Sports Cards and Collectibles
Fayetteville, Ga
$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
20 - 25 people today

Welcome to this week's edition of the Tournament Report! I didn't feel like taking too many notes today so, this is going to be a little shorter than my other reports.

I made a few changes to the deck and side deck today, just to try out a card. Share the Pain. I figured I could use it with Peten just to get his effect a little quicker, plus I thought it might be another way to get rid of my opponents monsters. Neat. It worked a couple of times so, I think I'm going to keep it in. It's a little unexpected, and I am all about trying new and unexpected things, especially in the Advanced Format.

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 Share the Pain
x1 Call of the Haunted

SIDE DECK
x3 Kinetic Soldier
x1 Share The Pain
x1 NoE
x1 Scapegoat
x1 Magic Cylinder
x1 Magic Drain
x2 Magic Jammer
x1 RoD
x1 Raigeki Break
x1 Book of Moon
x1 Enemy Controller
x1 Jinzo

He attacks my Fiber Jar after he summoned. I attack him with my Gorilla next turn. The turn after that, I tribute the Gorilla for Mobius, destroying his 2 S/T cards and then Premature my Gorilla and attack. He can't recover after that, and I win the first game easily.

I summon TiV and get rid of his Jinzo. I have Fiber and Cyber in my hand but I don't want to set it. I attack him a couple of times with TiV while setting a Night Assailant. He finally sets a monster card and I flip up the Night Assailant, getting rid of his Cyber Jar. I have a Horn of Heaven set and when he special summons BLS, I activate it, getting rid of that big warrior type and win on the next turn.

He gets Jowgen, Last Turn and Wall of Reavealing Light on me his second turn and I lose.

I side deck ten cards to try to stop him. Well, it didn't help. He played PoG and I Magic Drained it, but he discarded for it. He summons Jowgen and I RoD it, only to have him Premature Burial him and do the Wall/Last Turn thing in my draw phase.

That was ugly. I was sort of ticked off but, it is Swiss Format and if the stupid Mantis software doesn't drop me becasue I am 1-1, I still have a chance.

Well, Mantis is STILL stupid because I have to duel the Last Turn deck AGAIN! That is SO wrong.

Well, this went better for me, I NoC'd his Cyber, negated a couple of summons with Horn and managed to get Mobius on the field to destroy his S/T cards and I win.

I side deck a whole bunch of cards again. It was a long duel and I played VERY carefully, saving my Horn of Heaven and stuff for the right moment and it pays off. I win.

I've dueled this gentleman numerous times, and he has never beaten me. Today was no exception. Too easy.

I've dueled this deck quite a few times, but never with my Mobius deck. It's a fairly straight forward "cookie cutter" Chaos Control deck. Very predictable.

I win the die roll and chose to go first. I get Night Assailant, Mobius, Zaborg, NoC, Change of Heart and Enemy Controller. I set the Night Assailant and Enemy Controller

He activates Painful Choice. Urp....He offers Sinister, DD Warrior Lady, Shining Angel, DMoC and Waboku. I give him Sinister (of course). I have NoC, Change and Mobius and Zaborg, so, I'm good if he sets the Sinister. He sets a monster and some S/T cards.

I draw and he activates Drop Off, dumping my Creature Swap. Big deal. I activate NoC and he chains a Magic Drain. Well, I have Change of Heart in my hand so, I do not discard for the Drain and Change his monster card. It's the Serpent. This indicates to me, he has nothing in his hand. I tribute it for Mobius and attack.

He summons TIV and discards for Aqua, destroying both our cards. I've noticed the majority of people will sacrifice
there own TIV, just to get rid my Mobius. Ha. I like it.

Well, a little later in the duel, I tribute a Night Assailant for Zaborg and destroy his Cyber Jar.

He summons Reflect Bounder and I use Enemy Controller to take it next turn, sending my Zaborg to the graveyard for Enemy Controller's effect. I summon Berserk and attack with his own Reflect Bounder and my Gorilla for the win. 8000 - 0. Good job.

He goes first and I get Fiber Jar, Bottomless Trap Hole, MST, NoC and Scapegoat. Not too good.

I draw and he activates Drop Off on my Enemy Controller. That sort of stinks. Oh well, I must carry on. I NoC his Spirit Reaper (YES) and set Fiber Jar, BTH and Scapegoat.

He activates Painful Choice. RGH! He offers me Don Zaloog, Jinzo, DD Warrior Lady, Shining Angel and a Mystic Tomato. DD is the only one I can Bottomless, so I give her to him. He summons DD Warrior Lady and I Bottomless Trap Hole her. That was a good call!

I draw PoG and, just for the heck of it, play it and get nothing useable so I flip Fiber Jar. I get PoG (again), Creature Swap, Gorilla, Night Assailant and Change of Heart. I activate PoG and get Call of the Haunted and NoC. I summon the Gorilla and attack him directly for 2000LP damage. I set the Call and end my turn.

He summons TIV and discards for beast, then attacks for 1600. I take the damage because I do not want to Call the Gorilla back while it's his turn.

I activate Change of Heart on his TIV and he activates Magic Drain. I want his TIV so, I discard an Enemy Controller. I call my Gorilla back, and attack with both, then discard a Night Assailant to destroy his TIV. I love that.

I only have one card in my hand and it's NoC. He top decks The Forceful Senty and gets rid of my NoC! Dang! He sets a monster.

It's 6200 - 2400, my favor, when I attack his monster with my Gorillla. It's Fiber Jar. Man, that NoC would've come in very handy!
I didn't summon because I was afraid of his set monster card and it was good that I didn't. I get Night Assailant, Mobius, Sinister, Scapegoat and Premature Burial. I set the Night Assailant and Scapegoat.

He Forceful's my Mobius back to my deck and activates Change of Heart on my Night Assailant and attacks me for a whopping 200LP damage. He sets 4 S/T cards and ends his turn. He's got NOTHING!

I draw and he activates Drop Off on my Fiber Jar. That sucks. Oh well. He Dust Tornado's my Scapegoat, which I activate. Heh heh. I attack him with my Night Assailant. I set Premature Burial as a bluff.

We both keep drawing pretty much nothing. At least I can keep attacking him for 200LP damage with my Assailant. Haha.

He keeps getting nothing and I keep attacking him for 200LP. It's 6200 - 1800 now. My Night Assailant is kicking butt and taking names!

Well, he top decks a Snatch Steal, tributes my Assailant for Jinzo and starts attacking my tokens.

What an amazing turn of events! I draw Snatch Steal and snatch his Jinzo and attack for the win!

The Monarchs come through for me again this week. I am liking this deck a good bit! I did manage to use the Share the Pain a couple of times and it worked out better than I thought. Peten wasn't that big of a factor this week, but they did stall a little for me.

I chose three packs of AST, because I am looking for more Enemy Controller. I want to build another deck with Needle Burrower, KA-2 Des Scissors and trample, or maybe revise my Panda Deck. I didn't get any, but I did pull my 4th Amplifier. Not too bad.

I did manage to trade a first edition End of Anubis, an Ectoplasmer and $40 for a Royal Decree. I had to pay my "broker" an additional $10 for helping seal the deal, but it was still worth it. I wanted the Decree to use in my Traditional format Horus deck, which I will be using tomorrow at another tournamet. Be sure to look for that Tournament Report!