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Field Control Beatdown



Name: Justin Fewox

Location: Tall Tale Comics

City/State: Albuquerque, New Mexico

Cost: $4 (included 1 booster pack)

Format: Advanced

Prizes: Unfortunately None

People: 23

Date: May 1st, 2005

Style: 5 Round Swiss





This is my first tournament report, and probably the only one I may do for awhile, being that I hardly get a chance to attend tourneys in my area. Not only because there are only two places that run tournaments here (One that does Advanced and the other Traditional (P.S. Traditional Sucks)), but on the days the stores run tournaments I work. I ve been wanting to attend an organized tournament for awhile now, especially since the introduction of Advanced Format. I love field control; I think it is the best way to victory. Control the field and you can control the game. So here is my deck.



Deck:



Monsters: 18



Goblin Attack Force x2

Giant Orc x1

Breaker the Magical Warrior x1

Blade Knight x1

Nimble Momonga x3

Golem Sentry x1

Roulette Barrel x2

Night Assailant x1

Sangan x1

Sinister Serpent x1

Magician of Faith x1

Dark Ruler Ha Des x1

Airknight Parshath x1

Blowback Dragon x1



Spells: 15



Pot of Greed x1

Graceful Charity x1

United We Stand x1

Scapegoat x1

Stray Lambs x1

Enemy Controller x2

Lightning Vortex x1

Autonomous Action Unit x1

Premature Burial x1

Heavy Storm x1

Mystical Space Typhoon x1

Giant Trunade x2

Snatch Steal x1



Traps: 8



Compulsory Evacuation Device x2

Ring of Destruction x1

Magic Cylinder x1

Bottomless Trap Hole x1

Sakuretsu Armor x1

Mirror Force x1

Call of the Haunted x1



Side Deck: 15



Divine Wrath x1

Nobleman of Extermination x1

Mobius the Frost Monarch x2

Scapegoat x2

Cannon Soldier x2

Barrel Behind the Door x2

Mataza the Zapper x2

Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning x1

Magic Drain x1

Ceasefire x1



**This deck involves a little luck, especially when it comes to Roulette Barrel and Blowback Dragon, but if you can get them to work, you can gain decent field control.



I brought my brother with me since we both had never been to an organized tournament before. On the way to the tourney we got caught up in some construction, had to take a detour, and we were almost late for the tourney. We paid our $4 and they gave us a choice of packs. Both I and my brother picked a TP5 pack.



Round 1: Me vs. John



Match 1- John was a regular at these tourneys and was running a Fire/Burn deck. Unfortunately for him his deck wasn t that well put together and I owned the field all match with Roulette Barrel, finishing him off by rolling a 3 on the dice to get rid of his Raging Flame Sprite.



Match 2- This time he got 2 Flare Dragons out, but Snatch Stole my Roulette Barrel, so I set my Golem Sentry and sent whatever card he put down back to his hand, and stalled since the gain from Snatch and the loss from the Dragons was the same, until I drew some of my heavy monsters to put him away and win the game. 1-0





Round 2: Me vs. a good kid with a Beatdown Control Deck



Match 1- I never caught his name but this kid was way younger than I was, and man could he play the game. I don t really remember too much from this match, but I know that I used Airknight on his Fox Fire at least twice to draw some cards and then used Autonomous to summon one of his monsters and take the match. Lucky for me I ended the match when I did because the next card he drew could have set up a chain reaction that could have cost me the match.



Match 2- I don t remember too much about this one either, other than I had a crappy starting hand and never recovered. Good thing I won the first match.



Match 3- I got a little nervous at this point, and decided to drop a Momonga and side deck in the Soldier of Chaos, since he fit just fine into the deck with a good mix of Light and Darks in the main deck. Again, I don t really remember too much about this match, but I did get the Soldier out and picked him apart for the win. 2-0



Round 3: Me vs. some guy and his Zombie Deck



Match 1- I didn t catch this guys name either, and when I realized he was running a Zombie Deck I thought for sure I was finished. I kept the Soldier in the Main Deck and from this point on, never took him out. He got Vampire Lord out right away with Call of the Mummy and hit me 2 turns in row causing me to lose 2 traps, but I recovered when I sent his Vampire lord to the graveyard with the Goblins and then used some field control to win the match.



Match 2- He got Vampire Lord out again, but again I knocked him off with the Goblins and lost a few other cards. He then played Book of Life and instead of removing my only Dark monster in the Graveyard he removed the Goblins so he could summon his Despair from the Dark and attack. This ended up costing him because I drew a Snatch Steal, and I already had the Soldier in my hand along with a United We Stand. So I Snatch Stole his Despair and that left him with only a Pyramid Turtle, I then summoned the Soldier and equipped him with United We Stand. I attacked his Turtle he then summoned Ryu Kokki which I attacked again with the Soldier and then finished him off with his own Despair form the Dark locking up a place in the Finals. 3-0



**My brother had done well up to this point, but ended up losing in this round to a guy with a really good Exodia Deck, missing his opportunity to be in the semi s.



Round 4- Bye



**I had to await the winner of the guy with the Exodia Deck and a guy with a Horus/Chaos Deck to see who I would face in the Finals since there were an odd number of people.



Finals: Me vs. Marcos



Match 1- Marcos was the guy who ran the Horus/Chaos Deck. I can t really say that the deck was really based around Horus and the Soldier because he had a lot of little surprises including a Needle Worm and he utilized an Abyss Soldier by discarding Sinister Serpent to destroy monsters. Anyway, on with the match. At the beginning of the match I played my Roulette Barrel, which I haven t mentioned too many times up to this point, but had cleared the way in many duels for me. He Snatch Stole it and then tried to kill it, but couldn t roll a 4, and I had a good defense going so I just inherited 1000 Life Points each turn, and drew cards until my Life Points reached 12,500 and then he finally got rid of my Roulette Barrel by rolling a 4. He slowly chipped away at my life points while I ate away at his, and I finally won.



Match 2- This match was back and forth. He had a huge Graveyard going and couldn t draw his Soldier, and when he did, and he tried to play him I just bounced him back to his hand with Compulsory. He did get Horus LV6 out but I killed it off and Autonomous d it my next turn, but he kept forcing me to attack his Reflect Bounder so I lost 4600 Life Points just doing that. I did get the Soldier out but he rammed D.D. Warrior Lady into him and removed him from play. To end the match I sacrificed his LV6 Horus and played Ha Des and with a Giant Orc on the field attacked his face down monster with Ha Des, so he couldn t get an effect if there was one, and then ended it with a blow from the Orc. 4-0







** I ve waited so long to get to play in a tourney and I finally did and won, going 8-1 during all of my tournament matches, which was a huge accomplishment for me. As for my brother, he had fun, and it was a good experience for him even though he may not have placed 1st, I m sure he was ok with 4th. And even though I didn t get a prize, it was the fact that I got to be with other people who love the game just as much as I do and get to duel. Hopefully this isn t the last one I write, so until next time..



If you wish to contact me.

Email: Jtheman20@Yahoo.com