Welcome to another installment of RegnR8's tournament report. I hope this writing finds you all healthy and happy! Since I am combining two tournaments into one report, it's going to be a little shorter and less detailed.

Today, we attended two tournaments and utilized the same deck at both. Last week, I tweaked this deck with some help from one of my friends, and it really worked well. I made a couple of mistakes in a few duels, as usual, but managed to come out unscathed for the most part. It's kind of tricky and it presents me with a lot of options at times and I have to really consider what I want to do. It's a beautiful thing to have to really think about what you want to do instead of playing with a deck every one else uses. Warrior (cough).

x2 Zaborg the Thunder Monarch
x2 Mobius the Frost Monarch
x3 Night Assailant
x3 Peten
x1 Sinister
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
x1 Card Destruction
x2 Creature Swap
x1 Painful Choice
x1 Heavy Storm
x1 MST

x1 Dust Tornado
x2 Bottomless Trap Hole
x2 Horn of Heaven
x1 Magic Jammer
x1 Call of the Haunted
x1 Hallowed Life Barrier

The side deck is under construction but has some Mystic Tomato, Gilasarus, NoC's and some other stuff. It's not really that inportant right now. I have 32 cards I am considering for the side deck and just picked 15 for today.

The whole key to this deck is the special summoning of Peten, discarding with Peten or Night Assaint, Creature Swapping tokens and using Horn of Heaven to negate summons. Enemy Controller, Change of Heart and Snatch Steal round out more monster control. Notice there is no Jinzo in the deck and only a few M/T removal cards. I use the Mobius to get rid of their set cards. Any way, I discovered that M/T removal was a little lacking in the deck, even with the Mobius.

The three cards that really worked for me today were Horn of Heaven, Bottomless Trap Hole and Enemy Controller. I managed to Bottomless a whole bunch of my opponents monsters after a Cyber Jar flip, TWICE! That was golden! I also use Bottomless to get rid of BLS, Horn of Heaven to negate Jinzo a couple of times and negated a few other summons that could have hurt me! Enemy Controller let me take control of their monster, or tribute a Peten or token to destroy a monster. Sweet.

Sports Cards and Collectibles
Fayetteville, Ga.
$5.00 to enter and you get a pack. I pulled my third Hallowed Life Barrier. Hooray!
Advanced Format
Swiss
About 18 people showed up. Small crowd.
3 Packs for winning.
2 packs for first loser
nothing for third chump lol

We got there close to 11AM and had to wait for about an hour before the store opened. Forgotten keys were the culprit. I had already had one large French Vanilla Coffee with cream and sugar before we got to the store, and was working on my second cup when we started the tournament. I was buzzing!

Well, well, what a surprise a warrior deck. This is quickly becoming boring playing against warrior deck after warrior deck, It's stupid and I am tired of it.

He gets The Fiend Megacyber out when I have a face down Peten and a face up Berserk Gorilla on the field. He equips it with Mage Power and attacks my Gorilla. Next turn, I draw Creature Swap, tribute my Peten for Mobius, destroy his Mage Power and other set card, remove Peten to summon another one in face up attack, then Creature Swap it with his Fiend Megacyber and attack! SWEET!

This game went back and forth for a long time. He activated Solemn Judgment on his second turn to negate a Creature Swap. He played a Hero emerges and I drew his Dark Magician! What!? I had Horn of Heaven set and negated it but, that was freaky! He compulsory evacuated a couple of times but it was too little too late and He was stalling and I over powered him.

The Night Assailant really comes through for me this game, taking out his Jinzo. TIV works well when he Call's Jinzo back. We Snatch Steal each others cards a few times. He takes one of my Gorilla's and I Dust Tornado it next turn in my main phase after gaining 1000LP. Ha. That was funny. It was 4900 - 3000 when he start top decking while I have Breaker at 1600ATK and TIV in the field. He sets the M/T card he drew and next turn I attack and it's a set Card Destruction and I win.

Creature Swap ROCKS. He got Jinzo out and attacked my Peten. I removed him from play to special summon another one. I Creature Swap my attack position Peten with his Jinzo, sunnon a Berserk Gorilla and attack. That's nice. He got BLS out. That's not nice. I Prematured something to tribute for Zaborg, I destroy BLS, then attack Jinzo but, it's too late. I was at 1400 and he had a TIV left on the field and I lose.

Late in the game, his SoRL saved him for a couple of turns until I tribute for Mobius and attack. He summons Reflect Bounder on his next turn but, I Snatch Steal it, summon a Berserk Gorilla and attack with all three for the win.

Hooray, the semi finals! The Monarchs did well! This round I have to play someone I have never dueled before. He said he wanted to duel me today and he got his wish. He runs a "cookie cutter" "me too" warrior (yawn) deck, carries around all the rulings he's printed off the internet in a three ring binder, and is very quick to point out what he thinks is wrong with the rulings and knows every ruling and knows everything about everything and I know this is a run on sentence but, I don't care. So there.

OK. I hate people who have an attitude when they duel. It really bugs me because it takes all the fun out of it. This guy never actually said anything, it was the way he played his cards that really ticked me off. He would never say anything like "I'll MST your face down card". He would simply slap the MST down on the table and push it at you, not saying anything. His body language says, "I have an MST and you suck, loser."

He NoC's my Night Assailant when he slams the card onto my Assailant. That really hurt. Then he gets Jinzo out. I don;t really draw anything terribly helpful except for a Scapegoat which only slows the bleeding a little and I lose the first game.

This game went in my favor and it was over in a hurry. My Enemy Controller worked brilliantly and Horn of Heaven blew off every monster he'd summon. I could tell he was getting mad. You know, you just feel the heat coming from their collar when you counter everything they do and frustrate what they think is the "greatest deck ever in the whole, wide world of Yugioh!"

Well, I side deck some stuff just for the heck of it. Since it's a warrior deck, I put in some Tomato to maybe thin my deck out faster and get some Peten's on the field and in the graveyard. I also put in RoD and Torrential to help slow down the summoning.

I pretty much got my butt kicked. I top deck a Premature Burial with 500LP left. He slapped down cards and pushed cards at me and snapped cards from his deck and I told him I didn't like his attitude. I told him I did not mind losing but, I do mind losing to someone who plays with an attitude and I didn't think he was that good of a player anyway.

Newnan Sports Cards
Newnan, Ga.
Free to play
Advanced Format
Single Elimination
Winner gets 3 packs and 2 Hobby League Cards (Hooray for Greenkappa)
2nd place gets 2 packs and 1 Hobby League Card
3rd place gets 1 pack and 1 Hobby League Card
23 people today.

Having 23 people really messes up a schedule. A couple of people had byes and we had to load one side of the brackets with more people. I ended up on the heavy side, so, I'd have to duel more than the person on the other side to get to the finals.

Enemy Controller and Horn of Heaven really work well for me this game, getting rid of monsters and frustrating my opponent to no end. Zaborg destroys his Fiber Jar and, after my Fiber flip when he is at 1400, I summon Breaker to attack an open field for the win.

Creature Swap wins the game for me when I Swap a Peten for his monster, then tribute his monster for Mobius, destroying his two M/T cards and then I attack my own Peten for the win.

I had to play my daughter and she gave me the win. I wanted her to duel but she said I would have won anyway. I told her she had as good a chance of winning as I did and she should duel, but she insisted and I took the win.

I chose to go first and get PoG in my opening hand. That's always a good thing. I set Bottomless Trap Hole and Peten, ending my turn. He Change of Heart's my Peten, then summons Breaker and I Bottomless Trap Hole him. He plays Painful Choice, offers me some light and dark monsters along with BLS and I give him BLS because I have Creature Swap and Painful Choice in my hand. I want him to bring out BLS so I can take him next turn. He summons BLS and attacks me for 3500. My Peten returns to me at the end of the turn.

I play Painful Choice, pick some monsters (TIV and Sinister Serpent among them), and he gives me the Serpent. I Creature Swap his BLS and remove it from play. I love that. Somehow, I managed to stay alive and get him down pretty far. I Call of the Haunted my TIV back, call Warrior and get rid of everything he has on the field in one fell swoop and he can't recover after that.

Snatch Steal hurt me becasue he kept gaining life and I kept losing it. I hit his Cyber Jar when I had 100LP left and he had 11,000LP and I was doomed.

He Snatch Steals my Gorilla and tributes it for his own Mobius, destroying my Hallowed Life Barrier which I activate and discard Sinister Serpent for. He sets one M/T and ends his turn.

I get my Sinster back, summon it in attack position and activate Creature Swap. I take his Mobius and attack my Sinister. Ouch. That's fun.

He activates Reinforcments of the Army and gets Exiled Force. He Change of Heart's his Mobius, summons Exiled, attacks with both and then tributes Exiled to get rid of his own Mobius. Then he Premature Burialed his Mobius and was top decking.

I Snatch Steal his Mobius attack. He top decks a Royal Decree and sets it. I attack anyway and we joke how his 150$ Royal Decre is useless.

These duels were extremely intense. They were so intense and I had to think so much, I stopped taking notes because I could not be distracted. I managed to get Cyber Jar and a Bottomless Trap Hole on my opening hand both games and I was able to BTH all his face up monsters after the Cyber flip TWICE! Once it was an Archfiend Soldier and the other time it was 2 GAF's. Mobius and Zaborg play a big part and I win both duels. They were very, very close.

This is interesting. I have to play against another of my own decks in the finals. I loaned a deck to a friend of mine to use and I end up playing against it. I come in first and second today no matter what happens in the finals! Yeah!

Ouch. That's all I have to say about that. I think I got murdered in like, two or three turns. It was ugly.

All I have to say is I build some pretty good decks. Yes, the Monarchs came out on top in the end, but my beatdown deck game me some problems. He kept using Fissure to get rid of everything I would bring out and I kept saying, "Who's the idiot that put those Fissures in there?" Ha.

OK. Horray. I win the tournament by beating one of my own decks, so I come in First and Second. I get all the packs and stuff and don't get anything but a Null and Void, all the rest were regular rares BUT I did get my third Greenkappa!

So, we hang out a little bit for the Yu Yu Hakusho tournament. I wanted to get home early so, we didn't stay as late as usual. Got home and hit the sack because I was really tired.