RegnR8's Absolute Rule
of the Monarchs
Tournament Report for January 22,
2005
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Around 24 people
today. It was pretty crowded.
Hi
all,
Welcome to this weeks
tournament report! I hope this writing finds you well and
winning!
Last week, I took the
Monarch deck to Regionals and did fairly well. I was really impressed with the
way Metamorphosis worked in the deck so, I decided to change the deck to assist
the Metamorphosis. Well, I changed it a little too much and the deck just didn't
"feel" right when I playtested it. I think I swung the deck a little to far in a
direction I did not want it to go, so I scaled back and switched up a few cards
to bring it back more to center. Bryu12 suggested the addition of a Twin Headed
Behemoth and I decided to try it out. It worked well enough during play testing
to keep it in the deck for the tournament. Thanks Bryu! I went from Enemy
Controller to Book of Moon and then back again. Since I added a third Scapegoat,
and having 5 tributes in the deck, I felt the E.C. would serve me better. They
did. I hated dropping my NoC to 2, but I had to find room
somewhere.
Absolute Rule of the
Monarchs
x3 Nimble
Momonga
x3 Berserk Gorilla
x2 Mobius the Frost Monarch
x2 Zaborg the
Thunder Monarch
x1 Thestalos the Fire Monarch
x1 Tribe Infecting
Virus
x1 Sinister Serpent
x1 Breaker the Magical Warrior
x1 Morphing
Jar
x1 Twin Headed Behemoth
x1 Fiber Jar
x1 Magical
Scientist
x3 Scapegoat
x2
Creature Swap
x2 Metamorphosis
x2 Enemy Controller
x1 Nobleman of
Crossout
x1 Pot of Greed
x1 Change of Heart
x1 Snatch Steal
x1
Swords of Revealing Light
x1 Heavy Storm
x1 Mystical Space Typhoon
x1
Painful Choice
x1 Premature Burial
x1 The Forceful
Sentry
x2 Bottomless Trap
Hole
x1 Ring of Destruction
x1 Call of the
Haunted
SIDE
DECK:
x3 Kinetic
Soldier
x3 King Tiger Wanghu
x2 Magic Drain
x2 Magic Jammer
x1
Jinzo
x1 Torrential Tribute
x1 Divine Wrath
x1 Giant Trunade
x1
Royal Decree
I got the large French
Vanilla with cream and sugar from Dunkin' Donuts and settled down for a nice day
of dueling delights!
ROUND 1
MONARCHS VS
RELINQUISHED/GBIND/RFS DECK
This guys deck is
great! I love playing against it because it is challenging and very atypical. He
took it to regionals last week and didn't finish with a winning record and I was
disappointed to hear that, because the deck is better than that!
GAME
1
I win the die roll and
go first. I get 2 Gorilla, Bottomless, Enemy Controller, Heavy Storm and Call of
the Haunted. Bleh. It's ok, I guess. I set the Bottomless and summon the
Gorilla.
He plays Pot of Greed,
sets 3 S/T and a monster. Hmmm. A Nobelman of Crossout would be
good.
I draw Change of
Heart. Well, that's pretty good. I play Heavy Storm and he chains his Ceasfire
and I take 1000Lp damage when his face down Exiled Force flips up. That's pretty
good. This indicates he doesn't have any strong monsters to lead off with. I set
Call of the Haunted, summon a second Gorilla and attack his Exiled, then
directly for 2000LP.
He activates Swords,
sets one more S/T and ends his turn.
I draw MST and get rid
of Swords. I attack with both Gorillas for 4000LP. He has 2000LP
left.
He draws and sets a
monster.
I play Change of Heart
on his set Fiber Jar and attack with a Gorilla for the
win.
That went
smoothly.
I go to my side deck
and replace my Nimbles, Forceful and one Scapegoat for three King Tigers and 2
Magic Drain.
GAME
2
He goes first and
plays Pot, sets a monster and ends his turn.
I get Fiber Jar, 2
Swap, Enemy Controller, Zaborg and Call. My first instinct is to summon the
Fiber Jar and Swap it with his set monster, but I do not. I set Fiber and Call
of the Haunted instead.
He activates Change of
Heart on my Fiber, tributes it for Jinzo, flips up his set DD Warrior Lady and
attacks. I take 3900LP damage. Ouch. I should have Swapped it
instead.
I draw Scapegoat. Ok,
this'll work, but I mess it up. I was so excited, I didn't think through my
actions carefully enough and screw it up. Oh well. I activate Scapegoat and
Creature Swap. He chooses DD Warrior Lady. I activate Creature Swap again and
forgot he had my token, so he gives me his token back for my token. DOH! A Homer
moment! Crap, that was dumb. LoL. I attack his Jinzo with DD, take the damage
and remove both from play. Help, help, I am losing! It's 8000 - 3000. I should
have Swapped his DD, attacked the token, then Swapped for Jinzo. I set the E.C.
and end my turn.
He summons a Raging
Flame Sprite and attacks me. Ulp. Hmm. This isn't too
good.
I draw another
Scapegoat and set it. I use Enemy Controller to take his RFS, tribute it for
Zaborg and attack into a Cylinder! GARGH!!! Now I am at
500LP!
He Calls his Sprite
back, summons TiV, discards for beast and thunder, killing off my tokens and
Zaborg. He attacks with the Sprite and I take the 100LP damage. When he attacks
with TiV, I activate Scapegoat and he doesn't discard
again.
I draw a King Tiger
and it's too late. Whatever I do he will kill me next turn and win so, I
conceed. I messed that one up.
GAME
3
I go first and get
Bottomless, Painful Choice, Zaborg, Morphing Jar, Enemy Controller and Premature
Burial. I play Painful Choice and offer him Scapegoat, Tiger, Sinister,
Thestalos and Zaborg. He gives me the Serpent. I Premature Burial the Tiger, set
the Bottomless, Enemy Controller and Morphing
Jar.
He sets 2 S/T and
plays Card Destruction. I get Magical Scientist and a Gorilla. He summons Tribe
and I Bottomless it, but he discards for beast, killing off my Tiger. He knows
that card can hurt him really badly! He activates
Swords.
I draw something I
didn't need, flip the Morphing Jar and get Nobleman of Crossout, Tiger, Magic
Drain, Metamorphosis and Snatch Steal. I summon the Tiger and set Magic
Drain.
He sets one S/T and a
monster.
I draw Heavy Storm. I
NoC his Raging Flame Sprite and know the Tiger is taking it's toll on him. I
play Heavy Storm and he activates Waboku. I set Metamorphosis and end my turn.
He sets a
monster.
I draw Creature Swap.
I Swap my Morphing Jar for his set Sinister. I tribute it for Mobius and I
attack with the Tiger. When I attack with Mobius, he Kuribohs it. Grrr. Stupid
Kuriboh.
He top decks Painful
Choice and plays it. Another Homer moment. I forgot I had Magic Drain set. Too
late. He offers me Cyber, Fiber, Snatch, DD Warrior Lady and Ring. I give him DD
Warrior Lady, assuming he'd set it. I assumed wrong. He summoned the DD and
attacked my Tiger with it, taking damage and removing it from play. He wants to
get rid of that Tiger in any way, shape or
form.
I draw TiV, set
Sinister and attack with Mobius for 2400LP damage.
I'm winning 7200 -
4400 when he summons a White Magician Pikeru and attacks my set Serpent. I think
he hoped it was Fiber or Cyber Jar. Ha. He sets one
S/T.
I draw a Tiger, attack
his Pikeru with Mobius to see if he was going to activate his trap card. He
doesn't respond and I summon the Tiger in my Main Phase 2.
He sets a
monster.
I attack his face down
with Mobius, thinking it may be another DD Warrior Lady. I do not care if he
removes the Mobius, I want the Tiger to remain on the field. His face down is
another Sprite. I attack him for 1700 with the
Tiger.
He sets a monster and
one S/T.
I draw another Magic
Drain and set it. I summon Breaker, remove it's token to destroy his set card.
It was a Scapegoat, which he activats, but all of the tokens are immediatley
destroyed by the Tiger's effect! Evil laughter. I attack his face down monster
with Breaker, then attack with Mobius and the Tiger for the
match.
RECORD 1 -
0
Good deal! The Tigers
worked great again!
ROUND
2
MONARCHS VS CHAOS/RFG
DECK
This deck utilizes
remove from play mechanics coupled with Dimension Fusion and Return from a
Different Dimesion and can swarm pretty big time with some high attackers. I'm
pretty sure I may need to side deck if I lose the first
duel.
GAME
1
I win the die roll and
go first. I get Bottomless, Metamorphosis, Nimble, Forceful, Zaborg and another
Nimble. I Forceful his Enemy Controller back to his deck because it's the only
card that could hurt me. He had Vampire Lord and DMoC as his only monsters. I
set the Nimble and the Bottomless.
He sets 2
S/T.
I draw a Twin Headed
Behemoth, summon it, flip up my Nimble and attack with
both.
He Snatch's my Nimble
and tributes it for Vampire Lord and I Bottomless it. He AIN'T coming back! He
sets another S/T and ends his turn.
I draw Painful Choice
and offer Mobius, Sinister, Heavy Storm, Enemy Controller and Scapegoat. He
gives me the Serpent and I set it, the Metamorphosis as a bluff, and attack with
the Twin Head and he takes it. I'm slowly killing him.
He activates Ceasefire
and I take 1000Lp damage and that's all he can do. He sets a
S/T.
I summon a Nimble and
attack with it and the Twin Head. He Rings and Barrels the Twin Head so, I take
3000LP damage. Big woop.
I attack with the Nimble, get the Twin Head back and
end my turn.
He sets a
monster.
I Morph my set
Sinister into TER, suck up his set Fiber Jar, tribute my Twin Head for Zaborg
and destroy my own TER and attack for the win. Ooohhhh, ahhhhhh, that was a nice
move.
GAME
2
I side deck 2 Drain
for Goat and Enemy Controller.
He sets one S/T and
one monster.
I get Gorilla,
Sinister, Twin Head, Morphing Jar, Pot and Mobius. I play PoG and get a
Scapegoat and Painful Choice. I play Painful and offer him Metamorphosis, Change
of Heart, NoC, Swap and Swords. He gives me the Metamorphosis. I summon the
Sinister, activate Metamorphosis and he Torrentials his Peten and gets another
to the field. Hmmm. OK. I set the Goat and end my
turn.
He tributes his Peten
for Jinzo, sets one S/T and attacks a token after I activate my
Scapegoat.
I draw Snatch Steal,
summon Twin Head and Snatch his Jinzo. I attack with the Behemoth and he uses
Enemy Controller on Jinzo to turn him to defense
position.
He sets one S/T and
Reload for two cards. He plays Painful Choice and offers me MST, Heavy Storm,
Card Destruction, Swords and TiV. I have total hand advantage and so I give him
Tribe. He summons it, attacks his own Jinzo, then discards for beast destroying
my tokens but he doesn't have any cards to discard to get rid of the
Behemoth.
I tribute my Behemoth
for Mobius and destroy his set Trap of Board Eraser (? That's a side deck card
for sure). I attack his TiV with Mobius.
He draws and ends his
turn.
I draw Call of the
Haunted, set it and summon a Gorilla and attack him with both. It's 8000 -
2300. Yeah, I got this match pretty well in
hand.
He draws and starts
looking through his graveyard and I know he's looking for Light and Darks but he
doesn't have any Lights in the graveyard. He says, "I only have Darks in the
graveyard." Confirmation of BLS in his hand. He uses Change of Heart on my
Gorilla and turns it to defense because that's all he can do.
I attack him with
Mobius next turn for the match.
RECORD 2 -
0
ROUND 3
MONARCHS VS
INVISIBLE DECK
The guy left. He was
so scared to face me, he ran away. Hahaha! Just kidding. Nobody knew where he
was so, I won.
RECORD 3 -
0
SEMI-FINALS
MONARCHS
VS CHAOS
GAME
1
I lose the die roll
and go second. He sets 2 S/T, summons Kycoo and ends his
turn.
I get Swap, Change of
Heart, NoC, Scientist, Premature and a Goat. Crappy at best. I activate the
Goat, Swap a token for his Kycoo and attack the token. I set the Premature
Burial as a bluff.
He draws and discards
a Thunder Dragon to get two more to his hand. He plays Giant Trunade, Changes
his Kycoo and tributes it for a Thunder Dragon. He plays Monster Reincarnation
and discards a Thunder Dragon to get his Kycoo back. He attacks a
token.
I draw Fiber Jar, set
it and set the Premature Burial as a bluff
again.
He activates Scapegoat
and tries to activate Metamorphosis but, I remind him he can not summon or
special summon the same turn Scapegoat is activated. He attacks my Fiber Jar
with the Thunder Dragon. After the Fiber flip, he sets 1 S/T and ends his
turn.
I forgot to write down
what I got in the Fiber flip. Oh well, I draw Bottomless and set it and a
Scapegoat.
He draws, discards a
Thunder Dragon to get two more, and ends his
turn.
I draw and end my
turn. Well, I can safely say, I didn't draw any monsters after the Fiber
flip.
He draws, sets one S/T
and ends.
I draw Ring and set
it.
He draws and plays
Painful Choice. He offers me Scientist, 2 Kycoo, DMoC and BLS. I give him the
DMoC. He ends his turn.
Neither of us have any
monsters we can get on the field!
I draw a Nimble!
Hooray! A monster! I summon the Nimble and ATTACK! Go Nimble! He activates
Scapegoat. Pooey. I hit a token.
He plays Giant Trunade
and I go ahead and activate my Scapegoat. He uses Enemy Controller to take my
Nimble and tributes it for Jinzo. Awww, my poor Nimble. He attacks a
token.
I draw a Bottomless,
set it and Metamorphosis a token into TER. I take his Jinzo and attack a token.
Heh. I set the Ring again.
He uses another Enemy
Controller and takes my TER and tributes it for a Thunder Dragon. Hah. This is
really a fun duel! He plays Pot of Greed, sets 2 S/T and attacks. I Ring the
Dragon for 1600LP damage each. I want my tokens on the field.
I draw, set Call of
the Haunted and summon a Gorilla which he promtly Rings. I end my
turn.
He summons Breaker and
I Bottomless Trap Hole him.
I draw a Gorilla,
summon him and attack. He activates another Scapegoat. Grr....I attack a token
and end my turn.
He sets a
S/T.
I draw Painful Choice
and offer him Zaborg, Breaker, Scientist, TiV and a Nimble. He gives me the
Nimble. I call TiV back, discard for beast and attack. He activates another
Scapegoat and I go ahead and discard again and attack him. Whew. That's all
three of his Scapegoat gone now. I activate
Swords.
He plays Monster
Reincarnation, discards his DMoC to get BLS from the graveyard, special summons
BLS and removes my TiV from play. He plays Card Destruction and I get Change of
Heart!
I Change of Heart his
BLS my turn and attack him for 3000LP and the
game.
I side deck in 2 Magic
Drain for one Scapegoat and Enemy Controller.
GAME
2
He goes first, sets 2
S/T and one face down monster.
I get Goat,
Bottomless, Painful, Breaker, Scientist and a Gorilla. I offer him Heavy Storm,
Swap, NoC, Swords and Change of Heart with Painful Choice. He gives me Swords. I
activate it and his DD Warrior Lady flips up. I summon the Scientist, pay 1000LP
to get TER and suck up his DD and set a Goat and end my
turn.
He plays Giant
Trunade. Uh oh, this might hurt. I chain my Scapegoat. He summons Exiled and
attacks my Scientist and sets one S/T. Ok, well, that didn't hurt that much. It
could have been a lot worse!
I draw another Goat. I
summon Breaker and remove the token to get rid of his Enemy Controller, which he
activates. Pooey. I activate Swords and end my
turn.
He tributes Exiled to
get rid of my Breaker and sets another
monster.
I summon a Gorilla and
attack his face down. It's a DD Warrior Lady. He removes them from play. I
thought it was Fiber or Cyber. Oh well. I set Bottomless and end my
turn.
He draws and sets
another monster. Dang it.
I draw a
Metamorphosis. Tribute a token for TER and take his face down Spirit
Reaper.
The game totally
stalls from this point on. With TER on the field, we both just draw and end our
turn a lot. I tribute a NImble for Mobius to get rid of Swords and another set
card but it's Ring and we both take the 2400LP damage.
He plays Giant Trunade
and Morphs one of his own tokens into TER to take my TER. Hahahah.
I'm forced to
Premature my Scientist and pay another 1000LP to suck up his face down monster.
I'm afraid it's one of the jars but it isn't. It's a Kycoo. I'm getting low on
LP and can't afford to waste it on more
summons.
He sets another
monster.
I don't want to waste
any more LP so, I end my turn.
When he ends his turn,
I know the face down monster is not a jar or any flip effect monster or he would
have probably done it last turn. I have some monsters on the field and tribute
my Behemoth for Thestalos. He has three cards in his hand and I take out Monster
Reincarnation. Oh well. The little extra damage from Thestalos is nice, but he's
in the deck for his hand disruption capabilities, not his burn
effect.
He ends his turn.
TER has us both locked
from attacking. I'm hoping for Zaborg now. I draw a MST and set
it.
He ends his
turn.
I draw Zaborg.
Finally. I MST his set Magic Cylinder. I tribute my Scientist for Zaborg and
destroy his TER. I attack his face down Kycoo and a
token.
He sets a monster.
Crap. He has a face down monster and two tokens on the
field.
I draw Creature Swap
and am not going to make the same mistake I made earlier in the day. I attack
his last two tokens with Zaborg and the Behemoth. I Creature Swap my token for
his set Spirit Reaper. OK. I did that one
right!
He plays Painful
Choice. I have a Magic Drain set, but I let him do the Painful Choice. I also
have Bottomless set, so I hope I can get rid of whatever he brings out. He
offers me Magical Scientist, DMoC, BLS, Jinzo and Metamorphosis. I give him the
DMoC. He activates Premature Burial and I Drain it. He choses not to do discard
for the Premature but has to pay the 800LP anyway. He plays Monster
Reincarnation and discards the DMoC for the BLS. He special summons BLS and I
Bottomless Trap Hole him.
I use Enemy Controller
to take his token, flip up the Reaper hoping to attack his LP directly, and he
activates Scapegoat. Gr...I attack a couple of tokens and set my own Scapegoat
and Call of the Haunted.
He summons TiV,
discards for thunder, destroying my Zaborg and attacks the face up Reaper.
I summon a Nimble,
Call Zaborg back, attack the remaining tokens with the Reaper and the Nimble and
attack TiV with Zaborg.
He draws a
Metamorphosis and conceeds. Whew. That was
fun!
RECORD 4 -
0
FINALS
MONARCHS VS
WARRIOR/CHAOS
This is my deck I am
playing against. I loaned it to someone to use today and it made it into the
finals. heh. I'd hate to lose to it though. The only NON-Warrior monster in the
deck is Jinzo, so I'm pretty happy with the deck. It doesn't rely on Kycoo,
Angels, Tomatos, Breaker, Tribe, Cyber, Fiber or any of those non-warrior types.
It is pure swarm and beatdown and it works pretty well. I just don't like to
play with it. Yes, it does have the dreaded Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the
Beginning in it.
GAME
1
He wins the die roll
and choses to go first. He plays Pot, summons Don Zaloog, sets a S/T and
ends.
I get Behemoth,
Forceful, Swap, Swords, Zaborg and TiV. I play Forceful and he's holding three
The Warrior Returning Alive, Call of the Haunted and Premature Burial! WOAH!
That's about the suckiest hand I've seen in a while. I put the Call back in the
deck because with Premature, at least he'd have to pay 800LP.
HAHA.
I summon Behemoth and
he Bottomless Trap Holes it. Grrr. I activate Swords and end my turn. Unless he
pulls Heavy or MST or Trunade, I'm safe.
He summons a Blade
Knight and ends his turn.
I draw a Bottomless
and set it. I summon TiV, discard my Zaborg for warrior and attack for
1600.
He draws and summons
another Blade Knight. He has too many cards in his hand and doesn't set them.
This is simple inexperience coming into play here. I don't Bottomless him
because I do not need to. He tries to attack and I remind him SoRL is on the
field. He's getting a little frustrated.
I draw Change of
Heart, Creature Swap my TIV with his Blade Knight. I only have one card in my
hand so I attack the TiV.
He summons a Command
Knight and Premature Burials a Blade Knight. SoRL is still active, so he can't
attack.
I draw a Goat. I set
it, Change of Heart his Command Knight and smack him around a little bit
more.
He draws BLS and
special summons him and I Bottomless him. WoOT! BLS is NOT going to get me
today!
I draw Premature
Burial, getr my Zaborg from the graveyard and attack him for the
game!
GAME
2
I side deck out 3
Nimble, Scientist, Thestalos, Enemy Controller and Forceful for 3 Kinetic
Soldier, 2 King Tiger Wanghu and 2 Magic
Drain.
He goes first, summons
Marauding and a DD Warrior Lady and does nothing
else.
I draw Pot, Tiger,
Gorilla, Metamorphosis, Change of Heart, and another Gorilla. I play Pot and get
Ring and Sinister. This is good. I Change his DD, summon a Gorilla, attack his
Marauding with DD, remove both from play, then attack with the Gorilla. 2300LP
damage. That was pretty good. I set Ring and
end.
He sets one S/T,
summons Marauding and ends his turn.
I summon Sinister,
Morph it to TER, take his Captain and attack him for
1200.
He draws and sets
another S/T. He plays Painful Choice, offers me Torrential, Swords, Change of
Heart, Snatch and Exiled. I have hand advantage and monsters to summon, so I
give him the Torrential and he ends his turn without setting it. OK. I get a
summon next turn if I want.
I draw Premature
Burial and summon a Tiger. He Bottomless my Tiger. Boo Hoo. I attack with TER
and he Cylinders it. Ok. I take a huge 1200 damage! Whoopdeedoodiddlydoo. He's
burned up his S/T cards.
He sets another S/T
card (It's Torrential) and plays Card Destruction. I get 2 Goats and 2 Tigers.
Blegh. Not great. He summons a Command Knight and
ends.
I draw a Magic Drain
and Ring his Command Knight. I attack him for 1200 with TER. I set the
Drain.
He summons a Blade
Knight and I fully expect him to Torrential, but he doesn't. Hmmm.
Ok.
I draw Painful Choice
and offer him Heavy Storm, MST, Enemy Controller, Snatch and Call of the
Haunted. He gives me Call and I really wanted the MST to get rid of his
Marauding on my TER and suck up his Blade Knight. Oh well. I set the Call of the
Haunted. I set Fiber Jar and end my turn. He's down to like, 1500LP or so, and I
want to reset the game with Fiber just to get a Gorilla to attack for the
win.
He NoC's my Fiber. I
activate Magic Drain and he can't discard. WoOT! He has to end his
turn.
I draw Mobius and I
know that he has a Torrential set. I could A: Flip my Fiber Jar and hope I get a
big monster to attack him with, or B: Tribute TER for Mobius and when he
Torrentials, use Call of the Haunted to get back something and kill him with
that. I decide option B is the better choice of the two, so I tribute TER for
Mobius. He Torrentials and I destroy the other set S/T card, I forget what it
was. I Call my Zaborg back and attack him for the Game, Set and
Match!
Hooray!
The Monarchs are
victorious again this week. The changes I made really smoothed the mechanics of
the deck, and my side deck is nearly perfect! I am a happy camper. We'll see how
it does at tomorrow's tournament!
I get 3 packs for
winning the tournament and take one of the packs from the person using my
Warrior deck as payment for allowing him the privilege of using it. Haha. I get
nothing but craptacular stuff, another Thestalos but, now I have like, 6 of
them. I did manage to get my third Hammer Shot but it wasn't an Ultimate Rare
and that's what I want because it's purty. Bling,
bling!
Well, that's it for
today!
Until next time, happy
dueling!
RegnR8
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