Go through your commons! And pay attention to the ones that come out!

Jon here, I have some interesting ideas to share with you guys today.

I was going through my commons and found some interesting cards that you might find
worth trying out.

One such card is Proof of Powerlessness.


When you control a level 7 or higher monster, you can destroy all your opponents monsters that are level 5 or lower by giving up on your battle phase.
Like all traps that say, "you cannot conduct your battle phase this turn", just use it on your opponents turn.
Thats why its a TRAP.

This is a very interesting card that could gain momentum with
certain decks that easily pump out high-level monsters.
This format and the next coming will be about spamming as many
lower-attack powered and lower level monsters as tuners and non-tuners for synchro summoning and exceed summoning.
When an oppenment makes a Rescue Rabbit play, a Junk Doppel play,
a Kageki play, Blizzard play, pretty much any move that will allow you to turn smaller monsters into larger threats like Librarian, Scrap Dragon, Hope, Roach or anything else, this card will interupt that play just as well as book of moon, warning, judgement and torrential, without sacrificing cards to do so.
I use all four of those cards and they are certainly very effective, but for all you budget players reading this post, you may enjoy this trap.

If you are curious as to what level 7s or 8s to use that would help you drop this turn-stopping card on  your opponent you can use:

Beast King Barbaros (about to be reprinted)
Black Luster Soldier (meh, maybe it will be unbanned)
Dark Armed Dragon
Dark Simorgh (also about to be reprinted)
Gorz
Machina Fortress
Malefics
Hyperion
Tragoedia
Tytannial
Obelisk (for the theme lulz)
and Wall Shadow (because Ryan will do it, won't you?!)

All of these cards I mentioned are easily attainable and they are easily summoned.
I left out all the synchros and crap because that much is obvious, get your big guy out, and trap them before they can counter your monster plays. Try this out in a budget stun deck!
Uhm, counter this card by removing the monster from the field before the effect can resolve.

Before I go, quick tourney report.


tl;dr? Skip to the bottom.
Mario didnt play today as well as 10 other people who were busy, going to the sneak peak, wanking or
sleeping in. Deck used JUNK DOPPEL because, well, herp.
Round 1 - Wesley - Red Eyes Metal Dragons
OO-
Wrecked by speedy plays, he had the opportunity to plus by using black rose to nuke my field but he didnt,
and also didnt attack my Zephyros. And when I summoned it, he asked me if I was playing blackwings. I totally should now.
Anyways I did that alot when I started out, opting to use its second effect to deal some damage, without realizing the game changing potential destroying the whole field could have.
Round 2 - Wes - Junk Doppel
OXX
Game one I went nuts, hitting the field running and he scooped due to horrible advantage.
Games two and three were all his. Im a little embarassed at myself for allowing myself to look dejected after my loss. That was unsportsmanlike, sorry Wes.
Round 3 - Stinky Man The Phoenix's Fart - Gravekeepers
OO
Game one he sets everything but one card and activates Necrovalley, so Im all like shiieet, he gonna first turn tribute me. So I mst the Necrovalley as soon as it comes out because I went first with a meh hand. Next turn was a set Dustie and he bribes it so I lose my hand, but still turn it around from there. Scrap Dragon is mean. Enh...he did wierd things. He likes to run Dark Armed...then forgets to play his necrovalley after abusing its effect. So I double avarice the next time like mad trying to gain the upper hand in game 2 and Scrap won out from there.
Round 4 - Bushman - Lightsworns
Nice guy, had a bie the first round so he had 6 and so did I.
OO
Both games I wasnt very nice. Playing a lot of cards and keeping his grave empty.
Game two I opened baaaad but was still able to Librarian into a Brio and Avarice with so many cards in hand I bounced his field of 6 cards and proceeded to win because he had an all monster hand.

Top 4!
Myself, Wes, Jason and Dave.
Jason gets herp derped and oppressioned so his Fabled-full hand dies horribly both game 1 and 2.
And I played Wes.
OXO
First game was dicklicious and second one was as well with Librarian plays, I think, cant remember.
Anyways, game three I have sided out my entire engine and gone into stun mode. He opens with all the counters to my engine and I open with all the counters to his counters and his engine.
Then I played Dave - Sames
(WHAT WAS THE RECORD?!)
Game 1
He opens three united and only one sam but I wasnt able to stop him from drawing six cards so lol I lost.
Game 2
I open meh, so does he, I play around and counter his plays enough that I am able to drop my Librarian and plus from there.
Game 3
Going into stun mode, we both open absolute shit, and neither of us have monsters, just backrows.
I knew he sided into Fissures so I sided out my puppet plants and just used Tengu and T-King and such.
He actually is able to wreck my control when I had tengu and T-King by having three more united, because he runs 10 in his deck. He is afeared of mirror force so he doesnt attack with a four monster field. I had dark hole in hand but he already used his magatama to negate my T-King when I tried to destroy his Shogun.
From there, even though he had a couple extra cards, I won the game.
XOO
Skip to here for the tl;dr folks.So first place, $25