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Monarch Deck Eric Engelmann C&C Sports Cards and Comic Books Gaithersburg MD
Eric’s email is: info@emsps.com

April 22, 2007
5 competitors

My deck:

C&C is a family owned card and comic shop that caters to adult collectors and to kids and their parents. The store has no room for tournaments, but has arranged with the Wendy’s next door for play. It’s a win-win, since Wendy’s sells the boys lunch and drinks. I had played here with my son a year before, and had found the very young crowd (I’m guessing 9-12 years old) to have remarkably solid decks and skills. I had missed my normal Saturday play at Other Realms, also in Gaithersburg, and decided that C&C’s Saturday AND Sunday tourneys could fill the gap.

I arrived a bit early for the 12:00 tourney, so I could look around the store and try to get a third Card Trader for an Exodia deck I wanted to build for possible play at Regionals the next Sunday. Turnout was small, probably because it was a simply gorgeous day, and neither the store nor the other four competitors had a Card Trader, so I switched decks to a Concealing Swords/Stumbling and Gadget deck. After failing horribly to Monarch and Samurai decks in casual play prior to the tourney, I switched again to my current Monarch deck for tournament play.

The boys did a great job of organizing a ladder using paper and dice rolls. Look out, tournament organizers!

I started against Naveen, who was running a Samurai deck. Naveen won the roll and set two spell/trap cards. I played Confiscation, discarding his Grandmaster and leaving him with no monsters in hand or on the field. Feeling confident, I used the only summon I could muster, a Hydrogeddon, and ran into his Sakuretsu Armor. He then used Premature Burial on the Grandmaster, used Reinforcement of the Army to get and summon a Samurai and attacked with both for 3800. 7200/3200. Desperate, I special summoned Cyber Dragon, used my own Premature Burial on my Hydrogeddon, and tributed it for Zaborg, clearing his field. 4400/2400. Unfortunately for me, he then summoned Yaichi, tributed with Enemy Controller to take Zaborg, used Smashing Ground on my Cyber Dragon and attacked with Zaborg for game. Grrrr… The second duel turned out no better for me.

My second match was against Sean, who was also running a Samurai deck. My luck improved a bit this time, and when the inevitable Samurai swarm began, it hit my Mirror Force. Second duel hit me with an early swarm for 4200 damage, then dropped me to 100 points. I hung on for a bit, but finally fell to another swarm. The third duel went better for me, with Hydrogeddons pushing a quick win.

It seemed a bit funny to have a top four in a five person tournament, but the boys seemed to enjoy setting it up and managing prize distribution. I lost the first match against Jacob, then beat Naveen’s Samurais to win a single pack of cards for my third place finish.

The boys rushed off to waiting parents, and I cleaned up their mess, discovering that one of them had left behind a deck box of cards and a trade binder. C&C had already closed, and I didn’t think giving them to the Wendy’s was a great idea, so I took them home and called the store the next day to let them know I had found them.