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Deck name: Lucifer's Army

Tournament report by Lucifer, a.k.a. Scientist Magic

Saturday May 14th 2005

Who's on 1st Sports Cards in Marysville, Wa.

Entry fee: 2 dollars

Participants: I don't remember exactly, close to 30.



I took 1st place in the tournament, winning the new pyro structure deck and a Dark Magician of Chaos ultra rare.



This is the deck that I ran:



Monsters:16

1x Black Luster Soldier-Envoy of the Beginning

2x Blade Knight

2x Magician of Faith

1x DD Warrior Lady

1x Zombyra the Dark

1x Greenkappa

1x Don Zaloog

1x Breaker the Magical Warrior

1x Sangan

1x Tribe Infecting Virus

1x Sinister Serpent

1x Exiled Force

2x DD Assailant



Spells:19

1x Pot of Greed

1x Graceful Charity

1x Delinquent Duo

2x Reinforcements of the Army

1x The Warrior Returning Alive

2x Scapegoat

1x Enemy Controller

1x Heavy Storm

1x Mst

1x Premature Burial

1x Snatch Steal

2x Nobleman of Crossout

1x Lightning Vortex

2x Smashing Ground

1x Swords of Revealing Light



Traps:5

1x Mirror Force

1x Ring of Destruction

1x Torrential Tribute

1x Call of the Haunted

1x Bottomless Trap Hole



Sidedeck:15

2X Mobius the Frost Monarch

1x Jinzo

1x Royal Decree

1x Bottomless Trap Hole

3x Sakuretsu Armor

1x Pikeru's Circle of Enchantment

2x Kinetic Soldier

2x Mystic swordsman lv.2

2x Book of Moon





The first round I faced Pat, a very good duelist whom I have lost to the last 3 weeks in a row. He was running a hybrid DD Dynamite/Chaos deck, but I managed to go 2-0 against him, finally! The first game I got a Delinquent Duo right away, which helped me win, because I took away his last two cards. I don't remember the duels well, I just tried to beat him down as quickly as possible before he had enough cards out of play to inflict mega damage with his DD Dynamites.



Second round I faced Zach and his Return from the Different Dimension deck, which Scapegoats saved my hide, on more than one occasion.

It went win, loss, win for me. On to the 3rd round!



The 3RD round I faced Mike a.k.a. SoulShark on these boards. I got to go up against his Silent Purgatory deck vs.3.0 featured on the deck discussion board. I side decked for him immediately, knowing my spells may be worthless, so I threw in my extra Bottomless and a couple Sakuretsu Armors. I anticipated his moves pretty well, and every time he summoned a swordsman lv. 5 or 7 I would Bottomless it out of the game or Sakuretsu it's attack. The duels did'nt last long. I had field control and hand advantage the whole time.



The fourth and final round I faced Gus and his warrior deck. The first round I beat him pretty quickly, leaving me pretty quickly about the match. Until the second duel. I lost to his Ring of destruction, leaving me with no way to stop it and a loss on my hands. This was for 1st and 2nd place. No pressure, we were now tied 1 to 1. Then I realized he was running warriors too! Aha! I side decked in my 2 kinetic Soldiers, replacing my DD Assailants. The 3rd duel was back and forth. He got in a Delinquent Duo early on, depleting my options. I think I had 2 cards in hand then. I managed to even out the hands a bit with a couple good hits with Don Zaloog, which also left me open with a vulnerable Donny on the field, that he took full advantage of attacking with his jinzo. The duel was tense, me topdecking at one point, then Scapegoat buying me a couple extra turns to catch up. Then, it happened. I drew my Kinetic soldier. I blasted his warrior (I don't remember which, just calculating that weird 3150 attack). That brought his life points down low. I still had about 3600 at this point. He draws. He sets a face down spell/trap then ends his turn not wanting to attack into my Kinetic soldier. I draw ring of destruction, attack directly then set my Ring. He draws, and I activate my ring on my own Kinetic Soldier for the win!



It was a fun day, I dueled some very good opponents. Congrats to all for putting up a good fight!

Some thoughts on the tournament: I think this format is closer to traditional than the previous advanced formats. Delinquent Duo, especially when combined with a Pot of Greed, and/or Graceful Charity usually means G.G.

With all the mass removal cards now available, hand advantage has once again become one of the most important factors in winning. The above mentioned cards should be included in nearly every deck(with some freakish exclusions) and at least one other hand advantage card such as don Zaloog, Spirit reaper etc.

My side deck was invaluable in my winning the Tournament. To all those players who do not consider the side deck important or as important as their main deck I strongly disagree! It is a very powerful weapon, to use against all types of decks. My side deck is built to counter the various decks in my meta, so don't just copy it, but build your own to counter the decks in your area.



That's my report! Contact me Lucifer, a.k.a Scientist Magic at one_eternia@juno.com