
1 Scapegoat (MAAAAAAA!!!)
1 Dark Hole (What's wrong with Black
Hole? Couldn't they at LEAST make it B. Hole??? lol)
1 Confiscation (I
for one would take this over Delinquent Duo now...(last time I used it I hit
Despair From the Dark)...Hawk, your gonna pay for that.)
1 Pot of Greed
(SMOKE!!!!! (not really kids))
1 Monster Reborn (COME BACK MY LITTLE
SCIENTIST AND MAKE MY BIG FUSIONS!!!!!)
1 The Forceful Sentry (I force you
to...oh, who cares, just lose the Jinzo)
1 Harpie's Feather Duster (Too much
dust here (cough-cough))
2 Nobleman of Crossout (...I love this card)
1
Enemy Controller (LEFT, RIGHT, A, B!!!!)
1 Change of Heart (I still think
that Upper Deck screwed up banning this card.)
Traps (6):
1 Call of
the Haunted (I call forth, my TINZO!!!)
1 Mirror Force (REFLECT THE
SHOT!!!)
2 Waboku (My new best friend!)
1 Imperial Order ((Looks at card
and cries)IT SAYS NEGATE ALL SPELLS!!!!! WHHHHAAAAAAAAAA...no, WHY?)
1 Ring
of Destruction (From the greatest boss in the world, and the only person I would
ever bow down to, Vince McMahon, YOU'RE FIRED!!!!!)
Fusion (20):
3
Roaring Ocean Seasnake (A bigger, non effect Sinister Serpent)
3 Punished
Eagle (Well, my High School team is the Eagles...)
2 Empress Judge (I find
the guilty)
2 Dark Balter the Terrible (Mini-Ha Des)
2 Ryu Senshi (Mini 7
Tools)
2 Fiend Skull Dragon (Mini...Mini...Mini-something I dunno...AH HA!!!
MINI-TYRANT DRAGON!!!)
2 Rabid Horseman (Feel my monsters wrath...and it's
odor...)
1 Deepsea Shark (tribute it for bigger monsters)
1 Reaper on the
Nightmare (see the shark)
2 Thousand-Eyes Restrict (Look into my
eyes!!!!)
Side Deck (...Do I HAVE to say it? I mean everyone know
it by now...fine...15)
1 Creature Swap (I heard it did good in World...I was
about to trade it too, NO IT'S MINE NOW!!!!!)
1 Dark Ruler Ha Des (The King
of Fiends and you know this, MAN!)
1 Curse of Anubis (Combo with Spear
Dragon)
1 Helpoemer (This card actually isn't so bad.)
1 Magic Cylinder
(REFLECT 0WNZ U FOO!!!)
1 Snatch Steal (Until Change of Heart gets
Banned.)
1 The Fiend Megacyber (...why?)
1 D.D. Designator (Combo with
Confiscation or Forceful...HA-HA YATA!!!)
1 Spear Dragon (My little fusion
from GAF and Fairy Meteor Crush...)
1 Spirit Reaper (The little card that
won't DIE!!!)
1 Card Destruction (What? It's Ha Des's hand in the
picture.)
1 Giant Trunade (This card actually beat Jeffery back in the
day. You remember Jeff? Remember Serpent Night Dragon?
HA-HA-HA!)
1 Swords of Revealing Light (It's...too...bright...)
2 Time
Seal (HA-HA TO YOU CHAOS!!!!)
Good Luck Charm (1)
1 The Winged Dragon
of Ra (DON'T DISS DA DRAGON!!! (D.D.D.D.))
After
that very long deck list, I can finally say my strategy: My deck is based on
making sure my opponent doesn't have any options and then putting them out of
their misery with my new toy, my Blowback Dragon!!! Anyway, this
tournament was a 4 round Swiss format and I came around 12:30 only to realize
that the tourney starts at 1:30-2:00, so I just look around this new tournament
area and I saw one of my own tourney people there, Ian (a.k.a. The Cheese
Weasel). Once Ian saw me, he just shuttered in fear and just kept on
saying in his little trademark voice, "No...no...NO! Why are you
here?????" While I was there, I saw this little kid and his grandfather
there. The little kid was a little bundle of pure spoildness. I was
wondering why he was so arrogant and then I looked through his grandfather's
collection and he had EVERY holo in the whole Yu-Gi-Oh TCG! Every card was
there, and he says that he only needs 31 more 1st Edition holos to make his set
complete. I was just shocked for the fact that THIS kid had THIS
grandfather that has THIS many cards. Anyway when I was there, I saw one
of my favorite games there, Super Smash Brothers Melee!!!! I was happy to see it
there but the problem was that the game didn't have ANY secret characters (BOO
NO FALCO!!!). Anyway, back to the tourney: After some trading and some
dueling, they started sign ups which was a decent $3, then they started the
pairings for the first round...
Round 1
The Shadow Vs This dude with a
hand kill deck
Duels 1 & 2: Him and I have actually faced off before
and the last time I faced him, I wiped the floor with him. This time it
was his turn doing the wiping. Just when I think I have the edge, he
completely turns it around and it kills me. BOOOO!!!
0-2
Swiss
Round Total: 0-1
Round 2
The Shadow vs. A little kid (Unorthodox deck
(basically, a N00B!!!!!))
Duel 1: He said that he didn't think he was
gonna win...his instincts were right. I managed to get out Blowback and
every time I coin flipped, it made him flip out. BLOWBACK
RULES!!!!!
Duel 2: He REALLY didn't do that much. The mighty power
from the littlest guy from the deck called forth my mini-Ha Des, Dark Balter and
destroyed anything that came against it. After a couple of turns, I
offered the little Scientist to summon the giant Jinzo and gave him the biggest
Shadowcut anyone has ever seen.
2-2
Swiss Round Total:
1-1
Round 3
The Shadow vs. _________ (forgot name)
Duels 1 & 2:
This round went by so fast, even I forgot what happened. The only thing I
remember was that I won 2-0...stupid temporary short term memory
loss...
4-2
Swiss Round Total: 2-1
Round 4 (Final Round)
The
Shadow vs. EXODIA!!!!!
Well, well, well. My old enemy has decided to
come back. Unfortunately like always, he's coming in 5 different
pieces. It's been about a year since I've played an Exodia deck and this
is one of my favorite matches.
Duel 1: The duel was going back and forth
until I Confiscated his Left Arm and then I realized that his deck had no Backup
Soldier (shame on you) and then I just started using my Scientist to eliminate
his Mystic Tomatoes and used Kycoo to eradicate anything that was in the
graveyard.
Duel 2: Probably the closest he has gotten to Exodia without
it being summoned. He used The Shallow Grave to get back his Witch in
defense and I got my Sangan in defense. I could see it in his eyes that he
thought he had it won...he would have if he didn't see my OTHER defense monster
I set the turn before Shallow Grave. I even told him "Once I flip this
monster over, your going to hate me for the rest of your dueling career."
At first, he was confused, and then he said I was bluffing, but I wasn't.
My turn. I drew Raigeki, but my old psychic instincts acted up and I was
able to see telepathically that he had 5 cards in his hand, 4 of the 5 pieces of
Exodia and a Change of Heart. The last piece missing was the head.
Then I cracked my old Shadow smile and flipped over the monster I was talking
about..........MEDAMUCIL MASTER, FIBER JAR!!!!!! As soon as I flipped it
over, he just sat there and stared at my Fiber Jar, then me, then the jar, then
he put his head on the table and in a hysterical no, he was banging on the table
(Told him he was gonna hate me). He showed me his hand, and my God I was
right, all pieces except for the head and the Change of Heart. We
reshuffled and all I did was draw 1 card because it was one card I needed,
Kycoo. His Life Points were at 1500 and as soon as I said attack, he
reshuffled his hand, and said good game, and he was right, he was still a little
mad at me for my little Fiber interfering with his Exodia plan. Basically,
Fiber helped me out for probably, the final time for the fact that the Banned
List was in effect the day after this tournament. Oh well, I
won.
6-2
Swiss Round Total: 3-1
I was
about ready to enter the Top 8 until my cell phone rang and it was my mom saying
that I have to leave now. I couldn't believe it...I was about to hit Top 8 and
now I have to drop out...well, I'll have to get it next time. Well, now's
the time for Le Props and Slops, which is French for my Props &
Slops:
Props:
-A 3-1 record is very good for Swiss (got around
4th-5th)
-My deck for being remodified back to my originality (no more
warriors for me)
-Me for being able to trade a Gear Golem and a Maha Vailo to
get my Reflect Bounder
-To me for not making a chaos deck (I HATE
CHAOS!!!!!)
-To the Exodia dude for takin the Fiber Jar maturely...
-To
Fiber Jar for saving my butt ever since I got it.
-To the $1.00 a slice offer
and $.50 for soda and candy (Note to self: bring more money)
-The banned list
(I like challenges)
-To Pojo and the Pojo Team for taking all of my
tournament report stuff and posting them here (JAELOVE, try to get me on the
Pojo Team, I'll be a great addition.)
-To one of my favorite video games,
Dance Dance Revolution (DDR)(I've been playing it ever since I was 12).
-To a
song on DDR called Heaven is a 57' Metallic Gray (The BEST and the catchiest
song on there)
Slops:
-To me for losing the first round even though I
shouldn't (next time I see him, I want a rematch.)
-The banned list (Taking
out Fiber and Cyber Jar makes me mad.)
-To me for not making my 10th Report
Anniversary as important as it was, in a way...
-To Uncle and anybody else
that has that frickin' Royal Decree (I WANT IT SO MUCH!!!!)
-To my computer
for not letting me download the Top 8 World Championship deck lists (CAN SOMEONE
PLEASE HELP ME HERE?????)
-To that elderly man with the binder of holo's
grandson for being a REAL big nuisance
-NO POPEYE'S
(BOOOOOO)
Well, that basically wraps up my 11th
Report. I am really hoping to come back here more often and write more
stuff for you Shadowholics out there. If you want to contact me somehow,
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