Hello readers, and Happy Easter (unless you don't read this on Easter...). As I'm really bored right around now, I figure I'd right out my Regional report from yesterday. I piloted Nekroz, of course, and achieved 3rd place. There were only 80 people, so there were 7 rounds where Top 8 obtained their invite, only... I suppose this tournament was top 8 or nothing.
Round 1 vs Burning Abyss (2-0)
This guy used to live in our community, so it was really refreshing. He automatically assumed I was going to win since I always defeated him, back in the day. Sure enough, our match lasted about 10 minutes. He opened strong with double Dante and some set cards. I opened Denko Sekka and enough cards to clear his field, then I won last turn. Game 2, opened double Dante with only one trap. His one trap wasn't anything too useful, and I played through his field and won in a couple turns.
Round 2 vs Nekroz (2-0)
He won the die roll and elected to go first. He opened the Djinn lock with Lavalval Chain on the field. My opening hand consisted of Manju, Farfa and some other cards. I summoned Manju to search Brionac and Valkyrus. Really, I could've lost if he was able to Trish me, but based on his first turn, I had a strong feeling he wouldn't be able to summon Trishula. On his turn, he did a couple things, but didn't have enough steam to summon Trishula, so he attacked into Valkyrus. On my turn, I summoned Farfa to eliminate his Djinn lock. He tried to use Book of Moon on Farfa so it wouldn't die, but I called a judge over to verify I was correct, and now I knew he had a face-down Book of Moon. I baited it out when I summoned Unicore, and then I proceeded to Djinn lock him with a Trishula somehow, then I won. Game 2 he started exactly the same. I opened Raigeki and he had nothing left to recover from my field.
Round 3 vs Shaddolls (2-1)
Apparently, this guy was one of Montreal's better players, so I knew I was going to have a skilled match. Our first game lasted about 25 minutes, and he won because he built a strong enough field, and topdecked Raigeki when he needed it. Game 2 was mostly in my favor, since I had the answer for everything he did; I essentially 1up'd all of his plays. With about 2 minutes left in time, he scooped since he wasn't going to win, and this would avoid an unpleasant draw. He started game 3 by setting a monster and a backrow. On my turn I set a monster and passed, since I didn't have anything better to do. I opened a Valkyrus which I knew would come in handy. His turn started, and after a few seconds, time was called. I believe his face down monster was Squamata, and flipped it up to destroy my monster. He summoned another monster and attacked. On my turn, I did a Manju into Unicore play, and attacked with both monsters, where he wasted his set Book of Moon on Unicore. This worked out perfectly, and in Main Phase 2, I made the Djinn lock. On his next turn, I believe he summoned Mathematician into Peropero Cerberus, attacked my face-down Unicore and then passed. I summoned Farfa and it died and banished his Mathematician. I switched Clausolas to attack mode, and attacked with it first. After some deliberation from my opponent, he used Peropero to destroy Clausolas, to eliminate the Djinn lock. I then attacked with Manju, set a card and passed. His Mathematician came back, and this was his final turn. He went through a series of plays, and I had the Valkyrus to stop his, then he gave me the handshake.
*Apparently, he made a misplay along the line, since he had El Shaddoll Fusion in his hand. If he left a Shaddoll on his field, he would've won by dodging the Valkyrus with El Shaddoll Fusion. However, A win is still a win.. Even if it went to turn 5, I had enough resources to come back and possibly win the game, regardless.
Round 4 vs Satellarknights (2-0)
Game 1 I OTKed him with Denko. Game 2, he kinda bricked, but I didn't open too strong either. Fortunately, I was able to control him with Denko and win after a few turns of complete grinding.
Round 5 vs Nekroz (2-0)
We started with a deck check to get things going. Afterward, I won the die roll and let my opponent go first. He started with Deskbot 003 into Deskbot 001, and he synchro summoned Herald of the Arc light. I assumed he was playing Nekroz at this point. On my turn, I summoned Thunder King and attacked his Herald. From this point, he could not remove the Thunder King and I won after a few turns of attacking. Game 2 was quite a grind game. He overwhelmed me in advantage for the first while, but I slowly came back into the game. Eventually, we got to the final turn of the game, and he had summoned an Artifact Lancea the previous turn. He attacked into my face down Farfa on that turn. On my turn I summoned Manju to search, and Farfa activated, where he did to chain his Lancea on the field. I knew he had a Valkyrus in hand due to Mind Crush, and because he used Lancea, he couldn't use Valkyrus. I needed a minute to think about it, but I was able to put enough damage on board for game. He realized he misplayed by using the Lancea, but it might not have mattered.
Round 6 vs Yosenjus (2-1)
Game I I didn't have enough cards to get through everything he had. Game 2 and 3 I Denko OTked him; not much to say.
Round 7 vs Satellarknights (0-2)
This match was just really depressing. I didn't have an answer to Emptiness during game 1, until it didn't matter. Game 2 his Mind Crush completely blew me out of the game. I spent a few turns trying to draw anything useful, and when I did, he had Emptiness.
After final standings, I had come 3rd place, which I suppose is better than nothing. I won another Shaddoll Top 8 mat and a fancy red deckbox. #woohoo
Anyway, I'll take this time to provide the deck list I piloted yesterday:
2 Brionac
3 Unicore
2 Valkyrus
1 Clausolas
1 Trishula
1 Decisive Armor
3 Manju
2 Shurit
1 Farfa
1 Shaddoll Dragon
1 Djinn releaser
2 Armageddon Knight
2 Denko Sekka
2 Maxx "C"
1 Thunder King
2 Mirror
2 Kaleidoscope
2 Cycle
2 ROTA
3 Shared Ride
1 Preparation of Rites
1 Book of Moon
1 Raigeki
1 Dark Hole
The MVPs of this build were Denko and Farfa. Those monsters put in a significant amount of work throughout the day. Denko even came in handy against Nekroz, which protected my Thunder King round 5 from his set card, which was probably Book of Moon. Farfa was great throughout the entire day. The random banishing of a card temporarily won me games, as my report will indicate. Honorable mentions go to Thunder King and Maxx "C". Thunder King was great the whole two times I drew it yesterday, and Maxx "C" always gave me at least one card when I had it, even against Yosenju (even though I lost that game). The rest of the deck was fairly standard, and did was it's supposed to. My side and extra deck wasn't anything special, so I don't really need to include it.
I do want to dedicate a few words to a random concept I considered yesterday. Originally, I had thought of including a random Tour Guide into the deck, now that it's at 1. After seeing how Farfa did yesterday, I almost want to include a mini Burning Abyss engine into the Nekroz deck. Rank 3s as well as Nekroz ritual monsters could prove to be powerful. To be honest, though, it seems like a terrible idea on paper. It would increase but decrease consistency at the same time. Maybe i'll try it out and see what happens. There are still other ideas that I'd rather playtest before a Burning Abyss engine.
Well, let me know what you guys think and let me know if you have any suggestions. Thanks for reading!
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