Greetings Readers!


Okay, I read from RJ’s report that the pojo.com tourney report was dieing… So I think to myself, “Hmm, we can’t have that!” So I decided to write my own little report. Note that this report won’t be very detailed as the tournament took place about 5 days ago and I’m going off my memory (which tends not to be very accurate sometimes). Anyway, let the report begin.

So my friend Jeremy, my friend Alston, and I Decided it was a good day to drive 45 minutes to the closest tournament to our town. (Yes, seriously) My friend Alston and I were up all night playing cards and had gotten about 3 hours of sleep apiece by time we decided to leave at 11:30, not a bad start.

We arrived at Bob’s Baseball Dugout, our current card shop of choice fashionably early as we always do, leaving about 45 minutes or so to trade and play some practice games. So today I decide I should try a mill deck in favor of my macro monarchs deck I have been testing for regionals. So we chatted and traded, our hopes that Bob had decided to change the tournament to advanced format was confirmed.

The way Bob’s tournament is run is: There are usually about 5 rounds, to begin with people are randomly matched, after that it goes by record. Each round you must play 3 game regardless of if you win 2 in a row. Then you report your score out of 3 to Bob. The person with the most wins total is the winner of the tourney. If there is a tie the two play a match or game, whichever they mutually decide to decide the winner. Top 3 or 4 get paid in store credit to get boosters or single cards or other things.

Around came round 1 and look who I had to play, none other than my friend Alston! Alston is a pretty solid player, he was running an anti-chaos deck with kycoos and royal oppression.

Unfortunately, Alston’s deck type was useless against me. After a long and grueling game involving a tsukuyomi / needle worm barrage along with morphing jar #2 being flipped a couple of times his deck was out of cards. The second game was more of the same resulting in another deck-out. The third game however he sided in a couple of swordsmen lvl 2 and beat me out. So I ended that round with 2-1 record. Not too bad, I should have used my side deck that third game.

Next round was against a kid whose name escapes me… He is quite good though. Note that I am 18 and most of the kids here are anywhere from 8-15 so I refer to most of the guys here as kids. Anyway, I started off stating “By the end… you WILL fear the Gandhi” I know, it seems immature, but I’m okay with that. The first game completely took him by surprise, he must not have the internet because I was talking to this guy Art up there who is probably the most respected player there about my deck being a variation of Gandhi-pants while I was shuffling. The second game I decided to get a bit creative and side in my chaos strategy. My deck and side deck could interchange to make two entirely different decks. So we ended up playing almost a mirror match, he was playing chaos as well. The surprising thing about this duel is that… despite me siding in chaos. I ended up milling him anyway. The third game he got control early and won pretty easily. I was now 4-2, not great… but absolutely astounding for a mill deck.

Round 3 was against Jeremy, (not my best friend Jeremy, a different one) a guy up there who has very mad skills I must say. This match was a blur of nobleman of crossout, magician of faith, and tsukuyomi. Before I knew what was going on… I had been swept. Note that he didn’t think he was running a chaos deck when his deck contained 2 chaos sorcerers… But I’ll let that slide. So slightly discouraged I went into round 4 with a 4-5 score.

Round 4 went much better than the last one, it was against another younger kid, he was playing a chaos deck… a lot of people were today. I swept him, decking him out each time. I went to round 5 with a slightly better record of 7-5.

Round 5 was against none other than my best friend, Jeremy. This was inconvenient… I had to play both of my friends in the tournament. So we made a deal, whoever won the match would get all 3 games… this would increase our chance of getting third place, since neither of us had a chance otherwise. We proceeded to play, his insect beatdown was finding it difficult to get through all of my stall, and his lack of a side deck made it so he still couldn’t through game 2. I had won the match in two games and so as we had agreed I claimed all 3 games. I think I would have likely won the third anyway.

So in the end I ended up getting third place, so $7 of store credit was mine to spend on 2 packs of invasion of chaos (after forking over an extra dollar). I headed back home with the knowledge that I depleted someone’s deck to zero 10 times today fresh in my head.


Okay, here go the props and slops.

Props:


Bob, for holding the tourney
The fact that I pulled a smashing grounds! (we need 4 more to have 9!)
Art and Jeremy, erm… for being cool and good competition.
Lack of sleep, it makes everything funnier for some reason.
Jeremy for driving us up, and buying me a McChicken afterwards… I was freaking hungry!
Alston for coming with us
Gandhi, for having his name attached to such a cool deck!
McChicken sandwiches, boy are they delicious!
All the people who DIDN’T run chaos, good job!

Slops:



I didn’t get to play Art! >.< and we didn’t have time after because Jeremy had to go to work.

The fact that I didn’t win, although I didn’t expect to win a tourney full of chaos decks with a Gandhi deck.

Feel free to contact me at WorthingAtredes@hotmail.com with any questions about my deck, or especially if you live in the south-western Wisconsin area and would be interested in coming to Bob’s occasionally on Saturdays to play against me (except on July 22nd when I will be at regionals.

Ryan McCarthy alias W0rthing out.