Monday, September 10, 2012

Tournament Report for 08/09/2012


Today I’m finally getting around to writing my tournament report for the weekend, since this weekend I was really busy…

I decided to play Wind-Ups because I may take this deck to Regionals this weekend. I like the deck’ random explosiveness, but it still requires some skill to play properly, unlike other decks…

Also, I had kept a record of life points for the tournament, and was going to use it to better outline what happened. However, I cannot find it and I’m too lazy to commit to a thorough search…

Round 1 vs Gladiator Beasts

1 – I exploded quite early. He held me back for a few turns, but I won rather quickly.
2 – This game was long. I drew all the traps in my deck, minus 1 Royal Decree. Since he summoned a Darius first turn, my Warnings didn’t help. I took a lot of his damaged, then used Warning when he finally decided to tag. I also activated a Warning somewhere else. All I remember is that I believe Gyzarus destroyed 1 Decree, but I activated the other one. I eventually drew Shark, which enabled a slight explosion, but he had the Dark Hole, and attacked for game.
3 – This game was really quick and I won by exploding fairly early on.

2-1

Round 2 vs Wind-Ups

1 – For the most part this game was Thunder King beat-down. I had traps to stop his plays and I kept Thunder King. When I was low on traps, I had to explode so I didn’t risk losing. He didn’t know I was playing Wind-Ups, and I wanted to keep it a surprise… I exploded with Magician and Shark.
2 – He summoned Wind-Up soldier (I think) and ended. I opened with Tour Guide, Shark and Salvage. I FTK’ed him.

2-0

Round 3 vs Heroes

1 – He didn’t have too many traps, so I won fairly easily. For the most part it was Wind-Up Rabbit beat-down since I didn’t open anything else useful.
2 – This game was really close. He had a trap for all of my plays, which was slightly annoying. It got to a point where I had complete control and I was going to win next turn… but… he pulled a “Rori” (we joked about this all day afterward) and top-decked Miracle Fusion to put himself in a winning position.The only other card he could’ve topdecked was Stratos. He drew that next turn…
3 – I opened with Magician and Shark, and I made Zenmaity, Papilloperative and Shock Master (declaring Spells)… I won really quickly.
2-1

Round 4 vs Six Samurai (Raymond)

1 – I finally played Raymond, after him being gone all summer. We opened pretty poorly, but he opened double Kizan with traps, and Kizans are stronger than my monsters so I lost.
2 – I opened with Magician and Shark, and, again made Zenmaity, Papilloperative and Shock Master (declaring spells). He set a bunch of back-row and ended. I lock traps turn 2, and then win that turn.
3 – Game 3 was really long and really close. We both got to a point where we both weren’t drawing monsters, so we set every trap we drew. 2 of his traps were Macro Cosmos and Vanity’s Emptyness (he main-decks 2 of each, we just never side against each other). He made an Elder and Asceticism play, backed with Starlight Road, Musakani Magatama, and Safe Zone. He made a Shi En, and there was nothing I could do, so I lost to lockdown.

1-2

So I’m not terribly impressed I lost, but whatever, it happens. I can still come first, or split for first and second, and have my 22nd victory in a row. Anyway, the top 4 was myself, Raymond, Rori (playing Dark Worlds) and Lightsworn. And this is what happened…

Round 5 vs Dark Worlds

1 – I destroyed him very early on. I beat him down with Thunder King and Wind-Up Rabbit.
2 – I don’t remember how it happened, but I won this game very quickly as well.

Raymond won and didn’t care about splitting, so we split for first and second, keeping my record going. When Raymond and I battle, you really never know what could happen next.

After the tournament, I traded with some people and swapped some cards with Raymond. I played against Rori’s Dark Worlds with Heroes and Lightraysworns for his benefit. Raymond and I also recorded a match and it will be on Youtube shortly (What? A duel video?!) I destroyed his Piper deck with my Chaos Anti-Meta.

My next posts will likely entail my thoughts about Regionals, or more Wind-Up combos.

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