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RegnR8's Absolute Rule of the Monarchs - Tournament Report for Dec. 18, 2004
RegnR8's Absolute Rule
of the Monarchs
Tournament Report for December 18,
2004
Hi all,
Welcome to this week's
edition of the Tournament Report! I hope this report finds you well and
winning!
Well, I've gotten a
lot of feedback from recent tournament reports and many people have been really
kind in pointing out the unusual "timing" requirements for Peten, the
Horn/Scapegoat combo and the rulings on Divine Wrath. There have been times when
I would inadvertently use Peten's effect when I could not. I now realize the
Horn/Scapegoat combo does not work how I have been doing it. I now fully
understand when Divine Wrath can be effectively and accurately used. Thanks
again to all the fellow duelists who consistantly email me with encouragement,
comments and suggestions. Your emails only encourage me to be a better, more
informed duelist. Even with my increased knowledge of the cards, and the better
understanding of specific rulings, the Monarch deck still works extremely well,
I just need to play it a little differently.
So, onto the weekend's
first tournament!
Sports Cards and
Collectibles
$5.00 to play and you get a pack for
entering
1st place 3 packs
2nd place 2 packs
3rd place gets nada, zip,
nothing
Advanced Format
5 rounds Swiss Format
15-20 people
today
Large French Vanilla
coffee with cream and sugar from the Dunkin' Donuts. MMMMM... No better way to
start off the day. I'm married, so there actually IS a better way to start of
the day but, but we won't go into that
here...Hehhehehe...
This week, I made one
change to the deck. I main decked a Divine Wrath and side decked a second. I am
really happy with the way the deck performs 90% of the time. I am debating on
replacing the Night Assailant with some other heavy attacker or heavy defense
monster to sit on the field until I grab a Zaborg or Mobius. The Assailants work
well, but I rarely seem to get it's second effect, which was what I wanted in
the first place. Currently, the Assailant's just seem like another form of
monster removal, something the deck already has a lot of. Any suggestions for
replacement monsters will be welcome.
Absolute Rule of the
Monarchs
x2 Mobius the Frost
Monarch
x2 Zaborg the Thunder Monarch
x3 Night Assailant
x3 Peten the
Dark clown
x1 Sinister Serpent
x3 Berserk Gorilla
x1 TIV
x1
Breaker
x1 Fiber
x1 Cyber
x1 PoG
x1 Change of
Heart
x1 Snatch Steal
x1 Premature Burial
x2 Scapegoat
x2 Enemy
Controller
x2 NoC
x2 Creature Swap
x1 Painful Choice
x1 Heavy
Storm
x1 MST
x1 Dust Tornado
x2
Bottomless Trap Hole
x2 Horn of Heaven
x1 Call of the Haunted
x1 Divine
Wrath
SIDE DECK
x3
Kinetic Soldier
x1 Share The Pain
x1 Royal Decree
x1 Scapegoat
x1
Magic Cylinder
x1 Divine Wrath
x2 Magic Jammer
x1 RoD
x1 Raigeki
Break
x1 Book of Moon
x1 Monster Reincarnation
x1
Jinzo
ROUND
1
Monarchs VS Aggro
beatdown with a slight focus on trample.
GAME
1
He wins the die roll
and choses to go second. That's sort of unusual, but I'll take it. I get
Sinister, Peten, Bottomless, Scapegoat, Divine Wrath and Enemy Controller. Ugh.
Not the best hand in the world. This is falling into the aforementioned 10% of
crappy first hands. I set Peten, Scapegoat and the
BTH.
He summons a Gyku-Gire
Panda and attacks my Peten and I take 50Lp damage. Ha. I remove the Peten to
special summon another. At least I know he's running trample now. I really have
to be careful because I have the two Scapegoats and one of them is already
set!
I draw another
Bottomless and set the Divine Wrath.
He attacks my Peten
with the Panda again and I take another 50LP damage. I get my last Peten to the
field and now am hurting. I need a monster to take out his
Panda.
I draw Zaborg. Wow.
That was lucky. I tribute Peten for Zaborg and destroy his Panda and attack him
for 2400LP.
Next turn, he uses
Hammer Shot on my Zaborg. Awww. Boo. He removes his Panda from play to special
summon Gigantes and I BTH it. Wahaha. He sets a monster and ends his
turn.
I draw a Horn, set it
and the other BTH. I have no monsters but Sinister and I want to use him for the
Divine Wrath when he flips whatever card that is he
set.
He flips his Fiber Jar
and I negate the effect and destroy his Fiber with the Divine Wrath. He summons
Bazoo and I BTH it, too.
I draw Call of the
Haunted, get Sinster banck and set the Call to end my
turn.
He draws, and I
activate Scapegoat so I can use Horn of Heaven in the correct manner if I need
to. He summons a Giant Rat and I negate the summon with Horn. He chains with a
Solemn Judgement. He's losing already. He's taken 2400LP damage so, the
Judgement gets him down to 2800 and I am at 7900, so I'm fine with the
Judgement. He attacks me with the Rat. So, that cost him 2800LP just to attack
me for 1400LP. I think I would have saved the Judgement for something a little
better than a Giant Rat summon. Oh well.
I Call Zaborg back and
attack his Rat. He activates Draining Shield. Oh, that is more annoying than a
Sakeretsu Armor. Now the Judgment makes a little more sense if you run some
Draining Shields, too. I expect Injection to be cropping up sometime
soon.
He tributes the Rat
for Dark Driceratops and I negate the summon with Horn and a token. Ouch.
I draw NoC and attack
again with Zaborg. I get Cylindered.
He sets a S/T but no
monster.
I draw Mobius and
attack with Zaborg. I set the NoC.
He draws and ends his
turn.
I draw a Creature Swap
and he doesn't have a monster so, I attack with Zaborg again. I'm winning, 5400
to 400.
He plays PoG. NO! This
could be bad. He Changes my Zaborg, summons an Ox and attacks me with both.
Ouch. That hurt. I'm down to 1300 now. Not good. He sets a S/T and ends his
turn.
I tribute Zaborg for
Mobius and he chains with Torrential! Argh!!
Luckily, he doesn't
have a monster.
I draw Zaborg, set
Night Assailant and end my turn.
He NoC's all my
Assailants! Darn. He still doesn't have a monster he can summon or
set!
I draw a Dust Tornado
and set Sinister.
He sets another
S/T.
I draw Premature
Burial and end my turn.
He sets another
S/T.
I draw a Gorilla,
summon it, Premature Burial my Zaborg and he Rings my Gorilla and the duel ends
in a draw.
Well, I should have
set my Dust Tornado, but I didn't. It may not have mattered
anyway.
GAME 1
AGAIN
We re-roll and I win
and go first. I get 2 Goats, Change, Night Assailant, Painful Choice then
Premature. Ok. This is fine. I play Painful Choice and offer him Zaborg, 2
Peten, Sinister and a Gorilla. Surprisingly, he gives me Zaborg. I dind't expect
that. Maybe he has Change of Heart or Snatch Steal in his hand. I get a Peten to
the field (as far as I know, that IS legal because the last thing to happen in
the chain is the remaining cards being set to the graveyard through Painful's
effect). I set a Night Assailant (I couldn't bring out Zaborg and I wouldn't
this early in the duel anyway) and a Goat.
He plays Swords and my
Assailant flips up. Darn. He sets a S/T but no monster.
I draw TiV and end my
turn.
He draws and ends his
turn.
I draw NoC and end my
turn, too. We are both waiting on each other to do
something!
He still does
nothing.
I draw a Gorilla. Now
I have something to back me up if I tribute for Zaborg and he gets rid of it. I
tribute Peten for Zaborg and he Bottomless' him! Dang it! I have to destroy my
own Assailant for Zaborg's effect, so I have nothing on the field to protect me
next turn except a Goat, and against this deck, that may not help at all. I set
the NOC and Horn and end my turn.
He summons Exiled
Force and attacks. I activate Scapegoat and he attacks
one.
I summon TIV, discard
my Serpent for Warrior and attack into a Cylinder for 1600. That wasn't too bad.
I'm using up his set cards, so, that's good. I don't mind getting Cylindered
early or even mid game. At least I know the card is gone and can't hurt me
again, unless thay run Mask of Darkness and even then, you can usually guess
that they're going to immediately set it
anyway.
He uses Hammer Shot on
my TIV. Dang. I'm starting to hate that card. He doesn't have a monster still,
so I'm good.
I draw Snatch Steal,
summon the Gorilla and attack. He activates Widespread Ruin! ARGH!
He summons a Panda and
I negate the summon with the Horn. THAT would have HURT a LOT!
Whew!
I draw another Horn,
set it and Premature Burial my Gorilla because my Zaborg had been removed from
play. I finally manage an attack! Hooray!
He uses Hammer Shot on
my Gorilla. MAN! I am really SICK of that Hammer Shot! He summons Pitch Dark
Warwolf and I negate it with Horn. I'm sure he's as sick of my Horn as I am of
his Hammer Shot!
I draw Mobius, set
another Scapegoat and end my pitiful turn.
He draws sets an S/T
and ends his turn.
I draw a Gorilla a
attack into a Draining Shield. Yes, it is THAT annoying!
He uses Call to get
Exiled back and tributes it for my Gorilla. MAN! Where's my Divine Wrath now!?!
He summons his Gorilla and attacks a token.
I draw Creature Swap
and summon Sinister in attack position and Swap it with his Gorilla and attack.
He sets a monster and
an S/T.
I tribute his Gorilla
for Mobius, destroy his set NoC and NoC his Fiber Jar and attack. I set
Bottomless and end my turn. OK. I'm feeling like I'm beginning to take control
of the duel now, so this is usually when all the wheels fall
off!
He sets a
S/T.
I attack with Mobius
again.
He sets a monster and
I use Change of Heart on his set Gorilla next turn and attack him with Mobius
and his own Gorilla for the win.
GAME
2
I side deck in Royal
Decree for an EC to stop those Draining Shields. I ahould put in some Jammers to
stop those Hammer Shot, but I don't. I figured if the Hammer Shot hurt me again
in this duel, I'll side deck them in next time.
He choses to go second
again. What's up with that? Oh well. I get Painful Choice, TIV, Peten, BTH, Goat
and Snatch. I play Painful, offer him 2 Assailant, Sinister, Peten and Zaborg.
He gives me the Serpent and I remove Peten to get Peten. I set the BTH and the
Goat.
He sets 2 S/T and a
monster.
I draw Divine Wrath,
set it and another Peten.
He summons Exiled
Force, I activate the Goat. He attacks a token and uses Exiled's effect on my
set Peten and I let him. I could have negated Exiled's effect with the Divine
Wrath but chose not to, thinking I could use it on something better. He's wasted
a monster and I have one left on the field so, who
cares?
I draw NoC and use it
on his set Fiber Jar? What? Why didn't he flip it himself last turn? Oh well,
whatever. Both our Fibers are removed from play so, it's all
good.
He sets another
monster and ends his turn.
I draw Change of Heart
and use it on his set Cyber Jar. I flip it and he gets an Ox and and a currently
unuseable Gigantes. I get a Gorilla. I'm still in main phase one, so I MST his
Cylinder, Snatch his Ox and set my Tornado. I attack with the Ox and when I
attack with the Gorilla, he uses Draining Shield.
Annoying.....
He plays Heavy Storm.
Pooey. He removes Exiled Force from play to special summon Gigantes and uses
Hammer Shot on my Gorilla. Grrr....Those Magic Jammers are looking pretty good
about now. I wish I had put some in the deck. Then he tributes the Gigantes for
Inferno Hammer, a card I had never seen before so I asked to examine it. Ah, it
was really no big deal. He attacks a token.
I draw and set Call of
the Haunted. I summon TIV and he BTH's it. I use priority to get rid of his Ox
because I want to Swap his Inferno Hammer. I turn a token to attack
position, and Swap it with his Inferno Hammer and attack him with it for 2400LP.
Hah.
He summons a Berserk
and Torrentials. Blegh.
I Call back Zaborg and
attack. He Calls his Inferno Hammer and I suicide anyway.
Curses.
He summons a Gorilla
and I Bottomless it.
I draw an Assailant
and set it.
He plays SoRL. Man, we
are really going at it. We seem to be countering everything! It's really
fun!
He stalls for a while
with Swords and I set my Cyber Jar, hoping to time it right with the ending of
SoRL. He plays Change of Heart on it though! He gets Injection and TiV and I get
nothing. He attacks me for a lot.
I have to Premature
Burial a Night Assailant and tribute it for Zaborg, destroy his Lily then attack
his TiV.
He Premature's Lily,
summons a Spear Dragon, attacks Zaborg with Lily, then kills me with the Spear
Dragon. Man, that was close!
GAME
3
He goes to his side
deck. I decide to keep my deck the same. I'm still thinking about those Magic
Jammers though.
I go first and get 2
NoC, Change, Sinsiter, Goat and Mobius. I set the Goat and Sinister. Not much I
can do, yet.
He plays PoG. Grrr. He
sets 2 S/T and summons a Rat to attack my
Serpent.
In my draw phase he
activates Mask of Restrict. Uh oh.....This could be harmful to my existance. I
set Peten and end my turn.
He tries to tribute
his Rat but I remind him he has Mask of Restrict on the field. He is like,
whoops. He attacks Peten and I get another to the field. He sets a
monster.
I NoC our Cyber Jars.
That's actually fine with me becasue Cyber has always been a 50/50 chance card.
I set Sinster.
He summons a Gorilla
and now I am stalling with all I got. This Mask of Restrict is killing me. I
can't hold out much longer unless I draw some bigger monsters soon.
Well, I draw Royal
Decree and that breaks the game wide open. I finally can tribute for Mobius,
wiping out his Cylinder and Draining Shield, which doesn't matter because he
can't activate any traps anyway. After he Heavy's my Decree, I manage to Divine
Wrath his Exiled and BTH his Gigantes and he can't recover. Whew. That was nerve
wracking!
RECORD 1 -
0
ROUND
2
Monarchs VS Skill
Drain
OK. before I get
nailed for this, I have to admit an oversight here. I forgot to return my deck
the way it was before this duel. I just now, as I am typing this, realized I did
not return the Royal Decree to the side deck as I should have. I can assure you,
this was simply an oversight on my part. I have no need, nor intention of
cheating. If I did cheat, why would I type it up for all to see?
I go first, get Cyber,
Peten, BTH, Gorilla, Goat and the Decree. I set BTH and
Cyber.
He activates SoRL and
I BTH his GAF and Gorilla after the Cyber flip. I get an Assailant and a Peten,
setting both. He also got a Roulette Barrel which he
set.
I flip my Assailant,
eating his Barrel and summon a Gorilla and have to end my turn due to SoRL.
After I Bottomless
another of his GAF, he plays Offerings to the Doomed on my Gorilla and has to
skip his draw phase.
I play PoG, tribute my
Assailant for Zaborg and destroy my Peten, removing it from play to special
summon another. I still can't attack because of
SoRL.
He plays Painful
Choice, offering me Dark Elf, Archfiend Soldier, Giant Orc, Enchanted Javelin
and a Roulette Barrel. I give him the Dark Elf. He sets another S/T card and
ends his turn. I know he just set the Skill Drain. It's a
hunch.
I attack with Zaborg
and he chains his Scapegoat. Oops. My hunch was
wrong.
He tries to summon an
Orc and I negate it with Horn and Peten.
I attack another
token.
He pays 1000LP for
Skill Drain, summons a Dark Elf and I activate my Decree. He can't do anything
after that and I win.
I don't really think
the Decree made a big difference in the duel anyway. I had a Zaborg and he only
had the Skill Drain out. I don't know, maybe it would have made a
difference.
GAME
2
He choses to go first
and sets an S/T.
I get 2 NoC, Change,
Peten, Goat and an Assailant. I set the Scapegoat and
Assailant.
He plays Change on my
Assailant and attacks me with it.
I set another
Assailant, turn the first into defense. He summons an Archfiend Soldier and
attacks my defense position Assailant.
I flip up my
Assailant, destroy his Archfiend and attack for 200Lp which he freakin'
Kuribohs! What! Oh well, this kid is only nine years
old.
He sets a monster
which I NoC next turn and then attack him with a Peten and an Assailant for
700LP damage. I have a Horn set and use it when he summons a
GAF.
I draw yet another
Night Assailant and set it, turning Peten to defense position. He plays Skill
Drain, summons an Armor Exe. and I explain to him it will be destroyed during
his standby phase next turn because the token to keep Armor Exe. on the field is
a maintenece cost and Skill Drain does not negate those. Some guy I had never
seen before, comes over and starts spouting off at the mouth, claiming Armor
Exe. would stay on the field because Skill Drain negates his effect, blah, blah,
blah and I try to explain it to him, but he gets all superior on me and I'm
like, dude, I know what I'm talking about so get out of my face. I ignore him
and Change of Heart it on my turn and attack my opponent with it anyway. It IS
destroyed in his stand by phase and he can't muster up anything else and after I
NoC his Roulette Barrel, I win.
RECORD 2 -
0
ROUND 3
Monarchs VS
Chaos
He wins the die roll
and chooses to go first. He activates Cost Down, discarding a Peten to get a
Peten (I guess that works?), then activates Reload. He sets one S/T then plays
Painful Choice. Gulp. I don't like the looks of this. He offers me Jinzo, Dark
Ruler, DMoC, Reload and Card Destruction. I give him the
Reload.
I get Mobius, Zaborg,
2 Swap, and a Goat. I draw NoC, set the Goat and end my
turn.
He sets another S/T
and attacks me with Peten for 500. I take it. I draw Change of Heart and
activate it. He chains Spell Shield Type 8. I have to end my turn. I was going
to tribute his Peten for Mobius, but that didn't work out did
it?
He plays Reload, Calls
his DMoC back, gets his Reload and attacks. I activate Scapegoat. Whew. He
attacks a token.
I turn a token into
attack position and activate Creature Swap. He choses Peten and I tribute it for
Zaborg and destroy his DMoC and I attack.
He pays 2000LP for
Dimension Fusion and gets his Peten and DMoC back, then attacks Zaborg and a
token.
I play Heavy Storm,
and he Rings his Peten. I set Scapegoat and
Horn.
He Trunades and I
chain the other Scapegoat. He attacks a
token.
I draw Peten and set
it.
He summons TIV and I
negate the summon with Horn and a token. He attacks my Peten with DMoC and it's
removed from play.
I get Cyber Jar and
set it. This is my last hope because all my tokens won't save me for much
longer.
He attacks my Cyber
Jar and I get Breaker and an Assailant. He plays Change on my Night Assailant
but can't flip it because it hasn't been set for a turn. He plays Reload and
then Monster Reincarnation and gets Jinzo. Then he tributes for Jinzo and pays
another 2000LP for Dimension Fusion and kills me next
turn.
GAME
2
I side deck out both
EC and an Assailant for two Magic Jammers and another Divine
Wrath.
I go first and get a
Jammer, Peten, Sinister, Zaborg, NoC and draw Call. Hmmm. It's workable. I set
the Jammer and Peten.
He sets a monster and
two S/T.
I NoC his face down
and he activates Spell Shield Type 8. Hmmm. Maybe those would work in my
deck....It's a thought. I summon a Gorilla and he Rings it. Crap. He really
wants to flip that monster himself. I bet it's Cyber Jar. I set Call and end my
turn.
He sets another S/T
and ends his turn. Ok, so his set monster is not Cyber Jar. Hmmm. Peten
maybe?
I draw and tribute my
Peten for Zaborg and destroy his set Peten. He gets another Peten to the field
and I attack it and he special summons the third from his
hand.
He tributes Peten for
Dark Ruler and pays 2000LP for Dimension Fusion to do what? Get a couple of
Petens back? That's wierd, so I Jam it anyway and he still has to pay the
2000LP. He attacks my Zaborg with his Dark Ruler for a whopping 50LP
damage.
I draw another Zaborg.
What luck! I call my Zaborg back, tribute it for my other Zaborg and destroy his
Dark Ruler and attack.
He draws and then
conceeds.
GAME
3
He choses to go first.
I get a Jammer, Sinister, Snatch, Painful Coice and an Assailant. He does the
Thunder Dragon trick. He activates Cost Down with one of the Thunder Dragon he
just drew and plays Reload for four cards. He gets his four cards and starts
looking through his graveyard. This is a dead give away he either has Premature
or Call in his hand. He sets one S/T (Hmm could it be Call of the Haunted.. I
wonder...) and ends his turn.
I draw a Gorilla and
activate Painful Choice. I offer him MST, 2 Peten, Mobius and an Assailant. He
gives me the MST. OK. I now know his one set S/T is now a chainable card. Should
I MST it now, or save it until later? I decide to hold my MST until a more
opportune time. I summon a Peten to the field through his effect after Painful
resolves. I summon the Gorilla and attack. He activates his Scapegoat. Good call
on my part for not wasting my MST. I Magic Jam his Scapegoat and attack him for
2000LP.
He plays Card
Destruction for three cards and I get two, a Divine Wrath and Dust Tornado. He
sets a S/T and a monster.
I MST his Cylinder.
Good call on me for saving it. I attack a Peten and he gets another. I set my
Divine Wrath and the Dust Tornado.
During his draw phase,
I Dust his set Cost Down. He plays Painful Choice and offers Jinzo, Dark Ruler,
Change of Heart, Cyber and Fiber. If he doesn't get rid of my set Divine Wrath,
I know I can negate Fiber or Cyber so I give him the Fiber Jar. Hopefully, he
has no way of getting Jinzo on the field any time soon. He sets a monster. It's
Fiber Jar.
I don't have anything
good to attack with besides the Gorilla and I hit his Peten and he gets another.
I'm going to negate his Fiber when he flips
it.
On his turn, he flips
the Fiber Jar and I negate it with Divine Wrath. Sweetmama. He can't do anything
else.
I draw a Bottomless,
set it and attack his Peten. He gets his
third.
He draws Pot of Greed
and plays it. He sets one S/T then Reloads for 1. He activates Swords. Darn it!
I draw both NoC's in
each consecutive draw phase. I need to split those two up next duel. I keep
drawing them together. Fortunately, he keeps getting nothing useable as
well.
I am patiently waiting
till Swords is gone before I do anything. He summons Breaker and I Bottomless
him.
I draw a Goat and set
it.
He draws and sets one
S/T.
Finally, SoRL is gone
and I attack his last Peten. I set NoC just to make him think I have something
else.
He discards a Thunder
Dragon for it's effect, but can't do it because the other two are already in his
graveyard. I draw Cyber Jar and set Call of the Haunted and attack with the
Gorilla.
He plays Heavy Storm
and I chain the Scapegoat but lose Call and the NoC. He summons TiV and discards
to destroy everything and attacks.
I draw Creature Swap,
summon Cyber Jar in attack position and Swap it with his TiV. I discard for rock
and attack with his TiV. I win the next turn.
RECORD 3 -
0
ROUND
4
SEMI-FINALS
Monarchs VS The
Mystery Deck
This is the gentleman
who usually runs a Last Turn deck. I knew he wasn't using it today, because I
saw him dueling with some other guy earlier in the day and it wasn't Last Turn.
I didn't know what it was, but I was about to find
out.
I win the die roll and
go first. I get Dust, Fiber, Mobius, Call, Horn and draw another Mobius. Not the
best hand. I set the Tornado, Horn and Fiber Jar, hoping to bluff a little and
get Fiber to go off.
He draws and sets 3
S/T cards. He plays Painful Choice and offers Sinister, Jinzo, End of Anubis
(What the?), DMoC and an MoF. Hmmm. This really doesn't tell me much. Three
darks and a light. BLS? I don't know. Maybe. I haven't seen enough of the deck
to know what is going on. It must be pretty good to make it the the semis, so I
need to pay attention to what's going on. I think about the cards he offers and,
in my opinion, the DMoC is harder to get out from your hand than it is from the
graveyard. He's going to get the Sinister regardless of what I do, so I give him
the DMoC.
He activates Premature
Burial and I Dust it. Whew. He was going for Jinzo and he kind of questioned the
Dust Tornado, but that was a legal move on my part. He summons a Spear Dragon
and hit's my Fiber Jar. Now, I'm thinking this is some form of Beatdown and
nothing I should really be overly concerned about. I don't expect too many
surprises here. I'm still thinking BLS is lurking somewhere in this deck. I get
my Fiber Jar back, an Assailant, Horn, Change and a Bottomless. He sets 3 S/T
cards. Hmmm. That's a lot of setting.
I draw a Zaborg and
set Night Assailant, along with the BTH and the
Horn.
He activates Nightmare
Wheel (What? That was from out of nowhere. Maybe I underestimated this deck) on
my Assailant. He sets another S/T and activates his Scapegoat. Ok. That was
strange.
I draw another
Bottomless. I take 500 from the Nightmare Wheel but, tribute my Assailant for
Zaborg and attack. He actives Widespread Ruin.
Whoa.
He summons Breaker and
I Bottomless him. He activates 7 Tools. Dang. That was unexpected, too. He
Breaks my Horn and attacks for 1600.
I Change his Breaker
and tribute it for Mobius and destroy his Hallowed Life Barrier which he chains.
I set the Bottomless.
He doesn't do anything
on his next turn but draw a card.
I draw TIV and attack
a token with Mobius and get Cylindered. Crap. I'm down to 3500
now.
He summons his TiV,
Changes my Mobius and attacks me with both for the game. Dang. Oh well. Things
may have been different if I had summoned my TiV. Maybe not. Who
knows.
GAME
2
I chose to go first
and get Sinister, Cyber Jar, Assailant, Goat, Change and Dust Tornado. Man, I am
not getting really good first draws today. I set the Assailant and the
Tornado.
He sets one S/T and a
monster.
I Dust Tornado the
Nightmare Wheel in his end phase.
I draw a Bottomless,
flip my Assailant and destroy his Serpent. Yipee. I attack for a huge 200LP
damage. I set Cyber Jar and the Bottomless.
He summons Ninja
Grandmaster Sasuke and hits my Assailant. I did not want to Bottomless the Ninja
becasue I wanted to save it to Bottomless whatever he draws with the Cyber Jar
becasue I'll get to flip it in my main phase.
I draw and flip my
Cyber Jar. I get 2 Berserk, Breaker and a Peten. He gets TiV and a Giant Orc,
both of which I Bottomless. He raises an eyebrow at that, and I explain that
Bottomless can remove multiple monsters at the same time. He also got a Spirit
Reaper which he set. I attack the Spirit Reaper, then activate Change of Heart
on it to destroy it and have to end my turn.
He plays Double Spell
to get my Change of Heart, plays it on Peten, tributes my Peten for Zaborg and
then special summons BLS! AH HA! I knew that big mutha broken jerk card was in
his deck, I just knew it! He then proceeds to totally kick my butt with Black
Luster Broken Soldier Envoy of the Toilet.
Oh well. That's a
bummer, eh?
But! Life goes on and
there is another tournament to attend today! Maybe I will fare better!
Still, it was a good
outing for the Monarch's and I can't wait until BLS hits the banned list!
Until next report,
keep on dueling and keep happy!
RegnR8
darelliott@aol.com