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RegnR8's Absolute Rule of the Monarchs - Feb. 26,
2005
RegnR8's Absolute Rule
of the Monarchs
Tournament Report for February 26,
2005
Sports Cards and
Collectables
$5.00 entry fee and you get a
pack
Advanced Swiss Format
1st gets 3 packs
2nd gets 2 packs
3rd
gets the satisfaction of knowing they are L 7.
Pretty good crowd today. Over
20. A lot of little kids.
Hi
all,
Welcome to this weeks
edition of the tournament report. Usually, I attend two tournaments today, but
decided to only go to one. I was by myself. My daughter stayed home to further
master her skills at Budokai 3, and I decided to go home
afterward.
As of this writing,
the new ban list has been posted and it will take effect the day of the next
Georgia Regionals. FET will also be tournament legal and this is going to be a
very interesting Regional event I am sure. There may be a lot of ruling
questions and a lot of new cards and combos and such. I expect it to be sort of
unfair because many people will not have had time to throughly examine and play
test decks. Part of me doesn't even want to go because I can guess the majority
of players will use warrior/chaos and zombie decks. That's a freakin' no
brainer.
Let's rant a little
about the ban list shall we? What was Konami thinking?!? The banning of Magical
Scientist, Painful Choice, Change of Heart and Six Sense was expected. But NOT
banning Tribe, Sinster and Breaker, along with my favorite monster BLS, was
shocking. If Konami wants to foster deck creativity, why not ban the cards
nearly EVERYONE uses in any tier 1 deck?! I'm going to really miss Fiber Jar, it
actually IS my favorite monster. Tear....
Delinquent Duo back?!
This is a HUGE screwup! Banning Forceful I can understand. Banning two
pregnators and bringing the worse one back is down right
retarded.
Butterfly Dagger -
Elma?! What the? Who gives a flying rip? Let me tell you the number of times
I've been beaten by this card. Let me think....Hmmm.
ZERO!
Chick the Yellow? Are
they on CRACK?!! If you ban Makyura, why semi-limit this weakling?!
Stupid.
DD Warrior Lady
restricted to one. Yeah. That's actually a good thing, but one is too few. It
makes her practically USELESS! DD Assailants will simply replace her. Exiled
Force has now been vaulted to the #1 slot for removal now.
United We Stand?!?! Oh
boy. Scapegoat abusers REJOICE! Especially me. Scapegoat, Metamorphosis to TER -
take my opponents BLS, slap a UWS on TER and hey, I have a 6200 attacker on the
field! Yipee! Mid to late game, this would be nearly IMPOSSIBLE to over
come!
Mirror Force. Ok. My
6200 attack TER just got wiped out but, hey, I still have 3 tokens on the field
and another Metamorphosis in my hand so,
whoop-de-la-dee-da-doo.
Sangan. He'll help
some decks but, not all. I have no problem with him being back. WotBF would be a
WHOLE nuther story.
Abyss Soldier to 2?
Come on! He's virtually UNPLAYABLE outside of a water deck and the ONE monster
card that really works well for a water/bounce deck is cut. Pooey. It took me
forever to get three of them, too. Sour Grapes.
Lol.
Night Assailant to 2?
Meh. I hardly ever got it's effect to go off when I was running three! I'll have
to change my fiend deck a little but, that's no big
deal.
LLAB and Gravity Bind
to 2. Eh, whatever. They never bothered me. Still, drop in three Messenger of
Peace and you can still stall with 7 cards.
Dumb.
Vampire Lord to 2.
Hmmm. A lot of people really hate this and I think it'll be more difficult to
get rid of the little bloodsucker. I'll reserve my judgement on that decision
until I face a couple of him at once. Sounds pretty bad,
though.
The smartest thing
Konami did this go round was restrict Lightning Vortex, Nephthys, Crush Card and
ban Six Sense right off the bat. Oh well, another 6 months of cookie
cutters again. When will the madness end?!
OK. Well, enough of my
pointless ramblings! On to the pointless
tournament!
Oh, yeah. Large French
Vanilla with cream and sugar from the Dunkin Donuts...Bliss.
HORRORS! The shop is
moving to a new location and it won't be right next door to the Dunkin Donuts
next week! What will I ever do?!? I guess I'll have to suck it up like a
MAN!
Of course, the
Monarchs get the nod. Actually, I'm getting a little tired of this deck now. I
have some ideas for a couple of other decks but, until I'm ready to enter one in
the tournament, the Monarchs will continue to be the deck of choice. I did make
one change to the side deck. I added a third Magic Drain for the Divine Wrath.
It didn't really matter today. I wasn't in my usual jovial duelig
mood.
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
x3 Magic Drain
x2 Magic Jammer
x1
Jinzo
x1 Torrential Tribute
x1 Nobleman of Crossout
x1 Royal
Decree
ROUND
1
MONARCHS VS
DRAGON
This guy sits down and
says, "Great, I'm going to lose. Why do I have to duel you in the first round? I
just built this deck like in 5 minutes this morning blah blah blah." Quit your
whining!
GAME
1
Amazing. I win the die
roll and chose to go first. I draw Mobius, Change, Thestalos, Gorilla, Enemy
Controller and Forceful Sentry. I Forceful the only monster he has back to his
deck, set the Enemy Controller and summon the
Gorilla.
He draw and activates
Swords. He sets another S/T and ends.
I tribute my Gorilla
for Mobius and destroy his Swords and Ceasefire, which he choses not to chain
for some reason. I attack him directly with Mobius for
2400.
He draws and sets a
monster and another S/T.
I draw Nobleman of
Crossout. Lol. I Change his set Lord of D., tribute it for Thestalos and take
out his Giant Trunade. I attack him for 4800LP. Ouch. This is going
well.
He Calls his Lord of
D. back, Snatchs my Mobius and I chain the Enemy Controller to my Mobius and
take his Lord of D. for the turn. Hahahahahah....ahhhhh, that was
funny.
I draw Zaborg and
tribute my Thestalos to destroy his Lord of D. and attack him for the win. Yeah
that was brutal.
GAME
2
Well, he won this one
because I took a huge hit of 5200 early in the game by a couple of Lusters and a
Masked Dragon. I could have taken less damage, but I knew he had a Cyber Jar in
his hand and I had a Bottomless set and I was hoping he'd use it. I have TiV in
my hand and I get rid of all his dragons next turn, but he keeps reviving
Lusters and after I tribute a TER for Mobius, he Rings it and I
lose.
GAME
3
TER gets out early and
takes a Luster Dragon, and after it finally takes care of all his searcher
monsters (three Masked Dragons and an Element Dragon) I get to attack. Late
game, he manages to to get Armed Dragon LV5 out on me, but after I Snatch it and
Morph it to Dark Balter, he conceeds because he ran out of monsters.
ROUND 2
MONARCHS VS
RANDOM DECK OF RANDOMNESS
GAME 1 and
2
I'm not even going to
bother with any sort of detailed account of these duels. This was an
inexperienced player who continually drew cards in his end phase, played traps
from his hand and other things like that. When I won the first duel he got up to
leave and I told him it was best two out of three. Well, it didn't matter
because I won both duels easily. He did no damage to me at
all.
ROUND
3
MONARCHS VS
CHAOS/BEATDOWN
GAME
1
I lose the die roll
and he lets me go first. Interesting. Ok. I get Morphing Jar, Swords,
Metamorphosis, Bottomless, Snatch and Zaborg. I set the Morphing Jar, activate
Swords and set everything else but Zaborg.
He sets a monster and
one S/T.
I flip up my Morphing
Jar and get 5 cards, including a Mobius. Good. I tribute the Morphing Jar for
Mobius and destroy his Reckless Greed, which he chains. I attack his set Peten
and he gets another. Pooey.
He discards a Thunder
Dragon for it's effect and sets an S/T. Then he plays Card Destruction. He sets
another monster and another S/T.
I draw Magical
Scientist, NoC his set Twin Headed Behemoth and summon the Scientist. I pay a
couple of thousand for Baltar and Ryu Senshi. I attack his Peten with Baltar and
he activates Cylinder when I attack with Mobius and I have to pay another 1000
to negate it. Oh well.
He uses Change of
Heart on my Scientist and pays for TER to get rid of my Mobius.
He summons Injection
and attacks my Scientist but doesn't pay for the boost.
He's wide open when I
draw a Gorilla and Snatch his Lily. I do pay for the boost and hit him for 5400
and game.
GAME
2
I side deck two Magic
Drain for two Enemy Controller, for some reason. I don't really know why.
He goes first and sets
one S/T and a monster.
I get Magic Drain,
Painful, Swap, 2 Goats and the other Magic Drain. Oh brother. I set a Drain and
a Goat, then offer him some monsters with Painful and he gives me Breaker. I
summon Breaker and he Torrentials his Peten. Ah, bother.
Whatever.
He plays Pot of Greed
and I Magic Drain it, he discards and then tributes his Peten for Jinzo. This
ALWAYS happens. Everytime I side deck in the Drains, Jinzo comes out and screws
me up. He attacks with Jinzo and I activate
Scapegoat.
I Swap his Jinzo for a
token and attack, He uses Enemy Controller to turn Jinzo into defense position.
I still have no monsters so I set the other Scapegoat and have to end my
turn.
He activates Painful
Choice. Man! I wish I could activate that other Magic Drain! Darn you Jinzo! He
offers some stuff and I give him something, I don't remember. He summons Breaker
and attacks his Jinzo.
I draw Ring and set
it.
He removes Breaker's
token to get rid of my Scapegoat and I can't activate it, so I Ring his Breaker
for 1600.
I draw Fiber Jar and
set it.
He sets a monster.
Hmmm.
I draw Zaborg. Oh man.
Decisions, decisions. Should I flip my Fiber or take a chance and tribute it for
Zaborg and destroy his monster. I tell him I am going to take a chance, and if I
lose this duel, it will be because of what I am going to do right now. I tribute
my Fiber for Zaborg and destroy HIS Fiber! LoL. That was lucky! Well, he can't
recover after that and after I tribute my Zaborg for another Zaborg to destroy
his set monster, I top deck a Gorilla and hit him wide open for 4400 and the
win.
SEMI
FINALS
MONARCHS VS ZOMBIE
GAME
1
For some reason I have
a lot of trouble with zombie decks and I can't figure out why. I was pretty sure
I would lose the first game to this deck and I did. It was pretty hard fought,
but Call of the Mummy and Book of Life after a Painful Choice is pretty
difficult to overcome!
I knew what I wanted
to side deck. 3 Tigers, 3 Magic Drain, Torrential and another
NoC.
GAME
2
What the?!?! I get two
Tigers in my opening hand and 2 Nobleman of Crossout and a Scapegoat. I
admit, I probably should have summoned the Tiger on the first turn, but I was
afraid of Call of the Mummy, so I just set the Scapegoat and it went downhill
from there. He managed to get rid of my two Tigers pretty early and I NEVER drew
a Magic Drain the ENTIRE duel! I lose this one pretty badly.
Well, darn. Lost in
the Semi Finals again. I'm getting use to this. I pretty much breeze through
everyone but two people. This zombie deck and Taka-shi's Chaos/Morph thingy. At
least I didn't have to play that!
That's it for this
week! Until next time, happy dueling!
RegnR8
RegnR8@yahoo.com