Tournament Report 3/20/10

I went to a tournament with Aki. I was running Monarch's Reverse, a new Monarch deck that uses a bunch of Flip Effects. Aki was running a Skill Drain Zero variant that I lent him.

I had to get a holo Thestalos, since I only had two Super Rare ones and I was forced to use a Common one, since I was running three. I was going to buy some Drastic Drop Offs, but I wanted to see if I would have gotten store credit.

Round 1: vs Newbie deck

I won...

Round 2: vs Lightsworn

I had to duel the same guy Aki lost to in Round 1. He kept asking to count my Side Deck for some reason. I wasn't cheating, so I didn't care. He kind of threw a fit over my siding an Extra Deck card.

-Duel 1: Judgment Dragon. Yeah, it's broke.
-Duel 2: I was getting killed by Aurkus, but he Torrential Tributed when I summoned Gale. He lost Aurkus and Wulf, and I lost Gale. I was able to take control of the game after that.
-Duel 3: I couldn't do much against Gorz, and he had My Body as a Shield.

Round 3: vs Six Samurai

I got paired up; I was 1-1, and he was 2-0. He was the same guy who was playing X-Sabers when I beat him with Insects in this tournament.

-Duel 1: He was in control of the game, but I topped Gravekeeper's Spy and set it. He killed it with Zanji (equipped with Spirit), but he couldn't kill the other one I brought out. I tributed it for Raiza to mess him up, and proceeded to win.
-Duel 2: I had sided out a bunch of the Flip Effect cards (the Gravekeeper's and one Super-Nimble Mega Hamster), since I anticipated Nobleman of Crossout and Irou. The sided in Cyber Dragons helped, since I topped one against a field of annoying Six Samurai with three Monarchs in hand. I felt bad taking the win away from him, but I didn't want to lose my chance to top, either.

Round 4: vs Blackwings

-Duel 1: He had a terrible hand, drawing no Whirlwinds, Shuras, or Siroccos. Gravekeeper's Descendant did very well in killing his field.
-Duel 2: He had control at first, but I negated his Icarus Attack with Starlight Road. I was able to win from there.

Round 5: vs Norleras Zombies

-Duel 1: He was able to pull off a game wipe with Phantom of Chaos copying Sky Scourge Norleras. I couldn't do much.
-Duel 2: I sided into a bunch of good stand-alone cards, like Cyber Dragon and Rai-Oh. I also sided in Pole Position, but none of it was any help. He didn't use Norleras' effect, but had multiple Dark Creators. I couldn't do much against those.

So, I went 3-2, and Aki went 2-3, saddeningly. Neither of us got store credit, so I didn't get the Drastic Drop Offs.

My deck did better than I had expected, but there's still plenty I could do to fix it. Actually, on second thought, there's not much room with a Flip Effect engine that consists of nine cards and eight Monarchs. I'll have to see where the deck goes...