regnR8's Absolute Rule of teh Monarchs - Dec. 26,
2004
RegnR8's Absolute Rule
of the Monarchs
Tournament Report for Dec. 26,
2004
Hi
all,
Welcome to this weeks
tournament report.
I hope this report
finds you well and winning! Ho! Ho! Ho!
Today is the day after
Christmas. I hope you were all good boys and girls this year and Santa brought
you every thing you wanted.
I got a bag of coal.
Ha.Ha.
Before the report, I
want to thank everyone who has been so supportive of my reports and this deck in
particular. Unfortunately, I have seen some posts on a few websites where people
have taken my deck and claimed it as their
own.
Now, I do not mind
people taking my ideas and incorporating them into their deck. Heck, I don't
even mind people taking my entire deck and using it. Information sharing is
important and I really want every one to become better players. I do mind people
stealing my deck and claiming it to be their own. That's just wrong. I have also
seen posts where people have stated they have gotten the original idea from me
and that is fine. I have recieved PM's and emails from lots of people who have
used the basic deck and switched it up a little to their liking and that's fine,
too. I have been working on this deck since October, changing, testing and
tweaking it and it is kind of frustrating to see it copied and then passed off
as someone elses idea. So, please give credit where credit is due. It's just
common courtesy. Thanks!
Now that is over, onto
the rest of the report!
Newnan Sports
Cards
Free to Play
Single
Elimination
Advanced Format
4 packs for 1st
3 packs for 2nd
2 pack
for 3rd
24 people signed up today, but a lot more came after the tounament
started and couldn't sign up.
SUPER! Advanced format
this week. No lame Traditional crap. Well, I think we finally talked the manager
into ONLY running Advanced Format. After the tournament, I spoke with him and
it's advanced all the way! Great! (and there was much
rejoicing!)
Well, I changed the
Monarch deck a little this week. Again. The biggest change was to the side deck.
I've noticed there is a large dependency on spell cards in my meta and I wanted
to add more spell negation to the side deck. I already have 2 Magic Jammer but
added a couple of Magic Drain to help thwart some of these "spell-dependant"
deck types. Last week, I saw a LLAB deck and a Last Turn deck, both of which
depended on a lot of Spell cards. You'd think the Last Turn would depend on
traps, and you'd be right, but this particular build also has a lot of draw
power due to Reload, Spell Reproduction, Dragged Down Into the Grave, that sort
of thing. The Last Turn deck is fast and if I can go first, hopefully, I can
shut it down before it gets a chance to get moving. Also, the everpresent
Chaos/Warrior deck depends on Spell cards like The Warrior Returning Alive,
Reinforcements of the Army and Painful Choice. Zombie and Level decks are seeing
a rise and I would definately want to stop those, too. Plus, Change of Heart and
Snatch Steal are nearly staples in my meta, and its always good to put a halt to
them, along with Heavy Storm. So, I thought I'd try some more Spell negation in
the side deck and see how it goes.
I took out the Divine
Wrath from the main deck and dropped in Swords of Revealing Light. Having played
with this deck for a few months now, I have noticed it runs fairly slowly. Now,
most people want a fast deck and I usually do too, but this deck actually seems
to benefit from being a little on the slow side. I decided on the SoRL because I
do draw a lot of opening hands with "Little Monsters" like Night Assailants and
Peten, with nothing really strong to help me out. I have 12 cards in the deck
that I consider to be "Little Monsters" and they include all the Assailant,
Peten, Sinister, 2 Scapegoat, Cyber, Fiber and TIV. I put TiV in the "Little
Monster" category because it's a terrible top deck when you have nothing to
discard for it, and by itself, it ain't taking out much. TIV played a crucial
role in the Finals today. More about that
later.
I had thought about
replacing the Night Assailant with Spirit Reaper this week and decided not to. A
lot of people have emailed me and suggest the Reaper/Assailant change. I thought
about it for a while and am still considering it, but there have been a lot of
times where I have been able to flip up my Assailant, destroy my opponents
monster and tribute for Mobius, thereby clearing their field. I didn't want to
give up that dynamic of the deck and adding in the SoRL may actually help that
little trick. Plus, the Assailants do have the added second effect, which I
think I have pulled off once, but hey, it could be a game saver. Sure, they get
NoC'd a lot but, that just thins my deck out so, it's all good. If I ever build
a deck around Thestalos, the Reapers are going in for
sure.
OK so, here's the deck
as it stands this week:
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 Swords Of Revealing
Light
x1 Dust Tornado
x2
Bottomless Trap Hole
x2 Horn of Heaven
x1 Call of the
Haunted
SIDE DECK
x3
Kinetic Soldier
x1 JInzo
x1 Royal Decree
x1 Scapegoat
x1 Book of
Moon
x2 Divine Wrath
x2 Magic Jammer
x1 RoD
x1 Raigeki Break
x2
Magic Drain
We got there early and
I tested out my Raging Flame Sprite deck and got stomped. I got some advice and
made some changes and got stomped again. I made some more changes and hung in
there for a while and won a few games here and there, but basically got stomped.
So, I'll make some more changes in the future and see what
happens.
ROUND
ONE
Monarchs VS
Beatdown
GAME
1
I go first and get
Assailant, Fiber, Peten, Gorilla, Mobius and Bottomless. OK. Not the worst hand
I've ever drawn. Just for fun, to see if I can get away with it, I set the BTH
and Fiber. Heh.
He plays Heavy Storm.
Oh well. Strategy #1 shot. He summons a Spear Dragon. Oops. Strategy #2 shot. He
attacks my Fiber Jar and I get two NoC (I hate that), Assailant, TIV, Sinister
and 1400LP damage. He sets one S/T card and
ends.
I draw Change of
Heart. Now, should attack or set? Hmmm. I take a chance and summon TIV and
attack into a Cylinder. Meh, whatever. I think I would have kept my Cylinder for
something higher than 1600 attacker. I set one NoC as a
bluff.
He summons his TIV and
suicides, then uses Premature Burial to get it back.
I Change his TIV, and
tribute it for Mobius and attack.
He sets a monster. Two
NoC's a bad draw...hmmmm maybe not.
I NoC his Gorilla and
know I have him on the ropes. I attack again with Mobius, then set a Night
Assailant.
He NoC's my Assailants
but big deal, he can't do anything else and I
win.
GAME
2
He goes first and sets
two S/T and a monster.
I get Cyber, Pot,
Sinister, Assailant, Peten and Scapegoat. I play Pot and draw TiV and Heavy
Storm. I Heavy his Torrential and Draining Shield. Good. I summon TiV, set the
Goat and attack his face down Slate Warrior. He was depending on the Draining
Shield to protect his Slate. OK. TiV's attack goes down, so I'm probably going
to get hammered pretty good next turn.
He Heavy's my
Scapegoat, which I chain, Snatch's my TIV, discards for Beast (darn) and
attacks.
I set a Night
Assailant and gain 1000LP from Snatch.
He sets a monster,
calls aqua for TIV and destroys it.
I flip up my
Assailant, destroy his set Spirit Reaper and tribute for Mobius. THAT'S why I
have the Assailants in the deck. Every time I think I want to take them out of
the deck, they get rid of a Reaper for me or do something really useful! I
attack with Mobius, uncontested.
He sets a monster. I
have him on the run again.
I attack his set DD
Warrior Lady with Mobius and he removes both from play. Ok whatever, I don't
really care. I set a Night Assailant.
He summons TIV and
attacks my Assailant and I destroy his TIV. Man, the Assailants are really
useful sometimes.
I draw SoRL, activate
it and set Cyber Jar.
He sets one S/T and a
monster.
I draw Enemy
Controller and flip my Cyber Jar. He gets 5 freaking monsters and I get Fiber
Jar and Zaborg. He sets all his monsters. I remember one is Cyber and a GAF and
I forgot the rest.
I have so many options
now, I have to think for a really long time as to what I want to do. I still
have SoRL, so I could do nothing and hope to flip my Fiber next turn, but that
may backfire. Hmmm. Decisions, decisions. Ok I figure it
out.
I NoC a monster and
it's his GAF. Pooey. I wanted it to be his Cyber. I set an Assailant, a Goat and
Horn of Heaven ending my turn, taking a calculated risk.
He NoC's my Fiber.
Well, strategy #3 is destroyed. Since he can't attack, he ends his turn.
When SoRL is gone, I
activate Scapegoat in his draw phase and when he flips his Cyber Jar, I negate
the summon with Horn. Hahahahahah! LMAO. He attacks my Assailant with something
and I destroy it. He attacks a token with a Slate Warrior at 2400 attack and
sets a monster.
I draw Creature Swap
and swap a token with his Slate Warrior, I tribute it for Zaborg and destroy his
set Fiber Jar. WooT! I attack into a Cylinder. Bagh. Whatever. I set Enemy
Controller.
He tries to Change of
Heart my Zaborg, but I tribute a token to take it back with Enemy Controller.
Oohhh, people have suggested taking out the Enemy Controller from my deck but,
wow did it ever help this game!
He can't muster any
more defense and I win.
RECORD
1-0
ROUND
2
Monarch VS
Pyro
He has been working on
this deck for a while and it is getting better and better. Last week he told me
he was tired of never getting out of the first round. I told him I couldn't
believe he'd never been out of the first round before because he has kicked my
booty in like three turns before! Well, he made it out of the first round this
week, and deep down, I really hope he beats me, but I'm not going to give him
the win, he's going to have to earn it.
GAME
1
He wins the die roll
and chooses to go first. He sets one S/T. He has a crappy
hand.
I draw a Night
Assailant, Peten, MST, TIV, Swap and Call of the Haunted. I set the Assailant
and MST.
He plays Tribute to
the Doomed on my Night Assailant, removes The Spirit of Flames from the
graveyard to special summon another one attacks me for 2000LP right off the bat!
Crap! In his end phase, I MST his set Draining Shield.
I draw Enemy
Controller, summon Peten and Creature Swap it with his Spirit of The Flame. I
attack my Peten, get another, set the Enemy Controller and end my turn. Whew, I
think I got out of that one OK.
He uses Hammer Shot on
the Spirit. Darn Hammer Shot. Then he removes the Spirit to summon an Inferno,
then
I draw Premature
Burial and feel kind of bad for him when I summon my TIV and discard for pyro
and attack his Kid with the TIV.
He draws and plays
Dragged. He only has Thestalos in his hand so, that goes and he takes my Change
of Heart. I draw a Gorilla with Draggeds effect. He sets a
monster.
I attack his face down
Charcoal Inpachi with TIV and take 500LP damage but then discard to destroy
it.
He sets an
S/T.
I draw a Goat and
summon Breaker and break his Divine Wrath. He can't activate it because he has
no hand. I get him down to 100LP and he top decks a Tyrant Dragon and
conceeds.
GAME
2
I draw Mobius, NoC,
BTH, Swap and Cyber.
He sets 3 S/T and
plays Dragged again. DOH! I pick his Thestalos. I doesn't matter because he has
an Inferno and a Spirit of the Flame, so one of them is going to be summoned! I
just didn't want Thestalos to make an appearance! He picks my NOC and I draw
Fiber Jar for Dragged's effect. heh. He summons a Solar Flare Dragon and ends
his turn.
Ok. I draw Snatch
Steal. I don't like ANY of that, so I set Fiber, BTH and Snatch to throw him off
and end my turn.
He Heavy's and attacks
my Fiber with the Solar Flare Dragon. I get 2 Assailant, Gorilla, PoG and
Sinister. Pretty decent for once.
He sets 2 S/T and a
monster.
I draw Horn, play Pot
and get NoC and Change. I NOC our Cyber Jar and set the Assailant and
Horn.
He attacks my
Assailant with The Thing from the Crater and I destroy it. He has no other
monster to use Thing's effect with, so he has to end his
turn.
I draw a Peten, set
another Night Assailant and end my turn.
He special summons an
Inferno, attacks my Assailant and I destroy it, but take 1500LP damage in the
process.
I draw SoRL, summon a
Gorilla and attack for 2000. I activate SoRL.
Hammer Shot! Dang it I
am really HATIN' on that card now! Ha. He special summons Spirit of the Flame
but Swords is protecting me.
I draw MST, set it and
a Peten.
He sets a S/T and
ends.
I draw an Assialant
and set it, too.
He plays Change on my
Peten. Heh. Heh. he still can't attack, so he gives me my Peten back. What a
waste of Change of Heart. I was lucky he didn't Change my
Assailant.
I flip the Night
Assailant and destroy his Spirit and attack him for 200! Go
Assailant!
He draws and ends his
turn.
I draw another Peten
and turn my Assailant to defense. I was lucky
there.
He sets a
monster.
I draw Creature Swap
and Change of Heart his face down Thing in the Crater and attack him with
it.
He draws and attacks
my defense position Assailant.
I draw a Bottomless. I
swap my face up attack Peten with his Thing and attack, he activates Draining
Shield. Grr.
He plays Tribute to
the Doomed on his Thing in the Crater on my side of the field and drops down a
Thestalos. I guess this is a legal move, because his Thing goes to his graveyard
and TTTD says "destroy" so, it's all good. He attacks with Thestalos and I
activate Scapegoat.
He attacks a token
with Thestalos and my Peten.
I draw TIV. How lucky
can you get! I MST his Call of the Haunted and summon TIV, discard for pyro and
attack my own Peten with TIV and get another Peten to the field. I set BTH this
time.
He top decks Pot.
Crap. He plays Forceful and takes my Peten. Whatever. I don't care. I draw a
Gorilla, summon it and attack for 3600 with TIV and the
Gorilla.
He plays Dragged on my
Serpent. It's the only card I have left in my hand! Ha. That's too funny. He
gets a Tribute to the Doomed and can't use it because he has no hand and I
win.
RECORD 2 -
0
ROUND
3
Monarch VS Dark
Magician Deck
This is a new guy I
have never dueled before so, I have no idea what his deck is.
I win the die roll and
chose to go first. I get a Gorilla, Enemy Controller, Cyber Jar, Zaborg, Dust
Tornado and then Pot of Greed. This is a good opening hand! I play Pot and get
Call of the Haunted and Bottomless. I set the Bottomless, EC and
Cyber.
He plays Pot, too. He
sets a Monster and 2 S/T cards.
I draw Swords and flip
my Cyber Jar. He gets Magical Scientist and Peten. These are the first monster
cards I've seen so far. An Apprentice Magician was the set card that went to the
graveyard in the Cyber flip, so that gave me an idea it was a Dark Magician or
some form of Spellcaster deck. I get a Mobius and a Gorilla. I'm thinking I have
to get rid of his Scientist. I tribute the Gorilla for Mobius and destroy his
two set cards and I attack one of his face down monsters, hoping it's Scientist
and it is! Whew.
I set Call of the
Haunted and activate SoRL.
He sets an S/T and
plays Smashing Ground on my Mobius. Dang it. That card now! First it was Hammer
Shot! Now it's Smashing Ground! Curses. He sets a monster and 2 more S/T cards
and ends his turn. What is he doing? Hmmm.
I draw a Dust Tornado.
I set it and a Night Assailant.
He sets another
monster. Hmmm. He has three monsters on the field, a Peten and 2 face down. He
has 3 S/T cards set. He has enough monsters to tribute for Dark
Magician.
I flip up my Night
Assailant, destroy his set Skilled White, then tribute the Assailant for Zaborg,
He BTH my Zaborg but I destroy his other set Skilled White in the process. I
just cut his monsters down to one Peten and his S/T zone to two.
He sets another
monster. I Dust Tornado his Enemy Controller in his end
phase.
I draw Fiber Jar, Call
Mobius back and attack into a Sakeretsu Armor. Ok, whatever. His S/T cards are
now gone and he has only two monsters on the field. Im tired of this stall junk
and set Fiber Jar.
He sets another
monster and ends his turn. That's aggravating.
I flip Fiber Jar and
get PoG, Change, EC, Horn and Swap. I play Pot, get another Gorilla and Goat. I
summon the Gorilla and attack for a clean 2000, set the Goat and the
Horn.
I activate Scapegoat
in his draw phase. He sets an S/T, Change's my Gorilla and tributes it for
something face down. What? This confused me. Guardian Sphinx? Helpomere?
Hmmm..
I draw Fiber Jar again
I creature Swap a token for his face down card. It's a Dark Magician Girl.
OK.....I don't understand how he's playing. I set Fiber Jar and end my
turn.
He summons Breaker and
I activate Horn, negating Breaker's summon.
I draw Premature and
activate Enemy Controller, tributing a token to take control of his token, which
was my token, get it? I flip up his Dark Magician girl and Premature a Gorilla.
I attack with Dark Magician Girl and he takes it. When I attack with the
Gorilla, he activates Sakeretsu Armor. Whatever. I set Change of Heart as a
bluff and give him back his token.
He sets a monster.
Man, this is getting quite bothersome.
I draw a Goat and
Change his monster which he Magic Jammer's. I flip Fiber. He gets mad and says
"I am tired of Fiber Jar."
I get a Gorilla, MST,
EC, Snatch and Goat. Good draw.
I summon the Gorilla,
and he says he's tired of Gorillas, too. I attack him and set EC and
MST.
He draws and says,
"This'll work." I'm thinking yeah, whatever, I'll Snatch whatever you get out on
me next turn so hit me with all you got! He sets 2/ST, summons a Pixie Knight
and equips it with Mage Power. It's at 2800Attack and I'm all like, oh no! This
is going to hurt, and he's all smarmy and everything I activate Enemy
Controller, turning it to defense. Ha.
I draw Zaborg, Snatch
Steal his little jacked up Pixie Knight and attack him with it for game! HAHAHA!
If he had Sakeretsu Armor down, I don't think he'd destroy his on monster. If he
had Cylinder down, it wouldn't have killed me. I was going to tribute my Gorilla
for Zaborg anyway and destroy his Pixie Knight if he negated her attack
somehow!
If any of you have
been a regular reader of my reports, you know that any deck that runs
power up equips is doomed to my WRATH! If you live by the sword, you must DIE by
the sword! I loved killing him with his own card. He was nice and all, but there
was an underlying attitude of superiority he gave off. It only became more
apparent in the second duel of our match.
GAME
2
I told him he confused
me during the duel by setting so many things. He said he was "feeling out my
deck". I asked him if I could expect a more aggressive playing style this duel
and he said yes.
He choses to go first
after drawing his hand. Hmmm...well, I assumed he was going to go first anyway
so, I let that slide. He set one S/T and a
monster.
I get a Gorilla, NOC,
Call, MST, Premature and Swap. Not stellar, but workable. I MST his Enemy
Controller and NOC his Apprentice Magician. I summon a Gorilla and can tell he
is LESS than pleased and attack him for 2000. I set
Call.
He Change's my Gorilla
and attacks me with it. OK. He's got nothing. He sets a monster. So much for a
more aggressive play style!
I draw another Gorilla
and attack his face down Kycoo. Oh yeah, he's
hurting.
He sets another
monster and one S/T.
I draw a Night
Assailant, summon it and Swap it with his face down MoF. Oh, too bad I can't
flip it up this turn! I attack my Night Assailant with my
Gorilla.
He sets another S/T,
pays 800LP to Premature Burial Kycoo and summons Magical Scientist. Hmmm. Let's
see what he does here. He pays 1000LP for Baltar and 1000 more for Dark Blade
the Dragon Knight. He's really low on LP now, so he can do whatever he wants. He
can't kill me so, meh.
He attacks my Gorilla
with the Dark Blade. When he tries to remove him from my graveyard, I Call him
back. Ha. He attacks the MOF woth Baltar and then pays ANOTHER 1000LP for TER
and takes my Gorilla. That got him down to 200LP while I was at
5800.
I draw Horn of Heaven,
summon a Gorilla and Premature Burial the other one and he gets mad, says
"Forget It!" and Rings my Gorilla and I win.
I got the feeling this
guy was not use to losing. Why on earth would someone pay that much for the
Scientist when their LP is so low and your'e getting you butt kicked anyway?
Scoentist isn't going to save you when you only have 200LP left.
Duh.
RECORD 3 -
0
ROUND 4
SEMI-FINALS
Monarch VS Last
Turn
Ok. I am ready for
this deck. I hope I win the die roll and get to go first because I have a better
chance of winning. If I lose, I am going to my side deck in a major hurry. I
watched this deck totally tear up the guy sitting next to me and he didn't have
a side deck and I'm telling him, you HAVE to have a side deck if you want to be
competitive.
GAME 1-
4
OK. Before I get
started, I'm going to tell you he ended the first four duels with Self Destruct
Button and Wall of Revealing Light. They all ended in draws and he kept going
first. Just to give you some idea of how much draw power this deck has, I am
only going to detail one of the four draws.
He wins the die roll
and goes first. I'm not even going to list what I drew because it doesn't
matter.
1. He plays Painful
Choice and offers me Dragged Down into the Grave, Card of Safe Return, Morphing
Jar, Cyber Jar and DMoC. I give him the DMoC.
2. He plays Spell
Reproduction, discarding The Shallow Grave and Card of Safe Return to get the
Dragged Down into the Grave.
3. He sets 2 S/T cards
and plays Dragged. He only has the DMoC in his hand. He takes my Gorilla and I
draw Premature.
4. He plays the
Shallow Grave and gets his Morphing Jar and I get the
Gorilla.
5. He plays Book of
Taiyou on his Morphing Jar.
6. He pays 800LP to
Premature Burial his DMoC and gets his Painful Choice back and plays
it.
7. He offers The
Shallow Grave, Card of Safe Return, two Book of Taiyou and Spell Reproduction. I
give him the Card of Safe Return.
8. He sets 2 S/T cards
and summons Jowgen. Uh Oh. Then he plays Dragged and picks my Enemy Controller
and I chose his Card of Safe Return.
9. He plays Pot of
Greed.
10. He plays Upstart
Goblin.
11.He plays another
Dragged. I pick his Spell Reproduction.
12. He ends his
turn.
Wow.
I finally get my first
draw. It's SoRL. I fully expect Wall/Last Turn but it doesn't happen. Whew. I
tribute my Gorilla for Mobius and destroy his set Self Destruct Button and Last
Turn. I attack Jowgen with Mobius and activate SoRL and set
Call.
He draws and does
nothing.
I tribute Mobius for
Zaborg, destroy his DMoC, Call Mobius back and attack his Jar with Mobius and
attack for another 2400 with Zaborg.
He draws, sets a S/T
and plays Reload for 2.
I my draw phase he
activates Wall of Revealing Light and Self Destruct
Button.
Well, I go to my side
deck and take out all my Bottomless, Scapegoat, Swap, EC, and one Peten and
replaced them with 2 Jammer, 2 Drain, 2 Divine Wrath, Decree and
Jinzo.
Games 2 and 3 are
pretty much like before but they don't last as long. He Walls and Self Destructs
each time.
GAME
4
He sets 2 S/T, summons
Jowgen and Reloads for two.
He activates Wall and
Last Turn in my draw phase and I lose.
GAME
5
Ok Now, I get to go
first.
I draw Jammer, Drain,
Sinister, Change, Cyber and Jinzo. Pretty good. I think I might have a chance
now. I set the Jammer, the Drain and Cyber.
He draws and sets 4
S/T. He plays Dragged and I Jam it with the Sinister. He plays Dragged again and
I Drain it and he can't discard. He sets a monster and ends his
turn.
I Change his set Cyber
Jar, tribute it for Jinzo and proceed to thrash him with
Jinzo.
He does the Thunder
Dragon trick, sets a monster and ends.
I NOC his monster and
continue to hammer him with Jinzo and I win.
GAME
6
He lost so chose to go
first. He does the Thunder Dragon trick, sets 2 S/T and ends his turn. Oh this
is good. he didn't get a "power drawing" hand. Excellent. I get a turn. All is
not lost.
I draw Horn, Berserk,
2 Assailant, Dust Tornado and get NoC. I set the Tornado, Horn and summon the
Gorilla and attack for 2000.
He draws and does
nothing. I know he doesn't have Self Destruct and Wall set because he would've
activated it then.
I draw another Gorilla
and attack with the one. I do not summon the second. No
response.
He draws and activates
Card of Safe Return and pays 800LP to activate Premature Burial and I Dust
Tornado the Premature so he doesn't get Card of Safe Return's
effect.
Next turn, I summon
the second Berserk and attack for the win.
RECORD 4
-0
FINALS
Monarchs VS
Beatdown/Control
OK, This is where the
whole report falls apart. There were a few new guys there in the shop. They had
come a couple of times before, but are not regulars. I dueled one of them in the
3rd round and now one of their members made it to the
finals.
GAME
1
I win the die roll and
chose to go first. I get 2 Zaborg, Cyber, Change, NoC and a Goat. I set the Goat
and Cyber Jar.
He NoC's my Cyber and
takes both of ours out of play. I'm glad because I know his Cyber's not going to
show up anytime soon. He sets 2 S/T cards and ends his
turn.
I draw Pot of Greed
and play it. I get Snatch and Horn of Heaven. I set the Horn and end my
turn.
He draws and I
activate Scapegoat in his draw phase. He summons Injection and I negate her
summon with the Horn. He ends his turn.
I draw a Gorilla and
summon it. He activates Bottomless. I set NoC as a bluff. This is a good duel so
far.
He plays Painful
Choice and offers DD Warrior Lady, TIV, Reaper, Serpent and a Mad Dog. I give
him the Serpent. He plays Monster Reincarnation and discards his Sinister for
TiV. He summons his TIV, discards for beast and destroys all my tokens. He
attacks for 1600 with TIV.
OK, this is where it
gets a little controversial. I use Change of Heart on his TIV and attack. He
activates Waboku and I discard for TIV's effect, calling aqua to destroy his TiV
and he says I can't do that. We have a big debate on TIV's effect. He (along
with all his buddies with him) loudly claim there has been an update to UDE's
rulings which say TiV can not destroy monsters on both sides of the field, it's
only opponent's monsters. I tell them I do not believe that is the case. They
claim UDE had just changed it. I told them I keep pretty close tabs on the
rulings, and I haven't seen anything new about TIV. They asked me when was the
last time I checked the rulings for TIV and, I had to admit, it wasn't recently
simply because this question had never come up. All of the store regulars were
saying they were wrong and they were telling us we were wrong. I told them if
they could go to the UDE web site and prove to me they were right, then I would
conceed. A couple of the 'posse', went to the computer in the front of the store
with the judge. They were gone a little while and I waited until they returned.
The judge came back and said they were right. Well, ok. I continued the duel as
if the ruling had been changed.
When I got home from
the tournament, I looked up the rulings for myself and have come to the
conclusion they bullied and intimidated the judge into making a wrong decision.
There is no new "errata" for TIV and the rulings for it state NOTHING about only
destroying monsters on your opponent's side of the field. If you were a young
man, surrounded by vehement older men pointing out some ruling someone obviously
had missinterpreted and wasn't too sure yourself, I can see where one would side
with the protestors.
Now, this could have
possibly cost me the Tournament and TIV played a factor in the second game as
well. More on that later.
He attacks with the
TIV next turn and I Snatch Steal it my next turn and he Rings it. I set my
Serpent.
He plays Confiscation
and takes out one of my Zaborg. He summons his Sinister and attacks my Sinister.
I draw a Peten, get
Sinister back, summon Peten and he Torrentials. I get another Peten to the
field.
He sets 1 S/T and ends
his turn.
I draw Premature. I
pay 800LP to get Zaborg back and this gets my LP down to 2400. I attack with
Zaborg and he activates Magic Cylinder and I kill myself.
Oh well. I don't care.
I'm not afraid of Cylinder and I won't play any differently even after I lose to
attacking into a Cylinder.
GAME
2
I go first and get
Horn, Goat, NoC, BTH, SORL and a Night Assailant. I set the BTH and the
Assailant.
He sets 3 S/T cards
and ends his turn.
I draw a Dust Tornado
and he Tornado's my BTH. I activate Swords.
He draws, sets a
monster and ends his turn.
I draw a Gorilla and
summon it. He Torrentials. That sort of sucks. It got rid of my Gorilla and set
Assailant. I regret not setting my Dust Tornado a turn earlier. I set it
now.
He Forceful's my
Change of Heart and sets another S/T card.
I draw Breaker, Dust
Tornado his Enemy Controller and summon Breaker, removing the token to get rid
of his set Cylinder. I attack for 1600.
He plays Monster
Reincarnation, discarding to get his Reflect Bounder he had set earlier and
Torrential'd. He attacks my Breaker.
I draw MST. I set it
and another Assailant.
He plays Painful
Choice. I told him that was not the card I wanted to see. He offers Magical
Scientist, Mystic Swordsman LV2, Zaborg, Exiled and Sinsiter. I give him
Sinister. He attacks my Assailant with Reflect and I destroy it.
I draw a Creature Swap
and set it.
He summons his
Sinister and attacks me with it.
I draw a Peten and set
it.
He summons a DD
Warrior Lady and hits my Peten, removing both from play. He attacks me with
Sinister.
I draw Change of
Heart.
He attacks with the
Serpent.
I draw Snatch
Steal.
He attacks with the
Serpent.
This is getting
ridiculous. A monster would be nice. I draw Enemy
Controller.
He summons Breaker and
removes the token to destroy my EC, which I activate. He attacks me with the
Serpent. ARGH!
I draw another Enemy
Controller. I'm beginning to wonder if I have any monsters in the deck! I set
the EC.
He tributes Sinister
and Breaker for DMoC. Whoops, I wasn't expecting that! He gets his Monster
Reincarnation back. I use EC to turn his DMoC to defense. He attacks with the
Serpent.
Ok. Here's where it
gets screwy with the TiV thing again. I draw TiV, Change of Heart his DMoC and
discard for spellcaster and he doesn't blink an eye. I end my
turn.
Right after I end my
turn, one of his friends said I couldn't have discarded for the DMoC because of
the new supposed "ruling" on the TIV. Then I remembered I never declared an
attack with the TIV. All this is distracting me from the duel and I am now
making mental errors. I start getting sloppy and start making stupid mistakes.
He doesn't seem to care I got rid of his DMoC with TiV this time. I thinkhis
hand must have been strong and didn't care. Seems to me, if he was all fired up
about TIV earlier, why wasn't he now? I think they all cheat.
Later, he uses Change
of Heart on my Fiber Jar and tributes it for Jinzo. By that time, it was too
late for me and I end up losing.
That's how the finals
went down. We still hung out afterwards and I dueled a whole lot more with other
decks. I didn't really think too much about the TIV thing. I trusted the judge
and I guess I will live and learn. The guy I lost to in the Finals said he had
only ever come here two times and won the tournament both times. I see how now.
By cheating.
I still had a great
time and second is still good, so I'm happy!
Until next time, happy
dueling!!!
RegnR8
darelliott@aol.com