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RegnR8's Absolute Rule of the Monarchs - Feb. 5,
2005
RegnR8's Absolute Rule
of the Monarchs
Tournament Report for February 5,
2005
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Hi all,
Welcome to today's
edition of the tournament report! I hope this writing finds you well and
winning!
The weather was
beautiful today. After a rather cool morning, the sun came out and warmed us all
up for a day of dueling! The French Vanilla coffee from the Dunkin Donuts only
added to the warm fuzzy feeling of the
sunshine!
There was a good crowd
today. There were a lot of little kids and a few guys that have only come
occasionally. A couple of people who stopped coming a while back, showed up to
say 'Hi!" It was a happy reunion!
Well, just for the
heck of it, I bought a Dragon and Zombie structure deck. I gave the Dragon deck
to my daughter and kept the Zombie deck for myself. One of my friends asked me
to duel and I said, "Sure!" I whipped open the Zombie structure deck and
played with it, straight out of the box. He was using a custom built
Fusilier/Machine deck and I took 2 out of three! It was so
funny!
The pairings were
called and I got out my trusty Monarch deck, which hasn't been changed for two
weeks.
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 Nobleman of
Crossout
x1 Royal Decree
ROUND 1
MONARCHS VS
WATER
GAME
1
I win the die roll and
go first. I draw Creature Swap, Scapegoat, Gorilla, Ring, Zaborg and
Metamorphosis. I set the Goat and summon the
Gorilla.
He plays Pot of Greed
and uses Nobleman of Extermination on my Scapegoat, which I activate. He Reloads
for 4 cards and plays Terraforming, retrieving and activating A Legendary Ocean.
He sets 2 other S/T cards and ends his turn.
I draw a Nimble, set
Ring and attack with the Gorilla. He activates Tornado Wall. I end my
turn.
He activates LLAB,
turns my Gorilla to defense and destroys it.
I draw MST and use it
on his ALO. He Magic Jammers it. I set a Nimble. He's not drawing any monsters
and his deck has done nothing but annoy me.
He NoC's my Nimble and
sets another S/T. Oh boy. What fun.
I draw my NoC and end
my turn.
He summons an
Amphibous Bugroth and attacks me directly for 1700.
I draw Enemy
Controller and set it.
He attacks with the
Bugroth again and I go ahead and Ring him this time. He debates with me, telling
me the Tornado Wall stops the damage. I tell him it doesn't stop effect damage
and he argues about it. Someone shows him the updated Tornado Wall with the
correct text on it and he shuts up and takes 1700LP
damage.
In my draw phase he
Drops Off my Gorilla. Ok, that was wierd. A Drop Off in a water deck? Hmmm.
Whatever. I have to end my turn.
He sets a
monster.
I draw a Nimble and
NoC his set card. It's a Spirit Reaper. I set my
Nimble.
He does nothing on his
turn.
I draw Mobius and
tribute my Nimble to destroy his ALO and other set card. I leave the Gravity
Bind on the field.
He summons a 7 Colored
Fish.
I Morph a token into
TER and take his 7 Colored Fish. He hates that. I keep attacking him with TER
for a few turns until he finally sets a monster. By this time, I have Zaborg in
my hand and tribute my Mobius for Zaborg and destroy his set monster, then
attack with TER for the win.
GAME
2
He goes first and
activates Terraforming, gets ALO, activates it and LLAB. He summons Star Boy and
sets another S/T.
I draw Mobius, Zaborg,
Creature Swap, Bottomless Trap Hole, Breaker and Snatch Steal. I Snatch Steal
his Star Boy, tribute it for Mobius and destroy his ALO and LLAB.
He sets a monster and
one more S/T.
I draw Scapegoat and
Swap a token for his set Magician of Faith. Ha. He doesn't like that. I attack
with Mobius and he activates Gravity Bind. Why didn't I side deck in Jinzo and
Royal Decree? Oh well. I think I can win without them
anyway.
He does nothing on his
turn.
I flip up the Magician
of Faith and get my Creature Swap back. I tribute the MoF for Zaborg and destroy
his token.
Well, the game goes
pretty much like the first game because I Morph a token into TER and take his
Gagagigo. Every time he tries to summon a monster, I Bottomless it. He does a
couple of goofy things like, tries to activate Tornado Wall without the ALO on
the field just to free up his M/T zone and I tell him he can't do that. Later,
he tries to activate Michizuri on his turn, AFTER his draw phase when I
destroyed a monster in the turn before!. No, no, no. You got to cheat better
than that! My monster zone is full too, so I go ahead and NoC a monster of his
and he activates the Michizure, this time claiming HE got to pick the monster it
destroys! No, no no. You are a bad boy. He finally MSTs the monster attached to
TER and I can't attack with nothing.
Well, he gets ALO out
along with a Gravity Bind and Tornado Wall and does nothing for many turns. He
doesn't summon or set any monster because I would just take it with
TER.
I draw a Mobius and
tribute TER for him, destroying his ALO and Gravity Bind. Well, I already had a
Mobius, a Zaborg and a Twin Headed Behemoth on the field so I attack him for the
win. All total, if he hadn't been reduced to zero LP already, I would have done
8700LP damage in one hit. Ouch.
ROUND 2
MONARCH VS
HARPIE/WIND DECK
When I first saw the
Harpie Lady #1 hit the field, I thought this was going to be an easy duel. Hmm.
I was wrong. I should never underestimate any deck, no matter how lame it
initally seems.
GAME
1
I win the die roll and
go first. I get Thestalos, Breaker, Painful Choice, Fiber, Ring and Creature
Swap. I activate Painful Choice and offer him Scapegoat, 2 Nimbles, a Gorilla
and Sinister. He gives me the Scapegoat. Hmmm. OK. I set the Goat, Ring and
Fiber Jar.
He plays Terraforming
and gets a Rising Air Current. He sets 2 S/T and summons Harpie Lady #1. He
activates Rising Air Current and I go ahead and Ring her for a boat load of
damage to us both.
I draw NoC and flip my
Fiber Jar. I get Nimble, 2 Enemy Controller, NoC and Metamorphosis. I set the
EC, summon Nimble and attack for 1000.
He plays Giant
Trunade, Terraforming and gets another Rising Air Current. He summons A Luster
Dragon and spanks my Nimble for a lot and I gain some LP and get the other 2
Nimbles to the field. He sets 2 more S/T.
I draw a Creature Swap
and flip up my two Nimbles. I activate Creature Swap and he uses Spell Shield
Type 8 to negate it. I use Enemy Controller, tributing one Nimble to take
control of his Luster Dragon and attack him for 3400LP. I was going to Morph his
Luster into something I could keep, but after I activated Metamorphosis, I
looked through my fusion deck and discover I have NO Level 4 fusions! Oh no! I
have to give him the Luster back.
He sets a monster and
attacks with the Luster Dragon for 2400.
I'm at 1550 and he is
at 1500. I draw Breaker and NoC his set Slate Warrior. Lucky me. I summon
Breaker, tribute him for Enemy Controller, take his 2400 attack Luster Dragon
and hit him for the win. Whew.
GAME
2
He choses to go first
and sets 2 S/T and summons Sasuke Samauri #4 and this thing kills me like crazy
this duel.
I get Nimble,
Scapegoat, Change of Heart, Pot of Greed, Enemy Controller and another Nimble. I
play Pot and get Fiber Jar and Premature Burial. Hmmm. I set the Goat, EC and
set the Nimble, hoping for him to lose the coin
flip.
He summons Twin Headed
Behemoth and doesn't lose the coin toss and destroys my Nimble. When he attacks
with the Behemoth, I activate Scapegoat.
I draw Snatch Steal
and Snatch his Behemoth to attack his #4. Well, he wins the coin flip again!
Crap. I can't get rid of that thing. I set a
Nimble.
I use Change of Heart
on his #4 because that's about all I can do.
To make a long story
short, after a Fiber Flip, I get nothing and he gets a Roc and Rising Air
Current on the field with another Harpie Lady #1 and whacks me down to zero LP
in a hurry.
GAME
3
I go to my side deck
this time because he used a lot of traps and also emptied his hand a good bit. I
figured I may be able to Magic Drain some of his stuff and tossed in the Decree
and Jinzo. I also put in the Torrential because he special summoned Slipheed a
lot.
He manages to get
Sasuke #4 on the field again and that sucks. I do manage to Magic Drain his
Rising Air Current and get rid of two of his #4s early in the
duel.
I get TER on the field
with a sucked up Luster Dragon and start to shut him down. When I summon TIV and
discard for his Slipheed, I start to hit him with TER on a regular basis. My
Royal Decree gets 7 "Tooled" (haha) and that sucks. But I get him down to 200
when I flip Fiber Jar and draw Twin Headed Behemoth (as my last card) to attack
him for the win.
ROUND 3
MONARCHS VS
CHAOS/CREATOR/WARRIOR/THING
GAME
1
I lose the die roll
and he sets 2 S/T and summons Getsu Fhuma? Ok.
Whatever.
I draw Zaborg, Snatch,
Morphing Jar, Breaker, Gorilla and Enemy Controller. I Snatch his Fhuma, summon
Breaker and destroy his
He draws, gains 1000LP
and sets another S/T.
I draw and he Tornados
the Snatch Steal. Ok. Whatever. Thats fine. He's wide open for an attack now. I
summon a Gorilla, and attack his Fhuma with it and then directly for 1600 with
Breaker.
He MSTs my EC and
plays Monster Reincarnation, sending the Creator from his hand to get his Fhuma
back. He attacks Breaker for 100LP damage with the
Fhuma.
I draw TiV. He asks if
the Gorilla's effect of having to attack is a trigger effect and I know he has a
Divine Wrath set. I say, "You have a Divine Wrath set." and he looks all amazed.
I tell him the Gorilla's effect is continuous and he can not use Divine Wrath on
it. I summon TiV. I attack the Fhuma with the Gorilla, then attack him
directly for 1600 with TIV. Not using TiV's
effect.
He sets a monster and
ends his turn.
I have Zaborg in my
hand, he has less than 2000 LP left, so I tribute TiV for Zaborg, and destroy
his set Exiled. He activates Divine Wrath, which I wanted him to do, and
discards the only card he has left in his hand to destroy my Zaborg. I attack
him with the Gorilla for the win.
GAME
2
This game was too
funny. Without going into enormous detail, I was getting my butt handed to me on
a plate. He got Black Luster Soldier-EotB and Zombrya the Dark out on me, and
all I had was a Scapegoat set. He hit three tokens and I only had one left when
I top deck Painful Choice. I had already decided I was going to lose so, I offer
him two Metamorphosis, Change, Snatch and Ring. I only had 1500LP left, so I
wanted him to give me the Ring so I could kill myself and be done with it. Holy
Cow, he gives me the Metamorphosis!?! I Morph my last token to TER and take his
BLS and I have a Level one, 3000 Attack BRUTAL KILLER on my side of the field
and I come from behind and win! Amazing! I win that one because my opponent
wasn't paying attention to the duel.
SEMI-FINALS
MONARCHS
VS THE "ORIGINAL" CONTROL DECK
If you've been a
regular reader of my reports, you may recall the one duelist who copies other
peoples decks.Well, this is the original deck the dude copied from. This deck
was used by it's creator, a very good duelist and deckbuilder and one whom I
respect a lot. Although, I did kill his machine deck with the Zombie Structure
Deck. Heh. He's never going to live that one
down!
GAME
1
I lose the die roll.
He sets a monster and 2 S/T.
I draw a Gorilla,
Heavy Storm, Enemy Controller, Swords, NoC and Morphing Jar. I activate
Nobelman of Crossout and he Magic Drains it. I don't discard and I set the EC,
the Heavy Storm and activate Swords. His Shining Angel flips up. I set the
Morphing Jar and end my turn.
He summons Magical
Scientist. I tell him he doesn't want to to that. He is always getting rid of my
Morphing Jar. He pays 1000 for TER and takes my Jar. When he sees its my
Morphing Jar, he agrees he shouldn't have done that. He ends his
turn.
I summon the Gorilla
and attack his Scientist.
He sets a monster and
one S/T and ends.
Ok this is where it
gets sucky. He Forcefuls my Call of the Haunted. He summons a Don, MSTs my Heavy
Storm, flips up MOF, MSTs my Enemy Controller, which I chose not to activate,
summons Don Zaloog, attacks my Gorilla with the Angel, gets DD Warrior Lady and
attacks, removing my Gorilla from play, then attacks with Don, taking out the
only card I had in my hand.
It goes downhill from
there and I get OWNED.
GAME
2
I go for the standard
side deck against this deck. 3 King Tigers, 2 Kinetics, Jinzo and Royal
Decree.
I go first and draw
Ring, Kinetic, Mobius, Call of the Haunted, Royal Decree and Premature Burial. I
set Ring and the Kinetic and end my turn.
He sets one S/T and a
monster.
I draw and summon
Breaker and he Rings him.
I attack his set
Tomato with the Kinetic and he gets Magical Scientist to the field.
I Ring the Scientist
in his draw phase. He sets another monster.
I draw Enemy
Controller and attack his face down with the Kinetic. It's a Spirit Reaper. I
set the EC, Call and the Decree.
He sets another face
down monster.
I attack it with the
Kinetic and its a DD Warrior Lady and he removes both from play.
He turns his Spirit
Reaper to attack and I use Enemy Controller to turn it to defense and we're not
sure if it specifically designates a target and come to the conclusion it does
and destroy his Reaper.
I draw a Gorilla and
attack.
He uses Exiled on my
Berserk.
I draw and he
activates Drop Off and I chain my Decree and Call of the Haunted to my Gorilla.
At this point, the duel starts to go downhill for him. Later, we suicide TIV's
after he wiped my field with his. I Morph a token into TER and take his Don
Zaloog late game, and the Decree stops him from doing much. He tries to Snatch
my TER, but I had an MST set, so that was really lucky.
When I NoC his MoF
next turn, he conceeds.
GAME
3
I side deck one of the
Enemy Controller for another NoC because he does set a lot of
monsters.
He goes first and I
draw 2 Kinetics, Painful Choice, Bottomless Trap Hole and Scapegoat. He sets 2
S/T and that's all.
I draw a Bottomless
but he Drops it Off. Meh. I activate Painful Choice and he Magic Drain's it. I
think about it for a while and decide I'd better keep the Scapegoat. He's
open for a clear attack now, I summon the Kinetic and attack him for 1350. I set
the Bottomless and the Goat.
He plays Heavy Storm
and I chain the Goat. He summons Breaker and hits my Kinetic. He sets an
S/T.
I draw another
Scapegoat. Crap. I set it as a bluff.
He removes the token
from Breaker and I can't activate but, at least I got him to waste his token. He
attacks another token.
I draw Fiber Jar and
think about setting it but, my gut instinct tells me to set the Kinetic and I
do.
He plays Change of
Heart on my Kinetic and I am glad I went with my initial feelings! He summons a
Shining Angel and attacks all my remaining
tokens.
I draw Zaborg. Whew.
This may help. I tribute the Kinetic for Zaborg and destroy his Angel and he
promptly Rings my Zaborg. Oh gragglesmarftz! I'm winning 5050 - 4250. If I don't
draw an attacker, I'm going to have to set the Fiber Jar . Where are my King
Tigers?
He attacks with the
Breaker for 1600. Good. He probably doesn't have anything else to
summon.
I draw Call of the
Haunted. I set the Fiber Jar and the Call. If he NoC's my Fiber, hopefully I can
Call Zaborg back for some protection and maybe get a better handle on the
duel.
He Exile's my Fiber
Jar. Man!
I call Zaborg back and
attack.
He Premature's his
Exiled and tributes it to kill my Zaborg. I'm mad now. Where are my King Tigers?
They could have stopped all this nonsense.
Neither one of use can
do much. I top deck Swords and activate it.
He top decks Painful
Choice and he offers a bunch of stuff and I give him
Jinzo.
I top deck my Morphing
Jar and hope it will help but, it could kill me. I need the cards so, I set
it.
He summons Magical
Scientist! What!?! He pays 1000 for Dark Baltar and once again, he negates my
Morphing Jar. He attacks me for 300 with the Scientist. I'm still winning 1550 -
750 but we're both top decking and I draw Ring. I Ring his Scientist but he
summons a Tomato or something like that and kills
me.
That was really
disappointing. I couldn't believe I NEVER drew a single King Tiger in our last
two duels. That was really unfortunate for
me.
So, that's it for this
week. Nothing real controversial happened to me during any of my duels, but
there were a few dudes who rarely come who thought they were Yugioh experts and
were mostly argumentative. I dueld two of them, the Water deck and the Wind
deck. I thrashed them both. One of them was always talking big and bragging. He
claimed he was going to judge today and I'm thinking, "I have only seen you here
one time, so why would the owner let you judge? He doesn't know you from Adam."
One of the others did go on to win the tournament with a beatdown deck with
equips in it, amazingly enough! Go figure. It wasn't the local crews day, I
suppose.
That's it for today!
Until next time, happy dueling!
RegnR8